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he City of Ithaca is recommending replacing the Ithaca Police Department with a Community Solutions and Public Safety Department that includes both armed and unarmed officers. Tompkins County is recommending evaluation and implementation of an alternative response model that addresses crisis intervention and delivers wraparound health and human services, as well as a pilot program for non-emergency calls. These are among nineteen reimagining public safety draft recommendations are being made by the Collaborative for the consideration of the City Council and County Legislature. Some draft recommendations are particular to an individual municipality, while others address both municipalities. Recommendations include significant changes in law enforcement departments, evaluation of alternative response models, changes in training curriculum, a community healing plan, a law enforcement recruitment strategy, and more civilian engagement and review of law enforcement activities. Each draft recommendation is outlined in the report. Both the City and the County are co-recommending further data standardization and transparency mechanisms, as well as citizen review, and advocating for revision of the New York State civil service systems to promote more equitable hiring practices. The City and County are also co-recommending a repurposing of the SWAT mobile command vehicle and an external review of SWAT callouts to determine appropriate service. Keep an eye on Ithaca.com for more information regarding the proposal. -Staff R eport

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COVID Town Hall feels hopeful as 6,700+ people have been vaccinated

or the first time, the county COVID-19 town hall update on February 17 felt optimistic. Cases are going down, vaccines are coming in and more than 6,700 people have been fully vaccinated so far. Even with the loss of 1,100 vaccines due to weather-related transportation issues, Health Director Frank Kruppa said he is feeling hopeful. “To be able to go to the

[vaccine site] at the mall and see people thanking the staff profusely for giving them this vaccine that will keep them safe…it’s a great thing to see that look in people’s eyes,” he said. “It’s a different look than the one we’ve seen for the past year. It’s a light at the end of the tunnel.” Kruppa said that disease incidence is going down, and with a few days of single-digit

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case numbers in a row, Tompkins County has the lowest numbers it’s seen since early November. “We’re happy to see that,” he said. “It’s good news on the disease front, and let’s hope that continues.” Anyone who had one of the 1,100 spots for the vaccination clinic that had to be canceled will not lose their spot going forward, and once the county hears about their allotment for the coming weeks, those people will get their vaccines. In general, the biggest problem the county, and the rest of the state, continues to face is lack of supply.

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▶ Election- Jeffrey F. Barken announced that he is seeking the Democratic nomination for Alderperson of Ithaca’s 3rd Ward. An Ithaca-native, Barken graduated from Cornell in 2008 and wants to see the city become a leader in clean energy, building practices and transportation infrastructure. He states that he will priortize funding and

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expansion of services for children and teens offered through GIAC, Southside and Ithaca Youth Bureau. In the aftermath of COVID-19, Ithaca will continue to face social, environmental, and economic challenges. Barken said he believes it is imperative that members of Common Council implement a steady, researchoriented approach to the issues.

He thinks the city budget can be rebuilt with an eye toward diversifying and strengthening local economic engines. Barken is also eager to address the high tax burden that stresses homeowners and drives up the cost of rental housing. He believes in the need for citywide wage growth to counteract Ithaca’s high cost of living.

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Community choice aggregation could bring clean energy, stable rates to Ithaca

By C a se y Mar tin

YOU’RE INVITED TO BE THE FIRST TO DRIVE ON MARS. WHAT’S THE FIRST SONG ON YOUR PLAYLIST?

“Walkin’ On Sunshine!” -Emily K.

“The first one to come to mind is….Highway To Hell…” -Jack H.

Terry Carroll

“Cigarette Daydream, Cage The Elephant”

he Planning and Economic Development Committee (PEDC) met with Terry Carroll, the energy educator from the Cornell Cooperative Extension, to hear about community choice aggregation and see if it could be a

good fit for Ithaca. Community choice aggregation (CCA) is essentially a bulk buying agreement for energy supply by one or more municipalities on behalf of its residents. A participating municipality would pass a local law to

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ployees in group 1A. The state recently opened up eligibility to people with underlying conditions, and for now the county will be focusing on people 65 and over with comorbidities. Kruppa said the Health Department has been working with Titus Towers and McGraw House to identify and vaccinate eligible residents there. Molino reiterated that the state had prohibited localities from vaccinating people ages 65 and over, but that they would be targeting people in that age group with co-morbidities in order to make more inroads with that population. Molino and Kruppa clarified that if you have a comorbidity, you just have to fill out a self-attestation form in Tompkins County. You can either print it online beforehand or fill one out at the clinic,

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“We have the infrastructure to do way more vaccines once we have the supply,” County Administrator Jason Molino said. “We continue to ask the state on a daily basis for more doses […] We continue to ask, almost to the point where it probably bothers out state partners.” For now, vaccine distribution by the county continues to be limited by the state to the P-12 education workers and public-facing grocery store employees. The county works directly with employers to distribute links to eligible employees for a limited time. The pharmacies will continue to vaccinate those ages 65 and older, and the hospital will continue to vaccinate its em-

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purchase an energy supply on behalf of residents and small commercial accounts; any individual would be able to opt out. Carroll said there are pros and cons to choosing the CCA route. For one, he said that a CCA gives energy choice control to your neighbors, friends and families, rather than from a multinational corporation. “So that’s something you have the ability to influence,” he said. “The community can say, ‘we’re looking for cheaper electricity or cleaner electricity.’” A factor that could be both a benefit and a downside is the rate. While it would ensure a more steady and predictable cost for customers, the CCA could also lock customers in at that rate for a certain amount of time. That means if electricity prices drop, you’re locked in at that higher rate. However, Carroll reiterates that people can opt out of the program. “A hallmark tenant of CCA is that anybody is able to opt out,” he said. A CCA isn’t expected to be disruptive to customers in any way, and Carroll said many people likely wouldn’t notice a difference. However, he said the hope is that people will be getting a cheaper rate with cleaner energy. If Ithaca were to decide to go with a CCA, they would likely partner with groups

like Sustainable Tompkins to provide administrative support to take the burden of customer service off of the city. Carroll said that CCAs will charge a fraction of a cent, “like .002,” which will go toward the administration of the program. For municipalities interested, the next step would be to educate board members and community members. “The CCA effort is going to live or die by how the residents react to it,” Carroll said. “If they think it’s a good idea, then it has a good chance of succeeding. But if they feel blindsided and like they don’t want their government involved, or if too many people opt out, it could fail. So you have to think about outreach and education.” Carroll added that in his experience, about 5 –10% of residents opt out initially. Seph Murtagh, chair of the PEDC, said there was definitely interest in exploring the possibility of a CCA, especially as the city aims to reach carbon neutral status by 2030. As of now, conversations and work are ongoing within the Tompkins County CCA working group, which is currently seeking potential funding to hire a person or group to lead the effort and find which communities are actually interested, and what requirements they would have to meet.

but you will not have to share private medical information. Additionally, while you should bring a health insurance card if you have one, you will not have to pay for the vaccine. Kruppa said there isn’t a set timeframe yet on when supply will meet demand, but that things are looking increasingly optimistic. “There’s a lot of good news on this front,” he said. “The federal government has made more vaccine available, and they’ve made commitments to buy more. I’m hopeful our allocations will continue to grow.” When the county starts receiving more supply, Kruppa said the first thing they would do is have regular clinics at the mall site. “Of course, we understand that doesn’t work for everyone,” he said. ‘We have

a county plan for how to vaccinate a large number of people quickly. We have locations designated throughout the county. We will take vaccine where it needs to go to make sure everyone has access once we have enough supply.” Both Molino and Kruppa said the county’s community partners have been essential in both managing the pandemic and in distributing vaccines. “What’s giving me hope right now is the commitment we have from a lot of different community partners to be flexible, to be nimble, to find solutions,” Molino said. “We’ve done this throughout the pandemic, and the fact that we continually get more vaccines than most counties in our region is because of the performance we’ve had.”

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GR EEN NEW DEAL

How fast do we move toward a greener Ithaca?

Downs The snow. Please make it stop.

HEARD&SEEN Heard Two more positive cases of the U.K. variant of COVID-19 have been reported in Tompkins County. Both were travel related and the individuals have been isolated.

he Planning and Economic Development Committee (PEDC) heard feedback from the public at their Feb. 17 meeting about the Ithaca Energy Code Supplement, or the green building code. The comments ranged from praise to constructive criticism, with many people wanting the city to move faster toward its end goal of carbon neutrality. “We need to raise our standards by strengthening the proposed green building policy,” Cornell student Hannah Brodsky said. “We shouldn’t be rewarding buildings for decreasing energy emissions if they’re still using fossil fuels […] We should address the issue now by incentivizing developers to use alternative energy now.” Resident Doug Brittain focused on the reliance of electricity in the code, stating that it may not always be the answer for efficiency. “I would like to emphasize that electrification is not a solution to global warming,” he said. “There are situations where it can help, but it also hurts when it adds more CO2. There are a couple underlying problems, one is that the grid isn’t very green — 80% of it is dirty power.” Resident Vivek Iyer, however, found the supplement a little too intrusive and worried about the effect it could have

on the cost of homeownership. “I would like to reemphasize the significant thought put into the cost side of things, and how it will impact housing affordability,” he said. “That’s a big concern of mine. I’m concerned it will increase the cost of homeownership for middle class families. My other concern is that some of the proposed rules are a little too far reaching.” Colden Proe was one of quite a few residents who spoke up in favor of moving the timeline up to try to achieve the city’s goals faster. “I don’t think this goal can be reached because enactment of the policy has been so delayed, and weakened as it’s been delayed,” he said. “I ask that you continue to prioritize the green building policy and eliminate the six-month grace period before its implementation. Developers have had enough time to prepare for its enactment.” Irene Weiser suggested enacting the code with the 2025 standards right from the get-go. “Climate is changing faster than we are, I can’t say it more clearly,” she said. “We have precious little time and really need to accelerate the timeline.” Nick Goldsmith, the sustainability coordinator for both the city and town of Ithaca, said that while the municipalities don’t have to be in sync,

the town of Ithaca is open to advancing the timeline. Chair Seph Murtagh said that moving the timeline up is something he would like to do given how urgent the fight against climate change has become. Committee member Donna Fleming, however, wasn’t sure if it was worth it if the electric grid isn’t clean energy. Goldsmith clarified that the grid is quickly getting cleaner, and that he thinks it would be worth it. “It’s worth it today, very very worth it to reduce carbon emissions,” he said. “Upstate, we have a pretty substantial portion of our electricity produced by hydropower.” Ian Shapiro, the founder and senior consulting engineer at Taitem Engineering who helped put the supplement together, agreed with Goldsmith. “Even in the last 10 years, the grid has become dramatically cleaner. It’s striking to see how much cleaner it is today,” he said. “It’s moving extremely fast. There are very large community solar arrays being planned and being built, and hundreds of megawatts of wind energy being planned. It’s happening fast, and the typical building will be around for at least 50 years and most of its life will be with clean energy.” However, while Shapiro and Goldsmith seemed to support speeding up the process, they

thought jumping to the 2025 standards could be too much. “If we were to adopt 2025 now, we’re basically going to the equivalent of 70-80% of reduction of emissions now. It’s complicated. I think [Goldsmith] and I would need to go back and do some redesign, because it’s partially predicated on the grid being so much cleaner by 2025.” Committee member Laura Lewis said that while she would love to see the changes immediately, she understands the drawbacks and suggested moving it less dramatically, such as to the 2023 timeline. Goldsmith agreed. “I support that strategy of advancing the timeline, not by five years but by two,” he said. “I think that would give us time for code inspectors, developers and anyone else to get used to it and prepare for the change. I think it’s more feasible.” Fleming reiterated, however, that she wasn’t necessarily in favor of an accelerated timeline. “I don’t want to make things worse by depending more on the electric grid until the grid is cleaner,” she said. Ultimately, there is more discussion to be had amongst the PEDC and the Common Council before adopting and implementing the Ithaca Energy Supplement Code.

Seen Firefighters were called to Penny Lane to put out a Jeep Liberty completely engulfed in flames. The cause of the fire is unknown at this point, but luckily there were no injuries.

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By M a rjor i e Z . O l d s eslie Appel knew before she even graduation, Leslie fulfilled her lifestarted kindergarten that she wanted time dream, graduating from Cornell’s to be an animal doctor. Growing up in renowned College of Veterinary Medicine Scarsdale, New York, other kids considered in 1994. where they would After a small apply to college. animal internship Even if her parents at University of didn’t quite “get it” Illinois College of about vet school, Veterinary Medithey were really cine, followed by a supportive of Lessurgery residency lie’s dream. Leslie at the Animal applied to Cornell. Medical Center Once on her choin New York City, sen path, she was the attachment to focused on learnCornell was still ing everything she strong. Observcould so she could ers noted that it attend the best vet is more competiLeslie Appel school to become tive to get into vet the best veterinarian school than it is she could be. to get into medical school or law school. “As soon as I arrived in Ithaca, I fell And to join the faculty of Cornell’s vet in love with this area, this community,” school was an honor. Leslie returned to she said. “I loved my time at Cornell and Cornell, thrilled to serve at Cornell, as she knew that I wanted to stay in Ithaca for my life and work.” After undergraduate continued on page 7

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here’s a sting to the thought about Black History Month, that somehow it is consigned to February, the coldest, shortest month of the year. The balm is the recognition that the breadth of Black history encompasses every day of the year, and rewards the resolve to honor it throughout. A survey of Ithaca shows important markers of Black history that are integral and permanent. Plain Street is the main north-south street of Southside, Ithaca’s historic Black neighborhood. At its midpoint is the Southside Community Center. The distinguished but welcoming structure, with adjacent outdoor area, has for decades been home to many groups, activities and programs, and a site for public events. It was built by the local Black community with support from the Federal Works Projects Administration under Franklin Roosevelt. Eleanor Roosevelt traveled to Ithaca to mark its opening in 1938. A half block away, on Cleveland Avenue, stands St. James African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church. Built in 1836, it is the oldest church in Ithaca. The church was an important part of the Underground Railroad system, which fought and undermined slavery. It remains a vital spiritual and political base. Promotions for the church’s “African-American Heritage Sunday” event, this February 28, feature images of Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass (both of whom visited the church), Martin Luther King Jr., Barack Obama, Kamala Harris and Amanda Gorman. The Tompkins County Public Library, at the border of Southside and Ithaca’s downtown commercial center, currently features a collection of books by Black writers for Black History Month. They include James Baldwin, Zora Neale Hurston, N.K. Jemisin, James McBride, Toni Morrison (who earned a master’s degree at Cornell), Alice Walker, Colson Whitehead and Kevin Young. A block east of the library, on Green Street beneath the Aurora Street overpass, is a 20-foot high, 100-foot long mural by local Black artists commemorating the Underground Railroad in Ithaca. It features an image of St. James Church, portraits and words of Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglass, and a stylized rendering of Ithaca as a northern haven. On the Commons, Ithaca’s downtown commercial and pedestrian mall, stands a bust with a quotation of Martin Luther King, Jr. An apparently unauthorized but accepted addition is an attached placard

which reads “Assassinated 4/4/68,” then lists Amadou Diallo, George Floyd, Eric Garner, Freddie Gray, Shawn Greenwood (of Ithaca), Breonna Taylor and other Black victims of government killings. The sign bears the words “Black Lives” and a logo of “Veterans For Peace.” Not many places have sites or streets named for figures of recent history. Ithaca has at least four, honoring African Americans. A decade ago, Ithaca’s central State Street was co-designated Martin Luther King, Jr. Street, largely through years-long efforts by the late Gino Bush, a prominent local activist. (Dr. King visited Ithaca twice in the early 1960s, for speeches at Cornell. Later, his associate Dorothy Cotton, like King a leader of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, moved to Ithaca and lived here for the latter half of her life, continuing her leadership on racial and social justice issues. Her life and work are commemorated in Tompkins County’s History Center on the Commons.) After his death in 2002, the main performance space on the Commons was named for Bernie Milton, a lifelong Ithaca resident, musician, recording artist, radio personality and community figure. In 1992, Ithaca’s Central Elementary School was renamed for Beverly J. Martin, a graduate of the school and Ithaca’s first African American school principal. In 2005, Clinton Street west of Meadow Street was renamed for Bishop Cecil Malone, founder of the Bethlehem Church of Jesus Christ there. Bishop Malone was renowned for his counseling and aid to church and non-church members alike, mentoring of the young, and work in hospitals, nursing homes and prisons. Back on Plain Street is a “Black Lives Matter” street painting between Seneca and Martin Luther King, Jr. Streets. It is colorful, creative, varied, and clearly the work of many minds and hands. All along Plain Street, as in much of Ithaca but perhaps more so, are a mass of house and yard signs for racial justice and activism. The library display for Black History Month features a 2018 book by N.K. Jemisin titled “How Long ‘Til Black Future Month?” Perhaps ironically, perhaps appropriately, Jemisin is a writer of what is called speculative fiction. The title bears the sting of truth (again), but with the idea of rejection of limits. Cold, short February is elevated with the remembrance, wisdom, and strength of Black History and Lives. The winds of March rise now.

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began something new, something desperately needed…which years later would be known as HVHQSN. (Read on…) Leslie taught sterilization surgery to the vet students, partnering with nearby animal shelters. “In the early 2000s, I was becoming more aware of the exorbitant overpopulation of homeless companion animals. Local dairy barns might have 60 cats seeking food and shelter. The starvation, suffering, illness was immense.” As her students spayed and neutered more animals, they gained skills, the future animal population was reduced and everyone involved began to think about HVHQSN (although Leslie didn’t coin this until 2008). In 2001, Leslie provided volunteer vet services at a rabies clinic in Schuyler County. “Of the 264 animals that were vaccinated, two-thirds of the animals, 184 cats and dogs, were not neutered. This was my ‘wake up’ moment.” Leslie and a few colleagues and students at Cornell held a week-long spay/ neuter clinic with the Humane Society of Schuyler County, and examined, spayed and neutered 222 animals. “In those days it was a stretch to get movers and shakers to think about animal overpopulation. Shelter medicine was a new and emerging field. For me, this clinic was the beginning of my development of Shelter Outreach Services (SOS).” By 2003, Leslie’s path was clear. She launched Shelter Outreach Services (SOS), and with one vet tech they performed 20 surgeries a day, five days a week…Leslie’s group observed that everyone won — the animals, the caretakers, the veterinarians (healthy animals once adopted would be taken for care to private veterinarians). Before long, all the local humane societies, SPCAs and animal welfare agencies were partners. (SOS has 11 partner organizations: Central New York Spay Neuter Assistance Program (CNY SNAP) in Cortland, The SPCA of Tompkins County, the Humane Society of Schuyler County, Chemung County Humane Society and SPCA, Broome County Humane Society, Paradise Garden Animal Haven in Steuben County, The Finger Lakes SPCA of Central New York in Cayuga County, the Beverly Animal Shelter in Seneca County, Stray Haven Humane Society and SPCA in Tioga County, Cortland Community SPCA and CNY Cat Coalition. “All our partners in our SOS network are happy to help animals from even further away, from other surrounding counties as well. One of the most important things about SOS is our partnerships with local animal welfare organizations. Our partnerships really allow SOS to reach the animals in need and keep our clinics going.” “These days, every day, seven days a week (except a few holidays) [vets] and [vet techs] bring a MASH-style mobile clinic to one of their many partners. “Within our 30 clinics, 25–35 animals

are examined, vaccinated, spayed or neutered in a day. We provide High Quality High Volume Spay Neuter (HQHVSN) to shelter dogs and cats, barn cats, feral, stray animals, dogs and cats whose owners need financial support, and animals from rescue groups in the Finger Lakes, the Southern Tier, Central New York and beyond. “SOS partners with local humane organizations to hold our HQHVSN clinics. SOS expanded in 2018, and today, SOS is on the road holding 40 clinics per month, every day of the week (only off for major holidays) with two clinics at different sites on some days.” Over time, others began thinking about the need for HQHVSN, and the term began showing up across the country. As time went on, shelter medicine, including HQHVSN, became a recognized field of veterinary medicine. “We were a small, isolated program which brought our SOS Mash-style HQHVSN to our partners. Over the past 18 years, we have spay-neutered 170,000 cats and dogs. We have also helped other communities set up MASH-style HQHVSN companies so that all animals have access to care. “For me, I love and appreciate having animals in my life. Animals teach us about unconditional love and respect and bring us joy beyond words. I chose to become a veterinarian because animals were so important to me from an early age. I am so thankful that through SOS, I am lucky enough to help animals in need on a daily basis.” This past year during the pandemic, national animal welfare organizations (such as the ASPCA, Best Friends Animal Society, Humane Society of the United States and Maddie’s Fund) came together to provide special funding for HQHVSN in each state, recognizing that as people’s finances weakened, access to care of animals also diminished. When the New York state funds were awarded, SOS was the sole recipient. SOS dispersed the funds between all of the partner organizations to help continue our important work. The little girl in Scarsdale had no idea when she dreamed of becoming an animal doctor that her team of 34 staff would someday travel throughout the backroads of the Finger Lakes, the Southern Tier, Central New York and beyond bringing access to care and HQHVSN to SPCAs, CNY SNAP in Cortland, and Humane Societies in Schuyler, Chemung and Broome Counties. “If you or anyone you know is in need of SOS’s services, please contact your local shelter. Sterilization and vaccination through SOS not only make the individual animals healthier, but also greatly reduces the companion animal overpopulation problem. The mission of SOS is to end companion animal overpopulation. We want to put ourselves out of business! Nothing would make us happier, to ensure that there was a loving home for each and every dog and cat.”

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YOUR LETTERS A letter from Anjanette Brown re: petition against ICSD Board of Ed. Dear Members of the Ithaca Community, As a former parent of the Ithaca City School District and the mother of two children I have been browbeaten and bullied by the Superintendent of the Ithaca City School District. He has used his power and connections in this town that serve his own purpose and undermine me as a mother and as a citizen. My concern is that this abuse of power is a web that stifles not only my rights but many others’ rights in the community. I provide a few of my concerns below but I will also be drafting a detailed affidavit that shows that several signatories on the ICSD affidavits have in some way engaged in outright lies, twisting timelines and cherry-picking information in an attempt to create mass confusion and a circus environment in our community. The dissemination of the ICSD affidavits was purposely designed to confuse the public. To begin with, I am a custodial parent. Contrary to the School District’s assertions in all their affidavits, it is clearly stated in our separation agreement / current custody agreement that I was granted joint legal custody of the children and equally shared parenting time with Dr. Brown. Any references to me as a “noncustodial” parent are completely false. The Amended Separation Agreement and current custody order, which the School Board unethically and unprofessionally released to the public affirms my position. I was shocked to see the affidavit by Principle Coyle. Over the last 2 years she has shown empathy about the situation and was previously on record as a supportive ally who validated the issues I have petitioned to the Board and Department. It appears she was strong-armed into writing this affidavit. Liddy Coyle’s affidavit attempts to divert away from the judge’s directive by stating there was no “written” order of protection keeping Dr. Brown away from the children or the school. This is a strawman argument. Dr. Brown was clearly directed by the court to refrain from this practice. Further, Liddy Coyle was directly informed of the court’s orders to effectuate this directive by the children’s law guardian. I will provide the community with all the “missing” information from Liddy Coyle’s affidavit including e- mail corre-

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spondence from the law guardian and the Judge’s secretary laying out this directive. I can only conclude that Dr. Brown has once again used his position of influence to advance his own agenda. Liddy Coyle denies knowledge of Dr. Brown removing the children from their classroom to speak with them before the visit by the CPS worker. It is so unfortunate that it has come to this but now I will have to provide evidence that goes to the heart of Ms. Coyle’s credibility. I am saddened that this has happened with a principal who had previously tried to stand for the truth and for the best interest of the students at Northeast Elementary. I appreciate the nature of intimidation involved in this crisis and hope she will seek independent counsel for her own sake and for the protection of the teachers and students under her charge. Kate Reid, the attorney hired by the ICSD acted as Dr. Brown’s personal advisor with respect to releasing my son’s educational records, and it was not until Andrew Cuddy, my attorney, questioned the capacity in which she was acting, that she backed down and released the records. ICSD failed to include the e-mail exchange between my attorney and Kate Reid. Dr. Brown alleges that the CPS worker also divulged to him the identity of the person reporting the incident of alleged abuse against him (paragraph 17 of Dr. Brown’s affidavit). If this is true, then I am shocked that a CPS worker would disclose the source of the hotline complaint. Such disclosures are legally prohibited and indicate the compromised nature of the investigation and the CPS worker’s relationship to the indicated person. Furthermore, Dr. Brown accuses me of filing the CPS complaint against him. This is completely untrue. I did not report Dr. Brown to CPS. I note however, that there were numerous witnesses to the abuse incident, including medical staff at the emergency room. The emergency room presentations during the abuse incident include physical injuries on AB’s body and severe emotional impact. Dr. Sean Eversely-Bradwell and Robert Ainsley both rightly state in their affidavits that “ Dr. Brown’s abuse of any child would affect his fitness to serve as an educational leader.” There is a preponderance of evidence that this in fact is the case. While as a mother, I cannot publicly release video recordings, photographs and such documentation pertaining to my children, Dr. Brown is well aware of the strong evidence regarding this incident and how it has led to our current custodial arrangements. To read the complete letter, visit Ithaca. com. -Anjanette Brown

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VAMP IT UP! Theda Bara, International Silent Movie Star and Sex Symbol, Put Romance on Film in Ithaca By Aaron Pichel

ust over 100 years ago, Theda Bara (1885-1955), the world’s first international movie sex symbol, came to Ithaca, New York, to film parts of the feature romance “Kathleen Mavourneen” for the William Fox studio. The global superstar alighted down the steps of a train from New York City in June of 1919 and took the small city by storm. “With her company, … [Bara] is filming her new William Fox feature, “Kathleen Mavourneen,” because the Finger Lakes in their picturesque wildness are the nearest in America like the Lakes of Killarney,” Ire-

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land, noted the Ithaca Journal at the time of Bara’s arrival. For the production, the Fox company rented the Wharton brothers’ Ithaca movie studio located in Renwick (now Stewart) Park at the southern tip of Cayuga Lake. Director Charles J. Brabin (1882-1957) also planned to shoot many exteriors in the Ithaca area, making use of Ithaca’s early summer environs to simulate the glens, fields and waterways of old Ireland, where the movie’s story is set. While Bara’s role — and the movie itself — would become the subject of violent controversy when the film was released to theaters in the fall of 1919, all was bucolic

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during production in Ithaca. Even love was in the air for the Ithaca-made picture, as the star first worked with director Brabin, the man who would soon become her devoted husband. THEDA BARA THE VAMP

At the time of her arrival in Ithaca, Bara was near the peak of her global fame. She had gained worldwide notoriety playing exotic, sexualized characters known as “vamps” (short for vampire — the seducing sort, not the undead blood-suckers). The term “vampire” for a seductive woman was derived from a well-known 1897 poem, “The Vampire,” by Rudyard Kipling.

Between 1915 and 1919, Bara played numerous vamp roles depicting seducers using their sexual attractions to exploit men, in movies such as “The Devil’s Daughter” (1915), “Carmen” (1915), “The Eternal Sapho” (1916), “Cleopatra” (1917), “Salomé”

Ac t r e s s Th e d a B a r a i n a n iconic pose from one of h e r m o s t fa m o u s r o l e s a s C l e o pat r a f o r t h e 1 9 1 7 s i l e n t f e at u r e . O n ly 2 0 s e c o n d s o f f r ag m e n t s o f t h e e p i c p r o d u c t i o n s u rv i v e . ( P h o t o i l l u s t r at i o n b y A n g e l H e r n a n d e z)

(1918), “The She-Devil” (1918) and many more. Bara had come to the movies rather late in life, at age 30, and some thought her too old to play romantic or sensual leads, but she proved them wrong as she created an image of the vamp who could ensnare any man with her wiles. She was born Theodosia Goodman in 1885, a Jewish girl in Cincinnati, the daughter of Bernard Goodman, a prosperous Jewish tailor from Poland, and Pauline Louise Françoise de Coppet, a Swiss woman of French descent. Theodosia would graduate in 1903 from Cincinnati’s prestigious Walnut Hills High School — where she was active in school theatrical productions — and matriculated at the University of Cincinnati for two years of higher learning, before the family moved to New York City. Bara made her Broadway debut (credited as “Theodosia De Cappet”) in 1908 at age 23, in a play entitled “The Devil.” Here, for her stage name, Bara used a variation of her mother’s French maiden name. It was not unusual at the time for entertainment folk, especially Jews, to use a professional name to hide their ethnic origins. By chance, one of Bara’s young costars on the boards in “The Devil” was actress Marguerite Snow (1889-1958). Like Bara, Snow later made the transition from stage to screen and became a silent movie star. Snow appeared in two movies made in Ithaca by the Wharton brothers, both in 1918 during World War I: the 20-episode serial “The Eagle’s Eye” and the fund-raiser short film “Mission of the War Chest.” BECOMING THEDA BARA

When Bara began in movies in 1915, studio owner William Fox (1879-1952) promptly had his press agents change Theodosia Goodman’s name and origins. Rechristening her “Theda Bara” (pronounced THEE-da BARR-a), the publicity department proclaimed her name was an anagram for “Arab Death.” The press agents touted Bara as being born and raised in Egypt in the shadow of the Sphinx, the daughter of a French artist and his Arabian mistress (sometimes it was an Arab sheik and a French woman, other times an Italian sculptor and a French actress). For the record, Bara never set foot in Egypt nor was ever cooled by a breeze in the shadow of the Sphinx. In 1917, though, Theda and the entire Goodman family (parents, brother, and sister) did legally change their surname to Bara. Through the power of the cinema and the printing press (in those halcyon days

before the invention of radio, television or the internet), an American-born, Midwestern, Jewish tailor’s daughter became known worldwide as an exotic, foreign femme fatale. From the moment of her first movie with Fox the scandalous hit “A Fool There Was” (1915) — Bara was an instant sensation, and a movie legend was born. “A Fool There Was” is one of the few extant films featuring Bara, and it was the first to popularize the word “vamp” and its character type — the femme fatale who causes the moral degradation of the male victims she seduces. But by the summer of 1919, after playing more than thirty similar movie roles to satisfy her five-year contract with Fox, Bara had her fill of the dark, sinister characters. She made the decision to renounce further vamp performances: “I have walked out, definitely and permanently, on my job as a moving picture vampire,” Bara announced resolutely at the time. “Once and for all, I am through.” Bara was fed up not only with the typecasting but also with the expectations of the public that she maintain the vamp role in reality. “In fact,” Bara commented, “so identified had I become with the vampire parts on the screen that it got so people thought I was that way in my private life.” Bara received hundreds of letters a day from fans — 1,200 pounds of mail and 100 pounds of candy each month — and more than a thousand marriage proposals.

“Judging from the letters I have received,” Bara complained, “the popular idea of my home life was indeed a lurid one.” “I was generally visualized as spending Sundays and holidays undulating snakily about my apartment or whiling away my free time stretched sinuously out on a tiger skin, gazing inscrutably through the smoke of my heavily scented cigarette,” Bara wryly noted. “The public was actually annoyed that I hadn’t lived up to the legends they had woven about me,” Bara said. “To me, there is nothing so quaintly naive as this inability of the moving picture public to disassociate the screen personality of a star from his or her own personality.” PLAYING AN IRISH COLLEEN IN ITHACA

Bara’s new movie filming in Ithaca was meant to be the first release unveiling her fresh, newly intended direction. In it, she plays an innocent, bright-eyed Irish colleen named Kathleen Mavourneen, a far cry from the exotic, seductive vamp roles which Bara had come to embody. “You can’t imagine what a grand and glorious feeling it was to emerge from the vamping to play in ‘Kathleen Mavourneen,’” Bara said. “After years of clinging black gowns, of long sinister earrings and slender evil-looking cigarettes, I fairly reveled in the ingenuous peasant costumes, the childish curls, the innocently bare feet.” “Cinematographically speaking, I am a new woman,” Bara proclaimed proudly. “Kathleen Mavourneen” was based on the song of the same name written in 1837 (popularized during the American Civil War) and a play by Dion Boucicault, an Irish actor and playwright. The story was adapted to film seven times. First as silent film shorts in 1906, 1911, two different versions in 1913 (one written and directed by Brabin, Bara’s future husband, for Thomas Edison’s studio), and finally Th e d a B a r a i n a n It h ac a f i e l d o f d a i s i e s , p l ay i n g t h e r o l e o f a y o u n g I r i s h l a s s i n t h e a 1914 short titled 1 9 1 9 f e at u r e r o m a n c e K at h l e e n M av o u r n e e n . “Kathleen the Irish U p o n r e l e a s e , t h e m ov i e c au s e d v i o l e n t Rose.” p r o t e s t s at s o m e t h e at e r s i n t h e U. S . Fe br ua ry

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Then came the 1919 Theda Bara silent feature version for Fox (also written and directed by Brabin). A sound feature followed in 1930 — a low-budget musical. The tale, oft-told, is bleak: Kathleen is forced to abandon her true love and marry the local squire. The squire frames Kathvleen’s true love, who is hanged for murder. To accommodate Bara’s new, shinier image, writer/director Brabin transformed the original tragic ending of the play for the 1919 adaptation. The horrors of the original story (including the brutal hanging — graphically depicted — of Mavourneen’s loved one) were tempered by Brabin’s new ending. Instead of tragedy, this “Kathleen Mavourneen” tags on a new coda in which Kathleen awakes from a nightmare, discovers the whole story was a bad dream, and is able to marry the man she loves (his gruesome death by hanging vanishes with the waking). THEDA MAKES A SPLASH IN ITHACA

During her time in Ithaca, the silent movie actress made a profound impression. The Ithaca Journal crowed in its headline: “Yes, Theda Bara is Here But She Is Not Vamping.” The movie’s astronomical $125,000 budget (millions in today’s dollars) and Bara’s star-power left the locals starstruck. “Miss Bara, accompanied by her maid, and her company, arrived from New York City this morning,” noted the Ithaca Journal in the June 18, 1919 afternoon edition. “She registered at the Ithaca Hotel simply as ‘Miss T. Bara and maid’ and she rather disappointed curious onlookers, who thought that she would appear just as ‘vampy’ as she has in some of her pictures — “A Fool There Was” — for instance.” “But she didn’t look that way at all,” the Journal commented, “for Miss Bara was dressed plainly but stylishly, and she was as unostentatious as any guest at the hotel.” Despite the quiet arrival day, Bara couldn’t help but turn heads. Another front page newspaper headline read: “Theda Bara, in Bathing Suit, Awes Bashful Ithacans.” Bara and company happened to be in Ithaca during Cornell University’s celebrations of the 50th anniversary of its founding, and Bara made a splash (pun intended) at the university’s Cayuga Lake festivities on the shores of Renwick (now Stewart) Park. “Barefoot and attired in a bewildering bathing suit,” the papers reported, “Theda Bara, vampire exponent, is astonishing the thousands of visitors at the semi-cen-

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to completing phase one of the project by fundraising, ordering gear and making deliveries. “We asked each principal to tell us what they urgently needed to get the kids who are back in person outside,” Lyons said. “And we were able to distribute all of those boots, snow pants, mittens and, in some cases,

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Fresh Air Gear for Kids ICSD and PTA help elementary students stay warm, safe in outdoor learning spaces By Emily Snyd e r

s Ithaca City schools prepared to welcome back in-person students last fall, the district partnered with the Ithaca Children’s Garden to install outdoor learning spaces at each of the eight elementary schools in an effort to reduce the risk of spreading COVID-19; creating the outdoor spaces was a crucial step toward reopening. However, in order for teachers to utilize these resources year-round, students need to be able to access appropriate outdoor gear. The Parent-Teacher Associations across all the ICSD elementary schools came together to provide their students with outdoor gear to wear in a learning environment that is safer from COVID-19 exposure than the traditional classroom. Susan Eschbach, principal of Beverly J. Martin Elementary School, considers the gear an investment in both minimizing the spread of COVID-19, and the

district’s commitment to infiltrate outdoor education. “We needed to Susan Eschbach, principal of be out more than we Beverly J. Martin Elementary already were,” Eschbach School.(Photo: Casey Martin) said. “Many of us are proponents of outdoor education anyway, but rain gear.” [the pandemic] was an added push, so As of January 2021, the committee the timing was right for the PTAs to come raised over $60,000 with support from the together and create an equitable opportuproject’s fiscal sponsor — the Ithaca Public nity.” Education Initiative. Donations from local Each of the eight PTAs formed a project businesses and organizations, community committee with families and caregivers of members and the ICSD PTAs themselves ICSD elementary students. Since launchhave also helped fund the first half of the ing the Ithaca Elementary Outdoor Gear project. Project in October 2020, the committee Eschbach said the sets of gear that have has accomplished its short-term goal to been issued to every in-person student are outfit all 1,200 elementary students who already being worn. are attending school in person. “We had our class, as recently as Friday, Committee co-chair Jennifer Lyons said walk to [Beechtree Center for Rehabilitathat the volunteers heavily contributed tion and Nursing] to make snow people outdoors for the residents to see out the windows,” she said. Eschbach said having this gear in the Family Medicine Associates classrooms puts less restraints on teachers of Ithaca LLP when planning outdoor lessons. “Regardless of what kind of play, Serving the Ithaca Community for 45 Years! instruction or lesson, the project allows Telehealth/Video visits now available with all providers tremendous flexibility in the learning environments,” Eschbach said. As the committee moves into the second half of the project, volunteers have continued fundraising toward the $140,000 total cost needed to purchase gear for the remaining 1,100 remote ICSD elementary students. “The second phase that we’ll work to complete between now and the end of the school year is to make sure we get everything the principals need for when the

rest of the students come back in the fall,” Lyons said. Instead of eight separate fundraisers, Lyons explained that the project became a collaboration among all ICSD elementary school PTAs because socioeconomic status across the district varies considerably. “There’s such a wide range of access to winter gear across the district,” Lyons said. “Meaning, some schools don’t have the same kind of fundraising power from the PTA or the same kinds of resources as the others.” According to the Ithaca Elementary Outdoor Gear Project webpage, 25% of students qualify for free or reduced-priced lunch at some ICSD elementary schools, while at others, over 70% of students qualify. Since the rates at Enfield and Beverly J. Martin exceed 40%, both schools participate in the Community Eligibility Provision, which allows the highest-need schools in the nation to serve free school meals to all students. “Anytime families might contribute to their children’s classroom — for supplies, snacks, field trips — there’s going to be an inequity across the schools, because our demographics across the schools are pretty variable,” Eschbach said. “Because of pretty serious issues of equity, the likelihood of some schools getting more or better-quality supplies and other schools struggling to do so, just didn’t seem right in the face of anything, but certainly in the face of a pandemic.” Eschbach and Lyons agree that the PTAs and volunteers from every ICSD elementary school are committed to working together and sharing resources in order to offer outdoor education to all students. At a time when students have faced substantial barriers and changes to education, the Ithaca Elementary Outdoor Gear Project ensures that students are always prepared to learn outside in a safe environment. “One of the goals has been to make sure that every kid has the gear they need and that the teachers have extra gear in their classrooms so that they can always go outside and play — something that’s so important in a pandemic, but also in a regular year for elementary kids especially,” Lyons said.

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tennial celebration at Cornell University at Ithaca on Cayuga lake.” Another publication reported that Bara “startled the throngs attending the Cornell [celebration] by appearing barefoot and clad only in a smile and a bathing suit.” She enthralled and shocked the gathered crowds. “For Miss Bara is present in the flesh with charms which have awed even on the screen,” the papers glowed.

The writer and director of “Kathleen Mavourneen,” Charles Brabin, was a British native who made a theatrical life for himself in the U.S. He was born in 1882 in Liverpool, England, and emigrated to the U.S. as a young man in the early 1900s. Brabin, who held down odd jobs while trying acting gigs, made his Broadway debut in 1904 at age 22. From the stage, he made his way to Thomas Edison’s movie studio in the Bronx around 1908, first acting, and by 1911, working his way into writing and directing.

While at Edison, Brabin wrote and directed a 1913 short film version of “Kathleen Mavourneen,” so he was quite familiar with the material at hand. It was at the Edison studio in 1908 that Brabin met and befriended the older, already established director Theodore Wharton (1875-1931), who would later invite Brabin to film at the Wharton studios in Ithaca. From 1914 to 1919, Theodore Wharton and his brother Leopold (1870-1927) owned and operated a bustling silent movie studio, Whartons, Inc., in Ithaca. The brothers first welcomed Brabin to film in

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Ithaca in 1917 when Brabin directed silent movie stars (and Ithaca acting alums) Francis X. Bushman and Beverly Bayne in “The Adopted Son” (1917). The Western feature was produced by the Metro company (the forerunner of today’s Metro-GoldwynMayer, MGM). Brabin “has a number of friends in Ithaca, particularly Theodore W. Wharton of Wharton, Inc.,” noted the Ithaca Journal in 1919. For the 1919 “Kathleen Mavourneen” production, the Wharton brothers rented their Ithaca studio to the William Fox company (the forerunner of the enduring 20th Century-Fox studio, now known as 20th Century Studios and owned by the Walt Disney Company). The Wharton brothers also ensured that Brabin had access to all the natural landscapes he needed to make Ithaca’s native beauty replicate Ireland. Brabin formed a troupe of cast and crew to bring “Kathleen Mavourneen” to life. He brought in his best friend, actor Marc McDermott (1881-1929), to play the villainous squire (McDermott had played the same role in Brabin’s 1913 short production of the same story at the Edison studio). Two short years later, McDermott would serve as best man at Brabin and Bara’s wedding in 1921. Brabin hired Irish-American actor Edward O’Connor (1862-1932) to play Kathleen’s father. The Irish-born O’Connor had already acted in a number of Wharton movies made entirely in Ithaca, including some of the 14-episode serial “The New Adventures of J. Rufus Wallingford” (1915) and two feature films, “The Lottery Man” (1916) and “Hazel Kirke” (1916) featuring movie star Pearl White (1889-1938). O’Connor’s performance in “Kathleen Mavourneen” drew praise from the trade journals: “Edward O’Connor as Kathleen’s father repeats one of those fine impersonations of Irish character for which he is noted.” To Be Continued…

FOOD NET has allowed us to be stable through the pandemic.” Foodnet secured funding to continue the program through the end of May. “We’re going to observe the demand as we go along,” Gosa said. “In terms of this project, if it looks like our demand is still up when we’re reaching May, then we’ll definitely explore avenues and opportunities to try to keep it going.”

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State Theatre orchestrates virtual music festival

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he “Boogie Shakedown,” which started in 1998 as a backyard music festival to kick off the summer, has become an annual tradition celebrated by local musicians, their friends and families. When last year’s “Boogie” was canceled at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, the State Theatre of Ithaca decided to organize a virtual alternative. Even though the event takes place in a different setting, the goal remains the same — to bring people together through music. This year, “Boogie for the State – A Virtual Shakedown” will stream for free on Sunday, Feb. 28 at 7 p.m. Doug Levine, executive director of the State Theatre of Ithaca, describes the “Boogie” as a “party that’s put on by bands for bands” every Memorial Day. Beside the transition online and colder weather, Levine expects the upcoming event will have the same look and feel as “Boogies” in the past. “It was really sad for us to not have a ‘Boogie Shakedown’ in 2020,” Levine said. “Brian Fiorello and I wanted to put on a virtual ‘Boogie’ to give people something to look forward to during the winter months and show some love to our local bands.” Brian Fiorello, founding organizer and host of the “Boogie Shakedown,” helped Levine compile a lineup of musicians and bands that have performed at previous “Boogies,”

including Plastic Nebraska, Sim Redmond Band, Johnny Dowd, Maddy Walsh & The Blind Spots, Madder Rose, Common Railers, The Small Kings, The Rungs, Janet Batch, The Sutras, Don Bazley, and The Moles. Levine and Fiorello asked each of the bands to record a short performance for the virtual festival. Ted Hansen, who sings and plays guitar for Plastic Nebraska, said the band decided to reunite during the pandemic to record its set because the “Boogie Shakedown” has become a staple in the community. “At first, we were very wary of the idea, but as we thought it through, we came up with a way to do it safely,” Hansen said. “It was obviously different being masked and spread out, but it felt really good to play with these guys again, and even better knowing it is all for a great cause.” Maddy Walsh and Mike Suave, songwriters of Maddy Walsh & The Blind Spots, are also returning this year with a cover of “What It Means,” by Drive-By Truckers. “The ‘Boogie Shakedown’ itself is a party where musicians get to enjoy each other’s music because so often we’re all playing our own shows, so I look forward to tuning in and watching everybody else’s performances,” Walsh said. At a time when the pandemic restricts live music, the lead vocalist said that the event is a promising start to getting back on stage with the rest of the band. “These opportunities that the State Theatre has offered to try to keep musicians connected have been great,” Walsh said.

Since the last live performance at the State Theatre in March 2020, the theater has hosted about 20 live stream shows. “Everyone knows that we’re shut down from live shows, but we have a skeleton-level of staff here who are working away because we want to remain relevant to the community and let people know that we’re still your central place for live music,” Levine said. “The other thing is, we are a not-for-profit, so this is a way for us to raise some extra money too.” The State Theatre will be selling merchandise and accepting donations throughout the concert to raise money for the theater and participating musicians. “I’m looking forward to seeing how many people will come out and support the theater,” Fiorello said. “Hopefully, we can bring everybody a little bit of joy and hope for the spring, summer and days to come.” Levine said that streaming the “Boogie Shakedown” on Facebook and YouTube invites people from outside the local music community to join the tradition. “It’s definitely turned into a big family affair,” Levine said. “We started this party in 1998 when I was just out of Ithaca College actually. We were kids then, but now I have my own kids and we all have our own families.” While the “Boogie Shakedown” has evolved over the past 20 years, Levine believes that the event has always brought joy to musicians and attendees. “During this time when we can’t have live shows, we can still do other things,” Levine said. “Music connects us, and the ‘Boogie’ is a really fun way to connect everyone.”

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