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Eighteen members of Dr. Ronald Zerbe’s family gather together in the shade to catch a breath after completing LEAF’s Tuff eNuff 5K obstacle course the morning of the Fourth of July. From back left, are Ryan Thurber, Rachel Graves, Issac Zerbe, Tim Thurber, Tami Thurber, Ron Zerbe, Dan Zerbe, Ben Zerbe, Brian Zerbe, Ethan Zerbe, Micah Zerbe, Caleb Thurber, Jen Zerbe, Elise Zerbe, Miriam Thurber, Marita Zerbe, Bethany Zerbe and Jeremy Zerbe.
So Are 18 Family Members On 5K Obstacle Course With Him By LIBBY CUDMORE
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ONEONTA ever having run a 5K race wasn’t going to stop 71- year-old Ron Zerbe from joining multiple family members at the Tuff eNuff Obstacle Challenge in Neahwa Park on the Fourth of July. “My grandson Micah wanted to run a 5K,” he said. “So we registered the whole family!” At 18 strong, the Zerbes were the largest family group running, with patriarch Ronald as the oldest runner out of 500 other racers in the inaugural event. “We wanted to be together as a team,” said daughter Tami Thurber, who ran with
Ron, Tami and Caleb cool down in the Mill Run Creek portion of the race.
her husband Tim, pastor of the West Oneonta Baptist Church. Zerbe’s son and Micah’s dad, Brian, had brought the family home to Oneonta from Tajikistan, where he’s
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working as an ophthalmologist. The Tuff eNuff was antiaddiction-agency LEAF’s first 5K race, featuring over 20 obstacles. Racers climbed over walls, waded
through the creek, wriggled under ropes and slogged through mud before crossing the finish line. But at no point during the race did Zerbe consider giving up. He partnered with grandson Caleb, 11, who helped him pace himself. “He said, ‘I’m walking,’ after the last half, but when there was an obstacle, he took off like zoom,” said Zerbe. The patriarch finished the race in 294th place, with a time of 50 minutes, 56 seconds, one spot behind Caleb, who launched into a sprint at the finish line. Zerbe came to Oneonta in 1974 to join the general surgery team at Fox Hospital, working alongside Dr. Kenneth Stalter and Dr. Please See FAMILY, B5
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GOLF TOURNAMENT: Play a round of golf to benefit the Cooperstown Central School Athletic Hall of Fame. $55/person. 9:30 a.m. on Friday, July 12 at Meadow Links Golf Club, 476 County Hwy. 27, Richfield Springs. Info, Jack Vineyard, (607) 547-5594. SHAKESPEARIAN WIT: “The Compleat Works Shakespeare (Abridged)” a wild, witty look at the Bard’s most famous plays. 8 p.m. Thursday, July 7-Saturday, July 13, 3 p.m. Sunday, July 12. Cooperstown Theatre Festival, 7163 County Highway 80. Info, tickets, director@ smithyarts.org. FREE MOVIE: Bring a blanket and some snacks to enjoy Disney’s “Wreck-It Ralph” under the stars. 9 p.m. Friday, July 12 at the Clark Sports Center, 124 County Road 52 Cooperstown. Info, (607) 547-2800. ART SHOW: The ninth annual “Voice” exhibit features 70 works by 60 artists with developmental disabilities hosts their opening reception and awards ceremony from 5 -7 p.m. on Friday, July 12 at the Martin-Mullen Gallery, SUNY Oneonta. Info, Lynne Sessions, (607) 433-8428.
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he first fully “Wagnerian” opera with the highest pretensions of both myth and overstatement is “The Flying Dutchman.” It is also the first Wagnerian libretto in a long list of what might be called bathetic bravado – the attempt to reach textual heavens but falling, inevitably, to the pull of semantic gravity. One could perform the Dutchman in English – also a good deal of the multiple-hours-long “Ring
hether you love folk, blues, classical, country or rock, there is a concert for you this weekend! • Foremost among the offerings is the premier of the Glimmerglass Festival’s “Camelot,” at 8 p.m. Saturday, July 15, at the Alice Busch Theater. Tickets at www. glimmerglass.org or 547-2255. • And Furthur, the Grateful Dead’s successor group, rocks Doubleday Field at 8 p.m. on Sunday, July 14. • On Thursday, July 11, the New Riders of the Purple Sage jam outdoors as part of Norwich’s free summer concert series in East Side Park. Info, (607) 334-5653. • Nikita and Joanne Grigoriev will perform some of Nikita’s original compositions on guitar and flute. $5. 8 p.m. Saturday, July 13 at the Windfall Dutch Barn, Salt Springville. • Three Oneonta bands are among performers at the second annual Andes Battle of the Bands at the fire department’s outdoor pavilion, noon-8 p.m. Saturday, July 13. • Nashville crooner Erin Thomas will perform songs off her debut album “You Don’t Know Me,” which features “That Kind of Love,” a duet with Vince Gill. 7 p.m. Saturday, July 13 at the Lakefront Restaurant, 10 Fair St., Cooperstown. • Hammered dulcimer virtuoso Dan Duggan and Peggy Lynn will play folk tunes, a free concert at 7 p.m. Saturday, July 13, Pathfinder Village, Route 80, Edmeston.
Cycle” – but Wagner’s texts should most frequently be left with the semi-intelligible. They should be classed with the verse of a now-forgotten 19th century tribe, “The Spasmodic Poets.” Not being translated is an essential advantage of Wagner’s operatic language, leaving it in its banal but everstrenuous Ur-Kampf. Francesca Zambello’s Karli Cadel/Glimmerglass Festival. Glimmerglass production, Ryan McKinny as though, both clears the Dutchman on the Please See OPERA, B3 Glimmerglass set.
HERBAL REMEDIES: Tour the gardens, study medicinal tea, grind up herbs and make a sachet at the Farmers’ Museum Historic Remedies Weekend. Free with admission. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday-Sunday, July 13-14 at The Farmers Museum, 5775 St. Rte. 80, Cooperstown. Info, (607) 547-1450. READY FOR FOOTBALL: The Oneonta City Stallions take on the Cortland Bulldogs. 6:30 p.m. Saturday, July 13. Hartwick College, Oneonta. Info, www.oneontacitystallions.org SING A STORY: Story Laurie tells a garden story through songs. Free fun for the family! 7 p.m. Monday, July 15 on the Cooperstown Library Front Lawn, 22 Main St., Cooperstown. Info, (607) 547-8344.
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