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thaca Tompkins County Airport is switching United Express’ service to Newark Liberty International Airport for service to Washington Dulles International Airport.

The change comes amid proposed upgrades to the airport that potentially would allow for more carriers and more flights.

Though this opens a convenient pathway to the nation’s capital, it does deprive Ithaca of probably the quickest route to New York City, via Newark’s airport. While this may sound like bad news for anyone traveling to the Big Apple, there are still some alternatives.

The simple answer is to take the bus or Amtrak since the primary reason for the services to Newark being cut was a matter of being on-time.

Flights traveling from Ithaca to Newark had an on-time percentage of sixty percent because of weather and/or flight pattern-based delays. Anyone that wants to fly nonstop into New York City can find flights to LaGuardia and John F. Kennedy International at Syracuse Hancock International. Flights going to Newark Liberty International can be found at Elmira Corning Regional Airport. Those people who are trying to get to Long Island MacArthur Airport, those flights only fly out of Syracuse Airport but include a layover in Philadelphia.

Mike Hall, Director of Ithaca Tompkins Airport, spoke about the thoughts and reasons that went into making Dulles Airport as Newark’s replacement. He said the airport’s administration is “very excited” about the decision, and that he’s certain it will entice more travel to Washington by severely cutting the time commitment. continued on page 7

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ART S & E N T E RTAINME N T Election

Left-wing locals split on Kirchgessner

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n the wake of domestic violence allegations against her last week, Democratic New York State Senate candidate Amanda Kirchgessner has seen a varying mix of reactions among those supporting and endorsing her, now including the Tompkins County Democratic Committee finally weighing in.

With just under a month left until the general election, the Ithaca Times published a story last week containing corroborated accusations

by Kirchgessner’s ex-wife of physical and verbal abuse.

Kirchgessner has denied the allegations in the time since.

Kirchgessner had emerged as a popular progressive candidate locally, having gone from local waitress to mounting her own grassroots campaign, poised to take on incumbent Republican Tom O’Mara in the November general election for the New York State Senate seat representing the state’s 58th district. She easily dispatched Working Families Party candidate Michael Lausell in the

Democratic primary in midSeptember.

Despite the revelations, Kirchgessner, who has claimed she was the victim of emotional and mental abuse in the relationship, vowed to remain in the race in her initial response to the Ithaca Times story. In the last week, she has continued to campaign while seeing a stark divergence in reaction from potential constituents: some, including a few who had previously endorsed her, have called on her to either withdraw from the race or have formally withdrawn their endorsement. Others have doubled down, encouraging her to continue in the race against O’Mara.

Perhaps the most critical endorsement locally is that of the Tompkins County Democratic Committee [TCDC], who had been mulling their options for several days. On Monday, TCDC Chair Irene Stein provided the following statement in response to questions about the status of the committee’s endorsement.

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“The Tompkins County Democratic Committee takes domestic violence charges very seriously,” Stein wrote in the statement. “We did not know about this situation when the committee endorsed Amanda Kirchgessner. In light of the proximity to Election Day and the advance notice required for a meeting of the committee, it is not practical to hold a formal meeting to vote on rescinding the endorsement.”

Stein stated that since she cannot be actually removed from the ballot, the decision rests with Kirchgessner to exit, something she has shown no interest in doing. Stein lamented that the situation is drawing focus away from what she said are the most salient issues in the upcoming election.

“Amanda cannot be removed from the ballot,” Stein continued. “It is up to her to withdraw from the campaign.

She has decided not to do so.

The situation is a sad distraction from the major issues facing the people of this district such as health care, education, the environment, and so on.”

As for local officials, a few from Ithaca and Tompkins continued on page 5

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n original Ithaca business will be growing in the coming months, as Emmy’s Organics’ preliminary expansion plans were officially approved by Ithaca’s Common Council last week.

The current plan for the expansion is a $1.4 million project on a parcel of undeveloped land on Cherry Street, where they will develop a new 10,000 square foot facility in which they will produce their organic cookies and snacks, as well as have ample warehouse and office space.

As noted in the resolution passed by the Common Council, Emmy’s began small, selling their product at the Ithaca Farmer’s Market, before growing to include 19 employees currently. They are now located at 629 West Buffalo Street, but will be leaving that facility as their new location comes on-line. The additional five jobs that will be created will all be full-time positions, at least half of which will be “low or moderate income” according to the approved resolution (in other words, at least three of them will pay a living

wage). The land sale price, sold to Emmy’s by the Ithaca Urban Renewal Agency, is $242,000.

Emmy’s was initially founded in 2009 by Ian Gaffney and Samantha Abrams, and has grown exponentially since then. Their products, led by

coconut cookies of many different flavors and varieties, are now sold all over the United States, making it obvious why they felt a need to expand.

The cookies are sold in major retailers like CVS, restaurants like Starbucks, and the like.

This was the first step in the full process, as the Council’s vote last week approved the

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ver the last few days, the Tompkins County Legislature has been evaluating as well as listening to comments on the proposed 2019 budget. According to a statement from Tompkins County, “the $186.5 million Recommended Budget would increase the County’s property tax levy by 1.43%, which is less than the Legislature’s 2.2% levy goal for 2019 and would decrease the County tax rate for the fifth consecutive year, due to a substantial increase in the county’s tax base. There would be a $3 increase in the County’s Solid Waste Annual Fee. Under

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the Recommended Budget, the County property tax bill for the owner of a median-valued $185,000 home would increase by $15.”

While some agencies are maintaining their budgets from previous years, others can expect some cuts to certain functions. One that has caused significant public outcry is the elimination of the Paralegal Aide position at the Tompkins County Office of Human Rights.

This position has been seen as what allows people to air their grievances regarding discrimination in Tompkins

IURA’s sale of the property to Emmy’s. The team from Emmy’s must now develop a more detailed proposal, which will go through the normal planning steps before final approval by the city.

“I couldn’t dream of a better use of this land,” Mayor Svante Myrick said after Common Council’s approval. “We often talk about the future of industry here, and you’re creating good-paying reliable jobs.

What Ian and his family have done is just remarkable.”

The Emmy’s team did not speak at the meeting. In terms of how this could impact that part of town, an interesting nugget can be found in the application for tax incentives Emmy’s submitted to the county. In its supporting statements, the city, which intends to construct an extension of Cherry Street to properly service the new facility, menCounty. At a budget forum held on Oct. 3, several people spoke out about how this would devastate a great deal of the community. Most of the people speaking mentioned that this shouldn’t be a decision based solely on the numbers but should factor in the human element, accounting for those who came to the Office of Human Rights to make sure that their voices were heard.

Further, it could be viewed as another step toward weakening the office, which has been a sore spot for some community members for quite some time.

In addition to this, the Office of Human Rights will be moving from their current location at 120 West State Street to the Human Services Annex, according to the proposed budget. The move will allow Tompkins County to make better use of spaces they use as

tioned that the Emmy’s project takes up just one of the three lots that are currently in that same stretch of land, and all undeveloped. With the road construction already a given because of Emmy’s, the city mentions that more manufacturing development could be seen on the two remaining lots in that part of Cherry Street, which is sandwiched between the Railroad Service Road and the water. It’s location would theoretically mitigate any impact it had on the nearby residences, which are a considerable distance away.

The project was additionally approved for a tax abatement by the Tompkins County Industrial Development Agency, which will amount to just over $317,000. The majority of that will be in the form of property tax incentives, and the benefits will last seven years, more or less the standard in terms of length and decreasing discount percentages. In the application to the TCIDA for the abatement, the project’s cost benefit analysis estimated $2.292 million private sector investment generated by the project, and a $36,000 taxation bump when it’s at its full capacity and taxation schedule. The project, according to that application, is scheduled to finish in the first quarter of 2019.

M att Butler well as will resolve issues with ADA accessibility.

Another topic of discussion among the small assembled crowd was the introduction of a new office to help Veterans navigate their often-complicated benefits programs. Some of the people who spoke to this were former Ithaca City Alderperson J.R. Clairborne and Margaret O’Neal, representing a small veterans coalition.

According to the proposed budget the Tompkins County Veterans Service Agency will be established and funded with $100,000, with the mission of providing “entitlement information and advocacy assistance to military personnel, veterans, and their dependents in matters relating to veterans’ law.” Prior to this, veterans in the area would go to the New continued on page 14

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Shahi Pakwan provides new Indian option in Ithaca

Raaj and Chur Singh in the old Sticky Rice location in Gateway Center (Photo: Casey Martin)

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n August 2018, the Singh family decided to open a restaurant in Ithaca with patriarch Chur Singh at the helm of the kitchen and his son Raajinder “Raaj” Singh learning by his side.

Though most businesses are often shaky during the start, Shahi Pakwan has managed to stake a claim as an authority on Indian cuisine as well as great customer service. Since their opening two months ago, business is doing good. The restaurant, located in the Gateway Center plaza on East State Street, has been the long-term dream of Raaj’s father, Chef Chur Singh, for well over the last decade.

“He’s been working for the last, I don’t know how many, 10-12 years, he spent in the kitchen”,” the younger Singh said. “Working as a chef sometimes, working as a person on a clay oven. He learned how to cook [in] Reno, Nevada.

There is a restaurant there named Indian Curry Kabob.

He worked over there for five years. We decided to move to New York, my cousin owned a gas station in Syracuse. So, we lived in Syracuse for a while,

I just moved to Ithaca two months ago. He always wanted to open a restaurant and I’d been running a gas station. I left my dream behind, so I’d go with his choice. So here we are.

We’re Ithaca now. It’s a bit of a tough location being around the back. But people are finding out we’re there. People like the food. We haven’t had a bad comment yet.

The restaurant’s name means “royal dish” or “food fit for royalty” and since opening, Shahi Pakwan has tried to live up to this name. With a menu loaded with tempting delights and sumptuous meals, it can be hard to figure out what to order. However, Raaj Singh has some favorites that remain classics to him.

“My favorite dish is chicken tikka marsala if it’s medium, I can’t take mild,” Singh said.

“It has to be medium for any Indian Punjabi person to enjoy the food. Yeah, we like spicy, but that doesn’t mean we don’t know how to make it mild.

We’ll make the customer’s choice, whatever they like to eat.”

Singh lists a litany of other dishes he thinks customers

would enjoy, especially vegetarians: Bhindi Masala, Okra, Began Bhurta, Dal Makhani and of course, Aloo Gobi.

Despite some days being slower than others, Shahi Pakwan is seeing business pick up as they go along. Singh has also seen that Fridays can have a startlingly high turnout rate.

“It’s a small restaurant, I only have nine tables,” Singh said. “So, Friday nights we get packed within fifteen minutes.

One Friday, I went back into the kitchen. There was one customer sitting down and we were preparing his order. All of a sudden, I came out and everything was packed.”

With business steady, Singh’s primary concern is that he can make sure his family is fed as well as making sure the bills are being paid. He is happy with the business and isn’t looking to be an overnight millionaire. His humble attitude and pleasant demeanor are also part of what makes the restaurant’s customer service so good. Working at a gas station for several years has provided him with more than enough training in this area of the service industry. However, operating a restaurant is new for Singh and at first seemed tough. But things have changed in the last few months and he is learning fast.

“I didn’t know how to do anything,” Singh said. “I learned a lot in these two months. Usually, my father says, ‘Oh, it’s not tough, it’s not tough.’ So, until you get into something it always looks tough but once you start doing things, it’s normal [...] I hope I can give my father a break soon, once I learn all the cooking, then he can just enjoy the rest of his life. Plus, I can do anything for his dream, being a son the way I grew up, always my father was my god.

Anything for him.”

Shahi Pakwan is a restaurant that manages to dispel the idea that Indian cuisine is based solely on being spicy. For Raaj and Chur Singh, it is about how it is prepared and making it the way people like it.

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County have told Kirchgessner they must withdraw their support, announced by Kirchgessner herself on her campaign page; those include Ithaca Common Council Alderperson Seph Murtagh and Tompkins County legislator Shawna Black. In an email, fellow Common Council Alderperson Ducson Nguyen said he wanted a chance to talk to Kirchgessner face-to-face before making any decision on continuing or ending his support.

Meanwhile, some prominent progressive groups have decided to stay the course with Kirchgessner. Since the allegations came to light, Kirchgessner has announced that she received the endorsement of the Working Families Party [WFP] of New York, while endorsements from the New York Progressive Action Network, the Tompkins County Progressives, the NYPAN of the Southern Finger Lakes, the Ithaca Democratic Socialists of America and Tompkins County legislator Anne Koreman are all still listed on Kirchgessner’s up-to-date website.

Add Ithaca Common Council Alderperson George McGonigal to that list as well, as he stated he thought the turn of events was “very unfortunate” and said he felt the timing of the ex coming forward was a “low blow.”

“I am not going to rescind my endorsement,” McGonigal said. “I will encourage her to stop spinning her wheels in this crap and return to focusing on the issues and people in the 58th District.”

While there was at least some talk of a write-in campaign, much of which surrounded the previously-defeated candidate Michael Lausell, he quieted any talk of that in an email to the Ithaca Times.

“I have taken the necessary steps to decline the WFP nomination so Amanda can be substituted on their line,” Lausell wrote. “I discontinued my senate campaign the day after the primary and am discouraging any interest in a write-in campaign.”

▶▶ Thumbs up: to the Ithaca Tompkins Regional Airport for kickstarting their service to Washington, D.C.’s Dulles Airport. Now, it did come at the expense of probably the most convenient available route to New York City via air, but we’re far more interested in one man and one man only. Now that he has a direct line of flight -Tom Reed, you coming around more often? ▶▶ Thumbs Down: to Baby Boomers for ruining the planet!

We always thought there were going to be some tough times ahead environmentally, but it was a surprise when we learned this week that a group of UN scientists are forecasting a fundamental Earth crisis starting in 2040. But hey, at least you all made some good money in the process of potentially destroying everyone’s future. ▶▶ Heard and Seen: The return of the fountain! That’s right, the Commons Fountain was back up and running last week, making its triumphant return before, you know, it’s probably shut down for the winter to avoid freezing. We know it’s low-hanging fruit at this point, so let this be heard: the Ithaca Times vows to not write about the Commons Fountain until it (hopefully) comes back on in the spring. ▶▶ Top Stories On Ithaca.com This Week Are...

1. State Senate Candidate Kirchgessner accused of domestic violence 2. Ithaca law enforcement nabs nearly 50 in downtown sting 3. Another stabbing being investigated in Ithaca 4. Congressman Tom Reed gets shout-out from President Trump 5. Ithaca Police make arrest on weapons charges

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drinking. In Albany, I will be a fierce chamn Tuesday, October 2nd, the Ithaca pion of laws that curtail the lethal mix of Times published a story containing driving while drunk or drugged. serious allegations about my character The second allegation is false. I am not and events that occurred during my marriage an abuser. I was in a marriage that was once to my ex-wife. My campaign issued a lengthy happy and that unfortunately ended in bitpress release responding to the allegations. terness and sadness. My ex-wife and I share Now that a few days have passed, I have had responsibility for its failure. I bear her no ill enough time to refresh my memories and will and hope that, like me, she finds peace think more deeply about the allegations levand happiness in a new eled against me in that relationship. It might story. sound unreasonable, but One allegation is I loved her throughout indisputable. On May the relationship and In the years since my conviction and the 17, 2011, I was arrested still love her, and I was for a DWI violation to end of my marriage, I have channeled crushed to realize that I which I later pled guilty. my passions into political activism and couldn’t fix our marIt was a terrible mistake riage. I was forced to for which I make no a demand for social change. come to the conclusion excuses. Getting behind that I was responsible the wheel of a vehicle -Amanda Kirchgessner for my own happiness, while intoxicated was and that we would both a severe, inexcusable be happier and healthier lapse in judgment. The apart. conviction is a matter As to the details of of public record, and I have never attempted our break up, I am not opposed to talking to hide it or the accident that my excesabout them with anyone who has quessive drinking caused. I received counseling tions, but I don’t feel a need to defend myself about my drinking habits that I took to publicly. I gave the names of many contacts heart and that changed my life. I know the including three of my outcry witnesses to consequences of reckless and irresponsible continued on page 7

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f cats could read newspapers, and had the temperament to answer “Best Of ” polls, the locals would probably concur with the selection in the 2018 Ithaca Times poll of Utica Street as “Best Neighborhood Street.”

As the Times noted, “Utica Street is a nice, quiet six-block residential street sandwiched between Tioga and Cayuga Streets.”

The street is a headquarter of sorts for cats, a landscape to dominate, like the playground for the Jets in “West Side Story.”

The Jets had to contend with their rivals, the Sharks, for turf supremacy, but on Utica Street cats are largely untroubled by their traditional enemy, the car.

Utica Street is fairly lengthy for Fall Creek, but doesn’t lead anywhere outside the neighborhood, unlike Tioga and Cayuga on either side of it, which reach the city’s commercial core. It doesn’t go anywhere notable.

It has no public spaces.

It has a stop sign on every corner, which makes it a thoroughly slow thoroughfare, generally not driven by anyone who doesn’t actually live on it. For a downtown street, traffic is exceedingly sparse.

So cats have the run of the street,

and the lay of the land, and can be seen running back and forth all day, and actually laying in the middle of the asphalt as if Henry Ford had never been born and “Dodge” was a nonsense word.

There is a sense of general antipathy to cars among the street’s human residents as well. Many are college people (students, employees, recent (and not so recent) graduates) who tend to be concerned about carbon footprints, and the use of fossil fuels, and purposely reside in a place where feet and legs, for walking and biking, suffice for most daily travel.

The lack of a neighborhood supermarket thwarts this, somewhat; a decades-old site a few blocks from Utica Street closed a few years ago.

There is, however, a natural foods market four blocks from the street’’s southern terminus. (Happily for the population, it sells cat food.)

The two closest businesses are a coffee shop near one end of the street and a farm-to-table style restaurant near the other. Along with the natural foods market, they render plausible the notion of Utica Street as a hipster enclave. Certainly there are more young adults than older ones to be continued on page 7

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I used to live in the Hudson Valley, so when I saw an article about attacks ads against Antonio Delgado regarding rap from his long-ago past- I just had to speak up. Delgado is one of the nicest, brightest people I’d met in a while running for office. He’s intelligent, hardworking- a bright star with honest intentions to meet the needs of the people in his district.

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political system mostly based on polling, even if it’s not true. Such funders pick a message to drill in that will eventually destroy their opponent.

NY-19 Congressman Faso and his dark money club pick the fact that Delgado expressed himself through rap music in his younger days. The GOP does this to demonize him and play on fears of mostly white, rural, conservative voters in his district.

Guaranteed is that the top-dollar club will keep repeating this very same message over and over through the election on Nov. 6.

If you don’t read between the lines here, this drilling of the same negative, distorted message tends to win with unlimited spending behind it.

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Some of the young adults are transplants from places like Brooklyn, seeking a simpler life and more welcoming place to raise a family. Thus you’ll see quite a few children, not in expensive strollers as in Park Slope, but riding on the backs of parents’ bikes or pulled in little red wagons, an affirmation of lack of ostentation (maybe, also, of city-style salaries).

There’s a minimum of taxi-style driving required of parents. Parks, playgrounds, and the library are all nearby. Schools from K through 12 are within easy walking distance.

High school students from Utica Street have status as denizens of a cool place, close to school, for hanging out after 3:00. Teens in packs walking to domiciles to banter, play music, and raid refrigerators outnumber even felines on the street on weekday

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Russ Feingold running to go back to the US Senate. Doubly and triply funded attacks on TV, radio, and social media echo in the minds of undecided voters until they get engrained and – sadly- it works!

I wonder to what extent the same types of donors control the newspaper to which I am submitting this letter.

Also, I am sure the same dark money waits ready to pour out against the honest, intelligent Tracy Mitrano in NY-23’s similar rural white district, where incumbent Congressman Tom Reed is a deceptive cookie cut-out of Trump, with $3 million in corporate funds plus unlimited dark money at his disposal to try to stay in office for yet another term.

These are dark political times. We have to tune-in to the real news - real people, our neighbors, and their real stories about the money they struggle to earn to live, the health and services they need- and win the election for representatives who show up and care. Not those who are corrupted by corporate money, who destroy government of, by, and for the people and everything it stands for.

Jennifer Karius A concerned citizen Town of Ithaca

Amanda Kirchgessner Amanda Kirchgessner is running for State Senate because, in her words, the two greatest problems facing humankind are climate change and wealth inequality and no one in Albany is talking about them. We can’t blame climate change for the

afternoons. Smoking and vaping can transpire at least until 5:00, when parents are due home. Then the suburban or exurban kids split to catch TCAT, or rides from their own commuting parents, for bigger and fancier but less hip homes on the hills.

Utica Street’s “best of” status is strongly entrenched and likely to endure. It hasn’t many sites to develop or change. Its central isolation is unmatched in a city axiomatically known for those traits.

This paper has maybe let the cat out of the bag about Utica Street.

Regardless, the cats on the street stay cool. They aren’t going anywhere anytime soon, and probably neither are most residents. It’s just too sweet a street to lay out on.

Stephen P. Burke’s Ithaca Notes column appears biweekly in Ithaca Times. very bad week that she has has, but wealth inequality - the fact that she, like most New Yorkers, has limited resources - has had an enormous effect. She was in a car accident on Wednesday and is now without transportation, a severe handicap when trying to cover a four county district.

Her supporters will make sure that she gets back on the road, but she does not have the means to immediately replace her car.

Because of the accident, Amanda was unable to attend the Corning Democrats’ Annual meeting, which would have been an opportunity for her to address the other, potentially more damaging, event of this week, namely accusations of abuse from her ex-wife. In an unhappy marriage abuse can take many forms and come from both parties. Amanda describes the relationship as toxic and she tried for years to get out of it. But again, lack of resources made that very difficult. Without adequate health insurance, it is not easy to get emotional counseling. Without extra money in your pocket, you cannot hire a lawyer to help you with a divorce. (New York laws being what they are, getting a divorce is far from easy.)

We can only speculate why Amanda’s ex-wife chose this time to go public with her grievances. The Amanda I know is gentle and warm. loving and compassionate. She is also smart, well-informed and quietly tough. I want her representing me in Albany.

Elizabeth Whitehouse Lorraine Diaz Corning, NY

Canada, but we don’t expect service from Paris just yet. The airport’s going to be much Contin u ed From Page 3 nicer [...] We will be starting here shortly and we will be finishing up about a year from “That decision was made by United Airnow.” lines and we welcomed it for two reasons,” For now, no services to Canada have been Hall said. “One, Newark is an airport that lined up but Hall is looking to the future and is a very short flight from upstate New York potential developments of markets in Monand all the upstate flights suffered a disproportionate cancel rate going into Newark treal and Toronto. With the new upgrades because it’s easiest to cancel the shortest coming to the terminal, there could be some flights. Secondly, Washington is as good a new carriers added in addition to the three hub to connect nationally and internationalready serving Ithaca. However, Hall is comally and it’s also a huge destination for us. We fortable and confident in keeping the airlines have alternate ways to get to New York City the airport already has. and a lot of people use the Cornell Bus and “We have the other things. To get three major airlines to Washington, it’s a here, ” Hall said. six-hour drive each “Each of them is way and Cornell and “We will directly be able to receive here and they give our tech businesses international flights into Ithaca. That’ll and our community, us great service and in general, has a lot I don’t really see primarily be business jets, commercial of business in Washroom in our market ington.” aviation if it’s pre-cleared as it is coming for another. People Hall also menhow about a from Canada, but we don’t expect service say tioned that startlow-cost carrier, but ing in December, our market is built from Paris just yet.

American Airlines as much as people will be adding new -Mike Hall coming to see Ithaca service to CharlesDirector of Ithaca Tompkins and invest as it is ton, South Carolina.

Regional Airport on leaving to go on Currently, American Airlines operates vacation and coming one flight a week back. We’re not a leion Saturdays. If this sure market, we’re a flight pans out, more service will be added to business market and I think we are extremely Charleston. well-served right now.”

Hall also noted the sweeping expansion Two other phases of the airport’s redevelof the facility that was announced several opment include a focus on geothermal enmonths ago by Gov. Andrew Cuomo, which ergy conversion plus the airport concourse, will include an overhaul of the terminal which will cost an estimated at $4 million as well as additions to allow international and will go out to bid in early fall. The third flights from Canada. phase, which will emphasize the new federal “We’re about to start on what amounts to a $25 to $28 million upgrade of the terminal customs facility, which will cost $8 million with the addition of a customs facility, Hall and will be bid early in 2019, according to declared. “We will directly be able to receive a statement from the Tompkins County international flights into Ithaca. That’ll Legislature. primarily be business jets, commercial aviation if it’s pre-cleared as it is coming from E dw i n J. Vi er a AIRPORT

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the reporter of this article, and I could share those with others as well. But I won’t speak ill of my ex-wife, and the mental and emotional anguish we experienced are familiar to many who go through a bitter divorce.

What I can say, unequivocally, is that neither one of us ever physically attacked the other person.

Past mistakes and events do not define me. I was able to move on from my DWI conviction and a failed abusive relationship. In the years since my conviction and the end of my marriage, I have channeled my passions into political activism and a demand for social change. Too many people in our society, however, remained trapped in alcohol or drug abuse or remain in abusive relationships. I think that many people, Oc to b e r

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especially those blessed with relatively comfortable lives, do not easily understand what happens to many less fortunate individuals in our society. People like my ex-wife and myself stay in unhappy and abusive relationships for any number of reasons. Many of us cannot afford the expensive counseling that might repair a fractured relationship or deal with shame culture around seeking professional help. Others of us simply have no place to go if we want to leave an unhappy, or even an abusive relationship. Getting money for a deposit and a month’s rent can seem like an insurmountable obstacle. Can’t we do better here in Tompkins County and in the NY Senate 58th? Can’t we do better in America?

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A Golden Opportunity

Most of the t u tors i n G olden Opport u n it y a r e r e t i r e d e d u c at o r s , w h i l e t h e ta r g e t s t u d e n t i s a s c l o s e t o s e c o n d g r a d e a s p o s s i b l e . ( P h o t o s : J o To d d)

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What happens next can take several different forms. Gelber’s a retired teacher, while Pettaway is entering his first year at P-Tech Academy. They’ve been going through this routine for seven years now.

Sometimes the weekly sessions are just straight homework. Sometimes it’s more specialized, specific work. They’ve built up enough of a relationship over that time that other times, it can just be a free-flowing conversation about current events or the tumultuous national political landscape. Sometimes in the summer they even take day-trips up to the Water Safari 8 T

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“I build my week around this,” Gelber said. “And Julian is so thoughtful and so perceptive that I get a gigantic kick out of his take on things.”

Their partnership over that time has been facilitated by Golden Opportunity, or GO. Golden Opportunity was founded in 2005 by former educator Marty Kaminsky with the goal of providing private, one-on-one tutoring sessions to mostly low-income families who would normally be unable to handle the financial burden of extracurricular academic tutoring.

“It was born out of this idea of equity of access, to provide that quality of care that individual academic support to families that wouldn’t otherwise be able to afford those types of services,” Golden Opportunity Executive Director Kolby Harrell said.

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good skills that they can offer. We just want to make sure that all families have access to that, not just the privileged few.

That’s the heart behind it.”

The program, which serves kids in second through eighth grade, has grown from four students at its inception to serving 70 students now. Tutors are a paid a stipend for their time, and are considered independent contractors. Much of the funding is obtained via grants and foundational sponsorships, along with individual donations and contributions.

The primary threshold for entry into the program is family income; Harrell said their strongest consideration is if a family is considered economically disadvantaged

by Ithaca City School District, which essentially means if they qualify for free and reduced price lunch at the school cafeteria. Secondarily, Harrell said the program emphasizes early intervention, meaning

they want to find and help students while they’re still relatively new to the classroom.

This means there’s a focus on finding students who are closer to the second grade mark than later on, and also ones that have not yet been singled out for some sort of specialized education plan in school. That’s not a hard threshold, Harrell said, but it’s one they prefer to adhere to since it allows a greater reach of services to students, particularly those who might not be getting all they need out of the school for whatever reason.

“We try to find students who do not have an [individualized education plan], basically, we try to find students who are not receiving any special accommodations during the school day,” he said. “This child is behind, but so far there hasn’t been any type of personalized intervention for that child, and so we want to position ourselves as that intervention.”

One facet that sets Golden Opportunity apart, intentionally, is the age difference between student and tutor. Though not a requirement, typically Golden Opportunity tutors are teachers with either years of experience or who have already completed their careers and retired. That’s in stark contrast to the more conventional idea of tutorship, where an older student, maybe three or four years ahead, helps a younger student learn material the older one has already conquered. This tried-and-true dynamic has obviously worked in countless situations, that’s why peer-to-peer is considered the standard. What that type of arrangement can lack, though, is a measure of extended stability; the older student often has either college or the start of a career right around the corner if they’re in high school, or if they’re already in college the tutoring can be halted during the summer and winter when college students often return to their hometowns.

Harrell said the philosophy behind that decision is “making a long-term investment” in students. Golden Opportunity views the potential developmental relationship that can be a result of years spent together, instead of months, as a key aspect of their approach to education.

“That’s why we start at second grade, and it’s part of why we have so many re-

tired educators,” Harrell said. “Most of our folks are going to work with the same child and family for four years or more [...]

Ultimately, we want to be an asset to the school and the school community.”

Perhaps this is best highlighted by Pettaway and Gelber’s connection. Now entering their eighth year as a studying duo, the two have been paired together for more than half of Pettaway’s young life. This is certainly the best possible outcome for the Golden Opportunity program -- the Board of Directors even voted to allow Pettaway to continue in the program even though he’s moving into high school -- but it also wouldn’t be possible without the aforementioned premium placed on stability by Golden Opportunity.

Pettaway had always been smart, something his teachers realized early on. But there were certain large obstacles to his in-classroom success, most significantly that he was struggling to learn how to read. Even as education has been co-opted and indelibly changed by the evolution of technology, much of it still stops and starts with developing reading and writing skills, which can be difficult for someone who is better with hands-on learning like Julian.

Gelber, who estimates over her career she’s probably taught hundreds if not thousands of kids how to read, helped him overcome

his reading difficulties, though, which is probably still his most profound academic achievement, even though he admits he’s still not a big fan of English courses. But at least now his tastes are based on preference instead of ability.

“It took me a while to learn how to read, I don’t know why it just happens to some of us,” Julian said. “That’s like the base, you have to start there. If you’re not there, you’re going nowhere [...] Learning to read felt like I was catching up with other people. I felt like it wouldn’t be as hard now, I wouldn’t need to ask for as much help from people.”

Pettaway said the first book he read feeling comfortable on his own was called Bang! by Sharon Flake in sixth grade, and while he’s continued to read, he admits he’s far more attracted to things that interest him. He likes working and learning with his hands, like his father, Timothy, a contractor. His dad said the change in his son has been tangible over the course of his several years of additional learning sessions with Gelber. Particularly having come from a single-parent household, his father said he felt it was very important for Julian to have another consistent figure around besides his dad, and they have found that in Gelber (Tim had a similarly close relationship with his tutor when he Oc to b e r

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was growing up, who was part of the Big Brothers-Big Sisters program).

“With Julian, he’s so into the lifestyle that we have that he really doesn’t have a lot of people that have been there for most of his life, whereas Denise has,” the elder Pettaway said. “He has a bond with her that’s a little bit different than just an average teacher that you have one year, and then you move on the next year. He wasn’t passed on. And in a lot of programs he would’ve been.”

Though they’ve never connected in the traditional classroom sense, they interact much the way a student and a favorite teacher would. Gelber glowingly commends Pettaway’s determination and intelligence, while Pettaway sheepishly deflects.

Seconds after, she’s jokingly teasing him that when they started meeting, he still had his baby teeth. Regardless, though, it’s clear both realize the magnitude of the strides Pettaway has made while participating in Golden Opportunity. His dad said he can sense the extra motivation, the extra push behind his son’s academic effort with Gelber around. Plus, the comfortable routine suits Pettaway and Gelber mutually well.

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first saw it on my friend Todd McGill’s page on Sept. 17th, and it nearly brought me to my knees.

Todd wrote, “My buddy Tom and Melissa Livingston-Addy’s son had a horrific accident while working to restore power for the folks affected by the hurricane. He needs all the thought/prayers or whatever you do when in need.” I did a quick Google search and saw that a 40-foot utility pole had snapped off at the base, and that a New York-based lineman was airlifted from the scene, in critical condition. I started in with the thoughts and the prayers.

Almost everyone knows Tom and Melissa Addy. He is a local guy who grew up in Ithaca, and when he suited up to play football at SUNY Cortland, he spotted the prettiest cheerleader on the squad.

It was her first day there. They have been together ever since.

Tom took a job with NYSEG, and he has been a lineman for 30 years. Melissa is a schoolteacher in Newfield. They had two sons – Max and Cal – and other than the fact that they were polite, smart, hardworking, athletic, funny and handsome as hell, they didn’t have much going for them.

(Insert smiley face.)

Max and Cal were fine athletes. Max played baseball at Ithaca College, and Cal played golf for Binghamton University.

My daughters knew them. Said they were “great guys.”

When Max passed on in 2014 at the age of 22, the community circled the wagons and the Addy family saw and felt how much they were loved. That loss is fresh in the hearts and minds of everyone who knows and loves the Addys, and when the news hit that Cal was critically injured, it just seemed surreal. I tried to imagine what it was like for Tom and Melissa, and when Cal invited me to visit him (at the family’s home in Newfield) so he could update his well-wishers via my column, I was grateful for the opportunity to ask the Addys to share what they were feeling.

Melissa took a deep breath and told me “Tom got the call from Cal’s boss, and he could hear the sirens in the background.

The ambulance had to transport Cal 5 miles to get to a safe spot for the helicopter. We gave verbal permission for surgeries and transfusions to save him.”

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By Dave Sit imestone. I was looking for limestone!”

That was Tom Higgins’ answer when I asked him why, of all the places in the Finger Lakes, did he choose Union Springs as the site for his vineyard.

Tom, a Pinot Noir acolyte, grew up in a farming community wedged between Seneca and Cayuga Lakes. But like many young people who grew up in farms back then, he didn’t see farming as his future.

Tom wound up leaving the state for college to study accounting and the business end of IT. Upon his graduation in 1999, he got his first job with Accenture, a consulting company in Cleveland. It was in that office where he met Susan, his future wife.

Susan grew up in Dayton, Ohio. When Tom started dating her, she had no idea where the Finger Lakes were. In a short two years, they got married and moved to Hoboken, NJ, working as business consultants. To escape the hustle and bustle of New York City, they started vacationing in the Finger Lakes and visiting Tom’s family.

As those visits became more and more frequent, they realized that they much preferred the healthier and bucolic FLX lifestyle to the daily stresses of working and living in a big city.

The Higginses made a life-changing decision in 2002. They would leave the rat race in a few years and move to the Finger Lakes and become wine-growers. Tom quit his consulting gig and took a job at Zachy’s, a nationally-known wine store just north of NYC. Although he was making practically minimum wage, it was his entry into the wine sector, a place where he could learn all facets of the business

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before dipping his toes into growing and making wine.

In the ensuing years, as Tom took on different vineyard apprenticeships, Susan earned her MBA degree at the Stern School at NYU, while continuing to work and be the family’s principal wage earner. Tom’s first apprenticeship was at La Lagune, a famous third-growth Bordeaux chateau. There, he learned the benefits of a gravity-flow (also called gravity-fed) winery. By locating the various winery processes in different height levels, the pressed juice can flow by gravity gently to the fermentation tanks and subsequently to the aging barrels without the use of pumps and conveyors. The system greatly reduces the chances of rough handling and oxidation. Years later, Tom would adopt the gravity flow concept in the design of his winery.

It was during his experience at the renowned Californian Pinot producer Cal-

era Wines when Tom’s passion for the Pinot Noir grape blossomed. Josh Jensen, the founder of Calera Wines, believed in two principal ingredients in growing excellent Pinots – cool climate and the presence of limestone in the soil. Both are found readily throughout Burgundy, where the most famous Pinot Noirs in the world are produced. Those two ingredients became Tom’s recipe in locating his vineyard.

In 2006, after working at Calera, Tom returned to his roots in the Finger Lakes with stints at the Thirsty Owl Wine Company and Atwater Vineyards. Besides honing his winegrowing skills, he began looking to start his own vineyard. While cool climate is a given in the Finger Lakes, limestone is not commonly found there.

Tom found it in a small village on the north-eastern shore of Cayuga Lake. The limestone there is part of the Onondaga Limestone Escarpment, a Devonian period sedimentary deposit when the area was under sea water. The formation stretches from the shores of Lake Huron in Canada, enters New York state at the tip of Lake Erie, brushes the northern end of Seneca Lake and takes an unexpected small dip

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south across Cayuga Lake, then passes through - you guessed it - Union Springs.

Tom and Susan bought an old farm there in 2007 and planted 5,000 Pinot Noir and 400 Riesling vines. Besides the estategrown grapes, they also contract grapes from trusted growers near Seneca Lake to augment their production. Both Tom and Susan work the vineyard. Tom makes the wines and Susan runs the tasting room and the business side of the company. The Higginses strive to be good stewards of the land. No herbicides or insecticides are ever used. The winery is a truly boutique operation. Tom and Susan are the only two full-time employees.

On an average year, Heart and Hands produces only 2,000 to 2,500 cases of wine, tiny amounts by any standard. Except for a Chardonnay, Pinots and Rieslings make up their wine portfolio. All of them are hand-crafted, showing good varietal characteristics and an expressive sense of place.

One of the most interesting white wines produced in the Finger Lakes is their Polarity, a white wine made from the Pinot Noir grape. Sporting a light pink robe, it is a remarkably complex wine that spotlights the minerality of the grape and terroir.

The Heart and Hands icon is the Claddagh, the traditional Irish wedding ring.

It depicts two hands clutching a crowned heart. According to Susan, the hands denote friendship and togetherness, the heart a sign of love and the crown loyalty and fidelity. One could easily see how the meaning of the Claddagh perfectly epitomizes the passionate embodiment of this young couple and their wines.

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Tom and Susan Higgins at Heart and Hands Winery, where they’ve created a second career in winemaking. (Photo by Dave Sit)

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ith two locations already thriving, Rasa Spa is expanding to Watkins Glen. The new space is located at 210 North Franklin Street and came about after Rachel Hogancamp, owner of Rasa Spa, understood the growing demand around the area for another location.

“Watkins Glen is fabulous and the culture there keeps growing and changing, so it seems like a fabulous opportunity for us to be in Watkins,” Hogancamp said. “It certainly is important that Schuyler Hospital is a part of Cayuga Health Systems.

We’re partners with Cayuga Medical Center and Cayuga Health Systems, also a nice reason to get over into the community.

We are putting in a space that is considerably smaller than what we have in Ithaca which I think is important to let folks know so that there isn’t some expectation that isn’t met, we’ll certainly keep doing all the high-quality services that we have and care, and that’s not going to change, we have a tranquility room over there which is great for people to rest if they wanted to.

But that location doesn’t have showers and changing rooms and saunas. It’s not really a spa experience, but it certainly is a Rasa experience. We will certainly continue to offer the high quality we’ve been offering. But Watkins is a great location, we’re excited about it.”

The new location is going to offer most of the services that people have come to expect from Rasa Spa, though there will be exceptions “There are some services that we can’t offer at this location, anything that requires a shower,” Hogancamp said with a sigh. “We aren’t going to be able to do scrubs and wraps and particular body treatments. Clients won’t have the opportunity to put on a bathrobe and sauna and shower and use the space the way they do here. We’re definitely aware we won’t have

From left to right: Heidi Stairs, Rachel Hogancamp, Abby Funk-Gifford relaxing in Rasa Spa. (Photo by Casey Martin)

those amenities.”

But Hogancamp said despite that drawback, they are still confident they’ll be able to provide the level of service their customers have come to expect. Plus, she’s not ruling out expanding at the Watkins Glen location in the future, though that has not been planned and Hogancamp wants to see how business does first. Hogancamp is more than optimistic about the prospects from the new location. To her, this is a great example of how you never know where something leads.

“It’s really about the people I have been able to connect with over the years,” Hogancamp said. “Folks may know Philly DeSarno from the City of Ithaca, but she is a Watkins Glen resident and she actually talked to Brian Warren, of Warren Real Estate, he purchased a building on Franklin Street [...] He needed his offices to go on one floor and then he and Philly reached out to me to find out if Rasa was interested in sharing the space with them.

Now, Warren Real Estate is on the ground level and Rasa is on the second level.”

With the lack of showers, the new facility isn’t ideal for Rasa Spa per se, but its shortcomings were not a deterrent in whether or not to open at the new location. For Hogancamp, it’s a slight bump on the road to further success.

“In looking at Watkins Glen and what’s currently being offered there, there are a number of great individual practitioners and there are a number of quite small businesses there that offer massage therapy and different things like that, but there wasn’t a business similar to Rasa in the community, so we didn’t feel that we would be in direct competition with too many other folks,” Hogancamp said. “So, it continued on page 13

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Little’s Lawn Celebrates 30 Years

By Jaime Cone

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ver the years, Little’s Lawn Equipment Inc. in Newfield has grown from a family-run operation that sold lawnmowers out of owner Gary Little’s home to a strong competitor in the local market with a widereaching reputation and more than 8,500 active customers.

The store is about to turn 30 years old in January and has been at its current location on Route 13, right on the Newfield/Ithaca town line, for two decades.

On Nov. 3, owner Gary Little plans to have a party to celebrate and, as Little put it, “bring all the old people back that’s worked here in the past.”

Currently, Little’s Lawn sells riding lawn-mowers, tractors, snow-blowers, push lawn-mowers and string trimmers. Much of their business comes from commercial lawn care companies and municipalities, and they also boast the largest inventory of parts within a 100-mile radius. In fact, Little said, the big box stores in Ithaca all know to refer their customers to Little’s, as most of those stores sell new lawnmowers but do not stock replacement parts.

In the store’s back office on Oct. 8, Little took a moment to reflect on the history of the company. It began at the Little home, where he had already been doing some bodywork and collision work while also working for Everhart Construction.

It was an experience he had purchasing a new tractor that put his life on a whole new trajectory. He found the tractor he wanted in Ohio at a back-road country store for nearly $20,000 less than he could find it in the Ithaca/Owego area. “And they were still making money,” he said.

“I decided nobody was selling Gravely tractors in this area, so I looked into selling them and signed up with them,” he said. At the time they were one of the best garden tractors you could buy, according to Little, and he still sells them. He was also one of the first retailers to sell brands that were making the first zero-turn mowers, which he said almost all of his customers are requesting today because they allow property owners to mow their lawns in about the half the time of other riding lawn-mowers.

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seemed like the time was perfect, honestly to go ahead and do that and just give it a try and see how it goes so far, the reception has been wonderful.”

From there, the business continued to grow until he was scoping out property on Route 13 in Newfield where he could build a new, larger store. Eventually he purchased the house at 1113 Elmira Road.

Building the store was a community effort that included assistance from the congregation of People’s Baptist Church, who helped erect walls and trusses. The help of friends Gary Nesbitt and Dale Everhart was also key during those early days, Little said.

Jim Cody, of Newfield, was one of his first employees and remains a close friend. It was a struggle to come up with the money for those first paychecks, Little said, but now the store has nine employees on the payroll.

Little said he couldn’t have done it without the help of his wife, Teresa, and his six children, whom Teresa Little homeschooled for many years.

The youngest three daughters were little at the time and mostly just ran around the store, their father recalled, though they did look cute posing on top of snow blowers and tractors. Thanks to the dozens and dozens of old pictures, Little said he has a running catalogue of his inventory, as he can use the children’s ages to gauge the year and model of the equipment pictured.

The older three children were able to help more, especially when it came to babysitting their younger siblings while Teresa Little handled much of the business side of things. Kelly Little has been working for Little’s Lawn for around 15 years, with the exception of a few years after high school.

Kelly Little and her father credit their success first and foremost to high quality customer service. “Do what you say you’re going to, show up when you’re supposed to, and fix stuff to the best of your ability,” Gary said.

“And never take a vacation,” his daughter chimed in. He agreed, saying they worked “pretty much nonstop” for the first 15 years.

Little said he would like to thank the community and those who helped get the company off the ground and allowed it to grow over the last three decades, including Don Pesaresi, a driver with the company for 15 years, who is about to retire this year. •

Gary Little, owner of Little’s Lawn in Newfield, with his daughter and employee Kelly Little.

(Photo by Jaime Cone)

Rasa’s new location will offer some additional services that allow people to meditate as well as do yoga.

“We’re going to have a small space that does have some yoga mats and a little meditation, people will be able to do those things, while they’re there with us,” Hogancamp said. “If they want to come early,

if they want to stay late, they can basically do their own yoga class themselves and or sit and do some meditation. We will have those things set up if they want to do that.”

The new location is set to open on Wednesday, Oct. 10 with similar prices as their location in Community Corners.•

John Rudd and Martin Stallone

During the fall of 2019, John Rudd, president and chief executive officer of Cayuga Medical Center and Cayuga Health Systems will be retiring. His successor is Martin Stallone, MD, vice president of physician operations at Cayuga Medical Center and Cayuga Health Systems. Since the announcement, Rudd has expressed how he is disheartened to leave but is also proud of the many things he has accomplished during his time as CEO of CHS. “I will miss working with our dedicated employees, physicians, volunteers, the board of directors and community partners to advance health care throughout the region,” Rudd said in the press release announcing the move. “Since being appointed CEO, we have accomplished a great deal with a number of projects including a new stateof-the-art laboratory, new maternity unit, major renovation and expansion of surgical services, and more recently a renovation of the behavioral sciences unit and the ongoing efforts to establish a rural residency program for internal medicine physicians.”

While Stallone is set to assume Rudd’s position on January 1, 2019, Rudd will remain on the job until the fall, when Stallone will assume full control over both organizations. Stallone knows the landscape of what the job entails and is looking to continue the missions and practices of CHS that were started by Rudd.

“I’d like to keep moving in the same direction with an emphasis on hospital community relationships,” Stallone said. “I think it’s important for Cayuga Health Systems to be the provider of choice for the community and the community can have some comfort knowing there is a firsts rate medical center right in Ithaca hat they have free access to and will be meeting their needs. I look continued on page 14

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York State Veterans Affairs office.

Susan Holland, Executive Director of Historic Ithaca and Laurel Southard, president of the History Center’s Board of Directors, both spoke about getting funding for a bookkeeper position that isn’t currently listed on the budget. Holland said there is a particular need for this position because of the capital campaign for the new Tompkins Center for History and Culture underway. This would require the management of large amounts of grant funding.

Aside from this, other significant changes include dedicating funds for new electric buses for Tompkins Consolidated Area Transportation [TCAT] which the legislature unanimously voted to seek grant funding for that at an expanded budget meeting Monday night. According to a statement from the Tompkins County Budget office, “Legislators authorized application for the nearly $2.3 million awarded to TCAT under the Federal Transit Administration’s competitive Low and No-emission Electric Transit Bus Program.

The total project budget is more than $2.8 million, with a nearly $575,000 share from TCAT.” The 2019-2023 Capital Program is going to require $62.6 million worth of capital investment. Some of the capital projects include $2.3 Million in renovations to the Old Jail Building and construction of a cold storage building at the Bostwick Road public service facility. $1.8 million has been allocated for capital improvements such as phase IV of construction on Ellis Hollow Road, construction on the Ludlowville Road Bridge over Salmon Creek, and reconstruction of the Falls Road Bridge which has been added to start in 2023.

The Tompkins County Legislature will be meeting more throughout October, including the 30th, to discuss any additional questions into the budget from community

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had two children, and we were experiencing two tragedies, so close together. Was I to lose both of them? Why?’” Melissa and Tom were in a daze, scrambling to get a flight to North Carolina when they were informed that Cal’s employer had arranged for a private jet to pick them up in Elmira. “We didn’t know if he was alive,” Melissa shared. “Tom is a lineman (as was Max), and when he heard that a 40-foot pole went down with Cal on it, he was thinking the worst. We just wanted to get to him.”

Melissa and Tom learned that Cal was alive, and in Melissa’s words, “It didn’t look like him. His face was swollen and he had a big blood blister on his head.”

They learned that Cal would endure a 5-hour surgery for a lacerated spleen, a bad concussion, a shattered left arm and a broken back. The trauma physicians had elected to operate on the arm first, given the bones were exposed and there was a high risk of infection. Melissa said, “Three hours into the surgery, we were told that they that screws and plates and rods could be inserted to stabilize Cal’s back, and that he would be not be paralyzed.”

Golf is a game of inches. Surgery is a game of millimeters.

Asked what he remembers of Sept.

17th, Cal offered, “I have very little recollection. I remember getting my instructions and my materials, and then I remember hearing the helicopter. Then, I remember seeing my parents in the hospital.”

Cal soon saw the cards and letters pouring in, and a local pastor showed up asking to pray with the family. After praying, he handed Cal an envelope full of money his congregation had donated.

Tom Addy told me that “A North Carolina media outlet put the story on their social media and they soon had 2,400 people sending thoughts and prayers.”

“That was my comfort, so many people praying,” Melissa said.

Cal showed me his range of motion in his shattered arm, he stood up to stretch his back, and he said, “It puts life in perspective. I always took it for granted that I would wake up, go to work and that all my body parts would work. As a kid, I had the mindset that I’d never get hurt, that my arms and legs would always work. Now, I’m thankful to be alive.”

Cal has begun what will ultimately be months of physical therapy, and he plans to return to work when the time is right.

He added, “I just want to say ‘thank you’ to all the families in North Carolina and Ithaca for the outpouring of concern. I want to thank my friends, and I want to thank the doctors.”

His mom nodded and said, “It has all been pretty incredible.”•

House of Ithaqua arrives in time for spooky season

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By Jak e Leary

hristopher Teitelbaum’s production of “Bug” was so gruesome, so macabre and so bonkers that a man walking past the window of the Risley Theater, stopped and asked if everyone was okay.

The play was put on by House of Ithaqua, a newly created, privately funded multimedia organization that specializes in horror and weird fiction. The group’s name is derived from Ithaqua, a yeti-like monster that’s featured in H.P. Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos; Lovecraft is also one of Teitelbaum’s major influences.

“Bug” — the group’s first production — premiered at the Risley Theater from Sept. 13 – 15.

The play was originally written by Tracy Letts in 1996 and tells the story of Agnes and Peter, two lonely people who meet up in a dingy motel room, fall in love and descend into madness together.

Teitelbaum is an Ithaca native and and Ithaca College alum who has spent the years after his graduation struggling to make his creative pursuits a reality. By founding House of Ithaqua, Teitelbaum was able to tap into the resources available throughout Ithaca to make “Bug” happen. He owes much of the play’s success to the variety of voices and perspectives that the cast and other members of House of Ithaqua

brought to the project.

“My vision of ‘Bug’ on day one looked like and kind of smelled like my vision of ‘Bug’ on the last day,” Teitelbaum said. “But because so many other people were in the kitchen the flavors were so much richer.”

Though most of the “Bug” cast were native to Ithaca, Elissa Klie (who played Agnes) was living in New York City at the time. Teitelbaum would often have to drive down to the city with Jeff Hodges, the co-director of House of Ithaqua and the other lead in “Bug.” The duo would wake up early, aiming to arrive in the city by nine or 10 a.m. Hodges described those long car rides as valuable one-on-one times between him and Teitelbaum.

“I think we would use those car rides as seeking each other’s artistic foothold in the sense of trying to find some solidarity with each other.”

Hodges said. “We’d also chat about tons of other things like other projects we might want to do down the line but I think a lot of it was just good bonding and problem solving. And tons of coffee. And tons of junk food. At the end of the day it was like an artists version of a road trip.”

Teitelbaum met almost everyone involved with House of Ithaqua at the Actors Workshop of Ithaca, a local acting school run by Eliza Van Cort and Katie Spallone. The workshop favors the Meisner technique, an acting philosophy that encourages actors to get out of their heads and emotionally engage with the material.

Teitelbaum joined the workshop despite having no prior acting experience, but went on to become a teaching assistant in the workshop.

He said that the initial experience was scary, but

ultimately beneficial.

“A friend of mine essentially called my bluff and said, ‘You talk a lot of [crap.] Why don’t you get up there,’” Teitelbaum said. “And it was pretty terrifying. […] The really cool thing about the Actor’s Workshop and the Meisner technique is that on one side and a very important side you’re going to gain tools to be a better actor but I think integral and necessary to those tools, you’re going to gain the ability to have better insights into yourself.”

Teitelbaum wants House of Ithaqua to be a more inclusive and dynamic organization after noticing the lack of opportunities in performances he’s been involved with previously.

“I say this carefully, but I don’t think there’s a huge opportunity for people who don’t fit a specific kind of look,” Teitelbaum said.

In the future Teitelbaum hopes to diversify House of Ithaqua by reaching out to creators in different parts of Ithaca and holding auditions in locations that would be more accessible to more people. The group has several projects on the horizon including a short film called “Homecoming,” about a doomed astronaut, another as-of-yet undecided play, and far down the line a film festival in Ithaca. Each of Teitelbaum’s prospective projects has a darker bent — something Hodges said was important, especially today.

“Fear is a motivator of some sort but it’s also something that can help us survive,” Hodges said. “It’s a part of how we live and interact in our world. Not everything in our lives is safe and I think it’s important to keep those knives sharp.”• Oc to b e r

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From left to right: A.J. Sage, Ayla Cline, Jeff Hodges and Chris Teitelbaum, all key members of House of Ithaqua’s origins. (Photo by Casey Martin. Not pictured: Alec Osinski)

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Twelfth Night

Strong all-around performances carry IC’s fall debut

By Barbara Ad am s

Ithaca College’s “Twelfth Night,” a successful rendition of the Shakespeare classic, lasts until October 13. (Photo provided)

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n Christian Europe, Twelfth Night was the post-Christmas holiday in which all traditional hierarchies and proprieties were upset or reversed, creating no end of comical social chaos.

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Commissioned by Queen Elizabeth I to create a play for this occasion in 1601, Shakespeare penned “Twelfth Night,” a mischievous cross-dressing comedy. It’s been ever-popular, and this month opens Ithaca College Theatre Arts’ fall season, directed by department chair Catherine Weidner.

Set in the circular Clark Theatre, the play opens with a rousing storm at sea, effectively crafted by junior Ron Ziomek’s lighting and junior Aria Sardella’s sound design. In this storm, the twins Viola and Sebastian are separated and finally cast ashore, each believing the other has perished. (A humorous touch here has each retaining the other’s suitcase.) Viola assumes her brother’s clothes as a safety measure and passes for a lad, and thus the tale begins.

The tall ship itself is conveyed by a moveable staircase in senior Shane Hennessy’s versatile set design. It later mostly serves as the steep stairway to the Countess’s manor, but at one point also reverses to become a barred cell. The open playing space is marked by a serpentine flagstone path and a couple of box hedges, also mobile –– most amusingly when hiding persons thrust them about while eavesdropping.

The staging, however, places too much of the main action on the stairway side of the path (a piano alone stands on the

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other side). For half the audience, then, a considerable amount of activity is seen only behind the hedges, waist up, creating an unintended sense of detachment.

In addition to offstage music, the piano (played by Alex Kosick) is a pleasing complement to the musical interludes, handsomely sung by Megan Lynn Schmidt (as Feste, the Countess’ fool). Enhanced by the music, the storyline has Count Orsino (a comically self-absorbed Rafael Lopez) pursuing the neighboring Countess Olivia, who’s in mourning for the death of her brother. Maggie Gillette is perfect as the elegant aristocrat who disdains the Count but increasingly throws herself at his courtier (Viola passing as Cesario, who’s entered into his service). Gillette’s shifting demeanor is nicely nuanced, a reminder that comic action need not be overplayed to be effective.

As Cesario, hopelessly in love with the Count she serves, Viola must woo the Countess in his name. Hannah Anderson, with a blond bob, is sweet and marvelously expressive in her conflicted role. (She also curiously reminds one of Hillary Clinton in a pantsuit, a photo of whom is included in the lobby’s “trouser roles” display.)

Her lost twin, amiably played by Jake Froehlich, is followed loyally by his sailor friend Antonio (Joseph D’Amore); when they reach town. the latter is apprehended while Sebastian is mistaken for the Count’s man and is happily seduced by the Countess.

As if this all weren’t enough confusion, the antics of the lower-status characters both echo and interrupt their betters’.

Here Shakespeare’s famous low comedy is broad, so broad as to be tiresome at times.

Olivia’s uncle, Sir Toby Belch, is a notorious drunk and layabout; a well-spoken Drew Nauden plays him aptly but not overdone. Toby is siphoning money from the silly Sir Andrew Aguecheek, ostensibly helping him woo Olivia. Jordan Sledd,

with great comic timing and charm, is the most delightful version of this sucker I’ve seen –– you actually like the foolish fellow.

They join Maria, Olivia’s handmaiden, in the naughty revenge she engineers. Juliet Kimble plays Maria with great energy, but too many lines are indecipherable. The same is true for Schmidt’s Feste; greater articulation is needed (and she has the burden of many witty lines).

They all gang up on Malvolio, Olivia’s supercilious steward. Via a feigned love letter from the Countess, they bring him down, even to blindfolding, jailing, and taunting him. Cameron Hunt Mitchell is brilliant as Malvolio, from his haughty, puritanical demeanor to his wounded disgrace. Punished disproportionately, he evokes our genuine pity and moral confusion.

And of course, he’s unforgettable prancing in cross-gartered yellow stockings (that he’s been misled to think Olivia admires). Costume designer senior Brock Viering has spun wonderful notions off modern dress with historical touches.

Though his Feste is over the top, in most cases he adds to the comedy with details like the hipster trimming of the Count’s suit or the bear-paw slippers and jammies Sir Andrew wears.

By the end, all is reconciled and righted; lovers find their match. Oddly, the Count’s growing attraction to his man Cesario is virtually ignored in this production. And one strange addition has Sebastian and his devoted Antonio exchanging long, lusty liplocks on several occasions, even to the final moments. We’re all for sexual diversity, but these choices only distract –– Shakespeare has already given us plenty to chew on.

Through Oct. 13; for tickets call 607.274-3224.

Barbara Adams, a regional arts journalist, teaches writing at Ithaca College.

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Yao “Cha Cha” Foli (left) and Ken Luk during a Mosaic Foundation performance. (Photo by Sara Tiberio)

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tarting a band that writes original songs is such a difficult task because it really takes the perfect storm of different factors coming together at once. Everyone has to agree on things like the kind of music you would be making, the right message to convey, the purpose behind writing music, and how often and how far away concerts will be played.

That’s not even considering how the different personalities of the people within the group work together. All things considered, there are many hurdles to overcome. To be able to consistently face these different challenges as a group and keep moving forward for 10 years in almost unimaginable.

Mosaic Foundation proves it is not impossible however, as they will be celebrating their 10 year anniversary together as a band with a concert this Friday, October 12th, at The Range in downtown Ithaca starting at 9 p.m.

The six-piece reggae band’s long journey actually began when guitarist Michael Corey posted an ad on Craigslist in the summer of 2008. The ad mentioned he had written some music he would like to play and share, but that his main intention was to build a community and cultivate a group a people with like minded individuals, people who truly support love and unity. Drummer J.P. Nawn was the first person to reach out and was soon followed by guitarist Ken Luk. From there the band slowly added pieces until they became a nine-piece group which stayed consistent through the first few years. Corey noted that their original singer Laura Haykel and keyboard player Ekwem Bogmis played huge roles in the development of the band in their earliest days. Yao Foli (Cha Cha) joined the band in 2010 providing vocals and percussion and helped solidify their sound, message, and direction. Zach Dumrese has been engineering and dubbing since 2010, Aaron Sprague has been on bass since 2011, and keyboardist Lucius Snowden has been playing with the group

since 2016. Corey also noted that Bryan Davis deserved a special shout out as well as he has provided percussion at various points along the way as well as guidance and advice to the band.

Mosaic Foundation credited a few things for being able to continue their journey for a decade above all else: a dedicated community of supporters, communication, love and respect. They said they owe most of the their longevity to their fans who have come out to their shows, bought CDs and merchandise, donated to causes they have supported, and spread the message of love and unity that their music represents and that the band wanted to center their 10 year celebration around those fans. They mentioned there are always going to be ups and downs and disagreements, but when there’s a family element, that can be set aside. This attitude opens the gates for communication in a way that is meaningful and constructive in staying on the same page.

Mosaic Foundation’s released their latest album, “Unity is Strength,” back in April of this year. The album speaks of how they have been able to make it over the past 10 years and how much the love and support of the community has kept them on track.

The title of the album comes from the song “Catch a Fire” by Bob Marley and the Wailers which promotes ideas Mosaic Foundation can closely relate to. It highlights the idea of “the people of the world coming together over our differences rather than staying divided and separated. We hope people can view the band as a mirror people of varying cultures and backgrounds working together,” Corey said.

After looking back on the past 10 years and all the great music Mosaic Foundation has made over the years, it’s time to celebrate with the show this week at The Range. If their positive message and good vibes isn’t enough, for the historic value alone. It’s not a common thing to witness a group make it this long.• Oc to b e r

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celebrate the meeting of J.S. Bach and Johann A. Reincken.

Rumours of Fleetwood Mac | 7:00 PM, 10/13 Saturday | Crouse-Hinds Theater, 411 Montgomery St, Syracuse | Hailed as the ultimate Fleetwood Mac tribute band.

Music

10/12 Friday

The Fly Rods | 8:00 PM, | Two Goats Brewing, Burdett

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

Bars/Bands/Clubs

El Caminos | 6:00 PM, | Hopshire Farm & Brewery, Freeville

The Inner Crazy | 9:00 PM, | Agava, Ithaca

10/10 Wednesday

Li’l Anne & Fid’l Lyd | 6:00 PM, | Felicia’s Atomic Brewhouse and Bakery, Trumansburg

Djug Django | 6:00 PM, | Lot 10 Lounge, Ithaca

The Tarps | 6:00 PM, | Americana Vineyards, Interlaken

Black Castle with guest Ray McNamara | 9:30 PM, | Casita Del Polaris, Ithaca | $10

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

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

Pete Panek & the Blue Cats | 7:00 PM, | The Westy, Ithaca

Open Mic with Marty Flynn and his Good Time Band | 7:00 PM, | Flynn’s Roadhouse Cafe, Lansing Ray McNamara’s WednesRay Monk’s Raysidency | 7:00 PM, | Monk’s on the Commons, Ithaca Scott Adams | 7:00 PM, | Stonecat Cafe, Hector Synth Night | 8:00 PM, | Sacred Root Kava Lounge & Tea Bar, Ithaca Reggae Night w/ Bead N Bone & DJ Mike Judah | 9:00 PM, | The Haunt, Ithaca | $5

Songs from the Heart w/ Becca Harber and Richie Holtz | 7:00 PM, | Sacred Root Kava Lounge & Tea Bar, Ithaca The Rapid River Boys | 7:00 PM, | Boathouse Beer Garden, Romulus Jakubi & Kyra Skye | 8:00 PM, | The Haunt, Ithaca | $10/$12 Vortex Special | 8:00 PM, | Two Goats Brewing, Burdett Hollings EP Release + Junkyard Theory + Robot Detective | 9:00 PM, | Casita Del Polaris, Ithaca | $10 Mosaic Foundation- “Thank You” | 9:00 PM, | The Range, Ithaca

10/11 Thursday

Wayne Gottlieb & Brian Earle | 9:00 PM, | Agava, Ithaca

Bob Keefe & The Surf Renegades | 6:00 PM, | Six Mile Creek Vineyard, Ithaca

10/13 Saturday

Firelight Live! | 6:00 PM, | Firelight Camps, Ithaca Heather Mae and Katie Kuffel | 8:00 PM, | The Range, Ithaca Lady D & The Shadow Spirits: Album Release Show | 8:00 PM, | The Haunt, Ithaca | $10

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10/14 Sunday Blue Skies | 12:00 PM, | Agava, Ithaca Not From Wisconsin | 3:00 PM, | Steuben Brewing Company, Hammondsport Ithaca Jazz and Blues Jam | 4:00 PM, | Mix Kitchen and Bar, Ithaca Mary Ott Band | 4:00 PM, | Americana Vineyards, Interlaken Nick Kody & the Creek Road Band | 4:00 PM, | Two Goats Brewing, Burdett Joe Gibson | 7:00 PM, | The Westy, Ithaca Bound for Glory: The Cadleys | 8:00 PM, | Anabel Taylor Hall, Ithaca The English Beat & DJ Mike Judah | 8:00 PM, | The Haunt, Ithaca | $30/$35 Open Mic | 9:00 PM, | The Nines, Ithaca

10/15 Monday Open Mic hosted by Benny T | 7:00 PM, | Flynn’s Roadhouse Cafe, Lansing Open Mic | 8:30 PM, | Agava, Ithaca

Purple Valley | 6:00 PM, | Americana Vineyards, Interlaken

10/16 Tuesday

Jonathan Richman ft. Tommy Larkins on drums | 8:00 PM, | The Haunt, Ithaca | $17/$20

Firelight Live: Tuesdays with Ted Walsh | 6:00 PM, | Firelight Camps, Ithaca

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I-Town Jazz Jam w/ Prof. Greg Evans | 9:00 PM, | The Haunt, Ithaca Open Mic Night | 9:00 PM, | Lot 10 Lounge, Ithaca Concerts/Recitals Midday Music at Lincoln: Theodora Serbanescu-Martin | 12:30 PM, 10/11 Thursday | Barnes Hall, Cornell, Ithaca | Theodora Serbanescu-Martin, piano, performs Beethoven Sonata No. 32, Op. 111 in C. Minor†and Chopin Sonata No. 2, Op. 35 in B-flat Minor Pianist Gloria Cheng presents “Garlands for Steven Stucky” | 8:00 PM, 10/12 Friday | Barnes Hall, Cornell, Ithaca | Garlands for Steven Stucky: Pianist Gloria Cheng performs a series of short pieces in loving tribute to Stucky written by a wide range of distinguished composers, including Julia Adolphe, Esa-Pekka Salonen, and numerous Cornell alumni.

The ElectroZone presents: The Big EZ | 7:0PM, 10/12 Friday; 2:00 PM & 7:00PM, 10/13 Saturday; 2:00PM, 10/14 Sunday | Risley Theatre, Risley Hall, Ithaca | Four electronic music events spread over three days. Featuring more than two dozen musicians from the local, national, and international electronic music community.

Organist Anna Steppler | 3:00 PM, 10/13 Saturday | Anabel Taylor Chapel, Cornell University, Ithaca | Anna Steppler, organ; Hamburg, 1720: Music to

Symphoria Pops I: Bernstein to Broadway | 7:30 PM, 10/13 Saturday | Crouse Hinds Theater, 411 Montgomery Street, Syracuse | Symphoria celebrates Leonard Bernstein’s 100th birthday in this performance featuring the Syracuse Pops Chorus, vocal soloists and his distinctive music that crossed the boundaries between Broadway, movies and the symphonic stage. | $88-$20. College $5. 18 & under $0 Wade Preston | 7:30 PM, 10/13 Saturday | Cortland Repertory Theatre, 24 Port Watson St., Cortland | A night of songs by Billy Joel and others, performed by this Broadway musician and star of the Billy Joel musical Movin’ Out. | $25 Pink Martini | 8:00 PM, 10/13 Saturday | State Theatre Of Ithaca, 107 W State St, Ithaca | | $29-$49 Root Shock! | 8:00 PM, 10/13 Saturday | Auburn Public Theater, 8 Exchange St, Auburn | Ithaca College Jazz Ensemble with guest artist Steve Brown, guitar | 8:15 PM, 10/13 Saturday | Ithaca College, Ford Hall, Ithaca | The Ithaca College Jazz Ensemble performs with Steve Brown guitarist, composer and arranger. Steve was the creator of the jazz program at IC, and served as its director for 40 years, from 1968 to 2008.

The Weight | 8:00 PM, 10/14 Sunday | Hangar Theatre, 801 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Includes former members of The Band

Stage Singing Notes and Slinging Jokes at CAP | 7:00 PM, 10/10 Wednesday | Community Arts Partnership of Tomp-

kins County, 171 E State St, Ithaca, New York 14850, Ithaca | Ithaca’s best vocalist, SingTrece, and its funniest comedian, Kenneth McLaurin will be Singing Notes and Slinging Jokes to raise money for Community Arts Partnership, and for SingTrece’s music mission trip to Kenya. | $20 Open Mic Comedy | 10:00 PM, 10/10 Wednesday | Lot 10 Lounge, 106 S Cayuga St, Ithaca | With Usual Daring on Untried Paths: Anna Botsford ComstockEducational Trailblazer, Author and Scientific Illustrator | 4:00 PM, 10/11 Thursday | Lecture given by Dr. Carol Anelli, Professor of Entomology, Ohio State University. Place: G10 Biotechnology Building, Cornell Drag Show with The House of Merlot | 9:00 PM, 10/11 Thursday | The Range, 119 E State St, Ithaca | Kiss of the Spider Woman | 8:00 PM, 10/12 Friday | The Central New York Playhouse, 3169 Erie Blvd. E., B201 , Syracuse | The show runs for 10 performances, October 12-27. Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays shows are at 8pm; Sundays at 2 pm. | $28/$25 Bet Your Bottom Dollar | 6:30 PM, 10/13 Saturday | Hangar Theatre, 801 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Join the Hangar Theatre for a night of games, gambling and glamour in support of the Hangar’s artistic and educational programs. The evening will include sumptuous snacks and potent potables, enchanting entertainment, and a plethora of prizes. Featuring Hangar artists from our 2018 season.| $125 VIP, $50 Regular, $25 Student/ Artist WWE Live | 7:30 PM, 10/13 Saturday | Broome County Veterans Memorial Arena, 1 Stuart St Ste 4, Binghamton | Galumpha: Experiments in Human Architecture | 3:00 PM, 10/14 Sunday & 10:00AM, Monday 10/15| Smith Center for the Arts, 82 Seneca St, Geneva | Combining stunning acrobatics, striking visual effects, physical comedy, and inventive choreography, Galumpha brings to life a world of

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imagination, beauty, muscle, and merriment. | $6.50 Tri-Cities Opera presents: Madama Butterfly | 3:00 PM, 10/14 Sunday | Forum Theatre, 236 Washington St, Binghamton | Fugitive Movement: Queer Vulnerability in the Black Diasporic Imaginary | 4:30 PM, 10/16 Tuesday | Goldwin Smith Hall, Lewis Auditorium, G76, 232 East Ave, Ithaca | Lecture by GerShun Avilez at Goldwin Smith Hall, English Lounge, 258 GSH 232 East Ave, Central Campus. In this talk, Avilez considers how social and geographic restrictions often constrain racial and sexual minorities and create conditions of vulnerability.

Art Stimulus and Response | 12:00 PM, 10/10 Wednesday | State Of The Art Gallery, 120 W State St Ste 2, Ithaca | Two visual artists--Frances L. Fawcett and Susan C. Larkin--and poet Timothy S. Larkin find connections in each other’s work and explore themes of nature, change, and decay.

Drop-in Art Creation Series | 5:00 PM, 10/11 Thursday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | At these drop-in sessions, patrons can stop by to see what artist Laura Rowley is up to. Each session will feature a 10-minute project using a different tool each time. After completing the project, or while waiting their turn, participants can also make art with the Open Art Hive. Featured projects:October 11: Printmaking with wood blocks.

Tuesday Smillie: Aesthetic Strategies in Protest | 5:15 PM, 10/11 Thursday | Will be held in Abby and Howard Milstein Auditorium, Cornell.

Tuesday Smillie is a visual artist, living and working in New York City. At the core of her work is a question about the individual and the group, the binary of inclusion and exclusion.

Dreams and Pressings: The Journey of Two Artist Friends | 5:00 PM, 10/12 Friday | The Ink Shop Printmaking Center, 330 East State / Martin Luther King Jr. Street, Ithaca | The Ink Shop is honored to exhibit the poetic documentations by book artists, Mary Ellen Long and Genie Shenk displaying three-dimensional works of paper, text, imagery, and found objects. Thru 10/27.

Four Views | 10:00 AM, 10/12 Friday | West End Gallery, 12 W Market St, Corning | Paintings by Anne Bialke, Tom Gardner, Wilson Ong and Martin Poole reflecting their own interpretations of shared reference photos.

Through Nov 8, 2018.

Allegany Artisans | All Day 10/13 Saturday & 10/14 Sunday | Allegany Artisans, 4964 Kenyon Rd, Alfred Station| Enjoy a scenic drive in Allegany County and visit 40 Allegany Artisans ready to welcome you into their working studios. The 31st annual Studio Tour includes artisans of diverse styles, tastes and traditions, working in clay, wood, metal, glass, wax, fiber, precious metals, found objects, gems, paint, and more. Find the map on the Allegany Artisans website, and pick up a printed brochure at any of the participating studios.

Adapting Conditions | 5:00 PM, 10/12 Friday | The Cherry Artspace,

The Solitude of Selfie: An Exhibit

By Carol Flueckiger, | Ongoing |

discovers a magical key to professional success, propelling him into a universe of greed.

Make a Macrame Pumpkin Hanger | 6:00 PM, 10/16 Tuesday | Danby Gathery, 1774 Danby Rd, Ithaca | Register at www.themodernpunch.com or www.danbygathery.com | $48

Eating Animals | 10/16, 7:00PM | An examination of our dietary choices and the food we put in our bodies.

Based on Jonathan Safran Foer’s memoir.

Stamp Making Workshop | 6:00 PM, 10/16 Tuesday | Ovid Firehouse, Community Meeting Room, 2136 Brown Street, Ovid | Registration required, space limited. | $5

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102 Cherry Street, Ithaca | A new site-specific installation by Saltonstall alumna Lorrie Fredette.

34th Annual Fall Invitational Art Show - The Mystery Within | 7:00 PM, 10/13 Saturday | Trumansburg Conservatory of Fine Arts, Congress at McLallen St, Trumansburg | The show takes place through Halloween.

Opening night features a performance by musicians Nikolai Ruskin and Dara Anissi of SOUK and a video presentation by Evan Stewart productions.

Cornell Cinema Women’s Rights National Historic Park, 136 Fall St, Seneca Falls | Cayuga Nature Photographers Installation | Ongoing| Kendal At Ithaca, 2230 N Triphammer Rd, Ithaca Fall Fiber Arts Festival | 9:00 AM, 10/13 Saturday & 10:00AM, 10/14 Sunday| Little York Lake Pavilion, 6799 Little York Lake Rd, Preble | Featuring a wide variety of vendors selling * Knitting and Spinning Supplies * Felting * Yarn * Pelts * Raw Fleeces * Blankets * Shawls * Clothing * Roving * Unique Fiber Products * Crafts * Christmas Gifts * Sheep * Handcrafted woodworking and pottery * Soaps and Maple Products * | $5; under 12 free Greater Ithaca Art Trail Open Studio Weekends | 11:00 AM, 10/13 Saturday & 10/14 Sunday | Visit 37 art studios in Tompkins County on two fall weekends. No fee - just visit.

You’ll find painters, print makers, photographers, illustrators, potters, fiber artists, metal work, fine furniture and a blacksmith! 37 studios. 37 adventures! Find the map and more at www.ArtTrail.com Rural Landscapes and Harvest Time | Ongoing | North Star Art Gallery, 743 Snyder Hill Road, Ithaca |

All films are shown at Willard Straight Hall on Cornell campus.

In the Intense Now | 10/10, 7:15PM | Analyzes and compares images of the political upheavals of the 1960s. From the military coup in Brazil to China’s Cultural Revolution, from the student uprisings in Paris to the end of the Prague Spring.

Experimental Minute Films by Alexander Kluge | 10/11, 7:30 PM| Available in Ithaca for the first time in the context of an international conference on Kluge’s innovations in creative arts and critical practice. (Free) McQueen | 10/11, 9:30PM, 10/13, 7:00PM | The life and career of fashion designer Lee Alexander McQueen: from his start as a tailor, to launching and overseeing his eponymous line, and his untimely death.

Araby | 10/12, 7:15PM, 10/14, 4:30PM | Andre is a young boy that lives in an industrial neighborhood in Ouro Preto, Brazil, near an old aluminum factory.

One day he finds a notebook from one of the factory workers.

Sorry to Bother You | 10/12, 9:30PM; 10/13, 9:20PM; 10/14, 7:00PM | In an alternate present-day version of Oakland, telemarketer Cassius Green

The King | 10/15, 7:00PM | Forty years after the death of Elvis Presley, a musical road trip across America in his 1963 Rolls Royce explores how a country boy lost his authenticity and became a king while his country lost her democracy and became an empire.

Cinemapolis Week of Friday, October 12 through Thursday, October 18, 2018.

Contact Cinemapolis for showtimes. New films are listed first.

Matangi/Maya/M.I.A | Drawn from a never-before-seen cache of personal footage spanning decades, this is an intimate portrait of the Sri Lankan artist and musician who continues to shatter conventions. |96 mins NR Tea With the Dames | Dames Eileen Atkins, Judi Dench, Joan Plowright and Maggie Smith discuss their careers and reminisce about their humble beginnings in the theatre. |84 mins NR Colette | Colette is pushed by her husband to write novels under his name. Upon their success, she fights to make her talents known, challenging gender norms. |111 mins R Free Solo | Follow Alex Honnold as he becomes the first person to ever free solo climb Yosemite’s 3,000ft high El Capitan Wall. With no ropes or safety gear, he completed arguably the greatest feat in rock climbing history. |100 mins PG-13 Fahrenheit 11/9 | 128 mins R The Wife | 100 mins R BlacKkKlansman| 135 mins R Regal Ithaca Wednesday, 10/10 through Tuesday, 10/16. Contact Regal Ithaca for showtimes. New films listed first.

Bad Times at the El Royale | Seven strangers, each with a secret to bury, meet at Lake Tahoe’s El Royale, a run-

SATURDAY, 10/13 10-6 & SUNDAY, 10/14 10-5

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Cortland Ramada, 2 River St., Cortland | Meet with one or more of the 14 psychics on hand and visit with any of the numerous Holistic Practitioners available in areas including Reiki, Chakra Balancing, Chinese Bodywork and Acupuncture.

See one of the largest collections of rocks, crystals and unique items in CNY. So much to see and all in one convenient location for you! Canned food donations will be accepted for the Cortland County Nutrition Program food pantry. (photo provided)

Cass Park, 701 Taughannock Blvd., Ithaca | Register to participate or support someone who is; this is an important fundraiser for the CRC. Funds raised represent one-third of their operating budget. Everyone has been touched by cancer at some point in life, the Cancer Resource Center of the Finger Lakes is here so that no one has to face cancer alone. (photo: provided)

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Returning soon, Pink Martini was born from politics B y B r y a n Va n C a m p e n Bands get formed for all kinds of reasons, but it’s not often that a group comes together via a mixture of Portland, Oregon politics and the inspiration of a Pee Wee Herman holiday special. Such is the wild origin story for Pink Martini. The band considers itself “a little orchestra” that meshes a wide range of genres, from Latin to classical to jazz and more. Their most recent album is Je dis oui! (2016).

Pink Martini will perform at the State Theatre on Saturday, Oct. 13 at 8 p.m. Pianist and founding member Thomas Lauderdale spoke to the Ithaca Times about Pink Martini’s surprising success, the Del Rubio Triplets and the notion that conga lines can bring us together as a society.

TL: This is our 24th year as a band, which is sort of astonishing because I never expected to be in a band, let alone ring-leading one. It’s been a series of following gut instincts from moment to moment, and it’s gone much further than any of us imagined. I think we feel very lucky, especially in modern times, to be able to travel around the world and play music and write songs and discover other songs that have been buried in various cultures for years. I think that it’s an amazing opportunity to be a sort of diplomatic place where hopefully people of all generations and political

persuasions are together under one rooftop and hopefully, by the end of it in a conga line.

IT: Conga lines are always good. What was your gut instinct when you formed Pink Martini?

TL: I thought I was going to go into politics after college. I had worked in City Hall in Portland, both for the Mayor and for the City Commissioner all throughout high school and college. And I went back to Portland, Oregon ostensibly with the goal of running for office and hopefully becoming Mayor of Portland. Then in 1994, there was a very nasty attempt to amend the Oregon Constitution to declare homosexuality illegal in the state of Oregon. So I was working on the campaign in opposition to this, and I had just seen Pee Wee Herman’s Christmas special, which has everyone from Dinah Shore, Zsa Zsa Gabor, k.d. lang, Oprah Winfrey, Whoopi Goldberg, Grace Jones, Charo, Cher and the Del Rubio Triplets. And the Del Rubio Triplets were three gals, three guitarists somewhere between the ages of 70 and 80. They literally were triplets, they lived in a triple-wide mobile home in San Pedro, California. And they wore matching miniskirts, they had huge hair, they had matching booties, they played guitars and did covers of “Walk Like An Egyptian” and

“Whip It.” So I brought them to town to do a series of week-long small concerts in nursing homes and hospitals and retirement homes.

And they would say at the end of their sets, very sweetly, “Please vote no on 13.” At the end of the week, we had a big public concert, and I needed an opening act, so I threw on a cocktail dress and I started Pink Martini.

We became the house band for political fundraising in Portland for the next several years. We played a lot of weddings and we were working on our first album. It was like a

big variety show; every song there was a different singer. It was very campy. We released our first album, and it became a huge hit in France. And suddenly we found ourselves on tour in France, not having to stay in friends’ apartments in the floors, but actually in fancy hotels.

With over a dozen members, Pink Martini will fill the stage at the State Theatre this Saturday. (Photo provided)

down hotel with a dark past. Over the course of one fateful night, everyone will have a last shot at redemption before everything goes to hell. | 141 mins R Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween |Halloween comes to life in a comedy adventure based on R.L. Stine’s 400-million-selling series of books. | 90 mins PG First Man | A look at the life of the astronaut, Neil Armstrong, and the legendary space mission that led him to become the first man to walk on the Moon on July 20, 1969. | 141 mins PG-13

GED exam to finish high school.| 111

Venom | When Eddie Brock acquires the powers of a symbiote, he will have to release his alter-ego “Venom” to save his life. |112 mins PG-13

The House with a Clock in Its Walls

A Star Is Born | A musician helps a young singer and actress find fame, even as age and alcoholism send his own career into a downward spiral. | 135 mins R

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Smallfoot |A Yeti is convinced that the elusive creatures known as “humans” really do exist.|96 mins PG

A Simple Favor | 117 mins R

Night School | A group of troublemakers are forced to attend night school in hope that they’ll pass the

Crazy Rich Asians | 120 mins PG-13

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Hell Fest | A masked serial killer turns a horror themed amusement park into his own personal playground, terror-

izing a group of friends while the rest of the patrons believe that it is all part of the show. | 89 mins R

The Meg | 113 mins PG-13

Christopher Robin | 104 mins PG

Special Events The Survivor and the Translator | 7:00 PM, 10/11 Thursday | The Cherry Artspace, 102 Cherry Street, Ithaca | A video screening of Leeny Sack’s critically acclaimed 1980 production, followed by a discussion with the artist. A solo theatre piece about not having experienced the Holocaust, by a daughter of concentration camp survivors. | $20.00 Cortland Holistic Living Expo, Food Drive and Psychic Fair | 10:00 AM, 10/13 Saturday & 10/14 Sunday | Ramada Inn, 2 River St., Cortland | Come meet and speak with one or more of the 14 renowned Psychics.

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SATURDAY, 10/13 FROM 3PM-8PM

Ithaca Beer Co., 122 Ithaca Beer Drive, Ithaca | It’s time to celebrate the “hoppiest” time of the year with special beers, live music, good friends and delicious fare. Exclusive beers to be announced, only available at the festival. Live music from Nonstop to Cairo with their unique blend of ska, hip-hop and funk to get your body moving! Numerous contests including Best Hoptoberfest Costume and Masskrugstemmen (German Mug Holding Contest). Prizes will be awarded! (photo: provided)

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Visit Holistic Practitioners and vendors specializing in, Reiki, Chakra Balancing, Chinese Bodywork and Acupuncture, Polarity Therapy and Marma Point, BioGenetics, Massage, herbal products, oils, incense, books, jewelry and other fineries. | $6.00 includes lectures Record Fair | 10:00 AM, 10/13 Saturday | The Space at GreenStar, 700 W Buffalo St, Ithaca | 100,000 Recordings for Sale - Bargains & Rarities.

S.N.Y.P.E. FilmFestival 2018 | 11:00 AM, 10/13 Saturday | Tioga Theater, 208 Main St, Owego | Southern NY Premiere Event (SNYPE) Film Festival.

We have opened up the festival to horror films as well.†Ghost, Aliens, UFOs, Bigfoots, cryptids, urban

legends, the odd and unusual are all welcome. | $10 Hoptoberfest! | 3:00 PM, 10/13 Saturday | Ithaca Beer Co., 122 Ithaca Beer Drive, Ithaca | Join Ithaca Beer to celebrate the hoppiest time of the year with special beers, live music, good friends and delicious fare.

Exclusive beers to be announced, only available at the festival. | $20 advance / $25 day of Double Contra Dance with George Marshall and Maivish | 4:00 PM, 10/13 Saturday | Beverly J. Martin School, 302 W. Buffalo St., Ithaca | Afternoon session for experienced dancers: 4:00-6:00 pm. Potluck supper 6:15-7:30 pm. Evening dance for all: 8:00-11:00 pm. | $10-22

ITHACA COLLEGE JAZZ ENSEMBLE WITH GUEST ARTIST STEVE BROWN, GUITAR SATURDAY 10/13 AT 8:15PM

Ithaca College Ford Hall | The Ithaca College Jazz Ensemble performs with Steve Brown,guitarist, composer and arranger. Steve was the creator of the jazz program at IC and served as its director for 40 years, from 1968 to 2008. (photo: provided)

Books The Eamon McEneaney Memorial Reading by Alice McDermott | 4:30 PM, 10/11 Thursday | Rhodes-Rawlings Auditorium, G70 Klarman Hall, 232 East Ave., Ithaca | Novelist Alice McDermott will read from her work.

Edith B. Ford Library Board of Trustees Meeting | 5:30 PM, 10/11 Thursday | Ovid Firehouse, Community Meeting Room, 2136 Brown Street, Ovid | The public is invited to attend the open meetings.

Books & Brew: The Book Club at Hopshire - Westerns | 7:00 PM, 10/11 Thursday | Hopshire Farm & Brewery, 1771 Dryden Road, Freeville | Read any western - mystery, history, classic, romance - and come talk about it over snacks and brew.

Buffalo St. Books Presents Trampoline Thursdays | 7:00 PM, 10/11 Thursday | Lot 10 Lounge, 106 S Cayuga St, Ithaca | Friends of The Tompkins County Library Book Sale | 10:00 AM, 10/13 Saturday thru 10/15 Monday| Friends of the Library Book Sale, 509 Esty St, Ithaca | It’s FICTION! Fake Relatives and Fake Neighbors | 2:00 PM, 10/14 Sunday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Tompkins County Poet Laureate Zee Zahava to Mark the End of Her Term with a Reading at TCPL in the Library’s Ezra Cornell Reading Room.

Readings on Mental Health Author Series | 2:00 PM, 10/14 Sunday | Buffalo Street Books, 215 N Cayuga St, Ithaca | The series continues with a reading by Courtenay Hameister, former head writer and host of the popular public radio variety show Live Wire.

Jennie’s Book Club | 9:30 AM, 10/16 Tuesday | Southworth Library, 24 W. Main Street, Dryden | In The Midst of Winter by Isabel Allende

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Wednesday | Southworth Library, 24 W. Main Street, Dryden | Maker Kids | 3:45 PM, 10/10 Wednesday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | A drop-in craft and activity program.

Each session will provide a range of activities for varying ages and ability levels; the program is most well suited to children ages 5 to 12.

Evening Storytime w/ Firefighters | 6:30 PM, 10/10 Wednesday | Southworth Library, 24 W. Main Street, Dryden | Celebrate Fire Safety Week with stories, activities and the fire truck!

Lego Literacy | 3:00 PM, 10/11 Thursday | Interlaken Public Library, 8390 Main Street, Interlaken | Comic Creation Workshop for Teens | 5:00 PM, 10/11 Thursday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Preschool Storytime at Southworth Library | 10:00 AM, 10/12 Friday | Southworth Library, 24 W. Main Street, Dryden | A different theme every week!

Baby Storytime | 10:30 AM, 10/12 Friday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 East Green Street, Ithaca | Also one from 3:30 to 4:00 PM. Storytime | 10:30 AM, 10/12 Friday | Edith B. Ford Memorial Library, 7169 N Main St, Ovid | Friday Afternoon Movie | 3:45 PM, 10/12 Friday | Van Etten Library, 83 Main Street, Van Etten | “Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation” Tompkins County Public Library to Offer Teen Writing Workshop | 4:30 PM, 10/12 Friday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | These workshops are appropriate for people in grades 6-12.

Fall Family Festival | 10:00 AM, 10/13 Saturday | Shtayburne Farm, 2909 Chase Road, Rock Stream | Our family invites your family to a day on our Finger Lakes farm, just off Rt 14 on the west side of Seneca Lake for our 3rd annual Fall Family Festival! Hayrides, farm tours, lots of kids games with prizes, pumpkin decorating contest, petting zoo, bounce house, play area and local vendors means tons of fun for everyone.

Fossil Mania! | 10:00 AM, 10/13 Saturday | Museum Of The Earth, 1259 Trumansburg Rd, Ithaca | Our annual family-centered Fossil Mania event celebrates fossils, and this year we are focusing on late Cretaceous Fossils and environments, especially the Quetzalcoatlus, T. rex skull, and our amazing heteromorph fossil. Come join us for a scavenger hunt, activities, and fossil identification. | Included with Museum admission Paws to Read | 11:00 AM, 10/13 Saturday | Southworth Library, 24 W. Main Street, Dryden | Come and practice reading with our furry friends from Cornell Canine Companions.

Family Storytime | 11:30 AM, 10/13 Saturday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 East Green Street, Ithaca | Families Learning Science Together at TCPL: Alka-Seltzer Rockets | 1:00 PM, 10/13 Saturday | Tompkins County Public Library will host Cornell University’s Center for Materials Research for a program on the laws of motion.

Scarecrow Jubilee | 1:00 PM, 10/13 Saturday | Ithaca’s Children’s Garden, Ithaca | Nothing says fall like the Scarecrow Jubilee at ICG! Celebrate the harvest with scarecrow making, pumpkin carving, apple tasting, and so much more. This event is an ICG seasonal favorite. | Free!!

Monday Storytime | 10:30 AM, 10/15 Monday | Interlaken Public Library, 8390 Main Street, Interlaken | Maker Mondays for Teens at TCPL | 4:00 PM, 10/15 Monday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Tutorials will be provided for the Makerbot 3D Printer, Epilogue Helix Laser Cutter, and Cricut.

Tuesday Morning Story Hour | 10:15 AM, 10/16 Tuesday | Candor Free Library, 2 Bank St, Candor | Family Story Time | 10:30 AM, 10/16 Tuesday | Newfield Public Library, 198 Main St. , Newfield | Join us every Tuesday for stories, songs and fun.

There is a different theme each week.

Toddler and Preschool Storytime | 11:00 AM, 10/16 Tuesday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 East Green Street, Ithaca |

Frank Einstein Book Club w/ Cargill Engineers | 3:30 PM, 10/16 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.

Civic Meetings Planning and Economic Development Committee | 6:00 PM, 10/10 Wednesday | The agenda for the next meeting has been posted to the City website. Meeting will be held in the Common Council Chambers, Third Floor, City Hall.

Community LIfe Commission Meeting | 6:00 PM, 10/15 Monday | Common Council Chambers, 3rd Floor, City Hall, 108 East Green Street, Ithaca | The Community Life Commission is charged with providing Common Council and the appropriate committees thereof, the City’s quasi-judicial boards, and City staff with advisory research, public input, and analysis for matters related to: ICSD BoE Facilities and Finance Work Session | 5:00 PM, 10/16 Tuesday | Meets in Board Room City Board of Public Works | 6:00 PM, 10/16 Tuesday | Common Council Chambers - Ithaca City Hall, 108 E Green St, Ithaca |

Notices Red Cross Blood Drives | Wednesday, 10/10 Tompkins Community College 9:30am to 2:30pm; Thursday, 10/11 Tabernacle Baptist Church 11am to 5pm; Saturday, 10/13 Church of Latter-day Saints 8am to 12pm; Tuesday, 10/16 East Hill Office Building 9am to 3pm Smith Opera House Tour | 10:00 AM, 10/10 Wednesday | Smith Opera House, 82 Seneca St, Geneva | Lansing Senior Citizens Meeting | 12:00 PM, 10/10 Wednesday | All Saints Community Room, 347 Ridge Road, Lansing |

Ithaca Rotary Club Luncheon Speaker Series | 12:15 PM, 10/10 Wednesday | Coltivare, 235 S Cayuga St, Ithaca | Ithaca Rotary Club Community Grants check presentation ceremony | $15

Lecture: A bird’s eye view of nature in the city and the surprising ways we affect ecological communities | 7:30 PM, 10/10 Wednesday | Statler Auditorium, Statler Hall, 7 East Ave., Ithaca |

D&D Gaming Night | 3:00 PM, 10/10 Wednesday | Edith B. Ford Memorial Library, 7169 N Main St, Ovid | Join Library Luke for an all-ages adventure.

Doug’s Fish Fry to support CMC Auxiliary | 11:00 AM, 10/11 Thursday | Trumansburg Fairgrounds, 2150 Trumansburg Road, Trumansburg | Fundraiser for Cayuga Medical Center Auxiliary. Save time & call ahead: 607-423-5996.

ESL Talk Time at TCPL | 3:30 PM, 10/10 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.

Open Hearts Dinner | 5:00 PM, 10/10 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 Candor Library Board of Trustees Meeting | 6:00 PM, 10/10 Wednesday | Candor Free Library, 2 Bank St, Candor | For more info call library: 659-7258.

Daily Sunset Cruise | | Allen H. Treman State Marine Park, Ithaca | Daily two-hour cruises aboard the MV Teal, that feature a light narration and a chance to chat informally with our crew. Feel free to bring your own refreshments. Times vary as the sunset changes so please check our booking calendar for exact dates and times. | $40 regular fare Hooks and Needles | 6:00 PM, 10/10 Wednesday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | A biweekly drop-in knitting and crochet meetup in the Library’s Makerspace.

Ages 18 and up.

Ithaca Sociable Singles | 6:00 PM, 10/10 Wednesday | Dinner: The Glenwood Pines,†1213 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca.Host: Nadine L., RSVP: nlem1155@gmail.com Wednesday Night Ithaca Women’s Basketball Association | 7:00 PM, 10/10 Wednesday | Lehman Alternative Community School, 111 Chestnut St, Ithaca | The league is non-competitive and fun and involves pick-up style playing. Check out the league’s website for more information.

Engaging History: Monthly Study Groups with County Historian | 12:00 PM, 10/11 Thursday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | A monthly program with Tompkins County Historian Carol Kammen. In the sessions, Kammen presents documents from the county’s past for reading aloud and discussion.

HeatSmart Tompkins community meeting | 6:30 PM, 10/11 Thursday | Newfield Public Library, 198 Main St, Newfield | HeatSmart Tompkins is a non-profit community organization devoted to increasing home energy efficiency, saving people money, and realizing the health benefits of better air quality.

Crafting Your 60-Second Pitch Workshop | 1:00 PM, 10/12 Friday | Tompkins County Workforce Center, Center Ithaca, Suite 241, | Adult Adoptee Support Group; Ithaca | 6:00 PM, 10/12 Friday | Just Be Cause Not-For-Profit Development Center, 1013 West State Street, Ithaca | Call 607.272.0034. Register Now. McLean Community Bazaar | 9:00 AM, 10/13 Saturday | McLean Fire Hall, 2 Stevens Rd , McLean | Attic Treasures, Kountry Kitchen Baked Goods, Crafters, Rada Cutlery, Can & Bottle Drive, and Free Blood Pressure Clinic. Luncheon starts at 11:30.

Cancer Resource Center Walkathon and 5K | 10:00 AM, 10/13 Saturday | Cass Park Rink & Pool, 701 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Ithaca City Cemetery Tours | 11:00 AM, 10/13 Saturday & 10/14 Sunday | Ithaca City Cemetery, University Avenue Entrance, Ithaca | Learn about the Ithaca City Cemetery’s evolution from village burying ground to Victorian garden of the dead. Enjoy

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