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AFTER HURRICANE MARIA Puerto Ricans find hope in Rochester COMMUNITY, PAGE 6

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In “Martin Luther King and Donald Trump,” Mary Anna Towler bemoaned the “utterances and policies of the rednecks of the red states.” She should have selected a better word than “redneck.” The term has a long, evolving history. According to historian David Roediger, “By 1900, redneck had come into use as ‘a name applied by the better class of people to the poorer [white] inhabitants of the rural districts of the South.’” Indeed, elite Southerners often looked down on poor whites as genetically inferior and “of a different color.” That to some extent explains why scholars have written books titled, “How the Irish Became White,” “How America’s Immigrants Became White,” or “Are Italians White?” Roediger points out that the word is still used predominantly as a derogatory term, but “misses the extent to which ‘rednecks’ created their own identities” for good or ill shortly after emancipation and at various times since. By the 1930’s, the term referred to “any honest working man,” specifically “one who belongs to a labor union or sympathizes with union men in a strike.” By then the term had “reflected the practice of union miners who tied red bandannas over their necks to develop nonracial ‘redneck’ identity and who sang during strikes, ‘Red Necks, keep them scabs away.’” In fact, striking miners tied red bandannas around their necks as they marched on Blair Mountain in 1921 during the famous coal mining strikes of West Virginia. Those white and black men were part of a unique, although not singular, effort to guarantee equal pay for all miners.

That is the nonracial “redneck” legacy that we should embrace, memorialize, and use in the present. In fact, if you watch the December 4, 2017, press conference in Washington DC to launch the new Poor People’s Campaign, you will notice one of the early speakers embracing the term “redneck.” Mashyla Buckmaster of Westport, Washington, proclaimed: “Hell yes, we’re rednecks. We’re hillbillies for the liberation of all people,” after which all of the diverse people in the room laughed and smiled, recognizing the symbolic nature of the term, acknowledging its current laudable usage in the unfinished fight against poverty, and embracing its use against self-defeating white working-class racism. JOEL HELFRICH

Two standards about speech?

Mister President was out of line with his – supposed – comments about Haiti. But where was this “outrage” when Attorney General Eric Holder made his statements about whites being a nation of cowards? Suppose Jeff Sessions said something along these lines. A double standard here? JACK ARMSTRONG

Mass, scale are important in Cobbs Hill

As early as March, Rochester’s Planning Commission will make its decision about Rochester Management’s proposal for the Cobbs Hill Village affordable housing development. On January 11, Commission members drafted a letter asking for consideration of 14 concerns, and they will look for positive responses to these concerns before approving a resubmission. The mass and scale of the proposed buildings viewed from Norris Drive is a critical and important issue. These are large, three-story buildings. They may be appropriate for other urban and suburban surroundings, but they would dramatically and negatively intrude on Cobbs Hill Park, in my opinion.

The other characteristic of these proposed buildings is that they are designed as affordable housing, and thus there is typically not enough money in the budget for aesthetic enhancement, giving them a less desirable appearance. Even if richer materials and detailing could be employed, those factors alone would not mitigate the dominant three-story mass and form, however. The structures might look better, but still they would not be appropriate in scale for this site. The land upon which the current and proposed affordable housing lies was donated for a park (Cobbs Hill Park). In the 1940’s, that land was given over for temporary POW structures, and then later those structures became adapted for temporary affordable housing. In both cases, the land was intended to be eventually returned to its original park use. Politics and practical issues have made the switch back to the original intended park land difficult. To intensify the current affordable housing density on this site would inappropriately change its present compatible, park-like character to that of an urban, multi-family character. The site is enveloped by park land, and intense development will be visually intrusive on the surrounding park. I am the design architect for many award-winning residential, multi-family projects and buildings in the Rochester area, both affordable and market-rate, two to four stories in height, in urban and suburban settings, and I understand the issues of housing design. I would strongly recommend that the Planning Commission members look at (in person, in the field) these two buildings: Daisy House, 550 Clarissa Street, and South Cove Point, Empire Boulevard. They are very similar in mass and scale to the buildings that Rochester Management is proposing. Upon a close viewing, Commission members will be able to truly observe and consider their physical mass and what impact the proposed buildings would have on this site in Cobbs Hill Park setting. ROGER BROWN

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URBAN JOURNAL | BY MARY ANNA TOWLER

Another big plan unveiled to fix the city’s schools It’s hard to think of anything in the Rochester area that isn’t affected by the city school district, one way or another. Economic development, housing, neighborhood stability, wage disparity, tax base: the district, its students, and students’ achievement impact all of that. Over the years, the district and the public have spent an enormous amount of money, time, and energy on Rochester’s public schools. And yet the academic achievement of many Rochester students remains one of the worst in the state. Critics find plenty of people to blame, and certainly nobody in the district is perfect. But there’s way too much evidence – decades of evidence – that if most of a school district’s students live in concentratedpoverty neighborhoods, that district has a nearly impossible job. The school district has a responsibility to try to succeed, though, so it keeps trying. And last week, yet another superintendent came up with yet another plan to try. Barbara Deane-Williams presented what she is calling a Path Forward, based on months of discussions with students, parents, teachers, and others in the community. The district website defines Path Forward as a “10-year Educational and Facilities Master Plan that provides a blueprint for strong schools and a strong Rochester.” It’s a wide-ranging plan, reflecting the challenges of a high-poverty urban district. This is a district, for example, in which the number of children attending its schools continues to drop, but the number with disabilities or limited English-language skill is increasing. In which most of the teachers are white, and most of the students are not. It’s a district notorious for losing middleincome families as soon as their children approach school age. To address all that, and the district’s poor achievement record, Path Forward includes steps like these: • Make sure that bilingual programs, early childhood education, specialeducation services, and other offerings are available equitably in all three of the district’s zones. • Hire more teachers of color and make the curriculum more culturally relevant. • Redesign high schools so that they better prepare students for careers. • Create new schools “that mirror the highly sought schools” in the district: School of the Arts, School Without Walls, World of Inquiry, and the Children’s School. • Create two magnet schools that would draw students from the suburbs as well as the city.

Among the proposals: schools that could help reduce the concentrated poverty that is crippling the district and its students.

These are big ideas, and each one raises questions. And even if all of the recommendations are worth doing, the “doing” won’t be cheap or easy. Nor is this the first time a superintendent has come up with big ideas – good, big ideas. Implementation – training, staffing, funding, oversight, support, follow-through – has been a persistent problem in this district. But it’s heartening to see the district talking about more specialty schools like World of Inquiry and School of the Arts – and magnets to attract suburban students. These can begin to break down the concentration of poverty that is crippling the district and so many of its students. That idea isn’t universally popular. For years, some black community leaders have argued that poor children don’t have to be in classes with wealthier children – who are often white – in order to get a good education. The district, those leaders insist, should be able to educate all children, whatever their circumstance. That difference of opinion won’t be settled anytime soon. But at the least, adding more magnet-type schools would expand educational offerings for all of the city’s children. And it would give the district a chance to demonstrate the academic effect of integrated education. “Path Forward” isn’t a traditional plan, with budgets and completion dates for each component. As its name suggests, it’s a “path,” a roadmap. Its unveiling last week is just the beginning. What comes of it will depend on the school board and, of course, money. The school board and the school community will be discussing its components in the months ahead. We’ll continue to follow that discussion. rochestercitynewspaper.com

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Whole Foods inches forward

Brighton Town Board has voted to accept the final environmental impact statement for the proposed Whole Foods Plaza on Monroe Avenue. Board members also decided to continue a public hearing for the project’s incentive zoning application at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, February 28, at Brighton Town Hall, 2300 Elmwood Avenue. Neighbors have objected to the size of the development which would include a Whole Foods grocery store, as well as to the project’s potential to make traffic in the area worse.

County lays out opioid strategy

Monroe County officials have released an Opioid Action Plan to combat the health crisis locally. The plan includes a lawsuit against prescription opioid manufacturers and marketers as well as doctors who helped market the drugs; efforts to improve overdose data collection and sharing; Department of Health commissions to evaluate medical system and treatment access issues; public training sessions for the overdose-reversal drug naloxone; and additional toxicology staff for the county Medical Examiner’s Office. The county and the Rochester Drug Treatment Court are also pursuing

a $1.8 million grant to expand the court’s case management services and streamline its treatment and detox referral services.

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Cuomo pushes for internet protections

Governor Andrew Cuomo issued a two-pronged executive order on net neutrality last week, responding to a recent Federal Communications Commission decision to undo Obama-era net neutrality policies. State agencies and departments are barred from contracting with internet providers that don’t adhere to net neutrality principles; and the Department of Public Service – the state’s utilities agency – is to evaluate ways to promote net neutrality.

IMMIGRATION | BY JAKE CLAPP

Yates farmworker facing deportation

GOP plans gov debate

The Erie County Republican Committee has organized a debate for the declared GOP gubernatorial candidates: State Assembly Minority Leader Brian Kolb, State Senate Deputy Majority Leader John DeFrancisco, and former Erie County Executive Joel Giambra. The debate is scheduled for 10:30 a.m. Saturday, February 10, at Daemen College’s Wick Student Center in Amherst. (Tickets: Erie County GOP, (716) 856-8700 or ecrc@ ecgop.com.

Yates County farmworker Gilberto Reyes-Herrera is currently being held at the Batavia Detention Center and is facing deportation. PHOTO PROVIDED

Gilberto Reyes-Herrera came to the US from Mexico about 25 years ago to escape poverty. Now 51, he has a wife and three children, and according to numerous people, he’s an upstanding part of the Yates County farmworker community. But he is undocumented, and now faces deportation. Last June, Reyes-Herrera was a passenger in a vehicle stopped by a New York State trooper because the driver, a US citizen, wasn’t wearing a seat belt. The trooper — going against a 2014 directive by Governor Andrew Cuomo — asked ReyesHerrera for identification. ReyesHerrera didn’t have any and was detained by Border Patrol. When it was found that he had previously been deported in the early 2000’s, he was charged with illegal reentry into the US after removal, a felony. His situation exemplifies America’s broken immigration system and the harsh approach under the Trump administration, Reyes-Herrera’s supporters

say. Last Wednesday, about 20 supporters held a rally at the Federal Building in downtown Rochester, and many went inside for his court appearance. Reyes-Herrera has “fallen in a web of failed policies,” Carly Fox, an advocate with the Worker Justice Center, said during the rally. “All he’s done is contribute to our economy.” In court, an emotional ReyesHerrera pleaded guilty to the illegal reentry charge and was sentenced to time served. But Judge Charles Siragusa spent time questioning Reyes-Herrera about his life, eventually saying he believes him to be a good man and hopes some “miracle” will allow him to stay in the US. Siragusa was presiding only over the federal charge of illegal reentry, however, and he has no control over Reyes-Herrera’s deportation status. Reyes-Herrera is now being held at the Batavia Detention Center awaiting deportation proceedings. No date has been set for that hearing.

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Republican House Representative Chris Collins was the first member of Congress to support President Donald Trump’s 2016 run, and since then, he’s been a full-throated supporter. He now faces a field of potential Democratic challengers that’s five candidates deep.

POLITICS | BY JEREMY MOULE

Big election means a crowded house Republican House Representative Chris Collins has a target on his back. He was the first member of Congress to support President Donald Trump’s 2016 run, and since then, he’s been a fullthroated supporter. He’s defended Trump’s orders blocking the entry of immigrants and refugees, and when the president called on GOP Congress members to pass new tax laws and repeal Obamacare, Collins backed him up. The health care effort failed; the tax plan did not. And since the tax bill passed and went into effect, Collins has had a public war of words with Governor Andrew Cuomo, who says that GOP leaders’ claims to the contrary, the plan will actually increase many New Yorkers’ tax burdens. All of this has riled up Democrats and progressive activists in Collins’ 27th Congressional District, and inevitably several have lined up to run against him. Right now the field is five candidates deep, all of whom will address party members and the public during a Thursday, February 1, forum at the MacVitte College Union on the SUNY Geneseo Campus. The forum starts at 6:30 p.m.

Collins’ potential Democratic challengers include Nathan McMurray, Grand Island supervisor and attorney for Delaware North; Sean Bunny, a veteran and a prosecutor in the Erie County District Attorney’s Office; Nick Stankevich, a Mumford entrepreneur who also helps his family operate the Genesee Country Inn Bed and Breakfast; Joan Elizabeth Seamans, a business owner and former Williamsville village trustee; and Tom Casey, a community activist and retired water supply and treatment engineer. Collins also faces potential Republican challengers Jim Banks, who works in industrial sales, and Larry Piegza, who owns a software company and refers to himself as a “Never Trump Republican.” The field is much less crowded in the 25th Congressional District, where Democratic House Representation Louise Slaughter is gearing up to run for her 17th term. Slaughter faces a challenge from Dr. James Maxwell, a neurosurgeon who’s seeking the Republican line on the November ballot. Maxwell hasn’t held office before, nor has he run for it. His catchphrase: “It doesn’t take a brain

surgeon to know Congress is broken – but it just might take one to fix it.” But the fact that Maxwell is a political unknown seems to be working for him. Republican Gates Supervisor Mark Assini abandoned plans to challenge Slaughter for a third time after the Monroe County Conservative Party endorsed Maxwell. Assini had already scheduled an event at the Italian American Community Center to announce his candidacy, which he used to instead tell his supporters about his change of course. He said that just days before the event, the Conservative Party hand-delivered a letter to him breaking the news. The letter said that the Conservative Party believed Maxwell provided the best chance to defeat Slaughter, Assini said after his announcement. Slaughter has trounced opponent after opponent since she won her first House race in 1986; while Assini’s 2014 bid brought him closer to defeating Slaughter than any previous candidate, Slaughter scored a decisive victory in their 2016 rematch. But 2018 is the Trump era: a turbulent, bewildering political environment. Maxwell could tap into a populist vein and ride a wave of voters determined to vote

Republican House Representative Chris Collins has been a supporter and ally of President Donald Trump. PHOTO PROVIDED

for anyone except someone who’s been in Congress for a while. Or district Democrats and progressives, who’ve watched the actions of the White House and the Republican Congress with horror and rage, could prove to be a motivated group and sweep Slaughter back into office. November’s still a long way off.

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Puerto Ricans find hope in Rochester COMMUNITY | BY TIM LOUIS MACALUSO

The Ibero American Action League opened the doors to its resource center for Hurricane Maria victims at 10 a.m. on Thursday, November 9. It hadn’t snowed more than a few flurries, but it was a damp-and-cold, Rochester gray morning. Nonetheless, people had been lining up since near dawn outside the vacant brick school building on Clifford Avenue that Ibero is using. More than 1,000 people flowed through the center that day: young people, families with children, seniors, some with mobility and health concerns. Some people were wearing light summer clothing. An elderly woman, assisted by others, arrived looking confused and upset, tears rolling down her face. Among the volunteers on hand to help was recently retired Rochester school board member José Cruz. A planning specialist for Lifespan, Cruz has worked with many people going through hard times. But he was stunned by what he saw that day. “I’ve never seen so many people looking shell-shocked,” he said afterward. “They looked like they were beyond being scared. Numb. I’ll never forget it.” In the weeks after Hurricane Maria roared across Puerto Rico, more than 160,000 residents fled the devastated island, according to the New York Times. Although tens of thousands of them went to Florida, many have found their way to Rochester, which has the state’s second largest Hispanic population. As the migration built, Ibero organized the resource center as a one-stop site, so that education, health, and human service 6 CITY

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organizations could help people with resettlement. More than a dozen agencies and organizations, from every corner of Monroe County, set up shop – the Red Cross, the Rochester school district, the Rochester Housing Authority, Rochester Works, Rochester Regional Health, Catholic Family Center, Food Link…. No one, including officials at Ibero, had imagined that so many people would need help. Ibero was so swamped during the first days the center was open that sometimes they had to limit entry to 20 people at a time. “Some people have been in Rochester for a few weeks already,” Ibero spokesperson Patricia Cruz-Irving, said that afternoon, “and others are just arriving and coming here with a friend or relative.” Among the new arrivals was Miguel Diaz Ledée. “I had to come here for two reasons,” he said. “I lost everything, but I’m also on a medical list for a liver transplant, and the hospitals are not functional on the island. I didn’t really want to come here, but I had no choice.” Ledée, who is living temporarily with a family member, has been through other storms in Puerto Rico. “I was 10 years old when George came through,” he said, “but there’s never been anything like this. Maria was a monster to us. She took everything.” Ibero staff member Ida Perez and her small army of cooks and servers, mostly Latina women, stood behind a counter serving food as people milled about drinking coffee and eating from paper plates.

Perez is a grandmotherly woman who has served a lot of rice and beans in her day, but she hadn’t experienced anything like what had happened when she handed a plateful to an elderly man earlier that afternoon. Overwhelmed by the offer of Puerto Rican-style rice and beans, the man had begun to cry. “He hadn’t had any home-cooked food like this in the month that he’s been here,” Perez said, “and he said the taste and the smells made him homesick.” “We tried to offer him more,” she said, “but he refused it, because he said he wanted there to be enough for others.” “It’s heartbreaking that such a simple thing can mean so much,” Perez said. The resource center – now relocated to Our

Lady of the Americas church on East Main Street – has been open almost every Thursday for more than two months now. Hilda Rosario Escher, Ibero’s president and CEO, is usually at the center with about a dozen other Ibero staff members and volunteers, taking down names and contact information as people enter the building. Most of the people coming to the center say they didn’t want to leave Puerto Rico, Escher said one afternoon as people continued to arrive at the center. “They’re leaving their homes, and in many cases their families, behind,” Escher said. “It’s so upsetting. Puerto Rico is home to them. They show me these pictures of a house and it has no roof, trees that are stripped bare, and there’s rubble everywhere. But they realize that there’s nothing there for them anymore,

so now they have to make a new home for themselves here in Rochester.” For most of the newcomers, finding housing is the biggest worry, and the line is usually longest at the Rochester Housing Authority table, where staff is helping people get Section 8 vouchers. RHA has a long waiting list of people seeking affordable housing. But given the urgency for people coming from Puerto Rico, officials at RHA have been working with FEMA to eliminate any waiting time or other obstacles. “They have to register and get on the waiting list, but they have priority,” said Hemily Sotomayor, a RHA housing specialist helping at the center. (And yes, she’s related to the Supreme Court Justice). Once the newcomers receive their voucher, they still have to find a suitable property that they can afford. And it has to be inspected before they can move in, said Sotomayor. “It’s overwhelming at times, seeing children and seniors worrying about whether they will have a roof over their head tonight,” Sotomayor said. “And you can’t always give them an answer right then and there, which is frustrating. But you do your best to reassure them.” Many people coming from Puerto Rico have a family member or a close friend that they can stay with for a while. But some landlords don’t want extra people living in an apartment for a month or two, so there’s pressure to find an apartment as quickly as possible.

For Neysha Fonseca, pictured with husband Jaime Diaz, coming to Rochester has been bittersweet. She misses her large family, most of whom remain in Puerto Rico. PHOTO BY RENĂ&#x2030;E HEININGER rochestercitynewspaper.com

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Ibero has received all kinds of donations at its resource center, especially clothing and children’s toys. PHOTO BY RENÉE HEININGER

From the day the resource center opened in early November, enrolling children in school has been a big priority for many of the new immigrants. The Rochester school district has enrolled 500 children from Puerto Rico during the last two months, and is prepared to enroll as many as 1,000. But the enrollment process can be complicated. Some children speak English fluently, some can speak a little English, and others speak only Spanish. The new students’ language skills and academic level have to be evaluated so they can be placed in schools with programs that meet their needs, said Elizabeth Reyes, RSCD’s associate director for families in transition. “We also have to coordinate transportation, so the housing component is important,” Reyes said. “And we have to coordinate food service. And we want to make sure that they have everything they need to start school. We say ‘no’ to no one.” Luis Baez, who was at the center on November 9 and the following Thursday, said his four children – ages 5, 6, 8, and 12 – had already been registered for school. “I didn’t know what to expect,” he said, “but it’s gone smoothly. They’ll all be going to School 9, which is good. This way, they’ll be together. It’s a big adjustment, but this makes me feel like we’re making progress, and we will get through this.” Another big adjustment for many of the newcomers: Rochester’s winter weather. While some have relatives in Rochester and were familiar with its climate, they’re coming from Puerto Rico’s subtropical climate and have little in the way of winter clothing. On the Saturday morning before Thanksgiving, Ibero hosted a coat giveaway in the former school building it’s using, and the building’s gymnasium was filled with donations. 8 CITY

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Men’s, women’s, and children’s jackets and coats, every style and size, were piled on tables – 4 and 5 feet high in some spots. Hundreds of people dug through them, holding them up, trying them on. “This is my first winter jacket, and it’s never been worn,” said a woman showing off a navy Tommy Hilfiger jacket, still bearing its tags. “My husband is going to be sorry he didn’t come. He never likes what I pick out for him, so, too bad.” People were walking out with their arms full, and it wasn’t long before the piles had been reduced to a few stacks. The coat drive is just one example of the support that the Rochester community has showed. Right after the hurricane, local residents Millie Markajani and her husband Don had sent 2,000 pounds of goods to the island: batteries, bottled water, hand sanitizer, cereal, canned foods – anything they could think of that could be shipped and wouldn’t spoil from the extreme heat. “I have family there, and when the hurricane hit we started sending lots of

things,” Millie Markajani said during an interview at the Ibero office in December. “They need everything.” Markajani, who owns a Curves gym in Penfield, organized an angel tree there. With the help of Ibero’s staff, she contacted families, got children’s names, found out children’s favorite toys and clothing sizes. She and many of her Curve members bought gifts and wrapped them, and shortly before Christmas, they held a gift give-away at Ibero’s East Main Street office, stacking a community recreation room from floor to ceiling with gift packages – sorted alphabetically – for more than 60 children. Community support like that “is not me and my doing, and it’s not Ibero’s,” said Hilda Rosario Escher. “This has been a collaborative effort. I am so grateful to this community for making donations of everything from coats to strollers to car seats.” “There’s no way we could do all of this alone,” she said. “The need is too great.” Escher has called people in the community nearly every day since the resource center opened in November: “Can you help with beds or furniture or this or that?” “And do you know,” she said, “not one person has said no to me.” Escher also keeps tabs on some of the newcomers who need extra help. “On Christmas Day and throughout the holidays,” she said, “I called people just to check on them and to let them know: I’m here, you’re not alone, and everything will be all right. I’ve even kept tabs on the kids in school. The schools have been wonderful. In some cases, they’ve paired the new kids with a peer or buddy. Everyone has been very sensitive about what they’ve been through.” Still, every day there are people who need immediate help, because for them, things aren’t going well. Last month, for instance,

one family managed to find an apartment, but it was infested with rodents. Escher had to help the family find a new apartment and come up with another deposit. Escher has also been working to keep Sully Ruiz, a single mother, from becoming homeless. Ruiz, who has three children – 8-year-old twin boys and an infant – lost her home in the storm. She’s been in Rochester for more than a month, and at first she was able to stay with a friend. But the friend asked her to leave to avoid problems with her landlord. Since then, she’s been living in a motel room with her children and she has limited funds, she said recently. Desperate for help, she walked with her children all the way from Lyell Avenue to Ibero’s East Main Street office during the recent cold snap. “My biggest worry is finding a place for me and my children to live,” she said. “We only have until February 10. After that, I don’t know what I’ll do.” Escher has been working with RHA to help Ruiz find another place to live. “Sometimes you have to pull every string and bend every rule to help someone,” she said. “But we’ll make it work.” Julio Velez and Betsy Bermudez are further

along than Ruiz at resettling in Rochester. They’ve found an apartment and no longer have to live in a relative’s cramped attic. During a recent interview at Ibero’s radio station, Velez talked about the life they left behind in Puerto Rico after Maria destroyed their home. The couple ran an entertainment business, staging special events for birthdays, weddings, and other occasions, and they had lived a comfortable life, Velez said, until their business started to slow. They’d been thinking of moving to the US mainland at some point, and Velez was in Rochester searching for steady employment when Maria struck.

But Bermudez was at home in Puerto Rico with their youngest daughter. “The hurricane comes with so much force, I can’t believe it,” Bermudez said. “I’m there and I have no money, no groceries, no electricity, no food, and no water. Banks are closed. Gas stations are closed. Nothing works, and there’s nothing I can do.” “It was terrible to go outside and see all of that destruction,” she said. “To see everything we had, everything we worked so hard for, destroyed like that: It was a horror.” And phones, including cellphones, weren’t working. “I was desperate,” Velez said, “because for two weeks, we had no communication, and I didn’t know what happened to them. I’m dying. Every day and night I’m wondering: Where are they? Are they OK? Has something happened to them?” The area where their house is located still doesn’t have electricity or water, Velez said, and there’s no indication of when services will return. Velez and Bermudez are also concerned about their daughter, who’s going to Monroe High School. “In Puerto Rico, she was a 4.0 GPA, but now it’s very difficult for her,” Velez said. They had a momentary scare recently when she didn’t get home from school on time. She had gotten on the wrong bus. “She ended up in Henrietta,” Velez said, “but she couldn’t tell us how to get to her, because she didn’t know where she was. Other kids who have just come here have done the same thing.” Bermudez has mixed feelings about being in Rochester. She misses Puerto Rico, but she also likes the fact that everyday grocery items like milk and eggs are cheaper here. “Almost everything is shipped into Puerto Rico,” she said, “so everything there is more expensive.” Velez is working almost around the clock doing a variety of jobs. “Every hour I can work, I do it,” he said. “I don’t care what it is. I just want the work.” And Bermudez is trying to find work. “I want to get a job to take some of the burden off of him,” she said. “I don’t want to be a burden on him.” Bermudez applied for SNAP benefits, but was told that she needed to apply for several jobs every day to qualify. “I explained to them I don’t have a computer, and I don’t have any transportation,” she said. But Velez is optimistic. Things are getting better, he said. “It’s a transition, but we have to do it,” he said. “We’ve found an apartment. God has delivered to us, and we are very thankful. We have a lot to be grateful for.” For Neysha Fonseca, who came here with her

8-year-old son Caleb, the move was bittersweet.

It took about a month for Betsy Bermudez and Julio Velez to find an apartment. They were living in a family member’s attic. PHOTO BY RYAN WILLIAMSON

“I love Puerto Rico,” she said during a recent interview at the resource center, “and I miss the sunshine and the beaches.” Christmas was particularly hard. “Christmas in Puerto Rico is so wonderful,” Fonseca said. “It’s a big celebration. And I missed my mother and my sister. I come from a big, big family, and we are very close.” But Caleb, who is already in school, likes it here, she said. Some children keep asking when they will be going home, but Caleb has already settled in and doesn’t want to go back. He loves baseball, a favorite pastime in Puerto Rico, and he has already signed up to play in a Little League team next summer. “I saw this move as an opportunity for him,” she said. “I wanted him to have a better economic future, a better quality of life than he might have in Puerto Rico.” Fonseca had gone through Hurricanes Hugo and George, but when Maria hit Puerto Rico, she thought maybe it was time for a change. “I prayed for a sign,” she said. “‘Lord, give me a sign of what to do.’ My cousin is here, and she said, Come here right now. And I thought, ‘OK, a door just opened.’” Fonseca can speak English pretty well, and she already works part-time in a beauty salon and is going to cosmetology school. But as with some of the other newcomers, relocation is interrupting family life. Fonseca’s husband, Jaime Diaz, stayed behind in Puerto Rico through Christmas. The couple used FaceTime to talk to each other, she said, but it wasn’t easy. Diaz came here recently to look for work, and the couple moved into a new home, a roomy apartment off Culver Road in Irondequoit. The apartment has an eat-in

kitchen, patio, and a good-sized back yard. But there are still challenges: After a short family outing to see Niagara Falls, Diaz had to return to Puerto Rico until he can find permanent work in Rochester. It’s a familiar situation for many families: A spouse comes here, gets a job, saves some money, then sends for another member of the family, until eventually everyone is reunited. But that can take months, even years. Ibero’s Escher says the agency has never

undertaken anything like the relocation efforts that have been underway since late October. And she doesn’t know of any other agency in the area that has received so many people at one time. It has pushed her small staff and volunteers to the limit, she said. “They tell me, ‘We have families, too, that we need to take care of,” she said. “This was something new to all of us. I tell them, ‘We have to do this. Look what they’re going through.’ And most of them understand. I’m very proud of that.” Escher is effusive describing how Ibero and all of the other agencies and non-profits have pulled together to help. “The local community, I can’t say enough about it,” she said. “People say we can’t work together. That’s not true. This is proof we can.” But she’s very critical of the federal government’s response. “I’m very disappointed in the federal government,” she said. “They should have allocated funds directly to the agencies. We are doing the work.” The federal government has also been slow in its emergency response to Puerto Rico, she said.

“I know, because I’ve been there, and I’ve seen it for myself,” Escher said. “Much of the island is still without electricity. I still can’t communicate with my sister. And families are still drinking from creeks where the water is contaminated. This happened in September, and it’s now January. Do you think the people in Texas and Florida would stand for this?” She and many others in Rochester’s Puerto Rican community and on the island think that the current political atmosphere hasn’t helped matters, she said. “Puerto Ricans are US citizens,” she said. “It is not some Third World country. But sometimes it feels like we treat it like a colony.” The slow progress at repairing Puerto Rico has fueled at least of some of the outmigration from the island, and that is straining resources here, Escher said. And even unrelated problems can add to the strain. During the recent cold snap, the pipes burst in Ibero’s building on Clifford Avenue, forcing the resource center to move. “We had to close for a couple of weeks until we could find a new location,” Escher said, “because the people, they are still coming.” Representatives from Ibero and the other agencies met last week to discuss whether they needed to continue operating the resource center. The decision: keep it open. The need is still there. Julio Saenz, manager of Ibero’s Latin radio station, WEPL 97.1 FM, helped with the translation in many of the interviews in this article. rochestercitynewspaper.com

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URBAN ACTION This week’s calls to action include the following events and activities. (All are free and open to the public, unless otherwise noted.)

Creating public squares

The Community Design Center of Rochester will present “Creating Places We Care About,” a lecture by former Birmingham, Michigan, mayor Mark Nickita on Wednesday, January 31. Nickita co-founded Archive D.S., a studio that combines architecture, urban design, and graphic design to regenerate pedestrian-oriented urban environments. The event will be held at Gleason Works’ Auditorium, 1000 University Avenue, at 7 p.m. Registration: www.rrcdc.org. Information: 271-0520. Suggested donation: $10.

Correcting ourselves

Fighting for land in Mexico

The Rochester Committee on Latin America will show “Maya Faces in a Smoking Mirror” on Wednesday, February 7. The documentary film by Bill Jungels and Christine Eber explores how young Mayan people from Chiapas, Mexico, are resisting exploitation of indigenous people, their land, and way of life. The film will be shown at Downtown United Presbyterian Church, 121 North Fitzhugh Street, at 7 p.m, followed by a question and answer session with Jungels.

Forum features Dems hoping to oppose Collins

The Turn 27 Blue Coalition and SUNY-Geneseo

The January 24 article on Rochester’s climate adaptation plan incorrectly stated the status of the city’s potential Community Choice Aggregation energy program. City officials are pursuing such a program, but one isn’t in place yet. 10 CITY JANUARY 31 - FEBRUARY 6, 2018

College Democrats will host a public forum on Thursday, February 1, to hear five candidates seeking the Democratic nomination to run against Republican Representative Chris Collins. The candidates are Sean Bunny, Tom Casey, Nate McMurray, Joan Elizabeth Seamans, and Nicholas Stankevich. Collins is one of President Trump’s most ardent GOP supporters. He represents New York’s 27 th District, which covers Livingston, Wyoming, Genesee, and Orleans Counties, as well as parts of Niagara, Erie, Monroe, and Ontario Counties. The event will be held at SUNY Geneseo, MacVittie College Union ballroom, at 6:30 p.m.

The Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra’s “Winter Sing” was included in our Winter Guide story “18 for 2018.” The event is not open to the public. Deadline to apply for participation passed in November, and the Winter Sing event is for performers only.

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Living Roots Wine & Co. owners Sebastian and Colleen Hardy make and sell wines in both Upstate New York and South Austrailia. PHOTO BY JACOB WALSH

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On a wall inside the production facility at Living Roots Wine & Co., two clocks hang side by side: one shows the local time in Rochester, the other the time in Adelaide, Australia. It’s a striking reminder of the transnational nature of Living Roots, an urban winery which opened its tasting room on University Avenue in November of 2017. Run by husband and wife Sebastian and Colleen Hardy, Living Roots makes and sells wines in both Upstate New York and South Australia, and aims to bring together the best of both regions. Sebastian Hardy, the head winemaker at Living Roots, comes from a long line of winemakers in McLaren Vale, just south of Adelaide. His great-great-great grandfather founded wine company Thomas Hardy & Sons in 1853, and the business remained in the family for the next 140 years. (It is now Accolade Wines). Sebastian’s father, Geoff Hardy, began his career at Hardys, but started his own business, Wines by Geoff

Hardy, in 1980. Sebastian himself “bounced around making wines at different wineries” in different countries after getting his degree in Viticulture and Enology, he says. Colleen Hardy (née Hurley) is a Fairport native and Mercy High school graduate. After studying marketing at Michigan State University, she began her career in marketing research in Chicago. After a couple of years, she says “cubicle life” started to feel stale. “I realized marketing research would be a lot more interesting if it was about a product I cared about,” she says. Interested in winemaking, she quit her job and moved to South Australia in 2014 for a five-month stint at Hardys Tintara in South Australia. After she met Sebastian, five months turned into two years. Together they came up with the idea for an urban winery that combined the flavors of their respective hometowns. Colleen says that Rochester’s burgeoning craft beverage scene made it an attractive place to start a winery, and Sebastian was interested in the cool-climate wines of the Finger Lakes. Plus, she says, “I was getting a little homesick.” The concept of making wines in two places at once is simple in theory — the execution, not so much. The bi-continental business has the Hardys flying back and forth between the U.S. and Australia,

spending eight months in Rochester and four in Adelaide. When I spoke with Colleen and Sebastian, they were still fighting jet lag from their latest trip to Australia, where the harvest season is just beginning. The Hardys acknowledge the difficulty of managing harvest and production in two different hemispheres and time zones, with different currencies, laws, and opposing seasons. “It’s a logistical nightmare,” Sebastian says. But despite the challenges of running a small business in two countries, the Hardys say the arrangement gives them a lot of flexibility in the types of wines they wish to create and explore. “That’s the benefit of making wines in more than one vineyard,” Sebastian says. “You’re not tied down to a particular style.” Since founding Living Roots, the Hardys have harvested four vintages in their two locations, producing about 3,500 cases a year, they estimate. Currently, they offer ten wines in their tasting room, four from New York State (including one from Long Island) and six from Adelaide and McLaren Vale. New York wines include a dry Riesling, an unoaked chardonnay, and a dry rosé. Australian wines include Grenache, cabernet sauvignon, and two types of Shiraz. I sampled a tasting flight of four red wines, which arrived with a handy card detailing the

flavor notes of each and the order in which they should be drunk – from light-bodied to full-bodied. The highly drinkable 2016 Shiraz ‘Pepperberry’ stood out in particular for its fruity, spicy notes, and I happily took a bottle home with me. I also tried the soft and subtle 2016 Finger Lakes Chardonnay, an unoaked wine with light floral notes. Though they already have contacts and expertise in the South Australia wine world, Colleen and Sebastian say they’re still learning a lot about the Finger Lakes wine industry. They consulted with Peter Bell of Fox Run vineyards for local knowledge of viticulture and winemaking in the Finger Lakes. They also acknowledge the help of some very important business partners — their parents. Sebastian’s father provides valuable viticulture insight, while Colleen’s father helps the couple with business planning. According to Colleen, her father was the one who found the space for rent at 1255 University Avenue, which is a century-old former industrial building that recently underwent a multimillion-dollar renovation. The couple designed much of the winery’s layout and furnishings themselves, and brought in Hannah Betts of Lives Styled to tie it all together (Betts has also worked on the interiors of businesses such as Radio Social, Joe Bean Coffee Roasters, Just Juice, and Scratch Bakeshop’s new location in the Neighborhood of the Arts). The winery itself is divided into three parts. In the tasting room, timber beams support an exposed ceiling, and huge picture windows look out onto University Avenue. A standing bar takes up one corner, with a cleverly designed wine rack on the wall behind it. On the other side of the tasting room is small retail space stocked with wine and gifts. The winery also sells cheeses from Upstate New York and Australia as well as chocolates from Hedonist Artisan Chocolates in the South Wedge. The production area is not open to the public, but through the glass doors opposite the tasting room you can glimpse Living Roots’ stainless steel vats and oak barrels. Next to the production area is a cozy room the Hardys call “the vault” (formerly a jeweler’s vault), which they plan to use to host private events, classes, and tasting dinners. At present, Living Roots is not distributing wine to any other establishments but plans to do so in future. For now, visitors can enjoy wine by the glass, tasting flights of red wine ($9) or white ($7), or take home a bottle ($18-$32). rochestercitynewspaper.com CITY 11

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SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 3 PHOTO CITY IMPROV, 543 ATLANTIC AVENUE 10 P.M. TO 4 A.M. | $15-$20 | FACEBOOK.COM/ SIGNALNOISE585; SUBTERROR-RADIO.COM [ ELECTRONIC ] Noncompliant (also known as DJ Shiva) creates a deep, dark, and playful shade of techno, forming a sound that’s distinct in the Midwestern rave scene. From Indianapolis, and having performed abroad — touring as far as Berlin — Shiva will be bringing her set to Rochester as part of local electronic music collective Signal > Noise’s threeyear anniversary show. The night will also feature Brooklynbased house and disco DJ Turtle Bugg. Shiva has released mixes with Valence and Flash Recordings, and has performed at a coveted Boiler Room event in Detroit. She’s also hosted a biweekly Internet show for the last four years called SUBterror Radio, featuring both her own techno selections as well as guest mixes from talent from around the globe. — BY HASSAN ZAMAN

Uncle Uku & The Guise WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 31 FUNK ‘N WAFFLES, 204 NORTH WATER STREET 8 P.M. | $5 | ROCHESTER.FUNKNWAFFLES.COM; FACEBOOK.COM/UNCLEUKU [ ROCK ] It takes a big person to play a tiny ukulele in a rock band. It takes a bigger person to try and laugh at them. From Corning, Uncle Uku & The Guise is for all intents and purposes a rock band that seems to have harvested its beguiling tunes from a genre it seems to be the only member of. It’s the ukulele up front that often gives everything a touch of upper register mirth and magic. Playing with Ben Borko and Walrus Junction. — BY FRANK DE BLASE

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travel and color its sound directly from those worldly excursions. The Huntertones mixes its influences and fills them in with a brass-led charge and a big box of Crayons — yes, even burnt umber. The band’s funk never gets obnoxious and the brassy breakdowns will unhinge the sturdiest of backbones on the dance floor. — BY FRANK DE BLASE

Ian Bostridge and Julius Drake TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 6 EASTMAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC’S KILBOURN HALL, 26 GIBBS STREET 8 P.M. | $26-$36 | 274-3000; EASTMANTHEATRE.ORG [ CLASSICAL ] An accomplished opera singer and eminent art song interpreter, tenor Ian Bostridge has a tone that can be alternately soothing and strong, tender and tenacious. On Tuesday, Bostridge will be joined by pianist Julius Drake for a performance of Franz Schubert’s epic song cycle “Winterreise” — “Winter Journey” — in its entirety. Singularly melancholic, the cycle captures Schubert at his most darkly lyrical, while still delivering on the composer’s signature knack for melody and elegant turns of phrase. Featuring this exquisite work about love, loss, and the power of memory, the concert cannot come more highly recommended. — BY DANIEL J. KUSHNER

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Tom Tramontana’s new CD, “Midway Dream,” opens up with the tune “Glory Bound” and a big stretch as high as the sky. The sweet scram and moan of pedal steel will do that; it’ll carve out a vision and paint it blue. The sound pops on track two, “All Night Long,” but Tramontana keeps things sufficiently corralled with his tasty guitar. And it’s anyone’s guess what’s next. He blends shufflin’ blues, thoughtful ballads, and even a little New Orleans second line shuffle as if rendered by the hands of Bo Diddley. Tramontana’s guitar is the only thing on the CD that digs into the nasty side of things, tonally speaking, especially when juxtaposed with his plaintive, almost deadpan phrasing. “Midway Dream” sports a decent band — including Gary Holt who plays bass on the record and sits in the producer’s chair — that falls in to cover the cracks in the strain that Tramontana creates. “Midway Dream” is an easy listen. — BY FRANK DE BLASE

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Public Prism seeks to define itself through sonic instigation and pressure and by dancing around anything concrete or actual. By doing so, the listener is forced into creating and/or arranging the electronic noisescape to make sense on individual terms. “From Above, Below, and All Around” is a synth-laden, vacillating truth, but it’s not as odd as it seems. The seven tracks do however have an abstract if not somewhat bleak view. On its homepage, Public Prism explains: This is a project “directed by Robert Massar and explores themes of interconnection, contemplation, nature, recovery from trauma, peace, and justice.” To be clear, this is active music, and it manages to creep into the world around it, thus giving its surroundings a rather decent shot at validity and a chance to be an immersive, everyday soundtrack. — BY FRANK DE BLASE

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Xerox Rochester International Jazz Festival producers John Nugent and Mark Iocona have rolled out the final three headliners for the festival’s 17th edition. Jill Scott, Lake Street Dive, and Boz Scaggs join the previously announced headliners Seal, Bela Fleck & The Flecktones, and Alison Krauss. The 2018 Jazz Festival runs June 22 to June 30. Here for his second XRIJF performance, guitarist and singer Boz Scaggs will prove once again he’s more than just “Lido Shuffle” or “Lowdown,” two staples from his hit 1976 album “Silk Degrees,” recorded with session musicians that would later morph into Toto. Scaggs performs Saturday, June 23. Tickets are $52-$102. Grammy-winning singer Jill Scott has worked with The Roots, is a New York Times best-selling poet, and has performed at the White House. Her sound is a proactive cry from deep in the soul. Testify. Scott performs Friday, June 29. $75-$135. Formed in Boston in 2006, Lake Street Dive has blasted all over the world with its infectious, jazzy pop. Once singer Rachael Price’s smooth contralto gets in your head, it stays there. There are seven albums for you to try, including 2016’s most excellent “Side Pony.” Lake Street Dive plays Thursday, June 28. $30-$75. All headliner shows are at Kodak Hall at Eastman Theatre, and start at 8 p.m. Tickets for previously announced headliners are now on sale (Alison Krauss sold out). Tickets for Scaggs, Scott, and Lake Street Dive go on sale Friday, February 2. 454-2060; rochesterjazz.com.

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THEATER | ‘THE HIT MAKERS’ If you’re in a nostalgic mood for the music of the late 60’s, JCC CenterStage Theatre has you covered with “The Hit Makers, And the Beat Goes On,” beginning this Saturday and running through February 18. This musical revue showcases a smorgasbord of classic songs from a golden age in popular music, made famous by the likes of James Brown; Blood, Sweat & Tears; Creedence Clearwater Revival; Marvin Gaye; Sonny & Cher; Otis Redding; and others. This new production created by Ralph Meranto and Casey Filiaci is sure to have you humming as you leave the theater. Saturday, February 3 through Sunday, February 18, at JCC CenterStage’s Hart Theatre, 1200 Edgewood Avenue. Wednesday and Thursday at 7 p.m., Saturday at 8 p.m., Sunday at 2 p.m. $20-$29. 461-2000; jccrochester.org. — BY DANIEL J. KUSHNER rochestercitynewspaper.com CITY 23

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Genesee Valley Plein Air Painters 2018 Art Show. Through Feb. 1. Barnes & Noble, 3349 Monroe Ave. Through Feb. 1. Features 75 paintings created by artist members in the Greater Rochester 586-6020. gvpap.com. [ FRI., FEBRUARY 2 ] First Friday Gallery Night GalleryQ. First Friday of every month, 6-9 p.m. Gallery Q, 100 College Ave. Anderson Arts First Fridays. First Friday of every month, 6-9 p.m Anderson Arts Building, 250 N. Goodman St. 201-910-1603. andersonartsbuilding@gmail. com. andersonalleyartists.com. First Friday’s at the Paula Crawford Gallery. First Friday of every month. Paula Crawford Gallery, 11 Goodman Street North 585-749-5329. pcrawford21@gmail.com. paulacrawford.com. Heartbreak Hungerford. 5-9 p.m. Hungerford Building, 1115 E. Main St. Jewels of the Heart, a StudioRAD Valentines. 6-10 p.m. StudioRAD, 46 Mount Hope Ave Featuring four local jewelry artisans. Refreshments and music provided 4698512. lisanudo@studiorad.org. studiorad.org. No Soil Better: Art and the Living Legacy of Frederick Douglass. 6-9 p.m. and 1-9 p.m Rochester Contemporary Art Center, 137 East Ave. Through Mar. 18. Opening reception Fri., Feb. 2, 6-9 p.m. Featuring work that reflects on how Douglass has been memorialized and the importance of his legacy today $2. 461-2222. rochestercontemporary.org.

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ART | ‘DONGYI WU: WANDERING IN A DEEP DEEP DREAM’ Dongyi Wu’s work blends the boundaries between sculpture, jewelry, fashion design, and conceptual installation, and her influences include the subconscious, psychology, and surrealism. In a provided statement, she says that she seeks to “express the anxiety concealed by daily life by exploring people’s dreams.” Wu earned her undergraduate degree at the Beijing Institute of Fashion Technology before attending Rochester Institute of Technology’s master’s program in Metals and Jewelry Design. Since graduating she’s continued as a studio resident at RIT and has exhibited her work internationally. “Wandering in a Deep Deep Dream,” presented this week at Gallery r, is Wu’s first solo exhibition in the U.S., and will include recent sculpture, installation, and wearable designs.

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[ SAT., FEBRUARY 3 ] Art Demonstration: Katie Jo Suddaby, Tibetan Sand Painting. 12-1:30 p.m. Central Library of Rochester and Monroe County, 115 South Avenue 428-8385. libraryweb.org.

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Flower City Arts Center’s exhibit of woodcuts, linoleum prints, mixed-media drawings, and photographs by Marilyn Anderson closes this Friday, February 2. “Guardians of the Arts: Prints of Guatemalan Artists and Artisans” features portraits of Maya and other Guatemalan textile artists, potters, leatherworkers, blacksmiths, tinsmiths, and jewelers at work making their handcrafted wares. The exhibit is displayed in Flower City Arts Center’s new Printmaking Studio (713 Monroe Avenue). Gallery hours are Monday through Thursday, noon to 7 p.m., and Friday, noon to 5 p.m. Free. 244-1730; rochesterarts.org. — BY REBECCA RAFFERTY

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and its prominent placement. The work aims “to explore the ways in which the monument was embraced and accepted and considered by different people at the time,” Cease says. Even less discussed is the issue of the suspected arson of Douglass’s home, which led to his permanent move from Rochester in 1872. Buffalo-based artist Rodney Taylor tackles this pivotal event with his painting of a rough, gnarled tree standing in a turbulent atmosphere and framed by a sky and ground that are the color of dried blood. Taylor’s work is paired with Annette Daniels Taylor’s poem “One Fire Lit Sky,” which in simple, curt verse describes the stormy night that Douglass rushed home upon hearing of the fire and the refuge he was refused in two hotels. The painted scene is rife with loneliness, and this point is emphasized by the poem’s repetition of the word “one” at the start of almost every line. Rodney’s statement includes Douglass’s words on the experience of being denied sanctuary until he gave his well-known name and the hotels suddenly found room — echoes of this scenario exist today in the words of black stars who’ve been snubbed, harassed, humiliated, and abused until the offending party realized their status. Annette Daniel Taylor’s “Frederick Douglass Experiment” is installed in the small round room in the rear of the space. She constructed a website for the work, which she describes as a “sound-walk collaboration” between herself and Frederick Douglass, using words from his speeches and essays and her own voice and verse to create a layered, experimental artists’ walking-tour of various Rochester sites and stories related to Douglass. An installed iPad allows visitors to explore all of the chapters, while a video display screens chapter eight, “Brethren is Who We Are,” on a loop. Rochester sculptor Olivia Kim’s contributions to the show are drawings — one large, charcoal piece, and two smaller, color studies — of dance instructor and fiber artist Frances Hare. Kim states that she chose Hare as her subject because she feels that she embodies the freedom that Douglass fought for, and she urges viewers to take a movement lesson with her. In the larger of the works, a nearly life-sized and exultant Hare kicks one leg into the air and raises her arms, with visual echoes of the motion cascading around her. The work vibrates with the concepts of self-care and joy as defiant, as radical. “Move strangely, as you never have before,” Kim says in her statement. “By disrupting the habitual movement patterns in your body, you disrupt the habits that are recreating trauma. Have fun with it.” Syracuse-based artist Yvonne Buchanan’s installation includes a mixed media map, titled “Douglass in Rochester,” which spotlights sites in the city where he addressed the public. This is paired with a video, “You may rejoice, I must mourn,” with fireworks exploding behind an image of Douglass while voices recite his cutting speech, “What is the meaning of July Fourth to the Negro?” — a famous indictment of celebrating Independence Day and “the land of the free” while a large part of the population was enslaved. 28 CITY JANUARY 31 - FEBRUARY 6, 2018

Stephon Senegal’s work combines raw, found materials with Douglass’s words, arranged into a sort of Vignelli-esque high design mini billboard. A spear-like object diagonally bisects the serene, clean lines of the piece, and other subtle allusions to violence emerge in spikes of paranoiac vision: In the low relief of black-on-black paint forming a toothy maw here, or a sharp streak of red paint that directs the eye to the ominous phrase “free doom fore freedom.” The New York City-based artist will also install a series of works on buildings around the city this week, with locations to be announced. Several of Rochester artist Luvon Sheppard’s ethereal watercolors line one wall, depicting Douglass in various ages and stages amid blue skies or architecture and street scenes, framed and layered reverently with lines of Douglass’s words and biblical verse — utterly joyful tributes to his work and legacy. Shawn Dunwoody has a long history of making works about Douglass and portraying him in various performances. Here, Dunwoody’s massive painting, “World Star,” represents Douglass taking physical resistance to his enslavement, Cease says. The striking image has Douglass in a boxerlike pose standing over the prone body of a white man, his fists torn at the knuckles, and flanked by Civil Rights activists from the past and present. Both the dimensions of the work and its title are nods to how we capture, share, and experience social violence in the cellular era. Rochester artist Thievin’ Stephen’s stenciled and spray painted portrait of Douglass, “Captured in Black and White,” references one of the classic daguerreotype portraits of the man — here depicted in a warm spectrum of colors — and alludes to Douglass’s use of photography as a way to humanize the issues and the people he fought for. In his statement, Thievin’ writes: “Frederick Douglass weaponized the use of the new technology of photography to force America to confront the image of Black freedom, intellect, and dignity. He became the most photographed American of the 19th century.” This painting has a presence. Thievin’ crisply captured Douglass’s supreme poise and style, breathing life and dimension into a familiar image through a boggling amount of painstakingly cut stencils and layered, rich colors. He explains his choice to give it the Technicolor treatment and alludes to the neo-slavery of the prison system all at once in his usual, c’mon-keep-up word play that has almost as many layers as his paintings: “Now that we live in Oz, the greyscale and sepia tones that replaced his melanin may do more to conjure an era than a people. This painting is an attempt to harken back to the original power of Douglass’s portraits, before developments in color photography made them pale in comparison.” The opening reception for “No Soil Better” takes place on Friday, February 2, 6 p.m. to 9 p.m., and an artists’ talk is scheduled for Saturday, February 3, at 1 p.m. A series of associated events are scheduled through the run of the exhibition; for more information visit rochestercontemporary.org.

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Fresh face, familiar place [ FEATURE ] BY ADAM LUBITOW

Since first opening its doors in 1914, The Cinema Theater (957 South Clinton Avenue) has become one of the oldest continuouslyoperated motion picture theaters in the United States. With its distinctive pink art deco facade and cozy, welcoming atmosphere, the Cinema holds a beloved place in Rochester’s moviegoing landscape. That unique, welcoming atmosphere is one Audrey Kramer and husband Alex Chernavsky hope to see continue as they settle into their new position as owners and operators of the

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theater, a role they began on January 5. “It’s a scary new adventure, and something that we’ve never done before. But I guess our love of movies kind of won out,” Kramer says. As longtime devotees of both movies and the Cinema Theater itself, this new venture offers the couple a chance to meld their personal passions together. Their relationship with the theater began decades ago, when Chernavsky would regularly make the drive up from Marion to take in a movie. “Tootsie” was the first film he remembers seeing at the Cinema, and he recalls falling for the establishment immediately. “I was like, ‘wow this place isn’t your typical corporate theater,’” he says. “It really impressed me, and I just kept coming back.” Kramer felt that connection as well, and it’s only grown throughout the years. So ardent is the couple’s love for the theater that they married there in 2009, holding a reception that saw guests dressing up as their favorite film

Cinephiles: Audrey Kramer and Alex Chernavsky. PHOTO BY RYAN WILLIAMSON

characters, while the Looney Tunes classic “Rabbit of Seville” played on the big screen. After working part-time behind the concession stand for the past a year-and-ahalf, a unique opportunity presented itself to Chernavsky when former manager John Trickey made the decision to put the theater up for sale. The couple quickly decided the chance was impossible to pass up. They’ll lease the theater space, while Trickey maintains ownership of the building, Chernavsky says. In addition to being avid cinephiles, the pair are enthusiastic animal lovers. They met while working together at the Lollypop Farm Humane Society of Greater Rochester, and Kramer has obtained and cared for the theater’s resident cats for the past several years. Keeping up that long-standing tradition, the theater will be welcoming two new cats, Bo and Genny — both adopted from Lollypop — who will likely become familiar faces to Cinema patrons. Much of the daily operations of the theater will remain the same, though the couple plan to introduce vegan options into the menu, partnering with local bakeries whenever possible. Misfit Bakery is one of the first to come aboard, supplying cookies for the concession stand. The menu changes will extend even to the choice of butter for the popcorn (Earth Balance, if you’re curious), though Kramer says no one’s been able to tell the difference.

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“It’s salty, it’s greasy, and that’s really what people want,” she says with a laugh. Though the menu will see some alterations, the theater will continue to offer low-price double features ($5 and $3 for students and seniors, in addition to $3 weekend matinees). But Kramer and Chernavsky are adamant that maintaining the personal connection people expect from the Cinema is what’s most important to them. “It’s not like going to the big movie theaters where you’re just another face,” Kramer says. They say they’d love to see the theater become home to more community events, as well as a place local filmmakers can host their movie premieres. Chernavsky adds: “More weddings would be nice too. We definitely want to do more weddings.” The Cinema Theater will have its official grand opening on Friday, February 2, celebrating with round-the-clock showings of the comedy classic “Groundhog Day” at 3, 5, 7, and 9 p.m. Free snacks and refreshments will be available, and area animal rescue groups will be on hand with cats available adoption. cinemarochester.com. Visit rochestercitynewspaper.com for more film news and coming attractions.

Fresh off its Academy Award nomination for Best Animated Feature, “The Breadwinner” opens in Rochester this week. The film comes from Cartoon Saloon, the small, Ireland-based animation studio behind the acclaimed (and also Oscar-nominated) “The Secret of Kells” and “Song of the Sea.” Adapted from Deborah Ellis’s 2000 children’s novel and directed by Nora Twomey from a script by Anita Doron, “The Breadwinner” tells the story of Parvana (voiced by newcomer Saara Chaudry), a young girl growing up in contemporary Afghanistan. When her father, Nurullah (Ali Badshah), is arrested and imprisoned by the Taliban’s religious police, Parvana, her mother, and her siblings face dire circumstances. The culture’s deeply ingrained misogyny has resulted in women being banned from walking the streets without a man to accompany them, and without an adult male at home, there’s no one left to provide for Parvana and her family.

In order to keep them from starving, Parvana cuts her hair and makes the risky decision to disguise herself as a boy so that she may continue to sell her father’s wares in the Kabul marketplace. There, she also meets Shauzia (Soma Chhaya), a classmate who’s similarly posing as a boy. With their assumed identities, the girls are able to seek work and move about the city as they wish. While the story takes on darker material than previous Cartoon Saloon films, “The Breadwinner” nonetheless continues the beautifully vivid animation that’s become the studio’s trademark. Interspersed throughout the narrative, we see scenes from a story Parvana tells to her baby brother in an attempt to lift his spirits. Remembering her father’s words, that “stories remain in our hearts even after all else is gone,” she weaves an adventuresome tale about a young boy who faces off with a malevolent elephant king. Veering from the look of the rest of the film, these sequences are stunningly illustrated in an intricate, cut paper style. In telling its deeply emotional story about the resilience of young children living constantly under threat of violence, “The Breadwinner” calls to mind Isao Takahata’s “Grave of the Fireflies” — though it’s never quite so bleak as that animated classic. Instead, it’s a touching and at times heartbreaking testament to the ability of storytelling to keep the flame of hope alive, even when all else seems lost.

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Paddington and Knuckles McGinty in “Paddington 2.” PHOTO COURTESY WARNER BROS

The first Paddington movie was nothing short of a gift when it was released in 2015. It was the most pleasant of surprises: a simple, beautiful, open-hearted tale told with endless warmth and intelligence.

“Paddington 2” just might even be a slight step up from the original. The film continues the adventures of the sweet, marmalade-loving bear from the darkest jungles of Peru. Once again voiced with innate sweetness by Ben Whishaw, Paddington is still living with the Brown family: Mary and Henry (Sally Hawkins and Hugh Bonneville), their two children, (Madeleine Harris and Samuel Joslin), along with their longtime housekeeper, Mrs. Bird (Julie Walters). The bear does his best to live by the words taught to him by his beloved Aunt Lucy: “If we are kind and polite the world will be right.” And with Aunt Lucy’s 100th birthday fast approaching, Paddington wishes to do something special for her. He finds an antique popup book of London, which seems like the perfect present to send back to her in Peru. But when it turns out the book is the key to a long-lost treasure, the bear runs afoul of a greedy, washed up actor by the name of Phoenix Buchanan (a wonderful Hugh Grant). Before Paddington can save up the necessary funds to purchase the book, the odious Buchanan steals the book for himself, and frames the bear for the crime. Paddington winds up in prison, leaving the Browns to try and clear the poor bear’s name. But all is not lost, as he bonds unexpectedly with surly prison chef, Knuckles McGinty (Brendan Gleeson). Even behind bars, Paddington can’t help but inspire everyone around him to be a little bit better. Like the first film, “Paddington 2” is at its heart an immigrant story. The sequel continues that film’s light social subtext, even working in some light anti-Brexit commentary, courtesy of the Brown’s xenophobic neighbor (Peter Capaldi). I won’t be at all surprised if I’m still talking about the film 10 months from now, when it comes time to name my favorite movies of the year.

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2-4:30 p.m Salem United Church of Christ, 60 Bittner St Through Feb. 4. Fri. & Sat. Feb. 2, 3, 8 p.m. Sun. Feb. 4, 2 p.m. Play by W.S. Gilbert 232-5570. off-monroeplayers.org. Glengarry Glen Ross. Fri., Feb. 2, 8-10 p.m. and First Thursday-Sunday of every month Blackfriars Theatre, 795 E. Main St Through Feb. 18. Fri. & Sat. Feb. 2, 3, 9, 20, 16, 17, 8 p.m. Thurs. Feb. 8, 15, 7:30 p.m. Sun. Feb. 4, 11, 18, 2 p.m $28.50-$36.50. 454-1260. blackfriars.org/ glengarry-glen-ross. Jake’s Women. Fri., Feb. 2, 7:309:30 p.m., Sat., Feb. 3, 7:309:30 p.m. and Sun., Feb. 4, 2 p.m. MuCCC, 142 Atlantic Ave Through Feb. 10. Thurs.-Sat.,

Feb. 2, 3, 8, 9, 10, 7:30 p.m. Sun., Feb. 4, 2 p.m. How many women does it take to drive one man crazy?. $13-$20. 2694673. muccc.org/jakeswomen. ON YOUR FEET!. Tue., Feb. 6, 7:30-9:30 p.m. Rochester Auditorium Theatre, 885 E. Main St. TBA. 222-5000. mail@rbtl.org. rbtl.org. The Other Josh Cohen. Through Feb. 4. Geva Theatre Center, 75 Woodbury Blvd Through Feb. 4. Times vary. A musical comedy by David Rossmer and Pittsford native Steve Rosen $25-$64. gevatheatre.org.

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127-129 Randolph LLC Arts of Org. filed SSNY 11/21/17. 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 ] 55 Electric LLC Arts of Org. filed SSNY 12/12/17. 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 ] 931 Third Street LLC (LLC) filed Arts. of Org. with NY Secy. of State (SS) on August 28, 2017. LLC’s office is in Monroe Co. SS is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SS will mail a copy of any process to 162 Buttonwood Dr., Hilton, NY 14468. LLC’s purpose: any lawful activity. Kislev Holdings LLC Arts of Org. filed SSNY 12/6/17. Office: Monroe Co. SSNY design agent of LLC upon whom process may be served & mail to POB 30071 Rochester, NY 14603 General Purpose [ NOTICE ]

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The spacious front porch of the imposing house at 1180 Park Avenue immediately catches your eye. Here is an ideal spot for a morning cup of coffee or a relaxing lemonade on a warm summer’s evening. The front door opens to a vestibule, which in turn opens to a spacious foyer with a large stained glass window. The foyer features a wide stairway; on the stairway landing another stained glass window lets in cheerful sunshine. The downstairs powder room and the kitchen are also accessed from the foyer. To the left of the entrance, a large doorway opens into the mansion-sized living room. Its focal point is a dramatic fireplace flanked by bookcases with glass doors. Windows over the bookcases bring more light to this versatile room. French doors open to the front porch, and a large doorway from the living room opens to the dining room. With a chandelier and coffered ceiling and additional decorative stained glass windows, this is a dining room ready for a family celebration. The pantry, with glass-fronted cabinets, also houses the washer and dryer and leads from the dining room into the kitchen. The kitchen’s built-in breakfast nook offers a convenient place to read the morning paper. On the second floor there are three bedrooms, one with an enclosed porch. A full tile bath, complete with a built-in medicine cabinet, is centrally located on the second floor. A built-in linen closet is a very handy feature of the upstairs hallway. On the third floor there is a finished room

and a full bath. This space would be perfect for a home office or a guest bedroom. The basement is ideal for a workshop and storage. The backyard, almost 100 feet long, is a woodland retreat. It would be easy to add a deck or a patio to gain even more enjoyment of this private and quiet urban space. The available off-street parking is a valuable commodity in this neighborhood. The Park Avenue area is known as one of Rochester’s most lively and interesting places to live. Park Avenue residents are close to many of Rochester’s restaurants, museums, schools, and houses of worship. This is a walking neighborhood, with folks happily strolling on the tree-shaded sidewalks. Public transportation is easily accessible, as is the nearby shopping area at East Avenue and Winton Road. Though it seems a long way off at the moment, the very popular Park Avenue Festival in August features, music, crafts, and food trucks. This 2,267 square foot house, built in 1900, is listed for $239,900. With spacious rooms, historic details, and character just waiting to be unveiled, 1180 Park Ave. is ready for its next loving homeowner. For more information, contact Mark Siwiec, of Howard Hanna Real Estate Services, at 585-3308750. by Mitzie Collins Well known as a hammered dulcimer player, Mitzie is a longtime member of The Landmark Society and a strong supporter of city living.

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Legal Ads > page 34 [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Amitas Properties of Richfield, LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 11/28/17. 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 4 Epping Wood Trl, Pittsford, NY 14534. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of formation of AST Ventures, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the Sect’y of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/12/2017. 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, 793 S. Goodman St., Rochester, NY 14620. Purpose: any lawful act [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Autumn Leaves Enterprises, LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) January 4, 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 502 North Ave, Hilton NY, 14468. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of BDM REAL ESTATE MANAGEMENT, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/22/17. 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, 38 Quail Ln., Rochester, NY 14624. Purpose: Any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Notice of formation of BILLINGS DEVELOPMENT, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the Sect’y of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/15/2017. 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, PO Box 22743, Rochester, NY 14692. Purpose: any lawful act [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Cinema Theater of Rochester LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) Nov. 21, 2017. 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 43 Seager St. Rochester NY 14620 . Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of David Jackson Team, LLC. Articles of Organization filed with the New York Department of State on 12/20/2017. Its office is

located in Monroe County. The Secretary of State has been designated as agent upon whom process against the Company may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to: 550 Latona Rd. Ste. C301, Rochester, New York 14626. The purpose of the Company is any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of DEANA LAWSON LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/22/17. Office location: Monroe County. Princ. office of LLC: 170 Waring Rd., Rochester, NY 14609. 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 Hey Dude After Hours, LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 1/8/18. 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 PO Box 90664, Rochester, NY 14609. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of JOJO WEBSTER, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 01/04/18. 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, 16 N. Main St., Pittsford, NY 14534. Purpose: Any lawful activity [ NOTICE ] Notice of formation of Limited Liability Company. Name: BRP CONSTRUCTION MASONRY LLC (“LLC”). Articles of Organization filed with NY Secretary of State (“SSNY”) on January 10, 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 872 Joran Drive, Webster, NY 14580. Purpose/character of LLC is to engage in any lawful act or activity [ NOTICE ] Notice of formation of LJF PROPERTY HOLDINGS LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the Sect’y of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/6/2017. 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, 11 Gillet Rd., Spencerport, NY 14559. Purpose: any lawful act. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of MICROMOD AUTOMATION LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. 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 State of NY (SSNY) on 1/16/18. 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, 95 Mt. Read Blvd., Ste. 149, Rochester, NY 14611. Purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Mizrahi Equities LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 12/27/2017 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 241 Lark St. Rochester, NY 14613 Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of formation of MR. GADGET ENTERPRISES LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the Sect’y of State of NY (SSNY) on 1/18/2008. Office location, County of Monroe. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: PO Box 60694, Rochester NY 14606. Purpose: any lawful act. [ NOTICE ] Notice of formation of NEW VINE INDUSTRIES LLC. Art.of Org. filed Secretary of State of NY (“SSNY”) 12/26/2017. Office location: Monroe Co. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 24 Winthrop St., Rochester, NY 14604. Purpose: any lawful purpose. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of RALLOD LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/19/17. Office location: Monroe County. Princ. office of LLC: 18 Esternay Ln., Pittsford, NY 14534. 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 ROC MANAGEMENT LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) December 18, 2017. 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 PO BOX 24340, Gates, NY 14624. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Rochester Home Flip LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 11/30/17. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 417 Sundance, Webster, NY 14580. Purpose: any lawful activity.

[ NOTICE ] Notice of formation of The Brick Lab, LLC (the “LLC”). Articles of Organization filed with the NY Secy of State (“SOS”) on 1/5/18. The office of the LLC is in Monroe County. SOS is designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SOS shall mail a copy of such process to 44 Quail Lane, Rochester, NY 14624. The LLC is formed to engage in any lawful activity for which an LLC may be formed under the NY LLC law. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of THE DRINKSMITHS LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) on 12/28/2017. 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 26 Engel Place, Rochester, New York 14620. Purpose: any lawful activities [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Thurston Brooks Services, LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) October 23, 2017. 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 P.O. Box 19616 Rochester NY 14619. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of formation of Turnkey Automation Solutions LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the Sect’y of State of NY (SSNY) on 11/29/2017. 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, 211 Black Walnut Dr., Greece, NY 14615. Purpose: any lawful act. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Qualification of PORTRAIT STUDIO LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/27/17. Office location: Monroe County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 12/11/17. 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, John G. Townsend Bldg., 401 Federal St. - Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity [ NOTICE ] Notice of Qualification of THE DAILY RECORD COMPANY, LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 01/17/18. Office location: Monroe County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 12/21/10. Princ. office of LLC: 175 Sully’s Trail, 3rd Fl., Pittsford, NY

14534. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to c/o Corporation Service Co. (CSC), 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543. DE addr. of LLC: c/o CSC, 251 Little Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Form. filed with DE Secy. of State, Div. of Corps., John G. Townsend Bldg., 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity [ NOTICE ] Notice of Qualification of TLH BEAUTY LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/19/17. Office location: Monroe County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 11/14/17. Princ. office of LLC: 100 Chestnut St., Ste. 1803, Rochester, NY 14604. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC at the princ. office of the LLC. DE addr. of LLC: c/o Corporation Service Co., 251 Little Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Form. filed with Secy. Of the State of DE, Div. of Corps., John G. Townsend Bldg., 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity

against it may be served. SS shall mail a copy of any process to LLC’s principal business location at 26 Saginaw Drive, Rochester, NY 14623. LLC’s purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Wags to Rich’s, LLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) 12/8/2017. Cty: Monroe. SSNY desig. as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to Richard W. Allen, Jr., 783 Britton Rd., Rochester, NY 14616. General Purpose. [ NOTICE } 119 Clifton LLC Arts of Org. filed SSNY 1/16/18. Office: Monroe Co. SSNY design agent of LLC upon whom process may be served & mail to POB 30071 Rochester, NY 14603 General Purpose [ NOTICE } Coastal Vendor, LLC Arts of Org. filed SSNY 11/13/17. Office: Monroe Co. SSNY design agent of LLC upon whom process may be served & mail to 116 S Ridge Trail Fairport, NY 14450 General Purpose [ Notice of Formation ]

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SIMCONA LIGHTING AND VALUE ADD SOLUTIONS LLC (LLC) filed Arts. of Org. with NY Secy. of State (SS) on 12/27/17. LLC’s office is in Monroe County. SS is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SS shall mail a copy of any process to LLC’s principal business location at 275 Mt. Read Boulevard, Rochester, NY 14611. LLC’s purpose: any lawful activity.

Bureau SC LLC (“LLC”) filed Articles of Organization with the NY Sec. of State (“SSNY”) on 12/26/17. 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 30 Rhinecliff Drive, Rochester, NY 14618. Purpose: any lawful activity.

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Healthcare Business Partners, LLC filed Articles of Organization with the New York Department of State on January 9, 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 15 Saybrooke Drive, Penfield, NY 14526. The purpose of the Company is healthcare business support.

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Tune Yourself, LLC Filed 12/19/17 Office: Monroe Co. SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail to: 5 Sheldon Drive, Spencerport, NY 14559 Purpose: all lawful [ NOTICE ] Ua2us Transport, LLC Arts of Org. filed SSNY 10/30/17. Office: Monroe Co. SSNY design agent of LLC upon whom process may be served & mail to 180 Sedgley Park West Henrietta, NY 14586 General Purpose [ NOTICE ] W26 SAG LLC (LLC) filed Arts. of Org. with NY Secy. of State (SS) on 12/19/2017. LLC’s office is in Monroe County. SS is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process

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[ Notice of Formation ] Paragon Compliance, LLC (“LLC”) filed Articles of Organization with the NY Sec. of State (“SSNY”) on 12/11/17. 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 P.O. Box 217, Pittsford, NY 14534. Purpose: any lawful activity. [ Notice of Formation ] SMBL Ventures, LLC (“LLC”) filed Articles of Organization with the NY Sec. of State (“SSNY”) on 1/10/18. 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 72 East Jefferson Road, Pittsford, NY 14534. Purpose: any lawful activity. [ Notice of Formation ] Trailynn Victor LLC (“LLC”) filed Articles of Organization with the NY Sec. of State (“SSNY”) on 12/19/17. 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 3349 Monroe Ave., Suite 334, Rochester, NY 14618-5513. Purpose: any lawful activity. [ Notice of Formation ] Treahy Consultation Services LLC (“LLC”) filed Articles of Organization with the NY Sec. of State (“SSNY”) on 12/27/17. 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 25 Sanibel Drive, Fairport, NY 14450. Purpose: any lawful activity [ NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LLC ] Parkside Professionals, LLC filed articles of organization with the New York Secretary of State on 01/02/2018 with an effective date of formation of 01/02/2018. Its principal place of business is located in Monroe County. The Secretary of State has been designated as agent upon whom process may be served. A copy of any process shall be mailed to 17 Charter Oaks Dr., Pittsford, NY 14534. The purpose of the LLC is to engage in any lawful activity for which Limited Liability Companies may be organized under Section 203 of the New York Limited Liability Company Law. [ NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LLC ] Straight Edge Construction Group, LLC filed articles of organization with the New York Secretary of State on 01/04/2018 with an effective date of formation of 01/04/2018. Its principal place of business is located in Monroe County. The Secretary of State has been designated as agent upon whom process may be served. A copy of any process shall be mailed to 850 Saint Paul St., Ste. 17, Rochester, NY 14605. The purpose of the LLC is to engage in any lawful activity for which Limited Liability Companies may be organized under Section 203 of the New York Limited Liability Company Law.

Notice of Formation of WAYFARER HOSPITALITY GROUP LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 11/16/17. 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 156 Elmerston Rd Rochester, NY 14620. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING ] NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a public hearing pursuant to Article 18-A of the New York State General Municipal Law will be held by the County of Monroe Industrial Development Agency d/b/a Imagine Monroe Powered By COMIDA (the “Agency”) on the 16th day of February, 2018 at 10:00 a.m., local time, in Community Room B at the Greece Town Hall, 1 Vince Tofany Boulevard, Greece, New York 14612, in connection with the following matter: APM HOLDINGS LLC, a New York limited liability company or an entity formed or to be formed (collectively, the “Company”) has requested that the Agency assist with a certain Project (the “Project”), consisting of: (A) the acquisition of a leasehold interest in an approximately 30-acre parcel of land located at Gates Greece Town Line Road in the Town of Greece, New York [Part of Tax Map No. 089.030-0005-004.112] (the “Land”); (B) the construction thereon of an approximately 84,000 square-foot manufacturing building (the “Improvements”); and (C) the acquisition and installation therein, thereon or thereabout of certain machinery, equipment and related personal property (the “Equipment” and, together with the Land and the Improvements, the “Facility”); all for use by the Company in its business as a supplier of high precision parts for the aircraft, aerospace, medical and defense industries nationwide and internationally. The Facility will be initially operated and/or managed by the Company. The Agency will acquire a leasehold interest in the Facility and lease the Facility back to the Company. The Company will operate the Facility during the term of the lease. At the end of the lease term the Agency’s leasehold interest will be terminated. The Agency contemplates that it will provide financial assistance (the “Financial Assistance”) to the Company in the form of sales and use tax exemptions and a mortgage recording tax exemption, consistent with the policies of the Agency, and a partial real property tax abatement.

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Legal Ads > page 37 The Agency will, at the above-stated time and place, present a copy of the Company’s Application (including the Benefit/Incentive analysis) and hear all persons with views in favor of or opposed to either the location or nature of the Facility, or the proposed financial assistance being contemplated by the Agency. In addition, at, or prior to, such hearing, interested parties may submit to the Agency written materials pertaining to such matters. Dated: January 31, 2018 COUNTY OF MONROE INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT AGENCY D/B/A IMAGINE MONROE POWERED BY COMIDA By: Jeffrey R. Adair, Executive Director [ NOTICE OF SALE ] SUPREME COURT STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF MONROE Index No. 2017-5680 ESL Federal Credit Union, Plaintiff, vs. Mykhaylo Zhylyak, Defendants Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale dated December 26, 2017, entered herein, I, the undersigned, the Referee in said Judgment named, will sell at public auction in the Foreclosure Auction Area, Hall of Justice Lower Level Atrium, 99 Exchange Boulevard, Rochester, New York, in the County of Monroe on February 14, 2018 at 10:00 a.m., on that day, the premises directed by said Judgment to be sold and therein described as follows: ALL THAT TRACT OR PARCEL OF LAND, situate in the Town of Irondequoit, County of Monroe and State of New York, known as 277 Taft Avenue, Rochester, NY 14609; Tax Account No. 092.371-69. Said premises are sold subject to any state of facts an accurate survey may show, zoning restrictions and any amendments thereto, covenants, restrictions, agreements, reservations, and easements of record

and prior liens, if any, municipal departmental violations, and such other provisions as may be set forth in the Complaint and Judgment filed in this action. Judgment amount: $94,934.60 plus, but not limited to, costs, disbursements, attorney fees and additional allowance, if any, all with legal interest. DATED: January 2018 Clark J. Zimmermann, Jr., Esq., Referee LACY KATZEN LLP Attorneys for Plaintiff 130 East Main Street Rochester, New York 14604 Telephone: (585) 324-5767 [ NOTICE OF SALE ] SUPREME COURT STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF MONROE Index No. 2017-5673 ESL Federal Credit Union, Plaintiff vs. Edwin Herbert Manzer a/k/a Edwin H. Manzer Defendants Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale dated December 26, 2017, entered herein, I, the undersigned, the Referee in said Judgment named, will sell at public auction in the Foreclosure Auction Area, Hall of Justice Lower Level Atrium, 99 Exchange Boulevard, Rochester, New York, in the County of Monroe on February 14, 2018 at 10:30 a.m., on that day, the premises directed by said Judgment to be sold and therein described as follows: ALL THAT TRACT OR PARCEL OF LAND, situate in the City of Rochester, County of Monroe and State of New York, known as 36 Glendale Park, Rochester, NY 14613; Tax Account No. 105.351-22. Said premises are sold subject to any state of facts an accurate survey may show, zoning restrictions and any amendments thereto, covenants, restrictions, agreements, reservations, and easements of record and prior liens, if any, municipal departmental violations, and such other provisions as may be set forth in the Complaint and Judgment filed in this action. Judgment amount: $21,892.95 plus, but not limited to,

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costs, disbursements, attorney fees and additional allowance, if any, all with legal interest. DATED: January 2018 James Napier, Esq., Referee LACY KATZEN LLP Attorneys for Plaintiff 130 East Main Street Rochester, New York 14604 Telephone: (585) 324-5767 [ NOTICE OF SALE ] SUPREME COURT STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF MONROE Index No. 20171548 ESL Federal Credit Union, Plaintiff vs Ralph Boone; New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Defendants Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale dated January 23, 2018, entered herein, I, the undersigned, the Referee in said Judgment named, will sell at public auction in the Foreclosure Auction Area, Hall of Justice Lower Level Atrium, 99 Exchange Boulevard, Rochester, New York, in the County of Monroe on March 2, 2018 at 10:00 a.m., on that day, the premises directed by said Judgment to be sold and therein described as follows: ALL THAT TRACT OR PARCEL OF LAND, situate in the Town of Pittsford, County of Monroe and State of New York, known as 52 Old Forge Lane, Pittsford, NY 14534; Tax Account No. 193.131-11. Said premises are sold subject to any state of facts an accurate survey may show, zoning restrictions and any amendments thereto, covenants, restrictions, agreements, reservations, and easements of record and prior liens, if any, municipal departmental violations, and such other provisions as may be set forth in the Complaint and Judgment filed in this action. Judgment amount: $125,721.64 plus, but not limited to, costs, disbursements, attorney fees and additional allowance, if any, all with legal interest. DATED: January 2018

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Deborah Case, Esq., Referee LACY KATZEN LLP Attorneys for Plaintiff 130 East Main Street Rochester, New York 14604 Telephone: (585) 324-5767 [ NOTICE OF SALE ] SUPREME COURT STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF MONROE Index No. 2016-12909 ESL Federal Credit Union, Plaintiff, vs. Paula J. Corter Gabrielle Corter; Marissa Corter; Tianna Corter, Defendants. Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale dated December 26, 2017, entered herein, I, the undersigned, the Referee in said Judgment named, will sell at public auction in the Foreclosure Auction Area, Hall of Justice Lower Level Atrium, 99 Exchange Boulevard, Rochester, New York, in the County of Monroe on February 14, 2018 at 11:00 a.m., on that day, the premises directed by said Judgment to be sold and therein described as follows: ALL THAT TRACT OR PARCEL OF LAND, situate in the Village of Hilton, Town of Parma, County of Monroe and State of New York, known as 122 Sherwood Drive, Hilton, NY; Tax Account No. 032.09-320. Said premises are sold subject to any state of facts an accurate survey may show, zoning restrictions and any amendments thereto, covenants, restrictions, agreements, reservations, and easements of record and prior liens, if any, municipal departmental violations, and such other provisions as may be set forth in the Complaint and Judgment filed in this action. Judgment amount: $133,695.10 plus, but not limited to, costs, disbursements, attorney fees and additional allowance, if any, all with legal interest. DATED: January 2018 Christopher Calabrese, Esq., Referee LACY KATZEN LLP Attorneys for Plaintiff 130 East Main Street Rochester, New York 14604 Telephone: (585) 3245767 [ SUPPLEMENTAL SUMMONS ] SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF Monroe Index No.: 2017-7917 Date of Filing: December 27, 2017 Reverse Mortgage Funding LLC, Plaintiff, -against-DAVID DIMARCO AS HEIR AT LAW AND NEXT OF KIN OF JEAN DI MARCO; TIMOTHY DIMARCO AS HEIR AT LAW AND NEXT OF KIN OF JEAN DI MARCO; MARY ELLEN AMO AS HEIR AT LAW AND NEXT OF KIN OF JEAN DI MARCO; PHILIP DIMARCO AS HEIR AT LAW AND NEXT OF KIN OF JEAN DI MARCO ; “JOHN DOE” AND “JANE DOE” 1 THROUGH 50, INTENDING TO BE THE UNKNOWN HEIRS,

DISTRIBUTEES, DEVISEES, GRANTEES, TRUSTEES, LIENORS, CREDITORS, AND ASSIGNEES OF THE ESTATE OF JEAN DI MARCO WHO WAS BORN IN 1927 AND DIED ON OCTOBER 21, 2016, A RESIDENT OF THE COUNTY OF MONROE, WHOSE LAST KNOWN ADDRESS WAS 53 CULVER PARKWAY, ROCHESTER, NY 14609, THEIR SUCCESSORS IN INTEREST IF ANY OF THE AFORESAID DEFENDANTS BE DECEASED, THEIR RESPECTIVE HEIRS AT LAW, NEXT OF KIN, AND SUCCESSORS IN INTEREST OF THE AFORESAID CLASSES OF PERSON, IF THEY OR ANY OF THEM BE DEAD, AND THEIR RESPECTIVE HUSBANDS, WIVES OR WIDOWS, IF ANY, ALL OF WHOM AND WHOSE NAMES AND PLACES OF RESIDENCE ARE UNKNOWN TO THE PLAINTIFF”; CAPITAL ONE BANK USA NA ; HSBC BANK NEVADA NA; NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF TAXATION & FINANCE; UNITED STATES OF AMERICA INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE; UNITED STATES OF AMERICA O/B/O SECRETARY OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT; WESLEY GARDENS CORPORATION A/K/A WESLEY GARDENS NURSING HOME; ‘’JOHN DOES’’ and ‘’JANE DOES’’, said names being fictitious, parties intended being possible tenants or occupants of premises, and corporations, other entities or persons who claim, or may claim, a lien against the premises, Defendants. TO THE ABOVENAMED DEFENDANTS: 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 Plaintiff’s attorney(s) within twenty (20) days after the service of this summons, exclusive of the day of service, where service is made by delivery upon you personally within the State, or within thirty (30) days after completion of service where service is made in any other manner, and 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 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. YOU ARE HEREBY PUT ON NOTICE THAT WE ARE ATTEMPTING TO COLLECT A DEBT, AND ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE TO THE ABOVE-NAMED DEFENDANTS: The foregoing summons is served upon you by publication pursuant to an Order of the Honorable Daniel J. Doyle of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, signed on November 22, 2017, and filed with supporting papers in the Office of the Clerk of the County of Monroe, State of New York. The object of this action is to foreclose a mortgage upon the premises described below, executed by JEAN DI MARCO to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., AS NOMINEE FOR M&T BANK, ITS SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS bearing date December 12, 2012 and recorded in Book 24780 of Mortgages at Page 450 under Control Number 201212170431 under Mortgage Number MDD026221 in the County of Monroe on December 17, 2012. Thereafter said mortgage was assigned to REVERSE MORTGAGE FUNDING LLC by assignment of mortgage bearing date April 5, 2016 and recorded under Book 1793 of Mortgages at Page 487 under Control Number 201604110016 in the County of Monroe on April 11, 2016. That the mortgaged premises affected by said foreclosure action are situate in the County of Monroe State of New York and more specifically described in “Schedule A” annexed hereto and made a part hereof. Said premises being known as and by 53 CULVER PARKWAY, ROCHESTER, NY 14609. Date: November 9, 2017 Batavia, New York Andrea Clattenburg, Esq. ROSICKI, ROSICKI & ASSOCIATES, P.C. Attorneys for Plaintiff Batavia Office 26 Harvester Avenue Batavia, NY 14020 585.815.0288 Help For Homeowners In Foreclosure New York State Law requires that we send you this notice

about the foreclosure process. Please read it carefully. Mortgage foreclosure is a complex process. Some people may approach you about “saving” your home. You should be extremely careful about any such promises. The State encourages you to become informed about your options in foreclosure. There are government agencies, legal aid entities and other non-profit organizations that you may contact for information about foreclosure while you are working with your lender during this process. To locate an entity near you, you may call the toll-free helpline maintained by the New York State Banking Department at 1-877-BANKNYS (1-877-226-5697) or visit the Department’s website at www.banking. state.ny.us. The State does not guarantee the advice of these agencies. [ SUPPLEMENTAL SUMMONS AND NOTICE ] THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF MONROE Index #2017/7708 Date Filed: 12/27/2017U.S. Bank National SUPREME COURT OF Association as Trustee successor in interest to Wachovia Bank, National Association as trustee for GSMPS 2004-1, Plaintiff,against- Silvia Quiroz, if she be living or dead, her spouse, heirs, devisees, distributees and successors in interest, all of whom and whose names and places of residence are unknown to Plaintiff, CACV of Colorado LLC; The United States of America acting through The Secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development; State of New York; and “JOHN DOE”, said name being fictitious, it being the intention of Plaintiff to designate any and all occupants of premises being foreclosed herein, and any parties, corporations or entities, if any, having or claiming an interest or lien upon the mortgaged premises, Defendants. PROPERTY ADDRESS: 108 Petrossi Drive, Rochester, NY 14621 TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANTS; YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the complaint in this action and to serve a copy of your answer, or a notice of appearance on the attorneys for the Plaintiff within thirty (30) days after the service of this summons, exclusive of the day of service. The United States of America, if designated as a defendant in this action, may 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. TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANTS: The foregoing Summons is served upon you by publication pursuant to an Order of the Hon. Daniel J. Doyle, a Justice of the Supreme Court, Monroe County, entered December 27, 2017 and filed with the complaint and other papers in the Monroe County Clerk’s Office. NOTICE OF NATURE OF ACTION AND RELIEF SOUGHT OBJECT of the above captioned action is to foreclose a Consolidation and/ or Modified Mortgage (hereinafter “the Mortgage”) to secure $32,475.00 and interest, recorded in the Monroe County Clerk’s Office on April 15, 2015, in Book 26072 of Mortgages, page 535 covering premises known as 108 Petrossi Drive, Rochester, NY 14621 a/k/a Section 091.83, Block 3, Lot 64. 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. Plaintiff designates Monroe County as the place of trial. Venue is based upon the County in which the mortgaged premises is situated. NOTICE YOU ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING YOUR HOME IF YOU DO NOT RESPOND TO THIS SUMMONS AND COMPLAINT BY SERVING A COPY OF 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: October 27, 2017 Frank M. Cassara, Esq. Senior Associate Attorney SHAPIRO, DICARO & BARAK, LLC Attorneys for Plaintiff 175 Mile Crossing Boulevard Rochester, New York 14624(585) 247-9000 Fax: (585) 247-7380 Our File No. 17-064270#93909

Fun [ NEWS OF THE WEIRD ] BY THE EDITORS AT ANDREWS MCMEEL SYNDICATION

Wait, What?

Ikea has taken advertising in a whole new direction with its recent print ad for a crib. The ad, which appears in the Swedish magazine Amelia, invites women who think they might be pregnant to urinate on the paper to reveal a discounted price. “Peeing on this ad may change your life,” the ad reads at the top of the page. “If you are expecting, you will get a surprise right here in the ad.” Adweek reported that the agency behind the gimmick adapted pregnancy test technology to work on a magazine page.

Recurring Themes

In more extreme weather news from Australia, The Daily Telegraph reported on Jan. 8 that record high temperatures near Campbelltown had killed more than 200 bats, found on the ground or still hanging in trees. Cate Ryan, a volunteer with WIRES, an Australian wildlife rescue organization, came across the flying foxes and put the word out for volunteers to bring water to rehydrate the bats that were still alive. “I have never seen anything like it before,” Ryan said. “Ninety percent of the (dead) flying foxes were babies or juveniles.”

Bright Idea

Chris McCabe, 70, of Totnes, England, escaped a frigid death thanks to his own quick thinking on Dec. 15. McCabe owns a butcher shop, and he had entered the walk-in freezer behind the shop when the door slammed behind him. Ordinarily that wouldn’t be a problem, as a release button inside the freezer can open the door. But the button was frozen solid. So McCabe looked around the freezer and saw the shop’s last “black pudding,” or blood sausage, which he used as a battering ram to unstick the button. “They are

a big long stick that you can just about get your hand around,” McCabe told the Mirror. “I used it like the police use battering rams to break door locks in. Black pudding saved my life, without a doubt.” He believes he would have died within a half-hour in the -4-degree freezer.

Ironies

In Albuquerque, New Mexico, a church’s new electronic bells are creating a living hell for neighbor Bernadette Hall-Cuaron, who has lived next to Our Lady of Guadalupe for years. “The bells ring multiple times a day during the week, and play ‘Amazing Grace’ during the week, and then they run multiple times again during the weekend,” she told KOB-TV in January. “Because of the volume and frequency of the bells, this is not calling people to the church.” Hall-Cuaron called the church to complain, but said since her request, “they have added ‘Amazing Grace’ every day ... a full verse.” The pastor responded that he has lowered the volume but will not turn off the bells completely, as some in the neighborhood love them. One of Quebec City’s iconic tourist attractions is its ice hotel, the 45-room Hotel de Glace. But on Jan. 9, the hotel’s most dreaded disaster, a fire, broke out in one of the guest rooms, the CBC reported. Manager Jacques Desbois admitted that “when I received the phone call, they had to repeat twice that there was a fire in the ice hotel.” Predictably, the flames did not spread and caused little damage to the structure, although smoke spread throughout the hotel and residents were evacuated. “In a room made out of ice and snow there are few clues to look at,” Desbois said, although each room has candles, and the hotel is considering the possibility that one of them caused the fire.

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[ LOVESCOPE ] BY EUGENIA LAST ARIES (March 21-April 19): Participate in events, activities or causes you believe in, and doing so will lead to an encounter with someone you find fascinating and hard to resist. The common interests you share will make it easy to fall in love fast. Live in the moment and see what transpires. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): When it comes to relationships, it’s best to look for someone who can offer greater stability, someone who shares your values and isn’t likely to tempt you with bad habits or excessive behavior. Don’t be fooled by charm or chemistry. Put beliefs and ethics first and foremost.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Love and romance are featured. Meeting someone through work or while taking a course will light up your life. It’s OK to be the one who makes the first move. Life is too short to waste time waiting for someone to come to you. A proactive approach is encouraged. CANCER (June 21-July 22): You’ll be picky when it comes to finding the love of your life. You’ll have to broaden your outlook with regard to the perfect partner. Consider what’s most important to you, and start by frequenting places that are conducive to your must-haves in a relationship.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Your energetic approach to life and love will be very appealing to potential partners you encounter this week. Don’t choose someone for his or her looks when you should be picking the person most capable of keeping up with you, as well as one who shares common interests and opinions. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Uncertainty will make it difficult for you to find love. Don’t fall into the trap of letting someone pick you. Becoming a mirror image of someone who shows interest in you will eventually lead to a lack of love. Don’t sell yourself short or settle for less than what you deserve.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Your flirtatious personality coupled with your intelligence and charm will make it difficult for anyone you want to spend time with to deny you. If you love someone, make it clear how you feel and where you see your relationship heading. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): The security you are looking for will be difficult to find if you keep getting drawn toward people who just want to play around. Be cautious if the person you are drawn to shows excessive behavior or is frivolous or a bad influence.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Short- or long-distance travel, meetings or conferences you attend will be conducive to finding someone you find intriguing. Set the pace and pursue the person who has caught your attention with a playful attitude. Don’t be too quick to profess your love. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): You won’t see clearly when it comes to affairs of the heart. Someone’s gesture will be misleading and set you up for a disappointment. Protect your heart and your assets by saying no to someone prone to playing emotional and mental mind games.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): You’ll encounter plenty of people eager to get to know you better. Flattery is nice, but if you don’t feel the connection emotionally, mentally and physically, it’s best to take a pass and move on to the next person in line. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Don’t put pressure on someone you think you love or let anyone push you into a relationship that isn’t quite right. Slow down and figure out what you want before you consider moving on to step two with any of the people you meet this week.

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