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$300K for contact tracing from NYS

Cornell University pulled a significant pivot move last week, saying that as the quarantined states list grew for New York, they could no longer guarantee housing for the 14-day period. (Photo online)

ompkins County will receive $306,837 from New York State to support COVID-19 contact tracing efforts by the county's Health Department, and help the department prepare for the upcoming influenza season.

The money is part of a $30 million initiative from the state to support counties throughout New York keep up with coronavirus tracking efforts. While Tompkins County is the 23rd largest county in New York, it received the 29th most money among counties statewide.

Money was allocated based on population and percentage of COVID-19 cases statewide, so Tompkins County's relatively low case numbers played a factor.

A press release with the announcement of the grant funding notes that the money will be used to expand contact tracing staffing and that there's an additional $2 million available to counties to make flu immunizations more widely available.

"As we continue to battle the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, we are also preparing for the upcoming fall flu season," Cuomo said Thursday while announcing the funding.

"We are making $30 million dollars in grant funding available to counties to increase their contact tracing--which has worked very well for us-and to expand flu prevention and vaccinations to help ensure counties are ready to provide both flu and COVID-19 testing to residents."

As of June, the infectious disease contact tracing team had jumped from six people to 30 in reaction to the coronavirus outbreak, utilizing workers from the environmental health department.

about the university's reopening plan, saying that it invites the virus and the spread of the virus into the community. The college has stated that bringing students back will result in 1,200 COVID-19 cases among Cornell students and staff, but has not released their model showing what the impact on Tompkins County would be.

In the letter, the university advised students who intend to live off-campus to still quarantine 14 days prior to returning to Ithaca, as well as schedule a COVID-19 test provided by the school. In a forum July 15, administrators urged students living off campus to work with their landlords to stagger move-in dates—it's unclear whether or not anything will come of that suggestion.

A 14-night stay at Statler Hotel currently averages approx. $2,500. International students will be provided accommodation so long as they quarantine 14 days prior to arriving, preferably in New York state, stated the letter.

Course registration has also been affected, slated to begin next week, Aug. 7, with information about the modality of each course, then later with given times, then finally enrollment will take place during the final week of August.

Cornell VP of Student Life Ryan Lombardi hosted an information session last week to try to provide more context and clarity.

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Cornell will not house students from travel advisory states for quarantine period

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ornell University revealed a change in plans Thursday night which will impact the turnout for a greater number of its students who intended to return to Ithaca this coming fall.

In a letter to its students, the university said that it will no longer be providing accommodations for students in need of a 14-day isolated quarantine. The rule applies to students coming from one of the 34 states listed on the New York travel advisory list, plus Washington D.C. and Puerto Rico, which is updated each Tuesday by Governor Andrew Cuomo and is based on an infection rate-based formula.

The change is a hard reversal of the university's original plan to invite all students back in phases, housing students from travel advisory states in hotels and isolated parts of campus

during the quarantine period.

The university didn't specify a reason behind the change of mind, except that the list of locations on the list continues to increase. Students who are unable to remain at their permanent location for whatever reason at the start of the semester may request a hardship exception.

The university said it still intends to hold a residential, in-person semester in the fall, meaning students not from advisory states, students who request a hardship exception, students who quarantine for 14 days in states not on the advisory list prior to arriving in Ithaca and international students will be allowed to return to campus and stay on campus at the start of the semester.

Predictably, student reaction has been negative.

Locals have complained

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Bar Problems

PHOTOGRAPHER Bars struggle to navigate pandemic, murky state regulations

By C a se y Mar tin

HEY FALL CREEK BRASS BAND – WHAT’S THE ONE THING YOU MISS MOST ABOUT PLAYING LIVE SHOWS?

“Feedback from the energy in the crowd!”

-Adam P.

“Definitely the energy.”

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“All the dancing!”

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“…The audience!”

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“The Energy of the crowd!”

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ake a walk through Collegetown on any random summer evening and you’ll quickly spot noticeable changes to the usual scene: barren streets, OPEN store signs turned to CLOSED. Nowadays, the streets are quiet, cast in a lonely neon, but for a few weeks between the hours of 9 p.m. and 1 a.m., tucked off at the end of Eddy Street there were desperate signs of life as the Top 50 hits and classic rock blared out of the Hideaway, trying its darndest to be anything but hidden.

Before closing under the weight of state regulations, the Hideaway was one of the last bars still operating in Ithaca, which usually boasts over 20 open bars. And for a while, it was the only one open in Collegetown, but its failure to secure a clientele willing to follow the new bar etiquette, while simultaneously balancing the requirement of the state is proving to be a great task.

The Hideaway’s up and down experience is indicative of the unsteadiness bars in Ithaca face now. With fewer students around, a growing list of operational guidelines,

and the obvious threat of the pandemic, not many bars can afford to be open. Others can’t afford to be closed. The owner of the Hideaway, Shakawat Hossain, still believes he doesn’t have much of a choice: if he can manage to be open, he must.

July, in particular, brought with it a string of obstacles for bar owners planning on re-opening. As of July 17, food must be sold with every initial purchase of alcohol; bars must require patrons to be seated in order to be served; seats must be no closer than six feet; and bars must operate at a halfcapacity maximum. Those that choose to serve alcoholic drinks to-go must serve them in closed sealed containers, an added cost for most who normally use reusable glasses; and all businesses must require face-coverings while indoors.

Food must be served by the holder of the liquor licensee, deeming food trucks and secondary food services ineffective solutions.

Operational obstacles vary from bar. Kate Conroy, who co-owns the Rhinehouse, a small bar in the West End, said

that although her bar already offered White Castle sliders before the pandemic, the additional limitations placed on bars further complicate reopening. Initially, Conroy had planned to open for indoor service when appropriate, but upon seeing spikes around the country and in the county, she chose to just open up the patio, a space she says was originally designated for larger, closelyseated groups.

“We had to do some pretty significant work on our patio to change the way we were using it,” Conroy said. “It wasn’t really set up for social distancing, it was set up for big groups. I worry a lot about our staff, I want to make sure that they feel safe, protected and comfortable navigating the space.”

On the patio, Conroy said she’s able to accomodate between 10-15 people comfortably while following the guidelines, servers included.

She added that the real cost of reopening is in having to meet the fixed costs: parking space rental costs, space costs, utilities etc. that total approximately $3500 a month, which she’ll still be expected to meet even with the bar only open in a limited capacity.

Watershed owner Ashley Cakes re-opened her bar and began offering drinks to-go in May. Since then she’s been able to expand to indoor seating,

but due to state regulation she’s only been able to seat a quarter of the customers at a time, meaning about 15-17 people at once.

Hossain owns two other bars in Ithaca aside from the Hideaway, Level B in Collegetown and Moonies Bar and Nightclub on the Commons.

All of Hossain’s bars host a largely collegiate clientele, and while alcohol and college-aged people are typically a winning combination, that’s far from the case now and unlikely to change, even after students return.

Houssain says on a good day he’d be lucky if he saw 20 people throughout the night, but these days the Hideaway averages 2–7 per night. With all of his rent due at the end of the year and even his closed locations still incurring NYSEG charges, he said he wasn’t sure what to expect long-term.

His landlord is optimistic.

Evan Lambrou, owner of Ithaca Student Housing and several Ithaca properties, including the 101 Dryden Rd. property in which Hideaway is located, said he believes that once the students return for school, and with help from federal “bailouts,” businesses will return.

“No one can say this is a usual time, per se, but since the kids are coming back, I’m optimistic for the businesses and continued on page 7

Constant Faith in Changing Times

For the first time in decades, a leadership change at Temple Beth El

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fter nearly half a century under the direction of Rabbi Scott Glass, Temple Beth El is changing hands and Rabbi Rachel Safman is having to figure out how to build community, bridge tradition and modernity and and do it all in the midst of a pandemic. We spoke with Rabbi Rachel Safman on a Saturday night after she’d finished celebrating Sabbath and tucking her youngest into bed.

Parts of this interview have been edited for clarity and/or brevity. We started with “hello” and here's what followed: Ithaca Times: Great. Okay, so then my real first question

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Rabbi Rachel Safman: Sure. I first came to Ithaca to study Developing Sociology at Cornell, I was a PhD there and I took my degree and went out into the world teaching and researching the sociology of health and community for the better part of a decade. But I’ve always been very involved in the Jewish community since my teenage years and when I ended up becoming more and more active and it was a significant demand on my continued on page 19

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Truth & Justice

Weekly racial justice rally shows tension amid change in leadership

Yasmin Rashid (left), speaks to the crowd on Sunday. She will lead the Truth and Justice rallies and marches now after Jordan Clemons stepped down. (Photo by Matt Butler)

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he series of Truth and Justice rallies held on Sundays over the last 10 weeks in downtown Ithaca has been a rare example of successful persistence by organizers and attendees, both of whom have faithfully shown up over that time period to call for defunding the Ithaca Police Department, demanding racial justice and airing grievances with the inequalities seen every day exposing divides over race, class, gender and more.

The latest event, though, showed the strains and friction that has developed over those 10 weeks too, both inside and outside the Unbroken Promise Initiative (UPI), born out of the rallies and led by Jordan Clemons with a focus on bettering life in the city's West End. Clemons, who is stepping away from the weekly rallies, argued with attendees from the Bernie Milton Pavilion and

rebuked criticism of his leadership of the rallies and UPI over the last several weeks.

There seemed to be change brewing at last week's event where Clemons declared that he would be stepping down from leading the rallies and announced the departure of the three other people (Kate Leboff, Matt Stupak and Maro Kariya) from UPI that had been helping him organize the rallies. That led to him introducing Yasmin Rashid at Sunday's rally, a fellow Ithacan who Clemons said would be leading the rallies from now on and joining UPI. Rashid, a 35-year-old single mother of three, grew up Black and Muslim in Ithaca, then moved away but returned five years ago.

"I'm a domestic violence survivor, I'm a sexual abuse survivor, but I've been able to heal and work through those things," Rashid said. "The only

thing thus far in my life that I haven't been able to heal from is being Black. The oppression is everywhere."

Rashid continued, talking about the importance of women to the community and the inherent disadvantages women and mothers face in currentday America, layered on top of the overarching problems Black people face.

"To the women in the community, I just want you to understand that the healing is possible, and to the men in the community, the healing is possible," Rashid said. "It's necessary, we can do it together.

I'm here if you need it, I have the tools necessary to get you started. It may not get you to the end of the road, but it's definitely a start."

As the rally went on, there were a few moments of discord, ranging from minor criticism to intense backand-forths between Clemons, Rashid and audience members.

In that sense, it was unlike other rallies, as the agenda typically features Clemons taking the stage, touching on a theme for the week, speaking about his intentions for UPI and reciting a story or two about his life as a Black man in Ithaca for the majority of the rally, maybe having a few other speakers and then leading a march around downtown Ithaca.

Clemons' domination of the stage and microphone was criticized by audience members who felt he should be doing more to elevate other voices besides just his own, specifically other local Black and Brown people. One audience member, a Black woman who introduced herself as Ray, wondered aloud why there hasn't been a larger presence of non-white people at the rallies, which have indeed attracted a heavily white crowd, increasingly so after the initial wave of protests in late May. "I've been coming to these protests and it breaks my heart," she said. "Where are your Black friends? Where are the people in your life that you're fighting for? The people that are in your life making you be here? Because to them, this is very serious. [...] From the bottom of my heart, you all need to get it together. Start really including people, this is not inclusivity, this is nothing

compared to what we can do."

After her comments, which drew strong applause from the gathered attendees, she returned to the crowd. Shortly thereafter, though, she, Clemons and Rashid started a fairly contentious verbal exchange about Clemons' use of the platform and why more Black people haven't been boosted over the first several weeks.

"I did not choose to be pretty much the only person up here," Clemons said, arguing that he's invited people up to speak at many of the rallies.

"That was chosen for me. [...]

There was never a choice for me."

The answers didn't satisfy Ray, who continued to go back and forth with Clemons, urging him to allow more people the opportunity to speak and to foster a more open space for other voices, as Rashid joined in to defend Clemons as well. Eventually the argument subsided, but after a few more speakers took the stage, local activist and prominent Ithaca Tenants Union figure Genevieve Rand took the stage, adding to the critiques of Clemons.

She, like Ray, made the point that people would inherently feel alienated by Clemons' approach and that those concerns weren't being tended to.

"You don't have to say 'Other people can't come up on stage with me,' you don't have to say 'Women can't come up on stage with me,'" Rand said. "But when you stand on stage and you talk for an hour and a half about yourself, and you don't reach out to other people proactively and say 'Please come make your voice heard.' [...] That should have happened, a long time ago. [...]

If a group of people who are marginalized don't come to an event, it's probably not because they don't care, they care more than anybody. It's probably because they feel alienated, and there needs to be an examination of why that is, and that involves going and talking to the people that are alienated."

Clemons, perhaps inadvertently reinforcing the critics' points, responded with an extended, over 15 minute speech about the criticism he's received since starting the rallies and the in-fighting that has taken place within his commu-

UPS&DOWNS

Articles you may have missed - Here’s some of the stories we covered this week that couldn’t make the print edition. Check online for the full versions at ithaca.com.

Ithaca Youth Bureau will reopen this summer thanks to community support - Ithaca Youth Bureau (IYB) announced on Wednesday that it will be able to resume its programming and rehire furloughed staff thanks to financial support from various donors; one for $100,000, one for $10,000, and a selection of smaller but essential donations.

Tompkins County Democratic Committee endorses slate of candidates - In a sweep of endorsements, the Tompkins County Democratic Committee announced its support for a slate of Democratic campaigns on July 31.

The committee announced endorsed for Leslie Dans-Burke (NYS Senate 58th District), Jim Barber (NYS Senate 51st District), Anna Kelles (125th District NYS Assembly), Matt Van Houten (Tompkins County District Attorney’s seat) and Seth Peacock (City of Ithaca Judge’s seat).

IF YOU CARE TO RESPOND to something in this column, or suggest your own grievances or praise, write news@ithacatimes.com, with a subject head “U&D.”

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By M a rjor i e Z . O l d s ara Pines was born 84 years ago in ished, “low-achievers.” She took a hard British Mandate Palestine to a Romalook at what it would take to have a more nian father and Russian-born mother. secure life, and resolved to go to college.

During WWII, her father was killed, and Despite financial and academic obstacles, her mother was thrown into poverty. As Pines eventually completed her education a homeless child with an unstable mother with a Ph.D. from Cornell university. who could not care for her, Sara had to By the time many of us met Pines (and make her away alone in her dear husband, Aaron Israel.

Pines), she was focused on Pines was first placed social justice projects to in a Communal Kibbutz, achieve racial and gender and then in an orphanage, equality and remediate povuntil she reunited with her erty and hunger: mother at age 8.

Sara volunteered to “I grew up very familiar cook when Loaves & Fishes with what it meant to live opened in 1983. This led her in extreme poverty with to rescue unused food that unmet needs,” Pines said. “I supermarkets and bakeries lived with loss and trauma, were dumping. Noticing with no one to turn to for how much good food she safety, support, or guidance. could collect, she began I describe my childhood collecting not only food, Sara Pines and her husband identity as troubled, but but also household items Aaron Pines (Photo: provided) I learned to be a resilient thrown out each day, which survivor." she passed along to anyone When she was 10, she and her mother in need. When Rev. Chris Pothier, former moved to America hoping for a better director of Loaves & Fishes, invited Sara life, but their lives were a daily struggle. to visit with migrant workers in Sodus, In high school, Sara was tracked into a diploma used for immigrant, impover-

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We wanted to address some concerns and questions as we finalize the Plan For Learning 2020-21 that will be uploaded shortly to our website. Thank you all for your input and comments, as they helped tremendously throughout the process.

Communication with stakeholders was key to developing our plan. In addition to the surveys, zoom meetings, and panel discussions, we consulted Cayuga Health, the Department of Education, and the Psychic Hotline for guidance.

Density - In order to maintain required social distancing, maintain PPE/ mask availability, and uphold regulations with transportation, the number of students and staff in buildings and on buses will necessarily be reduced. Students will be restricted to one per seat on buses, and in-person classrooms will have a maximum of 12 students, representing a density roughly halfway between that of a 2020 Major League Baseball stadium and the front row of a Trump rally. On an unrelated note, the district has posted employment opportunities for 35 bus drivers. We also need more buses.

Persons who become symptomatic while on campus will be required to report to the nurse for a medical assessment. Isolation rooms will be available at the Elementary and Secondary buildings per Health Department requirements. If any member of the faculty, staff or student body has tested positive for COVID-19, all people with whom that person has been in contact will be restricted to an isolation room until they can safely be removed from the campus. It is imperative that isolation rooms not be referred to as leper colonies, segregation units, shunning stations, concentration camps, death row, Alcatraz, or other non-helpful names.

Social Distancing - Proper markings will be placed in all common areas, including classrooms, marking a six foot distance whenever possible. All classrooms will have floors marked and limited desks to ensure appropriate social distancing. Hugging, high fives, elaborate handshakes, and making out in the halls will not be allowed until further notice.

We remain confident that students will be scrupulous in observing social distancing protocols, just as we are satisfied that bringing several thousand college students back to Tompkins County is a good idea.

Face Coverings - Signage stating 'face coverings required' will be placed at all entrances, hallways and classrooms. Face masks will be provided for students or staff that are in need. TST BOCES has and will continue to provide PPE for the dis-

trict. Mask design is considered protected speech by the First Amendment, though we would urge students to exercise good judgment. Confederate flag designs and the Washington Redskins logos will not be permitted.

Cleaning and Disinfection - All facilities staff will be trained in the CDC/DOH guidelines for cleaning and disinfecting the district buildings. Only disinfectant solutions meeting CDC/DOH guidelines will be used. Surfaces will be cleaned first using an approved cleaning process involving a flame thrower, a bleach mister, and the use of magic charms. Surfaces will include all areas contacted by students and staff, (e.g. door handles, desks, chairs, etc.) A schedule of open classrooms will be maintained throughout the day so the cleaning staff can sanitize them between usage. All restrooms will be cleaned and disinfected frequently throughout the day. On an unrelated note, the district has posted employment opportunities for 20 additional cleaners.

Athletics and Extracurricular Activities - All athletics will follow NYSPHAA guidelines. Extracurricular activities will be limited and follow district guidelines.

We are able to confirm that all Fall sports will be suspended, with the exceptions of cross country, frisbee golf, and quidditch.

To the extent possible, activities that allow for social distancing will continue as if COVID-19 were nothing more than a bad dream. The Varsity Club will hold its Betsy DeVos pinata fundraising sale in the first week of October. Spirit Week will also take place as originally scheduled September 14-18, though dressing like the Grim Reaper will not be permitted on Costume Day. Unfortunately, at the insistence of all the other countries, the Foreign Exchange Program will be suspended until the 2021-22 school year.

Professional Development - Faculty and staff will be attending two days of professional development prior to the students' return to school. Training will include instruction regarding social distancing issues, proper mask/faceshield/ PPE use, and information on will preparation and estate planning.

It's an exciting and challenging time to go back to school! On an unrelated note, if you know anybody willing to wade into the trenches for $85 per day, we have posted employment opportunities for substitute teachers. Also, aides, more teachers, tutors, crossing guards, cafeteria workers, probably administrators. Thank you for your commitment and partnership as we navigate a difficult situation together. We are honored to be on this journey with you.

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NY, they witnessed dire poverty. The migrant advocacy center in Sodus agreed to come to Ithaca daily to pick up donations and Sara began collecting food and essentials for many of the 5000 laborers in Sodus camps. When the center closed, Sara and volunteers in Ithaca and Sodus took on the delivery.

The Migrant Donations Network (MDN) led to creation of the Friendship Donations Network (FDN), still going strong today. Sara created a how-to manual for other communities to develop food rescue and redistribution networks to provide fresh, nutritious food for people in need. The manual has played a role in the development of many hunger programs in the U.S., with an updated version available on the FDN website. (friendshipdonations.org) In 2009, Jerry Dietz created the Just BeCause Center (in Ithaca Paint and Decorating’s previous home) in honor of his wife, Judy, whom Sara relied upon.

“She professionalized FDN from a ‘seat of the pants’ operation into a 501c3 nonprofit. Tragically, we lost Judy to cancer,” Pines said.

FDN has a permanent workspace, storage, walk-in, cooler, freezers, and office space for their outstanding program of saving and redistributing healthy food to over 2,000 people each week through 50-60 distribution sites seven days per week, thanks to Jerry’s generosity.

Sara retired from FDN when Meaghan Sheehan Rose was hired in 2010. Pines is also part of Catholic Worker community

dedicated to peace, justice and equality, and was one of the original founders of Eco-Village, a cooperative sustainable community. She raises money for migrant centers along the U.S. Border, among other programs she supports.

Friends wondered how the Pines would spend their retirement years. Aaron retired from his work as director of Willard Psychiatric Center’s dental program; Sara merely changed her base of operations.

The Pines moved into Kendal nine years ago. So, what has Sara been up to since they unpacked at Kendal? We knew Sara and Aaron had arrived at Kendal when we saw a big plastic tote in the Kendal coatroom with a sign: “Please leave all your unwanted (extra) food for Friendship Donations Network pantries here!”

After a three month visit in Nepal, she created another donations network.

This time she posted signs at hotels and notice boards in Kathmandu that she would receive unused food, clothing, linens, vitamins, and medical supplies and deliver donations to Mother Teresa’s mission house and a Jesuit shelter for the disabled. “The nuns told me ‘Sara, you are a good beggar.’ Yes, every community has some wealthy people. I take anything they don’t want. if I have it, it is yours.”

“My mission is to collect, reuse, and recycle food and other items, that people no longer need or want, and redistribute them to folks in need,” she said.

When we read the emails sent out each week offering ‘excellent couches, chairs, beds, linens, clothing, rugs, we smile to think how one woman with a mission makes so much happen.

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nity and inside of UPI. "I understand that it may seem like I want this," Clemons said, reiterating that he feels like it's necessary for him to speak at the rallies as much as he does, while responding to Rand. He said his upbringing has hardened him against some of the finer points of organizing and had sculpted his brasher style. "This is a whole form of our pain that you may not understand, and that's okay, I hear where you're limited in your understanding. But please don't try to attack me because you may not agree with it, because in attacking me you are stagnating the growth that I am trying to bring to my people as well as the entire world."

The rally ended in a similarly tense, uncomfortable fashion. After a few more speakers, Rashid took the stage again and addressed the earlier argument and acknowledged the strangeness of the situation. She expressed further frustration at what she felt like was an attempt to box out the Black Lives Matter message of the rally with other groups' concerns.

"We didn't choose to be Black, we were born this way, and I understand that other

people have things going on and they feel that they were born that way too, and that's fine, there's nothing wrong with that," Rashid said. "But we have a rage in us when we are constantly overshadowed by these other groups because why is the Black initiative and what we're doing never enough to be the forefront, or be the only thing that's talked about?"

Clemons had said he wouldn't be leading the weekly march around downtown anymore, so he then asked the crowd if anyone wanted to take the lead for the week.

"If anyone has a cause and they want to march, they want to demonstrate, please come up and take the initiative, take the leadership," Clemons said. Nobody immediately came to the front, angering Clemons, who then began to yell into the mic as music began to blare in the background.

"I'm out!" he concluded. Moments later, someone else took the megaphone and led the march through the city. The next Truth and Justice rally is still scheduled for Sunday, Aug. 9 at 2 p.m. on the Commons.

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Also, Mr. Butler writes that he objects to white people who wear dreadlocks.

Seriously?

Signed, Gay Huddle, a proud resident of the Danby community

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have written my fair share of stories for the Ithaca Times, including a front page story on April 25, 2018, that was a favorite of the publication's readers. The story highlighted the community-minded Fire Department youth volunteers from the rural neighborhoods of West Danby, Newfield, Enfield and Brooktondale. This was one of my favorite articles to write because I got to meet such great kids and their families!

Other stories I have written introduced readers to many wonderful folks from Ithaca's outlying neighborhoods who are doing good deeds, contributing to the stability of their communities, and working together on events to provide good times for all. They are, quite simply, blooming where they are planted.

So, when Matt Butler, Managing Editor of the Ithaca Times, refers to these neighborhoods as "an inseparable mish-mosh tier" I take offense to that, and I imagine that all those fine families making their homes in those communities do, also. Not only are these communities not inseparable but, in fact, each one is unique, each with its own kind of pizazz and spirit, and each neighborhood has its place in the history of Tompkins County. I think an apology is warranted, Mr. Butler, especially since the Ithaca Times should be written to embrace and respect all those who read it.

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he superintendent of the Ithaca City School District, Luvelle Brown, has led our school with compassion and wisdom throughout the COVID-19 crisis. Recently, he shared the district's school reopening plan with our community. In general, I think the district is following most CDC guidance to offer as safe as possible an environment for staff and students. However, based on guidance from the state, the district is not planning to conduct regular surveillance testing for COVID-19 in its staff, as is currently required of hair dressers, massage therapists, and nursing home employees in our state. I think the plan would be a thousand times safer if this was to occur.

Early detection and isolation of cases is absolutely necessary. I hope you agree with me that all state school districts should conduct surveillance testing of their staff, in concert with their local health departments. I also wonder if Cornell could open its testing capacity to include staff of local school districts. If you agree, please contact Dr. Brown and the governor to share your thoughts on the matter.

Bridget Meeds, City of Ithaca resident

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local merchants,” Lambrou said. He noted the low-mortality rate among college-aged people who have contracted the virus as a case for his stance.

“The buck doesn’t stop with me,” added Lambrou. He said that the cost of property taxes were, like Houssain’s rent, his burden to bear. “If [I’m] paying property taxes, what [am I] getting in return? And then we’ve got [an additional tax for Collegetown properties] and then the sidewalk access fee, on top of that.”

According to Lambrou, the Hideaway’s rent will help cover that cost of “unreasonable property taxes” imposed by city; the rest will presumably be covered by tenants who mostly left after Cornell closed.

Currently, Lambrou’s property is valued at approximately $1.15 million which would make just his property taxes about $126,000; meaning Hideaway will account for a fifth of the payment.

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said they had qualified for various relief packages and loans and were covering losses with those funds.

“We’ll be fortunate if we break even,” Conroy said.

“This level of service is not going to pay our bills,” Cake said. “And one of the disappointing things about running a business in a pandemic is that of all the insurance policies we had for Interruption of Business, none of them covered a pandemic, apparently.”

“Business right now is slow and terrifying,” said James Dean, who opened Nowhere Special across from the Watershed in September. When the virus hit, Dean was still in his first year of business and his bar was just hitting its stride. He said he’s concerned he’ll have to shut back down after the students arrive. Cake, Conroy and Hossain echoed that.

“I don't want to get anyone sick from coming to my bar,” Houssain said. “But I have to do business.”

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ay-by-day the world grapples with the desire to reopen, and the benefits that would come with doing so, while trying to balance and understand the sheer magnitude of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic and the lethal risks that still exist.

It’s the same rock-and-a-hard-place guessing game that virtually everyone is playing, most recently school districts in New York State. In Tompkins County, there have been a variety of different plans proposed: Lansing School District will employ a blended learning model with an empha8 T

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sis on getting younger students into school as much as possible, while Dryden Central School District has decided to give families the choice between full online-learning or a hybrid model. Over the weekend, New Roots Charter School announced its intention to move forward with a hybrid model, bringing students into the building only twice a week. Ithaca City School District (ICSD), the largest school district in the county, has now also advanced its most tangible answer so far to the question of how to safely reinitiate its learning programs to over 5,000 students across 12 different schools.

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That came in the form of its Reopen ICSD plan, submitted to New York State for approval on July 31, the deadline for school districts around the state send in their plans. The 103-page document outlines the district’s strategy for fall learning, cohorting, maintaining student and staff health and setting forth protocols in case of a positive test within a school. New York State still must approve that schools in the Southern Tier will be allowed to open inperson, which will be determined by local infection rates and if the region is in Phase 4 of economic reopening; the Southern Tier currently meets both criteria.

ICSD is moving forward with separate plans for online learning and in-person learning. They’ve asked that parents choose which their child or children will attend by this week. Students would either learn five days per week in the classroom or online, the latter including differing amounts of time for different age groups. For students to return to the classroom, social distance will have to be maintained, there will have to be enough staff and teachers to properly handle the building and students, and transportation capacity will be limited. Online classes, or Distance Learning, will be available to any student who wants it, the district claims, in-

cluding those who are at higher risk for se- found that there were fewer than 100 famivere COVID-19 infection, live with some- lies without internet access in the district, one who is, or are simply uncomfortable and was able to distribute WiFi hotspots returning to the classroom during the pan- to all but five of them. Those five famidemic. Teachers will also have the ability lies, who either declined hotspots or lived to opt to teach their classes from home, where no internet service was available at meaning during some classes students may all, were given information about how to be physically in the classroom but learning independently access WiFi at businesses or from a teacher who is conducting lessons lots around their area.

The group responsible for determining from home.

Student cohorts will also be employed, how to respond to positive cases or rising especially among younger students, to re- infection rates, though not to the point of duce the amount of time spent traveling triggering an automatic shutdown by the throughout the building. Desks will even state, is 14 administrators, building princibe rearranged to face the same direction pals and associate principals, teachers and instead of each other to cut down on the support staff and the Master Educators of possibility of transmission from “talk- Inclusion group. The district names “posiing, coughing, sneezing.” Some of what is tive case(s) of COVID-19 and staff or stuin the document has been discussed dur- dent absenteeism that diminishes our abiling the previous week of information ses- ity to safely operate” as potential reasons to sions hosted by Superintendent Dr. Luvelle switch to full distance learning, but does Brown, Deputy Superintendent Lily Talc- not cite a specific threshold of positive casott and Coordinator of Health Services and es or of absenteeism that would push them to make such a deWellness Kari Burke. cision. Brown did “This model not answer a followaligns with our equp question asking uity goals and our With 413 teachers if there is a such a work to promote responding, 50 percent number in his mind, voice and choice,” have said they do not plan or that the group has the district states to return to in-person in the plan, also acteaching, while 32 percent collectively decided on. knowledging the imhave said they are not The district’s reportance of schools yet sure. The remaining opening plan is built as a provider of 18 percent said they on four core values: daytime child-care plan on returning to the culture, social-emofor parents. Brown classroom. tional and academhas said before that ic learning, physical he thinks a hybrid and environmental model, where stuhealth and safety, dents would experience both online and in-person learning, and communication. The plan is a result would not allow the district to best serve of a collaborative effort including the Sutheir students. “We believe that returning perintendent’s Student Advisory Council, to school is important for the healthy de- Equity and Inclusion Leadership Counvelopment and well-being of children. We cil (EILC), Parent-Teacher Association understand that the majority of children (PTA) Council, Cornell University faculty learn best when physically present in the and staff, Child Development Council and, though they aren’t specifically listed, the classroom.”

The school will not be providing on-site Ithaca Teachers Association union (ITA) testing, which adheres to New York State was also involved in the formulation.

But there remain other shoes to drop Education Department guidelines, for staff or students, but all will have to undergo to determine how viable the plan actually daily temperature checks and self-health is. First, obviously, the state must approve screenings. Parents are directed to keep the district’s plan; a decision is expected by their children at home if they are experi- Aug. 7. Meanwhile, Aug. 5 is the deadline encing one or two of a list of symptoms in- date for families to submit their choice becluding shortness of breath, fever, loss of tween in-person and distance learning; the taste or smell, and other signature indica- district has been insistent that unless an individual emergency arises or schools are tors of the coronavirus.

To provide as much access as possible mandatorily closed, parents should stick to families in the district without inter- to their decision for the entirety of the senet, ICSD canvassed students in the spring mester. Plus, teachers were asked, starting

on July 27, to let the district know whether or not they intend to teach from the classroom or at home, decisions that are still being finalized.

“The ICSD will use the information gathered from these request forms to determine class rosters for students, staffing assignments for personnel, technology needs for students and staff, routes for transporting students via school buses, and preparation of meal service, both in school and via delivery/pick-up,” the document said, illustrating that even though the plan has been submitted there’s still a vast amount of planning still to be done to determine the specific way forward.

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Buy-in from the teachers will be an important element of the district’s plan to bring as many students physically back as is safely possible, but it now looks like that is in at least some doubt. Ithaca Teachers Association President Adam Piasecki said the union had distributed a survey in June aimed to find out what scenario “was most beneficial to students,” finding that nearly half of the union’s membership thought that either a staggered or full return of students to the classroom matched that description. Piasecki said around 47 percent of teacher respondents said they would come back to in-person teaching if standard safety protocols were followed.

“It looked good, at that point, for a lot of people,” Piasecki said of the few weeks of the pandemic surrounding when the first survey was distributed, when graduation ceremonies were beginning to be approved and the trajectory appeared to be improving.

Seemingly, though, the last few months of continued turmoil has changed those feelings, according to a follow-up survey Piasecki sent out last week. With 413 teachers responding, 50 percent have said they do not plan to return to in-person teaching, while 32 percent have said they are not yet sure. The remaining 18 percent said they plan on returning to the classroom.

Responses to the latest survey have already doubled from the June questionnaire, Piasecki said, and the results would seem to threaten ICSD’s previous statements that the district believes enough teachers will be in-person to successfully pull off in-classroom teaching for any student that wants it.

“There’s going to be some big conversations next week,” Piasecki said in an interview on Tuesday. “But I think this is showing that because of the current state of the virus, the concerns of being in a college Au gu s t

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town, reading how experts talk about how this works at schools [ ... ] [Teachers] don’t want to be the experiments, they don’t want to be in the headlines of ‘Students Diagnosed.’”

"We are awaiting decisions from teachers and families regarding their wishes to return to the school building,” Brown said in response to the results of the ongoing teacher survey. “We will staff the models (in-person and virtual) based on folks' choices. The scheduling and organization will be challenging, but not insurmountable with regards to offering a robust experience in both instructional delivery models."

That sentiment isn’t uncommon around New York State, perhaps indicated most strongly by Governor Andrew Cuomo’s statements on Monday about the chance that there simply won’t be enough interest to return, regardless of the best efforts of school districts to protect students.

“Just because a district puts out a plan, doesn’t mean that if we reopen the school parents are going to come or teachers are going to come,” Cuomo said. “I’m talking to parents, it’s not going to happen that way.

They are not going to trust the school district. This is an issue of public health.”

Though she plans to return to the classroom for in-person teaching, DeWitt Middle School teacher Liz Quadrozzi wasn’t completely satisfied with the reopening plan’s specificity regarding how teachers should prepare their daily lesson plans and what the specific burdens will be on those who plan to come back.

“The district has provided a broad overview on the plan to return to school,” Quadrozzi said. “However, it seems there are quite a few details that have not been included. In my case, as a middle school teacher, I still have not been told what my day will look like at the middle school or what the expectations for me will be as an in-person teacher.”

Certain staff members who reached out to the Ithaca Times were concerned with the plans as well, particularly regarding the fact that they will be allowed to apply for the legally-required leave time, but cannot opt to work from home as teachers can. Essentially, this is because for some, like Education Support Professionals (ESP) or teachers aides, their jobs require more hands-on work than teachers in terms of handling classroom behavior. One ESP, who works in the district and didn’t want to provide their name due to their job status, said they didn’t understand why they

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ew Roots Charter School has announced its reopening plan for this fall, stating it will bring students back in a hybrid format.

The school will limit the building's capacity at 50 percent, incorporate "affinity cohorts" that will group students with "similar academic and elective interests and requirements," plus the school is introducing a new enrollment cap. As for in-person learning, the school will bring students into classrooms, in different groups, two days per week, then have remote learning online for two days. The final day of the week will be spent doing "outdoor, place-based class projects and electives."

While the plan was "developed in accordance with New York State Department of Health guidance," the school's announcement does not specify whether or not the state has officially approved the plan.

“Our hybrid model will blend quality remote instruction with safe in-school learning experiences and outdoor fieldwork and community service projects," New Roots founder and superintendent

Tina Nilsen-Hodges said. "With a schedule and academic calendar designed to orient students to the rhythms of college and career, we can design unique pathways through the fall semester tailored to students’ interests and needs, with the opportunity to redesign the spring semester as needed.”

School reopening plans were due by the end of July, and Gov. Andrew Cuomo has said the state will be approving plans during the first week of August. Ithaca City School District submitted its plans to the state in the past week, and has stated that it will not be adopting a hybrid format, though New Roots is obviously separate.

“Developmentally, adolescence is a sensitive period for the development of personal identity in a social context,” Nilsen-Hodges said. “We are thrilled to be positioned to offer our young people an opportunity to continue to work on developing the professional social skills so critical to success in college and career, while expanding their ability to navigate online social environments.”

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should have to be put at risk in the classroom after the district just put so much effort into developing the Distance Learning 2.0 curriculum.

“We went to great lengths to ensure the majority of students have the computers and connectivity they need to learn from home and we did it on the fly,” the ESP said.

“We adapted to change in a matter of days.

We should spend the rest of the summer working toward making remote learning the best it can be for all students.”

They further made the point that when the schools initially shut down in March, shortly before a statewide shutdown was ordered by Cuomo, infection rates were relatively low, compared to now as they continue to rise countrywide, although less so in New York State.

“I fail to see the logic,” they said. “Requiring support staff and others to return to school during an unprecedented health crisis is simply indefensible.”

Corinna Loeckenhoff, the parent of a fifth-grader and an eighth-grader, is keeping her children at home. She said she felt it was unrealistic to expect kids to maintain

social distance and follow the strict public rules that the pandemic has introduced, which helped inform her decision, though her children also embraced and thrived in the Distance Learning curriculum, unlike many others. There is some level of privilege in being able to make that decision, as working class parents surely feel a rising pressure to get back to work if it is available to them, especially with the uncertain future of increased unemployment benefits. Loeckenhoff understood that, saying that one of the benefits of the district offering online or in-person five days a week allows parents to find some consistency instead of switching up several times. Personally, she hopes to see parents who can keep their children at home do so, in order to allow those who need to send their kids to school, for whatever reason, to safely and effectively do so.

“Parents can make an individual decision about what’s best for their kid,” Loeckenhoff said. “But I think it’s important to keep in mind that they’re also making a decision for the community.”

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ost parents I know can relate to the frustration we have felt over the past few months, wishing we could give our children something as uncomplicated and inexpensive as a dose of normalcy. Watching our daughters and sons struggle through these uncertain times has been frustrating and stressful, and we want nothing more than to be able to tell them (and ourselves) that all will be fine and their lives will get back on track soon.

Actions do in fact speak louder than words, and watching a travel team softball tournament – despite being banned from the bleachers and being asked to socially distance – has been more fulfilling than ever. Getting a teenager out of bed at 5:30 a.m. on a Saturday would, under normal circumstances, be a tall order, but in the crazy reality that is 2020, they bounce out of bed much more willingly for the opportunity to see their friends and play the game they love.

At last weekend’s tournament in Liverpool, the players looked much rustier than they normally would this time of year, but in any other year they would already have 20 high school games and three or four tournaments under their belts. Instead, they missed their entire high school season, numerous tournaments were postponed or cancelled and they have seen little live action. Some of the teams that made the trip to Liverpool are based in the Binghamton area, and given they are a few minutes from the Pennsylvania border, they played in three or four tournaments in the Keystone State while New York was still shut down.

So, as rusty as they were, and as sore as they were after playing hard without their customary conditioning, they looked pretty good from a softball standpoint.

More importantly, they looked happy.

They looked hopeful. They looked like teenagers should look.

Some dedicated baseball people are also breathing some summer life into the Grand Game by setting up opportunities for kids to get on the diamond. My buddy Tony Prudence is one of the guys behind Total Baseball Training, said, “There’s a patchwork of teams playing in the area, for example, John Pascarella is running a team out of Dryden and there is the usual group at Ithaca Babe Ruth.”

Anticipating that school sports will not be held in the fall, Tony added, “We are putting a team together and we are joining the District 8 Little League for fall

Youth sports are returning, albeit with plenty of extra rules surrounding play, audience spectating and player contact. (Photo by Steve Lawrence)

baseball with Steve Woodard of Cortland.

We are taking any kids that want to play and we are going to offer a developmental experience—very close to what we did the past two weeks through our camp. We offered games to our camp participants and we played Baseball U Travel out of Syracuse. We played The Cortland Crush at Gutchess multiple times, we played Auburn Bombers 16U and 12U’s and we traveled to Tully for 5 games for our 14U and 16U groups. We also played a combined Candor/Spencer 17U group—assembled

by Cliff Pierce—on a very hot Sunday two weeks ago.”

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By Arleigh Rodgers hen Anthony Carbone heard Jamie Oliver’s “Food Revolution”—the documentary television show that followed a

grassroots campaign to reform an elementary school’s food program—had won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Reality Program, he said he ran to the stage, patted Ryan Seacrest’s back and paced around excitedly. As an editor for the show, it was his first Emmy win.

But before “Food Revolution,” Carbone lived in Ithaca as a student at Ithaca College, graduating in 1998 and moving to Los Angeles shortly after. There, he said he found his skills as a video editor were in high demand, particularly his knowledge with the editing program Avid. He joined the team of “Fear

Factor” as an editor approximately one year later—a relatively early stroke for a recent graduate, he said.

“I knew how to edit, and right when I got [to Los Angeles] is kind of when the whole reality TV world exploded, and they needed editors quickly,” Carbone said. “I was given opportunities really quickly. I think I had a natural ability for it because I edited a lot of stuff in college.”

Since working on “Fear Factor,” Carbone has remained in reality TV. His latest projects as executive producer were on Netflix’s “Floor A u gu s t

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is Lava” and CBS’a “Tough As Nails,” both 10 episode game shows. “Floor is Lava” was Carbone’s first collaboration with Netflix, and he said the streaming service allowed him a greater deal of freedom as a producer, approaching the show as a

student film—in other words, the freedom to experiment with game show conventions.

“Floor is Lava” parodies the childhoodera game in a high-stakes environment, with three new teams each episode traversing an obstacle course across different rooms. Carbone said he thinks that because Netflix’s original content reaches so

many viewers—approximately 192 million paying subscribers—it is able to venture into niche topics and produce shows like “Floor is Lava” around them.

While the game itself may not be niche, the style and production is, Carbone said, including the 100,000 gallons of quasilava he and the other showrunners had to manage in the tanks in each room. First seasons of shows require problem solving in nature, he said, especially when in regards to the unpredictability of a reality show.

“Every day you wake up, and you really don't know what's gonna happen,” he said.

“You never know where the day is gonna take you, so that's what's great about this business, about this TV. […] That's where my skill set as an editor helps because I

know where stories go. […] It's always nerve wracking, […] but I've learned to control the butterflies.”

Brian Philips, another executive producer on “Floor is Lava” said he met Carbone approximately 14 years ago while they worked on “Set For Life,” an ABC game show hosted by Jimmy Kimmel.

Phillips also worked on “Food Revolution” and “Floor Is Lava” as an editor, the former of which he said he experienced a greater deal of freedom while working with Carbone. Philips said that while the story and editing departments on a show are usually separate, Carbone would allow the editors to create the story of the show through their edits rather than hiring a story department.

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“He just let us go to the footage and make the story on our own, which is a lot more work but a lot more fun and rewarding,” Phillips said. “I think that's why we all stayed with him, and I think that's why he kept hiring us because he knew that we could pull that off.”

Carbone and Phillips also worked together on “Floor Is Lava,” Phillips’ first show with Netflix as well. Netflix allowed editors a longer period to execute the show, something Phillips said he appreciated.

“How can you turn down a show called ‘Floor Is Lava’?” Phillips said. “I enjoyed my first time working with Netflix. It was just a fun show. I always enjoy working for Anthony.”

Andy Thomas, an executive producer on “Floor Is Lava” and “Tough As Nails,” said he and Carbone first collaborated on “I'm A Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here!” an NBC show they shot in Costa Rica. They continued their working relationship past the series and into “King of the Nerds,” a game show that tested contestants’ knowledge of nerd culture. Thomas said Carbone balanced the tone of the show by saluting the contestants’ knowledge rather than mocking them.

“He's somebody that is incredibly talented and incredibly quick at getting the tone of a show really, really well,” Thomas said. “He managed to nail the tone with regards to … [celebrating] nerdom as opposed to laughing at it.”

While a second season for a show like “Floor Is Lava” may be temporarily postponed during the coronavirus pandemic, Carbone said “Tough As Nails,” which is shot outside, may be able to socially distance contestants during filming and create content more quickly. Carbone also said that even though his work remains in reality TV, at least for the foreseeable future, he especially cherished his work on “Food Revolution” for the difference it made on a community level. “[Food Revolution], to me, is one of the closest to my heart,” he said. “It was interesting everyday to shoot because it was actually real. […] It was just a real thing that we made that had some impact on the world.”

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on Howard has directed dozens of movies since 1977, and while he’s certainly known for the 1991 firefighter saga “Backdraft,” the first nine minutes of Howard’s new documentary “Rebuilding Paradise” (Imagine-National Geographic, 2020, 95 mins.), available at Cinemapolis’s virtual cinema and on VOD, is the most terrifying footage I’ve ever seen; all the more so because it’s real.

What we’re seeing, recorded from news sources and cell phone video, is what happened when the worst forest fire in California history swept through the little town of Paradise in 2018. It looks like it’s the middle of the night, but that’s because of the unbelievable smoke and debris in the air. Weeping passengers whip their cars through the streets because the tires are melting into the blacktop, and in the distance blue skies and clouds, a possible escape from this fiery conflagration.

I’m ashamed that I wasn’t really aware of the blazing devastation that reduced most of Paradise to ash and took the lives of 85 people. I do remember Trump’s typically self-serving and clumsy statement in the aftermath, and we see that here.

But after the news crews from CNN and Fox took off when the headline got cold, Howard and his crew kept going back to Paradise a few times a month over the next year, telling the real story: how a town can

possibly come back from such a cataclysmic event.

It’s slow going, as you can imagine.

Howard tracks the town’s slow attempt at recovery through several locals, including a policeman and the school superintendent, faced with eight of nine of the local schools burned down. People end up moving. Couples separate. Businesses close.

California’s power and water company attempts to force the town to pay for much of the needed rebuilding. There are angry town hall meetings. More people die. Life goes on.

As powerful and affecting as “Rebuilding Paradise” is, this is one documentary that deserves a follow-up visit, perhaps a series of them. Yes, the film takes us through a year of rebuilding, but how

is Paradise doing now, six months into COVID-19? We’ve certainly seen that the corona virus takes down businesses as well as human lives, and there are many places like Paradise that have been turned into ghost towns when disaster strikes…

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ounded in 1968 “as a way to network among the illustrators of the Smithsonian Museum in Washington, DC,” the Guild of Natural Science Illustrators (GNSI) currently features numerous branches across the country as well as a sizable international membership.

Dating back to 2003, the Finger Lakes chapter is in an enviable position: given the area’s natural diversity and beauty and Cornell’s position as a bastion of scientific research, the presence of a diverse and passionate community of scientific illustrators comes as no surprise.

First opening this February at the Trumansburg Conservatory of Fine Arts, GNSI Finger Lakes’ current member show was quickly closed down as part of the months-long hibernation of local galleries and museums in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Cautiously reopening to the public a few weeks ago, the TCFA will be hosting weekend open hours through the end of August (see below for details and special guidelines).

This is in many regards much like any other large group show in the area, with artists working in a variety of traditional and digital media, and across a range of styles and special subjects. While a few artists are long-time professionals in the field, most appear to be relative newcomers—typically with broader backgrounds in illustration, graphic design, fine art, and/or the sciences. As with any local survey show, the results are distinctly mixed in both intention and accomplishment.

Pieces on display range from student-looking works to those that bridge technical and imaginative depth—with much of the work falling in the skillful but unassuming middle.

Working in various media, Lucy Gagliardo deploys an impressive combination of illustrational fundamentals, anatomical knowledge, and explorative curiosity. Using a meticulous scratchboard technique, “Harlequin Beetle” (I’ll omit Latin subtitles) is crisp, symmetrical, intricate—while “Harlequin Pattern,” a linocut, treats the subject as a vehicle for bold color abstraction.

Kelly Finan, in her own way, shows a similar versatility. “Leatherback sea turtle,” a larger mixed media piece, deploys considerable detail and realism—particularly in its menagerie of candy-colored jellyfish. And yet there’s something distinctly cartoonish about the turtle that puts us back in children’s book territory. Also by Finan: a pair of small, columnar watercolors display playful cropping and a sense of tactile nuance.

Both “Downward Leaching of Copper Isotopes in The American West” and especially the more conventionally lyrical “Galapagos Snail” show real painterly intelligence.

Though better known as a children’s book author and illustrator, Annie Zygarowicz is also, on the evidence of three digital paintings here, an uncommonly nuanced bird artist. “Common Raven” and “Red-breasted Merganser” are portraits in profile, while “Common Loon” shows a pond-hunting scene. Crisp contours, quiet colors, painterly accents, and dignified typography help her work stand out here.

Also of particular interest are glassboxed paper sculptures and fully freestanding pieces by Carla Elizabeth. The former are something genuinely distinctive in local art. Paying playful homage to the tradition of the insect specimen, Elizabeth amplifies scale, pattern, and color. Meanwhile, on the other side of the gallery, two cranes and a flamingo perch on one of the conservatory’s pianos. Made of such materials as papier-mâché, paper, polymer clay, and artificial flower petals over wire armatures, their straining for realism may strike more traditional gallery audiences as kitsch. Still, they are possessed with an engaging sense of animacy.

August will see the beginnings of gallery reopenings in Ithaca, with both Corners Gallery and the State of the Art Gallery announcing new shows for the month. As a holdover from the spring, the GNSI show promises to bridge the Ithaca area’s gallery-going past with whatever the upcoming “new normal” proves to be.

The TCFA will be open Fridays, from 1-5 p.m. and Saturdays, 10-2 p.m. According to Managing Director Mark Costa: Admission to the TCFA open gallery hours will be limited to one family unit at a time to assure everyone's safety. Strict adherence to all required social distancing and sanitation regulations will be followed at all times, including mandatory face coverings and a temperature check upon entry.

TCFA is following all DOH and NYS regulations, and access to the gallery may change, dependent on revised guidelines.

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Seeing an Opportunity Clockmaker Arts debuts with an eye to changing Ithaca theater culture

By Ad am Me s s inge r

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t is a tumultuous time to be a member of the theater world. With plenty of artists out of work and theaters facing economic problems that have left many of them in an uncertain

blackout, it’s hard to imagine how a new theater company could pop into existence and thrive in this climate.

And yet, enter Clockmaker Arts.

According to the creators of the group, Elizabeth Seldin and Evie Hammer-Lester, they could not have picked a better time to jump into the ring.

“When the stay at home order came we initially were panicking, but then we realized that it put our theater company on an even playing field,” Hammer-Lester said.

“As a virtual company, we were allowed the same time and space as other theater companies to do whatever we wanted because now everyone is on the same level.”

With a new approach on how to run a community of theatre artists that has emerged from problems within current performing arts circles, Clockmaker Arts is founded on new ideas that are core values to the creators.

“In a lot of theaters, we are expected to be perfect,” Seldin said. “But we aren’t perfect beings, we are human beings. Which is why our founding value is the idea of ‘human first.’”

Seldin, a graduate of the Ithaca College Theatre Arts program, has spent her whole life in the theater both onstage and off. Most recently, she penned the show: What Haunts You, the introductory piece for their debut season and the kick-starter of their Dawn of the Clockmaker Arts week of events running August 1-8, which includes a virtual concert, discussions with the founders and a “sponsors-only” virtual garden party. Clockmaker Arts is a vessel for new content and in addition to What Haunts You, they are developing a musical, a new play, and creating a weekly storytelling podcast that focuses on themes of healing and coping with the past.

While Seldin has made a name for herself in the theater community, she soon discovered that the culture surrounding many of its demanding practices did not mesh well with her own needs.

“A lot of theater is you work until you cry, and I have panic disorder, which is a very human thing—I’m not shy about it,” she said. “And having severe anxiety made it so that I couldn’t do theater in a traditional way and that was unacceptable in my eyes. It’s not acceptable for anyone to not do something they love just because it’s not traditionally done that way.”

With this practice in mind, she connected with Hammer-Lester, another theater artist with ties to Ithaca, and Clockmaker Arts was born.

“Our concept arose from how we see what’s happening in theater, and we see how we want to work,” Hammer-Lester said. “I was an assistant director, but I realized that this world was not how I wanted my life to look, nor was it really a way that my life could work for me.”

With many theater artists coming forward through social media campaigns about the truth of how they have been treated and underpaid by theaters around the country, Seldin and Hammer-Lester are trying to rectify that culture in any way they can. According to them, the company’s name comes from many different ideas including paganism and astrology and even inspiration from local buildings.

But it seems to have the deepest personal origins in their philosophy of art.

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“Clockmakers take the intangible— time—and make it tangible with the creation of clocks,” Seldin said. “It’s this root-to-rise philosophy. Our roots are in trauma and in the reality of difficult situations. And the rising part is the transformation into art.”

What Haunts You deals with these themes and is described as an exploration in trauma, love, partnership, and our relationship to the unknown. The play was an international effort with actors streaming in from Sweden, Ireland, NYC, and Ithaca to participate.

“What I’ve heard from the cast is that this is giving them a space to connect,” said Hammer-Lester, who will be directing the show for the second time after its world premiere at the Kitchen Theatre in December 2019. “No one is getting the opportunity to do what they love right now, but this is giving us all a different space to do that work and that’s really special.”

With a cast of five that included: Sylvie Yntema, Adam Stålhammar, Muireann Ni Raghallaigh, Carley Robinson, and Tyler Gardella, What Haunts You acted as a unique viewing experience that invited the audience into a space that is reminiscent of the past practices of live theater.

“Until the world can open up again, we’re finding different ways to connect,” Seldin said. “We had people from Ireland and Sweden that were acting together in a love story and that is still connection.

So it’s not lost; it’s just giving us time to reevaluate and come back healthier than we left.”

Considering the recent misconduct allegations in the Ithaca theater community that have played out on social media, Clockmaker is prioritizing the implementation of multiple safe space liaisons to ensure the well-being and safety of their cast and crew.

“The question that’s asked is how to establish trust in theater when there’s all these new people coming through,” Hammer-Lester said. “I know that I’m a trustworthy person, but someone new doesn’t know that. So how do we make sure there are enough of these people in place so that they know that trust is present throughout the company?”

While they currently are small, the group is actively looking for ways to expand their community ties and have people in charge that reflect their values and initiatives of inclusivity.

“Stories are how we understand the world,” Seldin said. “They’re how we process things and it’s how we connect with each other. We’re taking that idea behind storytelling and infusing that connection, that community, into everything we do.

And as we grow, it’s our hope that we can continue conversations about how we can, not just give back to the community, but also help change the tide in a way that will be healing for our community.

For more information, check out their website: clockmakerarts.com.

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time and my energy, I had to ask myself whether I was going to put my academic career to the side and pursue professional training in a career in the Rabbinate. I did.

So, I come back to Ithaca now as a Rabbi who has received my ordination from the American Jewish University from the Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies and hopefully creating opportunities both internal in the Jewish community but also the larger world.

IT: Can you tell me more about the work you did with past congregations?

RS: Following my ordination, in 2013, I joined a congregation in New London, Ct., also Beth El, in that case Congregation Beth El. I helped pioneer use of remote technologies to make our congregational life accessible to whoever, for whatever reason, couldn’t be physically present on campus for ritual programming and educational and social activities through virtual streaming in our congregation.

Another area that really interests me is creative ritual and thinking about how we use the vocabulary we’ve inherited to create something that delivers a message appropriate to our time and to our community and its needs. There are set ways of doing things, but sometimes those don’t fit the needs of contemporary generations

in particularly meaningful ways, and how we continue to incorporate ritual into our lives gets interrupted. I'm interested in finding a solution to that.

IT: What does conservative Judaism look like in 2020?

RS: Conservative Judaism draws from an incredibly rich archive of knowledge and of human experience, showing us how we can respond to the issues that we’re confronting today. Sometimes the solutions are very adept and sometimes they’re a bit awkward and need some work. But, hopefully, my colleagues and I are going to figure out how to do that dance well.

One of the issues the conservative movement has had for quite some time is deciding how tightly we hold onto certain traditions or established patterns without having the whole purpose unravel on us.

The COVID has given us a kick, if you will, to move some of that process of change into a higher gear. So, these boundaries that some of my colleagues were reluctant to cross, for example: the use of electronic devices on the Sabbath, are no longer just intellectual discussions but real obstacles that we need to address for the survival of our community. The survival of our tradition depends upon it.

IT: This position comes with a lot of additional weight, and you're a woman leading this temple, can you speak to that?

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RS: The conservative movement has approved the ordination of women for almost 35 years now. A slow progression that’s been encumbered by unstated prejudices, or an attachment to the nostalgia associated to the “Rabbi” of our past and inevitably, if you go back in time, by definition that person was a man.

I’ll never be that person: in terms of my physical presentation, in terms of the quality of my voice, I’m not going to stir up those nostalgic presentations for better or for worse. I’ve found, in the short time I’ve been here at Temple Beth El, a very high degree of openness to having a woman lead the mission. They’ve been open to embracing who I am.

IT: What are your goals for Temple Beth El? RS: In the short term, the congregation is still in the process of redefining itself after remaining under the leadership for 44 years of Rabbi Glass, who was an incredibly beloved and dedicated leader in the community. I would imagine a certain amount of trepidation about what that means. That’s something that we’ll have to work through together, hopefully to some compelling end that we’re both drawn to and feel positively about.

IT: With COVID, what’s it like coming in and connecting with the congregation at such a distance?

RS: When life gives you lemons, you

make lemonade. These are incredibly strange times to be coming into a community and trying to form relationships with people, trying to get to know as many people in a short amount of time and to become known enough to them that you’re not just a stranger when they have the need to contact you. So, what we’ve done is set up a small selection of get-togethers as distanced in-person gatherings and mostly on Zoom. It turns out, as is true in any community, that there's a lot many people don't know about one another, so it’s been more than just them getting to know me and me getting to know them.

IT: What would you say to someone with no relationship to Synagogue or religion, but nonetheless, randomly stumbles in one day into Temple Beth El, especially during these times?

RS: Welcome. Especially during this time when we’re feeling so isolated and cut off to the point where we can’t even be in the same space as another person with whom we’re not co-residing. And I think the religious communities at large, and certainly the Temple Beth El community provides virtually, but nevertheless so, provides a place of community, a place where individuals can feel valued for who they are.

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The discussion was led by Tavares and accompanied by Martha Robertson, the Chairs of Tompkins County’s Intergovernmental Relations Committee and Tompkins County’s Budget Committee; Jeffery Matteson, District Superintendent of TST BOCES; Deborah Mohlenhoff, Chief of Staff Tompkins County Community College (TC3), standing in for TC3 President Orinthia Montegue; and Kathy Schlather, Executive Director of the Human Services Coalition.

Robertson began the conversation by presenting the anticipated budget shortfalls as a result of lost revenue. States will anticipate approximately $555 billion and $202 billion overall, respectively, in budget shortfalls through 2021, according to the National Association of Counties (NACo).

Robertson blamed the loss on states not receiving better, more long term aid earlier in the pandemic. Additionally, local governments face budget concerns without federal intervention, as they must balance their budgets every year—unlike the federal government, which can operate on a deficit. The majority of counties receiving federal aid through the CARES Act Coronavirus Relief Fund (CRF) indicate that the CARES Act is not sufficient in covering or are uncertain if it will cover these budgetary impacts, also according to NACo. When comparing additional economic aid, Robertson showed how the Health and Economic Recovery Omnibus Emergency Solutions Act (HEROES) Act passed in May explicitly granted assistance to counties of all sizes. However, the Health, Economic Assistance, Liability Protection and Schools (HEALS) Act, proposed at the end of July, does not provide new funding for states, counties or local municipalities, instead relying on the CARES Act, according to the New York State Association of Counties.

Tompkins County and the City of Ithaca specifically would receive no new funding under the HEALS Act, and the CARES Act provided assistance to fewer than five percent of counties, as they had to meet a population threshold of 500,000 or greater.

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Schlather spoke to the need of nonprofits during the pandemic, many of which she said are, like schools, approaching the fall with little idea what assistance or reimbursements they will be granted from federal or state governments, even as these organizations continue to provide services to their communities. She noted that day care centers, which rely on tuition from parents, have been hit particularly hard.

“We have a very generous community,” she said. “People have been amazing at stepping forward, but a lot of the smaller agencies depend on local funding to keep going […] So there are really a lot of uncertainties around what services are going to be able to continue and which ones will be cut back.”

Both Matteson and Mohlenhoff spoke about the quickly approaching reopening of schools and how these budgetary impacts will affect schools like TC3 and TST BOCES, both of which depend on federal funding to operate. Mohlenhoff said restoring TC3 to a financially stable position will be integral to the economic recovery of Tompkins County because of the classes the college offers to people who are unemployed and the cheaper option it offers to families who cannot send their child to a private institution.

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The conditions of and resources for reopening are not clear enough for schools to make educated decisions on their plans for the fall, Matteson said, especially if the expectation to reopen is tied to funding.

“There [are] increasing costs of keeping our schools safe and reorganizing some things, having personal protective equipment, working on a schedule that allows for social distancing transportation,” he said. “That doesn't come from your school budget. And we do know that in those bills, there would be money for reopening, but we don't even know what those details are.”

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8/6 Thursday CFCU (Virtual) Summer Concert Series: Fall Creek Brass Band | 6:00 PM, Parking Lot Performance Series: Brent & Zack, Steve Romer & Bradford Allen | 6:00 PM, | Center For the Arts of Homer, Homer | $5

8/7 Friday The Smoking Loons Trio | 5:30 PM, | Buttonwood Grove Winery, Romulus The Brian Spencer Blues Project | 7:00 PM, | Boathouse Beer Garden, Romulus

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Stage In Good Spirits With Adam Zonder | 6:00 PM, 8/5 Wednesday | Hangar Theatre, 801 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Join the Hangar Theatre’s production manager of 25 years as he sits down and shares a (virtual) glass of whiskey with the designers and technicians who have been responsible for your favorite shows over the years. This event will be available on the Hangar’s YouTube page.

Virtual Hangar: Sense And Sensibility | 7:30 PM, 8/8 Saturday | Hangar Theatre, 801 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Kate Hamillís bold, boisterous, and timely take on Jane Austenís classic novel. Please purchase tickets by 7 PM EDT on 8/8.

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Collective Consciousness | All Day 8/6 Thursday | Trumansburg Conservatory of Fine Arts, Congress at McLallen St, Trumansburg | The first virtual art show experience produced by the Trumansburg Conservatory of Fine Arts and the Cayuga Arts Collective. The show runs through August 6. Curated

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Jane Dennis / Harry Littell Exhibit | 12:00 PM, 8/6 Thursday | State of the Art Gallery, 120 W Martin Luther King, Jr./State Street, Ithaca | State of the Art is open in August for an exhibition of new work by multi-media artist Jane Dennis and photographer Harry Littell. Thursday & Friday, 12-6pm and Saturday & Sunday, 12-5pm.

Tom Haskell Photography Exhibit | 12:00 PM, 8/12 Wednesday | Cortland Repertory Theatre, 24 Port Watson St., Cortland | Wednesdays ñ Sundays thru 8/16.† | $5 s.d.

Jane Dennis / Harry Littell Exhibit | 12:00 PM, 8/13 Thursday | State of the Art Gallery, 120 W Martin Luther King, Jr./State Street, Ithaca | State of the Art is open in August for an exhibition of new work by multi-media artist Jane Dennis and photographer Harry Littell. Thursday & Friday, 12-6pm and Saturday & Sunday, 12-5pm.

The Drive In Ithaca: The Hunger Games | 9:00 PM, 8/6 Thursday | The Drive-In Ithaca, 101 Pier Rd, Ithaca | | $20/car Virtual Cinemapolis: CREEM: America’s Only Rock-n-Roll Magazine | All Day 8/7 Friday | Cinemapolis, 120 E Green St, Ithaca | Capturing the messy upheaval of the í70s just as rock was re-invent-

The Drive In Ithaca: Spider-Man: Into the Spiderverse | 9:00 PM, 8/7 Friday | The Drive-In Ithaca, 101 Pier Rd, Ithaca | | $20/car The Drive In Ithaca: Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle | 9:00 PM, 8/8 Saturday | The Drive-In Ithaca, 101 Pier Rd, Ithaca | | $20/car

ing itself, the film explores CREEM Magazineís humble beginnings in post-riot Detroit, follows its upward trajectory from underground paper to national powerhouse. (75 mins NR) | 72 hour rental available for $9.99 Virtual Cinemapolis: Gordon Lightfoot: If You Could Read My Mind | All Day 8/7 Friday | Cinemapolis, 120 E Green St, Ithaca | An exploration of the career, music, and influence of legendary Canadian musical icon Gordon Lightfoot. (91 mins NR) | 72 hour rental available for $9.99 Virtual Cinemapolis: Out Stealing Horses | All Day 8/7 Friday | Cinemapolis, 120 E Green St, Ithaca | Adapted from the bestselling novel of the same name. With Stellan Skarsgard. | 3 day rental available for $12 Virtual Cinemapolis: You Never Had It: An Evening with Charles Bukowski | All Day 8/7 Friday | Cinemapolis, 120 E Green St, Ithaca | Documentary based on a video interview conducted by journalist Silvia Bizio with writer Charles Bukowski in his house in San Pedro, California. (60 mins NR) | 5 day rental available for $12

Special Events AIDS Ride for Life 2020: Keeping the Distance | All Day 8/12 Wednesday | Stewart Park, 1 James L. Gibbs Dr., Ithaca | This year, you can choose your virtual distance and the manner in which you will accomplish it between August 12 ñ September 12. If you don’t want to cycle, challenge yourself in other ways with indoor cycling, dog walking, running or anything else! Whatever your reason, you will enjoy one of the most memorable times of your life. See our website for more information. | Begins at $25

Books ASL (virtual) poetry performance & reading with Eddie Swayze | 7:00 PM, 8/8 Saturday | Buffalo Street Books, 215 North Cayuga Street, Ithaca | Eddie Swayze is an accomplished poet, performing artist, actor, and visual artist, known for his evocative and moving ASL poetry performances.† A Zoom event.† Visit†https://www. buffalostreetbooks.com/event/ eddie-swayze Elizabeth Acevedo in Conversation with Glory Edim | 7:00 PM, 8/12 Wednesday | Buffalo Street Books, 215 North Cayuga Street,

Ithaca | A special BSB@Home event with National Book Award winner Elizabeth Acevedo, author of†Clap When You Land, in conversation with Glory Edim, founder of WellRead Black Girl (WRBG). Ithaca’s own Dr. Nia Nunn, leader of Ithaca’s Well-Read Black Girl chapter, will also join the conversation.

Visit†https://www.buffalostreetbooks.com/†to register.

Sugar and Salt: Using Fiction Techniques for Writing Nonfiction and Vice Versa | 12:00 PM, 8/15 Saturday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | This two-part workshop will be led by Monika Dziamka, a freelance writer and editor who specializes in developmental editing and ghostwriting. Please visit https://www. tcpl.org to register.

Notices Ithaca Rotary Club Weekly Meeting | 12:15 PM, 8/5 Wednesday Ithaca | August 5th speaker is Mike Hall, Director of Ithaca Tompkins Int’l Airport on “Flying in Turbulent Times” Meeting is at 12:15pm via Zoom! Request a Zoom link on the club’s website, www. ithacarotary.com Candor Farmers Market | 3:30 PM, 8/6 Thursday | Candor Town Hall, 101 Owego Rd, Candor | Candor Farmers Market runs from June 25- Sept 3. Every Thursday at the Candor Community† Pavilion on the grounds of the Candor Town Hall.

Over 15 local vendors with fresh produce, soaps,† maple products,† jams, honey,† tool sharpening, hand sanitizer and so much more! Free admission.

Check It Out Shoppe | 9:00 AM, 8/7 Friday | Check It Out Thrift Shop, 6609 Turnpike Roaf, Mecklenburg | Fridays and Saturdays from 9-2PM. High quality used items at reasonable prices. Sponsored by the Mecklenburg United Methodist Church Ovid Farmers Market | 3:00 PM, 8/7 Friday | Papa Bear Building (Ovid Courthouse), 7175 Main St., Ovid | Come and find local, fresh produce of all kinds! Fresh picked right down the road. Also, there will be farm fresh eggs, local maple syrup, local honey, fresh baked goods including pies, breads, cookies, and sweet rolls and cut flowers and flower arrangements.

Candor Farmers Market | 3:30 PM, 8/13 Thursday | Candor Town Hall, 101 Owego Rd, Candor | Candor Farmers Market runs from June 25- Sept 3. Every Thursday at the Candor Community† Pavilion on the grounds of the Candor Town Hall.

Over 15 local vendors with fresh produce, soaps,† maple products,† jams, honey,† tool sharpening, hand sanitizer and so much more! Free admission.

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