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The fate of Parcel 5

Look to Chicago for great ideas. There, large and small theaters feed each other. The larger venues accommodate large-scale shows that draw theatergoers who wouldn’t normally attend small shows.

They plant the seeds for future generations of theater fans, who then become patrons of the smaller and experimental companies.

Chicago’s Millennium Park offers two public sculptures – Anish Kapoor’s “Cloud Gate” and Jaume Plensa’s “Crown Fountain,” both offering interactive art that draws crowds of enthusiastic locals and tourists alike. Pritzker Pavilion caps the park with an open-air music venue that draws thousands.

Similarly engaging works of art placed in a public plaza outside a theater (with apartments above?) would supply Rochester area residents with year-round entertainment (and a reason to head downtown).

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The only chance RBTL has to break even is if parking revenue for the theater is included, and that’s only if they hit the attendance projections that are even more bloated than the projections for passengers on our great ferry to Toronto.

And if a theater will bring all of this extra business, why hasn’t it done that around the Auditorium? If a theater can sustain itself, build it yourself.

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I am very much on the side of the activists and artists and of more green space, but I see activists here making the same mistakes a lot of the activist groups that I was part of in New York City were making.

We thought that in the spirit of Jane Jacobs and of doing the right thing, somehow the developers would eventually buckle.

What happened in New York City over the years is that a succession of mayors and council members worked in collusion with developers, who funded the politicians’ campaigns every election cycle.

And even when a nice park was created in New York City, like the Highline or on the Dumbo Waterfront, it only increased the condominium development and attraction of extreme wealth, gentrification, segregation, etc. Beautiful parks were built, but they became playgrounds for the rich and for tourists. Look at all the real estate surrounding the world’s most famous park, Central Park.

There will have to be more than protests and minor fundraising if we are to get more green space in Rochester and other cities. The key is to come up with a much better plan than the developers, and that’s not hard to do. But the better plan is not there yet, and activists often have limited time to contribute. Developers are working full-time and with unlimited funds and resources and teams of lawyers, politicians, and

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backroom collusion to complete their goals.

There needs to be a new vision among the ranks of the activists if the battle against the developers is to be won.

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The Dems’ race for Congress

I was happy Joe Morelli won his primary. But what are the Democratic National Committee and its candidates doing to earn election?

America is on a precipice.

Donald Trump has taken up with a de facto new political party. In the vacuum, the GOP sets its own agenda.

Yet the DNC fights with its candidates over bankrupt strategies. Has anyone from the DNC talked with Robert Reich, Alexandria OcasioCortez, Bernie Sanders, or Elizabeth Warren?

Are demonstrations and parades opposing the alt-right sufficient

to win votes? GOP authoritarians win votes by manipulating white resentment. White resentment is a potent force, but it is leaderless.

I hear little from the DNC or its candidates on how to assimilate this political force.

People committed to violence march the streets screaming that they are victims of attacks on white rights. Why is there no forceful DNC plan to rein in domestic terror infringing on the rights of all?

GOP-sponsored gerrymandering and voter suppression campaigns are funded by special interests throwing money at Capitol Hill. These end runs around representative democracy corrode America’s legislative and electoral processes. Yet there is not one vocal DNC candidate addressing the transgressions.

President Trump is

ill-equipped for the job.

Stunningly, the DNC appears not to have a plan or know what to do to unseat him. The DNC’s lack of a clear message may be squandering a tremendous opportunity to assume control of Congress and eventually the presidency. Clarity changes minds in red states and gathers votes in blue.

A purported champion of a progressive society in the Louise Slaughter mold, Joe Morelle’s statements and website show that he either lacks clarity on important issues or does not have the conviction to state them. Rather, he gives the impression of an heir-apparent whose sole purpose is to be a blue Tory. If he is successful this November, I am sure he’ll find his Congressional health plan, the one all Americans should have, to his liking.

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URBAN JOURNAL | BY MARY ANNA TOWLER

Yet another attempt to improve city schools Not surprisingly, the state’s education commissioner is sending someone else to try to help the Rochester school district turn things around.

If the district and the new “distinguished educator,” Jaime Aquino, reach an agreement on his salary, he’ll arrive here in August, study the district and its problems over the next 45 days, and then he and the district’s leaders will come up with an plan to improve things.

And if the state’s education commissioner approves the plan, presumably the district will try it and see it if works.

I’m not opposed to having Aquino come here. Whatever salary he and the district settle on, it’ll increase the district’s expenses, and the money will have to come from something else. But I think this district needs some outside opinion and some outside oversight.

I’m not opposed to paying Aquino to try to help the district, either, although it seems to me that we’ve done enough studies and have enough evidence to know what’s wrong. If we don’t, I’m not sure 45 days is enough to unearth what previous studies have missed.

Those studies have identified some really basic problems, though, and the district has failed fail to address them. Maybe Aquino can figure out why.

But let me just repeat the Great Obvious Fact: Through all these studies, through all the new school superintendents and new school board members and new ideas, two things have been constant: Rochester’s poverty rate has increased. And the performance of the school district’s children has dropped.

Lock step.

For half a century.

That is a fact. You can look it up.

And I am tired, and way out of patience, with the smug counter-argument: You’re saying poor children can’t learn.

No, I am not. I am saying what a gazillion credible studies show: Poverty has an effect.

Generational poverty has an effect. The concentration of poverty has an effect. And Rochester has all of that – in abundance.

A school district in which nearly all children are poor is a school district with enormous challenges. Districts in affluent communities serve children whose parents are well educated and have the resources to provide not only a comfortable, safe, healthy life but also educational resources. That makes a difference.

We should insist on excellence. We should not tolerate poor performance.

But we cannot expect Rochester teachers to do the impossible.”

Douglass’s Rochester

Harvard University, isn’t special because of its faculty, a former Harvard professor said in a lecture here years ago. It’s special because of its students.

The Rochester school district isn’t perfect.

Far from it. Teachers, administrators, union leaders, school board members: Point to any group of people in the district, and you can find problems. And nobody should accept children’s poverty as an excuse for poor adult performance.

We should insist on excellence. We should not tolerate poor performance. But we cannot expect Rochester teachers to do the impossible. While we’re demanding improvements from teachers, administrators, union leaders, and school board members, we also have to do what they cannot do: start breaking down the concentration of poverty in this district.

How? Join with Great Schools for All and pressure suburban school leaders and state officials to create schools serving children from both the city and the suburbs. Create schools in which fewer than half of the students are poor.

Otherwise, Rochester will continue to have one of the highest-poverty, lowestachieving districts in the nation.

The alternative is to do what we’ve been doing: beat up on the school district’s adults. Because we have to blame somebody. And we’re not willing to blame ourselves.

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Thurston tenants join lawsuit against landlord

The tenants of an apartment building that has racked up dozens of code violations will now get a say in the City of Rochester’s suit against their landlord.

Earlier this month, City Court Judge Maija Dixon granted a motion allowing the tenants of 447 Thurston Road to be a party to the suit. The city filed suit against Thurston Road Realty after the company failed to fix a large number of outstanding code violations at properties it controls.

Thurston Road Realty has been owned by Peter Hungerford, who lives in Staten Island, but it’s not clear whether that’s still the case, says Ryan Acuff, a Rochester housing rights advocate. The next court date for the case is set for Friday, August 3.

A step forward for skatepark

The City of Rochester has issue a request for proposals to design a new skatepark – something skateboard and

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rollerblade enthusiasts have wanted for years.

The park, which would be near the intersection of South Avenue and Woodbury Boulevard, would be open to the public free of charge.

The deadline for proposals is 5 p.m. August 17.

EDUCATION | BY TIM LOUIS MACALUSO

RCSD gets new oversight

CSEA leader Flo Tripi dies

Longtime labor leader Flo Tripi, 79, died last week after a battle with cancer. Tripi began advocating for workers in the 1970’s, when she worked for the Monroe County Health Department. She rose through the union ranks and earlier this year retired after a 50-year career, which was capped by her 18-year service as CSEA regional president.

In a Labor Federation newsletter, Dan Maloney, president of the Rochester Labor Council and the Genesee Valley Area Labor Federation, called Tripi “a mentor, friend, and contemporary to every major labor leader in Upstate.”

Jaime Aquino: The district’s new “distinguished educator” has decades of experience in administrative positions in large urban school districts. PROVIDED PHOTO

State Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia has renewed her effort to place greater oversight over the Rochester school district.

Last March, she appointed Kenneth Eastwood to the position, but that fell through in salary negotiations. Now she’s sending Jaime Aquino, a long-time education administrator, to do the job.

The state’s Board of Regents created the distinguished educator position in 2011. People selected for the job spend several months conducting an intensive review of a district that has had four or more years of persistently low performance.

“The Rochester City School District needs to address many deficiencies in instruction and student support that are barriers to student learning,” Elia said in her statement announcing Aquino’s appointment. “Working with Superintendent Barbara DeaneWilliams and the district, Dr. Aquino will assess the district’s fiscal, operational, and instructional operations and develop strategies for improvement.”

Elia cited some dismal but wellknown facts about the Rochester district: • It has the lowest graduation rate of any large district in the state; • Its English and math scores last year were the state’s lowest; • The district is one of five in New York with more than 20 percent of its schools in receivership because of persistent low achievement.

Aquino, who starts on August 18, has more than 30 years of experience, including serving in senior positions in the Los Angeles, Denver, and Hartford school districts.

In Rochester, he’ll be a non-voting member of the school board. Board President Van White said the board still has to negotiate his salary, which the district will pay.

During his first 45 days here, Aquino will focus on developing an action plan in collaboration with the city’s school administrators. He’ll deliver his recommendations to Elia, who can accept them or make changes. Elia gave no indication of how long Aquino will be working with the district.

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Renewable energy advocates have long said community solar could help make renewable energy more accessible to renters and homeowners who can’t afford rooftop solar panels. And now, with some state regulatory obstacles cleared, more community solar projects are coming online in the Rochester region.

ENERGY | BY JEREMY MOULE

Local solar options grow Until recently, if you wanted to power your house with locally generated solar energy, you had limited options.

If you owned your home, you could put solar panels on its roof, if you could afford the initial investment and your property had good exposure to the sun. If you were a renter, you have had few options.

Renewable energy advocates have long said that there’s a way to make solar power accessible to more people. They’ve argued in favor of an approach called community solar, where developers build larger solar projects and sell shares of the generated power to area households. Ever since New York officials removed some regulatory hurdles, community solar development has picked up statewide.

In the Rochester region, there’s enough consumer appetite that Greenspark, based in the Town of Ontario, has “developed, installed, and filled” three projects in Ontario and Webster, which power approximately 200 households, says Meaghann Schulte, a company spokesperson.

Greenspark is also working on a shovelready project in Parma, which could be online by October and would serve another 250 households, she says.

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“In fact, we have so much interest that we have had to place people on a waiting list for our next projects,” Schulte said in an e-mail.

Greenspark’s customers generally pay less for electricity than they would if they bought it through Rochester Gas and Electric, Schulte says. The solar projects are all in RG&E’s service area, as are the customers.

And recently, Washington, D.C.based Arcadia Power started marketing its community solar program to Rochester area households. The company is partnering with ForeFront Power, a global corporation that’s building a solar farm in Red Creek, Wayne County, and another in Canandaigua. They’ll provide power for about 1,000 customers in the National Grid, NYSEG, and RG&E service areas, says Arcadia CEO Kiran Bhatraju.

“It is customers buying power from a very specific renewable-energy project local to their community,” Bhatraju says. “It really wasn’t possible until recently.”

Arcadia’s rates are based on a formula: Whatever the utility company is charging for electricity, Arcadia’s solar power will cost 5 percent less, Bhatraju says. The company is currently accepting sign-ups at www.arcadiapower.com/communitysolar/new-york/.

New York is requiring utilities to get 50 percent of their electricity from renewables by 2030. Renewable energy advocates and state officials see community solar as an important tool for reaching that benchmark.

Environmental groups have been pushing another arrangement to boost local renewable energy purchasing: community choice aggregation. The approach is akin to a buyer’s club for electricity. A municipal government or group of governments solicits energy supply contracts for its households and small businesses; those are the customers who’ll pay for the power.

The governments can specify various requirements of suppliers, including an entirely renewable supply, which is what makes the approach attractive to climate and environmental activists.

Brighton resident Sue Hughes-Smith and other members of the Rochester People’s Climate Coalition have led the push for local governments to sign on to CCA. Hughes-Smith doesn’t see community solar impacting aggregation, though CCA does provide solar developers with access to larger customer pools.

Hughes-Smith also points out that community solar programs continue an old environmental strategy of asking people to

Community solar options are increasing in the Rochester area. FILE PHOTO

change their habits, while CCA spurs a broader change.

“After nearly 20 years of electricity deregulation that has provided individuals with ‘choice,’ only 15% of people take this action,” Hughes-Smith says in an e-mail.

“CCA, on the other hand, is an act of collective action where communities change the default electric choice to enable 85 percent or more participation.”

Locally, Brockport, Brighton, and Scottsville have approved CCA programs but are in various stages of launch. The City of Rochester has been considering CCA, as have towns including Irondequoit and Pittsford.

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[ VOTING ] BY JAKE CLAPP

Part of a year-long, quarterly series examining how Rochester lives up to the legacy of Frederick Douglass, produced by Open Mic Rochester and CITY Newspaper.

Both publications will also have related articles throughout the year.

Frederick Douglass knew the power of the ballot. While the abolition of slavery had been his main focus for decades, Douglass often spoke and wrote about enfranchisement.

Equality, he said, for both black Americans and women, must include the ability to vote and to have a hand in making and administering the laws of the land.

After the Civil War ended and the institution of chattel slavery was abolished, Douglass set out on his next steps: uplifting the recently emancipated and helping lead the fight for equality. Douglass believed that there was no safety for formerly enslaved people — many of them living in hostile conditions in the post-Civil War South — outside of recognition and protection by the American government. To “guard, protect and maintain his liberty, the freedman should have the ballot,” Douglass wrote in his autobiography “Life and Times of Frederick Douglass.”

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I did the elective franchise as the one great power by which all civil rights are obtained, enjoyed, and maintained under our form of government, and the one without which freedom to any class is delusive if not impossible, I set myself to work with whatever force and energy I possessed to secure this power for the recentlyemancipated millions.”

Voting is the basis of the American political system. But it has also been one of the system’s most contentious parts. Every group in the country’s history, except for white, land-owning men, has had to fight for its right to the ballot box. Today, restrictive measures continue to suppress voter turnout across the country.

New York isn’t one of the states that have enacted ways that actively restrict voter access, like voter ID laws. But a complex list of problems does help suppress voter turnout. In 2016, New York ranked 41st in the nation in voter turnout, with a 57 percent voting rate.

(Monroe County did beat that, with 76.3 percent.) During the 2017 general election, 38.2 percent of registered Monroe County voters went to the polls; turnout in the city of Rochester was 30.6 percent.

“We’re not like Southern states, where they’re constantly fighting over voter ID and that sort of disenfranchisement,” says Jennifer Wilson, director of program and policy at the New York League of Women

Voters. “But in New York State, we’re definitely not in a good spot.”

Voter suppression in New York can’t be attributed to a single barrier. Voting rights advocates point to a long list of actions and rules that dissuade people from voting, from requiring an excuse for absentee voting and needlessly early voterregistration deadlines to gerrymandering.

And voter apathy adds to the problem.

In May, the New York Senate Democratic Conference released the results of a survey it conducted to determine reasons people didn’t vote. The survey polled 930 eligible New York voters, and the conference is using the results to support a package of bills to address voter access.

The major barriers that discouraged voters, according to the survey’s summary: the inability to vote early or to get an absentee ballot without an excuse; a lack of awareness of the dates of elections or the deadlines to register to vote; complicated laws about when to register for a primary; and limited voting hours.

These barriers tend to impact low-income workers, single-parent families, and caregivers the most, and in those groups, people of color, women, college students, and the elderly are disproportionately represented. If you’re a worker who’s been asked to stay late, or a single parent who can’t find childcare, you’re less likely to make it to the polling site. People who live in

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rural areas and those who don’t have easy access to transportation are also heavily affected.

New York State voters need to make voting rights a priority, says Iman Abid, director of the Genesee Valley Chapter of the New York Civil Liberties Union. “The fate of people’s civil liberties and civil rights are in the hands of their elected officials,” Abid says.

Rochester City Council Vice President Adam McFadden says he has done voting rights work in Alabama as a member of the National Black Caucus of Local Elected Officials and has seen how voter ID laws suppress the vote there. New York has a

Adam McFadden. FILE PHOTO

progressive advantage, he says, “but we have a lot of work to do around voter education and why it’s important for people to actually vote.”

Earlier this year, Governor Andrew Cuomo signed an executive order restoring the right to vote for New Yorkers on parole from prison. In April, McFadden organized a rally to encourage parolees to vote.

“I still deal with parolees who don’t know that there’s a law change,” McFadden says.

“I had a 45-minute discussion, almost an argument, with a parolee trying to persuade him, even after showing him the actual law.

You have to think: People have been taking shots at parolees for so long that they don’t know when they have legislation that’s supportive of them.”

Voting is about shaping policy and access to resources, says McFadden. As the US has expanded voting rights, there has always been an undercurrent of people wanting to attack and restrict that right in order to maintain control.

For people concerned about voting access, the question becomes how to “educate folks to understand what that attack is about and why it’s important for them to exercise their right,” says McFadden. “We have to do a better job of that.”

VOTER REGISTRATION Voting rights advocates say that voter turnout increases when it’s easier and more convenient to participate in the process. And the process begins with voter registration.

Currently 17 states plus the District of Columbia offer same-day registration. New York, on the other hand, requires voters to register 25 days before an election, in person or by mail.

Twelve states and the District of Columbia have automatic voter registration. Oregon, which implemented automatic registration

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in January 2016, was the first state to do that, and it has seen increased racial, age, and income diversity in its voters.

Each state with automatic voter registration uses its own system, but the common practice is to automatically register people when they interact with a government agency unless they opt out.

If you live in Oregon, any time you interact with the state’s Department of Motor Vehicles, a computer program automatically checks to see where you live, whether you’re old enough to vote, whether you’re a US citizen, and whether you’re already registered to vote. If you’re not registered and you’re eligible, the system sends that information to the Oregon Elections Division, which sends you a postcard telling you that you’ll be automatically registered to vote unaffiliated with a political party. If you want to enroll in a political party, you can note that on the post card and return it. Or, if you like, you can decline voter registration entirely, noting that on the postcard.

In addition to the states that already have automatic registration, another 20, including New York, introduced legislation for it in 2018. Democrats introduced a bill in the New York Senate that would allow registration to happen on the spot at certain government agencies, like the DMV, when applying for services from a municipal housing authority,

or registering for classes at a state university.

That bill is still in committee, and similar bills have been considered in the Assembly, but nothing yet has made it out of either chamber.

THE PRIMARY SYSTEM While the turnout in general elections tends to be low, it’s even worse in primaries. Official numbers for last month’s 25th Congressional District Democratic primary haven’t been released yet, but Board of Elections officials estimate that voter turnout was 16 percent of registered Democrats in the district.

In 2017, the September mayoral primary drew out an estimated 25 percent, which is higher than the 23 percent turnout in the 2013 primary.

One reason for the low turnout in primaries is likely that federal and state primaries are held on different days. This year, for instance, the federal primary — locally, for the late Louise Slaughter’s Congressional seat — took place on June 26. State and local primaries will be on September 13, and the general election is November 6. During a presidential election year, as in 2016, adding a presidential primary means voters go to the polls four times during a year.

The primary process became a focus of the news during the 2016 presidential election, mainly because of the contentious fight

between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders.

And the April 2016 New York primary, which Clinton won, highlighted additional problems with the state’s primary system.

New York has a “closed” primary system, which means you can vote only in the primary of the party in which you have enrolled. And if you have registered to vote but don’t want to be affiliated with a political party and didn’t enroll in one, you can’t vote in a primary.

In a city like Rochester that heavily favors Democrats during the general election, the party primary takes on extra significance.

Compounding the primary problem is the state’s deadline to change parties. You can enroll in any political party when you register to vote — or you can register unaffiliated with any party. The deadline for enrolling in a party is the same as the registration deadline: 25 days before the next general election.

Switching party enrollment is another matter, though, if you want to vote in a primary.

New York rules say this: “A change of enrollment received no later than 25 days before the general election shall be deposited in a sealed enrollment box and opened the first Tuesday following that general election and entered in the voter’s registration record.”

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amendment secured the right to vote for black men, and Douglass found himself opposite Stanton and Anthony in heated disagreement.

It was a tough, complicated decision for Douglass. He regretted that both men and women would not be enfranchised by this amendment, but in the post-Civil War political climate, black citizens had little political leverage, and he believed a universal suffrage amendment wouldn’t have the support needed to pass.

At the 1869 American Equal Rights Association annual meeting, shortly before the

Douglass’s fight for voting rights In 1847, when Frederick Douglass moved to Rochester and started his newspaper, The North Star, five states allowed black men to vote: Massachusetts, Vermont, Maine, New Hampshire, and Rhode Island. New York also technically allowed them to vote, but strict residency and property ownership laws made it all but impossible.

Many of the Rochester area’s abolitionists with whom Douglass worked were also women’s rights supporters, and Douglass became active in the burgeoning women’s suffrage movement. Part of the abolitionist and women’s rights movements, says Alison Parker, a professor at The College at Brockport, was a demand for universal suffrage.

The idea is in the words: universal suffrage. “This is going to be something they demand for everyone,” Parker says.

Through the Western New York AntiSlavery Society, Douglass met Elizabeth M’Clintock, who invited him to attend the First Women’s Rights Convention in Seneca Falls in July 1848. One of only a few men and the only African American to attend the convention, Douglass spoke in support of and signed the Declaration of Sentiments, the foundational document that called for equality for women.

Soon after the convention, Douglass published a column, “The Rights of Women,” in The North Star, further solidifying his support for the movement.

“All that distinguishes man as an intelligent and accountable being, is equally true of woman,” he wrote, “and if that government only is just which governs by the free consent of the governed, there can be no reason in the world for denying to woman the exercise of the elective franchise, or a hand in making and administrating the laws of the land.”

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Douglass also attended the Rochester Women’s Rights Convention of 1848, again delivering a speech. Among many things, the convention is notable for being the first public meeting of both men and women to elect all women as presiding officers.

During this time, Douglass met the abolitionists Daniel and Lucy Anthony, and later, their daughter Susan. Douglass and Susan B. Anthony struck up a life-long friendship.

Following the Civil War and emancipation,

Douglass pressed the urgency of granting the vote to black people, many of whom were living in hostile conditions in the South.

“No class of men can, without insulting their own nature, be content with any deprivation of their rights,” Douglass said in an 1865 speech, “What the Black Man Wants,” to the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society.

“By depriving us of suffrage,” Douglass said, “you affirm our incapacity to form an intelligent judgment respecting public men and public measures; you declare before the world that we are unfit to exercise the elective franchise, and by this means lead us to undervalue ourselves, to put a low estimate upon ourselves, and to feel that we have no possibilities like other men.

“Again, I want the elective franchise, for one, as a colored man, because ours is a peculiar government, based upon a peculiar idea, and that idea is universal suffrage.”

In 1866, Douglass joined Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony in starting the American Equal Rights Association, which demanded universal suffrage. But a rift began to quickly grow between factions of the suffrage movement, and tensions reached their peak when the Republican Party introduced the 15th Amendment. That

organization dissolved, Douglass reasserted his support for women’s suffrage, but he said that there was urgency in securing voting rights for black citizens, even if it was only for black men. Stanton and Anthony were firmly opposed to any amendment that didn’t also include women.

“When women, because they are women, are hunted down through the cities of New York and New Orleans,” Douglass said during the 1869 meeting, “when they are dragged from their houses and hung upon lamp-posts; when their children are torn from their arms, and their brains dashed out upon the pavement; when they are objects of insult and outrage at every turn; when they are in danger of having their homes burnt down over their heads; when their children are not allowed to enter schools; then they will have an urgency to obtain the ballot equal to our own.”

“When Mr. Douglass mentioned the black man first and the woman last,” Anthony said in her response, “if he had noticed he would have seen that it was the men that clapped and not the women. There is not the woman born who desires to eat the bread of dependence, no matter whether it be from the hand of father, husband, or brother; for any one who does so eat her bread places herself in the power of the person from whom she takes it.”

It was a difficult and painful argument, says Brockport’s Alison Parker. “This group of people who’ve been working together for decades has this huge rift over this question of women’s enfranchisement, and the hardest part was actually for black women who were stuck in between and didn’t feel like their voices were represented either way.”

The 15th Amendment was ratified, and for the rest of his life, Douglass worked diligently for women’s rights. Over the years, he and Anthony reconciled and continued to work together, but, says Parker, “I don’t think their relationship was probably ever as good as before that point.”

On the day of his death, February 20, 1895, Douglass addressed the National Council of Women. And during a funeral service at Washington’s Metropolitan AME Church, Susan B. Anthony delivered a eulogy for her friend.

Suppose, for instance, that in 2016, you had been enrolled as an unaffiliated voter. And as the Hillary and Bernie campaigns heated up, you decided you wanted to vote for Bernie Sanders in the April 19 Democratic presidential primary.

Too late. You had to have changed your enrollment the previous fall: 25 days before the November 3, 2015, general election.

Sanders appealed to a lot of third-party and independent voters, says Mary Lupien, who was active in the local Sanders campaign, and he wasn’t getting his footing until a few months before the Democratic primary. “And so lots of people hadn’t heard of him in order to switch in time,” Lupien says.

Mary Lupien. FILE PHOTO

EARLY VOTING It seems intuitive that the longer the period in which people have to vote, the more likely they are to take advantage of it.

Expanding polling site hours and enacting early voting, the NYCLU’s Iman Abid says, would give people more opportunity to participate.

And most states now permit people to vote days or weeks ahead of the formal election date. Studies have consistently shown, however, that early voting has little or no effect on turnout.

What does seem to increase turnout, though, is early voting combined with letting voters register right up to and including Election Day. “Early voting doesn’t appear to help turnout by itself,” noted a December 2016 Washington Post article, “but it can be helpful to campaigns. If the campaigns take advantage.”

And here, too, New York is conservative.

New York is one of only 13 states that don’t allow early voting. There have been attempts in the state legislature over the years to enact it, and in February, Governor Andrew

Cuomo proposed funding for early voting starting in the 2019 general election. Funding for it was ultimately removed from the budget Cuomo signed, however.

Notably, studies have shown that early voting measures are especially used by the black community. In 2016, North Carolina’s Republican Party urged county election boards to reduce the number of early voting sites and hours. Some boards complied, and black early voter turnout in North Carolina fell 8.7 percent compared to 2012.

Meanwhile, black early voting turnout grew in Florida, Georgia, and Louisiana.

Outdated voting machines, machines that are hard to use, long lines at polling locations: all of these deter people from voting. Negativity in campaign advertising or a particularly harsh race can sour voters.

Gerrymandering can convince people that their vote doesn’t matter in a district heavily favoring one political party.

LOOKING AHEAD

ABSENTEE VOTING In addition to limiting voting to a single day, New York State law requires you to vote in person, at your polling site, unless you have an absentee ballot. To get an absentee ballot, you have to fill out a form giving the reason you can’t vote in person, much as if you were in school and you had to get a doctor’s excuse for being absent.

And those reasons have to be one of the following: you’ll be out of your county of residence on election day; a temporary or permanent illness or disability will keep you from voting; you’re a primary caregiver; you’re a resident or patient at a Veterans Health Administration hospital; or you’re in jail awaiting a Grand Jury action or confined for an offense other than a felony.

“It’s just ridiculous that you have to say why you’re applying for an absentee ballot,” says the League of Women Voters’ Jennifer Wilson. “And it also makes it so that it’s easy to challenge those ballots in court.”

ACCURATE, CLEAR INFORMATION Low voter turnout can also be driven by a lack of information. Some registered voters don’t show up to the polls because they don’t know or forget when election day is or they don’t know enough about the candidates being voted on.

Making sure that accurate and clear information is sent out to voters would help boost participation, advocates say. While each New York county’s Board of Elections sends out basic information to voters, the extent of that information is often left up to that board’s discretion. For example, New York City’s Board of Elections creates a nonpartisan voter guide that contains general voting information, a list of candidates on the ballot, profiles submitted by those candidates, and information about city and state ballot proposals. That guide is released online, in video, and in print, which is mailed to every household with a registered voter.

Tom Ferrarese. PHOTO BY JACOB WALSH

That isn’t required by state law, and the Monroe County Board of Elections doesn’t send one. It does, however, send voters a letter with basic information on polling hours and voters’ designated polling place.

VOTER APATHY Former Rochester Mayor Bill Johnson believes low voter turnout is directly tied to voter apathy. People “are effectively turned off,” Johnson says. “They’re disenchanted with politicians, so they don’t see the need to vote.”

This isn’t a new issue, though, and it’s happening everywhere in the country. In the 1970’s, Johnson says, he conducted a citywide voter registration campaign in Flint, Michigan, where he was living at the time. He encountered a lot of people who said “don’t bother me with that.”

“And that was in the year Richard Nixon was running for re-election,” Johnson says.

“That was the year where a number of AfricanAmerican candidates were running for local

Bill Johnson. FILE PHOTO

seats in Flint, in Genesee County. Even that did not inspire people.”

The burden is on the politicians, Johnson says. They have to show constituents that they’re working for their region.

“The politicians themselves, the elected officials, have to sincerely engage people, and not just at election time,” Johnson says. “When they are in office, they have to make themselves available, they have to listen, they have to be responsive. Just like anything else, when people see a benefit, they’ll participate.”

When politicians allow residents to be part of the solution, Johnson adds, and show that people that they’re listened to and even challenged, citizens will begin to work with those in power.

ADDING TO THE LIST Also impacting voter turnout: purges of registration rolls. A recent study by New York University’s Brennan Center found that between 2014 and 2016, 16 million voters had been removed from registration rolls – some for legitimate reasons, but many not. And while many of the erroneous purges were in southern states, New York was not exempt.

New York’s attorney general found that more than 117,000 voters had been removed from voter rolls in Brooklyn.

New York City Board of Elections officials said they were trying to remove voters who hadn’t voted or had no activity since 2008, and that they had begun removing people in late 2013 or early 2014. But that violates New York State law, and the board was required to review every voter registration removed from its lists beginning July 1, 2013.

The world has changed, Monroe County Elections Commissioner Tom Ferrarese says. “You know, it isn’t like people work a shift at Kodak, and if they work a night shift they go and vote before, or if they work an early shift, they vote afterwards,” Ferrarese says. “People at factory gates campaigning, that was a big thing in the past. But that environment has changed.”

Families are busier today. There are more single-parent families, with adults who have to not only find time to vote but may also have to find childcare.

People are working longer hours and don’t fit into a traditional model. “All of that really plays into it,” Ferrarese says. “If we’re going to change those voting patterns, we have to look at various options.”

And locally, turnout has been growing in recent years, Ferrarese says.

The November 2017 turnout was 3 percent higher than 2013, and 5 percent higher than 2009.

New York Senate Democrats made expanding voting rights their priority earlier this year with a package of bills addressing several issues: early voting; noexcuse absentee ballots; automatic voter registration; pre-registration for 16- and 17-year-olds; reforms in the rules on changing party enrollment; primary voting hours consistency; consolidation of federal and state primaries; advance notice of elections; and expanded language options for ballots.

It’s up to the governor and state legislature to pass progressive reforms, says Jennifer Wilson. When larger states like Texas, which implemented early voting decades ago, and California, which began automatic voter registration in 2016, are moving ahead of New York with reforms, it’s frustrating, Wilson says.

“At the end of the day,” Wilson says, part of the reason politicians “don’t want to pass it is they’re afraid that if they make voting easier, they’re going to get voted out of office.”

Jeremy Moule contributed reporting to this article. Find Open Mic at openmicroc.com. rochestercitynewspaper.com

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Dining & Nightlife

On the menu at Native Bar and Eatery: the Cast Iron Roasted Chicken, served with beet, yogurt, and spiced eggplant.

PHOTO BY RYAN WILLIAMSON

Rochester Native [ CHOW HOUND ] BY KATIE LIBBY

Once Ross Mueller took over the ownership of Label 7 in Pittsford from the Mourgides family, he got the itch to open another restaurant and wanted to do it downtown. Mueller’s grandfather was one of the original engineers behind Midtown Plaza and Ross wanted to honor his grandfather’s contribution and be a part of the revitalization of the city center. Mueller was towards the end of a deal with another downtown location when he got the call about opening his restaurant at Three City Center. After visiting the space and seeing the potential there, he went with his gut and decided that Three City Center would be the home of Native Eatery and Bar (180 South Clinton Avenue).

One of the main selling points of the new space was the size of the patio. “The biggest thing I learned from owning Label 7 is how important the patio is to people,” Mueller says, adding that the patio the owners had in mind for Native “was a big, beautiful thing and it turned out to be a

big, beautiful thing.” Native will feature live music both out on the patio and inside throughout the year.

Mueller worked with head chef Jason Carlson at Label 7 and brought him on board for this venture as well. “I hate to use the term ‘farm to table’ because I think at this point it’s been bastardized, but that’s really what the menu is going to be,” Mueller says. “It’s what it should always have been and what we did for thousands of years, hence the name Native.”

Carlson will utilize as many local ingredients as he can get his hands on, from the dough for their house pizza to the ingredients used behind the bar. The specials will rotate, and Mueller hopes his customers will branch out and try new things, like the Cast Iron Roasted Chicken ($17), served with beet, yogurt, and spiced eggplant, or Native’s take on the lobster roll ($23) served with Maine lobster, tomato, celery, and tarragon aioli.

Paul Milne is heading up the bar program and the emphasis on local ingredients extends to the cocktail menu as well. Mueller hopes to utilize as many local liquors and mixing ingredients as possible

going forward. The Stallion features Ketel One vodka, house-made grapefruit ginger beer, Chareau (an aloe vera liqueur), Aperol, Mint, and lime.

Native is currently open for limited hours, but plans to expand the dinner menu and add lunch hours as well in the coming months. Mueller plans to throw a grand opening celebration on Sunday, September 16, with live music. The Market at Native serves breakfast sandwiches from 7 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Parking is available in the Woodbury Garage and Mueller is working with the City of Rochester to make parking even easier.

Native Eatery and Bar (180 South Clinton Avenue) is open for dinner Tuesday through Thursday from 5 to 9 p.m., and Friday and Saturday from 5 to 10 p.m.

Cocktail hour starts at 3:30 p.m. and lasts until one hour after dinner service ends.

351-6121; nativerochester.com.

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Upcoming

Music

[ SWING ]

The Cool Club & The Lipker Sisters. Saturday, August 18.

Lovin’ Cup, 300 Park Point Drive. 8 p.m. $5. lovincup.com; facebook.com/CoolClubandtheLipkerSisters. [ ODD ]

Micah Nelson. Monday, September 10. Abilene Bar & Lounge, 153 Liberty Pole Way. 7:30 p.m. $10. abilenebarandlounge.com; jmicahnelson.com.

Arctic Monkeys

WEDNESDAY, JULY 25 CMAC, 3355 MARVIN SANDS DRIVE 8 P.M. | $25-$65 | CMACEVENTS.COM; ARCTICMONKEYS.COM [ ROCK ] Arctic Monkeys lead singer Alex Turner is

a bit of a word wizard. His lyrical poetry has helped elevate the Sheffield, England, group to major festival headliners. The group’s latest album, “Tranquility Base Hotel and Casino,” has a different destination in mind: the moon. It trades in the rock-heavy riffs of hits “I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor” and “Do I Wanna Know?” for tunes about a lunar hotel with a taqueria on the roof. Listening to this record makes me feel like a film noir space detective who traces all the clues to a seedy rocket ship lounge — where the Arctic Monkeys just happen to be crushing it. This shouldn’t work, but absolutely does. Mini Mansions opens the show. — BY SCOTT PUKOS

Daughtry TUESDAY, JULY 31 AUDITORIUM THEATRE, 885 EAST MAIN STREET 8 P.M. | $39.50-$99 | RBTL.ORG; DAUGHTRYOFFICIAL.COM [ ROCK ] I kept telling myself that something good

had to eventually come out of “American Idol.” Season five offered some salvation from all the pop palaver: That’s when Chris Daughtry cleaned up. The band that bears his name has since gone on to release four albums, all of them landing on the Billboard top 10.

Daughtry is lean and clean and fills the gap between hard rock and singer-songwriter style in a sort of adult contemporary mash-up. Like Neil Diamond if he went to the gym. — BY FRANK DE BLASE PHOTO BY ZACKERY MICHAEL

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[ ALBUM REVIEWS ]

[ WED., JULY 25 ]

Raffaele Califano

ACOUSTIC/FOLK The Fog. B-Side, 5 Liftbridge Lane. Fairport. 315-3003.

7-10 p.m.

European jazz artists take the first step toward cultural exchange by falling in love with and playing the great American art form. One of Italy’s top drummers, Raffaele Califano, goes one step further by featuring the excellent American saxophonist Seamus Blake on his new album. Appropriately titled “Horizontal Dialogues,” the CD is a powerful hard-bop session.

In addition to showcasing Califano’s prowess as a drummer and a composer, the album is an excellent vehicle for Blake’s dynamic solos. He plays beautifully on “Baron and Pres,” a tribute to both Charles Mingus and Lester Young. (Blake is featured soloist with the Mingus Big Band and surely an admirer of legendary saxophonist Young.) But he’s not the only one; this album left me wanting to hear more of the propulsive keyboard work of Antonio Magli and the bass work of Francesco Pierotti, who holds down the fort on the funky “Out of the Loop.”

BLUES

“Horizontal Dialogues” Alfamusic facebook.com/www.RaffaeleCalifanoMusic.it

Ben Goldberg & Kirk Knuffke FRIDAY, JULY 27 BOP SHOP RECORDS, 1460 MONROE AVENUE 8 P.M. | $15 GENERAL; $10 STUDENTS | 271-3354; BOPSHOP.COM [ JAZZ ] One plus one may usually add up to two, but in the

world of jazz it’s often much more. Bring together two top musicians like clarinetist Ben Goldberg and cornetist Kirk Knuffke for an evening of improvised music and the sky’s the limit. Goldberg, known for his work in jazz and Klezmer music, has played with Bill Frisell, Don Byron, John Zorn, and Vijay Iyer. Knuffke has enhanced the music of Matt Wilson, Uri Caine, and Butch Morris. At the Bop Shop they’ll be bringing out the best in each other. — BY RON NETSKY

Warped Tour WEDNESDAY, JULY 25 DARIEN LAKE PAC, 9993 ALLEGHENY ROAD OPENS AT 11 A.M. | $45 | DARIENBOXOFFICE.COM; VANSWARPEDTOUR.COM [ VARIOUS ] For a lot of people who grew up in the late-90’s

and the 2000’s, Warped Tour means something special. It was a summer ritual when a ton of bands — usually some of that year’s biggest punk, pop punk, metal, hip-hop, and rock acts — who’d normally never play your town finally set up in a massive parking lot for a day of music and moshing (and too many Monster Energy drinks in the baking sun). But all things come to an end, and the traveling music festival is shutting down its cross-country tour after its 24th edition. Playing Wednesday’s stop at Darien Lake: 3OH!3, Asking Alexandria, Every Time I Die, Ice Nine Kills, Kaiser Solzie, Less Than Jake, Mayday Parade, Nekrogoblikon, Silverstein, Simple Plan, Twiztid, Unearth, and a lot more. — BY JAKE CLAPP

— BY RON NETSKY

Hanna & the Blue Hearts Duo. Little Theatre Café, 240

East Ave. 258-0400. 7-9 p.m.

Upward Groove. Temple Bar

& Grille, 109 East Ave. 232-6000. 10 p.m.

CLASSICAL

Canandaigua LakeMusic Festival: Classical Blue Jeans Concert & Buffet Diner.

Bristol Harbour Resort, 5410 Seneca Point Rd. 396-2200. lakemusicfestival.org. 6 p.m. $35-$75.

RPO Concert on the Canal: Pittsford. Pittsford Library, 24

State St. Pittsford. 248-6275.

8 p.m. Rain location: Callahan Theater at Nazareth College.

Jeff Dingler

“In Transit” Self-released jeffdingler.com

Some of the best music is indelibly attached to the life of its creator; bassist and composer Jeff Dingler’s “In Transit” is a case in point.

Dingler was deeply involved with jazz, classical, and Balkans music before spending a year in Ethiopia, absorbing the culture and especially the music it produced. His new album, “In Transit,” explores all of his interests, but there’s a special emphasis on the Ethiopian strain. Guitarist Brad Shepik is the other star here, but there is also great work by Lou Rainone on piano; Gusten Rudolph, drums; and Josh Bailey, percussion.

The first track, “Bati Celebration,” is wonderfully infectious, with great solos

by Shepik and Rainone. It’s followed by “Orange Clouds,” a gorgeous ballad.

Two other tunes relating directly to Ethiopia, “Sebat” and “Merkato Navigation,” are as intriguing musically as they are just plain catchy. Dingler takes an elegant bass solo on the album’s final track, “Way Home,” but he mostly sticks to the foundational role of the bass. This is an album about his life journey and that comes through loud and clear in his compositions.

JAZZ

Megan Flechaus. Record

Archive, 33 1/3 Rockwood St. 244-1210. 5-8 p.m.

TRADITIONAL

Concerts by the Shore: Krazy Firemen. Ontario Beach Park, 4799 Lake Ave. 7 p.m.

POP/ROCK

Arctic Monkeys. CMAC,

3355 Marvin Sands Drive.

Canandaigua. cmacevents. com. 8 p.m. $25-$65.

Calliope Musicals, Stationary Escape Pod. Funk ‘n Waffles, 204 N Water Street.

448-0354. 8 p.m. $7.

Hey Mabel. Marge’s Lakeside Inn, 4909 Culver Rd. 323-1020. 6-9 p.m. continues on page 15

— BY RON NETSKY

rochestercitynewspaper.com CITY 13

Music Pandafan is playing the Bug Jar on Wednesday, July 25, so CITY shot Hafener and Denatale a few questions. An edited interview is below.

CITY: When did you first become interested in pursuing a music career?

Delaney Hafener: I think I always knew I

wanted to do music in some capacity. It was always a question of what exactly my path would be. I started writing songs when I was about 12 or 13, and with a lot of help from my parents I started gigging and recording when I was 14 and 15. Since then I’ve just been hustling and doing whatever.

Grace Denatale: I never actually imagined having a singing career but I pretty much wanted to be involved in anything Delaney was involved in so when she told me I can and should sing, I took her word for it and here we are.

Hafener: Aw. What experience do you want people to take away from your music?

Hafener: I think with my songs it depends on

Pandafan plays the Bug Jar on Wednesday, July 25. PHOTO BY KELSEY SUCENA - SUCENA PHOTOGRAPHY

Down to the roots Pandafan WITH BOY JR. AND LUCY’S MIRROR WEDNESDAY, JULY 25 BUG JAR, 219 MONROE AVENUE 9 P.M. | $7-$9 | BUGJAR.COM; PANDAFAN.NET [ INTERVIEW ] BY KATIE HALLIGAN

When Hurricane Sandy in 2012 caused blackouts on Long Island, Grace Denatale and Delaney Hafener resorted to old-timey entertainment with their friends. They grabbed a guitar and started singing. The lights eventually came back on, and Denatale and Hafener kept playing together and developed Pandafan.

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Combining indie rock songwriting and folk instrumentation, Pandafan paints a colorful picture that tugs at the heartstrings.

It’s sometimes slow and heart wrenching; sometimes upbeat and light-hearted.

Denatale and Hafener both ended up going to SUNY Purchase, where they met bassist Emma Steen, drummer Yas Baratali, and vocalist Taylor Burgess, along with other musicians who rotate through the band.

While Denatale, Hafener, and Burgess often perform as an acoustic trio, Pandafan is also comfortable as a plugged-in setup, when Steen and Baratali join them on stage. Together, the group creates intricate harmonies that lure the listener in like mythical sirens, energetically accompanied by guitar, violin, and percussion.

Hafener: I think it’s hard to get attention in

New York City and it’s hard to play original music on Long Island, but it’s where we are so we’re just trying to make the best of it.

Denatale: Yeah there’s a budding music scene on the island that we participate in, but a lot of the time it’s hard to get mutual support.

Where is the most memorable place you’ve played so far, and why?

Hafener: We’ve played a couple of theaters,

which are so nice because the stage is awesome, the sound is great, and the audience is so attentive.

Denatale: The first thing that came to mind was the Grange Hall in Machias, Maine.

Super haunted and echo-y space with a super positive community. But my favorite place to play is where my friends are.

Do you have any new projects or releases coming up?

Hafener: Yes. As we write this, we’re sitting

in the studio finishing up recording on a new single called “November.” Check out our Facebook or Spotify or Bandcamp or Instagram for word on the release.

the song. Sometimes I’m expressing personal turmoil, which I want people to be able to relate to, and not feel like they’re alone.

Sometimes I write about relationships (of various kinds) and I’ve written some political and protest songs, which I think have pretty clear intentions.

Denatale: I write really personal songs, and I guess I would feel successful if someone listened to my song and, regardless of their emotional background, they’d feel for one moment what I was feeling when I wrote it.

What is your songwriting process?

Denatale: We usually write the song

Are there any musical influences that would surprise your audience?

Denatale: My current music taste consists of a

Where do you get inspiration for your lyrics?

Hafener: Life, sometimes from stories and

lot of hip-hop, rap, punk, and intense techno. I don’t think it consciously affects my music but I’m sure it leaks into my finished product.

Hafener: My first concert was the White Stripes when I was like 11… so…. also I saw “American Idiot” on Broadway.

What’s the story behind your band name?

Hafener: It was a joke and it went too far.

Denatale: This is my least favorite question.

What has been your greatest obstacle as a band in the music industry?

Denatale: Getting the respect we deserve

because we’re women, though we’ve got pretty good at demanding it.

ourselves and then bring them to the group.

We haven’t written a song collaboratively in a while, but it works better this way. The collaboration comes in the pieces we add to each song, and it becomes a completely new thing from when I wrote it.

What do you do in your spare time when you’re not writing, recording, or performing?

Denatale: We drink beers in the backyard.

Hafener: Like hillbillies.

things I read, sometimes other people’s lives.

I have one song that probably sounds like it’s about a romantic relationship, but it’s actually about a fight between one of my parents and my uncle.

Denatale: I usually get really sudden inspiration that has to be acted on immediately or else it’ll go away, which is why sometimes when people ask what my songs are about I don’t really know because it was a fleeting moment when I felt that way.

Pandafan, Boy Jr., Lucy’s Mirror. Bug Jar, 219 Monroe

Ave. bugjar.com. 9 p.m. $7/$9.

Vans Warped Tour. Darien

Lake PAC, 9993 Allegheny Rd. Darien. darienlake.com/events. noon. $45.

[ THU., JULY 26 ] ACOUSTIC/FOLK Charlie Ellis. Via Girasole Wine Bar, 3 Schoen Place. Pittsford.

641-0340. 7 p.m.

Epic Frail, Ben Haravitch.

Bernunzio Uptown Music, 122 East Ave. bernunzio.com. Fourth Thursday of every month, 6 p.m. $5.

Jim Lane. Murph’s Irondequoit Pub, 705 Titus Ave. Irondequoit.

342-6780. 8 p.m.

Old Timey Jam. Bernunzio Uptown Music, 122 East Ave. bernunzio.com. Every third Thursday, 6:30 p.m.

PHOTO BY JIMMY HUBBARD

ROCK | CKY

We all love bands that aren’t easily defined or classified.

West Chester, Pennsylvania’s CKY has been called grunge, stoner rock, 90’s rock, even skate punk. All of those labels are accurate, more or less. But the band is a little more sophisticated than that with a dynamite dynamic display.

Sunset Cocktail Series: Tyler Pearce. The Penthouse, 1 East There’s also some “Jackass” blood — Bam Margera’s Ave. 775-2013. 6-9:30 p.m. $5. brother, Jess Margera is the band’s drummer — to keep the impish fun wound up to 10. You just need to be in love with loud and fast and in your face.

BLUES Son House Night. Record Archive, 33 1/3 Rockwood St. CKY plays with Slaves, Royal Thunder, and Awaken I Am 244-1210. Last Thursday of on Tuesday, July 31, at Montage Music Hall, 50 Chestnut every month, 5-8 p.m.

Street. 6 p.m. $22-$25. themontagemusichall.com; facebook.com/ckyalliance.

CLASSICAL

Eastman at Washington Square. First Universalist

Church of Rochester, 150 Clinton Ave S. 274-1400.

12:15-12:45 p.m. Hornist Erin Futterer & her quartet.

Geneva Light Opera: “The Barber of Seville”. Smith

Opera House, 82 Seneca St. Geneva. 315-781-5483. thesmith.org. 7:30 p.m. $10-$45.

RPO Concert on the Canal: Brockport. College at

Brockport SERC, 350 New Campus Drive. Brockport.

585-395-2211.

7:30 p.m.

Summer Serenades: RPO. College at Brockport SERC, 350 New Campus Drive.

Brockport. 637-6586. 7 p.m.

— BY FRANK DE BLASE R&B/ SOUL

Collective Soul of ‘68, Danielle Ponder & the Tomorrow People. Funk ‘n Waffles, 204 N

Water Street. 448-0354. 8 p.m. $5-$20.

Patio Party: Meg Gehman & The Influence. Casa Larga

Vineyards, 2287 Turk Hill Rd. Fairport. casalarga.com.

5:30-8:30 p.m. $10.

METAL

Havok, Jungle Rot, Extinction AD. Montage Music Hall, 50

Chestnut St. 232-1520. 7 p.m. $17-$20.

Auld Lang Syne. Little Theatre

Café, 240 East Ave. 258-0400.

8-10 p.m.

Back in Town. Milly’s HandleBar Cafe, 3120 Kittering Rd. Macedon. 377-0711. 6-10 p.m.

Steve West. B-Side, 5 Liftbridge Lane. Fairport. 315-3003.

5-7 p.m.

CLASSICAL

Canandaigua LakeMusic Festival: Jasper String Quartet.

FLCC Campus Concert Hall, 3325 Marvin Sands Dr. Canandaigua. lakemusicfestival. org. 7:30 p.m. Pre-concert chat, 7:15. $10-$28.

POP/ROCK VOCALS

Amanda Lee Peers, Chrissie Romano, Boy Jr, Fatima. B-Side, 5 Liftbridge Lane. Fairport.

315-3003. 7 p.m.

JAZZ

Beats at Brooks. Brooks

Good Lords, Aretheyyestheyare, Sulaco, Benny Beyond. Bug Jar,

219 Monroe Ave. bugjar.com.

9 p.m. $7/$9.

Party in the Park: Devon Allman Project with special guest Duane Betts, Tommy Brunett Band, Hayley Jane & the Primates. MLK Jr. Memorial

Landing, 1500 S Plymouth Ave. 313-2559. Every other Thursday, 7-8 p.m.

Park, 1 Manhattan Square.

5 p.m.

Hochstein at High Falls: Mambo Kings. Granite Mills

[ FRI., JULY 27 ]

Park, 82 Browns Race.

12-1 p.m.

John Palocy Trio with Maggie Mullen. Little Theatre Café, 240

East Ave. 258-0400. 7-9 p.m.

ACOUSTIC/FOLK

Alphonso Williams. Lovin’ Cup,

300 Park Point Dr. 292-9940. lovincup.com. 7 p.m.

VOCALS

Mike Pappert. Via Girasole Wine Bar, 3 Schoen Place. Pittsford.

641-0340. 7 p.m.

DJ/ELECTRONIC

80’s Night with DJ Murdock.

Record Archive, 33 1/3 Rockwood St. 244-1210. Last Friday of every month, 5-7 p.m.

JAZZ

Ben Goldberg & Kirk Knuffke.

Bop Shop Records, 1460 Monroe Ave. 271-3354. 8 p.m. $10 students / $15 regular. rochestercitynewspaper.com CITY 15

Fred Costello & Roger Eckers Jazz Duo. Charley Brown’s, 1675 Penfield Rd. 385-9202.

Leah & the Upheaval. B-Side, 5

Liftbridge Lane. Fairport.

315-3003. 8-11 p.m.

Space Junk, Stereo Nest. Funk ‘n Waffles, 204 N Water Street.

448-0354. 8 p.m. $5/$7.

TRADITIONAL

Moonlight Stroll Concert Series: The Panloco Steel Band. Sonnenberg Gardens &

Mansion State Historic Park, 151 Charlotte St. Canandaigua. sonnenberg.org. 8-10 p.m. $5-$10.

HIP-HOP/RAP

RMG Summer Jam. Main Street Armory, 900 E. Main St. 232-3221. 8 p.m. $65-$75.

REGGAE/JAM

Reggae Bashment. Flour City

Station, 170 East Ave. 9:30 p.m. $15.

The Heathens,Straight Johnny & the Gashgoblins, Just One More, Jacoby’s Ladder, The Purple Owls. California Brew

Eat a Peach for Peace: The Allman Bros Tribute Band.

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Nod, Marching Band Forms Pentagram, Will Veede. Rosen

Haus, 402 W. Ridge Rd. 621-1480. 7 p.m. $7/$9.

ACOUSTIC/FOLK Banjo Therapy. Bernunzio Uptown Music, 122 East Ave. 473-6140. bernunzio.com.

Fourth Saturday of every month, 9:30-11 a.m.

Kennedy Jason. B-Side, 5 Liftbridge Lane. Fairport.

315-3003. 5-7 p.m.

Kyle Veenema (of “WAD”).

Boulder Coffee, 100 Alexander St. 454-7140. 7-9 p.m.

BLUES

Steve Grills & The Roadmasters. Farmer’s

Creekside Tavern & Inn, 1 Main St. Le Roy. 768-6007. 8 p.m.

CLASSICAL

AMERICANA

Watkins & The Rapiers. Abilene

Bar & Lounge, 153 Liberty Pole Way. 232-3230. 6 p.m.

METAL

Attila, Cuicide Cilence, Volumes, Rings of Saturn, Spite. Anthology, 336 East Ave.

Vineyards, 4021 Italy Hill Rd (County Rd 32). Branchport. huntwines.com. 7:30 p.m. $25.

Geneva Light Opera: “The Barber of Seville”. Smith Opera

6 p.m. $25-$30.

House, 82 Seneca St. Geneva.

315-781-5483. thesmith.org.

7:30 p.m. $10-$45.

Magnatar, Dim, Acrylazea, Day of the Locust. Bug Jar, 219

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Monroe Ave. bugjar.com.

9 p.m. $8.

Sworn Enemy, Thy Will Be Done. Montage Music Hall, 50

Red Eye Jack. Marge’s Lakeside

Inn, 4909 Culver Rd. 323-1020.

4-8 p.m.

Chestnut St. 232-1520. 8 p.m. $16-$18.

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Risik, Ceiva, Moonchild, Nomad, The-D. Photo City

Bands on the Bricks: Zac Brown Tribute Band. Rochester

Public Market, 280 N. Union St. 6-10 p.m.

The Blind Leading the Blind.

Farmer’s Creekside Tavern & Inn, 1 Main St. Le Roy. 768-6007. 8 p.m.

Claudia Hoyser. Marge’s Lakeside Inn, 4909 Culver Rd. 323-1020. 6-9 p.m.

Druse, Like Wolves, Supine, California Cousins. Ellison Park,

Blossom Rd. 621-8794. 6 p.m.

At Hazelwood Lodge. $10 donation.

The Mighty High & Dry. Abilene Bar & Lounge, 153 Liberty Pole Way. 232-3230. 9:30 p.m. $5.

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Finger Lakes Music Festival: “Mozart, Dvořák, & Shostakovich. Hunt Country

Improv, 543 Atlantic Ave. 451-0047. 8 p.m. $5/$10.

Anthology, 336 East Ave. 8:30 p.m. $12-$15.

Mr. Mustard. Lovin’ Cup, 300 Park Point Dr. 292-9940. lovincup.com. 8:30 p.m. $5.

Krown, 875 Monroe Ave. 271-7050. 9 p.m.

Yeled Zaiin. Abilene Bar & Lounge, 153 Liberty Pole Way. 232-3230. 9 p.m. $6.

[ SUN., JULY 29 ] ACOUSTIC/FOLK

Acoustic Brunch with Weber Music. Funk ‘n Waffles, 204 N

Water Street. 448-0354. noon.

BLUES

Tommy Brunett Birthday Bash.

Marge’s Lakeside Inn, 4909 Culver Rd. 323-1020. 3 p.m.

CLASSICAL

Canandaigua LakeMusic Festival: Masters & Apprentices.

FLCC Campus Concert Hall, 3325 Marvin Sands Dr. Canandaigua. lakemusicfestival.org. 2 p.m. Preconcert chat, 1:45. $10-$28.

Geneva Light Opera: “The Barber of Seville”. Smith Opera House, 82 Seneca St. Geneva. 315-7815483. thesmith.org.

3 p.m. $10-$45.

JAZZ

Jazz & Jambalaya. French

Quarter Cafe, 130 Spring St. 563-2145. 2-5 p.m. Buffet dinner with music by The Nate Rawls Band. Proceeds benefit The Baobab Cultural Center & Ujima Rochester, Inc. $50.

Jazz Jam w/ Jon Seiger & The All Stars. Funk ‘n Waffles, 204 N Water Street. 448-0354.

3-5 p.m.

JAZZ

Fred Costello & Roger Eckers Jazz Duo. Charley Brown’s,

1675 Penfield Rd. 385-9202.

LITZ. Flour City Station, 170 East Ave. 9 p.m.

Paradigm Shift. Via Girasole Wine Bar, 3 Schoen Place.

Pittsford. 641-0340. 7 p.m.

AMERICANA

The Jane Mutiny. Little Theatre Café, 240 East Ave. 258-0400.

8-10 p.m.

Puddle of Mudd, Klear, Breaking Solace, Fernway.

POP/ROCK

Batavia Downs, 8315 Park Road. Batavia. 343-3750.

5:30 p.m. $10-$40.

Liftbridge Lane. Fairport. 3153003. 8 p.m. R.E.M. tribute.

Dead Letter Office. B-Side, 5

Rock-it-Science. Argyle Grill,

Dinosoul, McClane, Evil Hearted You. ButaPub, 315

4344 Nine Mile Point Rd. 377-5200. 7 p.m.

Gregory St. 563-6241.

9:30 p.m.

TRADITIONAL

6th Annual Gospel Jubilee.

Rochester Public Market, 280 N. Union St. 4-7:30 p.m.

HIP-HOP/RAP

Upstate NY Music Fest Appreciation Jam. California Brew

Haus, 402 W. Ridge Rd. 6211480. TheUpstateAllstarz.com.

3-8 p.m. $10-$20.

AMERICANA

The Dady Brothers. Sodus Bay

Lighthouse, 7606 N. Ontario St. Sodus Point. (315) 483-4936. 2-4 p.m.

METAL

Faster Pussycat, Don Jamieson, Paradise Kitty. Montage Music Hall, 50 Chestnut St. 232-1520.

7 p.m. $20-$23.

Monolith, Darsombra, Maharaja, The Highest Leviathan. Bug Jar, 219

Monroe Ave. bugjar.com.

9:30 p.m. $8/$10.

[ MON., JULY 30 ] ACOUSTIC/FOLK

Songwriters in the Round with Katie Preston. Funk ‘n

Waffles, 204 N Water Street.

448-0354. 7 p.m. $5.

Stormy Valle. Record Archive, 33 1/3 Rockwood St. 244-1210. 5-7 p.m.

BLUES

Steve Grills & the Roadmasters. Little Theatre

Café, 240 East Ave. 258-0400.

7-9 p.m.

CLASSICAL

Hopeman Carillon Concert: Carlo Van Ulft. Eastman

Quadrangle, 500 Wilson Blvd.

733-1308. 7-8 p.m. Parking behind Rush Rhees Library.

Summer Carillon Concert: Carlo Van Ulft. Eastman

Quadrangle, 500 Wilson Blvd.

7 p.m.

POP/ROCK

Patio Party: Blue Sky. Casa Larga Vineyards, 2287 Turk Hill Rd. Fairport. casalarga. com. 5:30-8:30 p.m. $10.

What Cheer? Brigade, Green Dreams. Bug Jar, 219 Monroe Ave. bugjar.com. 9 p.m. $5.

[ TUE., JULY 31 ] BLUES

Angela Perley & The Howlin’ Moons. Abilene Bar & Lounge, 153 Liberty Pole Way. 232-3230. 8 p.m. $8.

JAZZ

Grove Place Jazz Project.

Downstairs Cabaret Theatre, 20 Windsor St. 325-4370. 7 p.m. Featuring a different set of Eastman School of Music Students and other area jazz artisans every Tues. $10.

RPO Around the Town: Marimba Band. Maplewood

Rose Garden, Corner of Lake Ave & Driving Park. cityofrochester.gov/ aroundtownconcerts. 6:30 p.m. Rain location: Edgerton R-Center, 41 Backus St. Vanishing Sun. Central Library of Rochester & Monroe County, 115 South Avenue.

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POP/ROCK

Amoramora, Walrus Junction.

Funk ‘n Waffles, 204 N Water Street. 448-0354. 8 p.m. $5/$7.

CKY, Slaves, Royal Thunder, Awaken I Am. Montage Music Hall, 50 Chestnut St. 2321520. 6 p.m. $22.

Daughtry, Sinclair. Auditorium Theatre, 885 E. Main St. rbtl.org. 8 p.m. $40-$99. rochestercitynewspaper.com CITY 17

Theater

CJ Garbin and Sydney Howard in “Dogfight, the Musical.” PHOTO CREDIT LOU SCHNEIDER

Men are dogs “Dogfight, the Musical” REVIEWED SATURDAY, JULY 21 CONTINUES THROUGH SUNDAY, JULY 29 JCC CENTERSTAGE, 1200 EDGEWOOD AVENUE TICKETS $33, $29 FOR JCC MEMBERS, $20 FOR STUDENTS | 461-2000; JCCROCHESTER.ORG [ REVIEW ] BY AMANDA CHESTNUT

In Nancy Savoca’s 1991 film “Dogfight” (starring River Phoenix and Lili Taylor), a group of young marines are about to deploy to Vietnam the day before the assassination of John F. Kennedy. But first, they set out for a night of “boys-will-be-boys” debauchery, and agree to compete among themselves to bring the ugliest date to a party later in the evening.

The consequences of their cruel behavior are explored through the rest of the film, which in 2012 debuted as a stage musical adapted from Bob Comfort’s screenplay. The local premiere of “Dogfight, the Musical” is being presented at JCC CenterStage through Sunday, July 29.

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CenterStage Artistic Director Ralph Meranto emphasized on opening night that “Dogfight” was a deliberate choice for the CenterStage’s SummerStage production (SummerStage is an opportunity for high school and college aged actors to participate in a professional production). Meranto stated that he had looked forward for an opportunity to stage the production with young actors who are the same age as the characters they are portraying. A note accompanying the program explains that the play could provide an important perspective related to the #MeToo movement; staging the production with age-appropriate actors is a thoughtful way to contextualize #MeToo for the era it was set in.

The Vietnam War is a looming menace throughout the story, but the real villain is toxic masculinity — disguised as brotherhood and camaraderie — that is portrayed with a loathsome and sickening success by CJ Garbin (in the lead role of Eddie Birdlace), Jack Bausch (Bernstein), and Reese Holahan (Boland).

Sydney Howard plays the role of Rose, the musically gifted, thoughtful, and socially awkward waitress who is victimized by the

young marines’ prank. Quirky and endearing, Howard’s portrayal of Rose is imbued with an emotional range much broader than that of the other characters.

Rose starts the show as a shy young woman who is asked to attend a dance by Garbin’s Birdlace. When she declines, Birdlace asks again. And again. And yet again, varying between cajoling and bullying until she accepts. As Rose gets ready to leave, we learn that the dance is actually her first date. As Birdlace and his buddies realize he’s feeling guilt, and as Rose leads him through those emotions, the play oscillates between romance and drama, but it becomes obvious who the real dogs of the story are.

Howard and Garbin share an onstage chemistry that make Rose’s excitement, forgiveness, and passion believable and endearing to watch, though it’s frustrating to witness a young woman acquiesce to the desires of someone who’s treated her poorly.

And the scores of movies in our culture that follow a similar plot and character arc indicate that we have more work to do.

An extended version of this review is online at rochestercitynewspaper.com.

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[ OPENING ] Fleuron Gallery, 10 N Main St. Honeoye Falls. Summer Group Show. Reception July 27, 5-8:30pm. fleurongallery.com.

Mendon 64, 1369 Pittsford Mendon Rd. Mendon. Kathy Houston: A One Woman Art Show. Rception July 31, 4-7pm. 433-9464.

Art Events [ THU., JULY 26 ] MAG DeTOUR: Art & Motorcycles. 5-9 p.m.

Memorial Art Gallery, 500 Univ.

Ave. mag.rochester.edu. [ SUN., JULY 29 ] Parcel 5 Community Programmers: Maze Midtown.

3-5 p.m. Parcel 5, 275 E. Main St. Artists Nicholas Gurewitch & Jeffrey Stanin lead a collective labyrinth sweep.

Community Activism [ SAT., JULY 28 ] Arts & Activism Conference: WALL\Therapy. 10 a.m.-6 p.m.

ViSW, 31 Prince St. 442-8676.

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Festivals

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Rochester’s longest-running cultural festival, the Puerto Rican Festival, celebrates its 49th anniversary this week with three days of live music, food, cultural events, and celebrity guests.

The fest will feature local bands and dance groups as well as national headliners, and honor this year’s theme of Tradition, Rhythm, and Culture.

The 49th Annual Puerto Rican Festival will be held Friday, July 27, through Sunday, July 29, at the Frontier Field VIP Parking Lot, 333 Plymouth Avenue. Friday and Saturday, noon to 11:00 p.m. (free admission until 2 p.m.); and Sunday, noon to 7:30 p.m. (paid admission all hours). All are welcome. Advance tickets $10 per day ($12 at the door, $5 for seniors and children) or $25 for a weekend pass. Ages 17 and under must be accompanied by an adult. prfestival.com.

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[ FRI., JULY 27 ] ROC the Taste. 11 a.m.-11 p.m.

Parcel 5, 275 E. Main St. July 27 & 28. rocthetaste.com.

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[ SAT., JULY 28 ] 27th Annual Native American Dance & Music Festival. 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Ganondagan State Historic Site, 7000 County Road 41. July 28 & 29. $5$12. ganondagan.org.

Waterfront Art Festival. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. North Ponds , 750 Holt Rd. Webster July 28 & 29. $3. waterfrontartfestival.com.

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[ TUE., JULY 31 ] The Haudenosaunee in Conflict.

7-8 p.m. Irondequoit Public Library, 1290 Titus Ave. An historical presentation by Harvey Limbeck, trail guide & interpreter at Ganondagan State Historic Site 336-6060. irondequoitlibrary.org.

Laissez les bon temps rouler! An afternoon of Jazz & Jambalaya will be held this weekend at French Quarter Café as a fundraiser in support of the Baobab Cultural Center and Ujima Rochester.

The Baobab is a resource for African history and culture, and Ujima Rochester helps support at-risk-youth and their families.

Tickets include a buffet of traditional New Orleans cuisine. Cash bar; entertainment provided by the Big band jazz and Dixie stylings of the Nate Rawls Band.

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Jazz & Jambalaya Fundraiser on Sunday, July 29, from 2 to 5 p.m. at the French Quarter Cafe, 130 Spring Street. $50, purchase through The Baobab Cultural Center (563-2145) or Ujima Rochester (770-765-5424). tryupliftingouryouth.org — BY AMANDA LYNN

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Jessica Keenan Wynn, Lily James, and Alexa Davies in “Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again.” PHOTO COURTESY UNIVERSAL PICTURES

My my, how can I resist you?

“Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again” (PG-13), DIRECTED BY OL PARKER NOW PLAYING [ REVIEW ] BY ADAM LUBITOW

Last week, I used this space to sing the praises of originality in cinema. This week, I swing

entirely in the other direction to say that pure summer escapism also has its place, and sometimes we just want to sit in an airconditioned theater and watch attractive people sing Europop classics while frolicking through sun-dappled Greek locales. What can I say, even we critics contain multitudes.

Sweet, sunny, and very silly, “Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again” is a movie that unquestionably has no real reason to exist.

But since it does, this is just about the best possible version we could have hoped for.

A decade after the film adaptation of the jukebox stage musical featuring the songs of Swedish pop sensation ABBA, we’re returned to the magical Greek island of Kalokairi. First the bad news: Donna, the character played by Meryl Streep in the first film, is dead. The good news is that the new movie’s entertaining enough that you almost don’t miss her. Almost.

A prequel-sequel hybrid, the film splits its time between present day, as Donna’s daughter Sophie (Amanda Seyfried) plans to celebrate the reopening of Donna’s villa with a lavish party, fulfilling her mother’s lifelong dream.

As Sophie reminisces about her mother, the film’s other plotline flashes back to 1979, as the free-spirited, 20-something Donna (a radiant Lily James) first journeys to the island after graduating from Oxford. Along the way, we see her meet the three men (played by Hugh Skinner, Josh Dylan, and Jeremy Irvine, respectively) who may or may not become Sophie’s father.

Streep’s absence lends the narrative a melancholy streak, which leaves the film feeling less manic and cartoony, more unabashedly sentimental than the first. It works, even earning additional poignancy by recognizing the pain of missing someone while still finding joy in the fact that they were a part of your life in the first place.

Then the movie helicopters in Cher, playing Sophie’s estranged grandmother, who proceeds to turn the film into her own personal miniconcert (the crowd at my screening burst into applause as the singer launched into “Fernando”). Never mind the fact that Cher is only three years older than Streep, or that it was strongly implied in the first film that her character was dead.

“Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again” isn’t going to let details like that get in the way of a good time. It’s kind of entertainment made for getting day drunk on rosé and having yourself a pleasant time at the movies. Especially in these dark days, something this playful, emotionally earnest, and sweetly sincere feels like something to celebrate.

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Aguirre Language Services, LLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) 3/21/2018. Cty: Monroe.

SSNY desig. as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to Carlos E. Aguirre, 286 Pine Hill Rd., Spencerport, NY 14559.

General Purpose.

Donsky Business Development & Marketing LLC filed Articles of Organization with the New York Department of State on 02-27-2018. Its office is located in Monroe County.

The Secretary of State has been designated as agent of the Company upon whom process against it may be served and a copy of any process shall be mailed to 6 Fairfield Dr., Fairport, NY 14450. The purpose of the Company is marketing.

[ NOTICE ] ALAN PAUL REAL ESTATE LLC (LLC) filed Arts. of Org. with NY Secy. of State (SS) on 7/19/2018. LLC’s office is in Monroe Co. SS is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SS shall mail a copy of any process to Attn: Member, 2100 South Clinton Avenue, Rochester, NY 14618.

LLC’s purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Aycan Data Management, LLC Arts of Org. filed SSNY 7/9/18.

Monroe Co. SSNY design agent for process & shall mail to Frank Burkhardt: 693 East Ave. Rochester, NY 14607 General Purpose [ NOTICE ] Bold Letter Marketing LLC filed SSNY 6/26/18.

Monroe Co. SSNY design agent for process & shall mail to 26 Rosewood Dr., Pittsford, NY 14534 General Purpose [ NOTICE ] Brucato Properties LLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) 4/20/2018. Cty: Monroe.

SSNY desig. as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to Charles Brucato, 455 Western Dr., Rochester, NY 14623. General Purpose. [ NOTICE ]

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SS shall mail a copy of any process to 2 Wood Spring Hill, Honeoye Falls, NY 14472. LLC’s purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Dibble Development LLC filed SSNY 5/10/18.

Monroe Co. SSNY design agent for process & shall mail to 33 Williston Rd Rochester, NY 14616 General Purpose

[ NOTICE ] Dutchman Holdings LLC filed 2/9/18. Monroe Co. SSNY design agent for process & shall mail to Isaiah Dutcher 329 Field St Rochester, NY 14620 General Purpose [ NOTICE ] FISHBOWL SPIRITS LLC Authority filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 6/12/18. Office location: Monroe Co. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 8/15/12 SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Corporate Creations Network Inc. 15 North Mill St Nyack, NY 10960. De address of LLC: 251 Little Falls DR Wilmington, DE 19808.

Arts. Of Org. filed with DE Secy. of State, PO Box 898 Dover, DE 19903.

Purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Law Office of David Tennant PLLC (“PLLC”) has been formed as a professional service limited liability company by filing Arts. of Org. with Secy. of State of NY (“SSNY”) on July 6, 2018.

Office Location: Monroe County. SSNY designated agent of PLLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to 3349 Monroe Avenue, Suite 345, Rochester, New York 14618. Purpose: practice of law. [ NOTICE ] MATTHEW JOHN LLC (LLC) filed Arts. of Org. with NY Secy. of State (SS) on 7/11/2018. LLC’s office is in Monroe Co. SS is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SS shall mail a copy of any process to 548 Deer Haven Drive, Webster, NY 14580. LLC’s purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Mej Rochester LLC Arts of Org. filed SSNY 2/20/18. Office: Monroe Co. SSNY design agent of LLC upon whom process

may be served & mail to Po Box 30071 Rochester, NY 14603 General Purpose [ NOTICE ] Not. of Form. of Richmond Street Dev LLC Art. Of Org. filed Secy of State (SSNY) 5/31/2018. Office location: Monroe County.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY may mail a copy of any process to LLC. 90 Parkhurst Drive, Spencerport, NY 14559.

Purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Notice is hereby given that a license, Serial Number pending for beer, wine, and cider has been applied for by the undersigned* to sell beer, wine, and cider at retail in a restaurant under the Alcoholic Beverage Control Law at 7343 Pittsford Victor Rd., Victor, NY 14564 in Monroe County for on premises consumption. *Sud Enterprises Inc DBA India House [ NOTICE ] Notice is hereby given that an alcohol beverage license, pending, has been applied for by the undersigned to sell Liquor, Beer & Wine retail in a Bar/Tavern under the Alcohol Beverage Control Law at: 398 W MAIN ST ROCHESTER NY 14608 - On Premises Consumption Liquor License for G J C 3 INC / dba MINQ LOUNGE [ NOTICE ] Notice of Form. of ABLETON TRANSPORT, LLC (the “LLC”). Art. of Org. filed with Secretary of the State of NY (SSNY) on 6/19/18. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC, 97 Talamora Trail, Brockport, NY 14420. Purpose: any lawful purpose. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Bostley Enterprises, LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) on 05/29/18 Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC at 120 Spencer Road, Hilton, New York, 14468.

Purpose: any lawful activities.

[ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of SALE OASIS LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) on 06/21/18 Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC at 1967 WEHRLE DR., SUITE 1 #086, BUFFALO, NY 14221. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of WAH 2010, LLC; Art of Org filed with Sec’y of State (SSNY) 4/23/2010; Office location: Monroe County.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. United States Corporation Agents, Inc., 7014 13th Avenue, Suite 202, Brooklyn, New York 11228 is designated as the Registered Agent upon whom process may be served. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of 157 SAWGRASS DRIVE, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 06/21/18. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Corporation Service Co., 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543.

Purpose: Any lawful activity [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of 2A TRUCKING LLC. Articles of Organization filed with New York Department of state on 6/5/18. Its office is located in Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 95 Fort Hill Terrace # 6 Rochester NY 14620.

Purpose: Any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of 309 WEST, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 06/06/18. Office location: Orleans County. Princ. office of LLC: 317 W. Academy St., Albion, NY 14411. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Corporation Service Co., 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543. Purpose: Any lawful activity

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Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 11 James St., Fairport, NY 14450 . Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of 557 Mill LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 7/12/18.

Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, c/o Tom J. Thomas, 858 Manitou Road, Hilton, NY 14468. Purchase: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] NOTICE OF FORMATION OF A LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY: POSITIVE FORCE MOVEMENT, LLC. Articles of organization filed with the Secretary of State of NY (SSNY): 06/25/2018.

Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated for service of process.

SSNY shall mail a copy of any process served against the LLC to Knauf Shaw, LLP, c/o M. Colligan, 1400 Crossroads Bldg, 2 State St, Rochester, NY 14614.

Purpose: any lawful act or activity. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Ace Bookkeeping & Collections LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 06/07/2018. Office location: Monroe County.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to C/O United States Corporation Agents, Inc. 7014 13th Ave. Suite 202, Brooklyn, NY 11228. Purpose: any lawful activities.

Glasgow St., Rochester, NY 14608. Purpose: any lawful activities.

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Notice of Formation of Dwenzel Photography, LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) July 16 2018. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail copy of process to 467 Burritt Road, Hilton, NY 14468.

Purpose: any lawful activities.

Notice of Formation of Keuka Gardens Associates MM LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 7/6/18.

Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o Home Leasing, LLC, 180 Clinton Square, Rochester, NY 14604. Purpose: any lawful activity.

[ NOTICE ] Notice of formation of FLORIDA SWEEPERS SALES & SERVICE LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the Sect’y of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/20/2017.

Office location, County of Monroe. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 16 Passaic Ave., Unit 9, Fairfield, NJ 07004. Purpose: any lawful act [ NOTICE ] Notice of formation of Graceland Associates of NY LLC ART.of org.filed secretary of state(SSNY) on 5/22/2018 office location: Monroe County.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to the LLC at 336 Scio St, Rochester NY, 14605. Purpose: Any Lawful Activity. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of HARVEST WALK PROPERTIES, LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) on 6/15/18.

Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY may mail a copy of any process to LLC, 25 Harvest Walk, Webster, NY 14580.

Purpose: any lawful purpose.

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Notice of Formation of Cristo Law Group LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 6/12/18.

Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of PLLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o The PLLC, Two State Street, Ste. 1000, Rochester, NY 14614. Purpose: practice the profession of law.

Notice of Formation of HIGH POINT FINISHERS LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) on June 14, 2018. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail copy of process to 3245 Latta Rd PO Box 16793, Rochester, NY 14612 . Purpose: any lawful activities.

[ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Crossroads IT L.L.C. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 06/11/2018.

Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 77

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[ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Keuka Gardens Associates LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 7/6/18. Office location: Monroe County.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o Home Leasing, LLC, 180 Clinton

[ NOTICE ] Notice of formation of limited liability company (LLC). Name: HANFLAND CONTRACTING LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Sec. of State of N.Y. (SSNY) on April 23, 2018. Office location: Monroe. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail copy of process to: Michael A. Hanfland, 41 Pebble View Drive, Rochester, New York 14612. Purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Notice of formation of Limited Liability Company. Name: MILTON MEADOWS LANSING LLC (“LLC”).

Articles of Organization filed with NY Secretary of State (“SSNY”) on June 18, 2018. NY office location is Monroe County.

The SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

The SSNY shall mail a copy of any process to LLC at 460 White Spruce Blvd Rochester, NY 14623.

Purpose/character of LLC is to engage in any lawful act or activity. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of LMGC Group LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 6/11/18. Office location: Monroe Co. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: 28 Fitzpatrick Trail, West Henrietta, NY 14586.

Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Lumantek Global LLC amended to Lumentek Global LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 9/25/13.

Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 1649 Jefferson Rd., Rochester, NY 14623.

Purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of MindFit Mental Health, LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y

of State (SSNY) July 12, 2018. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail copy of process to 349 West Commercial Street, East Rochester, NY 14445.

Purpose: any lawful activities for which a Limited Liability Company may be formed. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Mosley Rd Enterprises, LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) May 25th, 2018. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail copy of process to 97 Mosley Road Rochester, NY 14616 . Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] NOTICE OF FORMATION OF PRENTICE IMAGING CONSULTING SERVICES, LLC. The name of the Limited Liability Company is Prentice Imaging Consulting Services, LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the New York Secretary of State on 7/6/2018. The office of the LLC is in Monroe County. The New York Secretary of State is designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

The Secretary of State shall mail a copy of such process to 28 Parkview Manor Circle, Honeoye Falls, NY 14472. The LLC is organized to engage in any lawful activity for which an LLC may be formed under the NY LLC Law. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Roberts Real Estate LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) on 06/06/18.

Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC at 520 East Ave, APT 407 Rochester, NY 14607.

Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of SA Haulers, LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) on 06/04/2018. Office location: Monroe County.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 596 Chambers St, Spencerport, NY 14559. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Sacred Goddess Box, LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) on 4/09/2018. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC at 600 Garson Avenue, Rochester, New York 14609. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Salon Industry LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) May 31, 2018.

Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 30 S. Main Street Pittsford, NY 14534 . Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Scientific Perspectives, LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) June 26, 2018. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail copy of process to 173 Wadsworth Avenue Avon, New York 14414 . Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of SKINNY’S CORNER, LLCArts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 06/06/18.

Office location: Monroe County. Princ. office of LLC: 223 Deerhurst Ln., Webster, NY 14580. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to the LLC at the addr. of its princ. office. Purpose: Any lawful activity [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Suntru Holdings LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 05/18/2018.

Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 160 Despatch Dr., East Rochester, NY 14445.

Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of VINLAND, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 06/12/18. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to VINLAND, LLC, 3 Fitzmot Glen, Pittsford, NY 14534.

Purpose: Any lawful activity [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Wealth Strategies & Solutions, LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) April 12, 2018 .

Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 900 Jefferson Road Suite 301, Rochester, NY 14623

. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Whitney Buffalo LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 6/14/18. Office location: Monroe County.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Cogency Global Inc., 10 E. 40th St., 10th Fl., NY, NY 10016, the registered agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. Purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Whitney Buffalo MM LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 6/14/18. Office location: Monroe County.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Cogency Global Inc., 10 E. 40th St., 10th Fl., NY, NY 10016, the registered agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. Purpose: any lawful activit [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of XPRESS MED TRANSPORTATION, LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 3-19-2018.

Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 681 Post Ave Rochester NY 14619 . Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] NOTICE OF PUBLIC AUCTION being held at Chester’s Self Storage 1037 Jay St. Rochester NY 14611 on Thursday, August 16th at 1:00 pm .

The following customers’ accounts have become delinquent so their item (s) will be auctioned off to settle past due rents.

NOTE: Owner reserves the right to bid at auction, reject any and all bids, and cancel or adjourn the sale.

Name of tenant: , angelica vega unit 235 owes 308 evaliz castro- poupart unit 201 owes 328, nicole berry unit 304 owes 228, sylvia blair unit 111 owes 164 james gligora unit 320 and unit 321 owes 368 on each unit, maslah samatar unit 331 owes 213 [ NOTICE ] NOTICE OF PUBLIC AUCTION being held at Chester’s Self Storage 600 W Broad St. Rochester NY 14608 on Thursday, August 16th at 1:00 pm .

The following customers’ accounts have become delinquent so their item (s) will be auctioned off to settle past due rents.

NOTE: Owner reserves the right to bid at auction, reject any and all bids, and cancel or adjourn the sale. Name of tenant: , TONYA CARTER UNIT

13 OWES 228, JUSTON JOHNSON UNIT 40 OWES 368, GENEVA STURGIA UNIT 43 OWES HERBERT ROBINSON UNIT OWES 292 ARISSA CLAYTON UNIT 68 OWES 368 WILLIE NELSON UNIT 72 OWES 246 [ NOTICE ] Notice of Qualification of Chroma Credit Restoration, LLC. Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 8/22/17. Office location: Monroe County.

LLC formed in DE on 7/11/17. NY Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: Cogency Global Inc., 10 E. 40th St., 10th Fl., NY, NY 10016. DE address of LLC: 251 Little Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808.

Cert. of Form. filed with DE Sec. of State, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Qualification of FINANCIAL INSURANCE CONSULTANTS, LLC, fictitious name: FIC AGENCY, L.L.C. Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 5/30/18.

Office location: Monroe County. Princ. bus. addr.: 709 Florida St. Ste. 3, Mandeville, LA. 70448. LLC formed in LA on 12/21/93. NY Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: Financial Insurance Consultants, LLC, 709 Florida St. Ste. 3, Mandeville, LA. 70448, regd. agent upon whom process may be served. John A. Gavel, Jr., 709 Florida St. Ste. 3, Mandeville, LA. 70448.. Cert. of Form. filed with LA Sec. of State, 8585 Archives Ave., Baton Rouge, LA 70809. Purpose: all lawful purposes. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Qualification of FLINT GROUP PACKAGING INKS NORTH AMERICA LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 06/13/18. Office location: Monroe County.

LLC formed in Texas (TX) on 04/26/18. Princ. office of LLC: 14909 N. Beck Rd., Plymouth, MI 48170.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to c/o Corporation Service Co., 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543.

TX addr. of LLC: 211 E. 7th St., Ste. 620, Austin, TX 78701. Cert. of Form. filed with Secy. of State, P.O. Box 13697, Austin, TX 78711. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

[ NOTICE ] Notice of Qualification of SEQUEL YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES, LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 06/21/18.

Office location: Monroe County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 09/01/17. Princ. office of LLC: 1131 Eagletree Ln., Huntsville, AL 35801.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to c/o Corporation Service Co., 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543.

DE addr. of LLC: 251 Little Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Form. filed with Secy. of State, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Holding company. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Qualification of Worldwide Electric Corporation LLC. App. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 6/12/18. Office location: Monroe County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 6/6/18. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: 3540 Winton Place, Rochester, NY 14623. DE address of LLC: 251 Little Falls Drive, Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Form. filed with DE Secy. of State, P.O. Box 898, Dover, DE 19903. Purpose: any lawful act or activity. [ NOTICE ] O.P.M Marketing, LLC filed 3/19/18. Monroe Co. SSNY design agent for process & shall mail to 21 Magnolia St Rochester, NY 14608 RA: US Corp Agents, Inc. 7014 13 Ave #202 Brooklyn, NY 11228 General Purpose [ NOTICE ] PETER TEALL, LCSW, LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 5/30/2018. Office in Monroe Co. SSNY desig. agent of LLC whom process may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to 945 East Henrietta Rd., Ste. A-6, Rochester , NY 14623, which is also the principal business location.

Purpose: To practice as a Licensed Clinical Social Work. [ NOTICE ] ROC CITY ELITE HOCKEY LLC (LLC) filed Arts. of Org. with NY Secy. of State (SS) on 5/1/2018.

LLC’s office is in Monroe Co. SS is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SS shall mail a copy of any process to c/o the LLC, 846 Houston Road, Webster, NY 14580.

LLC’s purpose: any lawful activity.

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Legal Ads [ NOTICE ] Staci Pfeffer Interiors LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 05/04/2018.

Office: Monroe County.

SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, 29 Southern Pkwy Rochester, NY 14618.

Purpose: Any lawful purpose. [ NOTICE ] SURROGATE’S COURT – MONROE COUNTY CITATION THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, By the Grace of God Free and Independent. To: Erica Forman, if living, but if dead, her distributees, legal representatives, assigns and all persons who by purchase, inheritance or otherwise have or claim to have an interest in the estate of Dorothy V. Forman, deceased, derived through Erica Forman, whose address is unknown.

A petition having been duly filed by Andrew J. Forman, who is domiciled at 114 Mill Run Drive, Rochester, NY 14626.

YOU ARE HEREBY CITED TO SHOW CAUSE before the Surrogate’s Court, Room 533 Hall of Justice, Monroe County, at Rochester, New York, on August 30, 2018 at 9:30 o’clock in the forenoon of that day, why a decree should not be made in the estate of DOROTHY V. FORMAN, lately domiciled at 150 Towngate Road, Rochester, NY 14626, admitting to probate a Will dated July 6, 2006, a copy of which is attached as the Will of the deceased, relating to real and personal property, and directing that Letters Testamentary issue to Andrew J. Forman. Dated, Attested and Sealed July 17, 2018 by Hon. John M. Owens, Surrogate, Mark L Annunziata, Chief Clerk. Harter Secrest & Emery LLP Martin W. O’Toole, Esq. Attorneys at Law 1600 Bausch & Lomb Place, Rochester, New York 14604-2711.

585-232-6500. Note: This citation is served upon you as required by law. You are not required to appear. If you fail to appear it will be assumed you do not object to the relief requested. You have a right to have an attorney appear for you. [ NOTICE ] THAESLER CONSULTING LLC, a Connecticut LLC organized 10/04/17, filed application for authority with NY Dept of State on 06/12/18. NY office loc’n: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail copy of process to The LLC, 16 Spring Side Ln, Penfield, NY 14526. CT office: 30 Old Kings Highway South, 1st Flr Ste 202, Darien, CT 06820. Copy of certificate of organization filed with CT Sec of State Denise W. Merrill, 30 Trinity Street, Hartford, CT 06106. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Williams Brother’s Properties LLC Arts of

To place your ad in the LEGAL section, contact Tracey Mykins by phone at (585) 244-3329 x10 or by email at legals@rochester-citynews.com

Org. filed SSNY 4/30/18.

Monroe Co. SSNY design agent for process & shall mail to: 497 Melville St. Rochester, NY 14609 RA: US Corp Agent 7014 13 Ave #202 Brooklyn, NY 11228 General Purpose.

against it may be served and shall forward service of process to 49 Knollwood Drive, Rochester, NY 14618. Purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE OF FORMATION ]

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Little Angel Medical Transportation LLC. The Articles of Organization were filed with the NY Secretary of State on 7/11/18. The LLC office is located in Monroe County. The NY Secretary of State is designated as the agent of the LLC upon whom process may be served, and the address a copy shall be mailed is 7 Shadbush Way W. Henrietta, NY 14586.

The LLC is managed by a manager. The purpose of the LLC is any lawful business. [ NOTICE OF FORMATION ]

Notice of Formation of Independent Advisor Group LLC: Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) on June 14, 2018. Office location: Monroe County.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 1507 Monroe Ave., Rochester, NY 14618. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE OF FORMATION ] 232 Ventures LLC (“LLC”) filed Articles of Organization with the NY Sec. of State (“SSNY”) on 6/12/18. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall forward service of process to 417 Sundance Trail, Webster, NY 14580.

Purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE OF FORMATION ] 6005 Enterprise Drive LLC (“LLC”) filed Articles of Organization with the NY Sec. of State (“SSNY”) on 6/26/18. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail a copy of process to 675 Mile Crossing Blvd., Rochester, NY 14624. Purpose: any lawful activity [ NOTICE OF FORMATION ] DiPasquale Brothers Co. LLC (“LLC”) filed Articles of Organization with the NY Sec. of State (“SSNY”) on 6/12/18. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall forward service of process to Harris Beach PLLC, Attn: Chris DiPasquale, 99 Garnsey Road, Pittsford, NY 14534.

Purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE OF FORMATION ] Glamping Experience, LLC (“LLC”) filed Articles of Organization with the NY Sec. of State (“SSNY”) on 7/2/18. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall forward service of process to 350 East Ave., Rochester, NY 14604.

Purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE OF FORMATION ] JP Perkins LLC (“LLC”) filed Articles of Organization with the NY Sec. of State (“SSNY”) on 6/12/18. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process

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Nuch Family Ventures, LLC (“LLC”) filed Articles of Organization with the NY Sec. of State (“SSNY”) on 5/31/18. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall forward service of process to 417 Sundance Trail, Webster, NY 14580.

Purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE OF FORMATION ] Rella Restaurant, LLC (“LLC”) filed Articles of Organization with the NY Sec. of State (“SSNY”) on 6/28/18. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall forward service of process to 46 Greylock Ridge, Pittsford, NY 14534. Purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE OF FORMATION ] RHA Inspection Services LLC filed Arts. of Org. with Sec. of State on July 17, 2018. Office Loc: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY may mail copy of process to 160 Aspen Look Drive, Rochester, NY 14467. The purpose of the company is any lawful activity. [ Notice of Formation ] ROC Supply LLC (“LLC”) filed Articles of Organization with the NY Sec. of State (“SSNY”) on 7/16/18. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall forward service of process to 780 Ridge Road, Webster, NY 14580.

Purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE OF FORMATION ] Rotork Pittsburgh LLC (“LLC”) filed Articles of Organization with the NY Sec. of State (“SSNY”) on 6/26/18. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail a copy of process to 675 Mile

Crossing Blvd., Rochester, NY 14624. Purpose: any lawful activity. [ Notice of Formation of KIKI’S KREATIONS LLC ] Arts. Of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on July 2, 2018.

Office location: Monroe Co., NY. Princ. Office of LLC: 1840 Baird Road, Penfield, NY 14526.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Princ. Office of LLC. Purpose: Any lawful activity. [ NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LEATHERTRAMP WINE COMPANY, LLC ] Leathertramp Wine Company, LLC filed Articles of Organization with the NY Secretary of State on June 25, 2018.

(1) Its principal office is in Monroe County, New York.

(2) The Secretary of State has been designated as its agent upon whom process against it may be served and its post office address to which the Secretary of State shall mail a copy of any process against it served upon him or her is c/o Jeffrey Brown, 50 Charlotte Street, Rochester, New York 14607. (3) The character or purpose of its business is to engage in any lawful activity for which limited liability companies may be organized under Section 203 of the Limited Liability Company Act. [ NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY ] The name of the LLC is Out of the Box Training LLC. The Articles of Organization were filed with the NY Secretary of State on 6/14/18. The LLC office is located in Monroe County. The NY Secretary of State is designated as the agent of the LLC upon whom process may be served, and the address a copy shall be mailed is 143 Rangers Court, Rochester, NY 14612. The LLC is managed by a manager.

The purpose of the LLC is any lawful business. [ NOTICE OF FORMATION OF TRIPOINT ADVISORS, LLC ] Art. Of Org. filed with SSNY 6/25/2018 Office Location: Monroe County.

SSNY is designated Agent of LLC to whom process may be served.

SSNY may mail copy of process to 35 CIRLCE COURT, ROCHESTER, NY 14617. Purpose of LLC: Any lawful activity. [ SUMMONS AND NOTICE ] SUMMONS AND NOTICE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF MONROE Index No. E2017000107 CHESWOLD (TL), LLC, Plaintiff, v. The heirsat-law, next of kin, distributees, executors,

administrators, assignees, lienors, creditors, successors-in- interest and generally all persons having or claiming under, by or through EMMA MCNAIRY A/K/A EMMA L. MCNAIRY, by purchase, inheritance, lien or otherwise of any right, title or interest in and to the premises described in the complaint herein, and all creditors thereof, and the respective husbands, or widowers of hers, if any, all of whose names and addresses are unknown to plaintiff; The heirs-at-law, next of kin, distributees, executors, administrators, assignees, lienors, creditors, successors-in- interest and generally all persons having or claiming under, by or through ROBERT MCNAIRY A/K/A ROBERT L. MCNAIRY, by purchase, inheritance, lien or otherwise of any right, title or interest in and to the premises described in the complaint herein, and all creditors thereof, and the respective wives, or widows of his, if any, all of whose names and addresses are unknown to plaintiff; DOREEN BROWN; TRANSAMERICA CREDIT; BENEFICIAL HOMEOWNER SERVICE CORPORATION; NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF TAXATION AND FINANCE; UNITED STATES OF AMERICA; COUNTY OF MONROE; TOWER DBW II TRUST 2012-2, SUCCESSOR

BY MERGER TO TOWER DBW II TRUST 2013-1; US BANK AS CUSTODIAN FOR PFS FINANCIAL 1, LLC; PROPEL FINANCIAL 1, LLC; SARAH NEIL MCNAIRY, AS PRESUMPTIVE HEIRAT- LAW OF ROBERT MCNAIRY AND “JOHN DOE #2” THROUGH “JOHN DOE #100”, Defendants. TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANTS: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the complaint in the above-entitled foreclosure action, and to serve a copy of your answer on Plaintiff’s attorney within thirty (30) days after the service of this summons, exclusive of the day of service or within thirty (30) days after completion of service where service is made in any other manner than by personal service within the State. The United States of America, if designated as a defendant in this action, may answer or appear within sixty (60) days of service hereof. In case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the complaint. Monroe County is designated as the place of trial. The basis of venue is the location of the subject premises.

Dated: July 26, 2017 TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANTS: The foregoing summons

is served upon you by publication, pursuant to an Order of Honorable Daniel J. Doyle, a Justice of the Supreme Court, dated June 19, 2018, and filed with supporting papers in the Monroe County Clerk’s Office. This is an action to foreclose tax liens encumbering the property known as 409 Hayward Avenue, City of Rochester, New York and identified as tax account no.: 106.76-131 (the “Tax Parcel”). The relief sought is the sale of the Tax Parcel at public auction in satisfaction of the tax liens.

In case of your failure to appear, judgment may be taken against you in the sum of $11,695.14, together with interest, costs, disbursements and attorneys’ fees of this action, and directing the public sale of the Tax Parcel. PHILLIPS LYTLE LLP Anthony J. Iacchetta Attorneys for Plaintiff Cheswold (TL), LLC 28 East Main Street Suite 1400 Rochester, New York 14614 Telephone: (585) 238-2000 [ SUMMONS AND NOTICE ] SUMMONS AND NOTICE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF MONROE Index No. E2018000784 CHESWOLD (TL), LLC, Plaintiff, v. The heirsat-law, next of kin, distributees, executors, administrators, assignees, lienors, creditors, successors-in- interest and generally all persons having or claiming under, by or through GEORGE N. JACKSON, DECEASED, by purchase, inheritance, lien or otherwise of any right, title or interest in and to the premises described in the complaint herein, and all creditors thereof, and the respective wives, or widowers of his, if any, all of whose names and addresses are unknown to plaintiff; The heirs-at-law, next of kin, distributees, executors, administrators, assignees, lienors, creditors, successors-in- interest and generally all persons having or claiming under, by or through PHOEBE E. JACKSON A/K/A PHOEBE E. MADISON, DECEASED, by purchase, inheritance, lien or otherwise of any right, title or interest in and to the premises described in the complaint herein, and all creditors thereof, and the respective husbands, or widows of hers, if any, all of whose names and addresses are unknown to plaintiff; MARK G. JACKSON; ANGELA JACKSON; RASHAD JACKSON A/K/A RASHAD WILSON; KAYLA JACKSON A/K/A KAYLA WILSON; NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF TAXATION AND FINANCE; UNITED STATES OF AMERICA; MANUFACTURERS AND TRADERS

TRUST COMPANY; NEW YORK STATE AFFORDABLE HOUSING CORPORATION; PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK; THE CITY COURT OF ROCHESTER; NY FINANCIAL SERVICES LLC; MIDLAND FUNDING LLC, INDIVIDUALLY AND DOING BUSINESS IN NEW YORK AS MIDLAND FUNDING OF DELAWARE LLC; RELIANT COMMUNITY FEDERAL CREDIT UNION; RAB PERFORMANCE RECOVERIES, L.L.C.; NEW YORK STATE WORKERS’ COMPENSATION BOARD; CACH, LLC; ASSET ACCEPTANCE, LLC; GREECE JUSTICE COURT; US BANK AS CUSTODIAN FOR PFS FINANCIAL 1, LLC; PROPEL FINANCIAL1, LLC; COUNTY OF MONROE AND “JOHN DOE #1” THROUGH “JOHN DOE #100”, Defendants TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANTS: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the complaint in the above-entitled foreclosure action, and to serve a copy of your answer on Plaintiff’s attorney within thirty (30) days after the service of this summons, exclusive of the day of service or within thirty (30) days after completion of service where service is made in any other manner than by personal service within the State. The United States of America, if designated as a defendant in this action, may answer or appear within sixty (60) days of service hereof.

In case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the complaint. Monroe County is designated as the place of trial. The basis of venue is the location of the subject premises. Dated: June 5, 2018 TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANTS: The foregoing summons is served upon you by publication, pursuant to an Order of Honorable J. Scott Odorisi, a Justice of the Supreme Court, dated July 10, 2018, and filed with supporting papers in the Monroe County Clerk’s Office. This is an action to foreclose tax liens encumbering the property known as 190 Peck Street, City of Rochester, New York and identified as tax account no.: 106.59-3-59.001 (the “Tax Parcel”). The relief sought is the sale of the Tax Parcel at public auction in satisfaction of the tax liens. In case of your failure to appear, judgment may be taken against you in the sum of $13,327.06, together with interest, costs, disbursements and attorneys’ fees of this action, and directing the public sale of the Tax Parcel. PHILLIPS LYTLE LLP Anthony J. Iacchetta Attorneys for Plaintiff Cheswold (TL), LLC 28 East Main Street Suite 1400 Rochester, New York 14614 Telephone: (585) 2382000 [ SUPPLEMENTAL SUMMONS ] SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF MONROE Index #: 13577/2016 Filed: 6/11/2018 Franklin

American Mortgage Company Plaintiff,against Patricia A. Rapp, David Billitier if living and if he be dead, any and all persons who are spouses, widows, grantees, mortgagees, lienor, heirs, devisees, distributees, or successors in interest of such of the above as may be dead, and their spouses, heirs, devisees, distributees and successors in interest, all of whom and whose names and places of residences are unknown to Plaintiff, New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, United States of AmericaInternal Revenue Service, Defendants. Plaintiff designates Monroe County as the place of trial. Venue is based upon the County in which the mortgaged premises is situated. TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANT(S): YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the Complaint in this action and to serve a copy of your Answer or, if the Complaint is not served with this Summons, to serve a Notice of Appearance on the attorneys for the plaintiff within twenty (20) days after service of this Summons, exclusive of the day of service; or within thirty (30) days after service is complete if this Summons is not personally delivered to you within the State of New York; or within sixty (60) days if it is the United States of America. In case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the Complaint. NOTICE OF NATURE OF ACTION AND RELIEF SOUGHT THE OBJECT of the above captioned action is to foreclose a Mortgage to secure $138,580.00 and interest, recorded in the Office of the Clerk of the County of MONROE on June 30, 2014, in Book 25713, Page 417, covering premises known as 321 Mason Road, Fairport, NY 14450. The relief sought in the within action is a final judgment directing the sale of the premises described above to satisfy the debt secured by the Mortgage described above. NOTICE YOU ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING YOUR HOME If you do not respond to this summons and complaint by serving a copy of the answer on the attorney for the mortgage company who filed this foreclosure proceeding against you and filing the answer with the court, a default judgment may be entered and you can lose your home Speak to an attorney or go to the court where your case is pending for further information on how to answer the summons and protect your property.

Sending a payment to your mortgage company will not stop this foreclosure action.

YOU MUST RESPOND

BY SERVING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF (MORTGAGE COMPANY) AND FILING THE ANSWER WITH THE COURT. Dated: Bay Shore, New York June 1, 2018 FRENKEL, LAMBERT, WEISS, WEISMAN & GORDON, LLP BY: Linda P. Manfredi Attorneys for Plaintiff 53 Gibson Street Bay Shore, New York 11706 (631) 969-3100 Our File No.: 01-082716-F00

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