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ART S & E N T E RTAINME N T ZONING

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he proposed project at 401 E State St. hit a snag when it appeared before the Board of Zoning Appeals on June 1 to seek a height variance. As a refresher, McKinley Development Company is proposing a 340,000 square-foot apartment building that would be home to 267 parking spaces and 347 residential units.

Developers are seeking a height variance of nine feet, hoping to build a 71-foot structure rather than the 62 allowed by zoning laws. Brian Bouchard, an engineer on the project, said the variance was justified because the project will be adding to the Six Mile Creek trail which occupies some of the lot space, and because it will provide public parking after business hours.

He added that the building needs the extra height because of the site’s challenging topography. The sloped site means the grade changes dramatically from one end of the site to the other, and Bouchard argued the extra height was needed to accommodate it. The parking decks on the lower levels will essentially be underground, while the steep grade means the third floor is flush with the sidewalk.

Board member Suzanne Lanyi Charles asked if they could reach the 62-foot height limit by eliminating a level of

parking, but Bouchard said that would make the project infeasible.

“The whole project would fall apart,” he said. “Without parking we would lose units, without units we’d lose financial status. The construction of this building is significantly different than if it were a flat site […] The impact without the extra nine feet is losing units and not doing the project, or losing parking and not doing the project.”

Board member David Barken wasn’t sold, and insisted that technically, because there are no parking requirements downtown, they would be able to reduce the parking.

However, Bouchard reiterated that it would make the project not viable.

Charles asked Barken if he had any suggestions for a feasible alternative, but Barken said he’d need more information.

“That might be missing

information,” he said. “But I think there’s a way to design a structure here that meets the zoning and allows them to utilize their property to the largest extent.”

Board member Steven Henderson was in agreement with Barken. He said the 71-foot building from the creek walk would just be too big for how close it is to the trail.

“That’s a non-starter for me,” he said.

All three board members in attendance would have had to vote to approve the variance in order for it to move forward, and with Barken and Henderson staunchly against it, the board and development group were at an impasse.

Bouchard said the unique characteristics of the site made complying to the zoning requirements difficult.

“We wouldn’t be here if we could comply with zoning,” he said. “I’m at a loss to see what we could do more prior to the next meeting aside from the long list of work we’ve done over the past nine months.”

Charles played peacekeeper, noting that it was the board’s

T a k e ▶ National finalist - New Roots Charter School founder and principal Tina Nilsen-Hodges has been named a finalist for the Best of Green Schools K-12 Educator award by the Center for Green Schools in collaboration with the Green Schools National Network.

job to offer relief when there are unusual circumstances.

“In my view, this site has such unusual circumstances that if we’re thinking about the impact of this extra nine feet of height on East State Street there’s ample reason to think the nine feet isn’t such an imposition given the unique topography of the site,” she said. “But I see that from the creek side you’re going to get the full force of that building.”

She asked Barken and Henderson if they could provide specific guidance for the applicants to consider going forward.

Henderson reiterated that it was the 71 feet facing the creek side that was bothering him, and that he’d appreciate seeing that half of the top floor reduced down to the 62 feet.

No promises were made, but Bouchard said they could look into the possibility of stepping that section back and see if it would be feasible.

Ultimately, the board decided to postpone the vote until the July 6 meeting.

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PHOTOGRAPHER Legislature calls for moratorium on crypto mining

By C a se y Mar tin

YOU’VE BEEN KIDNAPPED AND THE LAST PERSON YOU SAW ON TV (OR STREAMING) IS THE PERSON THAT SAVES YOU. WHO IS IT?

“Dale Cooper (Twin Peaks)!”

-Andrea S & Elliott T.

“Cruella Deville” -Carolyn L.

“Captain Sharp…aka BRUCE WILLIS! I’m saved.”

Council approves Community Justice Center, Cliff Street PUD

“Charlie Morton from the Atlanta Braves… and Cayton Kershaw from the LA Dodgers… not sure if that’s good or bad?”

-Kathryn & Micah B.

“David Bautista (Scott from the Army of The Dead”). I’m good.”

- Mckenzie S. h e

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I’m going to vote for this, but there are a lot of unanswered questions.”

A resolution advocating for the New York State Public Research Commission to conduct and publish research on a transition from fossil fuel for heating was passed 13-1, with Sigler in opposition. The resolution advocates for gas-reduction and analysis of the electrical grid amongst other greenhouse gas emission analyses.

A resolution memberfiled by Legislator Dan Klein to adopt a policy managing an old-growth forest owned by the county with minimal human intervention and without commercial logging was passed 11-3, with legislators Anne Koreman, Leslie Schill, and Martha Robertson voting against. Klein shared an impassioned speech about the importance of protecting old-growth forest land and provided historical examples of the impacts of commercial logging on the environment and local ecosystems. Koreman shared that she was not in favor of this bill because of inaccuracies in the text of

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he County Legislature met June 1 and passed resolutions centered around cryptocurrency mining and a transition from fossil fuel for heating, as well as heard from the Emergency Operations Center on the latest in COVID response and from the Tompkins County History Center director about a project he’s working on.

Environmentally Focused Advocacy Resolutions Passed A resolution calling for a moratorium on the operation of cryptocurrency mining centers until the NYS Department of Environmental Conservation can review environmental impacts passed unanimously (14-0). Cryptocurrency mining takes a large amount of energy and has become a popular industry before regulations could be put in place at the State level. Conversation was had on whether renewable energy should be considered to power these centers. Legislator Mike Sigler shared that he has been following bitcoin since 2014, and that Legislators have spent a great deal of time researching something “they’re not voting on, this is a vote of support.

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thaca’s Common Council officially approved the establishment of the Community Justice Center (CJC) at its June 2 meeting. The CJC will be a collaboration with Tompkins County to work toward the implementation of the 17 shared recommendations of the Reimagining Public Safety plan.

The $124,430 approved for the CJC will go toward two employees and operating expenses. The two employees will be employed by the county and contracted to work for the city.

The approval passed with a few clarifications sought from council members.

“Is this intended to be a two-

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year commitment?” Alderperson Cynthia Brock asked.

Deanna Carrithers, Tompkins County’s chief equity and diversity officer, said that the funding being approved that night was for a single year, but because the hires likely won’t happen until the fall, the cost would ultimately be pro-rated.

The CJC is expected to operate continuously as it works to design and implement the recommendations, but Council and Legislature will receive monthly reports so they can course correct and oversee progress.

Alderperson Donna Fleming asked who would be in charge

the resolution. Two attempted amendments brought forth by Robertson, one to alter the text of the resolution pertaining to the Town of Caroline and another to call for the directional felling of trees allowing for hardwood saplings to thrive in areas with a cleared canopy, failed. Klein argued that as pine trees naturally fall, hardwoods then naturally rise to take their place, subsequently sharing photos of the process happening in the forest in question.

Emergency Operations Center Presents COVID-19 Response Update Public Health Director Frank Kruppa and Deputy County Administrator Amie Hendrix shared a COVID-19 response update, including the currently low disease prevalence and high rate of vaccinations. The Health Department continues to host pop-up vaccine clinics to reach different populations across the county.

Kruppa stated, “The reopening guidance continues to evolve, we’re seeing fully vaccinated people able to not wear masks in most settings, though some private businesses are still requiring masks. We continue to answer a lot of questions from the community and are encouraging patience from the community.” He continued, “The data is all headed in the right direction, the number of cases is very low, and our

vaccination numbers are rising steadily – most people who have received their first dose have also received their second dose.”

Legislature Hears Presentation on HistoryForge Project Tompkins County History Center Director Ben Sandberg and project lead Eve Snyder joined the meeting to present on the HistoryForge project and its expansion both at a local and national level. The project is a digital web application that connects local communities to history using census records, maps, and photos. Hundreds of local volunteers have contributed over the past several years to input data into the system. The program allows you to search via a person’s name or an address to uncover a comprehensive building or resident record.

Snyder shared examples of the early 20th century history of local Black homeownership and employment records highlighting segregation in the city. The program will expand by offering current Ithaca residents to upload historical photos of their properties.

Sandberg noted that this “is a powerful tool for local history.” And continued, “We’re working toward getting the entire county mapped, to offer

of searching for hiring the two employees.

Carrithers said it’s going to be a collaborative process that represents a variety of groups, from Council and Legislature to Ithaca Police Department and the Sheriff ’s Office to members of the public.

“The community will have a say as well,” she said. “We’re trying to design something that is comprehensive and not overwhelming.”

The process to create the positions is currently underway at the county level and is expected to go to a vote on June 15. In May, the county’s Public Safety Committee introduced draft job descriptions as well.

“The goal is to have folks hired by the end of October,” Carrithers said.

Council approved the CJC unanimously.

Common Council also had to vote on the conditional

approval of the Planned Unit Development (PUD) application for the former Incodema property, now known as the Cliff Street Retreat project. A PUD is required when the proposed uses for a property are not permitted under the current zoning regulations.

The project is proposed to include about 12 living units, boutique retail and meeting space at 407 Cliff St. Alderperson Graham Kerslick expressed concern that there may have not been enough public feedback (a sparsely attended public hearing was held last month), however Planning Director JoAnn Cornish said the approval was just the start of a “fairly involved site plan review process,” during which neighbors would be notified and more comments would be considered.

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Ups Kids are now allowed to go mask-less outside at school as restrictions continue to ease up.

Recess will be a little more fun for the final few weeks of the school year.

Downs As the weather heats up, so too, it seems, does the incidence of violent crime.

If you need a place to cool off, might we sugget browsing the shelves of the library?

HEARD&SEEN Heard For the summer, vaccinated students and staff at Cornell can stop wearing masks and physical distancing while on campus.

COVID

Charts: CDC Covid Data Tracker and Cayuga Health System

County has second highest vax rate in state, Ithaca area fifth best in country

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n the first COVID town hall since February, county officials said that they’re feeling optimistic about where the community currently stands with disease prevalence and vaccination, and encouraged folks to get out and enjoy the summer.

“We’re in a good place from a disease perspective,” Kruppa said. “If you’re fully vaccinated the risk is relatively low.”

The county has been hovering around 30 active cases in recent days, which Kruppa called “good news.”

“I don’t think zero is a realistic number,” he said. “We’re going to continue to see cases if we continue doing testing the way we are.”

He confirmed that about 90% of recent positive cases have been variants of the original coronavirus, the predominant strains being the U.K. variant and the New York City variant, which Kruppa said is to be expected.

Because there are so few cases and so many people are vaccinated, Kruppa said there hasn’t been much community spread to speak of.

“We had a couple of small clusters, one in residential living, one from a religious gathering that created some cases a few weeks ago,” he said. “We are consistently seeing household exposures. If someone in a home becomes positive, the

other non-vaccinated people in the home become positive too.”

Tompkins County has the second highest vaccination rate in the state at 65.9%, trailing only behind Hamilton County, which, it’s worth noting, has a much smaller population. Additionally, the Fast Company recently published an article stating the Ithaca metropolitan area has a vaccination rate of 64.4%, the fifth highest in the nation.

Kruppa laughed at the notion of calling Ithaca a metropolitan area (other places on the list include major cities like San Diego, San Jose and San Francisco), but said he was happy to be recognized.

“It’s really a thank you to our community and the partnership that helps get vaccines available,” he said. “And a thank you to our community for stepping up […] The work’s not done but it’s always nice to hear the work is paying off.”

Though vaccination rate is high, Kruppa said the county has not yet reached herd immunity, and addressed people who were still holding out on getting vaccinated.

“I often get the response from folks that ‘if you’re vaccinated why do you care if I am?’” Kruppa said. “It’s about the ability for the disease to spread in our community. If that ability exists, the opportunity for the disease to

evolve and mutate exists. That’s what we’re trying to solve. In this early phase with a novel disease the purpose of herd immunity is to stop it from spreading so it doesn’t continue to spread and mutate.”

Since the Pfizer vaccine has begun being offered to children 12+, Kruppa said he’s seen a good uptick in that age group getting vaccinated and that his department has been working closely with local school districts. He said it’s highly unlikely children under 12 will be eligible for the vaccine before the fall school year begins and that it would likely not be until the end of the year or early 2022.

“But it would be great to be proved wrong,” he said.

Kruppa also addressed a question about the death tolls, as there’s about a 20-person disparity between the countypublished numbers and the state-published numbers, with the state’s being higher.

“We’ve tried to rectify that,” he said. “The challenge is we don’t know what the state considers a COVID death.”

He said it’s possible Tompkins County residents dying outside the county could be part of it, or it could be that the state was including COVID as a secondary or tertiary cause of death on a death certificate as a COVID death.

“We’ve been pretty consistently different throughout,” he said.

There was also a question about what people could expect in the fall, especially as

college students return to the area.

“That’s the biggest unknown,” he said. “I’m always concerned, as a community we should feel good that the numbers are as low as they are.”

He said that even with Ithaca College and Cornell requiring their students to be vaccinated before returning to campus, the county would likely see an uptick of positive cases when they return.

“But that’s to be expected,” he said. “We’ll be hoping if people are positive their symptoms won’t be as bad and hospitalizations will be fewer […] People should expect we will see some additional cases, but it won’t be like last fall.”

With the relaxing of domestic travel restrictions, Kruppa was asked whether county residents should be worried about people visiting Tompkins County this summer. However, Kruppa encouraged people to just enjoy the summer.

“We want people to get back to normal,” he said. “Particularly those who are fully vaccinated, you should be able to move about the way you used to.”

He added that it was the second question in a row with the word “concern” in it, and that as the commissioner of mental health in the county as well, it flagged the effect the pandemic has had on people’s mental and emotional state.

“Let us do the worrying,” he said. “Get out there, enjoy the summer.”

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Seen Seven-time Grammy award winner and brother of Billie Eilish, Finneas was seen enjoying Buttermilk Falls with his girlfriend last week.

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Frank Leahy: The Swing Vote!

Pobody’s Nerfect

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rowing up pervised, so we on Staten had many advenIsland in tures.” the ‘60s, Frank Leahy had eight When Frank siblings. The Leawas 5 his parents hy family lived in bought an older a small, sparsely farmhouse with populated villand in Virgil, lage surrounded New York, where by farmland. “We the family of 11 lived in a close-knit stayed each sumneighborhood and mer for the next all the grownups 10 years. “My watched out for parents wanted all the kids as we to be amongst the walked to the park high hills outand to each others’ side the city. We homes.” Most of would drive from Frank Leahy the time, Frank had Staten Island in a sister or a brother our huge Internanearby. tional Travelall, Frank’s father worked three jobs to plus our station wagon, towing a U-Haul. support their family — New York City Our father worked three days straight as fireman, occasional dock worker, and a fireman and would commute to Virtruck driver as needed. “At home we gil for four days each week throughout didn’t have a lot of family rules, but we the summer. We would always visit the all helped with baby care, and generally Cornell gardens, check out the pheaspitched in to see that chores were done… continued on page 7 Still we had plenty of time to play unsu-

ews item: As it turns out, Ithaca is more than just surrounded by reality — it’s dealing with it. The nationwide labor shortage has left businesses — box stores and mom-and-pop shops alike — in Ithaca unable to find enough staff to operate as vaccine rollout pushes life a bit closer to normalcy. According to Kathy Nivison from Express Employment Professionals, an employment service in Ithaca, “There’s a very low supply of workers.” Currently, Express Employment Professionals has over 50 open positions they’re looking to fill for clients and Nivison said “at any given moment, it could be 75.”

“It’s a candidate’s market right now,” she said. “Companies are having to stay competitive with their wages. If they’re not, they’re not going to find people.”

-Ithaca Times, June 3, 2021 In this superheated employment market, wouldn’t it be just so much fun to listen in on a job interview? We obtained a transcript of one at a well-known, but anonymous local restaurant. We have our harried manager CARL CASPER who has scored that rarest of commodities in today’s job market...a candidate (OLIVER CORNSTARCH) for a server position. CORNSTARCH is shirtless for the interview, but also wearing a French Foreign Legion hat. CASPER is visibly nervous.

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CASPER: This is, um, an interesting set of skills you have listed. “Nunchuck skills, bow hunting skills, computer hacking skills.” Do you have any restaurant experience?

CORNSTARCH: I do not.

CASPER: Maybe you worked at a food truck? Lemonade stand? (silence) Have you ever brought an item of food to a family member?

CORNSTARCH: I can’t actually say that I have.

CASPER: Well, let’s be honest. What does experience mean, anyway? What other jobs have you had? It looks like you skipped that space on the application.

CORNSTARCH: To be honest, up to now my pronounced hostility to other people has made getting gainful employment a bit of a challenge. Plus I hate work.

CASPER: People can be so judgmental. Am I right? I think we can…

CORNSTARCH: Look, you seem like a decent guy. Let’s just cut to the chase. I have several other interviews this morning. I wear a Kepi and I don’t like to take it off.

That’s non-negotiable. Also, I refuse to handle forks.

I need three weeks off right away, also non-negotiable.

I don’t like being told what to do. The idea that the customer is always right I find to be a repulsive bit of nonsense. And I refuse to memorize anything.

CASPER: It doesn’t matter.

CORNSTARCH: And I smoke. I smoke all the time.

CASPER: I don’t care.

CORNSTARCH: You might remember that I once set this very restaurant on fire.

CASPER: I forgive you.

CORNSTARCH: I believe my agent emailed my salary and benefits demands?

CASPER: All perfectly acceptable!

CORNSTARCH: Hm. The platinum insurance package? The bitcoin signing bonus? I’m not going to bend on the thirty-five personal days...

CASPER, clearly agitated, nods in agreement.

CORNSTARCH: I don’t think you should get your hopes up, Mr...whatever your name is...but I can say that you’re still in the running.

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ants, the experimental grasses and other favorites. We loved to swim under the Taughannock Falls, watching out for each other, and then barbecuing in the park.

Sometimes we would make lean-tos on the land and camp out, like we learned in scouting.”

The nine Leahy kids all walked to Elementary School PS 26. Frank had older and younger siblings in attendance and his school memories were happy.

“Our Village school was small, flexible and supportive. In second grade when I expressed an interest in gardening, the teachers said I could start a school garden.

And so, I did. They gave me free rein, found a bunch of tools for me, and I grew peanuts.”

Even as a little kid Frank always wanted to “make things.” A 90-year-old neighbor recalls Frank as a preschooler: “You would come over and make the most beautiful things.” Most of all Frank lived to “make art.” He loved all the containers in which his elementary school teachers stored scraps of paper and material. At 8, his teachers gave him a key to the art closet so he could make arts and crafts after school. “I loved the art closet and felt so free to create. There was no supervision and a few kids and I would invent things…In junior high teachers selected seven of us kids to ‘do art.’ We were allowed to leave our regular classes and work in the art room, in an area which became our own art studio.

Intermediate School required two bus rides to a larger, more populous area.

“There I got to know a wide array of kids of different nationalities, races, religions.”

For high school all nine Leahy kids tested for, applied to, and then attended parochial school.

During Frank’s pre-teen years he started saving money from his paper route. As a teenager he was hired to work at Lasker Pool in Central Park in Harlem.

“This was a big deal, since I was eligible to join the city’s payroll and get union rate and benefits. The pay was great for a kid…

The downside was the two hour commute each way: bus from the village to the ferry from Staten Island to Manhattan and then the subway to 110th Street. Saving up money so I could go to college, I often biked to and from the ferry, 10 miles each way.” After two years of lifeguarding at Lasker Pool, Frank was rewarded with a job at Midland Beach on Staten Island.

Frank stayed on at Midland Beach, every May-September until he was 22, paying for college that way.

“I felt pulled in two directions: I loved art, but knew I was a natural caregiver.

I felt an affinity for caretaking, and was counted on growing up to bring groceries and meals to my grandmother near our home. Weekends I would clean and straighten up her apartment. I also cared for each of my parents in their last years.

But Cornell nursing was not receptive to male applicants. So, after considering nursing school, I picked Potsdam College as the smallest state school, as far away as possible from NYC, where I could pursue art…Boy, was that North Country on the border of Canada cold!” In those days Frank wrote home to his family. Kids didn’t have phones, but he wasn’t homesick at all, and was busy learning new things. He enjoyed his classes and delved into his art.

Stay tuned to see where Frank’s art and his gift for caretaking led him after Potsdam. In the meantime, we share some of Frank’s art, which you may have seen on permanent exhibit around Ithaca. https:// frankleahy.wixsite.com/frankleahyart

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a systemic way to look at demographics from the census across time.”

Sandberg added that this product has been made possible through the legislature’s sustained investment in the History Center of Tompkins County. Elmira and Auburn, NY and a small city in Ohio are also using the tool, the History Center plans to allow for further expansion in the future. Schill praised the work of volunteers analyzing local history and Koreman and Sigler shared examples of properties they looked up and excitement for the expansion throughout the rest of the county.

More details can be found at: https:// www.historyforge.net/ Among Other Business A proclamation was read celebrating June 2021 as LGBTQ+ Pride Month, commemorating contributions by the LGBTQ+ community and the ongoing protection of human rights by local and national groups and advocates. Rainbow flags will be flown at county buildings throughout Pride Month. Koreman offered

that the proclamation be delivered to the Tompkins County Youth Services Department in celebration of LGBTQ+ youth in the community.

Legislature Chairwoman Leslyn McBean-Clairborne also read a proclamation commemorating Juneteenth, the annual celebration of Black liberation from slavery. The proclamation highlighted that the news of emancipation only made it to slaves in Texas two years after Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation, and the celebration erupting from that delayed announcement became known as Juneteenth. The resolution acknowledged the continued injustices present in American society and celebrated the contributions and progress made to society by African Americans. Dr. Ken Clarke, the Director of the Office of Human Rights was on hand to accept the proclamation, acknowledging the ongoing struggle for liberation and the continued pursuit of justice, freedom, and equality.

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YOUR LETTERS In support of Cynthia Brock for Common Council

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am writing to strongly encourage First Ward residents to vote for Cynthia Brock in the upcoming primary for Common Council. It is critically important that our representative has deep knowledge of the neighborhoods and to be willing to have hands-on engagement in issues affecting them. Cynthia excels at constituent service, attending neighborhood association meetings, responding almost immediately to requests, and advocating for residents on issues small and large. Her commitment to her role on Common Council impresses anyone who works with her. She is able to build bridges among residents with differing opinions, never failing to listen carefully and entertain multiple viewpoints.

There are many important decisions facing the city, from zoning to public safety. We desperately need Cynthia's combination of experience, careful analysis, empathy, and attentiveness to her constituents. A vote for Cynthia in the primary is a vote for better quality of life in our neighborhoods.

-Karl Pillemar, Ithaca, NY

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e are writing in support of Cynthia Brock to continue as our representative on Ithaca City Council. Over her many years of service, Cynthia has been willing to take a strong stand on important issues.

Here is just one of many possible examples, especially relevant today: In 2014, she was the only Common Council member to oppose military type training and military type equipment, including the SWAT Truck, for the Ithaca Police Department. She argued that our community needed to have more opportunities for training and officers needed to engage in ways that build trust, and military equipment would hinder those efforts. She had the foresight to see the consequences of a military black truck and camouflage uniforms with full riot gear when no one else on Common Council did.

Cynthia has always been willing to delve deep into important issues. She devotes a good deal of time to study and understand complexities, and is responsive to questions or complaints from her constituents. She has earned our respect and support.

-Sara Hess and Jeff Furman, Ithaca, NY

Calling on Tom Reed to support House Resolution 69 The incredible biodiversity of Ithaca makes it “gorges.” As we face the sixth mass extinction, this beauty is threatened.

Loss of biodiversity is a pertinent issue that stems mostly from anthropogenic change. Habitat loss is the greatest cause of extinction, partly caused by climate change. Yet, global warming is not the only consequence of climate change: increased natural disasters, rising sea levels, and changes in precipitation will J u ne

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follow the increased temperatures displacing or decimating countless species. The anthropogenic sources of greenhouse gas emissions that further climate change are also contributing to habitat degradation via increased pollution of air, water, and nutrients. Additional causes of habitat loss are increased land use and deforestation for agriculture and urban/suburban sprawl, which directly destroys species’ homes.

To combat the loss of biodiversity, the causes of habitat loss must be addressed, and action must be taken to prevent further loss. While numerous conservation efforts are underway, there is a need for a comprehensive plan to prevent further biodiversity loss that promotes collaboration and accountability within these efforts: House Resolution 69. The passage of House Resolution 69 is vital for combatting the loss of biodiversity because it addresses the leading causes of extinction and provides a pathway for increasing species richness through the creation of the National Biodiversity Strategy.

I urge Representative Tom Reed to commit to protecting our planet’s biodiversity by supporting House Resolution 69.

-Natalie Morris, Ithaca, NY

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ne major factor causing the shortage of hospitality workers is A LOT of ppl decided that they were done being treated like a number .... Or worse.

The industry is full of employers who treat staff horribly, customers (ESPECIALLY in the midst of a global pandemic) who seem to take pleasure in berating and degrading their server or bartender. And after taking the abuse from owners, managers and customers; the one reason we all stayed was it is a good way to make decent money in less hours. But the ppl who are going out are not tipping. So why would service workers come back to the daily abuse and constant financial insecurity? The hospitality industry has been long overdue for a shakeup. Start treating those who serve you as people and employers need to start recognizing the employees who are reliable and hardworking. And Ithaca has another (rarely discussed unfortunately) issue for service workers. Age discrimination is a real thing. I have personally had a lot of difficulty getting a job even though I have EXCELLENT references, solid work history and over 2 decades of experience. But I'm also in my 40s and not a perky, skinny, 20 yr old. And in Ithaca youth will beat experience every time. Some of the businesses crying about lack of workers have done it to themselves by pre judging on unimportant factors (age, weight, etc). There are so many changes the industry I love needs to implement and hopefully this "crisis" will convince enough owners to take a good look at how they operate and how they can do better.

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he Democratic primary is coming up on June 22, so the Ithaca Times talked with candidates in the contested races on this year’s ballot.

Marty Hiller and Robert Cantelmo are running for Ward 5, in Fall Creek and Cornell Heights, to replace outgoing council member Deb Mohlenhoff. Incumbent Cynthia Brock is re-running for her spot representing Ward 1, in West Hill and South Hill, against Yasmin Rashid and Shaniya Foster.

Below are Q&As with Hiller, Cantelmo and Brock. Rashid and Foster did not respond to repeated interview requests, so their campaign announcements are shared below. Early voting begins this Saturday, June 12. Keep an eye out for next week’s It h a c a Times for more on the County Legislature candidates.

Visit TompkinsCountyNY. gov/boe for more information.

MARTY HILLER

WARD 5 Ithaca Times: What made you decide to run?

Marty Hiller: Ithaca is my home. I’ve lived here for 18 years, the last five in fall creek. I’ve raised a child here. I’ve become really invested in this community. I’m running for office because I want to move our city to a future that is affordable, sustainable and socially just. The local issues that we’re currently dealing with in city gov8 T

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ernment are really important to me. I’ve been doing community service ever since I moved here, both at our local Ecovillage and as president of the Community Gardens. Working with Common Council seems like a natural next step to the work I’m already doing.

IT: What main issues do you think the city needs to address in the immediate future?

MH: We need to work on recovering from the economic impacts of the pandemic. The reimagining public safety initiative is a really important thing happening right now, and we have a whole set of related issues that are connected to affordable housing, sustainability, the Green New Deal and the urban growth we’re experiencing.

We need to grow the city in a sustainable direction and in a direction that is socially just and equitable.

IT: What are your thoughts on the housing crisis in Ithaca, particularly the lack of lowerincome housing? And when people talk about “affordable” housing, what does affordable mean to you?

MH: So one of the issues is the city is growing and we’re facing population pressure that means we have to provide more housing to accommodate those people.

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the area and reduce pressure on the downtown area. We should also consider rent stabilization to reduce upward pressure on rents, and look at opportunities for affordable condo developments so there are ownership options for people looking for stability or to build equity. I favor building in high density clusters.

One thing happening right now that’s putting pressure on the city is we’re offering tax abatements on developers to bring them in and get growth to happen faster, but tax abatements mean we’re growing our population faster than we’re growing the tax base. We need to reexamine that situation and see if we can find other ways to bring in developers that don’t give up so much of our revenues. We should be trying to identify ways we could reduce risk of development to keep more of that profit in the city.

When you look at the income profile of this city there are really stark differences between the lower income and higher income ends of the range, and I’m not convinced the area median income (AMI) is a really good measure of what life looks like for people living under the AMI, My feeling is the distinction between affordable and market rate housing is hiding the fact we don’t really have a middle class anymore. I think we should be trying to build housing that matches our demographic profile so the amount of housing at different income levels reflects the population.

That way you don’t have a situation where there’s a lot of housing available for a small population, and very little available for another population, so that people are able to find something within their range IT: The current Common Council is working on making changes to the structure of city government, though many of the current council members will no longer be in office when it goes to public referendum. What are your thoughts on this?

MH: This Common Council that takes office in 2022 is just going to be there for two years, and it will take time to learn our way around, and the whole council is up for reelection in 2023 because of the census. So if we’re talking about a process more than a year in length, if you end up with a potential shift in either case, I’m not entirely sure about that. My answer is I’ve only recently heard about it and haven’t spent time looking at it yet. I would be in a better position to answer once I understand the government’s administrative structure in more detail.

The outgoing Council members have many years of experience with the current structure, and they know more than we will as newcomers about its strengths and shortcomings.

IT: What experience do you have that will translate well to serving on Common Council?

MH: I’ve been involved in community service work in one kind of another since I’ve moved here. The work I’ve done with the community gardens includes interfacing with city officials and developers and requires a lot of negotiations. I have had to forge agreements between people with very different perspectives and goals, and the team building and consensus building that I’ve learned at Ecovillage is valuable in any situation and would be valuable in city government as well. I’m a scientist and engineer, I have a doctorate from MIT, and I’ve learned to pick up information really quickly and understand complex systems. As an engineer, I’m oriented to finding practical solutions to problems, which is valuable in a whole range of fields including government. I have a really deep knowledge of sustainability because I lived at Ecovillage for over 12 years and have done my own energy retrofits on the house I live in. The next step in the Green New Deal is figuring out what to do with housing stock and I have a lot of experience in

that area and a longstanding interest in sustainability.

ROBERT CANTELMO

WARD 5 Ithaca Times: What made you decide to run?

Robert Cantelmo: I’m running because I really fell in love with Ithaca. It’s the city where my wife and I started our family.

Like a lot of people, I moved here for Cornell but I really fell in love with the community since we’ve been here and I feel a responsibility to give back.

The last three years I’ve volunteered on the Public Safety and Information Commission. I’m chair of that and have had the chance to work with city staff, non-profits and members of public to address issues of safety, public access to information, issues on the Commons and more. I’ve been encouraged by members of Common Council, including [outgoing Ward 5 Adlerperson] Deb Mohlenhoff to run. I’ve been endorsed by her, Laura Lewis, Rob Gearhart, Stephen Smith, Ducson Nguyen and Seph Murtagh. I was also endorsed by recently stepped down chief of staff Dan Cogan. I’ve had great opportunities working with them.

IT: What are the main issues you think the city needs to address in the immediate future?

RC: I see three main issues and they’re interrelated. First, I think reforming public safety is a challenge and opportunity for our community to have kind of a historic moment to take advantage of. We need to pay careful attention to the implementation process. Implementation is gonig to have its own set of challenges, and we need people who are well equipped to set intermediate benchmarks and stay apprised of the process. We have to make sure the funding being allocated to this process are going to the most progressive reforms. Second is the ongoing housing crisis — high rents and low vacancy rents. There’s been a lot of uncertainty that working families have been dealing with over the last year and more, and I think it's incumbent on our elected representatives to kind of really laser in on this issue. I think there’s been a lot of good work that’s been done to expand the stock available, but new housing coming online

takes time. We need to take action on some of the regulatatory powers from Albany, such as the Emergency Tenant Protection Act, which will provide immediate relief for people struggling. The third challenge is we need to uphold our commitment to the Green New Deal by improving building standards, supporting development that promotes walkability and reduces carbon emissions through proximity to TCAT. IT: What are your thoughts on the housing crisis in Ithaca, particularly the lack of lower-income housing? And when people talk about “affordable” housing, what does affordable mean to you?

RC: We need to have a broad spectrum approach to this. We want to encourage mixed income development where we can.

If we can get greater concessions on lower income housing, we leverage our ability to promote development that is targeted at or below [area median income]. I thnk 5070% range is a doable target, but would like to see that lower, especially with the COVID economic impact. The more we can get for affordable housing the better. There’s already been a lot of great work from INHS and Habitat for Humanity that create alternative avenues for homeownership. We need to expand the stock of housing and attempt to slow down the appreciation of rents, and cool down the county’s overheated property values and property tax.

IT: The current Common Council is working on making changes to the structure of city government, though many of the current council members will no longer be in office when it goes to public referendum. What are your thoughts on this?

RC: The move comes at an interesting time for us. We’ve had the opportunity to have a chief of staff role in the city and a city manager feels a lot like an evolution of that position. I see it as a more institutionalized role of a city manager role, responsible to the council as a whole. And then I don’t know if we’d maybe have an at-large mayor who acts like chairman of the board — it could take various forms. The institutionalization of a primary administrator is a benefit to us. There are a lot of moving

pieces in city government, and we’ve seen a lot of success in the county administrator role of [former administrator] Jason Molino, and i think Ithaca would beneift.

There will be a lot of turnover on council this year, so it’s important to have individuals familiar with how city government operates. It’s going to be a heavy lift to finalize this. We have to get out there and talk to residents and learn about concerns, communicate things that are unclear and have a full understanding of how this will impact daily life.

IT: What experience do you have that will translate well to serving on Common Council?

RC: So I’m a political economist by training, so I sort of have the requisite research and data skills that are really useful in formulating public policy. I know from my work on the commission [those skills] have been useful to members of Council.

Prior to Ithaca I worked in the non-profit sector for about 10 years doing public policy research and international democratic governance work, working with emerging democracies internationally, specifically in South Asia and the Middle East. All that lends itself to being an elected official — promoting a two-way dialogue between voters and officials is something I’ve always considered in my role. I’m energized by getting out and talking to citizens. A common refrain is people want to have a better understanding of what is planned in city government, and Ii think a commitment to staying out there and having regular meetings with your constituency [...] is useful to make sure we’re on the right path.

Pol i c y ma k ers need to be adaptive.

They’re not to be people operating on what they think is best, they need to be plugged in and democratize the process.

CYNTHIA BROCK

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projects that will have a tremendous impact on the city, and the first ward. And I wanted to be a part of those processes. The first is basically the implementation of the Reimagining Public Safety plan that the City Council and the Tompkins County Legislature recently adopted, and that will obviously have a tremendous impact on how we provide services to our community. And basically, the health, safety, and welfare of our citizens and are our businesses. So being a part of that process is important. In the coming years, we will also be implementing the South Hill neighborhood plan, which is a zoning process that will determine where appropriate locations are for increased density in South Hill and areas for low-density zoning, that has been an ongoing concern for area residents, and I didn't want to leave that undone, so I felt a very strong commitment to see that through to the end to make sure that residents have an active voice in that process. The city is also looking to redraw its electoral boundaries, which it will do as a result of the 2020 census. We are also looking at possibly changing our government structure, you know, will we have a mayor where we have a city manager, will it be some combination of the two? All of this will impact how our voices are heard in the city government, and I am very committed to maximizing the voice of our permanent residents. We are a community that has tremendous development pressures. Obviously, the influence of students and the universities has played a large role in how we manage our city.

So I think that process requires deep thought in terms of the long-term impacts that it will have on our residents.

So, I'm committed to being a part of that process, if possible.

IT: What are the main issues you think the city needs to address in the immediate future?

CB: Public safety is definitely a foremost concern. Nationwide, we are feeling the effects of economic stress associated with the pandemic. We're

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feeling the effects of constrained resources in terms of government budgets and what we're able to deliver. And also we're feeling the effects of, basically, the reckoning with racial bias in policing and working on the need to address that, both on a national level and here at home. These things are on the forefront of everyone's mind and it has to be addressed in order for our community to have the foundations that we need to thrive. And first and foremost is to create a community where people feel safe, where people feel protected, where people feel respected and valued. And all of that needs to come together. I think what the pandemic has done is highlight the benefits of privilege. A privilege that comes from, you know, being white, being male, being economically secure, being able to have access to quality health care or being able to work from home. You know, that privilege has been revealed in the starkest of forms, as a result of the pandemic. And we have a unique opportunity to take a close look at the breakdowns in our system that perpetuates that privilege and excludes others from having access to those opportunities.

So how we take a look at that, how we address it, how we thoughtfully understand how all the pieces work together, and what we can do to unravel it should be a significant part of the conversation. Sometimes, in my view, the solutions are not easily understood. You really need to go deeper, and these become like really complex discussions that are worthy of attention, you know, these are not simple fixes, they're not because they're all intertwined together.

IT: What are your thoughts on the housing crisis in Ithaca, particularly the lack of lower-income housing? And when people talk about “affordable” housing, what does affordable mean to you?

CB: So, lack of affordable housing is a symptom. It's a symptom of the fact that real incomes have declined over the last 20 years. We have an economy that is addicted to cheap labor. We have an economy that is addicted and feels entirely justified to set up their entire workforce, which are parttime individuals who don't get benefits, who don't have job security, who don't get any type of retirement plan or health care, and, and as a society, we seem to accept that as an acceptable condition. So when we talk about growing jobs, we grow jobs and yeah that's great, we've got great job growth and I know people who've got four of them, but they have no job security, they

have no health care and they have no benefits. And as we continue to facilitate that type of job growth, we create a population that is exploited by that profit motive. No amount of affordable housing is ever going to supply that need. Affordability is a factor of income. And why are we not addressing the fact that our economy is exploiting the explosion of low-wage labor? So if we're going to grow our economy based on the hospitality industry — which is notoriously the lowest paid, most vulnerable workers, seasonal workers — what kind of economy is that? We should be questioning that economy, and focusing time on what does it take to create a thriving community? Yes, of course, I'm going to be huge in support of affordable housing, absolutely, but the disparity of wealth and the loss of the middle class is having a huge impact, and it will continue to have an impact if we continue to focus our efforts on growing that type of economy for our community. The area median income [AMI] in the Ithaca metropolitan area is something like $82,000. It’s huge. So you can say well okay we're meeting 50% AMI. Well, yeah, it's still a tremendous amount of money that people don't have. The area median income in the Ithaca metropolitan area is enormous. So when we've talked about 50% 80% AMI, that's still market-rate housing that we're getting federal subsidies to perform, because the disparity of wealth and the loss of our middle class is driving our workers, farther and farther into the hole into a way that, that position that they can't get out of. So, again, these are symptoms of a larger problem and I'm glad we're spending our time thinking about the symptoms but we need to think about why it is that more and more and more people in our economy cannot afford housing. All these things that we talked about in terms of the pandemic revealing the lack of privilege, the most vulnerable workers are women. The most vulnerable, lowest-paid workers are women and people of color. And they're the ones cobbling together a part-time job at a store and a part-time job, you know, delivering food or working in a restaurant and they've got three four or five of these jobs but they can't get time off to spend time with their family, they can't invest in their future because they don't know where their next job will be. They don't know whether or not they can buy a car, because they don't know if they'll have the income. And that's the kind of economy that we are creating.

IT: The current Common Council is working on making changes to the structure of city government, though many

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of the current council members will no longer be in office when it goes to public referendum. What are your thoughts on this?

CB: My thinking on this has evolved over the years, and at this moment, I see the attraction of a city manager to take the management of our organization out of the political realm and make it more professional. We are a large organization. The city has just under 400 employees year-round, and our employees ramp up to under 700 employees during the summertime as we hire people in our summer youth programming, as well as for our streets and facilities when we do a lot of our road work.

And I think having a professional manager of city operations is becoming more and more attractive to me as our organization grows more complex and the demands for services really require long-term view and planning. I think it's often been a disadvantage to municipalities. Oftentimes, longterm investments can have huge financial impacts, and mayors and councils are reluctant to be associated with making decisions that will result in increased fees and taxes. So, it might make it easier for us to make those consistent investments in our operations by having a non-political manager for the city.

I'm still thinking about it, honestly, and it will come down to, I think, as part of the redistricting conversation, and as the city looks at how many representatives we would have, how many districts would there be, what would those districts look like, would representatives be at-large or based on districts, you know, all of those conversations, having that in conjunction with the city manager-mayor conversation.

IT:What is the most valuable experience you've gained working on Common Council over the years that you think makes you successful at this job?

CB: It’s probably a bunch of little things more than any one big thing. Learning to, I guess if I were just to highlight three things, recognizing that you are just one of many.

You need to work with others to get anything done, to build relationships within

your council, within the department within other municipalities. Through collective action and collaboration is, I think, the most effective way of instituting change.

And that's kind of an interesting thing for me to say because I think, for the most part, I would be the first to say that I've often felt like an outsider within Council. And probably, then, in many ways, I'm limited in what I could do, because of the positions that I've taken. So balancing the need for that. And the recognition of the value of those connections while also maintaining a strong core principle that part of the job as Council [member] is to bring attention to issues and concerns. To make sure that they are articulated, that they are recorded and recognized, even if it means taking a voice against something that is different from the voice of the group. Both of those things come at a cost. Being an independent voice, or being part of a group has consequences. And you're constantly trading those two things off. Ultimately, I've learned that as much as it is useful to get along. I also have to sleep at night. So, voting my conscience and voting my principles is ultimately what determines the position I take, even if I know that my vote is just going to be one against nine.

That's okay. Because part of your job is to bring attention to the outstanding questions that still need to be addressed.

So that said, you do what you do on Council and make the best of your time there and find the other areas that you can be successful in achieving your goals and working on that.

YASMIN RASHID

WARD 1 “I’m running for Common Council because I believe that everyone has a voice and while we may not always agree, compassion for and understanding of people should always be the purpose of communication along with an even ear for fairness,” Yasmin Rashid said.

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15 Steps is now offering educational classes Visions Bank opens first branch in Ithaca

“I’m Mexican, I’ve always been around Mexican food, and luckily I was blessed with a great cook for a mother,” she said.

“Even just growing up, my mom would make three course meals three times a day.”

After relocating to Ithaca, she noticed there weren’t very many options for Mexican restaurants. Her husband has experience owning restaurants, so they thought it would make sense for Valenzuela to open up an authentic Mexican restaurant of her own, with her own familial twist based on food from the Yaqui tribe in Sonora, to which her grandmother belongs.

“They have these amazing dishes and salsas and all these awesome things and I’d go to other places and say ‘oh, this wasn’t very good,’” she said. “My husband said ‘I’ve never had this type of Mexican food.’”

Valenzuela said she learned how to use love as an ingredient from her grandmother, putting her heart into the dish and transferring it into the food and flavor.

“She’s an amazing woman,” she said.

“Sometimes I call her four times a day to ask her about a recipe.”

The first step for Valenzuela is to get her salsas for sale at the Farmers Market, hoping to build recognition before opening a storefront at the end of the summer.

On offer at the market will be four salsas.

One, called salsa bandera, is described as a typical fresh salsa that you might find at any taqueria.

The other three are simmering salsas, which are like sauces that you use in Mexico to cook and infuse flavor. First is chili colorado, which is good to use with pork, chicken and beef. Then there’s the familiar salsa verde that features tomatillos, and Valenzuela said that it can also be used with protein, as well as in taquitos, carne asada, tacos pastor and enchiladas.

Last, is salsa roja, which can be used for chips or a variety of dishes.

Valenzuela said she will continue to debut new products on the company’s Insta-

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fter growing up in San Carlos, Sonora, Mexico and recently getting her master’s degree at Arizona State University, Herianna Valenzuela moved to Ithaca with her husband. Her brotherin-law lives here, her husband grew up nearby, and when she came to visit two years ago, she fell in love.

“It’s better than Arizona in so many ways,” she said. “I love the diversity, I love the community. It’s so friendly here and I never expected it. I walk the dog and everyone says ‘hi.’ It’s a really awesome little community that’s so welcoming.”

Valenzuela said after 60 days in a row last year experiencing record high temperatures, she and her husband decided it was time for a change.

“We were going through 128-degree days,” she said. “You had to start your car 30 minutes before going to the grocery store to cool it off.”

So while she sought out somewhere new, and more temperate, there was one thing she couldn’t leave behind.

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thaca institution 15 Steps is looking to bring something a little bit different to downtown — an experiential retail environment. The store recently celebrated the opening of its educational space in the back of its Center Ithaca storefront.

“We always wanted to have an educational component,” the store’s general manager Scott Dolphin said. “It’s something fun to do on the Commons, other than retail, restaurants and head shops.”

The class schedule stays true to the handmade ethos of 15 Steps, featuring things like cooking lessons, soap mak-

“We’ve already had a couple of Italian cooking classes in here which were extremely successful,” Dolphin said. “Classes have been selling out almost as soon as we put them up […] The response has been really great.”

With a master’s in education, Dolphin describes himself as “fairly hooked up” in terms of educators, so once word got out about what 15 Steps was hoping to accomplish, a lot of local craft and cooking teachers have approached him about teaching a class.

“It’s just been a matter of working with everyone’s now booming summer schedules to get it off the ground,” he said.

The classroom occupies the space that used to be the Community Art Partnership offices, and Dolphin said they were “approaching a trigger pull” to renovate the area in January or February of 2020.

Scott Dolphin (Photo: Casey Martin) “It’s always been a target goal,” he said. “It was about finding the right opportuing, acrylic painting, crocheting and cake nity and right space.” decorating.

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Dolphin had some traveling to do in February and early March that year, and then when he returned everything shut down due to COVID-19, putting things on pause until June 2020.

“We did see signs of life,” he said. “Once we got past the initial shutdown and the weather changed, masked people started coming back out again and there was clearly enough community support and encouragement.”

Dolphin said he knew the pandemic wouldn’t last forever, but said the scary part was not knowing how long they’d have to weather the shutdown.

“It turned out to be longer than we expected,” he said.

With some money from the Ithaca Urban Renewal Agency, 15 Steps was able to complete the renovation to put in kitchen islands, buy racks of equipment, and take care of some of the less exciting logistical requirements like sprinklers.

“We shopped really hard,” Dolphin laughed. “Most of it came from local suppliers. We’re not completely there yet.”

The upcoming schedule for the educational space can be found online at www.fifteensteps.com. And if you’ve got a teachable skill, Dolphin would love to hear about it.

“I’m always on the lookout for someone with something fun or interesting to do,” he said. “If you have something you have experience teaching, come talk to me.”

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Visions opens first branch in Ithaca Ribbon cutting for Visions new branch on Elmira Rd. in Ithaca (Photo: Casey Martin)

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isions Federal Credit Union celebrated its new Ithaca location at 410 Elmira Rd. on June 7 with a ribbon cutting ceremony. The bank has been open and serving customers since early May and includes a full-service teller line, ATMs and a free electric car charging station for Visions members.

There is also an ampitheater constructed on the premises that officials say will be

used for family events and entertainment, such as movie nights. The branch is open from 9 a.m. - 5 p.m., Monday - Friday, and 9 a.m. - 12 p.m. on Saturday.

“I’m excited about our new office and the feedback has been extremely positive,” said Branch Manager Eric Gergel. “It’s been a pleasure welcoming our existing members and introducing new ones to the Visions family. If you’re in the area, please stop in and see what we can do for you.”

Seph Murtagh, the alderperson who chairs the council’s Planning and Economic Development Committee, said he thinks the proposal offers a good use with interesting job opportunities.

“Those types of light manufacturing [spaces] that don’t have a big community impact could open up jobs with smaller spaces where leases aren’t as expensive,” he said. “We’ve been pushing that way for a while for mixed use, and I think this project is in line with that.”

Kerslick also had questions about the short-term rental situations, as he feared it could turn into an Airbnb situation.

“Has there been any discussion about the intent of that short-term rental?” Kerslick asked.

Cornish said developers were imagining it more as a work-live situation with perhaps a six-month lease for people such as adjunct professors.

“It wouldn’t be an Airbnb-type rental, but it would probably have less than a year’s lease,” she said.

Alderperson Cynthia Brock said she liked the design of the building and particularly liked the possibility of a café or small shop along the road for locals.

“Quite a few of my neighbors do actually walk down to Cliff Street and walk into town and would take advantage of a local shop to go get a coffee or pick up light groceries or something like that,” she said.

“I think it’s an ingenious proposal to put forward.”

Alderperson Ducson Nguyen wasn’t as enthusiastic about the project, but did ultimately vote in favor of it.

“I don’t love this PUD myself, I think housing would be better,” he said. “But these uses are pretty reasonable for this area, so I’m fine voting for this.”

It passed unanimously.

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working and raising a family in Ithaca and Tompkins County.

His background includes employment in both the for-profit and not-for-profit sectors, with an emphasis on creating strategic business growth for companies and organizations. His notable positions include work at Tompkins County Area Development (now IAED), The State Theater, Vizella Media, Tetra Tech Architects & Engineers, and Finger Lakes Wine Country. He also currently serves as the vice president of the board of directors of the Hangar Theater.

Outside of work, Stephen is the father of two teenagers, collects vinyl, and enjoys being outside and enjoying the area’s beauty.

“I am thrilled with the opportunity to join Visions’ mission-driven team,” says Kimball. “Visions believes in people, not profits, and I’m excited about being a part of the positive impacts we can have on the community.”

Visions FCU Welcomes Business Development Officer Stephen Kimball

buyer products and services.

Tompkins Trust Company Residential Mortgage Loan Originators Bonnie Osadchey, Stephanie Klym, Laurie Anania, and Lisa Giannone will review the ins and outs of the homebuying process. The expert-led event will include a question and answer session with attendees and a discussion of special first-time homebuyer products and services.

“Because of current mortgage rates, many people are considering the momentous step of investing in a home,” shared Osadchey. “Navigating the process for the first time can be exciting, as well as overwhelming, which is why we want to prepare first-time buyers with the resources they need to confidently navigate the journey of homeownership.”

To register, visit: http://webinar.tompkinstrust.com/first-time-homebuyer

Tompkins Financial Corporation has promoted Matt Tomazin to Treasurer and Senior Vice President Tomazin joined Tompkins in 2019 and brings 14 years of experience in the financial industry to his new role. He will be responsible for managing bank liquidity, interest rate and capital risk while optimizing earnings by balancing customer needs, market conditions, investment and wholesale borrowing strategies.

“We’re thrilled to promote Matt to his new role as treasurer,” said Fetsko. “His deep knowledge of market conditions and economics will help Tompkins continue down its path as a sustainable and successful organization.”

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Visions Federal Credit Union is pleased to announce it has hired Stephen Kimball as its Business Development Officer for Ithaca, NY, and the surrounding region.

Stephen comes to this position with a strong history of business and community connections, having spent nearly 25 years

Tompkins Trust Company is committed to supporting the communities in which it operates, especially as individuals navigate critical life decisions such as homebuying. To help, Tompkins will host a virtual First Time Homebuyers Seminar for would-be buyers in Tompkins County, Cortland, Auburn, and Syracuse. The free workshop is open to the public and will be held on June 15th from 12 p.m.–1 p.m.

The seminar, which is the third installment of Tompkins Trust Company’s Community Events Series, will provide information to help first time homebuyers navigate the various programs and services available to help start a home. Attendees will learn about the buying process from start to finish and special first-time home-

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with his wife and two daughters. He is also an active member of his community serving on the Town of Newark Valley Planning Board, Tioga County Planning Board, and Tioga County Rural Economic Area Partnership Board.

On the job training program for local businesses Tompkins Workforce New York is relaunching an On the Job Training (OJT) program to help businesses bring on new employees and get them skilled up to be successful in their new position. Employers receive half of a new hire's salary during the training period up to a maximum of $3,000.

Tompkins Workforce New York staff will interview the prospective employee and the company to mutually assure there is a good fit for the position and that a training program is in place to fit the training needs.

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nesses offering full-time positions (at least 30 hours per week) in a permanent position for occupations that are considered "in-demand."

If you are planning to hire and want to know more about OJT availability, contact: A workforce specialist at the Tompkins Workforce NY Career Center at 607-272-7570. Listen to the full greeting and leave your business name and number so that a staff member may return your call by the close of the next business day, or email Cindy Sloan, Workforce Development Specialist, at csloan@tompkins-co. org to discuss your plans for hiring

Friends of Newman, Inc Donating $5,000 to City of Ithaca for Irrigation Project at Newman Golf Course On Tuesday June 15 at 8:30 a.m. the Friends of Newman, Inc (FON), will donate $5,000 to Newman Golf Course Superintendent Mike Addicott and the City of Ithaca to help with the on-going, much needed irrigation project at the course. The funds are available because generous golfers and non-golfers donated to the various fundraising projects that FON initiated over the past year. All are welcome and encouraged to attend the

presentation at Newman located on Pier Road in downtown Ithaca.

Newman Golf Course was closed all of 2020 due to COVID and re-opened full force in April of this year. Members range from 12 years old to senior member 95-year-old John Perko. The diversity of the course is apparent as you watch kids, students, and men and women of all ages playing the course while also enjoying the

breathtaking view of Cayuga Lake. Youth are encouraged to become members with a very attractive season membership rate for just $50 for ages 12-17. The Newman restaurant serves up tasty variety sandwiches, burgers, fries, beverages and even breakfast seven days a week. The greens and fairways are in great shape and it’s a perfect course to walk or take a cart. And coming soon to the Newman neighbor-

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Black descent, and single mother of three children. She is an abuse survivor and teen parent who understands how to overcome and persevere. Rashid has first-hand experience with the effects of gentrification, marginalization, homelessness, hunger, and police brutality. Rashid studied social sciences at Monroe Community College and is currently a Workforce Coordinator at Ithaca Reuse.

She works closely with both the re-entry apprenticeship and programming geared toward training our 55 and older community members, empowering them to be a continuing part of our workforce. Rashid is an executive board member for the Unbroken Promise Initiative which is a local grassroots non-profit that aims to address local economic and racial inequalities addressing racial and economic inequalities.

“As a true representative for the first ward I will maintain respect, integrity, transparency, understanding, and compassion, while listening to all the voices.”

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A better focus on landlords denying Section 8 and other government subsidies. Helping to create more affordable housing that will lead to more home ow nership. Coming up with creative ways to create city revenue other than increasing property taxes. Accountability for rental upkeep by inattentive landlords.

Police and community relations: Working closely with local police to enhance community relations by being a liaison first for the people, communication and accountability beyond BBQ’s. Sharing ineffective tactics and communication habits that only prove to further damage the relationship between local officers and the taxpayers who contribute to their salaries.

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SHANIYA FOSTER

WARD 1 Shaniya Foster grew up in Ithaca and has lived here for almost 20 of her 25 years. She is a musician, poet, survivor, strong multiracial woman, and proudly queer mother of three. She is deeply involved with Mutual Aid Tompkins, where she organizes community-sourced, solidarity-focused donation drives like through the Free Food Cabinets and free gift economy, and ad-

ministers the Facebook group. She was a TCAT Ambassador, where she facilitated community outreach on how to improve the public bus system, until she was furloughed due to COVID-19. This work solidified her perspective that transit should be free and should frequent serving what are now transportation deserts in our city, like the one on West Hill where she lives in West Village Apartments. Her own experiences as a single mother have ignited her in the fight to make daycare free and accessible to all. She is running for Common Council so that she can be her community’s voice and fight for the changes we desperately need.

“My vision is an Ithaca where all people — and especially people of color and lowincome people — make enough to feed their families, don’t have to fear eviction or live in seriously uninhabitable apartment conditions, and have outstanding daycare facilities. We can walk the streets without fearing harassment or racism at the hands of the police, free from slumlording and racial segregation, where we confront colorism and where we can have autonomy over our workplaces, homes and health. Really simple stuff,” she said.

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Despite its grabber title, the would-be noir “An Act of Murder” (1948) was a talky bore, and Jeannot Szwarc’s “Supergirl” (1984) was a crummy chunk of Kryptonite entirely deserving of its lousy reputation in the comic book genre.

Part III of the NTMFF comprised 97 movies. Here are some thoughts on three films that really stuck the landing.

any wonders have I seen – 329 movies in all. ● ● ● I saw Jack Nicholson front Ten years after “The Towering a psychedelic Inferno,” in the wake of “E.T. The Exrock group in traterrestrial,” Spielberg and everythe Haight-Ashbury melodrama one else in Hollywood was cranking “Psych-Out” (1968), produced by out kid pictures. Richard Franklin’s Dick Clark (!), written and directed “Cloak and Dagger” (1984), writby the recently passed Richard Rush ten by Tom Holland and based on a (“The Stunt Man”), with an early Cornell Woolrich story, deftly manBruce Dern sighting. I witnessed ages to cross the kid picture with the Carol Burnett dance with Pat McHitchcock thriller. Having directed Cormick in Robert Altman’s “A Wed“Psycho II,” Franklin knew how to do ding” (1978). I set eyes on four great the Hitch thing. E.T.’s Henry Thomas documentaries: “Hal” (2018), Amy plays a smart kid who loves spy lore, Scott’s chronicle of quintessential 70’s computers and video games and ends filmmaker Hal Ashby; Rob Garver ‘s up witnessing a murder and ends up “What She Said: The Art of Pauline in possession of a game cartridge emKael” (2018); “Never Surrender: A bedded with top-secret intel. Robert Galaxy Quest Documentary” and Altman stock company VIP Michael “Life After Flash” (2017), two welMurphy plays the ruthless bad guy come accounts of the production of who’s not above murdering a kid to “Galaxy Quest” (1999) and the 1980 get that cartridge back. cult classic “Flash Gordon,” and their The ‘80s were also all about ongoing reputations in the fanboy Dabney Coleman. I first saw him in community. I observed the Dr. Seuss “9 to 5” (1980), and he had quite a musical “The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. run playing smarmy authority figures T” (1953), one of the most surreal and egotistical jerks in everything Dabney Coleman and Henry Thomas in Cloak & Dagger (1984) bugnuts family films ever made. Must from “Tootsie” (1982) and “Modern have melted minds back in the day.

Problems” (1981) and “On Golden There were more classics: “All Pond” (1981) to “WarGames” (1983), ● ● ● About Eve” (1950), “Desk Set” (1957), “The “How to Beat the High Cost of Living” (1980), Hustler” (1961), “Once Upon a Time In The “Dragnet” (1987) and “Hot to Trot” (1987).

West” (1969), “The Wild Bunch: Restored Cut” Having finally seen it, I can trace the evolu- Here, Coleman gets the actor’s dream of (1969), “The Manchurian Candidate” (1962) tion of Irwin Allen’s star-driven special effects playing two roles in the same movie. He does and “The Grapes of Wrath” (1940). “All lives blockbuster “The Towering Inferno” (1974) double-duty as Jack Flack, the kid’s favorite matter,” yet Elia Kazan’s “Gentleman’s Agreeright through Spielberg and Lucas to the Marspy character. Coleman as Flack gets a great ment” (1947) and Joseph L. Mankiewicz’s “No vel Cinematic Universe. This was the state-ofJames Bond-style opening sequence that turns Way Out” (1950) were harsh reminders of rac- the-art disaster movie of its time, with a $14 surreal when he gets chased by giant, rolling ism’s deep roots in the American way. million budget shared between two studios. game dice. He also plays the kid’s father, who It wasn’t all good. The 1970s may be the On the eve of the opening night gala comhates computers and video games and wants least interesting decade in the Disney filmmemorating architect Paul Newman’s latest his son to play baseball. ography: “Gus” (1976) was just a remake of gargantuan skyscraper, a fire breaks out on I noticed that Coleman’s characters have Disney’s “The World’s Greatest Athlete” (1973) a lower floor, and fire chief Steve McQueen slightly different mustaches – just one of the …with a field-goal kicking mule. “The Apple shows up to save the day. This and “The Posei- many clever touches that distinguish this Dumpling Gang Rides Again” (1979) wasn’t don Adventure” (1972) comprise the quintessomewhat overlooked family thriller. a durn patch on the original and wasted the sential vision of the Irwin Allen formula: put talents of Tim Conway and Don Knotts. “Hot as many glamorous stars as possible into a ● ● ● Lead and Cold Feet” (1978), which I passed dangerous situation that requires lots of speup back in the day in favor of “Animal House,” cial effects, and then watch the audience take In a previous edition of the NTMFF, I is only of interest for Jim Dale doing a “Dr. bets on who makes it to the end credits. wrote about “Fantasia 2000” (1999), the sequel Strangelove” by playing three main characters. continued on page 21

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Not only do Newman and McQueen co-star, sharing a title card, but we also get William Holden and Faye Dunaway two years before “Network,” Fred Astaire, Jennifer Jones, Richard Chamberlain, Robert Vaughn, Robert Wagner and, unfortunately, O.J. Simpson. The late character actor Gregory Sierra (TV’s “Barney Miller” and 1992’s “Deep Cover”) plays a bartender at the gala, and Dabney Coleman — more on him in a minute — appears as one of McQueen’s firemen.

Dino De Laurentiis’ bicentennial remake of “King Kong” (1976) was the first film I’d seen directed by John Guillermin; clearly, he got that job from his excellent work on this picture. If you’re weary of the insubstantial quality of CGI visual effects, here’s a ‘70s master class in the art of actual giant sets, miniatures, matte paintings and good old fashioned fire and smoke. I’ll admit I was intimidated at first by the film’s 165-minute running time, but “The Towering Inferno” had me in thrall from start to finish.

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LOVE raw oysters! Throw in a generous chunk of homemade cornbread and a well chilled glass of a dry Sauvignon Blanc and I’m in dining heaven. In Ithaca, we’re lucky to be able to find this exact combination and it’s easy to access.

I understand that not everyone likes raw oysters, however if this food and wine combination happens to resonate with you, it’s available every x220 day at Maxie’s SupGeorgia@ithacatimes.com 607-277-7000 per Club and Oyster Bar at the intersection of Fulton and State Street in downNewspaper: town Ithaca.

The oysters are shipped in weekly from Boston, the cornbread is made daily on the premises, and though I normally prefer Sauvignon Blanc from New Zealand, the one served here, from Chile, is most enjoyable.

It’s interesting to note that, before the pandemic, Maxie’s served about 2,500 oysters a week,and now sells about 1,000.

They’re mostly from Massachusetts and nearby states and usually include Riptides, Cotuits, Barnstables and Bluepoints.

Maxie’s charges $3.25 for each however they’re offered at half price from 4-6 p.m.

Maxie’s sells about 200 servings of cornbread a week and, Maxie’s Bar (Photo: Casey Martin) a nice touch, if you order takeout, you’ll find some included.

Client: to the A pleasant complement was also on the generous side. Someone in cornbread is a compound orange/honey the kitchen had stacked the ribs in a slightbutter which is assembled in their kitchen. ly elevated block making for an attractive Among “Maxie’s Favorites” on the presentation when the server delivered menu is BBQ Pork Spare Ribs. They’re them to the table. offered in three sizes; 1/3- $12.50, 1/2In the Maxie’s “Soul-Stirrin’ Classics” $16.50, and full-$26.00. I ordered the half section of the menu, I recently selected a rack and that turned out to be a good half portion of Jambalaya Me-Oh-My-A, choice, as they were particularly “meaty” ($19 full, $14 half) a New Orleans classic with lots of lean pork on each of a halfthat I’m not aware I can find in any other dozen bones. The portion of BBQ beans

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Ithaca-area restaurant. The good news is that it was all I wanted for dinner and wasn’t excessively spicy, however I would have preferred a smaller portion of rice in comparison with the other ingredients of shrimp, andouille sausage and chicken.

Since one of Maxie’s specialties is New Orleans style seafood, I recently ordered a pan seared Mahi Mahi ($26) with pimento and basil pesto butter, tender roasted potatoes with capers, and grilled asparagus. In addition to being attractively presented, it was delicious with an excellent combination of textures and flavors.

In the same section of the menu you’ll find large, juicy Portobello mushrooms ($16.50) which are accompanied by creamy mashed potatoes, baby spinach with stems, and shallots, which were cooked just the right amount of time.

If I have room for dessert, I often opt for the warm homemade ginger cake because the ginger is grated on site and it’s accompanied by real whipped cream The wine menu, though not extensive, is certainly adequate. In the bottle section, the countries of origin, vintages, and wineries are listed, and I found the selection of reds spot on. Among the whites I would have liked a Dry Riesling to have been included. Prices are reasonable ranging from $25-$80. Some local wine aficionados might not be thrilled that there is only one white and one red offering from New York continued on page 21

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of the game, it’s ir Robert about learning how Baden-Powell, to deliver informathe founder of tion as kids get the Boy Scouts, famore advanced.” mously told scouts In climbing the to “try to leave this certification ladder, world a little better Maureen has done than you found it.” a wide range of When Maureen trainings – from McCarvill Whitefour-hour clinics head steps away to weekend-long from the world of trainings to a soccer in the comnine-day residening weeks, I hope tial certification the head coach at program to get her Ithaca High and Maureen McCarvill Whitehead B license. Of those the Director of (Photo: Provided) trainings, she said, TC Waza Soccer “I’m always excited (a local non-profit to come back and youth soccer club) be a better coach.” will sleep well, knowing she did her part Speaking to her decision to retire from to leave that world a little better than she soccer, Maureen told me, “It just felt like found it.

Maureen started coaching youth soccer it was time. Given I am so invested in the community and in the kids, it’s hard to 22 years ago when her oldest daughter showed an interest. As her daughter’s skill imagine there would be a ‘perfect’ time, but I need to spend more time with my level and interest grew, Maureen said, “I kids and with my husband, who travels a was planning to hand her off (to other lot in his job.” coaches), but I wanted to see more focus “We will be staying put — Ithaca will be on skill development.” She added, “I had our home base for now — and we will see left my previous job at Lockheed-Martin, how that plays out.” and my first ‘official’ job in soccer was As for leaving the world a little betcoaching the modified team at Lansing.” ter, Maureen is utterly confident that the She “wanted to get better,” so she went club is in good hands. “Lamar Peters will through the various levels of coaching be the sole guy in charge of the club,” she certifications and eventually was elevated to the varsity coaching position at Lansing. offered, “and he knows I am a phone call “That,” she said, “was when I became more away. We have that type of relationship, and I am leaving feeling youth soccer is focused on youth soccer.” in a good place.” She added, “A huge part Over the years, Maureen has done her of me is very excited that we have a great best to expose local soccer enthusiasts group of young players coming up, but I to the best possible opportunities to take am staying with my plan, knowing we have their game to the next level — either as a great young staff. Our structure is such players or as coaches. “We have partnered up with other clubs, as we felt doing that we will have a smooth transition.”

Sounding for a moment like she was so offered more opportunities on more reconsidering her decision, Maureen said, levels,” said Maureen, who also coached “The kids made the decision a difficult for several years for the NY West Soccer one, but it’s time.” and the Olympic Developmental Program. As Assistant Director of Coaching for that organization, she said, “Part of ● ● ● my role was to teach the licensing levels, from youth modules up through the While the word “uncertainty” has professional level.” (Maureen herself has hovered over the sports world in so many numerous licensing certifications, working ways over the past year and a half, that up through Levels D, C and B. Given Level cloud has been lifted for the Cornell men’s A is primarily meant for coaching at the lacrosse coaching staff. Connor Buczek professional level, Maureen has not sought will shed the “interim” tag and continue to attain that level.) as the Richard M. Moran Head Coach, Her motivation has been more about Jordan Stevens will serve as the Mario “broadening my understanding of how to St. George Boiardi '04 Associate Head coach children.” Elaborating, she stated, Coach and Paolo Ciferri will take over as “Attaining higher levels of certification is a full-time assistant coach. Congrats to not necessarily about coaching at higher all as they work to rebuild a program and levels — like collegiate soccer — it’s more maintain a tradition. about developing a deeper understanding

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Nunsense the Musical! | 7:30 p.m., 6/10 Thursday | Center for the Arts of Homer, 72 S Main St | Nunsense is a hilarious talent show staged by five survivors at the Little Sisters of Hoboken nunnery, the rest of the sisterhood having succumbed to botulism after eating vichyssoise prepared by

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“Bridges and Boats” Art Exhibition at North Star Art Gallery | 12 p.m., 6/11 Friday | North Star Art Gallery, 743 Snyder Hill Road | This exhibition opens May 1st and runs through June. It includes paintings of man made creations of boats and bridges in natural settings. | Free Cortland County Historical Society FUNraiser Paint & Sip | 6 p.m., 6/11 Friday | Cheerful & Creative, 33 Main Street | Enjoy a night out painting, sipping, and relaxing by creating art with friends!

Cayuga Arts Collective Annual Spring Show “Pop!” | 12 p.m., 6/13 Sunday | Trumansburg Conservatory of Fine Arts, 5 McLallen St | Announcing the fifth annual Cayuga Arts Collective Spring Show celebrating Pop Art and its enduring influence. Show runs Fridays & Sundays through 8/7/21.

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6/11 Friday 10,000 Maniacs featuring May Ramsey in concert | 7 p.m. | Beak & Skiff Apple Orchards, 2708 Lords Hill Road | $130.00 - $380.00 Tim Reynolds Solo Acoustic w/s/g London Mcdaniel | 7:30 p.m. | LakeWatch Inn, 1636 East Shore Drive | $45.00

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6/12 Saturday Cayuga Chamber Orchestra: Orchestral Celebration | 6 p.m. | First Presbyterian Church, 315 N. Cayuga Street | Free

6/16 Wednesday Bruce Hornsby & The Noisemakers | 7 p.m. | Beak & Skiff Apple Orchards, 2708 Lords Hill Road

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Center for the Arts of Homer, 72 S. Main St., Homer | Nunsense is a hilarious talent show staged by five survivors at the Little Sisters of Hoboken nunnery, the rest of the sisterhood having succumbed to botulism after eating vichyssoise prepared by Sister Julia, Child of God. The remaining “Little Hobos” parade their talents at a variety show staged to raise funds so that the last four of the dearly departed can be buried. The score pulses with merriment and an unabashed desire to make you laugh, with songs and spontaneous comic interludes paced at break-neck speed.

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550 Sandbank Road, Ithaca | From South Hill Cider’s web site, “Pierce Walsh pulls mysterious melodic sounds from a deep place in the unconscious. A mix of hand picked, reimagined covers and haunting originals, sung in a clear honest voice, that feels like a warm hug.” Bonus - Finger Lakes Flatbread will be making wood-fired pizza at the same time! (photo: provided)

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Virtual Cinemapolis: Slow Machine | 6/11 Friday | Cinemapolis, 120 E. Green Street. | An actress’s intimate relationship with a shadowy NYPDaffiliated operative ends abruptly and disastrously, leading her to hide out in a country house otherwise occupied by a band preparing their new record.

But la vie bohemienne proves almost as anxious and tense as life in the city.

Encore Drive-In Nights presents Florida Georgia Line at Greek Peak Mountain Resort | 7 p.m.,

ORCHESTRAL CELEBRATION WITH CAYUGA CHAMBER ORCHESTRA SATURDAY JUNE 12TH FROM 6PM-9PM

First Presbyterian Church, 315 N. Cayuga St., Ithaca | The program will open with The Holberg Suite, one of the most beloved string orchestra pieces in the repertoire.

CCO concertmaster Christina Bouey (pictured) helps us welcome the warmer months with these two very distinct interpretations of “Summer” by Vivaldi and Piazzolla.

Each is completely engaging in its own way. Be sure to sign up soon if you want to attend in person… seating will be limited!| (photo: provided)

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6/12 Saturday | Greek Peak Mountain Resort, 2000 Rt. 392 | Encore Drive-In Nights featuring Florida Georgia Line with Special Guests Nelly and Chase Rice will air at outdoor venues across the United States, Canada and Ireland on Saturday, June 12th, Virtual Cinemapolis: City of Ali | 6/12 Saturday | Virtual | A featurelength documentary that tells the story of how the death of Muhammad Ali brought the people of his Kentucky hometown – and the world – together for one unforgettable week.

Virtual Cinemapolis: Bad Tales | 6/12 Saturday | Virtual | On the outskirts of Rome, the cheerful heat of summer camouflages an atmosphere of alienation. The families seem normal, but it’s an illusion: in the houses, courtyards and gardens, silence shrouds the subtle sadism of the fathers, the passivity of the mothers and the guilty indifference of adults

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Club Cayuga Sunset Cruises at Allen Treman State Park | 6 p.m., 6/13 Sunday | Club Cayuga Sunset Cruises feature mellow music on board with some of our favorite local DJs! Sunday evenings at sunset, June - September $30/adults, $50/two adults. Click here to get tickets.

Cortland Crush vs. Sherrill Silversmiths | 6 p.m., 6/15 Tuesday | Gutchess Lumber Sports Complex, 3111 Byrne Hollow Crossing | The Cortland Crush battle the Sherill Silversmiths at Gutchess Lumber Sports Complex.

Books 4 Seasons Book Club: A Long Petal of the Sea | 6:30 p.m., 6/10 Thursday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 East Green Street | By Isabel Allende, about two young people fleeing the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War. Patrons can register at https://www. tcpl.org/events/to receive updates and the Zoom meeting link. Library copies of the book are limited but participants can choose to obtain and read a copy on their own. | Free

Kids Tyke Tales Story Time | 6 p.m., 6/11 Friday | Please join us for stories read

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Farmers Market at Dewitt Park | 9 a.m., 6/9 Wednesday | Dewitt Park, 102 E Court Street | A Farmers Market at Dewitt Park is returning in May 2021. This market is perfect for grabbing fresh produce, prepared food, or groceries.

Trumansburg Farmers Market | 4 p.m., 6/9 Wednesday | Trumansburg Farmers market, Corner of Route 227 & 96 | Music on 6/9- Hold Your Horses; 6/16 - Crimson ( Sally Ramirez, Doug Robinson, Harry Aceto, Eric Aceto) | Free Candor Farmers Market | 3:30 p.m., 6/10 Thursday | Candor Town Hall Pavilion, 101 Owego Road | 25 local vendors with a great assortment fresh produce, baked goods, cheese, maple products, crafts, soaps, baskets, pottery, brooms, kettle korn and a food truck! | Free Ithaca Farmers Market | 9 a.m., 6/12 Saturday | Visit the farmers market every Saturday, rain or shine, at the pavilion.

“Pop-Up” Vaccine Clinic & National Hot Dog Day | 10 a.m., 6/12 Saturday | OAR, 910 W. State St | OAR staff will be out grilling. Get vaccinated and have a hot dog to celebrate. No appointment necessary. | Free Dewitt Park Ithaca Farmers Market at Dewitt Park | 9 a.m., 6/15

The Amazing Cyanobacteria of Cayuga Lake | 1 p.m., 6/12 Saturday | Salt Point Natural Area, Salt Point Rd | A kid and family-focused introduction to harmful algal blooms and cyanobacteria on Cayuga Lake. Learn how to identify HABs from the shore and under a microscope and learn why we think they’re truly amazing! | Free Eco-Explorers Series: Plants for Pollinators | 10 a.m., 6/13 Sunday | Cayuga Nature Center, 1420 Taughannock Blvd. | We’ll explore the plants around the Cayuga Nature Center and discover who their pollinators are!

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to “Fantasia” (1940), Walt Disney’s first attempt at a musically-themed anthology. There were others over the years, and I’m going to break format slightly by focusing on just one segment of the otherwise uneven “Make Mine Music” (1946).

“All the Cats Join In,” subtitled “A Caricature,” starts like a few of the funniest Looney Tunes shorts, with the camera moving toward a piece of paper mounted on an artist’s drafting table. A pencil begins sketching in a series of excited teenagers as they chat on the phone, get ready to go out on the town and dance to the jukebox at the local burger joint-hang out spot.

This is a fast-paced, slightly racy romp that jumps and jives to the title tune by Benny Goodman and his orchestra, and depicts the first generation of post-WWII kids.

It predates “Rebel Without a Cause,” “American Graffiti” and TV’s “Happy Days.” The short has so much energy and pizazz that when the pencil sketches in some kids riding in a car, the car takes off before it’s been completely rendered, and the pencil has to draw a stop sign to get a moment to finish the details on the jalopy.

“All the Cats Join In” presented me with a real puzzle, in that the film has group listings, making it impossible to figure out who directed individual scenes. I couldn’t find any information in Leonard Maltin’s book “The Disney Films,” so I reached out to film historians in order to track down who the devil made “All the Cats Join In.” Animation historian Jerry Beck disclosed that the director was Jack Kinney, who worked on Disney features like “Pinocchio” and “Dumbo,” as well as dozens of shorts, including the classic “The Band Concert.” Thanks to Jerry Beck for the information, and thanks to Jack Kinney for the fine work.

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CRS Barn Stage, 2622 N. Triphammer Road, Ithaca | It is the world premiere of Robert Paterson and David Cote’s Cocoa Cantata, a response to J.S. Bach’s Coffee Cantata (c. 1734). A mini-drama with sparkling roles for soprano, baritone, and bass-baritone, the new work explores power and ethics in the multibillion-dollar chocolate industry, using Bach’s instrumentation. (photo: provided)

Presented virtually via Zoom | A staged reading by the ReEntry Theatre Program, exploring mental health in the criminal justice system and beyond. The performance will include select scenes from the play, and a post-reading dialogue with the audience. Visit https://www.civicensemble.org/deliadivided for ticket information. (photo: provided)

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Cazenovia

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$629,000

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Your donation helps fund the search for missing children. Accepting Trucks, Motorcycles & RV’s , too! Fast Free Pickup – Running or Not - 24 Hour Response - Maximum Tax Donation – Call 877-266-0681 (AAN CAN)

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Two F/T, 12-month Administrative Assistant, provisional positions avail. 07/05/21 at T-S-T BOCES. One working in the Administrative Services Department and the other in Exceptional/Alternative Education.

Must meet county residency and position requirements.

Apply online by 06/23/21 to: www.tompkinscountyny.gov/personnel View job posting: www.tstboces.org TST BOCES, 555 Warren Rd., Ithaca, N.Y. 14850, Phone (607) 257-1551, Fax: (607) 697-8273, hr@tstboces.org

BACK TO SCHOOL! BUS DRIVERS NEEDED

ICSD Transportation Services is conducting OPEN INTERVIEWS for Bus Drivers: by appointment. Call for info: 607-274-2128. Equal opportunity employer, offering competitive wages, great health and pension benefits, paid CDL training, rewarding community work with families and children. Diversity Enriches our Work place.

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Delivery Driver

Driver with SUV-sized car and good driving record to deliver newspapers 9 a.m.3 p.m. Wednesdays year-round in and around Ithaca. Can start immediately.

Call 607 277-7000 x 1214.

Ehrhart Energy has immediate openings for Class B EDL Drivers with Tanker & Hazmat Endorsements. No Endorsements, we will work with you so you can get GREAT PAY, Bonus Plans, Medical including Dental and Eye Care, 401k contributions. Join the team today in Trumansburg. Call 607 387-8881 or email us at: bcummings@edplp.net

English Language Arts Teacher

OCM BOCES REACH program has a full-time opening for an English Language Arts Teacher for 7th-8th grade students at the Crown Road Campus, 4500 Crown Road, in Liverpool, NY. This successful candidate will provide ELA instruction for middle school innovative education students. The program focuses on interdisciplinary project-based learning, 21st century skills, and the infusion of technology throughout the curriculum. NYS English Language Arts 7-12 certification required. Applications accepted online only. Register and apply by 06/08/21 at: www.olasjobs.org/ central. For more information, visit our website at: www.ocmboces.org EOE

MATHEMATICS TEACHER

OCM BOCES has the need for a fulltime Mathematics teacher located at the STARS Alternative High School in Syracuse, NY. Provide mathematics instruction for 9th - 12th graders in a program designed for alternative education students. NYS Secondary Mathematics certification required. Register and apply by 06/08/21 at: www.olasjobs.org/central.

For more information, visit our website at: www.ocmboces.org EOE

Mechanic Wanted

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Teacher – Special Education & TASC

The OCM BOCES Cortlandville Campus has a unique teaching position for a full-time Special Education Teacher, working in two Innovative Education programs. At Seven Valleys New Tech Academy, the successful candidate will partner with teachers to provide special education support in a student-centered, Project Based Learning environment.

Opportunities to authentically connect students with local businesses and community agencies supports a positive, collaborative learning environment. Duties as TASC teacher include instructing and preparing students for high school equivalency requirements, including testing. For additional information visit our website at www.ocmboces.org. Register and apply by 06/17/21 at: www.olasjobs. org/central EOE

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Need house or apartment to rent near Ellis Hollow Creek Road, Ithaca, NY. Prefer country with quiet location. Will be working in area until end of year. 301785-0791; dallasholsey@gmail.com

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DRIVE WITH US! ICSD Transportation Services is conducting OPEN INTERVIEWS for Bus Drivers & Aide Positions.

Interviews by appointment

Call for info: 607-274-2128 Equal opportunity employer, offering competitive wages, great health and pension benefits, paid CDL training, rewarding community work with families and children.

Diversity Enriches our Work place.

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