Star Review digital edition - Aug. 9, 2023

Micron partners with american legion

By Kathryne raKowsKi

Members of the Cicero American Legion Post 787 family gathered on Aug. 1 to welcome Micron to their community and celebrate Micron’s commitment to the legion and community as a whole.

The community gathered for the dedication of six flag poles to the legion; a pole for each flag of the six branches of the military.

The project was made possible by Micron’s new partnership with the legion, which is the largest post in New York State.

“This project was in the works and our community reached out to Micron to see if they would be willing to support it,” American Legion Commander Bruce Dauer said. “They graciously accepted and provided the funding for the six poles.”

Chief People Officer for Micron, April Arnzen, spoke at the dedication, pledging the commitment of Micron to the community, and the importance of supporting the veterans in the area.

“We appreciate and are so grateful for your sacrifice,” she said. “This is one very small way we can thank you.”

Arnzen went on to express Micron’s eagerness to get involved in the CNY area.

“This community is very important to Micron and we know how important helping the community is,” Arnzen said. “We look forward to doing that and getting to know more of you.”

A small reception and meeting followed the ceremony.

Baldwinsville native and Army Veteran Paul Kulba attended the event with his wife, Kathy. They shared their excitement for the partnership with Micron and the new flags displayed.

“I think it’s an honor that they put the flags here at the legion and that Micron is getting so close to our community,” Paul Kulba said.

The flags can be viewed in the Veterans Memorial Park outside of the legion.

This is just one of many events and outreach efforts Micron has hosted recently.

Over the summer Micron supported a Chips

Camp at Onondaga Community College, giving children an opportunity to learn and take part in hands out activities giving them insight into the work Micron does.

The first days of August were also filled with activity.

On Aug. 1 Micron introduced “DECONSTRUCTED: Semiconductors and Other Secrets Inside Everyday Technology,” a new permanent exhibit at the MOST.

Micron also hosted the most recent in a series of open houses to discuss the environmental review process and seek community input.

The event began with opening remarks from Micron and officials from Onondaga County and the Town of Clay.

Following a project overview presentation from Micron, the public had the opportunity to engage directly with Micron staff at various

Local stars take part in hoops fest

By Phil BlacKwell

In what’s turned into a midsummer tradition, a group of top area high school boys and girls basketball players represented the Central region at the Basketball Coaches Association of New York Summer Hoops Festival.

Held in Johnson City, near Binghamton, the event draws teams from across New York State for a threeday tournament that includes four round-robin games, semifinals and finals, along with 3-point and dunk contests.

booths and discuss a range of topics and issues.

Aug. 2 also saw Micron hold the inaugural gathering of the Micron Community Engagement Committee a the Institute of Technology at Syracuse Central.

The committee met for the first time to discuss the community priorities document and conducted small group discussions.

Also on Aug. 2 at the North Area Family YMCA a gathering was held to share an update on Micron’s commitment to early childhood development and daycare.

According to a press release from Micron, the company believes having accessible, affordable and high-quality early childcare options is vital to attracting and retaining talented employees.

Joined by local leaders, Micron discussed the company’s initial exploration of these options in Central New York.

DeSantis Orchestra features Liverpool saxman Joe Riposo on Aug. 14

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Prominent Syracuse bandleader Mario DeSantis died March 26, 2020 at age 91, but the band plays on.

Under the direction of his vocalist daughter, Maria, the Mario DeSantis Orchestra is celebrating its 76th anniversary this year. Mario had first formed the ensemble in 1947 at Syracuse’s Central High School.

The 12-piece big band -which performs a wide variety of jazz standards, show tunes and popular dance numbers -- will play a free concert at 7 p.m. Monday, Aug. 14, at Johnson Park. The performance is part of the 37 th annual Liverpool Is The Place Summer Concert Series.

That night, the orchestra will feature saxophonist Joe Riposo -- who lives in Liverpool -- on his new arrangement of “Body and Soul,” one of the most popular jazz standards in history. Composed by New

York City conductor Johnny Green in 1930, the tune was famously recorded by tenor saxman Coleman Hawkins in 1939.

“I asked Joe to write a feature arrangement of one of my favorite pieces,” Maria said. “That remarkable Coleman Hawkins arrangement had always been one of my dad’s favorites as well.”

One of the reasons Maria focused on Riposo is because the lifelong musician and educator marked a milestone birthday on Aug. 5.

“He’ll only say that ‘age is just a number,’” Maria reported. “He simply won’t say his age!”

A quick Google search, however, reveals that Riposo was born in 1933. In any case, Riposo’s new arrangement of “Body and Soul” will likely echo Hawkins’ pioneering work. The 1939 version is unusual in that the song’s melod y is barely hinted at in the recording. Hawkins’ two choruses of improvisa -

tio n over the tune’s chord progressio n constitute almost the entire take. That approach clearly presaged the dawn of be-bop.

Riposo is writing the instrumental arrangement for the DeSantis Orchestra featuring his own horn, the alto sax. “Body and Soul” will join two other arrangements in the orchestra’s repertoire which feature Joe’s sax work, Bobby Shew’s “Blue” and “Nadelin.”

Central’s girls team, coached by Phoenix’s Troy Washington, had 12 players from 12 different high schools, including Liverpool , a sectional and regional champion last winter represented by A’briyah Cunningham, and Cicero-North Syracuse , who had Kat McRobbie-Taru.

Going 2-2 in pool play, Central nearly upended host Southern Tier in the July 28 opener, but lost 64-62 and followed with a 65-51 defeat to Rochester.

Recovering a day later, Central edged North Country 66-61 and battled past Buffalo 57-47 to get to the semifinals on July 30, only to fall 6741 in a rematch with Southern Tier before finishing third.

On the Central boys team, Bishop Ludden head coach Gallagher Driscoll led a side that included Liverpool standout Freddy Fowler, who helped the Warriors reach last

Another Liverpudlian, vocalist Keith Condon, is in his 45th year with the DeSantis Orchestra and will sing some his favorite Sinatra classics Monday including “Luck Be a Lady,” “All The Way” and “Night and Day.” “Keith skillfully covers alto saxophonist and arranger Joe riposo, a member of the Mario Desantis orchestra who will be featured at a free concert at 7 p.m. Monday, aug. 14, at Johnson Park.

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Micron hosted a series of events to start august including showing its support for veterans with a ceremony at the cicero american legion Post 787.

Liverpool Public Library to host themed community nights

Frances sharPles

The Liverpool Public Library is celebrating its summer reading program theme, “All Together Now,” with various community-oriented events.

The library’s “All Together Now! Community Nights” are one such event focused on fostering, as Program Planner Cindy Hibbert phrases it, some “community unity.”

“The library is always looking for learning and growth opportunities,” Hibbert said, “as well as being a community center where people can come together and talk about pressing issues in our lives, and how we can make our world better—how we can make our communities better.”

These four community nights take place on Thursdays at 7 p.m. in the library’s Dinosaur Garden.

The first night, with a health and wellness theme, focused on holistic approaches to well-being, featuring wellness practitioners as well as opportunities to try out activities like meditation, sound baths, and chair massages.

The following Thursday pivoted to focus on community wellness in the form of sustainability, featuring representatives from a number of sustainability-focused organizations and a plant swap.

The library’s upcoming community night, their annual “Buy Local” event, will take place on Aug. 10.

“We actually run it…once in the summer [and] once in the winter, closer to

the holidays,” Hibbert said. “We will have a variety of local artisans on hand to meet with community members, and they can of course purchase their items…I think they have about a dozen different vendors for that one.”

The following and final community night, titled “Culture Celebration,” will feature a diverse approach to establishing community.

“We decided on [the “Culture Celebration”] because we would like to kind of introduce our community to diversity in a venue that is open to

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March’s state Class AA final four.

Fowler helped Central sweep to a 4-0 record in the round-robin portion on July 28 and 29.

In order, Central outscored Rochester 94-85, beat Long Island’s Suffolk County 79-67, handled Capital regiona

some of the great horn band classics of the 1970s and ’80s,” Maria observed, “many of which were written for him as a Liverpool High School student by no one other

dialogue,” Hibbert said. “We hope to have people from a variety of cultures who can talk to people and, you know, maybe break down barriers and kind of take away a little bit of [the] mystery of when you see someone from another culture walking down the street… and you don’t understand their culture. [We’re] hoping to open that dialogue up.”

For more on the LLP’s community nights, as well as their other events, visit the LLP Events Calendar on their website, lpl.org.

63-49 and then routed the other Long Island team, Nassau County, 85-59.

The semifinal July 30 brought a rematch with Capital. They were tied, 6060, when in the closing seconds Capital inbounded from near midcourt. Central intercepted it, but amid a scramble a fallaway jumper beat the horn and swished, giving Capital a 62-60 win.

than Joe Riposo.”

Baritone Nick Blaney, who happens to be a member of the Liverpool Central School District School Board, will bring a pop/ classical ambiance to the performance with tunes such as “Pure Imagination” from “Willy Wonka”

and “Somewhere…” from “West Side Story.” Regular vocalists Gary Branch, Michael Ranalli and Maria DeSantis will join Blaney and Condon in presenting DeSantis’s spectacular eight-decade songlist.

robert G. liegel

Navy veteran

Robert G. Liegel (Bob), of Skaneateles, NY, passed away peacefully on July 25, 2023, surrounded by his wife and family. His life was characterized by his love for his family, the law, and Skaneateles Lake.

Born July 21, 1933 to Albertina and Joseph Liegel, Bob grew up in Syracuse, with his older sister, Jeanette Dayko (deceased) and beloved younger sister, Linda Tindall.

He graduated from St. John the Evangelist Academy in 1951 and Syracuse University in 1955.

He enlisted in the United

States Navy, graduated from Officer Candidate School, and deployed to sea duty aboard the USS Monrovia (APA-31) in the Atlantic and Mediterranean. Continuing his naval service as a reservist, he re-

tired with the rank of Commander in 1979 after 23 years of service.

He graduated from George Washington University law school in 1963 and was admitted to the bar in 1964. His concern for social justice led him to work with Legal Services of Central New York. Together with Bob Failmezger, he formed a long and fruitful law firm partnership. His 58 years practicing law were characterized by integrity and the utmost care for his clients.

Over the years, he applied his legal knowledge to help protect the beauty and health of Skaneateles Lake, in large part through his work with the Skaneateles Lake Association.

From racing Finn sailboats to swimming with his family in its crisp, clear waters, Bob cherished Skaneateles Lake and was a passionate advocate dedicated to protecting it for future generations.

But the most important event in his life occurred on Sept. 30, 1967, when he married his great love, Mary Elizabeth Haenn Liegel. A true and loving partnership, they raised five children: Andrew (Sara), Gregory (Angela), Mar-

garet (Eric), Peter and Katharine. They were subsequently blessed with five wonderful grandchildren: Lucy, Felix, Henry, Miles and Laurel.

Just as his family was the most important thing in the world to him, he was a central axis around which their worlds also turned. He is loved tremendously and will be missed. But he will not be forgotten thanks to the love he shared, the sacrifices he made, the lessons he imparted

and the stories and laughter that celebrate his memory and loving legacy.

A celebration of life will be held at 10 a.m. on Saturday, Aug. 5, at St. Mary’s of the Lake Church in Skaneateles. In lieu of flowers, a donation can be made in Bob’s name to the Skaneateles Lake Association (skaneateleslake.org) or World Central Kitchen (wck. org). Online condolences, shepardsonfh.com

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Half way point

So many things in life are a matter of perspective and summer is no exception.

It seems like it was only a blink of an eye ago that we were celebrating Memorial Day and the Fourth of July and now it is August already.

This is the half way point of summer, before we know it, it will be Labor Day.

But here is where perspective comes into play.

It is all a matter of looking at the glass as half empty or half full, negatively or optimistically.

While it can be easy to think of this in some negative light, summer being half way over already and it seems like it has barely started, there is a lot of optimism when we look at it with the right eyes.

Summer is only half way over; there is still plenty of time to enjoy it.

After a slow start to spring that saw cooler temperatures as well as several days with hazy, smoke filled skies from the wildfires in Canada, summer seemed tentative. Our area also saw some days of intense heat with warmer than average days and now as August begins, we are seeing cooler temperatures.

All of these swings can make it hard to plan your days, but no matter the weather our area has a bounty of events, activities and attraction to take advantage of.

The important thing is to make the time to enjoy it.

There are the unavoidable realities of life, our duties and responsibilities from work, to chores around the house and innumerable others.

But it is also important to remember that we all need to stop and take some time for the responsibilities we have to ourselves, our families and the other things we probably don’t give enough time and attention when we are caught in the day to day obligations of our lives.

But it seems summer is a time when many make a point to pay at least a little more attention to these important details.

There is that cliché of the long lazy days of summer, maybe it is the memory of summer vacations when we were younger, maybe it is the number of activities that correlate with the season, but whatever the reason, it seems this is a time when everyone wants to shake off some of their daily cares and spend a little time enjoying something special.

Take some time, use these weeks of summer that are still ahead and find what will make you happy.

We are fortunate to be surrounded by the bounty of nature in Central New York.

With numerous lakes, trails, nature sites and camping, there are innumerable opportunities to get outside.

For some it is as simple as a backyard fire and toasting marshmallows and making s’mores with the kids.

For others it may be taking in a ball game and having a hotdog.

For others it will be a concert or the bigger events still to come like the New York State Fair.

But whatever it is, take the time to enjoy the long days of summer as much as you can and find the time to kick back and relax even for a little while.

No one likes a know-it-all, leastwise those of us who were raised to be just that. I speak from deep personal experience.

I am the oldest of four children and the recipient of my father’s directive to be a leader rather than a follower. My siblings fought hard against such hubris but somewhere along the line, either individually or in collusion, they let me think that I was the leader and one with superior skills. I mean, who could do the housework better than me, or the dishes or cook the evening meals or mow the lawn?

Any effort at these tasks by two of my siblings was carefully scrutinized by my hyper-critical eye, and if their work was poorly executed, I simply redid it. I can remember repeating that phrase, “If you want something done right…”

It was amazing, though, that my youngest sister, so poorly adapted to household work, could whip up a new outfit on the sewing machine in a trice or that my brother, all thumbs at just about anything around the house, could learn any musical instrument and start up several bands. Seems that one of the things that this know-it-all didn’t know was when she was being, what is the current word … played?

My other sister didn’t even try to do things poorly, she just hid out in the bathroom until I went to college. Amazingly, they survived their seeming lack of skills and have prospered in their own ways with homes that are organized and clean. But, as

the eldest, I still hold the scepter of know-it-all and have been known to Type A it through many an assignment. Most know-it-alls aren’t aware of their situation until they come in contact with another similarly-trained annoyance. And so it came to pass that I met up with not one but two of this genera. It seemed that no matter what I said, there was always a contradiction to be made, always a comment about how they had more experience, knew more people, had preferred and, of course, more effective ways of getting things done. One would even do my work for me. Even when they were dead wrong, they were right and could convince me that I had erred. That was a lesson to be learned! Enduring the dynamic of the paramount font of perfectionism is really a pain in the neck … only a lot lower in the anatomy.

And how did I deal with this epiphany? I didn’t. I saved my ego by simply separating myself from them. I changed jobs. I continued smug in my know-itall world, until a higher power pointedly intervened.

God drew me up short with the ultimate antidote ... motherhood. Having children just about drained my psyche of any trace of belief in my sense of competency or control. I should have suspected this early on

when nausea interrupted my plans in graduate school to become a world-renowned anthropologist, but that passed and, armed with books on childrearing, I mapped out how I would maintain my home, develop extraordinary culinary capabilities, take a few more graduate courses and become the model of young motherhood. I even wrote these plans down, you know, to pass on to those not as well informed as I. I posted them on the door of what was to be the nursery. God’s lesson revealed itself in all its power somewhere in the first hours of the first night after I brought my first born home from the hospital. There he was, my darling baby boy. Why weren’t the neighbors bringing gifts to celebrate his arrival? I lay my child, freshly bathed, changed and fed in his fashionably appointed crib, cleverly situated under his educational mobile. I smiled and began a lullaby that was interrupted by colicky screaming that lasted for three months. The section in Dr. Spock that dealt with colic was ragged in a few weeks, but not more so than the reader who was alternately stumbling around the house trying to implement her naïve plans for housekeeping while caring for a very unhappy baby or simply crying copious tears at her inadequacy.

I walked the floor for hours every night, rocked him, sang to him, tried all kinds of folk remedies recommended by older, more experienced mothers. I read somewhere that colicky in-

fants don’t cry when you use the vacuum. My floors were immaculate and my child continued to cry. We drove over the county roads at all hours of the night, child in the back seat, hoping that something we read about babies liking the rocking motion of the car would work. To this day, I associate some roads in the area with the hair-raising sound of a baby taken from his bed by his rookie parents, miserable in the back seat.

Nothing got done around the house. I tried, but beyond the vacuuming, dishes piled up in the sink, laundry was done on an emergency-only basis and I don’t think I combed my hair for weeks. At the end of six months, only one of the tasks that I had taped to the door of the nursery had been accomplished on a regular basis: vacuuming the floors.

Finally, exasperated beyond anything I could have imagined, I took the screaming child next door to my neighbor who was also my family doctor and held the child out to him saying, “I give up. He just won’t stop crying.”

Doc Daly smiled, as those who are in the know often do, and said, “Well, I’ll bet he has a milk allergy. Try some soy formula and see what happens.”

Screaming child in tow, I raced to the store and bought Isomil. I spent the entire first night after his formula change checking my quiet, sleeping child to see if he was still alive.

Equipped with all of this

Malfitano recalls being sketched by Tony Bennett

Back in 1986, superstar songwriter Jimmy Van Heusen returned to his native Syracuse to be honored at the 10 th anniversary of the Onondaga County Civic Center down city.

Among the entertainers paying tribute to Van Heusen here that night was vocalist Tony Bennett, who died July 21 at age 96.

Before the 1986 performance here, Bennett sketched an informal portrait of concert promoter Frank Malfitano, who now lives in Baldwinsville.

“I spent some time backstage with Tony Bennett when he appeared at the Civic Center’s 10th Anniversary tribute to Jimmy Van Heusen,” Malfitano recalls.

“He gave me a set of headphones so I could listen to the master of his newest CD, ‘The Art of Excellence.’ My eyes were closed so I had no idea that, as I listened to the tunes, he was sketching an image of me on the back of a piece of sheet music for ‘The Second Time Around,’ a chart that his pianist, Ralph Sharon, had handed him. It was spontaneous.”

Of course, the sketch remains one of Malfitano’s most cherished personal possessions. And his memories of that long-ago encounter are even more precious.

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“Tony and I spent a lot of time together during rehearsals and to and from the airport, and after

the show in Van Heusen’s suite at the Hotel Syracuse with Jimmy, Sammy Cahn, Maxine Sullivan, Margaret Whiting, Jack Jones, Tony Randall and Joanie Vadeboncoeur.

“Backstage, Tony and Sammy were one-upping each other with one liners that had us all in stitches. At one point, Sammy picked up the wall phone backstage and called George Burns so they could all wish him a Happy Birthday, sung by Tony.”

Like Malfitano, Tony was Italian-American, born Anthony Benedetto in Queens in 1926.

The two paisans naturally hit it off.

“Tony and I discussed his friendship with Governor Mario Cuomo and how Mario’s political enemies had sabotaged his chances at a presidential run. Over breakfast the following morning, we discussed Tony’s visual art, passion for tennis and his marches with Martin Luther King Jr.”

Within a year, Tony became a part of the Blue Note NYC’s 7th Anniversary that Malfitano produced in 1987 with Billy Eckstine, Max Roach, Jimmy Heath, George Benson, Sir Roland Hanna and Sarah Vaughan.

“Deep down, Tony was a hard-core jazz man,” said Malfitano, founder of the

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Syracuse Jazz Festival. “He had an absolute reverence for jazz and the legendary artists who created it.”

two l’pool ladies honored

A memorial bench honoring two late Liverpool women will be dedicated at 10 a.m. Saturday Aug. 12, at the Salt Museum at Onondaga Lake Park. The honorees are Rhoda Sikes and Helen Windhausen.

“They both valued and understood the importance of Onondaga Lake its history and were dedicated to the Liverpool community,” said a spokesman for the Friends of Historic Onondaga Lake (FOHOL), which is producing the event.

Sikes died April 7, 2022 at age 89. She had managed the Salt Museum gift shop for many years and had served for more than 20 years as treasurer of the Liverpool Is The Place Summer Concert Series. She was also a longtime Read Out volunteer for WCNY-FM and a longtime member of FOHOL.

Windhausen died Feb. 17, 2023 at age 96. She worked for Onondaga County Parks & Recreation for two decades before becoming a member of FOHOL for whom she helped create the annual Irish Road Bowling event.

Presbyterian committee chairs

At an organizational meeting on July 10, Liver -

pool’s First Presbyterian Church made its annual committee and ministry assignments.

Ashley Gouger was named chairwoman of personnel. Gouger, who also serves as president of the Liverpool Public Library Board of Directors, was also named as a member of the church’s Christian formation committee chaired by Jolene Kittle and Sue Kline.

The church’s building and grounds committee is headed by Coleen Clapper and member Tim Bricault. Missions and social justice chairs are Tracie Folley and Karen Fay, while the finance and stewardship committee is headed by Tom Ogden and Lynda Fauler.

The fellowship committee is chaired by Tim Bricault and members Sue Kline and Karen Fay, and Lynda Fauler will act as the church’s worship and music liaison.

l ast word

“The visible fruit that our lives produce is directly connected to the invisible, quiet and sometimes unremarkable work of the spirit occurring underneath the activity that is often unneeded and even counter to the thriving of the human soul. May each of us have fallow time this month for rest, rejuvenation, regeneration.”

-- Liverpool’s First Presbyterian Church Pastor Garrett Anderson.

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Ramblings from the empty nest ann Ferro

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Doing things they shouldn’t

To the editor: A public hearing for this?

Are we really children?

In the Eagle news we sadly read half of - village board adjusts parking fines

We read about how the mayor is very pleased. At what? Raising “rates to keep people from doing things they shouldn’t ” she states. Then there was, “we are way overdue for raising these fines.”

Then we read, “we hope

information and having caught up on my sleep, I again naively ventured into motherhood eight years later and produced a child who didn’t sleep through the night for four years. Yes, four years!

I was the perfect example of what sleep deprivation can do to a human being. If any remnant of competency lingered, it disappeared completely during this trial by wakefulness. Not a pretty sight at all. Old habits die hard and when the ear, nose and throat doc discovered and repaired

this results in some modification of behavior.”

So what is it? Bad behavior or long overdue adjustment? Here is a short list of leaders doing things they shouldn’t. Please change this behavior below with the appropriate fines.

After our research, how do we modify thier behavior?

Bad behavior? The wasted time on 61 West Lake Road thanks to CPCS and the planning board members who voted to keep the crappy property. Cut their pay to modify their inefficient

the reason for our daughter’s wakefulness, I began to exhibit signs of intelligence again, but only briefly. The children were growing older.

I have come to the conclusion that there is an inverse relationship between a child’s age and a mother’s intelligence. As the years rolled on and each of my offspring grew and flourished, it was their mother who grew less and less knowledgeable. What did I know about fashion, about computers, about food? I mean, who in their right mind would eat fresh fruit or high fiber bread or vegetables? Were they ashamed of someone who

behavior. And also, not a word or brain thought about widening the north side of RT 20 across from the church and the Krebs. 81 is coming, and us fire people have told you it is not easy to drive through that area without fear of hitting the mirrors on parked vehicles. Worse in the winter. Why are you blind to this? No love for blue collar humans??? Lazy? Blame it all on the state. Excuses? Do public hearing/article on this.

Where was the AOTCNY? Association of towns and villages? Why was the

had no idea what booting up a computer meant? Who didn’t own an MP3 player? I saw myself though my children’s eyes, a pitiful example of an uninformed, hopelessly needy adult who needed help to set the clock in the VCR.

My Phi Beta Kappa key started to corrode and I began to question how I had been able to make it this far in life without a major mishap. From cheering too loudly at soccer games to mentioning in public that one of my offspring had musical ability, to insisting that they wear coats during snowstorms, to thinking that adult children with their own houses would

intersection of 20 and East Lake Rd not efficiently developed? Why no radius studies to make it a little easier for trucks to turn south or east? Too difficult? We want to hear the excuses. No respect or consciousness of blue collar workers?

Doug, the fish godfather, called and wanted to know why the environmentalists and professional village planners decided on an inefficient park at the village hall. Who were these unqualified designers and supporters? ABCQ+ World News wants

like to take the stuff they left in mine, I have committed just about every maternal faux pas there is and more. Then there is the clueless category that includes all of the current singers, bands and songs as well as 90 percent of the shows on television. Then came grandchildren. At first, I was fun. Grandma knew things. They asked me questions and believed what I said. Games we played were fun. Coming to visit at our house was something they looked forward to. I tried to keep up, but that old inverse relationship between the age of children and the knowledgeability of adults

to know. We put two full page ads in this paper asking for a review of our third and superior design. Why didn’t the press cover our actions? It covered a keynote speaker’s individual activities twice, but not any of our issues. And we are democrats. Why didn’t the village planning board members, or the male mayor, at the time, not have an honest public debate on this park? People laugh at this waste of space. You all could have put handicapped parking in our plan for 15 new parking areas. (see upcoming

intervened and, once again, I am the uniformed, clueless one. I guess the fact that I have and use an Amazon Kindle is not the same as having and using a Nintendo Switch. They are polite about it, but the eye rolls and the half-smiles tell the story.

I still have flashes of the old know-it-all persona, but nature has intervened to make some of what I thought I knew, something I no longer know.

The “know-it-all” has been chastened by the life’s circle’s turnings. Truth be told, there are so many things that I once knew that have gone the way

ad for our ABCQ+ World News, musical documentary) yes, how do we stop people from “doing things they shouldn’t. “

We won’t talk about, “doing things they shouldn’t” at the field days. Will the village and town help embellish the love and creativity of the next event? They can’t even make an unorthodox phone call to look for new ideas. Sad but true as Metallica would sing. I am your eyes. More to come.

Joe Vecchio spafford

of forgetting. Last week I couldn’t remember what the former name of Tanzania was. Words slip away … they come back, but where do they go when I want them? I’ve mellowed. Why there are even days when I simply agree with someone rather than point out that I am, of course, right and they are, well … not.

Ann Ferro is a mother, a grandmother and a retired social studies teacher. While still figuring out what she wants to be when she grows up, she lives in Marcellus with lots of books, a spouse and a large orange cat.

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Bottle/Can Drive to Support Onondaga Earth Corps

Date: 8/19/23, 10/21/23

Time: 9 AM – 1 PM

Site of Collection: Fayette Manor, Cashin Drive/ Brookside, Huntleigh Park and Southfield Drive

Event Coordinator: Pieter Keese

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Sat & Sun Aug, 12 & 13

4835 Twelve Corners Rd. Auburn (Owasco), N. Y. 13021 10:00 Till 4:00

Beautiful Home totally filled with great, clean furnishings and accessories

Penn House Cherry Dinning set, table, 6 chairs, breakfront china cab , server, Victorian style sofa, ladies & gents chairs, rocker,# good mahogany china / curio cabinets, kidney shaped vitrine, 2 kitchen sets, Fancy Gilt lamp tables, gilt 3 section cocktail table, mahogany dressers and vanity w/ stool, Nice sofa & chair, Ekornes leather chair & ottoman, elec. Recliner, Cherry hall table & mirror, walnut shelf, 2 marble top stands, 2 room size oriental rugs & scatters, Howard Miller Grandfather Clock, 50 Pc. Fenton, Austrian, Czech, Mary Gregory, Enameled Cranberry Glass, 70 pc set Royal Albert, Old Country Rose China, 75 pc. set Johnson Brothers Rose Chintz china, Large fancy gilt Mirror,@ 36 in Elsie Manney dolls, pr. Large Crystal lamps, floor & table lamps, Fenton Chamber stick lamp, green enameled Czech Demitace & Cordial sets, Full Kitchen wares, 3 beds, love seat, JOHN DEERE 500 X TRACTOR /w snow blower, mower, weights, low hours, lawn cart, Ariens like new snow blower, yard Power tools, Mech tools, Weber Grill, Huge Sterio Set, 15 Metal shelves, household supplies galore,holiday decorations, plus much much more, Go to auctionpmb.com for 100 pictures & updates

Birchmeyer & White 315 383 1152

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/antique,vintage old dairy equipment milk machines

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sunset Paddle held aug.

The Onondaga Lake Conservation Corps will lead a twomile paddle along Nine Mile Creek and Onondaga Lake’s recently restored wetlands on Thursday, Aug. 10 from 6 - 8 p.m. to explore the area’s birds and other wildlife. Onondaga Lake is an important stopover area for migratory shorebirds, songbirds and birds of prey during their long and impressive journey. Birding experts from Montezuma Audubon Center and Parsons will discuss how enhanced wetlands along the lakeshore are supporting the

Onondaga Lake watershed and its value as an Important Bird Area. Participants will launch from the Honeywell Canoe and Kayak Launch on Pumphouse Road in Syracuse. A limited number of solo kayaks are available to rent and will be reserved in advance on a first-come, first-served basis.

Life vests and paddles are included with the boat rental. Participants may also use their own non-motorized personal watercrafts. Paddleboarders are welcome. Visit act.audubon.org/a/ Onondaga-lake-conservation-

corps-sunset-paddle-august-102023 to register for the event. The event will take place rain or shine. Call 315-365-3588 or email montezuma@ audubon. org with questions.

The Corps is an expanding organization of community volunteers who are contributing to restoration projects that are creating and improving wildlife habitat in the Onondaga Lake watershed. To learn more or participate in future activities, visit ny.audubon.org email montezuma@ audubon.org or call 315-365-3588.