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s the alleged “greatest generation” enters an era of retirement, Tompkins County’s senior services must ready for an impending increase in demand for senior housing. Reacting to longstanding housing issues throughout the county among people of all ages, the Tompkins County Office for the Aging (OFA) recently presented the results of a survey and needs assessment to the county’s Health and Human Service Committee. Its conclusions; “We do anticipate that with the long-term care system, there will be more demands placed on a lot of these services.” that more housing is needed for seniors – particularly affordable and market-rate housing – and that the need will inevitably be exacerbated in the coming years. The presentation was at the request of committee chair Anna Kelles, who over the past year has asked each relevant government agency to demonstrate to the committee how they have been dealing with housing issues in their capacity as a service provider. With an already relatively high elderly population, the county’s aging figures will continue at their current growth rate, at least, until 2040, according to OFA’s 2015 Strategic Plan. According to town-by-town statistics provided by Tompkins County, the City of Ithaca saw the lowest percentage growth in 60+ population at 11 percent from 2000-2010, while Lansing’s grew by nearly 50 percent. Also noted in Strategic Plan is OFA’s estimation that the area’s younger population will be smaller in size, which could inhibit caregiving services from continued on page 4

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n D e c e m b e r 10 , t h e Ha nga r T heat re w i l l unwrap its own holiday gift for audiences, the inaugural production of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol. The show runs through December 24, and the theatre hopes that this will become an annual production. (The Kitchen Theatre, Firehouse Theatre and Dryden Footlighters also staged similar productions over the past 20 years.) Over a century since the original story was published, the trials and transformation of Ebeneezer Scrooge after visitation from the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Future still hold great power at this time of year.

It’s the day before Thanksg iv i ng , a nd A r t ist ic Di rector Michael Barakiva has just wrapped rehearsals for the day. “The kids didn’t have school today, so it was a great time to rehearse all the scenes with the children in them. It’s amazing how the presence of the children buoys the entire rehearsal process. They’re playing the Cratchits, and they also play Ignorance, Want and Prejudice, which are sort of manifestations in the original Dickens, and they also play Ebeneezer as a boy and his friends and his sister Fanny, who was based on Charles Dickens’ sister in reality.” If you’ve only seen the Mr. Magoo version or the Bill Murray version, you might not remember Ignorance, Want and Prejudice, but this version – penned by Ithacan playwright and professor Aoise Stratford – does. “The two characters are Ignorance and Want,” says Barakiva.

T a k e ▶ The Buffalo Street Book Fair is this Saturday, starting at 10 a.m. Benefitting the Edith Ford Memorial Library in Ovid, 10 percent of all sales on the day are donated to the library, so it’s a great way to shop for the holidays and support your library. ▶ Liquid State Brewing Company now appears to be hosting events: On Sunday, Liquid State Brewing will be hosting a crafts fair from noon to 5 p.m. with a plethora of local crafters there to sell their wares.

Rehearsals for ‘A Christmas Carol’ at The Hangar Theatre.

“At the end of his time with Present, they’re the manifestations of everything that is wrong with the present. In our adaptation, Aoise Stratford has added a third character to that, which is Prejudice. It’s about the things that Scrooge is lacking in his heart.” The upcoming production has actually been in development for quite a while. Barakiva says it was definitely a part of his five-year plan for the Hangar. “It was conceived four years ago,” he recalls. “We began planning for it right around the time of conception. This is an enormous production, one of the largest productions ever mounted by the Hangar Theatre. “We have 17 actors on stage and gorgeous period costumes. But the thing that is undoubtcontinued on page 11

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Want more crafts? The Little Red Wagon Artisan Market will be showcasing Ithaca artisans at The Space @ Greenstar on Saturday December 9th from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. There, you can find pottery, jewelry, wine & food, art, clothing, body care and more. You can visit www.littleredwagonartisans.com for a full vendor list! ▶ Have you ever wanted to get some basic information about your drinking water? A free public information series about

drinking water in our community will be presented by the Community Science Institute on Wednesday, December 13th from 5:30 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. at the West Danby Fire Hall. A brief introduction will cover the most common tests including bacteria, nitrate, nitrite, and lead. Most of the forum will consist of CSI and Health Department staff responding to questions from the audience. An additional Drinking Water Wednesday forum will be held in Trumansburg in the months ahead.

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units, which was very surprising,” Bohn said. “Over two years, the 8-11 percent increase is not unexpected and in line with national increases in rental rates, but outstrips income growth.” Additionally, Bohn said since apartment units are not counted until they’ve been on the market for two years, it can be difficult to monitor when and how many new units are being counted by HUD. Among MSAs measured in New York, Ithaca’s single bedroom unit FMR ranked fourth out of 16 tota l.According to RentData, Ithaca’s FMR is more expensive than 87 percent of the state. But Bohn said Saratoga Springs and Kingston are possible comparison points to Ithaca in terms of their overall housing markets.

a workforce standpoint; OFA Director Lisa Holmes said the county is already struggling to attract workers to its home health aide services. In terms of housing, Holmes said based on OFA’s survey seniors are primarily seeking affordability and accessibility in a good location for their laterlife housing, along with energyefficiency. But for any of those preferences to matter, seniors must be able to actually access the housing. The race to provide enough housing to offset the massive demand presented by sources like the colleges grabs many headlines, but the aging baby-boomers present another population which is growing and is either in need of, or will be, housing. Via the survey this past year, OFA found wait lists for subsidized senior housing ranging from six months to as long as three years, based on talks with all 15 of Tompkins C ou nt y ’s subsid i z ed sen ior apartment venues. “[Wait times are] high, and it’s gotten higher I would say,” Holmes said. “In previous years, six months to a year would seem long [...] It can produce a real hardship for people who are wanting or needing to make that move sooner rather than later.” One of the stated goals of the Tompkins County Housing Strategy is to meet the existing def icit of 100-200 subsidized senior apartments; that demand is also sure to rise as retirees living on a fixed income look to move to more affordable abodes that are easier to maintain and navigate than a multi-story house. There are already some properties around Ithaca that deal with this demographic: though not dedicated to senior housing, Ithaca Housing Authority’s Titus Towers is one example, as well as the DeWitt House project which has been approved but not yet constructed (DeWitt House will provide 60 units of senior-focused housing). While those have – and will continue to – help, Holmes said the problem mirrors that of the growing need throughout the area. “There have been a number of subsidized senior apartments

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If you had unlimited cash this holiday season, what gift would you give Downtown Ithaca?

“I’d buy Dowtown a Trader Joe’s! Gosh I love Trader Joe’s!” —Joanne from Lansing

“I’d buy everyone a Chicken Speedie from Lou!” —Jane Phillips

“More parking.” — Chris Marron

tarting next year, Tompk ins Count y’s Crimina l Justice System will begin a more than $800,000 test to see whether or not increased social services, rather than habitual incarceration, is what is needed to address chronic overpopulation in the Tompkins County Jail. Funded by an anticipated $1.3 million windfall from several casinos in the region, the extensive suite of proposals will provide increased mental health services, more probation officers and an improved inmate re-entry model in the hope a rehabilitative approach to the criminal justice will be more effective than one of crime and punishment in keeping the jail population low. One gap in the system a number of activists have called for in recent months will go unfilled: comprehensive bail reform, or a set of policies intended to eliminate the holding of any non-violent offenders before convicted of a crime. This, according to an analysis of the Tompkins County Jail inmate population over the past year, could be said of approximately 60 percent of all inmates in the jail who, in the eyes of the law, are technically

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Fair Market Rents Outpace Income “I’d buy Ithaca a new steakhouse and bbq joint.” —Jim Tierney

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innocent. It is also a policy that local civil liberties nonprofit Opportu nit ies, A lternat ives a nd Resources of Tompkins County’s director, Deborah Dietrich, says disproportionately impacts those charged with crimes in rural counties. How Ba il Is Used, A nd How Ba il Is L imited

The United States – one of just two countries in the world to employ the system – uses the cash bail system as a tool to ensure those facing trial will, in fact show up to trial. Requiring a deposit of cash to secure one’s freedom, bail has historically been used as a financial deterrent to keep someone from running away or missing court, oftentimes set at a substantial enough amount to eliminate flight risk. determined by HUD and is an attempt to measure the 40th percentile rent for all rental housing units that are two years or older. The numbers are then used to dictate the standard rent payments for the Housing Choice Voucher program, available to tenants whose rent payments are 10 percent below or above the 40th percentile of their area or below. Families must pay at most 30 percent of their monthly income for rent and utilities. Ithaca Urban Renewal Director Nels Bohn said the increases were relatively aligned with what was predicted, and that even with the seemingly significant hikes across the board last year’s stagnant FMR growth tempered the overall upward trend. “Changes from 2016 to 2017 FMR were ver y modest, and even went down for 1-bedroom

Deborah Dietrich, outside of OAR’s offices last week. (Photo: Nick Reynolds)

Oftentimes, it’s up to the individual facing charges or their families to produce the money to put up for bond. If they can’t, organizations like OAR – which runs its own bail fund – or a bail bondsman, who charge a premium set by the state (usually 10 to 20 percent of the bail amount) in order to profit off of posting bond for you, will step in to pay instead, under the condition that you are willing to stay under their watch until the bail is returned. “Certainly, it’s an accountable system,” Thomas Backus, a bail bondsman based out of Dryden said in an interview. “I think it’s a system that works.” “I don’t think anything’s ever going to change, personally,” said Backus. continued on page 5

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isitors to downtown may have noticed caution tape and orange traffic barrels accompanying their turns up the lower levels of Seneca Street Parking Garage over the last few weeks. You may have noticed a similar scene in the Green Street Garage last year after engineers ident i f ied st r uc t u ra l issues plaguing that garage as well. The alerts accompany work being done to secure the stability of one of the garage’s concrete pillars. The garage is safe and the stabilization is a precautionary measure, but it does signal that expensive repairs might be a moot point as Seneca garage reaches the end of its serviceable existence, and the city must choose a path for those properties in the somewhat near future. Cit y Engineer Tim Logue said the stabilizers, or shoring posts, were installed as a means of providing some extra security after it was discovered there was cracking in some carbon fiber wrapping of the garage’s center pillar. The wrapping had been applied to assist with “some failing” in the post-tensioning cables within the concrete pillar. To fix the entire beam would be a fairly large expense, so the temporary fix was chosen instead. The problem is significant enough that Logue said the city is reacting, but not serious to the point of closing the garage for repairs or fearing a complete beam failure. “The first step is just to get additional shoring posts out there to distribute that load differently and take some of the pressure off of that beam,” he said. “We’re in the midst right

from now, assuming that conditions don’t deteriorate, maybe 10 or 15 years,” Logue said of when the city may be forced to choose a permanent path. “It’s basically the end of its useful life, there’s not a way to make that garage last a lot longer without something that would be more expensive than it would be worth compared to demolition and starting over.” A mix of factors has led to the garage’s current predicament, including some periods of a lack of maintenance over the garage’s nearly 40 year lifespan and the multitude of harmful salt and water that Seneca garage takes in from parked cars. One possible avenue for the city which Logue mentioned would be to investigate options like that taken for Green Street Garage, where the garage rehabilitation may be folded into a larger private redevelopment project that would potentially mitigate the financial burden on the city. Something similar to that could not only make better use of land so centrally located in downtown, but also come closer in line with some of the city’s larger development goals in terms of housing. “It was clear, the city had a massive investment that we were going to have to make to extend the useful life of [Green Street] garage,” he said. “We don’t want the parking to go away because I think we’re probably going to need that for a while, but that’s not the best use as it stands, there’s a lot more options there. [...] It seems like a great opportunity to say ‘Well we can do more with that site than what we have.’”

for years, and that number has not grown significantly to keep up w it h t he dema nds of t he population growth,” she said. “That’s true for the senior housing, and it’s also true just in general. There’s not sufficient supply to keep up with demand.” The issue does not end with housing, though. The demand created by the rapidly aging population countywide will also challenge the breadth of services the county is able to offer, particularly in light of the burgeoning trend among senior citizens to age in place. Aging in place does not necessarily mean living in someone’s home as they age; it’s more of a differentiation between living outside of an institutionalized or healthcarebased facility. Holmes said OFA places a priority on facilitating this practice for as long as an elderly person is able to do it responsibly, but it can be tough. While many may be able to age effectively and safely on their own, their abilities to deal with general household duties dissipates as time passes, which is one area where the county services pick up the slack. For instance, OFA (or compa n ie s cont r ac ted by OFA) responded to 123 yard work or snow shoveling requests in 2017, and the Meals on Wheels service delivered food for 557 people t hroughout t he year. Additionally, OFA helped 60 people through the Small Home Repair Program, in conjunction with Better Housing for Tompkins County and Ithaca Neighborhood Housing Services, all towards the goal of allowing seniors the opportunity to age in place. That program is one OFA has advocated to receive more funding, which Holmes said also has an “ever-growing demand” with a waiting list as well. “We do anticipate that with the long-term care system, there will be more demands placed on a lot of these services, and we haven’t seen the full extent of that yet,” Holmes said. “But it’s something that [...] is coming, and as a community we want to prepare ourselves in whatever ways we can for this age wave.”

now of putting together some details on some slightly more permanent shoring posts, and a structural steel support that would go under that beam [...] That’s going to be our repair to hold onto that beam until we decide what happens with that garage.” When the more permanent posts come in, about 20 parking spots will need to be sacrificed to provide enough room for their insta llment. Logue said the actual structural problem is not like the one seen in Green Street Garage, which is around the same age, although the usage of shoring posts is a similar remedy. Repairs were conducted on the Seneca garage around four years ago and ended in 2015, and Logue said the goal was to sustain the building for, hopefully, about 15 more years while avoiding any major repair expenditures. Between three and four million dollars were spent on the repairs, and Logue said while he isn’t sure exactly when the beam ex per ienci ng problems wa s repaired, the earliest would have been 2010 and should have likely lasted more than just seven years before more problems arose. Logue said the recent push to encourage parking in Cayuga Street garage as opposed to Seneca and Green is demand-based and not related to the problems those garages have experienced. While the shoring posts are an effective, and safe, short-term fix he said some time in the next decade or so the city will probably have to make a more longterm decision about the garage’s future. “Something around 10 years

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▶ Brockport Football not to be disloyal to Bomber nation, but with several staffers counting themselves as former Golden Eagles (one as a onetime member of the team), we just wanted to say it’s pretty nice to see your alma mater in the running for a national title. Congrats on making Division III football’s final four! ▶ The Nines being in danger again because the company, apparently, found no takers to move the more than century-old structure from its home on College Ave., developer Visum Development announced last week it will once again seek to tear the building down in its updating of the neighborhood. Referential facades? Historic buildings only burn down anyway? Come on.

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Heard&Seen ▶ The Ice Fest Is This Weekend Sure, there’s no snow and it’s 50 degrees as I write this, but at least I’ll be able to drink away my worries about climate change at the ice bar. ▶ Top stories on Ithaca. com this week are...

1) Family farm changes hands 2) Improvements coming to Route 13? 3) Two familiar faces step up in City Hall 4) Bright Horizons On The Hardwood For IHS 5) Park downtown? Get ready to pay more

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Do you think a cash bail system still has merit in the justice system? Please respond at the Ithaca Times Web site www.ithacatimes.com. L ast Week ’s Q uestion : Would proposed rate changes in the parking garages influence you to park elsewhere? 66.7 percent of respondents answered “Yes” and 33.3 percent answered “No.”

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wish to respond to the Nov. 15 story “Borger Station expansion could have health risks.” The health and safety of my family, my friends, my colleagues and my community are very important to me. At Dominion Energy, we strive to be a good steward of our resources and our environment. T he pri ma r y focus of the faulty report by the Southwest Pennsylvania Environmenta l Hea lt h Project (EHP) was to pick data to conveniently fit its Ron Minnick agenda, exaggerate the impact a compressor station has on the local community and distort the amount of exposure and risk of emissions to one’s health. The bottom line: this report was solely intended to mislead, misinform and use scare tactics to alarm the public. Supporting data within the EHP report is inappropriately or inaccurately reported and is not representative of interstate pipeline com-

pressor facilities such as Dominion Energy Transmission’s Borger Station on Ellis Hollow Creek Road. Many of EHP’s assumptions and inferences presented in the comments are f lawed, erroneous and are not applicable to Borger Station. For example, the EHP report mentioned “dozens of chemicals were detected in the air around the facility.” However, there was no correlation made to the actual emissions being emitted by Borger Station. EHP also accuses the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency of not protecting “sensitive populations” with its air quality standards. All one has to do is simply visit the EPA’s website to find that’s not true. On EPA’s air quality standards web page, the first paragraph says the Clean Air Act requires the EPA to set National Ambient Air Quality Standards for pollutants considered harmful to public health and the environment. And one of those standards includes “providing public health protection, including protecting the health of ‘sensitive’ populations such as asthmatics, children, and the elderly.” The EHP report also contains exposure information that is simply a reporting of pounds of emissions per seven years. This information, taken from the National Emissions Inventory and the Green House Gas Inventory, identifies the weight of chemicals associated with comcontin u ed on page 7

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undreds of people suddenly had at least unpleasantly surprised. The show in Ithaca would have been a free Saturday night in Ithaca when the Garrison Keillor show roughly concurrent with the regular live at the State Theater was canceled the Saturday night broadcast of A Prairie Home Companion, now hosted by Chris Wednesday before. That Wednesday, Minnesota Public Thile. Possibly many of the disappointed Radio announced it was cutting busi- ticket-holders repaired to their radios ness ties with Keillor, the creator and for the broadcast, not just as Plan B retired host of MPR’s A Prairie Home entertainment for the evening, but to Companion radio show, over allega- hear if the news would be mentioned. It was. tions of “inappropriate behavior” with a At the start of the show, which cuswoman who worked on the show. tomarily begins with a song, The announcement made T h i le spoke i nstead . He nationa l news a nd had “He is gifted delivered a fairly predictable instant consequences. with words, statement that expressed Kei l lor was schedu led but doesn’t sorrow, but no feelings that to appear in Pittsfield, MA seem to could possibly be objectionon November 29, the night understand able to a nyone, whet her of the announcement. The their supporters or detractors of show was canceled, just a standing Keillor. few hours before its starting versus T h e s how t h e n c om time. actions.” menced, not with its reguThe local newspaper went lar opening, “”Tishomingo to the downtown hotel where Blues,” which has become Kei l lor w a s s t ay i ng a nd found him in the hotel restaurant, “set- a signature song for Keillor and was tling his bill at the bar.” Keillor said the retained after he retired, but with “Radio developments were “kind of bewildering Boogie,” a bluegrass tune perhaps personally geared to Thile, an award-winto me.” The paper also noted a number of ning mandolinist. That change perhaps said more than people who had come from out of town for the show and arrived before the can- the preceding statement, and drew a line cellation was announced. If not bewildered themselves, they must have been contin u ed on page 7

YourLetters NY Should Take Renewables Seriously

understand that the Department of Public Service and the New York Independent System Operator (NYISO) are considering carbon pricing options for New York’s wholesale electricity markets. While this may be a step forward, it is a small step for a state that barely burns any oil or coal to generate electricity. The thing we burn most is natural gas. Natural gas produces methane emissions which are much more potent than CO2 emissions. To amp up the fight against climate change, NY must focus on methane emissions as well. Continuing to permit natural gas infrastructure projects would be a big step backwards in the fight against climate change. As a student at SUNY Cortland and a New Yorker, it is important to reduce the amount of natural gas this state produces. Projects such as the expansion of the Borger Station in Tompkins County

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and other Dominion New Market natural gas projects will increase the flow of natural gas into the state, endangering the health of residents in the area. By lowering the production of natural gas, myself as well as other New Yorkers will be assured a brighter, cleaner and healthier future. New York must invest in clean, green renewable energy like wind and solar as well as invest more in energy efficiency. Governor Cuomo can lead by taking NY off fossil fuels and to 100% renewable energy.

–Katherine Reynoso-Zil

Reed Is Dishonest On GOP Tax Bill

t’s no surprise that U.S. Representative Tom Reed is deceiving constituents on the House tax bill. The congressman claims this bill will save “most” taxpayers an average of $1,600. This simply isn’t true long-term. It’s a classic bait and switch tactic by Republicans to funnel money to wealthy donors while stripping benefits

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in the dirt until the larger change – perhaps the largest possible – which MPR says is coming, of the show’s name. Demographically, Ithaca is Keillor’s kind of town. His humor plays best to a politically liberal audience with a high level of education. (In fact, perhaps it plays only to that audience. A sketch on this week’s show included the words “dystopia” and “trompe l’oeil.”) No doubt the State Theater expected a large crowd. I don’t know if Saturday’s show sold out, but A Prairie Home Companion broadcast one night years ago from Bailey Hall at Cornell (traveling is a tradition with the show) and tickets were exceedingly scarce, highly soughtafter, and extravagantly scalped. Keillor’s web site announces that the December shows were canceled, but still advertises performances scheduled for

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from average Americans. The bait? A minimal and short-lived middle class tax cut. The switch? Massive tax cuts for the super-wealthy and corporations that Congress has to pay for by cutting Medicare, something Reed promised not to touch. Reed hopes voters won’t notice the connection; he doesn’t believe we’re smarter than that. Under the Republican plan, corporate taxes plummet permanently from 35% to 20% and gluttonous new tax breaks further reduce corporate tax bills, including one to bring hidden foreign profits to the U.S.! It also gives hand-outs to the super-rich by eliminating the estate tax (which Republicans call the death tax so it sounds bad) on lavish inheritances from estates worth over $10 million, saving Donald Trump’s heirs $31 million. Meanwhile, the House bill hurts average taxpayers by capping the state

February in Florida. Top ticket prices at one venue approach $300. Chances are these shows will eventually be canceled, too, or perhaps an optimistic wait-and-see attitude exists among those involved, hoping that the surrounding issues will dissolve in time. It’s ironic that Keillor’s high-minded humor is undone by lowdown behavior. He is a supreme storyteller, but it’s disconcerting to see him describe his accuser’s allegations as a “story” not as “interesting” or “complicated” as a version of his he alludes to, but doesn’t express. He is gifted with words, but doesn’t seem to understand their standing versus actions.

Stephen P. Burke is a columnist for The Ithaca Times. His column, Ithaca Notes, appears biweekly.

and local tax deduction at $10,000, increasing our state taxes by as much as $3,000. And, regular people lose deductions for charitable donations and student loan interest. Worst of all, the bill cuts $400 billion in Medicare benefits to offset the massive national debt of $1.5 TRILLION caused by tax breaks for the rich. Reed hopes voters won’t notice he gave a $269 billion Christmas gift to the wealthiest 1% of taxpayers, while everyone else got coal in their stocking. If he and his Republican DC buddies think they can hoodwink Southern Tier voters, they can think again. We know that temporary tax reductions for individuals start expiring in 2022 and are eliminated by 2027, leaving us with a giant tax increase. Reed can try his

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pressor station emissions. The important exposure metric for health, however, is not weight, but concentration and duration (i.e., how much is in a given volume of air and how long is someone exposed to that level). Furthermore, the EHP report does not evaluate risk. It suggests there are compounds from natural gas compressors that cause disease. It makes no effort to correlate exposure to concentration or duration, which is required to evaluate the actual risk of disease. A chemical can be extraordinarily toxic, but without an exposure pathway, there is little risk. Similarly, a chemical can be fairly non-toxic, but with enough exposure there can be high risk. For example, we know that many compounds found in typical household cleaning products can cause disease. But, we use them properly to limit the risk. Risk is a function of exposure and toxicity. Compressor stations must comply with stringent air-quality requirements, which are established to protect the public health, safety and welfare. Dominion Energy Transmission is not allowed to operate Borger Station if we do not meet the air-quality regulations that apply to it. We report the stations emissions and demonstrate compliance with all permitted limits. The bottom line: Dominion Energy Transmission will continue to be transparent, work with the local communities, where many of our own employees live, and always use accurate data to tell our story. We also will continue to safely maintain and operate our interstate natural gas pipeline system and facilities in accordance with environmental regulations, while meeting the growing need for transporting natural gas to our customers in a safe and reliable manner.

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tricks on someone else.

–Margie Lawlor, Vice Chair Steuben County Democrats and Corning City Democrats

Corrections An article entitled “Trailblazers PAC sees early success” in the November 29 issue of The Ithaca Times had several errors. The article said Trailblazers PAC endorsed candidates in uncontested races and required all donations to be indistrict, which are both untrue. Due to a writer error, some races read to be uncontested were, in fact, contested (the group exclusively endorsed in contested races and The Times, examining each race, neglected a candidate in one of the races) and the PAC, according to its campaign finance rules, does not require all donations to be in-district: it does, however, encourage the practice. The Times regrets the error. An article entitled “Exploring names on Fall Creek” in the November 29 issue of the Ithaca Times misstated the role of the creator of a trail in Ithaca Falls Gorge and misspelled the name of a scientist associated with the place names project. The trail’s creator was not a Cornell professor, but a botanist, whose trail was popular with Cornell students. We also misspelled Walter Poleman’s name as “Pullman.” The Times regrets the error.

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e know the Trump administration hasn’t smiled too kindly on trade with Canada lately, but a recently proposed tariff pitched to Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross has us a bit concerned. A petition from a Washington-based paper mill, North Pacific Paper Company – which is owned by hedge fund company One Rock Capital Partners – has urged Secretary Ross to eliminate the practice of paper dumping from Canadian mills with a 50 percent tariff on a type of paper commonly used in newsprint. This is also the type of paper used to print The Ithaca Times. The potential of such legislation could elevate the cost of printing not just our paper, but all newspapers, impacting circulation numbers and cutting into the bottom lines used to keep feeding journalists like us.

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News Quick Hits After objections, Lansing Delays Comprehensive plan approval After six non-consecutive years of planning, contemplation and introspection, the Town of Lansing, on December 20, will hold what town officials hope will be the final public hearing on a comprehensive plan that will provide a blueprint to the Lansing of tomorrow. Yet, even after six years of work, not everyone in the town is completely satisfied with how things have gone, enough so that more than 90 people (a number of whom, apparently, do not live in Lansing) – including an incoming County Legislator who represents parts of Lansing – have signed an online petition to delay the hearing. A different meeting will now be held at the Lansing Town Hall on Wednesday, Dec. 13 at 6:30 p.m., intended to field as many public concerns as there are still out there. “We’re going to do a time-out,” Town Supervisor Ed Lavigne said in a phone call on Tuesday morning. You can read the full story at Ithaca.com The Nines redevelopment proposal revived A project aiming to redevelop the Nines fire department site in Collegetown was presented to the city’s Planning Board last week, reinvigorating the debate over the neighborhood’s historic soul versus its future development. The property, at 311 College Avenue, was previously under consideration for a redevelopment project that was cancelled in October. However, a Visum Development official presented another version of the project for the board’s mulling. The project’s six-story design was met with warmer reviews than its last incarnation, with added masonry archways on the ground floor touted as a nod to the property’s historic significance. It is now a significantly reduced 66 feet high, with apparently the same 50 apartment units as the previous proposal.

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#GiveLocal Consider Giving Your Time – And Money – To These NonProfits This Season By Nick R ey nolds & M att Bu tler

n the days a fter the targeted murder of 49 members of the LGBTQ community in an Orlando nightclub last year, some in Ithaca recognized an immediate need in the community to step up as a pronounced ally in the face of hate. One year later, the group that formed, Ithaca Is Love, wants to let people know that was only the beginning. “We really came together to foster and establish a cohesive LGBTQ community here in Ithaca,” said Michaelangelo Misseri, one of the group’s founding members. Through building partnerships with local nonprofits and businesses, the regular hosting of social events (like the weekly Pride Night at K-House Karaoke Lounge) and a closed forum online for members of the community to connect with one another, Ithaca Is Love has sought to develop something that, while often touted by a community that prides itself on inclusiveness, wasn’t always as visible as it could have been: a truly vibrant celebration of the LGBTQ community. Misseri said there isn’t too much in place really focused on rallying the whole community together as one. The group’s first focus, Misseri said, is setting to work planning and coordinating a small Pride Festival in Downtown Ithaca to take place next fall. Down the road, the group hopes the festival will become an annual event at best and, at least, a barometer of the Ithaca community’s need for large, annual events such as this or a continued focus on smaller events. To help it happen, the group needs money – “festivals are very expensive,” Misseri said – and time. “We are really young, and we are working off of a group of six people who all have full-time jobs,” notes Misseri. 10 percent of the proceeds from Ithaca Is Love’s signature t-shirts will go directly toward hosting the festival. You can learn more at facebook.com/ithacaislove h e

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of its covers to featuring a number of local non-profits we feel are deserving of some additional attention. In this article, we feature six non-profits representing a diverse number of needs in Tompkins County we have identified as serving niche or otherwise underserved populations right here, locally, that you should consider giving your time – and money – to this holiday season.

The Impacts Of The Community Foundation Women’s Fund

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f all the positive drivers of change in the local community, it can be argued the work empowered by funds from the Community Foundation may have some of the most pronounced influence in improving the quality of people’s lives right here in Tomp-

kins County. Considered one of the most pronounced philanthropic organizations in Tompkins County, the Community Foundation finances a plethora of other non-profits through its numerous funds and mission-based accounts in order to encourage a sort of “ripple effect” from the community’s foundation (get it?) that, eventually, have very pronounced implications on the big picture. This year, the foundation’s Women’s Fund – a fund specifically dedicated to groups serving women in Tompkins County – distributed more than $20,000 to seven non-profit groups whose missions directly benefit the needs of women in Tompkins County. “The specific focus of the Women’s Fund are the needs of women and girls in Tompkins County,” said Stephanie Bailey, Chair of the Women’s Fund Advisory Committee. “We get a lot of applications from different organizations, but all of them have this direct focus. It really ranges from all ages, from young girls to older women. And while some of the monies disbursed go toward a number of recurring programs in the area, the fund also provides an opportunity to energize new programs that had proven themselves of value. “We talk a lot about maintaining the sustainability of good, strong programs in our community,” said Janet Cotraccia, program officer for the foundation. “But it’s also an opportunity where we learn about new programs and projects and needs of women in our community.” Though they fund different projects with what the foundation calls a “collective goal” – applicants demonstrating they are fostering a climate of collaboration with other community groups – in mind when picking the projects they fund, they don’t just provide financial services; they also provide informational services to the various nonprofits in town, enabled in part due to their broad network and relationships with these group and the foundation’s ability to connect one group’s effort with the related works of another through luncheons, award ceremonies and other outreach events. “Tompkins County is a really vibrant community with a very vibrant network of nonprofits that can be really hard to navigate,” Cotraccia said. “So we talk a lot about how it’s a great place with a

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lot of organizations that advocate for women, but we can do better. So we work really hard to develop and foster mutually reinforcing activities throughout the community.” Here’s a little bit on the missions of three of the groups to receive funding this year... The Boutique at the Cancer Resource Center

As one of the most vital auxiliary service providers for cancer patients in Tompkins County, the Cancer Resource Center was the beneficiary of $1,800 in funds to purchase wigs at its free boutique, a unique resource for anyone going through cancer treatment who may have need of it. In stock: an assortment of hats, scarves, mastectomy bras and wigs, which the current grant received from the Community Foundation will go to fund.

“When women are going through cancer, it’s obviously something that can be affecting them physically, like losing their hair from chemotherapy,” said Megan Crow, Executive Director of the Cancer Resource Center. “It’s really important for them to feel good about themselves, even while they’re going through medical treatments that affect their own outward appearance [...] they start to feel impacted and maybe self-conscious, maybe lacking some self esteem they had.” The funding the group received matters largely, Crow said, because of the importance there is to have a wide range of wigs to match the wide variety of styles clients may have. Annually, Crow estimates close to 300 people from the surrounding counties can use the boutique in some way in a given year, one of the additional services they may discover through their support groups or through one of the foundation’s volunteers working directly in the hallways of Cayuga Medical Center, with whom the center has a direct partnership. “It’s important for women in the community to feel good about themselves, even if they may not feel so good on the inside,” said Crow. Want to donate? Visit crcfl.net and click on the “Ways To Give” tab.

Mama’s Comfort Camp

About five years ago, Yael Saar identified a need among mothers of all ages in the community.

After the birth of her first son, Saar – suffering from postpartum

depression 33 years after the death of her mother, who also suffered from the affliction – nearly lost her own life. After recovering several years later and having a second son, Saar felt compelled to do something to help others in similar straits. So, five years ago, she founded Mama’s Comfort Camp, a forum on Facebook that provides peer-topeer emotional and social support to mothers in the region both online and through group meetings. Several years later, with the help of $1,000 from the Community Foundation (as well as $10,000 in funding from the foundation’s separate Lane Family Fund) Saar’s original vision is ready to take the next step as a verified non-profit serving thousands of mothers across the region. Mama’s Comfort Camp has been described as a “comfortitive engine,” what Saar said is defined as a source of strength that arises when community members comfort each other and share resources, talent and time with each other. Originally started in the capacity as an online safe space to talk about the hardest parts of motherhood, talking through the guilt, fatigue and sense of feeling overwhelmed that many mothers go through as they navigate motherhood, the group allows women to have in-depth discussions they otherwise couldn’t at a pace and flexibility that works with the chaos and unpredictability of their daily lives. “For moms, meaningful interaction is super hard,” Saar said. “Finding the time to get together – if you can – your children govern your ability to talk. You can never finish your sentences. So even if you’re together, your friendships have a really hard time getting to the depths of discussion. What happens at Mama’s Comfort Camp

is that people talk about the most sacred, scary things to them, and are then supported by people they see every day.” Right now, the group claims about 3,000 members (2,300 of whom are local) whose conversations are facilitated by 20 volunteer moderators, who are constantly monitoring activity on the forum on different shifts during the day, whether it’s while waiting to pick their kids up from school or in the bleachers during soccer practice. The challenges of motherhood change but don’t wane, she said, and within their group, the arc of motherhood is represented in its entirety, allowing for mothers to give each other intergenerational support. “At the beginning, you don’t sleep because your children wake you up,” Saar said. “Later, you don’t sleep because your worries wake you up.” As the group has grown, the need for proper moderation that is compensated and supported in their work, Sahar said, has risen. A safe space, she said, requires two things of a moderator: the need to limit unsolicited advice and to foster feelings of positivity within the group to maintain a positive experience for everyone involved. With the new influx in funding, the group will be able to support approximately six part-time shifts, in order to fulfill that need at all times. “The more we equip or moderators with their own support, whether it’s financial compensation for their time or the proper support for their own emotional needs – because this is a heavy task – that’s important,” said Saar. Want to donate? Visit mamascomfortcamp. com/beloved-backers/

Megan Crow, Samantha Bailey, Janet Cotraccia, Yael Saar and Samantha McBean. (Photo: Casey Martin)

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Samantha McBean has been living in Ithaca for some time now but, until about nine years ago, hadn’t been associated too closely with the nonprofit sector.

However, since 2014, McBean has been in charge of a teen and women’s empowerment group based at the Greater Ithaca Activities Center, working with girls and women who are struggling to enroll in college, who are living on the streets or who are looking for a job. Her program is an interesting one: it is based off of a greater New York City organization called Girls Educational & Mentoring Services (GEMS), described as “the only organization in New York State specifically designed to serve girls and young women who have experienced commercial sexual exploitation and domestic trafficking.” Her effort was spurred by her experience working part-time jobs around the community to supplement her income, where McBean was connected with a number of young women living lifestyles where they, whether through turbulence at home or in other aspects of their lives, had turned to troubling means in order to get by. Oftentimes, those unsavory solutions were provided by older men looking to exploit their vulnerabilities and take advantage of them. And she, one day, decided to do something about it. “In Tompkins County, we have this,” McBean said. “And how many people really know about it? That many young women D e ce mb er

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thaca has no shortage of advocacy groups. But if you’re looking for one with comprehensive knowledge on any given issue, you’ll be stretched to find one more involved in their particular issue than the staff at the Finger Lakes Independence Center. T he orga n i z at ion’s m i s sion i s to empower all people with disabilities while creating an inclusive society through the elimination of “social and architectural barriers.” The Finger Lakes Independence Center, according to its director, differs largely from similar non-profits in that its focus is a broad one, working beyond just individuals with developmental disabilities or other, more specific needs. While the organization does look to work with individuals when it can, one of the group’s key focuses is the effort to transform social structures, legislation and even architecture – the “systemic things” that get in the way of a truly inclusive society, Lynch says – to better integrate those with disabilities into the community. Through outreach and educational events, FLIC works to educate individuals from Kindergarten to college age on understanding disabilities in ways they may not have been aware of. With so many missions, the group does need some assistance, especially given the organization serves approximately 2,000 individuals each year. The group has a “try it room” of medical equipment for its clients, which Lynch said could always use more. But it’s financial donations – used to help fund programs like their temporary ramp program and other initiatives – is one of the biggest areas FLIC needs assistance, both to fill the gaps 2 0 1 7

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here have dropped out of school? The school district doesn’t want to deal with them, so they end up walking the streets, they end up in Cortland, Elmira. Last summer, we had five or six girls having sex in Elmira for money. These are high school girls. One girl, who came from a good family, lost her virginity through that. How many officials are really paying attention to this? This is a small town, and we need to address it.” Right now, McBean is working with two groups of girls, ranging from early teenage years to young women of near-college age. She mentors them, hears their stories and listens to where they want to go in their lives, helping them to then get themselves on the right track. She acts as a sort of extra mother for the girls and sees the change over time, she says, both in the way they carry themselves, the way they dress and the way they talk about themselves. A majority, she said, eventually end up back in the workforce or in school: a drastic change from the difficult lives they’d led and the broken homes they

may have left behind. they have in staffing and to bolster their To break through to them, sometimes they’ll play games, or have outreach efforts to reach those who might not understand the breadth of services overnight bonding events behind closed doors to maintain positive perspectives on their self-improvement. Planned Parenthood, or FLIC provides. Want to help? Visit fliconline.org/FLIC/ other community groups will come in to talk to the group. She’ll take donate/ to donate. them on trips, teach the girls on how to succeed in job interviews or study for exams. All the while, each of her girls are required to write Izz y ’s Cl oset in a notebook McBean provides what each experience means to them he idea of Izzy’s Closet didn’t and how they will use it to influence their lives. quite start out as a non-profit “I’ve seen a lot of young women out here in Tompkins County and organization; the brainchild of even outwards going through these issues,” said McBean. “There are Groton resident Janet Watkins, it started many reasons why. One of them is their dignity – they feel like there’s as a book called Izzy’s Groton Adventure no one to talk to, that there’s no hope and they don’t care about what about a cat named Izzy that wandered through Groton discovering the town’s they do, not looking at the long-term effect.”

icons, such as typing out a letter on a Smith-Corona typewriter. The money from that book went to purchase iPads for a program at the Groton Public Library – Watkins started with a goal of buying one, but the book’s sales allowed them to buy 15. After its success, Watkins, who also owns and operates Brittany Station gift shop, decided to do another book called Izzy’s Dance Adventure, and from there Izzy’s Closet was born. Now, the organization is working to provide essential materials to children in Groton schools, and hopefully elsewhere soon, The closet idea is at least partially inspired by Watkins’ cognizance of the stigma that a child can face when receiving things such as clothes, books or other items, especially in front of other students. Similarly, Watkins said they organize certain book giveaways to look like a student in need won a raff le for a required class book. While it started just in the Groton Elementary School, they have now extended partial services for school supplies to the middle school and high school in Groton.To donate online, visit the organization’s website; otherwise, send to Izzy’s Closet at 210 Elm Street, Groton, NY 13073.

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f you’ve enjoyed a hike, bike or stroll through nature somewhere in the Finger Lakes region, chances are you’ve benefitted from the work of the Finger Lakes Land Trust. FLLT is a non-profit environmental conservation organization that has been working to protect land around the area from development since 1989. Its stated mission is to “to conserve forever the lands and waters of the Finger Lakes region, ensuring scenic vistas, clean water, local foods, and wild places for everyone.” The organization deals with a variety of lands, both private and public, which it helps to preserve. “I think our work will never be done, we’re always spending a lot of time looking for new places to protect, actively protecting new places, educating community members [...] and of course we spend quite a bit of time taking care of the properties that we already protect,” Kelly Makosch, FLLT’s Director of Development and Communication, said.

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Though both groups serve their own functions, since 2013, organizations like OAR have been limited in how much they can contribute toward someone’s bail. Until 2013, OAR’s bail fund was never governed by New York State Law. Then, that year, a ruling in a New York City court with statewide implications removed OAR’s ability to bail on felonies – no matter if they were violent in nature or not – and set a limit of $2,000, a number which, in theory, would prohibit the bailing out of more significant flight-risk inmates. Though recent efforts by OAR and the county’s Reentry Subcommittee have helped to reduce their annual bails from a high of 71 nine years ago to a low of 13 last year, some in the Tompkins County Jail (at least, those among the typical 50 or so in the jail awaiting sentencing each month, according to figures from the Tompkins County Sheriff’s Office) who may otherwise qualify for a bailout through OAR may not receive one, partly due to the state’s limits on how much a group like OAR can contribute. Judges in Tompkins County, Dietrich said, can set bails slightly over the $2,000 limit, leaving the accused scrambling to make up the rest and, in a small town, impartiality can be fundamentally skewed by unspoken bias by the local magistrates, who are elected and do not require a legal background. And even with recent outreach efforts, particularly with revised policies on alternatives to incarceration proposed by the county, some judges – “the ones who really needed to hear it,” Dietrich, said – were not in attendance. “They’re just not interested in the ATIs,” Dietrich said. “And the only thing I can say to that is it’s an electoral issue: those people are voted into office. And what ought to happen is someone ought to run against those two rural magistrates and show exactly how much these individuals have cost the taxpayer through

unnecessary incarceration.” “There’s a clear difference between the judges who are lawyers and those with no legal background,” she added. The patterns are clear in OAR’s most recent bail reports. Between 2007 and 2016, Ithaca City Court, Ithaca Town Court and Tompkins County Court saw 157 individual bails posted by OAR’s bail fund. During that same time, the smaller Dryden and Groton Town Courts accounted for 176 bails combined. Add in bails posted by OAR in Lansing Town Court (54), Enfield (33), Newfield (39) and Ulysses (32), OAR was responsible, countywide, for keeping 530 individuals not convicted of any crime out of jail. Going even further, on average, Dietrich estimates, one bailout by the nonprofit saves the county approximately $7,200. Yet, there are some OAR can’t help and there, some may either settle on jail or resort to individuals like Backus. Backus, who’s been in the business about three decades now, says bonds issued in Tompkins County’s various courts, because of efforts like OAR, rarely trickle down to his office, leaving him to seek much of his business from the 48 or so counties across the state he estimates he does business in. His starting bail amount, he says, is $1,000, and goes up from there. His typical bail locally? Approximately $5,000. Ca n A n y thing Be Done L egisl ati v ely?

Though a desire for some sort of bail reform has been expressed by several members of the County Legislature, that measure, should lawmakers choose to pursue it, will be left to the state to work out. Fortunately for advocates of such an effort, a headlinemaking organization from New York City is looking to push for it. Six weeks ago, JustLeadershipUSA – the organization behind a campaign to close the notorious 10-jail complex on New York

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City’s Rikers Island – announced the start of a statewide campaign to mobilize an effort for comprehensive bail reform at the state level. Its goal? to address the issue of incarceration specifically within New York State, which on any given date holds approximately 25,000 inmates in its jails, on average. (54,000 others, the group will note, are held in the state’s prisons.) 70 percent of them, according to campaign’s New York State Organizer Katie Schaffer, are being held pretrial and have not been convicted, legally defining them as innocent. The bail statute is supposed to ensure people return to court but, Schaffer said, has been proven unnecessary in the wake of innovations like transportation assistance and automated text message reminders, what she calls an evidence-based system proven to get people to return to court just as effectively as cash bail, especially when those charged are not deemed to be a significant flight risk by the court. There are some barriers to their goal: the moonshot of comprehensive, statewide policy reform to overhaul the state’s criminal justice system has been an elusive goal in Albany for a number of years due, in part, says fellow New York State Campaign Coordinator Erin Leigh George, to both the ambitious scope of the mission of JustLeadershipUSA as well as the division of interests between New York City and the rest of New York State. “Our criminal justice landscape looks very different in all 62 counties,” said George. “Oftentimes, solutions tend to be driven by New York City given the legal advocacy resources that we have here, even though the drivers of incarceration vary greatly across the whole state. In building out this campaign, we really wanted to roll out a legislative agenda that would meet the needs of all New Yorkers.” Read more online at Ithaca.com

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edly the most exciting to me is that so much of the work that I want to do at the Hangar is about bringing joy to the community, and integrating the educational and artistic elements of the theatre. And this play does all of those things.” It may be hard to talk about evolution when you’re in the thick of the first production, but Barakiva sees this version of A Christmas Carol as a perennial. “My hope is not just to bring it back for years, but then to also introduce in future years artistic programming that will complement it. So much of the heart of this play is what we’re feeling right now: the beginning of the holiday season, which is this extraordinary warmth and kindness and joy. And I would love to see how the Hangar can provide more artistic and educational opportunities for the community.” David Studwell will play Scrooge. Hangar Theatre audiences will remember him from Red, Little Shop of Horrors and Ragtime. “It’s definitely one of those bucket list parts,” says Studwell, who played Scrooge previously in a production of the Leslie Bricusse-penned 1970 musical film Scrooge, originally starring Albert Finney. To be sure, there have been many adaptations and versions of the Dickens story in every conceivable media, but Studwell is enthusiastic about the script. “I think our version that Aoise Stafford has written is really great. She’s kept much of the original Dickens but has written in some…I don’t know if contemporary is the right word, but there’s a contemporary sensibility about it that I think is really, really powerful. “If you’re really going to do it when there’s so many definitive versions out there like the Alastair Sim, the Finney, you have to go at it with fresh eyes and give the audience something unique and special.” – B r y a n Va n C a m p e n

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ince 1981, the Ithaca Times has closed every year with the “Reader’s Writes” issue, featuring submissions from the most diverse writing staff at our disposal: you. Stories, poems, drawings and photographs are all welcome and complete artistic freedom is in your hands. It’s a platform for you to be heard beyond the letter’s page.me. It’s a chance for you to have a voice in the paper other than the letters page.

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How An ACA Repeal Affects Free Clinics By Mic a h Wil kin s

hen Donald Trump was first elected President, Beverly Chin’s office got a flood of phone calls. “Many consumers were very concerned about the potential ACA repeal,” said Chin, who is the Program Director of the Tompkins County Human Services Coalition’s Health Planning Council. “We didn’t have more information than what was on the news.” Retired Nurse Practitioner Anne Dalton responded to the election of Trump, who campaigned with the promise that he would “very, very quickly” repeal the ACA, by tripling the hours she spends each week volunteering at the Ithaca Free Health Clinic. “It’s the only thing I can do personally,” Dalton said. And when Senate Republicans began making attempts to repeal the ACA earlier this year, Octavia Solá feared that her health insurance was in jeopardy. Georgia@ithacatimes.com 607-277-7000 x220 “I was nervous about [ACA coverage] not Newspaper: being available anymore,” Solá said. “I feel like there was some purposeful confusion. I didn’t even know how it would affect my plan.” Indeed, every time a new bill has been proposed this year that would threaten the ACA, Chin said the Health Planning Council health insurance navigators would receive another surge of calls. “Our advice was certainly to enroll in the plans,” said Chin. “Today, as it still stands, the Affordable Care Act is still the law of the land.”

Recently, however, Senate Republicans made some headway toward its demise. In the early hours of Saturday morning, the Senate passed a tax bill that would remove the individual mandate in the Affordable Care Act. The Senate’s bill will first need to be merged with the House’s version of the tax bill, which might happen by the end of the month: “Looking forward to signing a final bill before Christmas!” Trump tweeted. The Senate bill takes away the tax penalties for individuals who do not enroll in health insurance under the Affordable Care Act, which will be yet another attempt from the Republican Party to undermine the legislation. The tax penalty is thought to keep healthy people within the marketplace, and if these healthy individuals choose to forego buying health insurance without the mandate, premiums on ACA plans will increase dramatically. According to a November report by the Congressional Budget Office, 13 million AmeriClient: cans would lose their insurance by 2027. The removal of the individual mandate could potentially save the government $338 billion according to the CBO report and the money that would be spent paying for ACA enrollees’ health coverage would instead be used to pay for tax cuts for businesses and individuals. However, this savings estimate could be off. According to a study by the Kaiser Family Foundation, the vast majority — over 90 percent — of those enrolled in plans under the

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by Betsy Schermerhorn Director, Marketing and Admissions

ADVANCE PREPARATION An “advance directive” is a legal document that outlines a person’s wishes in the event that he or she were to become incapacitated and unable to make his or her own healthcare decisions. As important as these documents are, many older individuals have not completed one. In fact, a review of 150 studies that were carried out in a recent 15-year period shows that only 46 percent of people aged 65 and older had completed an advance directive. Those without these instructions run the risk of being subjected to end-of-life treatments that run counter to their own personal wishes. Advance directives also relieve family members of the responsibility of making difficult and stressful decisions if a loved one’s health worsens.

ACA would continue buying health insurance, even if there were no tax penalty. “Everyone needs health insurance,” said Solá, who is enrolled in the Essential Plan of the New York State of Health marketplace, created in 2013 under the ACA. Solá, who has a chronic condition, requires regular lab testing and daily medication which is paid for by her plan. If she didn’t have health insurance, “it would cost hundreds and hundreds of dollars just to get routine stuff that I have to get done,” she said. “Not being insured is very expensive.” Individuals who earn too much to qualify for Medicaid or the Essential Plan can purchase the Qualified Health Plan. But according to Chin, the value of the tax credits might also be increasing for some. Despite the tax credits, health insurance plans under the ACA have become too expensive for some families and individuals, according to Luz Rivera, the Clinic Coordinator for the Ithaca Free Health Clinic. When the ACA was first put into place, Rivera remembers more affordable coverage. The vast majority of the clinic’s patients are uninsured, and turn to the clinic to receive free medical services. “[Some of our patients] would rather not have health insurance,” Rivera said. “They’d rather come here, see a doctor, get a prescription, pay out of pocket [for their medicine] and not have health insurance that is ridiculously expensive and is half the time not going to cover things. A lot of people would rather pay the penalties because it ends up being cheaper.” According to the Kaiser Family Foundation, almost half of those who are insured say that their premiums, deductible and copay expenses have gone up lately, and nearly 75 percent say that an increase in their premiums in the future would be a financial burden. Sixty percent of those enrolled in plans through the marketplace fear that the rising costs will result in them not being able to afford to keep their plans. If the individual mandate is repealed, premiums are only going to get higher.

Meeting with an experienced elder law attorney is a smart decision, as he or she can draw up these documents and offer advice about other legal preparations. As a continuing care retirement community, we offer an array of services and amenities which free residents from many of the chores of home maintenance and daily housekeeping. Call the marketing team at (607) 266-5300 to schedule a tour to see our facilities and learn more about lifecare at Kendal at Ithaca. Find us on the web at http://kai.kendal.org/ P.S. The two most common types of advance directives are the “living will” and the “durable power of attorney for health care,” which is sometimes called the “health care power of attorney” or “health care proxy.”

The individual mandate was put into place in the ACA to maintain a balanced number of healthy and sick individuals within the insurance pool, to even out the costs to insure marketplace enrollees. Without the mandate in place, a domino effect would ensue that would raise premiums while diminishing the quality of care for enrollees. The Congressional Budget Office estimates that healthy individuals will leave the marketplace if they are not required to purchase coverage, and the insurance pool would then be composed of a higher percentage of sick individuals, who are more expensive to cover. This would cause insurance to become more expensive, which would lead to even more enrollees leaving the marketplace. The CBO anticipates premiums to rise by at least 10 percent every year if the individual mandate is lifted. Dalton is afraid of what these threats mean for the future of healthcare in America. In addition to tripling her time volunteering at the free clinic, she also found a winter apartment in Ithaca so that she could more easily commute to the clinic, rather than drive in rain or snow from her home in King Ferry, 20 miles north of Ithaca. If the ACA is compromised, Dalton said, “the quality of healthcare will diminish significantly.” The free clinic continues to see an increase in new patients according to Rivera. Most of the clinic’s patients are low-income but still don’t qualify for Medicaid, or can’t afford the premiums and deductibles of other plans, so have chosen to go without. And the clinic, sometimes only operating on one volunteer provider, can see as many as a dozen brand new patients during the 3- to 4-hour time frame that the walk-in clinic is open. “It’s a full house every time I work,” said Dalton, who has to ask the front desk to start turning patients away as the clinic is closing. “I just say, ‘Oh my God, look what time it is, and how many people are still here.’ If I saw their faces, I probably wouldn’t turn them away.”

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hree years ago, I wrote a story about a young athlete who was a junior diver at Ithaca High, and I recall thinking that she would someday look back with gratitude on the incredible pendulum swing she had just experienced. In catching up with her for an update, I am pleased to say that I was right. In November of 2014, Ayla Bonniwell

was the number one seed going into the Sectionals, but she had a lot more on her mind – and her heart – as her grandfather, the well-known and much-loved local builder Ivar Jonson, was nearing the end of his long battle with cancer. Ivar and his wife, Jan, had been Lisa Bonniwell’s (their daughter and Ayla’s mom) biggest cheerleaders, and to watch their granddaughter eclipse her moth-

er’s records at Ithaca High was pure joy. A week and a half later, Ayla was on the board, chasing her dream of winning that coveted state title. Ivar had passed a few days earlier and Ayla would have been forgiven had she skipped the meet, but instead, her parents and grandmother were in the audience, sending the clear signal that life goes on. She was trailing the leader by 20 points entering the final round and, as she stepped up to make her final dive, she said she “felt a presence.” Ayla pulled off the dive of her life, and the state title was hers. Fast-forward to 2017… Ayla is an elite Division 1 diver, a member of the Florida State Seminoles. In her freshman year, she was the ACC champion in the 1-meter dive, and was named Honorable Mention All-American. A true “student-athlete,”

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she also earned recognition as an Academic All-American. This year, she took first in an event at the Georgia Tech Invitational, and was named ACC Diver of the Week. The Seminoles compete during both semesters, but December brings more free time, as Finals and the holidays are factored in. “We have a lot of dual meets during the fall semester,” Ayla told me, “and in the spring we’re more focused on the championship meets, like the ACCs and the NCAAs.” I asked Ayla to tell me the biggest difference between diving in high school and college, and I revealed my ignorance in pointing out that unlike, say, football, divers need not be concerned with factors like different playing surfaces or bad weather. After all, all boards and swimming facilities are the same, right? “Actually,” Ayla politely replied, “many schools do have indoor facilities, but at FSU and several other schools, we dive outside. There are a lot of adjustments to be made… the climate can vary, the lighting can be different, the chlorine levels can be different… in fact, I find diving outdoors to be more of a challenge.” Okay… shows how much I know. I inquired about the academic adjustments she has faced, and the Finance major said “I was homeschooled for the last year and a half of high school, and that helped me learn to manage my time more effectively. College requires a lot more independence, and I was well prepared.” I brought up that difficult time when she lost her grandfather, and Ayla shared, “Before then, I took diving really seriously. I was always really mad if I did poorly and happy if I did well. That experience helped me learn to take things day by day. It helped me to realize that diving is not the only thing in my life.” I asked Ayla if her family would be uncovering their pool and firing up the heater so she could stay sharp over her holiday break, and she answered, “No, we’ll be taking a family vacation together, so I won’t need the pool.” She added, “It hasn’t been covered that long, because my mom and my dog like to swim laps as long as they can!”

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A 12-pack of four different Dogfish Head beers specially assembled for the holiday season. Includes the traditional 60-minute and 90-minute IPA, with an Indian Brown Dark IPA and a new release, called Sixty One - a blend of a beer-wine combo and the 60-minute IPA.

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Pendleton’s first customers when it started production in the early 20th century were Native American tribes of the northwestern United States and with their brand, they try and honor their legacy and heritage in their designs and in giving significant contributions to a number of causes supporting the Native American community, from college funds to the National Native American Museum. This is one of the brand’s cooler items.

Alpaca Scarf $39 | Contemporary Trends Alpaca fleece, as you might not realize, is actually warmer than that of a sheep. When the wind whips up this winter, we’re sure whoever you gift this item to will certainly appreciate the gesture.

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Fox Papercut Plush Pillow $36 | Home Green Home This pillow, hand-designed by a Portland woman, is stuffed with hypoallergenic filling and completely constructed from American materials. There’s also a variety of shapes, colors and designs, the fox is just the cutest one.

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Just finish up an ambitious kitchen remodel? You’re going to need the kitchen implements to match. These cutting boards are offered in unique shapes and fine woods to drop a subtle hint to your dinner party guests that you have your stuff together.

Ithaca Guitar Works is a musician’s wonderland. They have guitars from the high end as well as the low end, a wide variety of amplifiers and accessories and great guitar techs on staff. Want to rep them whenever you leave town? Good news – they put their logo on a bunch of stuff, and it’s all very high quality.

Local Prints Of Artwork $50-$99 | Handwork The surrounding area has a lot of amazing artists. They’d certainly appreciate it if you had something hanging in your home offering an excuse to talk about them to your party guests.

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Gigantic Step & Play Piano $80 | Alphabet Soup Step into Christmas with the step and play piano. Create fun tunes and music with your feet instead of your hands, and it’s big enough for two kids — or adults — to play on at once.

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Anything from Eileen Fisher is a good bet for a gift. Their clothing is simple but modern, light but warm and very high in quality. You couldn’t go wrong with anything they have to offer here.

Rockstars love their Marshall half stacks. Fender’s line of lower wattage tube-powered combos are back in vogue. Yet, sometimes, that’s way too much power for practice and honestly, with how densely packed people in those town are, those amplifiers tend to be sort of impractical. Luckily this micro-sized amp packs some serious tone at a level low enough for us apartment dwellers, all at a pretty reasonable price point.

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n the hallway of a college dormitory, a few students form a band, jamming together and filling the halls with noise. Mo s t of it ne e d s work, and most of it bothers the neighbors, but the group has a chance to channel creative energy through music collaboration. But the story doesn’t begin at college; for two of the band members, everyt hing began when t hey were young high schoolers. A nt hony Dicembre and Ben Robinson, t he two members of Ithacabased band Dear Apollo, debuted t hei r f i rst EP recently on their website. They’ve been friends since they were in their early teens; maybe they

met playing soccer, maybe it was the study hall hours bonding over the music they liked. Like any friendships born out of the same hometown, distance became an inhibiting factor in their relationship — especially when Dicembre moved about three hours away from Owego to Buffalo. What seemed like the end of a friendship became the beginning of a band: a duo that builds music by using the online file storage application Dropbox. “I can’t even explain to you how things opened up,” Dicembre said. “It became kind of this opportunity and learning experience.” Dear Apollo’s debut EP, Dear Apollo, combines synth and acoustic elements, layering vocals and instrumentation in

By Christie Citranglo a mellow yet melancholy way. Piano mixes with harmonizing vocals from Dicembre and Robinson, swirling together with a percussive beat and genuinity in the lyrics. When listening to the final version, it’s easy to forget Dicembre and Robinson weren’t in the same space when they recorded. With mixing done by Grammyaward winning Will Russell of Wilburland Studios — which is based conveniently out of Newfield — the EP comes together seamlessly. To get the project going, the two set up studios in their basements, creating an area for recording and solo creativity. There wasn’t a set time for recording: when inspiration came to Dicembre or Robinson, they would rush to their studio, record something, then send it

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off to the Dropbox cloud. Once it’s in the cloud, the next step falls onto the other band member. What vocals come next? How do the lyrics sound? Does this even sound like music? “Almost as much as recording, I like talking to him about it. I’ll call him up and be like, ‘Hey, I have this idea, do you want to listen to it?’ and we’d just talk for a long time about it,” Dicembre said. “We’d talk about the ideas and be as excited about them as we would be recording. It would move not just from recording but to listening to new music; stuff that we were going through in life then found us.” The duo also said much of the writ-

ing and recording process relied heavily on trust. Since the two have known each other most of their lives, they understand each other on a deeper creative and personal level. For instance, if Dicembre has an idea for lyrics but not for the voca ls or sy nt h to accompany t hem, Robinson would step in with something that complements Dicembre’s initia l thought. After these exchanges, the stray vocals and dozens of pieces of songs came together into the four tracks on the EP. T he g roup pa red dow n nea rly 60 song ideas into the final four for the EP. With so much passion and creative drive between the two, they found it difficult to cut down their work into four clean and

polished songs. “ We c o u l d h a v e r e c o r d e d m o r e together, but we kind of made a strategic decision to continue along this path because it worked for us and it allowed us to be creative, and it allowed us to come up with unique sounds we may not be able to do in a live setting,” Robinson said. “Kind of explore areas in different sounds — it just worked. We just stayed true to the different sounds and different process.” And this process worked — so well, that Dicembre and Robinson may not be able to go back to traditional recording. Dicembre moved to Ithaca recently, closing the gap from Owego to Buffalo

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considerably. Even now, with only about 45 minutes of driving between them, they still don’t get together to record. The ideas begin in their basements, are sent to the Dropbox and then reviewed by the other. They did try to get together and record something since the release of the album, but both Dicembre and Robinson said it didn’t work. While they were still in the same space writing and jamming, they still ended up working separately and reported back to each other after the fact. They could have directly worked together, but the Dropbox system created a dynamic between the two that seems irreversible. This system, Dicembre said, was heavily inspired by the band The Postal Service. In the early 2000s, lead singer of Death Cab for Cutie Ben Gibbard and producer Jimmy Tamborello collaborated together and, because of conflicting distances and schedules, sent pieces of songs to each other through the mail. This eventually led to more collaborations with other artists, but like Dear Apollo, the artists sent music off into transit, creating work without sharing a physical space. “This is the 2017 version of the Postal Ser v ice, but I a lso t hin k we’re onto something with writing and recording,” Dicembre said. “We don’t have any confines. If I have an idea, I don’t have to wait until band practice. I think something else we take for granted is I trust his musical opinion: I don’t know if it would work if I didn’t.” Wit h t he EP recorded in bits a nd pieces, Dear Apollo wasn’t created with live performances in mind. Dicembre even said he doesn’t know most of the songs completely through. Since everything was created in specific, layered pieces, translating the songs from recordings to live will likely be difficult for the band, but Robinson is confident in their composure. “The songs are there, the songs are done. But if we performed live, they’re going to be completely different,” Robinson said. “They’re strong songs, and if you have a good song that was written well, you can put it out there for anyone, and it will still be perceived as a good song.” But for now, they’re sticking to the EP release. Dicembre said the goal for Dear Apollo would be to score television or film, adding the band’s musical touch to the heartbeat of a narrative. The two have always been fascinated with soundtracks and scores, especially when it involves mixing lyrics and verbal storytelling. There w ill likely be more of Dear Apollo in the future — Robinson and Dicembre can’t seem to stop cooking up music. Dropbox will likely be their continued medium of communication and recording, building off each other in a modern form of collaboration. “I wonder if this can’t be that novel of an idea. There must be other musicians and bands doing it around here,” Robinson said. “You don’t hear about it too often, but maybe you’ll be hearing more and more about it in the future.” •

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Building a future classic, a winter tale returns By Ros s Ha ars ta d

From last year’s production of “The Snow Queen” at the Kitchen Theatre. (Photo provided)

ast year, the Cherry premiered its own holiday family show, The Snow Queen, based on the Hans Christian Anderson fairy tale at the Kitchen Theatre. This year, it returns to the Cherr y’s own Artspace on the inlet on Cherry Street with plenty of

new music and all-new puppetry based on origina l draw ings by loca l ar tist Rachel Terwilliger. The play runs three weekends; Dec. 7–10, 15–17 and 22-23 and is recommended for ages 7-years and up. Tickets are available at thecherry.org.

Returning to tell the magical tale are Helen T. Clark, Jeffrey Guyton, Camilla Schade and Erica Steinhagen (as the Snow Queen); new to this year’s cast are Josh Altenburg, Megan Schmidt, Erica Lucia Vecchio and Joshua Wilde. In their version of the tale (which also inspired Disney’s Frozen), which was adapted and directed by the Cherry’s Artistic Director Samuel Buggeln, Greta, “a brave young girl [goes] on a mission to rescue her best friend Kai from the clutches of the evil Queen, encountering along the way a friendly reindeer, a chatty raven, a feisty robber girl and a host of other curious characters.” The storytelling is very physical and hand-made in style, a morphing adventure where people are f lowers and animals, humans and magical beings. As Buggeln put it during the play’s first draft last year, this was an opportunity to create a seasonal family offering amid their more experimental fare. In his words: “Theater can be always doing something new and surprising, which we love, but [also] it can be a tradition, a thing we go back to year after year that grows in our memories.” “The story is so trippy and magical that it seemed to fit The Cherry’s aesthetic perfectly,” he continued. “I mean, when you’re creating a company that focuses on unconventional theater, there’s nothing like a story that involves talking f lowers and reindeer, and flying sleighs, and sprites battling snowflakes to force you as a director to think outside the box.”

Probably the single biggest change this year is in the music, said Buggeln. “Last year the show had two songs, and everyone loved them, and more than anything we heard how much people would love more songs,” he said. “So we went back to that same team: the lyrics are by Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon, a national book awardfinalist poet who teaches at Cornell. The joy of her lyrics is that she brings a really profound and mysterious engagement with the deep imagery of the show, and of the psychology of the characters as well.” The music for the show is by an old collaborator of Buggeln’s based in NYC, Paul Leschen. Normally the Cherry commits to working with artists based in the Ithaca area but, in the case of Leschen, Buggeln said he was “very excited by what I knew he could do with this material.” One of the new songs to the production, he notes, is the great diva aria moment of the Snow Queen, which to him was a no-brainer given that Erica Steinhagen is playing the role again this year. “Ever y thing is taking a step up in terms of sophistication,” Buggeln adds, “especially in the realms of puppetry and shadow puppetry, which are so fun and so central to how we tell this fantastical story. It’s all a little more cohesive now, and a full step cooler. For weeks now the loft at the Cherry has looked like Santa’s workshop, full of people building sleighs and carriages and reindeer and ravens. It’s all just coming together, as usual, in the nick of time.” •

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f you stand in the Cayuga Mall facing north toward the Sumo restaurant, its rather ordinary façade will offer no indication of the size and scope of the interior. Upon entering and looking around, you might get the impression that the restaurant is surprisingly large for the small town of Lansing. The interior includes two main dining areas, three hibachi rooms and a sushi bar. About half the total dining area is devoted to the hibachi rooms, the largest of which has four tables each with two cooking surfaces. Hibachi dining is communal dining — there are 18 chairs around each of the tables — and if you don’t reserve an entire table, you shouldn’t be surprised to find strangers seated alongside you. The hibachi rooms are where the entertainment takes place, as the chefs go through their ostentatious performances giving theatrical flourishes to what we mere mortals would refer to as slicing and dicing. Anyone can eat in the hibachi rooms but a minimum of two diners is required to entice the chefs from their hideaways in the

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back. Hibachi service is available both at lunch and dinner time. There are about 30 different combinations of hibachi dinners featuring steak, filet mignon, chicken and various seafood items including salmon, scallops, shrimp and lobster tail. Depending on the combination you select, the price will range from $15.99 to $39.99. For those of us who prefer to eat a more subdued meal at a private table, there are a

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multitude of options. If you would like to have a hibachi meal but choose to eschew the entertainment aspect, you can order an entree which will be prepared in the kitchen and served at your table. These meals include soup, (usually miso) or salad (made with a rather drab iceberg lettuce) and a hibachi vegetable and fried rice. My preference at lunch is one of the dozen Bento box choices, ($8.95-$11.95) although they frequently remind me of food that used to be served on long airplane trips — though not for the quality. That’s because a Bento box is basically a plate that is partitioned into six separate compartments. My favorite is the sashimi (raw fish) box, which features two slices of three different fish (usually tuna, salmon, and red snapper), boiled rice, gyoza (fried dumplings) six pieces of California roll (crab, avocado and cucumber wrapped in rice and seaweed) and some bite-sized chunks of canned pineapple. In the center of the plate you’ll find some slices of pickled ginger (meant to be palate cleansers between bites) and a dollop of wasabi (horseradish paste) with soy sauce. The lunch includes soup or salad. All the Bento boxes cost $11.95 or less and offer an interesting variety at a reasonable price. The menu, which is nicely illustrated, offers many other options including teriyakis and tempuras, often ordered by diners unfamiliar with Japanese cuisine, three dozen rolls and roll combinations, a half dozen noodle based dishes and a dozen Sushi bar entrees which mostly include raw fish or vegetables wrapped in rice.

Sumo, like most Asian restaurants, offers a variety of interesting choices for vegetarians. Prices at Sumo range from $4.50 for a simple vegetable roll to $15.99 for a vegetable hibachi meal. I prefer beer with Japanese food and there are 15 different beers and ales in bottles to choose from. If you like to drink your beer from a glass, you might save yourself some time by mentioning it to your server when you order as there seems to be an assumption that bringing a cold bottle to the table is sufficient. The drink menu offers a creative selection of craft cocktails and an adequate selection of wine at reasonable prices, and of course, you can always opt for hot or cold sake. As pleasant as the ambience normally is at Sumo I should offer a word of warning: we’re now in the heart of the holiday season and many organizations choose the hibachi rooms for fun-filled group lunches. Even when the hibachi rooms go unused, the restaurant can be quite noisy as the floors and walls are constructed from stone. When the hibachi rooms are filled with revelers adding their loud holiday cheer to the atmosphere, the noise level can be unpleasantly intrusive. Because Sumo has thrived at the same site for about seven years and has a large customer turnover, I feel comfortable eating here – plus I really enjoy the total experience. • Ithaca Times restaurant reviews are based on unanounced, anonymous visits. Read more online at ithaca.com/dining.

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From “Godless,” which is streaming on Netf lix. (Photo provided)

endearing maniac — and his gang. Daniels is a literal one-arm bandit, having his left limb badly wounded and amputated in the first episode. Daniels is on the trail of his son of sorts, played by Jack O’Connell. Daniels “adopted” the kid and made him part of his gang. Now O’Connell f lees, having wounded Daniels, and takes refuge on a widow’s farm (the widow, played by Michelle Dockery) on the outskirts of a town populated entirely by women and children. (The men were all killed in a mining accident.) There’s even a sheriff slowly going blind (Scoot McNairy), a cocky young deputy (Thomas BrodieSangster), and a number of other “stock” genre characters that still manage to seem real; they cast real shadows and bleed real blood. Scott Frank has been a major storytelling force in film for nearly 30 years. I still recall with great fondness his florid timesplit melodrama Dead Again from 1991, my first year at the Ithaca Times. Frank scripted two of the best Elmore Leonard adaptations, Get Shorty and Out of Sight, and also has a writing credit on Hugh Jackman’s outstanding, elegiac Wolverine finale Logan. And now here on Netf lix, Frank gets the expanse of time needed to tell a story like Godless. And where most series like this would have a pilot and a few episodes written and directed by its creator, every episode is overseen by Frank, bringing an unprecedented level of consistency and tone to the entire story. It’s fascinating watching the Western genre evolve and grow to be able to tell a female-centric story like this with a maturity and frankness that simply wasn’t possible in the heyday of the great Westerns. Add to that the fact that at least three of the show’s principal cast — Jack O’Connell, Michelle Dockery and Thomas Brodie-Sangster — are Brits doing entirely credible American cowboy in lingo and tone, and you have another aspect of the production that almost seems to be commenting on itself. And the whole thing builds to a very satisfactory and poetically apt showdown. •

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The Scoop on Climate Change Civic Ensemble’s play insightful and fun By Barbara Ad am s

ast week, when I renewed my annual campus parking permit online, I was first required to complete a questionnaire on my driving habits. At the end of it, I learned exactly how many metric tons of carbon dioxide my short commute to work pumped into the atmosphere each year. Even though it was less than half the national average, it wasn’t pretty to think about. Thinking about the important but diff icult aspects of our daily lives is exactly what Civic Ensemble is about. The company is dedicated to creating informative, dialogue-focused theater built by everyone, giving new meaning to the term “community theater.” In the short five years since its founding, Civic Ensemble has produced, with the participation of local residents, a number of works based on key social issues — the challenges of parenting, police-citizen relationships, high schoolers’ sense of their education, class, race and re-entry after incarceration. The ensemble’s most recent work, on the complexities of climate change, was performed last weekend at several venues: Cornell’s Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts (PMA), Cornell’s Campus Sustainability Summit, the Community School of Music and Arts, and the Enfield Valley Grange. Climates of Change tack les the big issue head-on and from a local perspective. The play takes the format of a “living newspaper” — a genre first developed in Russia, then used during the 1930s by the Federal Theatre Project. A direct way to present clear facts on important issues to a popular audience, this approach is particularly valuable in our own age of rampant disinformation. If it takes a village to raise a child, no less is true for community-based theater. The 17 actors included local citizens and scientists, as well as Cornell graduates and undergraduates (several from the sciences). The production itself was the culmination of a semester’s inquiry in PMA’s course Theatre and Social Change, co-taught this time by associate professor Sara Warner and senior lecturer Godfrey L. Simmons, Jr. Over a series of 11 story circles on campus and in the wider community, students listened to Finger Lakes residents whose lives have been touched by climate change. Their preparation also included studying atmospheric science and applied theater techniques. As with Civic’s previous projects, they developed the play drawing on all this research and personal narratives.

Zola (Dajah Abdiel) and her sister (Katherine Adu-Bonsu) set up the family farmstand. (Photo: Christine Hughes)

The “living newspaper” result is quite different from conventional professional

theater. It’s truth-telling as storytelling, not high production values or dazzling acting, that grips us — and the audience at last weekend’s first performance was absolutely engaged. Quite simply, ever yone in the room, from climatic activists to the merely curious, knew they had a sta ke in this subject, and nearly everyone remained to join in the talkback afterward. Civic Ensemble’s co-artistic directors, Simmons and Sarah K. Chalmers, who directed this work (along with Civic member Caitlin Kane), are old hands at this form of socially aware theater. They know how to cope with the inevitable bumps, how to involve the audience willingly, and how to create a piece that leaves you thinking and talking — Brecht would be proud. One core part of Civic’s mission is to represent women and people of color, so it’s apt that the protagonist of this episodic tale (actually a series of acted and multimedia scenes) is a young woman, Zola (a charming Dajah Abdiel), who’s just finished her degree in chemical engineering. Her long-standing family business is one of only two black-owned farms in the area, and we see her helping out at their Ithaca Farmers Market stand. To the dismay of her sister (Katherine Adu-Bonsu), she turns away potential customers by railing about their unsustainable habits — driving SUVs and expecting perfect, large and above all cheap fruit, despite the recent droughts that so affected the apple harvest.

Zola has to contend not only with the family’s imminent bankruptcy but an irresistible job offer from The Company, a stand-in for all the fossil-fuel corporations wrecking the ecosystem. Mother Earth (Dominque Thorne), representing the pristine indigenous land, regularly appears to console and inspire her. The play uses Zola’s torn decision-making to ref lect all our dilemmas: What should I be doing to fight climate change? And what is enough? The play artfully scoops into its “news” the failed Enfield effort for wind power, science lectures at the Unitarian Church and the devastating (both racially and economically) consequences of the recent hurricane in Puerto Rico. Cornell climatologist Toby Ault’s greenhouse gases lecture (delivered by John Finn) is fascinating, and an outspoken weatherwoman (Heat her Du ke) prov ides del ig ht f u l comic relief. Some projected graphs are far too complex, especially with actors talking over them; more simplified visual instruction is needed. But this collaborative venture is an educational work in progress; the directors hope to repeat the project in 2019 over two semesters. Climates of Change effectively informs and entertains, reminding us how global events touch our daily lives. • Barbara Adams, a regional arts journalist, teaches writing at Ithaca College.

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Salsa Night at Agava | 10:00 PM-11:59 PM, Wednesday, December 6, 17 | Agava Southwest Inspired Cuisine, 381 Pine Tree Rd, Ithaca | Join a dance crowd this and every Wednesday. Arrive early, 10 p.m., for introductory Salsa dance lesson and workshops. The Crucial Reggae Social Club | 9:00 PM, Wednesday, December 6, 17 | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | (Reggae) Folk ‘n’ Kava | 7:30 PM-10:30 PM, Wednesday, December 6, 17 | Sacred Root Kava Lounge & Tea Bar, 139 W State St, Ithaca | (Nate Marshall and Friends play Traditional and Original Folk, Jazz and Gospel Music) Djug Django | 6:00 PM-9:00 PM, Wednesday, December 6, 17 | Lot 10 Lounge, 106 S Cayuga St, Ithaca | (Hot Club Jazz, Blues, Swing)

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Saturday, December 9, 17 | Grist Iron Brewing, 4880 NY-414, Burdett | Â (Swing, Blues) Single Barrel | 7:00 PM-10:00 PM, Saturday, December 9, 17 | Heavily Brewing Co., 2471 Hayes Rd, Montour Falls | (Southern Rock, Country, Rock) Salsa Night Holiday Celebration at The Range | 7:00 PM-1:00 AM, Saturday, December 9, 17 | The Range, Ithaca Commons, Ithaca | Holiday season gift prizes on December 9. Raffle ticket free with admission. Arrive early for a crash course on Salsa and Latin dance, and more party time. A Cast of Thousands | 6:00 PM-9:00 PM, Saturday, December 9, 17 | Boathouse Beer Garden, 6128 State Route 89, Romulus | (Pop, Rock) The Bollicini Brothers | 6:00 PM-9:00 PM, Saturday, December 9, 17 | Damiani Wine Cellars, 4704 State Route 414, Burdett |

Private holiday show for the residents and their families. Chamber Music Recital | 8:00 PM10:00 PM, Wednesday, December 6, 17 | Barnes Hall, Cornell, Ithaca | Student Chamber Music Recital

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Believe: Binghamon Philharmonic, Cirque Musica | 7:30 PM, Thursday, December 7, 17 | Floyd L. Maines Veterans Memorial Arena, 1 Stuart St, Binghamton |

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Black Marble, You. | 8:00 PM, Sunday, December 10, 17 | The Haunt, 702 Willow Ave, Ithaca | (Post-punk) Resonate: CD Release Concert | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM, Sunday, December 10, 17 | Carriage House Cafe, 305 Stewart Ave, Ithaca | Ithaca band RESONATE will present music from their new CD, Listen!. (Middle Eastern, Folk, Rock) Devinne Meyers | 4:00 PM-7:00 PM, Sunday, December 10, 17 | Two Goats Brewing, 5027 State Rte 414, Burdett | Ithaca Jazz and Blues Jam | 4:00 PM-7:00 PM, Sunday, December 10, 17 | Mix Kitchen and Bar, 205 Elmira Road, Ithaca | All jazz and blues instrumentalists and vocalists welcome. Hosted by Dennis Winge Trio.

On exhibition at Benjamin Peters is the paper-cutting work by Mariellen VanDyke Brown. These paper cutings simulate snowflakes and capture animals, foliage and more. (Art: Mariellen VanDyke Brown) 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | (Blues, Rock, Every Tuesday) concert

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Diana Leigh Trio | 5:00 PM-7:00 PM, Wednesday, December 6, 17 | Bridges at Cornell, 407 Wyckoff Ave, Ithaca |

Cornell Baroque Orchestra | 8:00 PM-10:00 PM, Thursday, December 7, 17 | Barnes Hall, Cornell, Ithaca | Cornell Baroque Orchestra performs Bach’s Concerto for Four Keyboards, plus Handel and Corelli. Rebirth Brass Band | 8:00 PM, Thursday, December 7, 17 | Center for the Arts, 72 S. Main St., Homer | Founded in New Orleans, this brass

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Voice studio recital | 8:00 PM-10:00 PM, Friday, December 8, 17 | Barnes Hall, Cornell, Ithaca | Studio recital featuring voice students. Burns and Kristy Band | 8:00 PM, Friday, December 8, 17 | First Unitarian Church Ithaca, 306 N Aurora St, Ithaca | The Burns and Kristy Band celebrate the holidays with a concert. For more information, visit burnsandkristy.com/calendar. Javier Nero and Matt Wilson:Tesseract | 8:15 PM-10:15 PM, Friday, December 8, 17 | Ford Hall, James J. Whalen Center for Music, Ithaca College, 953 Danby Road, Ithaca | The David P. â€™60 and Susan W. Wohlhueter Jazz Composition Contest Presents the Ithaca College Jazz Ensemble with special guest drummer Matt Wilson and the winning composition Tesseract by Javier Nero.

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VOICES Multicultural Chorus: Many Homes, One Voice | 4:00 PM-6:00 PM, Saturday, December 9, 17 | First Baptist Church, 309 North Aurora Street, Ithaca | VOICES

Multicultural Chorus welcomes the holiday season with music of love, peace, hope and healing as they share The Spirit of Home: Many Homes, One Voice. Featuring texts by Mother Teresa and John Lennon, with music in Hindi to Hebrew. Music for the Ages Gala | 7:00 PM-10:00 PM, Saturday, December 9, 17 | Coltivare, 235 S. Cayuga Street, Ithaca | The event will feature musician and performer Samite Mulondo along with author, Dr. Bill Thomas, international authority on geriatric medicine and eldercare. Ageless Jazz Band, Cookie Coogan: Holiday Swing Dance | 7:00 PM, Saturday, December 9, 17 | Community School Of Music And Arts, 330 E State St, Ithaca | The Ageless Jazz Band is Ithaca’s very own big band, featuring 18 musicians with a full brass section and a repertoire that ranges from classic swing to Latin jazz. There will be an introductory swing dance lesson at 7 p.m.; the dance begins at 8 p.m. and goes until 11 pm. The Mostly Motown Chorus | 8:00 PM, Saturday, December 9, 17 | First Unitarian Church Ithaca, 306 N Aurora St, Ithaca | The Mostly Motown Chorus will feature tunes by Martha and the Vandellas, The Temptations, Marvin Gaye, The Marvelettes, The Crystals, Wilson Pickett,

Darlene Love and more.

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Trumansburg Community Chorus: Winter Concert | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM, Sunday, December 10, 17 | First Presbyterian Church of Ulysses, 69 E Main St., Trumansburg | The Trumansburg Community Chorus puts on a winter concert. Cornell Concerto Competition | 8:00 PM-10:00 PM, Sunday, December 10, 17 | Barnes Hall, Cornell, Ithaca | Finals of the Cornell Concerto Competition.

Film Your Name | 7:30 PM-9:30 PM, Wednesday, December 6, 17 | Willard Straight Theatre, Cornell, Ithaca | High school students Taki and Mitsuha â€”one, a boy in Tokyo, the other, a girl in the countryside wake up after a meteor shower and discover they have switched bodies, creating a mysterious but strong connection between them. Stalag 17 | 7:00 PM-9:30 PM, Thursday, December 7, 17 | Boathouse Beer Garden, 6128 State Route 89, Romulus | When two escaping American World War II prisoners are killed, the German POW camp barracks black marketeer, J.J.

Sefton, is suspected of being an informer. Movie starts at 7 p.m. with trivia for prizes during intermission. All Governments Lie screening and Q&A Session | 7:00 PM, Thursday, December 7, 17 | Cinemapolis, 120 E. Green St, Ithaca | Park Center for Independent Media showing of All Governments Lie, a documentary celebrating independent journalists who have exposed U.S. government deception, featuring a Q&A with the film’s co-producer, Park Center director Jeff Cohen. The Big Sick | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM, Friday, December 8, 17 | Willard Straight Theatre, Cornell, Ithaca |This romantic comedy stars Nanjiani as a Pakistani-American stand-up comedian who falls for someone against his parents’ wishes, and must deal with the cultural clash when she falls ill. Cinemapolis

Friday, 12/08 to Thursday, 12/14. Contact Cinemapolis for Showtimes and for Fantastik Film Screening times The Square |The Square is a poignant satirical drama reflecting our times - about the sense of community, moral courage and the affluent person’s need for egocen-

tricity in an increasingly uncertain world. | 142 mins R BPM (Beats Per Minute) | 120 BPM. The average heart rate. The protagonists of 120 battements par minute are passionate about fighting the indifference that exists toward AIDS. | 140 mins Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri | A mother personally challenges the local authorities to solve her daughter’s murder when they fail to catch the culprit. | 115 mins R Lady Bird | The adventures of a young woman living in Northern California for a year. | 93 mins R | The Florida Project | Set over one summer, the film follows precocious 6-year-old Moonee as she courts mischief and adventure with her ragtag playmates and bonds with her rebellious but caring mother, all while living in the shadows of Disney World. | 111 mins R Loving Vincent | In a story depicted in oil painted animation, a young man comes to the last hometown of painter Vincent van Gogh to deliver the troubled artist’s final letter and ends up investigating his final days there. | 94 mins PG-13 Regal Ithaca

Wednesday, 12/06 , to Tuesday, 12/12. Contact Regal Ithaca for Showtimes My Friend Dahmer | A young Jeffrey Dahmer struggles to belong in high school. | 107 mins R Daddy’s Home 2 | Having finally gotten used to each other’s existence, Brad and Dusty must now deal with their intrusive fathers during the holidays. | 100 mins PG-13 Coco | Aspiring musician Miguel, confronted with his family’s ancestral ban on music, enters the Land of the Dead to work out the mystery. | 109 mins PG Roman J. Israel, Esq. | Denzel Washington stars as Roman Israel, a driven, idealistic defense attorney who, through a tumultuous series of events, finds himself in a crisis that leads to extreme action.| 129 mins PG-13 Thor Ragnarok | Imprisoned, the m i g h t y Thor finds himself in a

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Open Mic @ Kilpatricks Publick House | 9:00 PM-11:55 PM, Wednesday, December 6, 17 | Kilpatricks Publick House, 130 E Seneca St, Ithaca, NY 14850, Ithaca | Songwriter, Instrumentalists, Poets, Storytellers, Comedians, Magicians, Creators alike. Every Brilliant Thing | Thursday, December 7, 17 | Kitchen Theatre, 417 W State St, Ithaca | In Every Brilliant Thing, a young boy attempts to ease his mother’s depression by creating a list of everything worth living for. Comedy Night | 7:00 PM, Thursday, December 7, 17 | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | (Improv,

‘Nutcracker,’ with the Finger Lakes Symphony ORchestra

Campus Center, Ithaca College Tuesday, Dec. 12, 6-9 p.m.

The State Theatre of Ithaca Friday, Dec. 8, through Sunday, Dec. 10, at 3 p.m. and 7 p.m.

The Chabad of Ithaca College celebrates the beginning of Hanukkah with something new this year: a giant ice menorah on campus. The event will feature Jewish cuisine (such as latkes and donuts) and a dance party underneath the flames of the menorah. (Photo provided)

The Ithaca Ballet takes part in a Christmas tradition. They’ll be performing the Nutracker with the Finger Lakes Symphony Orchestra providing a live score. Take a journey with Clara as she weaves through her Christmas journey. (Photo provided)

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lethal gladiatorial contest against the Hulk, his former ally. Thor must fight for survival and race against time to prevent the all-powerful Hela from destroying his home and the Asgardian civilization.| 130 mins PG-13 Wonder | Based on the New York Times bestseller, WONDER tells the incredibly inspiring and heartwarming story of August Pullman, a boy with facial differences who enters fifth grade, attending a mainstream elementary school for the first time. | 113 mins PG Murder on the Orient Express | A lavish train ride unfolds into a stylish & suspenseful mystery. From the novel by Agatha Christie, Murder on the Orient Express tells of thirteen stranded strangers & one man’s race to solve the puzzle before the murderer strikes again. | 114 mins PG-13 A Bad Mom’s Christmas | A Bad Moms Christmas follows our three under-appreciated and over-burdened women as they rebel against the challenges and expectations of the Super Bowl for moms: Christmas. | 104 mins R Justice League| Fueled by his restored faith in humanity and inspired by Superman’s selfless act, Bruce Wayne enlists the help of his newfound ally, Diana Prince, to face an even greater enemy. | 121 mins PG-13 The Star | A small but brave donkey and his animal friends become the unsung heroes of the first Christmas. | 86 mins PG

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Stand up. Hosted by Comedy FLOPs) In the Red and Brown Water | 8:00 PM, Thursday, December 7, 17 | Clark Theatre, Ithaca College | Ithaca College Theatre production of In the Red and Brown Water, Tarell Alvin McCraney’s (Moonlight) drama about a young woman struggling to find herself while entering womanhood; 8 p.m. (Sunday showing at 8 p.m.). Drag Show with The House of Merlot | 9:00 PM, Thursday, December 7, 17 | The Range, 119 E State St, Ithaca | The bi-weekly drag show with The House of Merlot. The Snow Queen | 7:00 PM, Friday, December 8, 17 | The Cherry Artspace, 102 Cherry St, Ithaca | Adapted from the Hans Christian Andersen classic, The Snow Queen tells the story of Greta, a brave young girl on a mission to rescue her best friend Kai from the clutches of the evil Queen. The Nutcracker | 7:30 PM, Friday, December 8, 17 | State Theatre Of Ithaca, 107 W State St, Ithaca | Magical toys, dancing snowflakes and belly dancers, and visions of sugarplums dancing on the stage. From Dec. 8-10, with the Friday performance at 7:30 p.m., and Saturday performances at 3 p.m. Sugar and Spice- A Holiday Burlesque and Bowl with Whiskey Tango Sideshow | 10:30 PM-12:30 AM, Friday, December 8, 17 | Atlas Bowl, 61 W. Main St, Trumansburg | Atlas Bowl will host the Whiskey Tango Sideshow for a Christmas-themed show. Visions of sugar plums, naughty christmas carolers, mischievous elves and missus Claus herself will make a special appearance.

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Notices The 27th Annual Southern Cayuga Senior Citizen’s Luncheon and Concert | 12:15 PM, Wednesday, December 6, 17 | Southern Cayuga Junior Senior High School, 2384 NY-34B, Aurora | Concert will begin at 12:15 p.m. and luncheon to follow at 1:15 p.m. Skate n Shout | 2:00 PM-1:15 PM, Wednesday, December 6, 17 | J.M. McDonald Sports Complex, 4292 Fairgrounds Dr, Cortland | Salsa Night at Agava | 10:00 PM-1:00 AM, Wednesday, December 6, 17 | Agava, 381 Pine Tree Road, Ithaca | Join a dance crowd at Ithaca’s signature Latin

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dance party. Arrive early, 10pm, for introductory Salsa dance lesson and workshops. Women in Aviation International Meeting | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM, Thursday, December 7, 17 | East Hill Flying Club, 62 Brown Road, Ithaca | The presenter will be Morgan Hapeman, who will share her experiences working as an chemical engineer, air traffic controller, and 767 captain. After a career spent flying airplanes, Morgan has now devoted herself to helping injured birds fly again. 20th Anniversary Holiday Gift Shop | Friday, December 8, 17 | Earlville Opera House, 22 E Main St, Earlville | Come shop the best-selling artists of the past with the new and

exciting work of first-time participants. From Nov. 24 to Dec. 17. Beginner Bird Walks | 8:30 AM, Saturday, December 9, 17 | Cornell Lab of Ornithology, 159 Sapsucker Woods Rd, Ithaca | Guided bird walks every Saturday and Sunday morning, starting atÂ 8:30 a.m., sponsored by the Cayuga Bird Club. East Hill Classic Jazz Trio, Holiday Sale | 2:00 PM-4:00 PM, Saturday, December 9, 17 | History Center, 401 E State St, Ithaca | Douglas Robinson will play the guitar, London McDaniels will be on bass and Johnny Russo will be playing the recently tuned historic Duplex Ithaca Piano made by Ithaca Organ and Piano Co., ca. 1882. Along with a holiday sale. Benefit for Ithaca Rescue Mission

Little Red Wagon Artisan Market

The Space at Greenstar, Ithaca Saturday, Nov. 9, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Ithacan artisans will have the chance to showcase their works at the Little Red Wagon market, a pop-up this Saturday at the Space at Green Star in Ithaca’s West End. The market will feature pottery, jewelry, wine, food, art, clothing, body care and more. (Photo provided)

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| 7:00 PM-9:00 PM, Saturday, December 9, 17 | Barham Lashley, 23 Cinema Drive, Ithaca | A night of music provided by The Vinegar Creek Constituency Duo, Palonegro, Riverside Confession (Jared Ingraham), MI, The Hilltoppers and Joel Kircher. Rock n Skate | 8:00 PM-9:00 PM, Saturday, December 9, 17 | J.M. McDonald Sports Complex, 4292 Fairgrounds Dr, Cortland | Contra dance with The Groovemongers and Nancy Spero | 8:00 PM-11:00 PM, Saturday, December 9, 17 | Beverly J. Martin Elementary School, 302 W Buffalo St, Ithaca | Beginners’ workshop at 7:30, dance for all 8-11 p.m. Find out more at hands4dancers.org, or call 607.273.0249. Neighbors Nourishing Neighbors Fundraiser | 3:00 PM, Sunday, December 10, 17 | The Range, 119 E State St, Ithaca | Kevin Black Presents in association with The Range, Glacial Erotics, Perry City 5, Grey Wolf Jam, Immortal Jellyfish and Acoustic Rust will be part of Neighbors Helping Neighbors, a fundraiser for Loaves and Fishes of Tompkins County. Dryden Senior Citizens Lunch | 11:45 AM, Monday, December 11, 17 | Veterans of Foreign Wars, Route 13, Dryden | Lunch is served at 12:15 p.m. with announcements starting at 11:45 a.m. Table service will be provided. Holiday Shopping at the History Center | 11:00 AM-5:00 PM, Tuesday, December 12, 17 | History Center, 401 E State St, Ithaca | There will be a 15-60 percent off sale on over 40 titles of local history books, photographs, images, postcards, the Ithaca Kitty and our three dolls (Bessie Coleman, Harriet Tubman and Amelia Earhart).

Special Events Ithaca Garden Club: Innkeeper’s Holiday Gala | 3:00 PM-7:00 PM, Wednesday, December 6, 17 | John Joseph Inn, 813 Auburn Rd, Groton | Explore the appointed and seasonally decorated main building and rustic barn. Forty decorated wreaths will be for sale and there will be a raffle of special items. Winter Festival | Thursday, December 7, 17 | Downtown Ithaca, Center ithaca, Ithaca | The winter festivities

begin with Ithaca’s Winter Festival, enchanting Downtown. Ithaca Ice Festival | Thursday, December 7, 17 | Downtown Ithaca, Center ithaca, Ithaca | Witness the nation’s ice carvers as they compete during 3 rounds of breathtaking competition in Downtown Ithaca. The Dorothy Cotton Institute 2017 Annual Gala and Dinner Celebrating International Human Rights Day | 6:00 PM-9:30 PM, Thursday, December 7, 17 | The Statler Hotel At Cornell University, 130 Statler Dr, Ithaca | Featuring guest speakerÂ Reverend Carolyn McKinstry. Winter Festival | Friday, December 8, 17 | Downtown Ithaca, Center ithaca, Ithaca | The winter festivities begin with Ithaca’s Winter Festival. Family Nite Out | 6:00 PM-9:00 PM, Friday, December 8, 17 | Enfield Valley Grange, 178 Enfield Main Road, Ithaca | Have a spaghetti dinner with family, friends and neighbors at the old-fashioned Enfield Valley Grange dining hall. Then head upstairs for an evening of entertainment with Kenneth McLaurin Comedian and musical performances by, singer Singtrece, and musician Joe Gibson. Downtown Ithaca Chowder Festival | Saturday, December 9, 17 | Downtown Ithaca, Center ithaca, Ithaca | Sample chowders from your favorite local spots. Model Train Fun for All Ages | 10:00 AM-3:00 PM, Saturday, December 9, 17 | CNY Living History Center, 4386 US Route 11, Cortland | This special event features model trains, including The Polar Express and Elf on the Shelf. Habitat for Humanity 6th Annual Cookie Walk | 11:00 AM-2:00 PM, Saturday, December 9, 17 | Downtown Ithaca, Center ithaca, Ithaca | Over 100 varieties of homemade holiday cookies to purchase by the pound. Pre-orders taken at: info@tchabitat. com or 844-3529. 21st Annual Santa Seneca Fundraiser | 12:00 PM, Saturday, December 9, 17 | Grist Iron Brewing, 4880 NY-414, Burdett | 50/50 Raffle, silent and live Auctions and live music by StratcatWillie Hayes and The Seneca Santa Blues Band. Music for the Ages Gala | 7:00 PM-10:00 PM, Saturday, December 9, 17 | Coltivare, 235 S Cayuga St, Ithaca | Will feature musician and performer Samite Mulondo along with author, Dr. Bill Thomas, international

Diet Cig, Teen Cat, Lazy Bones The Haunt, Ithaca Friday, Dec. 8, 8-11 p.m.

Diet Cig comes to The Haunt, and they say they’re ready to “tear you away from the soul-sucking sanctity of your dumpster-fire life and replace it with pop-blessed punk jams about navigating the impending doom of adulthood when all you want is to have ice cream on your birthday.” Joining Diet Cig at the venue will be Teen Cat and Lazy Bones. (Photo provided)

authority on geriatric medicine and eldercare. Laugh and Sip, Chowder Festival Comedy | 9:00 PM-11:00 PM, Saturday, December 9, 17 | Wine & Design , 124 S Cayuga St, Ithaca | After a cold day of chowder, have a warm evening of drinks and laughter. Hanukkah Festival and Book Fair | 9:00 AM-3:00 PM, Sunday, December 10, 17 | Temple Beth-El, 402 N Tioga St, Ithaca | An indoor market with traditional potato latkes and other Jewish cuisine. The main attractions are a day long holiday crafts fair and Jewish book fair. For further information contact Temple Beth El at 273-5775, 257-9924, or look for our schedule on the web: www.tbeithaca. org. Chanukah Bash | 6:00 PM-9:00 PM, Tuesday, December 12, 17 | Campus Center (Clark Lounge) at Ithaca College, 953 Danby Road, Ithaca | Join the Jewish community at Ithaca College as it makes history. On the first night of Chanukah, they will be lighting a 6-foot tall ICE MENORAH on campus, and then partying in front of the flames.

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by Christie Citranglo

ocal writer, essayist and independent scholar Ron Drummond will be reading from his newest book, The Frequency of Liberation, at Buffalo Street Books this Thursday at 5:30 p.m. Over the course of 37 years, Drummond has published short stories, essays, criticisms — nearly every genre of writing. There’s plenty of his content to digest, and it can be a bit overwhelming to figure out where to begin. For the first time in his career as a writer (which has included writing at least one piece for The Ithaca Times, as well as some ambitious work as a self-described “independent scholar”),

Drummond has published a collection of his works, totalling around 100,000 words of content, titled The Frequency of Liberation. Within the collection, Drummond put together essays, short stories, letters and dream narratives it an “unsegregated gathering,” he wrote of his collection. Each piece flows from one to the next, generating a “a landscape of cross-talk and echoes.” The works he chose encompass his personal best pieces, and what he calls the best 5 percent of the two million words he’s written in his career. The collection tackles many riddles about life and the human condition as a whole, highlighting different patterns the universe has presented to us. Many of the writings call the readers to action, informing them of issues within the world they need to wake up to — many things that need to be recognized before it’s too late. The book is not yet officially published, and Ithacans will have the chance to get a preview of what Drummond chose to include. Learn and understand the universe with Drummond as he tries to make sense of it.

Learning Finding Flow: Dance and Somatics Class | 11:00 AM-1:00 PM, Wednesday, December 6, 17 | Fine Spirit Studio, 201 Dey Street, Ithaca | Delve into the many dimensions of fluid physicality. To register please send your $50 deposit: Cynthia Stevens, 226 Valley Road, Ithaca, NY 14850, FFI: info@insitudance.org. Holiday Cocktial Class at Mirbeau Inn & Spa | 6:00 PM-7:00 PM, Wednesday, December 6, 17 | Mirbeau Inn & Spa, 851 W Genesee Street Rd, Skaneateles | Brush up on your mixology skills with a Holiday Cocktails Class. RSVP by calling 877.647.2328. Library Lecture: The Bird Cam Project | 5:30 PM-6:30 PM, Thursday, December 7, 17 | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Charles Eldermire of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology joins us at Tompkins County Public Library for a presentation on the Bird Cam Project. Alpacas and their Fiber with Barb Sodums of Shepherds Creek Alpacas | 3:00 PM-4:00 PM, Saturday, December 9, 17 | SewGreen Ithaca, 112 N. Cayuga Street, Ithaca

| Barbara Sodums is the farmer behind Shepherds Creek Alpaca’s in Trumansburg. With 15 years of experience raising Alpaca’s for fun and fiber, she is full of knowledge Beginner Belly Dance | 7:00 PM-8:00 PM, Monday, December 11, 17 | Finger Lakes Fitness Center Incorporated, 171 E State St Ste 115, Ithaca | Experience the fun and expressive art of belly dance. All are welcome and no experience is necessary.

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Food Addicts in Recovery Anonymous Weekly Meeting | 8:00 AM-9:30 AM, Saturday, December 9, 17 | Just Be Cause Center, 1013 W. State Street, Ithaca | Twelve-step recovery program for those who can’t control their eating. No dues, fees, or weigh-ins. Long-term help for overeaters, undereaters and bulimics. Sacred Sunday Community at Yoga Farm | 9:00 AM-11:15 AM, Sunday, December 10, 17 | Yoga Farm, 404 Conlon Rd, Lansing | Sacred Sundays Community at

Yoga Farm.Â All are Welcome.Discover Your Self & Awaken Your Kindest HumanityPray. Move. Sit. Connect. Winter Yoga on Seneca | 10:30 AM-11:30 AM, Sunday, December 10, 17 | Grist Iron Brewing, 4880 NY-414, Burdett | Brewery yoga combines both beer and yoga. The class is for all levels and all ages, though must be 21 or older to consume. Open Meditation | 10:30 AM-12:00 PM, Sunday, December 10, 17 | Foundation of Light, 391 Turkey Hill Road, Ithaca | All are welcome to meditate according to their own practice. Ithaca Bipolar Support Group Meeting | 7:00 PM-8:30 PM, Tuesday, December 12, 17 | Lifelong, 119 West Court St., Ithaca | The group is peer-run without supervision by any medical expert. We share knowledge and experience in an attempt to help each other deal with the issues of bipolar disorder including medications, life management, therapy and anything else that might help us to live more successfully.

Art Seventh December Juried Show | Friday, December 8, 17 | State Of The Art, 120 W State St Ste 2, Ithaca | More than 60 artists from the area will display paintings, drawings, mosaic, prints, sculpture and digital work. Show dates: November 29-December 30, 2017, with a reception and awards ceremony Friday, December 1, 5-8pm. Leanora Mims | Friday, December 8, 17 | New Roots Charter School, 116 N Cayuga St, Ithaca | Leanora Mims’ pieces depict African-American history and the black experience in the present day. Lines of Inquiry: Learning from Rembrandt’s Etchings | Saturday, December 9, 17 | Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell, Ithaca | More than 60 impressions from across Rembrandt’s oeuvre will show the artist’s process, including how he made changes to his plates and detail his use of a variety of printing supports. The Little Red Wagon Artisan Market | 10:00 AM-5:00 PM, Saturday, December 9, 17 | The

Space at GreenStar, 700 W Buffalo St, Ithaca | Pottery, jewelry, wine & food, art, clothing, body care and more. For more information, visit littleredwagonartisans.com. RumZVision Presents: Harrison Rumsey’s Photo Print Debut at MotE | 1:00 PM-3:30 PM, Sunday, December 10, 17 | Museum Of The Earth, 1259 Trumansburg Rd, Ithaca | Join local photographer Harrison Rumsey at the Museum of the Earth to view framed prints and other select photos available for purchase. Something to hold on to | Monday, December 11, 17 | Community School Of Music And Arts, 330 E State St, Ithaca | Featuring submitted work from local artists. The Many Names of Fall Creek | Monday, December 11, 17 | History Center, 401 E State St, Ithaca | The exhibit traces the path of Fall Creek from Groton City to Cayuga Lake, pausing at its small towns and tucked-away places to explore more than 200 years of Tompkins County history through photographs and maps. Each place name tells a story of the people who have shaped

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Downtown Ithaca Ice Festival

First Unitarian Church, Ithaca Saturday, Dec. 9, 8 p.m.

Downtown Ithaca Thursday, Dec. 7, to Saturday, Dec. 9

The Mostly Motown Chorus will feature tunes by Martha and the Vandellas, The Temptations, Marvin Gaye, The Marvelettes, The Crystals, Wilson Pickett, Darlene Love and more. Take a trip back to an era of funky jams and foot-tapping tunes.

The annual Downtown Ithaca Ice Festival continues again this year beginning Thursday, Dec. 7. Come see master artisans compete with their ice sculptures, while also featuring an ice bar and various chowders from local restaurants in town. Celebrate the cold while taking part in wintery activities. (Photo: Chris Harrington)

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