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Prosecutor Meredith Vacca responds Seeking justice is the obligation of every prosecutor. Throughout my career, I have worked to deliver on the promise that we are all equal under the law.

Recently, CITY published, then subsequently pulled, an opinion piece by a local attorney regarding a child sexual abuse case I prosecuted in August.

As CITY Editor David Andreatta explained, the piece was pulled because the author failed to disclose that he was an active supporter of one of my opponents for the state Supreme Court.

I am currently running for an open seat on the bench.

Andreatta stated that if he had known this relationship, the piece would have never been published.

The author of the piece was not involved in this case.

He did not attend the trial or court proceedings. I was never contacted about his editorial, which in places presented information about the case in a manner that could be described as misleading at best.

As an assistant district attorney, I am constrained as to what I can say publicly about a case, especially one that has been litigated. I am also constrained as a judicial candidate as to what I can 2 CITY

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say while campaigning.

Furthermore, it is not fair to either party to relitigate this case in the media.

What I can tell you is this: the trial lasted two and a half weeks, and much information was left out of the editorial.

Indeed, much information was not able to come before the jury. While I am precluded from sharing with you the information I considered in moving forward with the case, I can tell you that the decision to prosecute was made thoughtfully over time with advice from my colleagues and assistance from the investigating police department.

The author’s purported intent in writing his piece was to start a conversation about race and the criminal justice system. Andreatta has said he hoped for the same in publishing it. I wholeheartedly agree that this conversation is very important. There is no doubt that inherent and systemic biases influence our criminal justice system.

It is also true that our society continues to work to eliminate such biases from tipping the scales of justice.

I am running for office with the hope of addressing those issues in my courtroom.

This situation calls out for another conversation we should have. Before a person attacks another person’s reputation, livelihood, and integrity – all the available information must be presented in a context that most accurately reflects the situation at hand. Social media allows us to share our thoughts about important issues.

But we must do so responsibly.

Because even though we don’t see the “targets” of our tweets and comments, they are real people.

I have been a prosecutor for 12 years. For the past decade, I have specialized in cases involving child abuse and domestic violence. I have handled thousands of criminal cases and over 30 felony trials. My job is not to convict, but to be fair. Prosecutions are often challenging with no straightforward “right” path. Indeed, there are many cases that I choose not to prosecute for a variety of reasons. I have never had a felony trial conviction overturned.

My goal is one all people of good conscience share: to provide justice for all without regard to anyone’s political, social, racial or economic standing.

Regardless of the outcome of this election, I remain committed to this effort.

Let’s be thoughtful in our conversations and focus on a dialogue that makes all of us better.

MEREDITH VACCA, ROCHESTER

Vacca is an assistant district attorney with the Monroe County District Attorney’s Office and a Democratic candidate for state Supreme Court.

CITY is my city newspaper As a former Rochester resident, I look forward to picking up my weekly copy of CITY at Canandaigua’s Wood Library. It is my primary source of information about Rochester. I particularly like reading the indepth feature stories and monitoring the cultural opportunities in your calendar section.

The pile of CITY papers at the library always disappears so I’m guessing plenty of other people in Canandaigua look forward to reading CITY each week, too.

Thanks to your staff for their faithful commitment to local journalism and digging into stories that need to be shared.

MARIA BUCCI, CANANDAIGUA

What makes an educator ‘distinguished?’

I noticed that CITY’s September 25 article, “RCSD Financial Crisis Builds,” contained two references to “Distinguished Educator Jaime Aquino” and that CITY always calls Mr. Aquino “Distinguished Educator.”

I wonder what it is about Mr. Aquino, or any educator, that warrants his or her being called “distinguished.” Obviously, someone with the title of “Distinguished Educator” is not some run-of-themill hack teacher who spends most of the day wiping noses and grading papers. I’d like to know how someone gets to be a “Distinguished Educator.”

Being a retired teacher myself, I am chagrined that nobody told me, when I was studying to become a teacher or when I was teaching, how I could rise to the station of “Distinguished Educator.”

Of course, Mr. Aquino is not a mere “teacher.”

Anyone knows that an “educator” is not a lowly teacher. Mere teachers toil in the dust and are swept, at the end of their teaching lifespans, into dustbins.

Educators, however, don’t actually teach.

They live in the rarified atmosphere of pedagogy and contemplate the philosophy of education, in all its iridescent applications, incomprehensible to ordinary people and associate professors.

There ought to be some sort of grading system, I

believe, for those who already have the “Distinguished Educator” title attached to their names, and for those who aspire to become one.

I offer these echelons for consideration: Vaguely Distinguished Educator; Remarkably Distinguished Educator; Astonishingly Distinguished Educator; Tippy-Top Distinguished Educator, to name a few.

DAVID PELL, ROCHESTER

CITY talks back: Do we detect a tongue firmly planted in cheek, Mr. Pell?

Yeah, we thought so.

Nevertheless, the title of “Distinguished Educator” does raise eyebrows from time to time. So, here’s a primer on how one becomes “distinguished”: The state Board of Regents created the Distinguished Educators Program in 2011.

The purpose was to help “districts and schools that are experiencing extremely serious academic challenges and ensure the appointment of qualified individuals to assist low performing schools.”

To qualify for the program, applicants must have a variety of experience and credentials that are too numerous to list here. At a minimum, though, applicants must have 10 years of experience in education, including five years “increasing student academic performance in low-performing schools or dramatically raising the achievement of high-needs students in moderate-to highperforming school districts,” or “alternate qualifications deemed acceptable by the state education commissioner.”

Successful candidates are placed in a pool, from which the education commissioner makes selections and appointments.

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EDITOR'S NOTEBOOK | BY DAVID ANDREATTA

Why we pulled the Kali Watkins piece In its previous edition, CITY published incisive commentary about the recent trial of Kali Watkins, a former Webster teacher and coach who was acquitted on a charge of raping a teenage girl.

The piece was written by Christopher Thomas, a highly-regarded local lawyer whose work includes civil and criminal litigation and touches constitutional law and social justice issues.

The thrust of his piece was that the case against Watkins perpetuated the well-founded perception held by many that the criminal justice system is rigged against people of color. Watkins is African American.

As Thomas pointed out, the evidence against Watkins was underwhelming and raised serious questions about whether Watkins should have been prosecuted at all.

Much of the criticism in his commentary was directed at the prosecutor, Meredith Vacca, whom he noted is a Democratic candidate for one of two open state Supreme Court seats.

What Thomas said needed to be said. As the editor of CITY, I was pleased to offer his commentary a forum as a way of broadening the public discourse in our community on the topic of people of color and the criminal justice system.

Whether Thomas was the best person to say it, however, has come into question.

Subsequent to publication of his piece, it was brought to my attention that Thomas is an active supporter of another state Supreme Court candidate, Justice Matthew Rosenbaum, who is running as a Republican.

Thomas has walked with Rosenbaum on the campaign trail. A lawn sign endorsing Rosenbaum stands at his home.

Why those facts are troubling should be obvious to any discerning CITY reader.

News outlets providing a space for informed opinions on matters of importance is integral to a healthy media landscape. CITY is committed to making room for those voices.

In exchange for that space, news outlets vet contributing writers. That process includes asking contributors to disclose any outside interests with the subjects on which they report and opine. It also involves the news outlets unearthing any conflicts, real or perceived, to the extent it can.

If a serious conflict arises, the piece goes unpublished. If the disclosures don’t impinge upon the integrity of the commentary, the commentary is published with the disclosures appended.

A tagline to the commentary in this case, for instance, noted Thomas had ties to the local Democratic party. In the interest of full disclosure, the tagline also noted that he was a member of the board of trustees at WXXI Public

Broadcasting, of which CITY is a subsidiary.

The vetting process included asking Thomas about his prior work as legal counsel to the Monroe County Democratic Committee and prior work on its Judicial Selection Committee.

The responses led me to believe his commentary was beyond reproach.

Had I known the extent of his support for a political opponent of the target of much of his criticism, I would have never published his commentary. Doing so leaves too much room for readers to wonder about ulterior motives of the author – and, by extension, CITY. That is why the piece was removed from CITY’s website.

In the news business, all we have is our credibility. If our readers don’t view us as forthright and transparent, we have nothing.

Incidents like this undermine our credibility and erode trust.

It is absolutely crucial to the integrity of CITY that its writers – on staff and those contributing – disclose any ties they may have to the subjects on which they are reporting or opining.

Ties don’t necessarily disqualify a piece from publication. Indeed, some ties can bolster the strength of a piece. But the merits of a piece must be evaluated for publication with all the author’s ties in mind.

An unfortunate casualty here are the important issues raised by Thomas in his commentary.

In his introduction, Thomas wrote that the Watkins case “should spark a critical conversation in our community.” The aim of publishing his commentary was to enable that conversation.

The ways in which the criminal justice system operates to the disadvantage of people of color are systemic and often subtle. That’s something worth talking about and something CITY will revisit.

CITY welcomes scrutiny that can help us facilitate important conversations in our community. Thank you for reading and being part of the conversation.

David Andreatta is CITY’s editor. He can be reached at dandreatta@rochestercitynews.com. rochestercitynewspaper.com

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PLANNING | BY MARY ANNA TOWLER

News

Rochester 2034 heads to Council City Council will likely consider Rochester’s new comprehensive plan when it meets on November 12.

The City Planning Commission recommended approval of plan during its meeting Monday night.

The plan, called Rochester 2034, will guide land-use and development decisions in the city for the next couple of decades. It’s partly a presentation of the community’s vision and goals. But it’s also a key government document: State law requires that municipalities’ zoning laws conform to their comprehensive plan. Rochester will revise its zoning code soon, and Rochester 2034 will influence changes in those laws.

During numerous public presentations over the past months, reception to the plan has been mixed. The citywide umbrella group Many Neighbors Building Neighborhoods praises the plan’s suggestions on maintaining parks and open spaces, development of vacant land, brownfield clean-up, and preservation of the city’s historic and cultural resources. And environmentalists say they like the plan’s call for more emphasis on biking, walking, and public transit rather than on automobiles.

But the plan’s recommendations about parking have raised concerns. The plan says the city should start “transitioning away from traditional minimum parking requirements” in some areas. The plan’s critics say they worry that will increase parking problems on adjacent residential streets. Some business owners say the change could attract new competitors and new development, exacerbating a current shortage of on-street parking and driving away car-dependent customers.

The plan’s discussion of single-family residential areas has also come under fire. The plan recommends loosening restrictions on two-family residences in those neighborhoods, for instance. It also suggests changing the minimum lot requirement and encouraging a variety of housing types, including “tiny houses” and in-law apartments. The plan’s critics say those and other recommendations in the plan could encourage increased development on single-family properties and erode the character of single-family neighborhoods.

At Monday night’s meeting, the Planning Commission also recommended that city officials continue talking to the community about the plan and that they create an “FAQ list” of information about the plan and its process, to address misconceptions.

Under a proposed Genesee River cleanup plan, sediment will be dredged from a wetland near the Turning Basin.

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ENVIRONMENT | BY JEREMY MOULE

DEC wants input on River cleanup The state Department of Environmental Conservation has released a proposed plan to clean up parts of the Genesee River that were polluted by Eastman Kodak operations decades ago.

It will host a public meeting on the proposal from 6 to 8 p.m. on Wednesday, October 23, at the Central Library of Rochester and Monroe County’s Rundel building, 115 South Avenue.

The cleanup plan focuses on removing silver sediment from an area near the Kings Landing wastewater treatment plant, the shores of the river bend south of Riverside Cemetery, and a two-acre wetland near the Turning

Basin, according to a DEC fact sheet.

Under the plan, about 29,000 cubic yards of dredged sediment would be hauled to a disposal facility. The plan calls for post-cleanup monitoring.

Silver is a heavy metal that’s an essential component of photographic products such as film and paper. It can be detrimental to aquatic species in large amounts, though the DEC claims the levels found in the cleanup sites posed a relatively low risk to people and the aquatic environment.

The DEC estimates the cost of the cleanup will be $15 million. The effort will be financed by a $49 million trust fund established by Kodak as part of the

company’s 2014 bankruptcy settlement intended to help cover the cost of mitigating pollution in the Genesee as well as at Eastman Business Park, formerly Kodak Park.

As part of that agreement, new tenants and owners of the park are absolved of responsibility for Kodak’s historic pollution.

The DEC is accepting comments on the proposed cleanup plan through November 15. Project documents are available at the Maplewood Branch library and the Greece Public Library, and on the DEC’s website, dec.ny.gov.

Jeremy Moule is CITY’s news editor.

He can be reached at jmoule@rochestercitynews.com.

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Thirty Rochester civic groups are urging Monroe County to restart a once-robust rat baiting program. Is one needed? The data is mixed.

The number of rat complaints spiked last year, but are trending downward in 2019 and are nowhere near those of a generation ago.

NEIGHBORHOODS | BY DAVID ANDREATTA

Is this Rat-chester? Not so fast.

A generation ago, “Rat Man” cruised the streets of Rochester.

He got around in what he called his “Rat-Mobile,” a black 1974 Chevy van with a chrome bumper and a grill that looked like a livestock gate. Images of rats – live ones, dead ones – were plastered all over the exterior, and a trash can stood atop the roof.

“This is the only kind of legal garbage can, with tight-fitting cover,” read a message on the can. “Obey the law. Do not feed the rats.”

“Rat Man” was Roy Fries, a selfproclaimed “lone crusader” whose crusade was condemning public officials for not doing enough to control the rat population. He wore a green hardhat with pictures of rats – what else? – and a rat trap, a box of rat poison, and a toy mouse on a string around his neck.

These days, protestations about rats persist but are decidedly subtler.

Representatives of 30 civic organizations from across the city recently sent a letter to Monroe County Executive Cheryl Dinolfo urging the county to resurrect a rat baiting program that flourished in Fries’s day.

The program largely consisted of placing rat poison in sewers.

“While rodent issues have always existed, the county’s baiting of rats kept them at a manageable level,” read the letter, on South East Area Coalition letterhead. “Since (the baiting stopped) neighbors and merchants across the city have dealt with an increase in rat population and the negative effects they bring, including damage to properties and public health issues.”

A handful of signatories interviewed by CITY said they had not personally witnessed an infestation, but had gleaned there was a growing menace from chatter about rats on social media channels focused on their respective neighborhoods.

Quantifying the number of rats in any geographic area is an impossible task.

But anecdotal evidence suggests the civic associations might be on to something with their assertion that the rat population has climbed, at least in the last year.

Monroe County fielded 480 complaints about rats or mice last year, according to county data. That figure represented a 35 percent jump over 2017, when 355 complaints were lodged. Complaints numbered 404 and 377 for 2016 and 2015, respectively.

At the same time, complaints in 2019 are trending downward. The county has received 249 complaints to date this year, and data from previous years show that complaints slow considerably in the last three months of the calendar year.

Also, Rochester fell six spots to 45 on the most recent “Top 50 Rattiest Cities” in the United States list compiled

by Orkin, a pest control company with locations across the country. The company tallies commercial and residential rodent treatments it performs in each city annually.

“There’s no doubt when the presence of a rodent or a pest is detected in a

neighborhood that can impact people’s quality of life,” county spokesperson Jesse Sleezer said. “But on the whole, are we seeing a major uptick in rats either in the city or other parts of the county? No. Sometimes, when neighborhoods detect an impact, they react strongly to that.”

To put the recent number of rat complaints in perspective, though, consider that the county was reportedly fielding upward of 100 complaints a month in the 1980s.

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EDUCATION | BY MARY ANNA TOWLER

Behind the RCSD budget crisis: pressure and gimmicks Auditors from the state Comptroller’s Office have begun scrutinizing the Rochester City School District’s 2018-19 budget to figure out how the district spent an estimated $30 million it didn’t have – an endeavor the state predicts could take six months to a year to conclude.

Meanwhile, Superintendent Terry Dade was expected to update the school board this week on what the district’s own investigation has found so far.

It may be some time before the public learns just what happened, and why apparently so few people inside the system knew about the overspending until last month. But research by a local education analyst provides some insight into how the shortfall happened.

The fundamental cause of the shortfall is easy to spell out: “too much spending in too many places” and fewer opportunities to save money, said the researcher, Eamonn Scanlon, education analyst with The Children’s Agenda. At the core, Scanlon said, is a long-standing district problem: its structural deficit. Costs are increasing at a faster rate than revenue.

Urban school districts like Rochester’s serve thousands of poor children, and many education advocates insist those districts need more money than they get. Nevertheless, when school districts spend beyond their means, they jeopardize not only themselves but also their city governments, which are charged with raising local revenue for education. The Rochester district’s latest problems have broadened appeals for state involvement in the district’s operations.

In a recent blog on the Children’s Agenda website, Scanlon focused on the conditions in which the $30 million shortfall was born. He paid particular attention to the period from January through March 2018, when district staff were nearing the end of their budget preparation for the coming year.

What did the district spend that $30 million on? The district’s financial records, Scanlon wrote, indicate that it went for things the district has to provide: transportation, employee benefits, substitute teachers, and charter school tuition.

The district didn’t budget enough for them, though. “Cost projections for those areas were too low, sometimes by more than $10 million,” Scanlon wrote.

Running over budget in some areas, Scanlon noted, isn’t uncommon. And when that happens, school districts look for ways to reduce expenses somewhere else to offset the increases. But the Rochester school district had few other budget categories where it could make reductions.

Adding to the difficulty of creating a balanced budget that year, Scanlon wrote, were some 6 CITY

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Eamonn Scanlon, education analyst at The Children’s Agenda: The district’s spending paid for things it had to provide, but it didn’t budget enough for them.

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unexpected challenges and the distraction from a major new initiative by the superintendent.

In his blog, Scanlon cited these problems: • Faulty budget projections, lack of transparency, and “unsustainable financial gimmicks.”

The 2018-19 budget, Scanlon wrote, “included many risky and in some cases dishonest cost projections, because of a flawed budget-making process,” too little input from staff outside of the finance department, and “a host of external pressures.”

• Superintendent Barbara Deane-Williams’s “Path Forward” initiative.

Soon after Barbara Deane-Williams became superintendent in August 2016, she embarked on a several-month “listening tour,” talking to students, parents, teachers, and administrators. In 2017, based on what she had learned, she and her staff started working on a 10-year education and facilities plan that they named “Path Forward.”

It was an ambitious plan, and the work took months. Toward the end of that period, the district had to start work on the budget for the next academic year.

The Path Forward initiative, Scanlon wrote, “consumed much of (Deane-Williams’s)

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After Hurricane Maria’s devastation in Puerto Rico, many families moved to Rochester, bringing hundreds of new students to city schools. That increased the number of students in the district’s English Language Learner program. SOURCE: THE CHILDREN’S AGENDA

leadership team’s time during the months leading up to the release of the 2018-2019 draft budget. Her team’s preoccupation with Path Forward left the financial decisions to the finance department with seemingly little input from other department leaders. This delayed the budget making process, and resulted in the finance department presenting an unbalanced budget on March 27.”

• The death of teenager Trevyan Rowe in March of 2018, which added to the demands and

pressure at a crucial time in the district.

This tragedy underscored the dysfunction and multiple changes in leadership within the special education department,” Scanlon wrote. “The special education department was under threat of legal action for being out of compliance with state and federal

disability laws, and was negotiating with Empire Justice to develop a consent decree in place of a lawsuit.”

• Intense pressure to increase staffing in some areas.

In the months following Hurricane Maria in September 2017, many families moved to Rochester from Puerto Rico. As a result, the Rochester school district had 560 new students needing English Language Learner classes, and the district already had a shortage of bilingual and English as a second language staff.

Deane-Williams was also pushing for additional reading teachers to counter the abysmally low test scores of the district’s elementary school students.

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As Deane-Williams pushed for more staffing and the district tried to cope with

the challenges of Path Forward and special education, the staff creating the 2018-19 budget had to adjust their budget projections, increasing the expense projections in some areas and looking for ways to save money in other areas. In the process, it did what school districts, businesses, and families do: it moved money around in the budget.

Moving money around isn’t uncommon for school districts. While some of their expenses are fairly predictable, some aren’t.

Rochester and the state’s other large-city school districts also have a challenge that other New York districts don’t: they don’t raise their own revenue. Local, state, and federal governments provide some of it. But for the big urban districts, with large numbers of high-needs students, “a significant part of their revenue comes from grants,” Scanlon says.

Expanding on his concerns about the 201819 budget in an interview last week, Scanlon described the role grants play in school budgets.

A school district might start a year paying for a reading program out of the district’s general fund, knowing that it will get a grant later in the year. When the grant arrives, the general fund money can be used for another expense, so that expense gets moved from one place to another in the budget.

“Grant funding is just very unstable revenue,” Scanlon said. “Money is constantly coming in and out.”

“That’s sort of the big picture here,” Scanlon said. “Money gets moved around for various reasons.” And in the Rochester district, “money moves around a lot . . . and it’s never really explained why.”

That makes it hard to track the changes throughout the year, even for school board members.

Normally, as the finance department creates a budget and requests are made for additions and subtractions, “there is a back and forth process” discussing changes with staff outside the finance office, Scanlon said. But as the

0 2016 2017 2018 SCHOOL YEAR For the past three years, the district has spent more than it had budgeted in several areas, including substitute teachers. SOURCE: THE CHILDREN’S AGENDA

district worked on the 2018-19 budget, “people were just really distracted,” Scanlon said, because of everything else going on in the district.

As pressure mounted to increase staff in some areas and the deadline for completing the budget got closer, district staff made adjustments to the budget. “There was about an $8 million or $9 million writedown in the costs for retirement and benefits between the draft budget and the adopted budget,” Scanlon said. The projected cost of employee benefits “went from $36 million to $34 million, health and dental from 86 to 85.”

Scanlon thinks the district also low-balled the cost of charter school tuition, state per-pupil aid that the district has to pass on to charter schools serving Rochester students. Although the district anticipated that 450 more students would be attending charter schools the next year, it didn’t budget nearly enough for their tuition, Scanlon said.

Worse, in crafting the budget, the district “took the guardrails off,” Eamonn said.

What Scanlon calls ”guardrails” are expense areas where money that is budgeted is usually underspent or not spent. In other words, they are budget safety valves. One guardrail is the district’s contingency fund, “which is money specifically for overruns,” Scanlon said. For the 2018-19 budget, district staff reduced the contingency fund to $350,000, from the original $3.25 million.

The other guardrail is the amount the district thinks it will save each year when budgeted staff positions aren’t filled. In the initial budget, the district projected just over $8 million for vacancy savings. The final budget raises that to $24.48 million – an increase in

projected “revenue” of about $16 million.

Together, that meant the district had reduced its flexibility in spending by nearly $20 million, Scanlon said.

Budget-making for Rochester and New

York’s other urban school districts is tough, Scanlon said.

“It’s more difficult, because they have no borrowing authority, so they are dependent on the state for any increase,” he said. The districts “are completely hostage to whatever the state decides will be their increase or decrease in a given year.”

And, Scanlon said, “when you have a very high-needs population, with a much higher proportion of English language learners and special education programming, that is more expensive and harder to staff.”

“A special needs student is 250 percent more expensive to educate than a general education student,” Scanlon said. “It’s a huge piece of the budget and a complex one, and so we can’t just look at per-pupil spending across districts. It’s really about the individual needs of each child that need to be taken into account.”

Do the urban districts get enough state funding? “That’s a complicated question,” Scanlon said. The state has a formula for determining the aid that districts should get. The Board of Regents calculates that foundation aid every year and tells the state Legislature what it should be providing to each district, Scanlon said.

But the state never puts in enough money to match that calculation, Scanlon said.

Based on that formula, Scanlon noted in his blog, “Rochester was owed $97 million in additional funding from the state during the 2018-19 school year.”

With that money, presumably, the Rochester school district wouldn’t have had the budget problems it had last year. And there’d be no state auditors at work in the district’s offices on Broad Street right now.

But the district didn’t get that money, and there’s no reason to think state legislators will have a change of heart any time soon.

Meantime, the district will have to operate on the money it does get, despite its challenges and financial uncertainties.

As district officials create and oversee budgets, Scanlon said, they need a more transparent process so that the school board, staff, parents, and the community understand what the district is doing, how officials are planning its finances, and what changes officials are making as well why they’re making them.

“As long as RCSD faces a large structural deficit every year, lacks transparency and collaboration in its budget-making process, is perpetually responding to crises and external pressures, and uses unsustainable financial gimmicks to prop up spending, there will always be the potential for problems,” Scanlon wrote in his Children’s Agenda blog.

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County’s health commissioner said, “I’d estimate there are as many rats in the county as there are people.”

Congress launched a robust “Urban Rat Control Program” here and elsewhere in the country in 1969. The county reportedly spent $800,000 annually suppressing rats in the early years of the program.

Most of the money came from the federal government, and paid for 30 rodent control workers.

Budget cuts reduced the county’s rat control crew to seven by the early 1980s, when the county was reportedly baiting 15,000 rat traps in sewers each year.

In their letter to Dinolfo, civic leaders wrote that the county “recently” stopped its baiting program. But the program was cut altogether in 1992.

Nowadays, county rat baiting is limited. In response to complaints, county public health officials mostly visit property owners to offer advice and educational materials. “(The Monroe County Department of Public Health) continues to apply pesticides on a limited basis as determined to be appropriate by the departments’ trained staff,” the county wrote in response to the civic associations.

“Nothing has changed in this regard. However, property owners are responsible for controlling rodent infestations on their own property,” the response continued. “In some cases, this may require hiring a professional extermination service to mitigate the infestation.”

There was a time, though, when Rat-Man would swoop to the rescue for free. Fries died in 2006.

“Many years ago we were recipients of his help when we had large holes in our backyard where rats were nesting,” Edna Bridgewater, of Irondequoit, wrote in a letter to the Democrat and Chronicle in 1983. “(Fries) fed the holes with bags of rat poison and we watched the bags actually disappear as the rates pulled them into the holes. We have not had any rats since,” her letter continued.

“Where else can you call someone, receive a service, and pay nothing?”

David Andreatta is CITY’s editor. He can be reached at dandreatta@rochestercitynews.com.

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For more Tom Tomorrow, including a political blog and cartoon archive, visit www.thismodernworld.com

Farewell, Tim Louis Macaluso To our readers: With a great deal of regret, we share the news that one of our senior writers, Tim Macaluso, has retired.

It’s hard to describe the impact Tim has had on CITY. Tim joined our news team in 2005, but he began his tenure with us in 2002 in sales, and he excelled in that position for the same reasons that he did as a journalist. He’s fearless, and he’s willing to persist.

He’s also a genuinely good person – sensitive, empathetic, and interested in people. As a result, people trust him. That enabled him to tell stories that can be difficult to get: interviews with children of incarcerated men, for instance, and incisive, personal interviews on topics like poverty and racism.

His knowledge and passion about education, medical research, and the City of Rochester, coupled with his curiosity and deep experience resulted in high-quality reporting and thoughtful analysis.

He’ll be greatly missed here, and all of us at CITY wish him a welldeserved retirement.

– David Andreatta and Mary Anna Towler

PHOTO BY RENÉE HEININGER

Dining & Nightlife Bones Bakery also has human-safe food. I bought my human’s friend Chris an apple muffin ($3). Additionally, they serve coffee, which is a dark bean-based beverage traditionally served hot. The coffee beans are from New City Cafe, and there is a nitro cold brew on tap from Glen Edith. I think everyone was happy with their treats, and I was quite satisfied with my date. I had no reason to be nervous. Penny and I will likely see each other again, if I can get a word in of course.

PENNY

Bones Bakery owner Dani Lawson treats Cooper and Penny to pumpkin muffins at her pooch-focused shop. Inset: Puppacinos for two. PHOTOS BY JACOB WALSH

A tale of two puppies Bones Bakery 39 SOUTH GOODMAN STREET TUESDAY-WEDNESDAY, 10:30 A.M. TO 6 P.M.; THURSDAY-FRIDAY, 10 A.M. TO 7 P.M.; SATURDAY, 9 A.M. TO 6 P.M.; SUNDAY, 10 A.M. TO 5 P.M. 319-4088; BONESDOGBAKERY.COM [ REVIEW ] BY COOPER AND PENNY (TRANSLATED BY CHRIS THOMPSON)

COOPER My name is Cooper McVay (@gimmethecoop).

I have a nice home, a great family, and life is quite good. Only one thing is missing: I need love. Sure, I am only about a year old but why not start looking now? I am not one to waste my 1’s running around sowing my wild oats only to wake up one morning and realize I’m 10 years old and alone! I plan on having a full life, and why not share that experience with someone special?

So I decided I would go out on a date with a nine-month-old German shepherd named Penny. The spot we agreed on was Bones Bakery, a bakery for dogs right in the middle of the city. It is even friendly to our pet humans. It didn’t take much to convince my human Renée to chaperone. She enjoys a fun adventure. I thought Bones would be a great place for her to roam around and play with Penny’s humans while we get to know each other.

I was a little bit nervous as I climbed the steps to Bones Bakery. Normally I would bring flowers or a stick, but I forgot. Penny may be younger than me, but she is twice my size. I’m just a black Lab mixed with a smaller breed. Would that turn her off? I still have my piercing puppy eyes! More nerve-wracking is that Bones is the hottest spot for single dogs. What if the place is too expensive?

What if something I eat makes me sick? Most doggie treats are not as good for me as they purport. How embarrassing it would be if I threw up in front of Penny and then for her to lick it up! I was suddenly a furry bundle of nerves.

As I entered Bones Bakery, there was Penny. She is...a talker. She kept telling me about all the people who looked suspicious, who she had to ward off from her humans, and all the other dogs who ventured into the shop before I got there. We sat down in front of the chairs, and I ordered us Puppacinos (goat’s milk and whipped cream with a cookie on top). They were delicious! I then ordered a Dognut ($3) and a Puppy Cannoli ($2.75) for us to share. Penny would not stop talking about what the other dogs were eating, so I was a little bit distracted. Still, I was impressed with the establishment.

I know what you are thinking: what is a ninemonth-old German shepherd doing going on a date with a short, year-old black Labrador?

But I happen to like shorter dogs. And sure, the age difference may seem like a big deal, but in the long run, we're only a few months apart. And our humans get along great.

Besides, he still has very sweet puppy eyes. I was impressed that he wanted to go to Bones Bakery on our first date. I’ve heard much about it since it opened back in April.

I got there first, and I was so excited to be there, I HAD to tell everyone about the selection of goods. I told everyone who walked in the door. Cooper was more preoccupied with burying his face in the food than talking, though. I learned so much about our meal from listening to our pet humans chatter away. The shop owner, Dani Lawson, committed herself to only using natural ingredients in her creations. She doesn’t use any of the preservatives that massproduced dog foods and treats have. There are plenty of oats, peanut butter, and eggs, though. The “chocolate” on our Dognut is actually carob, which is good, because I do not want to die.

Lawson has years of experience as a pastry chef, and leaving her previous job at Upper Crust Cakery, was the best time to for her to start something on her own. She wanted to be able to do something that would allow her to bring her dog to work, and she wished for dog treats that are truly healthy for her dogs. The bonus is that she gets to see more dogs every day! Four dogs came with their pet humans while Cooper and I sat and chatted. After the other parties left, Lawson called us to the checkout counter, and she gave us sample pumpkin muffins! They were so delicious, I went back for seconds and thirds.

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

CITY 9

Uh-huh.

You’ve heard it all before.

A look at the Rochester rock scene in the pre-digital era MUSIC | BY FRANK DE BLASE

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It’s an endless debate in music: vinyl record fidelity versus the digital quality of compact discs and streaming platforms like Spotify.

We’ve all heard audiophiles who beat their gums, boasting about the medium’s superiority, as well as those who simply believe records are just flat-out cool.

But you can breathe easy. That’s not the story here. It’s true, vinyl record sales are up and continue to rise. Perhaps it’s out of nostalgia or obtuse creativity, but new record releases are still relevant now.

Once upon a time, from around 1975 through 1995, the Rochester music scene was stuck in analog limbo, with a dubious digital solution waiting in the wings. It was a growing scene that fed off of itself: Local musicians put out records, which would inspire their peers to issue their own records to supplement their income and further express their art. It wasn’t just about what these records were, but what they meant to the musicians who created them.

“Back then it was near impossible [to put out a record] and if you did have a band and made a 45 you were considered fortunate,” Greg Prevost says.

Prevost is an avid collector of all things rock ’n’ roll. As a musician, he was a founding member of Rochester’s Distorted Levels and garage rock revivalists The Chesterfield Kings. He remembers hearing his first bolt of audio lightning when disc jockey Tommy Thomas spun a seven-incher on WSAY-AM. It was The Heard’s “Stop It Baby.”

“It knocked me out,” Prevost says. “I went out and bought the 45 at Jay’s Record Ranch.” Located on North Clinton Avenue in downtown Rochester across from Sibley’s, Jay’s Record Ranch sold nothing but 45’s from national artists like The Heard and local bands like The Invictas, whose controversial tune and subsequent dance, “The Hump,” got them banned in Boston. Prevost also mentions “Weird” by Rochester band The Wee Four as being significant.

“That record is still one of my favorites,” he says.

The first record Prevost personally released was a 45 for his group Distorted Levels in early 1978.

“I actually recorded three albums before this as Mr. Electro and The Psychedelic Burnouts between the years 1975 and 1978, but couldn’t afford to have them pressed,” Prevost says. “When I did, it was a thrill to actually hold on to and look at a record I did.”

He pressed and distributed 1,000 copies, and paid for it on his own dime. “This record helped me establish the bands that followed, including The Chesterfield Kings, which was like the sixth band I created in the 70’s.”

It was the late 1970’s, and Mike Murray was a

self-proclaimed member of the L7 clique in high school.

“If you weren’t into hard rock or progressive rock, you were a square,” Murray says. “I liked Ventures records, so I was a square.” Murray went on to form The Fertility Rite Brothers and host the “Whole Lotta Shakin’” show on Saturdays for WRUR-FM. He remembers vividly the first Rochester band he ever heard. “I had gone to see The Ramones’ show on July 7, 1979 at the Triangle Theatre.” The opening act was New Math.

Murray was more than a little intrigued.

“It blew me away that this band was from Rochester,” Murray says. “Rochester was very conservative, and I wasn’t aware of the underground that was happening at the time. Bands like Cappy and the Frenchmen, New Math Distorted Levels, The Hi-Techs, The Antoinettes.”

After joining New Math in 1979, drummer Roy Stein found himself in the studio, recording “Restless Kind” b/w “Older Women.” Fairly quickly after that, the band recorded the follow-up EP, “They Walk Among You,” on 415 Records in California. According to Stein, this was no small feat: Recording and pressing a vinyl record cost some serious gelt.

“It was hard to make records back in the 70’s,” he says. “Because the studios were expensive. PCI was the main studio in town, and it would cost $100 to $250 an hour, so you really had to have your stuff together. You had to make it quick at those rates. Nowadays, people record first before they play out. But not then, no way. You played out for a long time, then you made a record.”

By playing the songs live, New Math found out quickly what people liked. So they put the crowd favorites on the record, which helped the band gain a national reputation. “It was kind of a vindication,” Stein says, “a validation.”

“We were always sort of a wink and a nod anyway,” Murray says of his band The Fertility Rite Brothers. “But it was great we had joined the ranks of those who had inspired us.”

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Todd Bradley was a member of The Essentials,

“It was something special, an achievement.”

- Todd Bradley on The Essentials’ LP “Gas Money”

“A glorious mess, and nobody knew them.”

- Rob Filardo, of Garage-Pop Records, on The Priests PHOTOS PROVIDED

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and was working at Record Theatre in Midtown Plaza when his band’s record came out in 1990.

“It was unusual,” he says. “There weren’t many bands doing it. It was something special, an achievement.”

Without widespread access to the Internet and social media, music fans relied on magazines and face-to-face conversations with record store clerks to stay in-the-know, Bradley says. So when he was allowed to play The Essentials’ album at work, it mattered.

“That was definitely a big step as far as ‘making it,’” he says, “to have people hear it and say, ‘What’s this?’”

Rob Filardo is a record executive with a penchant for beating the drums. He initially co-founded Trashcan Records with Duke Galaxy in the early-90’s, releasing music by bands such as The Shop Class Squares.

Filardo created the label Garage-Pop Records shortly thereafter, playing with virtually all of the bands on that label. As a kid, he was first turned on to records by his dad Bobby Francis, who had a locally popular single called “At The Beach. “My sister and I used to play it all the time,” Filardo says.

By 1988, Filardo was in his own band, The American Vandals, which was getting ready to release its first LP. At that point, however, people were all putting out CD’s, “We thought this would be our calling card,” Filardo said of cutting the record on vinyl.

With the influx of so many bands without drummers, Filardo had to play drums for those who couldn’t find someone to supply the beat. He drummed for Rochester bands including The Quitters, The Thundergods, The Veins, and The White Devils.

Most notably, he played keyboards in The Priests. “I just thought they were just the greatest thing,” he says. “A glorious mess, and nobody knew them.”

The first few releases on Garage-Pop were sketchy at best. “They were horribly pressed somewhere in Texas,” he says.

“But it was cool – they were on vinyl.”

And why vinyl?

“That’s how we listened to music,” Filardo says. “Our whole scene bought vinyl. It sounded better. It was more fun.” For him, it seems to have been more fiscally responsible, too. “We made enough money to pay for the next guys’ release,” he says, “whoever was in line.”

When The Priests eventually signed to Get Hip Records, they had one request: In lieu of a cash infusion, they just wanted the record to be printed as a gatefold.

Filardo considered CD’s a passing fad.

“At least we thought it was,” he says. “It probably is now.”

CD’s have declined, but interest in vinyl has persisted. “There was that period, I’m guessing 1995 to 2005, when CD’s were all the rage,” Stein says. “And vinyl just kinda sat there. Then all of a sudden people wanted vinyl again.”

Artists who put out vinyl in its glory days worked tenaciously, despite the limitations and logistical difficulties involved – so much so that they still choose vinyl over digital mediums today.

By the late 1980’s, New Math had morphed into The Jet Black Berries. When JBB’s album “Desperate Fires” came out, Stein could hardly contain himself. He wanted it so bad, he went out and bought it the moment it was released.

“I was living in New York City at the time. It was 1988 and we had just recorded it,” Stein recalled. “I went into Tower Records to buy a copy, shouting to anyone on the street that would listen: ‘That’s my band! That’s my band!’”

The American Vandals History Skid Silent Town Productions • 1988

Jet Black Berries Desperate Fires Pink Dust Records • 1996

The Essentials Gas Money Earring Records • 1990

The Chesterfield Kings Here Are The Chesterfield Kings Mirror Records Inc. • 1982

Filardo, who created Garage-Pop Records in the 90's, was first turned on to records by his father Bobby Francis, who had a locally popular single (pictured above).

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Upcoming

Music

[ FILM MUSIC ] Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra

presents ‘Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban’

Friday, January 10 and Saturday, January 11, 2020.

Kodak Hall at Eastman Theatre. 60 Gibbs St. $30-$95.

7 p.m. 454-2100. rpo.org.

[ FOLK ] The Wood Brothers Wednesday, February 5, 2020. Kodak Center. 200 W Ridge Rd. $23.50-$33.50.

8 p.m. 254-0181. ticketmaster.com; thewoodbros.com.

Time for Three

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 10 KILBOURN HALL AT EASTMAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC, 26 GIBBS STREET 7:30 P.M. | $32-$45 | DISCOUNT WITH U OF R ID EASTMANTHEATRE.ORG; TF3.COM [ CLASSICAL CROSSOVER ] Time for Three plays

refined chamber music covers of everything from Bach to pop music such as Imogen Heap’s “Hide and Seek” and The Beatles’ “Norwegian Wood.” Based in Philadelphia, violinists Nick Kendall and Charles Yang, along with double bassist Ranaan Meyer, achieve sinuous string counterpoint and meld equally expressive vocal harmonies. The musicians in Time for Three perform with an affectionate energy, whether they’re bowing vigorously or plucking the strings softly.

— BY KATIE HALLIGAN

Joe Policastro Trio SUNDAY, OCTOBER 13 THE LITTLE THEATRE CAFÉ, 240 EAST AVENUE 7 P.M. | FREE, DONATIONS ACCEPTED THELITTLE.ORG/MUSIC; THEJPTRIO.COM [ JAZZ ] You might hear an occasional Thelonious Monk tune and an original composition or two, but what separates the Joe Policastro Trio from other jazz combos is the rest of its repertoire. You might hear pop tunes like “1999” by Prince, “More Than a Woman” by The Bee Gees, or “Harvest Moon” by Neil Young. Policastro can take the most unlikely tunes and transform them into jazz classics, ripe for improvisation. A superb bassist, Policastro is joined by two excellent bandmates: Dave Miller on guitar and Mikel Avery on drums.

PHOTO PROVIDED

— BY RON NETSKY

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[ ALBUM REVIEWS ]

[ WED., OCTOBER 9 ]

The Moho Collective

ACOUSTIC/FOLK

‘Arka’ Self-released themohocollective.com

Driftwood SATURDAY, OCTOBER 12 FLOUR CITY STATION, 170 EAST AVENUE 8 P.M. | $17.50 | AGES 21 AND OVER FLOURCITYSTATION.COM; DRIFTWOODTHEBAND.COM [ AMERICANA ] Sometimes fans see musicians playing string

band instruments and they figure, “OK, string band.” In the case of Binghamton’s Driftwood, they’d be right — but only to a certain extent. For all intents and purposes, Driftwood is a bluegrass band playing old-tyme instruments such as banjo, fiddle, and upright bass, but the sound is louder and more engaging than you might expect. There’s a kind of rock aesthetic dealt out liberally, as an unrelenting fingerpicking style propels songs of both happiness and woe.

— BY FRANK DE BLASE

Velvet Gentlemen SATURDAY, OCTOBER 12 BOP SHOP RECORDS, 1460 MONROE AVENUE 8 P.M. | $15 STUDENTS, $20 DOOR BOPSHOP.COM; DANWILLISMUSIC.COM [ JAZZ ] At the age of 12, Dan Willis was already playing his saxophone and oboe on the Buffalo jazz scene. After graduating from the Eastman School of Music, in 1992 he headed to New York, where he gained a reputation as an adventurous player on sax and EWI (Electric Wind Instrument). For over a decade, Willis has led a quartet whose name is derived from the nickname of French composer Erik Satie. The group also features guitarist Pete McCann, heir apparent to fusion guitarist John McLaughlin, who has endorsed McCann’s work with the Mahavishnu Project. Rounding out the band are Evan Gregor on bass and drummer Ian Froman.

— BY RON NETSKY

The Moho Collective is back, baby, opening its new instrumental EP “Arka” with “I’m a Real Boy.” It’s all funky sledgehammer drums and guitar, giving the finger to the apocalypse as the music careens out of your preferred listening device. This record shows off the band’s staggering talent and dexterity, which can get lost in the volume of the visceral live performance.

“Arka” is what the band really sounds like: simultaneously pristine and raw. The song “Duff Duff” will knock you on your ass ass. It’s as if The Moho Collective were a oneman band with six arms. Holy shit, that’s 30 fingers.

The Moho Collective plays the “Arka” EP release show on Friday, October 11, 8 p.m. at Lovin’ Cup, 300 Park Point Drive. $10 advance; $15 door (all tickets include EP copy). 292-9940. lovincup.com.

— BY FRANK DE BLASE

Papa Herb and The Sol Vibration ‘One Time..’

Self-released herbheins.com

You might as well give into where Herb “Papa Herb” Heins is gonna take you with his new album with The Sol Vibration, “One Time..” It’s hard to keep it cohesive and not repeat yourself, but Heins offers eleven tracks with variety and some serious shake. He also lays heavily into his guitar, and is no slouch when it comes to belting out searing vocals with a hint of ragged sorrow.

And as a band leader, Heins knows when to lead and when to get out of the way and give plenty of room to The Sol Vibration. On “Lucky Fool,” the sound bathes in Studio One-esque horns, while the spinal slip of “Ode to Ade,” allows the horns to stretch out and pulverize. Big up.

— BY FRANK DE BLASE

Extended versions of these reviews can be found at rochestercitynewspaper.com.

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Inn, 4909 Culver Rd. 323-1020. 7 p.m.

Mikey C & Chuck DeRose.

Dinosaur BBQ, 99 Court St. 325-7090. 9 p.m.

Rochester Folkus.

Downstairs Cabaret Theatre, 20 Windsor St. 325-4370.

Every other Wednesday, 7 p.m. Leslie Lee & Steve Gretz. $10.

AMERICANA Stella Hill. B-Side, 5 Liftbridge Lane. Fairport.

315-3003. 7 p.m.

Watkins & The Rapiers.

Record Archive, 33 1/3 Rockwood St. 244-1210.

5-8 p.m.

BLUES

Reverend Kingfish: House Party of the Damned. The Spirit Room, 139 State St. 397-7595. 8 p.m.

CLASSICAL

Levante Duo. St. Anne

Church, 1600 Mt. Hope Ave. (646) 943-0746. 7 p.m. $10/$15.

JAZZ

Big Band Dance: Andy Stobie & The Greater Finger Lakes Jazz Band, Al Bruno Trio. Robach Community Center, 180 Beach Ave. ontariobeachentertainment. org. 6 p.m. $2 donation.

Higher Ground. 80W, 7 Lawrence St. 730-4046.

7 p.m.

Mike Kaupa/Gordon Webster Jazz Duo. Prosecco, 1550 NY 332. Farmington.

924-8000. 5:30-8:30 p.m. continues on page 21

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Music You said in a recent interview that your sound is circular. What did you mean?

I think the presence of the voices on the album really shifted to a sound that connects each song.

And that’s what I meant by circular — that the real connection and thread of each song for me was the harmonies and the arrangements of the background vocals. That was a real center of gravity for me on the album.

Is recording four-part harmonies better when done all at once in a single room?

So much better. With “This Too Shall Light,” we set up in a room that allowed us to be all live together and have enough circulation that we didn’t have to bleed into each other’s microphones. We could see each other and hear each other.

United Recording Studios allowed for that.

It’s an iconic room with high ceilings and lots of space and lots of configurations available for that. It makes it a lot easier to feel what you’re doing, when you can turn and see the person you’re singing with.

What does a song need in order for you to consider it worthy of covering?

Singer-songwriter Amy Helm may be the late Levon Helm’s daughter, but her roots-based music is her own. She’ll play Three Heads Brewing on Thursday, October 10. PHOTO BY EBRU YILDIZ

Take a load off, Amy Amy Helm THURSDAY, OCTOBER 10 THREE HEADS BREWING, 186 ATLANTIC AVENUE 8 P.M. | $20 ADVANCE; $25 DOOR THREEHEADSBREWING.COM; AMYHELM.COM [ INTERVIEW ] BY FRANK DE BLASE

Singer-songwriter Amy Helm does little to keep a lid on her joy, even as she tosses plenty of bittersweet heartbreak into her lyrics. She navigates her band through organic grooves, in an eclectic yet classic strain that doesn’t rely on too many genres. That would just muddy up the soup. She is still touring in support of last year’s Joe Henry-produced “This Too Shall Light,” an album that takes off majestically, heading skyward and beyond.

It’s effortlessly captivating.

Perhaps some of the album’s power can be attributed to Helm’s musical heritage; she’s the 16 CITY OCTOBER 9 - 15, 2019

daughter of The Band’s late drummer Levon Helm and singer Libby Titus. But Amy Helm holds her own nicely, with dramatic vocals and a cool presence that doesn’t clog the proceedings. She doesn’t name-drop or cop to her bloodline. She’s completely herself: Amy Helm playing Amy Helm’s music.

We tracked down Helm on the phone, ahead of her October 10 show at Three Heads Brewing. She was candid and charming, with a palpable enthusiasm. An edited transcript of our conversation follows.

CITY: Without using the words “Americana” or “roots,” tell us a little about the music you play.

AMY HELM: Let me start by saying that’s

the best question I’ve ever been asked.

Because none of us quite know what the word “Americana” is supposed to mean. I play music and hopefully stay in pretty good pocket, if I’m lucky and having a good gig.

I can tell fairly quickly if I can tell the story of a song or not. I’ll find a way and kind of plunk through it on piano at my house, or even get behind a drum set — find the backbeat to the song and see if it feels honest or not. And if it doesn’t sound honest, if it sounds like I’m pushing or trying to be something or do something I can’t physically do, then I can tell pretty quick.

Where does your father’s influence end and where do you begin?

I guess I’m finding out as I go. You take what you can along your path. When I’m confronted with things that he’s not there to ask how to handle, that’s when I feel myself coming up.

What’s a valuable life lesson your father taught you?

Never take a personal check on a gig. If they’re offering a personal check, get cash up front.

What’s next for Amy Helm?

I’m getting ready to make another record. I’m writing, working on collaborations, getting material together, and hopefully recording this winter.

What’s it shaping up to sound like?

I don’t know yet. I guess the songs will tell me.

Frank De Blase is CITY’s staff music writer. He can be reached at frank@rochester-citynews.com.

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Stephen Morris Quartet. Little Café, 240 East Ave. 258-0400.

7 p.m.

POP/ROCK

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[ THU., OCTOBER 10 ] ACOUSTIC/FOLK Alex Goettel. The Daily Refresher, 293 Alexander St. 360-4627. 8 p.m.

Amanda Ashley. Via Girasole Wine Bar, 3 Schoen Pl. Pittsford. 641-0340. 7 p.m.

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JAZZ

ROCKABILLY

The New Novelties. The Spirit

Rockhouse Riot. B-Side, 5

POP/ROCK

[ FRI., OCTOBER 11 ]

Room, 139 State St. 397-7595.

8 p.m. $5.

AMERICANA

Amy Helm Band. Three Heads

Brewing, 186 Atlantic Ave. 244-1224. 8 p.m. $20/$25.

Alicia and the Sideburns.

CLASSICAL

Big Martha, Tribute to Allman Brothers. Abilene, 153 Liberty

SUNY Geneseo Festival Singers. Doty Recital Hall, 1

College Circle. Geneseo.

245-5824. 7:30 p.m.

Time for Three. Kilbourn Hall, 26 Gibbs St. 274-3000.

7:30 p.m. $32-$45.

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Dinosaur BBQ, 99 Court St. 325-7090. 9 p.m.

Pole Way. 232-3230.

8 p.m. $10.

Free Casino, Baker Street, Blue Envy. Bug Jar, 219

Monroe Ave. bugjar.com.

9 p.m. 18+. $7/$10.

Liftbridge Lane. Fairport.

315-3003. 7 p.m.

ACOUSTIC/FOLK Dave McGrath. Bar Louie, 98 Greece Ridge Center Dr. 797-1054. 5:30-7:30 p.m.

Jeff Riales. Fanatics, 7281 W Main St. Lima. 624-2080.

7 p.m.

John Dady. Sager Beer Works, 46 Sager Dr Suite E. 245-3006.

7:30 p.m.

Katy Wright. Record Archive, 33 1/3 Rockwood St. 244-1210. 4-7 p.m.

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

AMERICANA

Boyd & Parker Ambush.

Abilene, 153 Liberty Pole Way. 232-3230. 5:30 p.m.

Daddy Longleg’s Homegrown Revival. Abilene, 153 Liberty Pole Way. 232-3230. 9 p.m. $6.

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BLUES

Andy Frasco & The UN, Trongone. Flour City Station,

170 East Ave. 413-5745.

9 p.m. $15.

The Tragedy Brothers. Sticky Lips, 830 Jefferson Rd. 292-5544. 9 p.m.

You’re invited to the inaugural meeting of the

CLASSICAL

Eastman Philharmonia. Kodak

Hall at Eastman Theatre, 60 Gibbs St. 7:30 p.m.

Nazareth College Symphony Orchestra: Of Grace & Giving.

Nazareth College Glazer Music Performance Center, 4245 East Ave. 389-2700. 7:30 p.m.

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JAZZ

Chris Ott. Prosecco, 1550 NY 332. Farmington. 924-8000.

6 p.m.

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

1675 Penfield Rd. 385-9202.

7:30 p.m.

Lost Wax Collective. Cure, 50 Public Market. 563-7941. 10 p.m.

Lunchtime Concert: Drew Bellavia & Adam Surasky.

Cobblestone Arts Center, 1622 NY 332. 398-0220.

12:15-12:45 p.m.

The Moho Collective & Friends.

Lovin’ Cup, 300 Park Point Dr. lovincup.com. 7 p.m. $10/$15.

Rod Blumenau & The Upstate Dixieland Jass Band. Ingle

Auditorium at RIT, 1 Lomb Memorial Dr. 475-4121.

8 p.m. $5-$20.

Sophistafunk. Three Heads Brewing, 186 Atlantic Ave. 244-1224. 8 p.m. $10.

Steve Greene & Dave Arenius.

Via Girasole Wine Bar, 3 Schoen Pl. Pittsford.

641-0340. 7 p.m.

Trio East. Little Café, 240 East Ave. 258-0400. 8 p.m.

Sophistafunk promotes strength in unity, with thought-provoking lyrics about societal activism in a crisp rap delivery. Based in Syracuse, the established trio of vocalist Jack Brown, keyboardist-bassist Adam Gold, and drummer Emanuel Washington recently added a new member, saxophonist Tommy Weeks of the Funky Dawgz Brass Band. Sophistafunk takes you on a galactic space ride featuring live drums, dank electronic beats, glistening keyboard textures, and heavy-thudding bass.

Sophistafunk will perform on Friday, October 11, 8 p.m. at Three Heads Brewing, 186 Atlantic Avenue. $10. 244-1224. threeheadsbrewing.com; sophistafunkband.com.

— BY KATIE HALLIGAN

Diggler’s Bridge. 585 Rockin

Burger Bar, 250 Pixley Rd. 247-0079. 7 p.m.

The Hi-Risers. Lux Lounge, 666 South Ave. lux666.com.

9 p.m. $5.

Mochester. Dinosaur BBQ, 99 Court St. 325-7090. 10 p.m.

Mud Creek. Iron Smoke Distillery, 111 Parce Ave Suite 5b. Fairport. 8:30 p.m.

Steely Dan. Auditorium Theatre, 885 E. Main St. rbtl.org. 8 p.m. $70 & up.

Sticks & Stones Band. Bar Louie, 98 Greece Ridge Center Dr. 797-1054. 8 p.m.

Vinyl. B-Side, 5 Liftbridge Lane. Fairport.

315-3003. 8 p.m.

POP/ROCK

50th Anniversary Party.

California Brew Haus, 402 W. Ridge Rd. 621-1480.

Oct. 11-13, 4 p.m.

Chasing Neon. Nashvilles, 4853 W Henrietta Rd. Henrietta. 334-3030.

9 p.m. $5.

ConArtist. Pineapple Jack’s, 485 Spencerport Rd. Gates.

247-5225. 9 p.m. $5.

Cool Club & The Lipker Sisters. Johnny’s Pub,

1382 Culver Rd. 224-0990.

8:30 p.m.

Dave Riccioni & Friends. M’s 4300 Bar & Grill, 4300 Culver Road. 467-2750. Second Friday of every month, 6-9 p.m.

PUNK/HARDCORE

Handguns, Second Suitor, In Winds, Carpool. Bug Jar, 219

[ SAT., OCTOBER 12 ] ACOUSTIC/FOLK

Anthony Blood & Brody George Schenk. Brindle Haus

Brewing Co., 377 S Union St. Spencerport. 488-2034. 7 p.m.

Ethos Unplugged. The Angry Goat Pub, 938 Clinton Ave. 413-1125. 10 p.m.

Head to the Roots. B-Side, 5 Liftbridge Lane. Fairport.

315-3003. 5-7 p.m.

AMERICANA

The Blind Owl Band. Three Heads Brewing, 186 Atlantic Ave. 244-1224. 8 p.m. $12/$15.

Cotton Toe Three. Sager Beer Works, 46 Sager Dr Suite E. 245-3006. 7:30 p.m.

Monroe Ave. bugjar.com.

9:15 p.m. $10/$12.

Driftwood, The Dawn Timbers.

Flour City Station, 170 East Ave. 413-5745. 9 p.m. $17.50.

TRADITIONAL

CLASSICAL

A Sicilian Deam: From Akragas to Pirandilliano Chaos. Nazareth College

Wilmot Recital Hall, 4245 East Avenue. 389-2700. 7 p.m. $5.

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Saturday, October 19th • 4-6pm Galaxy West Studios & Gallery 900 Jefferson Road, Henrietta in the Genesee Valley Regional Market

(next to Safelite Glass, behind the King and I restautant)

FREE Admission, light beverages & snacks Limited to the first 40 attendees Enjoy discussion and the music of Rolling Stone magazine's #1 guitarist of all time: Jimi Hendrix!

Hosted by Chris Wilmot

RPO: An Evening in Vienna.

Kodak Hall at Eastman Theatre, 60 Gibbs St. 8 p.m. $30 & up.

COUNTRY

Grit N Grace. Nashvilles,

4853 W Henrietta Rd. Henrietta. 334-3030. 9 p.m. $5.

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JAZZ

TROPICAL

Annie Wells & Friends: Laura Nyro Tribute. Little Café, 240

Daniel King Band, Sonidos Unidos. Iron Smoke Distillery,

East Ave. 258-0400. 8 p.m.

As One. Photo City Improv, 543 Atlantic Ave. 451-0047.

7 p.m. $15.

Bill Tiberio Band. Lovin’ Cup, 300 Park Point Dr. lovincup. com. 7 p.m. $5.

Cousin Vinny. Salvatore’s Pizzeria & Pub, 1217 Bay Rd. Webster. 671-9420. 7:30 p.m.

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

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Taproot Collective Cor. of Pennsylvania & First Street “Holistic systems for healthy local food, housing & education.” taprootcollective.org

Type High Letterpress 1115 E. Main St. | Suite 252 The Hungerford Building 281-2510 | typehigh.com Letterpress Gift Shop Posters & Invitations

1115 East Main Street | 469-8217 Open Studios First Friday 6-9pm and Second Saturday 10am-3pm info at TheHungerford.com

John Grieco: Lasting Art 153 Railroad St. 802-3652 | objectmaker.com Friends of Market 325-5058 marketfriends@rochester.rr.com Redi Imports Automotive & Alignment Services | 235-3444 144 Railroad Street rediimports.com

Bitter Honey 127 Railroad Street 270-4202 Bitterhoney.roc.com Authentic Mexican fare in a family-style setting Boxcar Donuts eatatboxcar.com | 270-5942 127 Railroad St, Suite 120.

Open Tues-Sun Southern Inspired: Gourmet Donuts & Fried Chicken

The Yards RPM 50-52 Public Market Way | 362-1977 Art gallery and studio space focusing on community engagement in Rochester

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Inoculation, Mutilatred, Anthropic, Undeath. Bug Jar,

219 Monroe Ave. bugjar.com.

7:30 p.m. $8.

POP/ROCK

50th Anniversary Party.

California Brew Haus, 402 W. Ridge Rd. 621-1480. Oct. 13, 4 p.m.

Back In Town. Johnny’s Pub, 1382 Culver Rd. 224-0990.

8:30 p.m.

Greg Woods. B-Side, 5 Liftbridge Lane. Fairport.

315-3003. 8 p.m.

Jack West. Abilene, 153 Liberty Pole Way. 232-3230.

9 p.m. $6.

Mullet, Appetite for Voltage.

Anthology, 336 East Ave. 484-1964. 8 p.m. $20.

Rock Steady. Pineapple Jack’s, 485 Spencerport Rd. Gates. 247-5225. 9:30 p.m.

The Song Remains - Zepelin Tribute. Dinosaur BBQ, 99 Court St. 325-7090. 10 p.m.

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Jimmie Highsmith Jr.. Via Girasole Wine Bar, 3 Schoen Pl. Pittsford. 641-0340.

7:30 p.m.

The Velvet Gentlemen. Bop Shop Records, 1460 Monroe Ave. 271-3354. 8 p.m. $20/$15 (students).

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These Guys. Bar Louie, 98

Greece Ridge Center Dr. 797-1054. 9 p.m.

Timeline Band. Sticky Lips, 830 Jefferson Rd. 292-5544.

9 p.m.

Towpath Sal. Fanatics, 7281 W Main St. Lima. 624-2080.

7 p.m.

PUNK/HARDCORE

The Sweatshop Boys, Fox 45.

Rosen Krown, 875 Monroe Ave. 271-7050. 9 p.m. $6.

111 Parce Ave Suite 5b.

Fairport. 8 p.m. $10.

[ SUN., OCTOBER 13 ] ACOUSTIC/FOLK

Sunday Night Live: Warren Paul. The Clover Center for

Arts & Spirituality, 1101 Clover St. 319-9807. 6-8 p.m.

Bob Bunce & Rural Delivery, John Dady & John Michael Ryan. The Riviera, 4 Center

St., Geneseo. 481-0036.

7 p.m. $15/$20.

AMERICANA

Watkins & the Rapiers. Little

Café, 240 East Ave. 258-0400.

7 p.m.

BLUES

Paul Nelson Band. Fanatics,

7281 W Main St. Lima.

624-2080. -15, 7 p.m. $20.

POP/ROCK

CLASSICAL

Faculty/Guest Recital: Antonio & Johann. Nazareth College

Wilmot Recital Hall, 4245 East Avenue. 389-2700. 3 p.m.

Going for Baroque. Memorial Art Gallery, 500 University Ave. 276-8900. 1 & 3 p.m. W/ museum admission: $6-$15.

Pops on Pipes. Auditorium Theatre, 885 E. Main St. rtosonline.org. 2:30 p.m. $15.

RPO: Beethoven & Haydn.

Hochstein Performance Hall, 50 N Plymouth Ave. hochstein.org. 2 p.m. $30-$44.

Stringplicity. George Eastman Museum, 900 East Ave. eastman.org. 3 p.m. w/ museum admission: $5-$10.

Wilmot Brass Quintet & Dr Bruce Frank, organ.

First Presbyterian Church of Pittsford, 25 Church St. Pittsford. 586-5688. 3 p.m.

JAZZ

20th Century Vox. Brighton

Memorial Library, 2300 Elmwood Ave. 784-5310. 2 p.m.

Bill Tiberio & Friends. Little Café, 240 East Ave. 258-0400.

2-4 p.m.

Joe Policastro Trio. Little Café, 240 East Ave. 258-0400. 7 p.m.

Sunday Gumbo featuring Steve Shay. The Spirit Room,

139 State St. 397-7595.

Second Sunday of every month, 6 p.m.

POP/ROCK

50th Anniversary Party.

California Brew Haus, 402 W. Ridge Rd. 621-1480. 4 p.m.

Bob Dietch: The Piano Bar. Out Alliance, 100 College Ave. Second Sunday of every month, 2-4 p.m. $5.

TRADITIONAL

Fiddlers of the Genesee.

TRADITIONAL

[ MON., OCTOBER 14 ]

Bristol Valley Theater, 151 South Main St. bvtnaples.org.

2 p.m. $5-$15.

Ted Nicolosi. Record Archive, 33 1/3 Rockwood St. 244-1210. 6-8 p.m.

[ TUE., OCTOBER 15 ] ACOUSTIC/FOLK David Gans. Abilene, 153 Liberty Pole Way. 232-3230.

8 p.m. $8/$12.

Golden Link Folk Singing Society Singaround. Twelve

Corners Presbyterian, 1200 S Winton Rd. 244-8585. goldenlink.org. 7:30-10 p.m.

AMERICANA

Bluegrass Tuesdays. The

Angry Goat Pub, 938 Clinton Ave. 413-1125. 8 p.m.

BLUES

Paul Nelson Band. Fanatics, 7281 W Main St. Lima.

624-2080. 7 p.m. $20.

CLASSICAL

Tuesday Pipes.. Christ

Church, 141 East Ave. 454-3878. 12:10 p.m.

Lunchtime concerts by Eastman organists.

JAZZ

Gray Quartet Jazz Sessions.

The Spirit Room, 139 State St. 397-7595. 7:30 p.m. $5.

POP/ROCK

Perpetual Groove, Ocular Panther. Flour City Station,

170 East Ave. 413-5745.

8 p.m. $15.50.

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Film “Firefighters Under Occupation” takes a

A scene from the documentary “Soufra,’ screening as part of the Witness Palestine Film Festival. PHOTO PROVIDED

Barriers between us Witness Palestine Film Festival MONDAY, OCTOBER 14, THROUGH SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 9 WITNESSPALESTINEROCHESTER.ORG [ PREVIEW ] BY ADAM LUBITOW

We’re currently in a worldwide crisis of building walls, as divisions both physical and psychological threaten to splinter and force global populations ever further apart. From Brexit to the president’s dangerously misguided plans for a border wall with Mexico, humankind seems more determined than ever to insulate itself from anyone different.

Each year the Witness Palestine Film Festival turns our eyes to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and to a place where such barriers

have caused incalculable harm over the course of decades. The festival’s films, talkbacks, and events seek to foster change and cultivate empathy. In so doing, it offers a reminder of how important it is to seek out the perspectives of the lives those walls have hurt.

As has become tradition, the festival will conclude with a “Celebrate Palestine” dinner with an array of Middle Eastern cuisine, this year featuring a presentation by Boston-based Palestinian-American guest speaker Nadia Abuelezam, creator of Palestinians Podcast and research fellow at the Harvard School of Public Health. Abuelezam will speak about the unifying nature of storytelling and the resilience of the Palestinian people.

The “Celebrate Palestine” dinner will be held on Saturday, November 9, 5:30 to 8 p.m. at the Asbury First United Methodist Church (1050 East Avenue). Tickets are $20 at the door, though advance registration is required

by November 2. Those planning to attend can contact CelebratePalestine@wpff.us.

A complete schedule with times, locations, and other details may be found at witnesspalestinerochester.org. Tickets for the films shown at The Little are $8 (students $5) and will be available through The Little Theatre box office.

What follows is a brief look at the films being presented at this year’s festival.

An undercover investigation by news organization Al Jazeera, the eye-opening “The Lobby USA” delves into the BDS campaign, a nonviolent means for Palestinians and fellow supporters to protest Israel’s occupation by boycotting goods originating from that country. One of the film’s subjects, activist Summer Awad, will participate via Skype in a post-screening discussion. (Monday, October 14, 6:30 p.m. St John Fisher College, free admission.)

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look at the difficulties faced by firefighters in Palestine, and the ways their already dangerous jobs are made all the more perilous by the occupation. Filmed by Welsh firefighter and filmmaker Ciaran Gibbons in 2015 during a time of increased violence in the region, the film also chronicles the humanitarian support given to Palestinian firefighters by The Fire Brigade Union of the UK. Writer-director-producer Ciaran Gibbons will be in attendance along with one of the firefighters featured in the film, Jim Malone.

(Sunday, October 20, 2:30 p.m. The Little.)

The uplifting documentary “Soufra” tells the inspirational story of determined entrepreneur Mariam Shaar, who’s lived all of her 42 years in the Burj El Barajneh refugee camp just south of Beirut, Lebanon. The film follows Shaar as she embarks on a quest to fulfill her long-held dreams, recruiting women of the camp to help start a small kitchen, from which she hopes to create the first refugee food truck and successful catering company. A Skype Q&A with director Thomas Morgan will follow the screening.

(Monday, October 21, 6:30 p.m. The Little.)

“The Great Book Robbery” chronicles the heartbreaking destruction of Palestinian culture, focusing on the theft of tens of thousands of books and manuscripts taken from the homes of expelled Palestinians by officials and Israeli forces after ethnic cleansing operations of 1948-49. Dutch-Israeli filmmaker Benny Brunner join in a discussion via Skype after the film. (Sunday, October 27, 2:30 p.m. The Little.)

Through interviews with veterans, refugees, survivors, and historians, the gripping “1948: Creation and Catastrophe” offers powerful, first-hand, personal recollections of both Palestinians and Israelis, who tell the story of the establishment of Israel by focusing on the events of one pivotal year in the IsraeliPalestinian conflict. Co-directors Andy Trimlett and Ahlam Muhtaseb will join in a post-film discussion via Skype. (Monday, October 28, 6:30 p.m. The Little.)

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Arts & Performance Art Exhibits [ OPENING ] Arts Center of Yates County, 127 Main St. Penn Yan. Naples Trio. Reception Oct 11, 5-7pm. Through Nov 9. (315) 536-8226.

AsIs Gallery, Sage Art Center, 835 Wilson Blvd. Dance on Camera, Camera on Dance.

Mondays-Fridays. Through Oct 29. sageart.center/asis-gallery.

Dryden Theatre, 900 East Ave. Lena Herzog: Last Whispers. eastman.org/last-whispers.

Flower City Arts Center, 713 Monroe Ave. Flower City Pottery Invitational. Sat., Oct. 12, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. & Sun., Oct. 13, 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Preview reception Oct 11, 6-8pm ($20). Exhibition, demos, & sale. 271-5183.

Main Street Arts, 20 W Main St. Clifton Springs. Sylvia Taylor: The Time Between the Dog & The Wolf. Reception Oct 19, 4-7pm. Through Nov 15. (315) 462-0210.

Memorial Art Gallery, 500 University Ave. Alphonse Mucha: Master of Art Nouveau. Member preview party Oct 12, 7pm. Through Jan 19. $6-$15. 276-8900.

Visual Studies Workshop, 31 Prince St. Crystal Z Campbell: Post Masters; E Bobrow: Moonrise. Oct 9-Nov 3. vsw.org.

William Harris Gallery, 3rd Floor Gannett Hall, RIT. MFA Alumni Exhibition. Reception Oct 17, 4:30-7pm. Through Oct 25. 475- 2716.

Williams-Insalaco Gallery 34 at FLCC, 3325 Marvin Sands Dr. Barb Etzel Memorial Art Collection. Oct. 10-25. Oct 10: discussion 2pm, reception 4-6:30pm. 785-1369.

Art Events [ THU., OCTOBER 10 ] Monika Drożyńska: Urban Embroidery & Monika Drożyńska: Genesee Braids.

Oct. 10. UR, Rettner Hall, 601 Elmwood Ave. Participatory art activism projects (10am12pm); talks (5:30-6:30pm): Reception (6:30-7:30pm) sas. rochester.edu/events.

Penelope Umbrico: Everyone’s Photos Any License. 6 p.m.

George Eastman Museum, 900 East Ave. Curtis Theatre $5/$10. eastman.org. [ FRI., OCTOBER 11 ] Arena Art Group. 5:30-7 p.m.

Mill Art Center & Gallery, 61 N Main St . Honeoye Falls Reception 624-7740.

Lual Mayen: A Game Developer’s Inspirational Journey. 1 p.m. Strong National Museum of Play, 1 Manhattan $16. 263-2700. [ SAT., OCTOBER 12 ] Letchworth Arts & Crafts Show & Sale. 10 a.m.-5 p.m.

Letchworth State Park. Castile artswyco.org.

ART BY AMANDA PARRY OGLESBEE

@ROCCITYNEWS

ART | ‘BEINGS’

When an artist draws from life, they attempt to record or capture the essence and specifics about an individual, whether that’s a person, animal, or plant. Taking flora — from trees to flowers — as her inspiration, painter Amanda Parry Oglesbee creates what she calls portraits of individual plants. The silent sentinels, rendered lovingly in their gnarled and graceful gestures, are often painted against the backdrop of a stark blue sky or a velvety black abyss. And Oglesbee’s travels, whether for her Fulbright Teaching Fellowship to Japan or her artist residencies in Paris, have led her to make portraits of individual plants around the world. Her work will be featured this season in a solo show, “Beins,” at The Gallery at More Fire Glass Studio.

A reception will be held Thursday, October 10, 5 to 8 p.m.

Continues through December 23 at The Gallery at More Fire Glass Studio, 36 Field Street. Mondays by appointment, Tuesday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Free admission. morefireglass.com.

— BY REBECCA RAFFERTY

Second Saturdays. Second Saturday of every month, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. The Hungerford, 1115 E Main St. 469-8217 3-6 p.m. Cornerstone Gallery, 8732 Main St., Honeoye. [ SUN., OCTOBER 13 ] Albert Paley & R. Roger Remington: A Conversation. 2 p.m. Memorial Art Gallery, 500 University Ave. w/ museum admission: $6-$15. 276-8900.

Comedy [ THU., OCTOBER 10 ] Mike Vecchione. 7:30 p.m.

Comedy @ the Carlson, 50 Carlson Rd $9-$15.

426-6339. [ FRI., OCTOBER 11 ] Brooklyn Invasion with Wednesday Westwood. 10 p.m. The Penthouse, 1 East Ave, 11th floor Sponsored by Trillium Health & The MOCHA Center $10-$15. 775-2013. [ SAT., OCTOBER 12 ] Ron White. 8 p.m. Auditorium Theatre, 885 E. Main St. $42 & up. rbtl.org.

Vic DiBitetto. 8 p.m. Lyric Theatre, 440 East Ave $30/$50.

Theater Festival of New Theatre. Fri., Oct. 11, 7 p.m., Sat., Oct. 12, 3 p.m. & Sun., Oct. 13, 3 p.m.

Geva Theatre, 75 Woodbury Blvd gevatheatre.org.

Frankenstein: A Live Radio Play. Wed., Oct. 9, 7:30 p.m., Thu., Oct. 10, 7:30 p.m., Fri., Oct. 11, 7:30 p.m., Sat., Oct. 12, 2 & 7:30 p.m. and Sun., Oct. 13, 2 p.m. MuCCC, 142 Atlantic Ave Screen Plays $15-$20. muccc.org.

The Grown-Up. Wed., Oct. 9, 7 p.m., Thu., Oct. 10, 7 p.m., Fri., Oct. 11, 7 p.m. & Sat., Oct. 12, 7 p.m. Todd Theatre, UR, River Campus $8-$15.

275-4959.

Lear’s Nightmare. Fri., Oct. 11, 6 p.m., Sat., Oct. 12, 2 & 6 p.m. and Sun., Oct. 13, 2 & 6 p.m. Burley Berries & Blooms, 6335 Route 20A E . Warsaw Shake on the Lake $15. artswyco.org.

A Piece of My Heart. Fri., Oct. 11, 7 p.m., Sat., Oct. 12, 7 p.m. & Sun., Oct. 13, 3 p.m.

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Film

Part of the 27th ImageOut Film Festival lineup, “Last Ferry” screens on Tuesday, October 15, at the Little Theatre. PHOTO PROVIDED

A fuller picture ImageOut Film Festival THURSDAY, OCTOBER 10, TO SUNDAY, OCTOBER 20 INDIVIDUAL FILM TICKETS $9-$15; FULL FESTIVAL PASSES $225 | IMAGEOUT.ORG [ PREVIEW ] BY RACHEL CRAWFORD

Rochester’s LGBTQ film festival, ImageOut, is back this week for its 27th year. Running for 11 days, from October 10 through October 20, screenings will be held at both the Little Theatre and the Dryden Theatre. The festival features dozens of screenings that give voice, expression, and three-dimensionality to gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender people.

This year ImageOut features more than 40 films, including documentaries, narrative films, and several foreign independent features as well.

We spoke with programming director Mike Gamilla about the curation process.

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pregnancy, abortion, mental illness, and, of course, romance,” he said.

ImageOut kicks off Thursday, October 10, from 7 to 10 p.m. with the annual Festival Eve Party at VOLO Osteria and Enoteca.

Admission is $10, or free with the purchase of either opening night film (“Vita & Virginia” or “An Almost Ordinary Summer”). Parking is available at the Midtown Garage.

Below, CITY previews some of what we think are this year’s can’t-miss titles.

Visit imageout.org for a full schedule and more information.

Directed by Chayna Button and based on the play by Emmy award-winner Eileen Atkins, the narrative feature “Vita & Virginia” is influenced by both the life of Virginia Woolf (played by Elizabeth Debicki) and her novel “Orlando” — which was inspired by Woolf’s love affair with the gender-fluid writer and socialite Vita Sackville-West (Gemma Arterton). Naturally, it takes place in the Roaring ‘20s. A special perk to this feature is that viewers get to listen to vignettes of the real-life correspondence between Woolf and West, which weave through the plot and serve as a vehicle to move between settings and narration. (Friday, October 11, 6:30 p.m. Little 1.)

In the opening scene of Argentine director Lucio Castro’s stunning, awardwinning, time-bending feature, “End of the Century,” main character Ocho arrives at an Airbnb in Barcelona. After spending several days in solitude, he invites Javi, a man he frequently notices in the neighborhood, upstairs to his apartment.

The film is beautifully and remarkably minimalistic — for nearly 15 minutes, there is no dialogue as the audience embarks on Ocho’s vacation with him and experiences stunning cinematography that pairs both the idiosyncratic architecture and the natural landscapes of Barcelona.

Throughout the course of Ocho and Javi’s rendezvous, Castro warps time and space alongside the themes of existential probing. “End of the Century” is an inquiry of Sisyphean stagnancy and a grass-is-alwaysgreener mindset epitomized by Ocho’s nearrefrain: “I enjoy being alone.”

In “End of the Century,” we fully realize the symbolism of the contents of a refrigerator, the nostalgia of an old t-shirt, and the subtle joy in a sequence of unremarkable moments that lead us to the memorable. (Saturday, October 12, 9:30 p.m.

Dryden. Spanish with English subtitles.)

In the documentary “Circus of Books,” Rachel Mason interviews her parents Karen and Barry Mason about the story of their bookstore and porn shop, Circus of Books.

Over the course of the film, the audience learns about the seeming conventional family who actively support the gay community by making hardcore, gay, and adult materials available in a climate that finds them obscene.

Rachel Mason constructs a narrative that often involves a few unexpected revelations.

We learn about Karen Mason’s background as a reporter covering smut raids, criminal justice, and obscenity laws. But a raw and devastating side of political activism takes shape: do we only support a movement and a community from afar? (Sunday, October 13, 3:15 p.m. Little 1.)

Argentine director and screenwriter Marco Berger’s latest feature, “The Blonde One,” masterfully focuses on the importance of simplicity, sound, and gestural communication. In fact, the economical use of dialogue makes this film exceptionally moving. The characters are pensive and primarily communicate through observation and body language (though there is a plot, and it develops quickly). This is especially the case for Gabriel (or Gabo, played by Gaston Re), the blond, whose lines are often monosyllabic due to his shy and highly perceptive nature.

Gabo rents a room with his coworker, Juan (Alfonso Baron), which catalyzes their intimate relationship.

“The Blonde One” brings forward the question of longevity in closeted homosexual relationships (especially those that exist in predominately masculine cultures), where one partner wants to appear, to quote the film, “normal” to the rest of the world. (Friday, October 18, 7:45 p.m. Little 1. Spanish with English subtitles.)

The documentary “Gay Chorus Deep South” takes viewers through the four states that the San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus tours in an effort to normalize homosexuality and gender-fluidity all through song, dance, and comedy. Their performances remind us that serotonin is, in fact, in our guts as much as our brains — viewers will find themselves letting out belly laughs as well as tearing up at the gut wrenching, long repressed testimonies.

(Saturday, October 19, 11 a.m. Dryden.)

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Roald Dahl’s Matilda the Musical. Fri., Oct. 11, 7:30 p.m., Sat., Oct. 12, 7:30 p.m. and Sun., Oct. 13, 2 p.m. A Magical Journey Thru Stages, 875 E Main St $13. mjtstages.com.

The Rocky Horror Show.

Fridays, Saturdays, 7:30 p.m. and Sundays, 2 p.m Harvester 56 Theater, 56 Harvester Ave Batavia $15. 815-9393.

The Tempest. Fri., Oct. 11, 7:30 p.m., Sat., Oct. 12, 7:30 p.m. and Sun., Oct. 13, 2 p.m.

Callahan Theater at Nazareth College Arts Center, 4245 East Ave $10/$12. 389-2170.

Festivals

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3rd Annual Lincoln Hill Farms Fall Fest. Sat., Oct. 12, 1210:30 p.m. Lincoln Hill Farms, 3792 Rte 247 . Canandaigua $15/$20. lincolnhillfarms.com.

Afrikan American Cultural Festival. Sat., Oct. 12, 12-9 p.m. Ukrainian Autocephalous, 3176 St. Paul Blvd Irondequoit $5/$15. afamfestival.org.

Fall Festival. Sat., Oct. 12, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. and Sun., Oct. 13, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Bristol Mountain Resort, 5662 NY 64 $5. 374-6000. bristolmountain.com/fall-festival.

Fall Open House & Apple Festival. Sat & Sun, Oct. 12-13 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Rochester Folk Art Guild, 1445 Upper Hill Rd folkartguild.org.

I first read Joy Harjo’s poems for a college course on Native American literature; her collection, “She Had Some Horses,” was on the syllabus. Harjo’s writing was not only the first I’d read by an Indigenous woman (previously I’d wolfed Sherman Alexie and N. Scott Momaday) but it was also among the first feminist works I’d encountered. I remember being so absorbed by her tenderness and ferocity, by her ability to speak to unabashed despair and fury and love and resilience. Earlier this year, Harjo, who is a member of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation, made history as the first Native American to be appointed as United States Poet Laureate. This week Writers & Books will celebrate this designation with a participatory reading of her work and open mic with emcee and featured poet Monty Campbell Jr. (Cayuga), author of “A Dent in the Moon.”

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University Ave. “Ancestral — BY REBECCA RAFFERTY Voices” Fri., Oct. 11, 7 p.m. $5 donation. 563-2145.

Dryden Theatre, 900 East Ave. Rochester Labor Film Series. Fri., Oct. 11, 7:30 p.m. [ THU., OCTOBER 10 ] Recreation “The Killing Floor” (1985).

Explore Diwali. 4-5 p.m. rochesterlabor.org.; “Gandhi” [ SAT., OCTOBER 12 ] Monroe Branch Library, 809 (1982). Sun., Oct. 13, 2 p.m.

Fall Foliage Train Excursions.

Monroe Ave 428-8275. $5-$10. eastman.org.

10 a.m., 12:30 & 3 p.m.

Kodak Center, 200 W. Ridge [ FRI., OCTOBER 11 ] Lehigh Valley Railroad Rd. Kathy Najimy: “Hocus Historical Society Station KinderZoo: Terrific Turtles.

Pocus” Thu., Oct. 10, 7:30 Museum, 8 E. High St .

10:15 a.m. Seneca Park Zoo, p.m. $26 & up.

Shortsville $22. lvrrhs.org.

2222 St. Paul St $5/$7 plus kodakcenter.com. admission. 336-7213.

Guided Hike. 10 a.m.-noon.

Little Theatre, 240 East Ave. Morin Park, Empire Blvd KinderZoo: Zoo-per Heroes.

“A Nightmare on Elm Street Registration: 340-8655.

11:30 a.m. Seneca Park Zoo, 2: Freddy’s Revenge” (1985).

2222 St. Paul St $5/$7 plus Telescope Viewing.

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Strasenburgh Planetarium, thelittle.org.

657 East Ave Dusk-10pm. Call SciFiTech: Experience the Main Street Arts, 20 W Main after 7:30 pm to confirm open Fiction that has Become Our St. Clifton Springs. “Walking on hours 697-1945. rmsc.org.

Future. Ongoing. Rochester Water” Thu., Oct. 10, 7 p.m.

Museum & Science Center, (315) 462-0210. [ SUN., OCTOBER 13 ] 657 East Ave. rmsc.org.

Trolley Rides. 11:30 a.m.-4 Variety Mind Trip: Juggling, p.m Fall foliage rides through Kids Events Magic, & Hypnosis. 7 p.m. 75 Oct 27 NY Museum of Stutson St $10-$20. [ WED., OCTOBER 9 ] Transportation, 6393 E. River Rd $6-$8. 533-1113. [ SAT., OCTOBER 12 ] Book & Beast. 11-11:30 a.m Seneca Park Zoo, 2222 St. Batty About Bats. 11 a.m.-4 [ MON., OCTOBER 14 ] Paul St 336-7200. p.m. Strong National Museum Fall Foliage Hike. 2-4 p.m. of Play, 1 Manhattan Sq. $16.

DC Super Heroes: Discover Sanctuary at Crowfield 263-2700.

Your Superpowers. Through Farms, 2480 Arcadia Zurich Jan. 19, 2020. Strong National SAFE Penguin Day. Seneca Rd. Newark.

Museum of Play, 1 Manhattan Park Zoo, 2222 St. Paul St Sq. $16. 263-2700. $9-$12. 336-7200.

Wildlife Rockstars. 11:30 a.m. [ TUE., OCTOBER 15 ] & 1 p.m. Rochester Museum Breakerspace: Take Things & Science Center, 657 East Apart. 4 p.m Monroe Branch Ave. rmsc.org.

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Horror in the Library. 4-5 p.m.

Penfield Public Library, 1985 Baird Rd. Grades 6-12 340-8720. [ SAT., OCTOBER 12 ] Down The Rabbit Hole: Steampunk Ball. 8 p.m. Nox, 302 N Goodman St .

Haunted History Ghost Walks.

7 p.m The Real Haunt spirit investigations, Oct 11 8pm ($30; advance only). Museum of Wayne County History, 21 Butternut St $5/$10. waynehistory.org.

ZooBoo. Sat & Sun., 10 a.m.2 p.m. Seneca Park Zoo, 2222 St. Paul St For kids $6.50/$8.50. 295-7388.

Culture Lectures [ THU., OCTOBER 10 ] Stonewall & Beyond: The Movement We Made. 12:40 p.m. FLCC, 3325 Marvin Sands Dr Vera Whisman. Room 2775 785-1307.

The History & Archaeology of the Earliest Wines. 7:30 p.m.

Memorial Art Gallery, 500 University Ave. $5. 276-8900. [ FRI., OCTOBER 11 ] Birding New England. 7:30 p.m. The Clover Center for Arts & Spirituality, 1101 Clover St 314-8462.

Dr Pablo Miguel Sierra-Silva: Urban Slavery in Colonial Mexico. 6:30 p.m. Hipocampo Children’s Books, 638 South Ave 461-0161. [ SAT., OCTOBER 12 ] History Alive: Female Mariners of Lake Ontario. 2 p.m.

Sodus Point Village Hall, 8356 Bay Street, Sodus Point Susan Peterson Gateley sodusbaylighthouse.org.

Then & Now: The Dynamic History of America Told Through the Stories of the Genesee River.

9 a.m.-noon. Seth Green Park, St. Paul & Norton St. Walking tour $25. 370-1038.

Walking Tour: Architecture & Architects. 11 a.m. Mount Hope Cemetery, 791 Mt Hope Ave. $10. fomh.org. [ SUN., OCTOBER 13 ] Arboretum Tour. 2 p.m. Durand Park, Zoo Rd lot 261-1665.

Guided Walking Tour. 2 p.m Mount Hope Cemetery, 791 Mt Hope Ave. $10. fomh.org.

Sojourner Truth Tells it Like it Is. 2:30 p.m. Sonnenberg Gardens & Mansion, 151 Charlotte St . Canandaigua Eunice White w/ museum admission farmingtonmeetinghouse.org.

Walking Tour: Riverside Ramble. 1-2:30 p.m. Riverside Cemetery, 2650 Lake Ave Cynthia Howk, guide $10. fomh.org. [ TUE., OCTOBER 15 ] The Haudenosaunee. 2 p.m.

Rochester Museum & Science Center, 657 East Ave. Exhibit Tours for Adults. Registration: 697-1942 $3-$18. rmsc.org.

Monarch Butterflies Depend on Us. 7 p.m. JCC Hart Theater, 1200 Edgewood Avenue 340-3227.

Literary Events [ SAT., OCTOBER 12 ] The Flytrap Series: Small Press Book Fair After-Party. 7 p.m.

Small World Books, 425 North St. $5-$10 Suggested.

Rochester Small Press Book Fair. 12-5 p.m. Visual Studies Workshop, 31 Prince St. 4428676. vsw.org. [ SUN., OCTOBER 13 ] Speak Easy: Strange Tales. 1-3 p.m. Cheshire, 647 South Ave. 21 & over $7. 205-8529. [ MON., OCTOBER 14 ] Neilly Author Series: Dani Shapiro. 6 p.m. UR Rush Rhees Library, 755 Library Rd Hawkins-Carlson Room 275-5804. [ TUE., OCTOBER 15 ] Books Sandwiched In. 12:12-12:52 p.m “One Giant Leap: The Impossible Mission That Flew Us to the Moon,” by Charles Fishman.

Central Library, Kate Gleason Auditorium, 115 South Ave. ffrpl.org.

Lift Bridge Writers’ Group. 6:30 p.m. Lift Bridge Book Shop, 45 Main St 637-2260.

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JustGrowPlay, LLC (“LLC”) filed Arts. of Org. with Secy. of State of NY (“SSNY”) on September 6, 2019.

Office Location: Monroe County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to 142 Highledge Drive, Penfield, New York 14526. Purpose: any lawful activity.

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Notice of Formation of Ma’ama Tee’s Cookin & Catering LLC. Art. Of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY)08/23/19.

Office Location: Monroe County. Street Address of principal business location: c/o The Limited Liability Company, 30 Flint Lock Circle, Rochester, NY 14624. SSNY shall mail copy of process: c/o The Limited Liability Company, 30 Flint Lock Circle, Rochester, NY 14624. Purpose: any lawful purpose. [ LEGAL NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of The Right Lift, LLC. Art. Of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY)9/03/19.

Office Location: Monroe County. Street Address of principal business location: c/o The Limited Liability Company, C/O RDG Partners, Attn: John Rizzo, 69 Monroe Avenue, Pittsford, New York 14534. SSNY shall mail copy of process: c/o The Limited Liability Company, C/O RDG Partners, Attn: John Rizzo, 69 Monroe Avenue, Pittsford, New York 14534. Purpose: any lawful purpose. [ NOTICE ] (Notice of Formation of R&K Peters, LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 9/9/19.

Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY may mail a copy of any process to LLC, 3332 Latta Rd., Rochester, NY 14612.

Purpose: any lawful purpose. [ NOTICE ] 405 Alexander St LLC (LLC) filed Arts. of Org. with NY Secy. of State (SS) on 9/26/19. 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 565 Blossom Rd, Rochester, NY 14610. LLC’s purpose:

Alanna Roemer-Koke, LCSW, PLLC has filed articles of organization with the New York Secretary of State on September 5, 2019.

Its principal place of business is located at 481 Penbrook Dr., Ste 6, Penfield, NY 14526 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 The PLLC, 481 Penbrook Dr., Ste 6, Penfield, NY 14526. The purpose of the PLLC is to practice the profession of Licensed Clinical Social Worker. [ NOTICE ] All related descendants of Dr. James Gibson A.K.A. “Guinea Jim” of Savannah Sound, Eleuthera, Bahamas please contact Richard Love at drjamesgibsonbahamas@gmail.com or (305) 528-6645 (AAN CAN) [ NOTICE ] AMGIS, LLC. Filed 8/28/19. Office: Orleans Co. SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail to: C/O Roger Hugerford, 711 Park Ave Ste 201, Medina, NY 14103. Purpose: General. [ NOTICE ] Birch Lodge Canandaigua, LLC (LLC) filed Arts. of Org. with NY Secy. of State (SS) on 9/18/19. 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 5607 Palmyra Road, P.O. Box 305, Pittsford, NY 14534.

LLC’s purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] CM&M NEWCO, LLC (LLC) filed Arts. of Org. with NY Secy. of State (SS) on 9/4/19. LLC’s office is in Monroe Co. SS is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SS shall mail a copy of any process to LLC, 595 Trabold Road, Gates, NY 14624. LLC’s purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] CNE Properties LLC (LLC) filed Arts. of Org. with NY Secy. of State (SS) on 2/11/19. 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 LLC’s principal business location at 2509 Browncroft Blvd.

Ste 210, Rochester NY 14625. LLC’s purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Condado Bar & Grill LLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) 5/17/2019. Cty: Monroe. SSNY desig. as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to 124 Foreman Dr., Rochester, NY 14616. General Purpose. [ NOTICE ] CVT Transport, LLC filed Arts. of Org. with NY Secy. of State (SS) on 9/13/19. LLC’s office is in Monroe Co. SS is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SS shall mail a copy of any process to LLC, 48 Woodlyn Way, Penfield, NY 14526.

LLC’s purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] DJB Builds, LLC filed Arts. of Org. with NY Secy. of State (SS) on 9/18/19. LLC’s office is in Monroe Co. SS is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SS shall mail a copy of any process to LLC, 280 E. Broad St., Suite 200, Rochester, NY 14604. LLC’s purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Everything Cbd LLC Arts of Org. filed SSNY 9/23/19. Monroe Co. SSNY design agent for process & shall mail to 258 Almay Rd Rochester, NY 14616 General Purpose [ NOTICE ] Flower City Services LLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) 9/10/2019.

Cty: Monroe. SSNY desig. as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to Law Office of Anthony A. Dinitto, LLC, 2250 West Ridge Rd., Ste. 300, Rochester, NY 14626. General Purpose. [ NOTICE ] Flower City Surveying Services LLC Arts of Org. filed SSNY 4/26/19. Office: Monroe Co. SSNY design agent for process & shall mail to 1900 Empire Blvd #146

Webster, NY 14580 RA: US Corp Agents, Inc. 7014 13 Ave #202 Brooklyn, NY 11228 General Purpose [ NOTICE ] FLUROTEX LLC (LLC) filed Arts. of Org. with NY Secy. of State (SS) on 8/27/19. LLC’s office is in Monroe Co. SS is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SS shall mail a copy of any process to LLC, 7 Canal Park Place, Pittsford, NY 14534.

LLC’s purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] GYV Real Estate LLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) 9/12/2019. Cty: Monroe. SSNY desig. as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to Law Office of Anthony A. Dinitto, LLC, 2250 West Ridge Rd., Ste. 300, Rochester, NY 14626.

General Purpose. [ NOTICE ] IRENE R. GARRICK MENTAL HEALTH COUNSELING PLLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 9/4/2019. Office in Monroe Co. SSNY desig. agent of LLC whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail process to 2000 Winton Rd. South, Ste. 200, Rochester, NY 14618, which is also the principal business location. Purpose: To practice profession of Licensed Mental Health Counseling. [ NOTICE ] LEGAL NOTICE OF FORMATION of Moss & Moon Wellness LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed w/ Secy. of state of N.Y. SSNY on 9/19/19.

Office Location: Monroe County. SSNY has been designated as agent for service of process. SSNY shall mail process to: 9 Diem Street, Rochester, NY 14620.

Purpose: All lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Mr. CleanAll LLC. a commercial/residential janitorial service company incorporated on 11/29/2018 Office: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, 617 Morning Glory drive Rochester, NY 14580. Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

Legal Ads [ NOTICE ] Nelida Ruiz Consulting, LLC Arts of Org. filed SSNY 5/20/19. Office: Monroe Co. SSNY design agent of LLC upon whom process may be served & mail to 80 State St Albany, NY 12207 General Purpose [ NOTICE ] Notice hereby given that an alcohol beverage license is pending, has been applied for to consume Beer, Wine and Liquor at retail in a Restaurant, Under the Alcohol Beverage Control Law, at 1558 Ridge Road, Town Of Greece, Rochester NY 14615. Paulie D LLC. *DBA* Davinci’s Of Greece [ NOTICE ] Notice of Form. of TEAM SPRE, LLC (the “LLC”). Art. of Org. filed with Secretary of the State of NY (SSNY) on 8/28/19. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC, 459 Westside Dr, Rochester, NY 14624.

Purpose: any lawful purpose. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Rochester Landmarks LLC; Art of Org filed with Sec’y of State (SSNY) 9/5/2019; 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 92433, Rochester, New York 14692. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. [ NOTICE ] Notice of formation of 1170 Park Avenue, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the Sect’y of State of NY (SSNY) on 9/4/2019.

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, P.O. Box 142, Pittsford, NY 14534.

Purpose: any lawful act. [ NOTICE ] Notice of formation of 32 PEARL DM LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the Sect’y of State of NY (SSNY) on 9/12/2019.

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:

c/o The LLC, 35 Rolling Meadows Way, Penfield, NY 14526. Purpose: any lawful act. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of 4551 Chestnut LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 9/30/19.

Office location: Monroe Co. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o Christa Construction, 600 East Ave, Ste 201, Rochester, NY 14607.

Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of 4771 DEWEY AVE LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) on 8/22/2019. 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 69 Lowden Point Road, Rochester, New York 14612. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of formation of 50 ROCKINGHAM DM LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the Sect’y of State of NY (SSNY) on 9/12/2019. 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: c/o The LLC, 35 Rolling Meadows Way, Penfield, NY 14526. Purpose: any lawful act. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Angela Stewart, Ph.D., Psychology, PLLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 7/30/19.

Office location: Monroe Co. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Angela Stewart, 308 San Gabriel Dr., Rochester, NY 14610.

Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of formation of Bayview Park, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the Sect’y of State of NY (SSNY) on 8/16/2019.

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, 40A Grove St, Ste 77, Pittsford, NY 14534. Purpose: any lawful act.

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 [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Bristol Hills CAVU LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 07/25/2019. 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 A M Seymour 1900 University Ave Rochester NY 14610 . Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of formation of Brockport Leasing LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the Sect’y of State of NY (SSNY) on 9/5/2019. 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, 18 Ashwood Knoll, Rochester, NY 14624. Purpose: any lawful act. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of CAMS West North, LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 9/5/19.

Office location: Monroe Co. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 271 Paul Road, Rochester, NY 14624. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Castletown Commonwealth, LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) on 07/05/19 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 2604 Elmwood Ave, Suite 291 Rochester NY 14618. Purpose: any lawful activities.

Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 09/24/19.

Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to c/o Home Leasing, LLC, 180 Clinton Sq., Rochester, NY 14604. Purpose: All lawful acts and activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of CLINTON AVENUE APARTMENTS II MM LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 09/24/19.

Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to c/o Home Leasing, LLC, 180 Clinton Sq., Rochester, NY 14604. Purpose: All lawful acts and activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Curran Properties LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 9/3/2019.

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 59 Kemphurst Rd Rochester, NY 14612 . Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of formation of EK REALTY PARTNERS, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the Sect’y of State of NY (SSNY) on 9/27/2019.

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: David A Emmi, 32 Chesham Way, Fairport, NY 14450. Purpose: any lawful act. [ NOTICE ]

Notice of Formation of CEPHAS HOMES, LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) September 18, 2019.

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 2117 Buffalo Rd, #135 Rochester, NY 14624. Purpose: any lawful activities.

Notice of Formation of G4 CONSTRUCTION SERVICES LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 09/20/19. Office location: Monroe County. Princ. office of LLC: 3850 Buffalo Rd., Rochester, NY 14624.

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.

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Lab, LLC (the “LLC”).

Articles of Organization filed with the NY Secy of State (“SOS”) on 9/27/19. 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 32 Nightfrost Ln, Henrietta, NY 14467. 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 JB Business Enterprises, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 9/11/19. 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, 189 Garden Parkway, Henrietta, NY 14467. Purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Notice of formation of L & M Home Services, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the Sect’y of State of NY (SSNY) on 8/29/2019. 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, 745 East Avenue, Hilton, NY 14468. Purpose: any lawful act. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Locked & Loaded Express, LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 06-20-19.

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 61 Presque St, Rochester, NY 14609.

Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Mancini Public Relations LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State 9/3/19. 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 716 Helendale Rd, Rochester, NY 14609.

Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of MANNY3 LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY)

on 06/18/19. Office location: Monroe County.

Princ. office of LLC: 225 Tech Park Dr., Rochester, NY 14623.

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 Mariner Computing, LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 08/08/2019. 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 50 FAIRWOOD DR APARTMENT 203 ROCHESTER, NY 14623. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of MoonSpirit LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) on July 22 2019. 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 15 Ridge Castle Dr. Rochester, NY 14622 . Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Nano Race LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 9/24/19.

Office location: Monroe Co. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 34 Browns Race, Rochester, NY 14614. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Patrick O’Shaughnessy Consulting LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 08/28/2019..

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 51 Waterworks Ln, Fairport, NY 14450 . Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of PLAYTIME PARK LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 07/26/2019. 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 119 SPARROW DR. WEST HENRIETTA NY 14586 . Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Smokey Enterprises LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 23 Jul 2019. 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 18 Buttermilk Hill Rd. Pittsford NY 14534 Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Sour Note Productions, LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 7/3/19. 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 164 Blue Aspen Way, Rochester, NY 14612. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Spirit Life Coaching And Consulting LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 8/16/2019. 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 401 McNaughton Street – Rochester, NY 14606.

Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of SRS1 of New York, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 9/17/19.

Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o The LLC, 116 Howard Road, Rochester, NY 14624. Purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Notice of formation of SSD.Ludhiana, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the Sect’y of State of NY (SSNY) on 8/28/2019.

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, 68 White Oak Bend, Rochester, NY

14624. Purpose: any lawful act. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of The Art Administrators LLC. Arts. of org. filed with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 5/22/19.

Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 121 Merryhill Drive Rochester, NY 14625. Purpose: Any lawful activity [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Thomas-Clifford Real Estate Holdings, LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 8/27/19. Office location: Monroe Co. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: 63 Thomas St, P.O. Box 31767, Rochester, NY 14621. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of UNION SQ ASSOCIATES LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 08/26/19.

Office location: Monroe County. Princ. office of LLC: c/o Home Leasing, LLC, 180 Clinton Sq., 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 addr. of its princ. office.

Purpose: Any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of UNION SQ ASSOCIATES MM LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 08/26/19.

Office location: Monroe County. Princ. office of LLC: c/o Home Leasing, LLC, 180 Clinton Sq., 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 addr. of its princ. office.

Purpose: Any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Webster Avalon DeGeorge LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 8/21/19. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, c/o Sammy Feldman, 3445 Winton Place, Ste 228, Rochester, NY 14623.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

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Legal Ads [ NOTICE ] Notice of formation of Willow River LLC (the “LLC”). Articles of Organization filed with the NY Secy of State (“SOS”) on 7/3/19.

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 30 Magee Ave., Rochester, NY 14613. 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 XACT MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGIES LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 09/20/19.

Office location: Monroe County. Princ. office of LLC: 3861 Buffalo Rd., Rochester, NY 14624.

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 Qualification of Capitol Orchards LLC. Authority filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 08/26/19.

Office location: Monroe County. LLC formed in California (CA) on 08/19/19. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 113 Dominican Dr., San Rafael, CA 94901, also the address to be maintained in CA. Arts of Org. filed with the CA Secy. Of State, 1500 11 th St., Sacramento, CA 95814. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Qualification of Plaza Street Fund 77, LLC. App. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 9/11/19. Office location: Monroe County.

LLC formed in Kansas (KS) on 9/9/19. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o Corporation Service Company, 80 State St, Albany, NY 12207.

KS address of LLC: 2400 W 75th St, Ste 220, Prairie Village, KS 66208. Arts. of Org. filed with KS Secy of State, 120 SW 10th

Ave, Topeka, KS 66612.

Purpose: any lawful act or activity. [ NOTICE ] Orbital Farms, LLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) 8/26/2019. Cty: Monroe. SSNY desig. as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to 200 Henrietta St., Rochester, NY 14620. General Purpose. [ NOTICE ] PARK GROVE PETTIGREW LLC: Notice of Formation of Limited Liability Company. Articles of Organization for PARK GROVE PETTIGREW LLC (“LLC”) were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (“SSNY”) on 09/10/19.

Office Location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of any process to the LLC, at c/o Park Grove Realty, LLC, 46 Prince St., Ste 2003, Rochester, NY 14607. Purpose: To engage in any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] ROC Consulting Services, LLC (LLC) filed Arts. of Org. with NY Secy. of State (SS) on 9/27/17. 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 2604 Elmwood Ave., #113, Rochester, NY 14618.

LLC’s purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Simply Blessed Properties LLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) 8/30/2019. Cty: Monroe.

SSNY desig. as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to 35 Bright Oaks Dr., Rochester, NY 14624.

General Purpose. [ NOTICE ] THE WEIGHT PORTFOLIO, LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 9/16/2019. Office in Monroe Co. SSNY desig. agent of LLC whom process may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to 300 Laburnam Crescent, Rochester, NY 14620, which is also the principal business location and registered agent, Victor DelPozzo, upon whom process may be served. Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

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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 [ NOTICE ] UPTON PARK OPERATOR LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 5/09/19 Office in Monroe Co. SSNY design. Agent of LLC upon whom process may be served.

SSNY shall mail copy of process to The LLC 322 Madison Ave Cedarhurst, NY 11516.

Any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] UPTON PARK REALTY LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 5/09/19 Office in Monroe Co. SSNY design. Agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to The LLC 322 Madison Ave Cedarhurst, NY 11516.

Any lawful activity. [ NOTICE OF BOAT AUCTION ] 1978 32” Carver NY3096PW CDR320820478 John Steiner: 1983 28’ Bayliner NY4714FL BL2A18CD0883 David Moore; 1987 27’ Sea Ray NY3239JV SERT5963F787 Tony Lippa; 1978 26” Pearson NY2981PW PEA46651M78H Judy & Alec Farrell; 1964 36’ CC Roamer NY0965DF RXQ361714 Bob Carr, AUCTION Friday 10-25-19 at 1:00 pm at Voyager Boat Sales Stutson St Ext. [ Notice of Formation ] 2740 Monroe, LLC (“LLC”) filed Articles of Organization with the NY Sec. of State (“SSNY”) on 9/23/19. Office location: Monroe County.

SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail a copy of process to 2851 Monroe Avenue, Rochester, NY 14618.

Purpose: any lawful activity. [ Notice of Formation ] CDGANW LLC (“LLC”) filed Articles of Organization with the NY Sec. of State (“SSNY”) on 9/25/19. Office location: Monroe County.

SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail a copy of process to 205 Saint Paul Street, Suite 200, Rochester, NY 14604. Purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE OF FORMATION ] NAME: Carnovale Consulting, LLC Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY)

on August 26, 2019.

Principal office: Monroe County, New York.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 1100 Rothwood Drive, Webster, NY 14580, Attn: Member.

Purpose: any and all lawful activities. [ NOTICE OF FORMATION ] NAME: Elm 40, LLC Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on September 9, 2019. Principal office: Monroe County, New York. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 23 Stanford Rd. W. Rochester, New York, 14620, Attn: Member.

Purpose: any and all lawful activities. [ NOTICE OF FORMATION ] NAME: IT Insights of Rochester LLC Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on September 30, 2019. Principal office: Monroe County, New York. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 30A Grove Street, Pittsford, NY 14534, Attn: Member.

Purpose: any and all lawful activities. [ NOTICE OF FORMATION ] NAME: Marie Properties 417, LLC Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on September 30, 2019. Principal office: Monroe County, New York. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 139 Richard St. Rochester, NY 14607, Attn: Member.

Purpose: any and all lawful activities. [ NOTICE OF FORMATION ] Name: DAG PROPERTY HOLDINGS LLC. Arts.

Of Org. filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 08/27/2019.

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

SSNY shall mail a copy of process to: C/O DAG

PROPERTY HOLDINGS LLC, One East Main Street, 10th Floor, Rochester, New York 14614. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose. [ NOTICE OF FORMATION ] Name: IRISH CARDINAL PROPERTIES LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 09/06/2019.

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

SSNY shall mail a copy of process to: C/O IRISH CARDINAL PROPERTIES LLC, One East Main Street, 10th Floor, Rochester, New York 14614. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose. [ NOTICE OF FORMATION ] Name: JOSE JOES OF GREECE LLC. Arts.

Of Org. filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 09/06/2019. Office Location: Monroe County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to: C/O JOSE JOES OF GREECE LLC, One East Main Street, 10th Floor, Rochester, New York 14614. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose. [ Notice of Formation ] New Property Owner, LLC (“LLC”) filed Articles of Organization with the NY Sec. of State (“SSNY”) on 8/30/19. Office location: Monroe County.

SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail a copy of process to Attn: Shawn Griffin, 99 Garnsey Road, Pittsford, NY 14534. Purpose: any lawful activity. [ Notice of Formation ] The Residences of Hornell II LLC (“LLC”) filed Articles of Organization with the NY Sec. of State (“SSNY”) on 9/11/19.

Office location: Monroe County. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail a copy of process to 2680 W. Ridge Road, Suite B100C, Rochester, NY 14626.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

[ NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY ] The name of the LLC is Dasher Unlimited, LLC. The Articles of Organization were filed with the NY Secretary of State on 9/6/19. The LLC office is located in Monroe County. The NY Secretary of State is designated as the agent of the LLC upon whom process may be served, and the address a copy shall be mailed is 91 Wintergreen Way, Rochester NY 14618.

The LLC is managed by a manager. The purpose of the LLC is any lawful business. [ NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LLC ] 202 Military Trail, LLC filed articles of organization with the New York Secretary of State on 08/26/2019 with an effective date of formation of 08/26/2019. 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 73 San Gabriel Drive, Rochester, NY 14610. 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 ] Real Home Properties LLC filed articles of organization with the New York Secretary of State on 09/27/2019 with an effective date of formation of 09/27/2019. 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 P.O. Box 173, East Rochester, NY 14445.

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. [ PUBLIC NOTICE ] NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIFT BRIDGE YARNS, LLC. The Articles of Organization have been filed with the N.Y. Secretary of State on September 19, 2019.

The office of the limited liability company is to be located in Monroe

County. The Secretary of State has been designated as agent for service of process. Any such process may be mailed to Lift Bridge Yarns, LLC, 6 Killeen Drive, Fairport, NY 14450. The LLC is formed for any lawful business purpose. [ SUPPLEMENTAL SUMMONS IN TAX LIEN FORECLOSURE ] SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, COUNTY OF MONROE – TLF NATIONAL TAX LIEN TRUST 2017-1, Plaintiff, UNKNOWN HEIRS AND DISTRIBUTEES OF THE ESTATE OF YOLANDA SCOTT, Defendants. Index No. E2018009955.

To the above-named Defendants –YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the complaint in this action within twenty days after the service of this summons, exclusive of the day of service or within thirty days after service is completed if the summons is not personally delivered to you within the State of New York. In case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the complaint.

Plaintiff designates Monroe County as the place of trial. Venue is based upon the county in which the property a lien upon which is being foreclosed is situated.

The foregoing summons is served upon you by publication pursuant to an order of the Hon. J. Scott Odorisi, J.S.C., entered on September 10, 2019. The object of this action is to foreclose a Tax Lien covering the premises located at Section 091.66, Block 2, Lot 73 on the Tax Map of MONROE County and also known as 92 Manchester Street, Rochester, New York.

Dated: September 10, 2019 BRONSTER, LLP Attorneys for Plaintiff, TLF NATIONAL TAX LIEN TRUST 2017-1 By: Yan Borodanski 156 West 56th Street, Suite 1801 New York, New York 10019 (347) 2464647

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