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Ithaca Police Well Regarded in D.C.

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thaca police chief John Barber visited Washington, D.C. on July 6 to attend a briefing on the President’s Task Force on 21st Century Policing.

The task force, a White House initiative, released a report in May 2015 outlining six overarching “pillars” or principles that police departments should apply to their policies and practices.

“Even before this report came out, a lot of the recommendations we had already implemented,” Barber said. “Building trust and legitimacy, for example, is about nurturing relationships between law enforcement agencies and the people we serve. The police explorer post, coffee with the mayor and police chief, and our second barbecue this coming Saturday are ways we’ve done that.”

IPD will be hosting its second community barbecue Saturday, July 16, from noon to 3 p.m. at the Southside Community Center. That idea, gleaned from one of Barber’s monthly meetings with community members, was an idea he shared in D.C. with the approximately 40 law enforcement officers in attendance during breakout sessions held throughout the day.

Other pillars of the 21st century task force recommendations include policy and oversight; the use of technology and social media; training and education; community policing and crime reduction; and officer wellness and safety.

After Barber has filled seven funded vacancies in the IPD, he plans on fully staffing the community action team. Those officers, the chief said, will have more flexibility in their schedules to “do proactive things that build relationships.” Community policing, in general, is about “getting to know the people you serve,” Barber said.

IPD brought in extra officers on Friday, July 8, during the Black Lives Matter rally and march from Southside Community Center to the Commons.

“We’re held to a higher standard.

Some of this stuff is very hurtful that we’re hearing,” Barber said. “Some of it is doing more to divide us than it is to unite us. We’re here to serve this community with the utmost of professionalism. That’s exactly what you’ll see with my officers. I’m extremely proud of officers who continue to put on the badge and uniform and serve this city so honorably, especially given the current climate where in many regards continued on page 7

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Congo Street Market continued on, with vendors selling their wares. Speakers took their turn on the microphone, then the megaphone when splotchy rain caused the PA system to be shuttled inside.

In a statement she read stating Black Lives Matter’s political philosophy, Enongo Lumumba-Kasongo said that the movement does not intend to “reproduce the black liberation movement” of the 1960s and its tendency to give men the “most power at the expense of everyone else.”

“LGBT does not equate with white— Black Lives Matter is a movement founded by queer black women,” LumumbaKasongo said. “Black Lives Matter argues

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undreds of people gathered at the Southside Community Center and then marched to the Commons on the afternoon of Friday, July 8, in reaction to the nationally publicized deaths of two black men killed by police officers earlier in the week.

Alton Sterling, 37, was shot and killed by Baton Rouge, Louisiana police on July 5 outside a convenience store; Philando Castile, 32, was shot four times during a traffic stop in Falcon Heights, Minnesota on July 7. Portions of both incidents were captured on videos that made national news.

“A man was lynched: we demand justice for Alton Sterling and Philando Castile” read the header on the Facebook event posted by Black Lives Matter—Ithaca.

Black Lives Matter march last Friday (Photo: Josh Brokaw) “It’s a doggone shame that it takes an incident like this to bring black, white, Asian, all of us black people cannot be free until every together,” said Rev. Olivia Armstrong, one person is free. Systems of oppression are of the first speakers at Southside. “We need all connected.” to bury all the hatred, all the negativity, Dubian Ade said that there have all the ‘You’re black, you’re white, you’re been five police-involved shootings “since ugly, you’re this and you’re that. We should January alone” that have gone without an thank grace we’re still here and still able to indictment. walk.”

“We must bring this system down,” About 300 people were gathered in Ade said. “No more reforms, no more the Southside Community Center’s park at waiting till tomorrow … no more empty 5 p.m., with the crowd growing before the statements by public servants, like Mayor march started about a half hour later up to Svante, who said we shouldn’t fear public State Street and then east to the Commons’ Bernie Milton Pavilion. Children romped continued on page 5 over the playground and the weekly

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▶ Looking Closely, Red-backed salamanders, crayfish, dragonfly larvae, tadpoles, and crane flies are some of the species observed on the new Belle Sherman Elementary School Nature Trail. Third-graders recorded their observations last month as part of a four-week field study funded by an Ithaca Public Education Initiative (IPEI) Red and Gold Grant.

Belle Sherman teacher Monica Lang collaborated with Laurie Rubin, retired teacher and local author of “To Look Closely—Science and Literacy in the Natural World,” to create a series of journaling lessons corresponding with

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the field, forest, meadow and creek areas of the trail. Through drawing, poetry, informational writing and personal narratives, students documented their observations and insights.

“Children’s natural sense of wonder comes alive in nature,” Lang said. “Their sense of curiosity, exploration, and imagination become ignited as they hear, see, smell, and touch things that are alive and growing in the natural world.”“Journaling in nature promotes patience and a quiet watchfulness. It cultivates an appreciation and respect for all living things. It can also serve to bond a classroom community together.”

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By Er ic a D i schino How do you beat the summer heat?

A “I got to the gorges: First Dam, Second Dam, Third Dam. All of them.”

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“Evening walks when it starts to get cooler.

Appreciating that part of the day makes it not nearly as unbearable.”

—Hadar Sachs

“Swimming at Taughannock..”

—Jesse Staffeld

“Staying in the shade.”

—Luke Santana

“I don’t go out.” ­—Ray Muckey

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Ironically, the new membrane filters at the still-under-construction water treatment plant may also be contributing to the discoloration.

“The cleaner the water, the more corrosive the water,” Whitney said. “You take deionized water, that you use for washing glassware, it wants to suck up ions. You deionize it, it makes it more aggressive; you put deionized water in an iron pipe, you have iron saturation really quick.”

The city’s water treatment plant operators are working on balancing how much corrosion inhibitor, a polyphosphate, should be in the blend. The contractor working on the new city water treatment plant was instructed to install a treatment injector earlier than scheduled at the entrance to the water intake in the city’s reservoir on Six Mile Creek.

“That’s 9,000 feet, 2.4 hours of contact time for a quarter million gallons,” Whitney told BPW. “By the time [water]

fter about June 30 red, yellow, or brown water was reported by many to be coming out of taps in the city of Ithaca.

Erik Whitney, assistant superintendent of water and sewer, reported at the July 11 board of public works meeting that the water and sewer department fielded at least 400 phone calls about discolored water during the week of July 4. On that Monday, he said, the department had received about 20 calls.

On July 5, the city put out a press release explaining that the “yellowish, reddish or brownish color comes from the rust which accumulates inside the iron water mains.

While this is not a health issue, it is unappealing and can also stain laundry.”

The causes of the discoloration are “sort of like the perfect storm,” Whitney said. “It’s a combination of old pipes, more [water,] warm water, and the balancing act at the new plant.”

“People are watering and using more water in the heat,” Whitney said. “We’re up a few hundred gallons a minute on Bleeding iron-stained water out of fire hydrants. (Photo: Diane Duthie) our average daily consumption and in peak hours we’re probably up 1,000 makes it to the plant it should have a gallons a minute.” lot lower levels of iron, manganese, and The city water system, on average, dissolved organics.” puts out about three million gallons a day; Whitney estimated that it would take Whitney estimated that current demand is until early in the week of July 18 for the at least a half million gallons more, if not a city system to reach a “steady state.” Two full million gallons per day more. more filtration membranes are scheduled City crews were flushing hydrants to go online in August, to complete all week, working from the center of the complement of four; the city water downtown to the periphery of the city treatment plant is scheduled to be finished system. Residents were advised to run in December, at which time it will be their taps on cold to help clear out the treating all city water. Right now, Bolton discolored water.

Point is supplying about a million gallons The increased water flows are one a day to the city system. • reason why water picks up iron on its way to your tap. Another is the increased An earlier version of this story temperature of the water, due to hot air appeared on July 6 at ithaca.com with the temperatures and low creek flow. More headline “Brown & Yellow City Water From groundwater is also in the mix, Whitney Iron Pipes.” told BPW, and areas in the city watershed tend to have high levels of iron and – Josh Brokaw manganese—confirmed by lab results the reporter@ithacatimes.com city received this week.

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county-wide DWI (driving while intoxicated) court, county-wide youth court, and LEAD—(law enforcement assisted diversion) to steer non-violent drug offenders toward treatment instead of jail—are the major recommendations by the Municipal Courts Task Force. The task force, created last year by the Tompkins County Council of Governments (TCCOG), addressed the question of whether consolidating the local justice courts would produce fairer outcomes for defendants; while some wondered whether court consolidation could also save the municipalities money, that was not the thrust of their research.

The task force met for what it hoped to be its last meeting on Thursday, July 7.

Attorney Ray Schlather, chair of the task force, presented the final draft of their report. “Every time I sit down to look at this thing, I realize how much more it could be; it could be twice as long and more amply supported,” said Schlather.

That being said, “I believe it captured the essence of the group’s conclusions.”

The task force, over the course of the past year, held public meetings and informational sessions that examined many aspects of changing the justice courts, the lowest level of the judiciary in the state. New York State’s justice courts are presided over by local people, not necessarily trained in the law, elected by their fellow citizens. As the report notes, although there have been periodic moves to reform or consolidate the justice courts over the last 300 years, few have even reached the state legislature. “New Yorkers consistently have rejected broad structural changes to their justice courts.”

Ulysses town justice Thomas Schlee spoke up for this point of view: “I’m not hearing the system is broken from the people who count,” he said.

“The consumers of our service are the defendants, and if you ask them, I’m not hearing complaints. I think they feel like they’ve been listened to.”

The task force’s main recommendation was the establishment of a county-wide DWI court. In 2015 Tompkins County Court created a felony DWI part, where all felony DWIs are presided over by a single county court judge. Ithaca City Court has a DWI part for both felony and misdemeanor level DWIs, which adjudicates about one third of all DWIs in the county. The other two thirds are mostly heard in the 18 town and village justice courts: “This can and often does lead to noticeably uneven continued on page 13

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he Maguire Family Group still plans to build a new car dealership in the Carpenter Business Park, along Route 13 near the Ithaca Farmers’ Market between Third and Fifth streets.

When the Maguires bring their project back before a city council committee—likely in August—they will be able to say that they have an open line of communication with the Ithaca Community gardeners.

The governing board of Project Growing Hope (PGH), the parent organization of the Ithaca Community Gardens (ICG), agreed in June that it would negotiate with Maguire on a land swap to keep the gardens in that area and not oppose the proposed dealership project.

The ICG is located in between two parcels that Maguire bought last year to build a Ford Lincoln Nissan dealership [see “New Maguire Dealership on the Waterfront?” at ithaca.com (Feb. 4) for the introductory story on this plan].

“What was signed was a letter of intent to entertain negotiations with Maguire should they be able to move forward with their site plan,” said Ronda Porras, a PGH board member. “That letter of intent is non-binding on the gardens. Nothing is finalized, nothing is written in stone.”

Not all community gardeners were happy with the decision. Michael Smith, who has gardened at ICG since 2005, wrote in a June 22 letter to the Ithaca Times that the PGH board had “essentially ratified car culture.”

“In terms of a straight up and down [vote], clearly the majority were for not making arrangements,” Smith said of a survey conducted of ICG gardeners. “There were a number who were new who didn’t

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servants.”

Mayor Svante Myrick posted a Facebook response to the killing of five Dallas police officers on July 7.

“We should not fear public servants, and good police officers should not have to face the fear generated by the actions of bad ones,” Myrick wrote, then listed a number of changes made in the last two years for the Ithaca Police Department, including body cameras.

Police are “chess pieces in a racist system,” Ade said at Southside. “We must put violence back on the table. We must put self-defense on the table. We do not endorse these killings … We do affirm that [Black people] have been killed by violence from the state and federal level.

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“It’s a difficult decision if you have to consider how one might feel about whether or not they might support a car dealership going in that location,” Porras said. “Many of our board members might have had a need to step back from that because we’re there to act as the board of community gardens, not what our personal opinions may be regarding city development.”

The PGH board has approached the city “multiple times to see if there was another option,” Porras said, “and the city was not encouraging in any way.”

“They envision Phil Maguire of the Maguire Family Group (Photo: Diane Duthie) Carpenter Business Park will be developed, and the gardens are at risk,” Porras continued. “As a board feel like they had enough information to member you have to weigh that, and it make a decision.” was not an easy decision, I don’t think, for Smith said that he is in favor of anyone on the board.” looking at some “more concrete proposals A 2012 Cornell Cooperative Extension for alternatives to developing that space, study found that there was no suitable which are hopefully in line with the city’s alternative site within the city to house a waterfront development plan. It’s hard to community garden at the scale of ICG’s imagine a car dealership would be in line current operations. with the waterfront development plan.” “[The PGH board] wants to preserve Porras said that the survey results, in the garden and feels it’s the best way to her recollection, did not include the seven do this,” Smith said. “I guess some of us PGH board members; she did not have don’t feel quite as skeptical of the city and hard numbers available on survey results, hope government would work the way it’s but she estimated there was a 10 to 20 supposed to. Some feel like the city isn’t percent return rate. going to just throw us under the bus at the “Obviously some gardeners agree, first opportunity.” some gardeners don’t agree, some may feel The Maguire proposal includes there’s a third option,” Porras said. “I, for relocating a portion of the garden to land one, personally think it’d be nice to see a now owned by Maguire, in “exchange third option, but that hasn’t been presented for a substantial cash donation to PGH as of yet.” intended to allow PGH to purchase its site Currently, PGH holds a 20-year lease with the city negotiated in 2013, but the city holds a no-cause termination clause that continued on page 7 requires only a year’s notice. any means necessary.”

Cornell history professor Russell Rickford then took the megaphone and told the crowd “We can’t be paralyzed by uselessness.”

“We’d all love to be spending this beautiful summer day somewhere else with our families in peace,” Rickford said.

“But it’s been a long time since we’ve been in peace.”

“We’re not up against no rogue cop, not just up against police brutality,” Rickford said. “We’re up against a system set up to extinguish black and brown lives.”

The police work in service of the “white supremacy capitalist patriarchy,” Rickford said, a system in which “a tiny minority of people control all the world’s resources.”

“There’s a sliver of white America that hates white supremacy and hates

▶ 2nd Annual Community Police Barbecue, On July 16 from noon to 3 p.m. please come to the Southside Community Center at 305 South Plain Street for the second annual Community IPD BBQ! Food, Drinks, and all kinds of activities including facepainting and bouncehouses will be free and door prizes )will be given away. This is a great opportunity to spend quality tme with community leaders and IPD Police officers!

If you care to respond to something in this column, or publish your own grievances or plaudits, e-mail editor@ithacatimes.com, with a subject head “Ups & Downs.”

Heard&Seen ▶ Sigler and the Constitution, “But before I vote for [the ban the box bill], I just thought it an interesting point to bring up that here we are trying to ban the box for people who are being barred from employment, basically, to an extent, for people we know have committed a crime, and yet in that same space I know a lot of people who speak about withdrawing rights from people who haven’t been convicted of any crime.” ▶ Top Stories on the Ithaca Times website for the week of July 6-12 include: 1) Tears and Cheers at SVE Graduation 2) WWOOFing: It’s all kinds of work 3) Falcons Look Back on Outstanding Senior Year 4) South Seneca’s Lavarnway Wins Another State Title 5) Tompkins County Approves ‘Ban the Box’ For these stories and more, visit our website at www.ithaca.com.

capitalism,” Rickford said, “those are the folks who you gotta organize with even if they lack the vocabulary. You have gotta organize with radical trans people—I say radical trans people because there’s bourgie trans people, too. It’s not going to happen at the ballot box—to hell with the Republican Party. And to hell with the god-damned Democratic Party. Hillary Clinton is a corporate lapdog and a puppet for the warfaring elite.”

Lumumba-Kasongo, a.k.a as rapper Sammus, concluded the Southside portion of the rally with an a-capella rap. The selfcensored hook went about like this: “They don’t give a f*** about us. If she’s brown, gun her down, now what … I tend to round up three-fifths to a whole.” •

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The Wrong Park “Improvement” The Joys of Traveling T S here has been a dust-up between Carl Mazzocone, the new owner of Taughannock Farms Inn, and the people who live in the vicinity of Taughannock Falls State Park over “improvements” that Mazzocone innocently expected local residents to love. Mazzocone, in an attempt to increase the numbers through the front door at the Victorian inn, wishes to tie it more closely to the adjacent state park.

To that end, paths and stairs between the inn and the gorge trailhead have been proposed and a renovation of the inn and its grounds is underway.

But what riled the local residents in a meeting that Mazzocone called a week and a half ago were plans for a large dock next to the swimming beach in the park, a shuttle service from the dock to the inn, and other amenities they considered to be in bad taste. These changes would constitute a public/ private partnership between Mazzocone and the state, and regional parks director Fred Bonn is waiting for a real plan. As you can see from the letter to the editor at the bottom of this page, several local residents do not share Mazzocone’s enthusiasm or perspective.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo is fond of trumpeting his support for the state parks system. A document called “NY Parks 2020: A 7-Point Vision for Transforming NYS Parks” begins:

his tenure. From the outset of his administration in 2011, Governor Cuomo has reversed the trend of deteriorating parks, making a multiyear commitment of funding to advance hundreds of capital design and construction projects. By 2020, NY Parks will leverage private philanthropy and other public dollars to yield a $900 million investment in State Parks.

During the George Pataki administration (1995 to 2007) several parks were added to the system and the governor himself was hailed as the greatest supporter of the parks since Theodore Roosevelt (who was governor in 1899 and 1900), but he wasn’t able to convince the state legislature to fund the parks and their infrastructure declined.

Although Republicans are not thought of as environmentalist today, members of that party—notably Roosevelt—essentially invented the American conservation movement.

Pataki’s efforts were focused on environmental protection, while Cuomo’s efforts are focused on providing recreation opportunities. The spirit of Mazzocone’s approach is solidly that of Cuomo, but the Taughannock Falls area neighbors are much more in the mold of Roosevelt and Pataki.

Robert H. Treman, an older contemporary of Roosevelt, was also

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ummer is vacation time, which of course is lovely, but summer vacation is a convoluted thing in Ithaca.

Education is our major industry and it largely shuts down in July and August.

That’s a lot of vacation time, although for some people too much, practically constituting a layoff.

At the spectrum’s other end is agriculture, another big industry here, where workers have downtime in winter, but none while crops rise.

The workers at these extremes might not have to plan much, with either a surplus or a dearth of free time in summer, but most Ithacans have to strategize some when we want to leave town. The tag hung on Ithaca, “centrally isolated,” is true: we are far away from everywhere, especially vacation spots.

There are plenty of idyllic spots in the region for hiking, camping, or lake activities, but we have all that right here, so if that’s your idea of vacation, you can stay home.

What if you want something different, like glamor or excitement? New York City is close enough, but it is not a great summer destination, hot and humid. Toronto and Montreal are nicer, and about as close, but there’s a border to contend with, thus planning and paperwork.

Closer big cities include Syracuse, Rochester, Albany, and Scranton. Right.

Your call.

If you’re willing to go further afield, by air, Ithaca’s small size and remoteness weigh in. Our airport is pleasant, and convenient to get to, but not especially convenient in flight schedules and choices of destination.

The last trip I took from there was to Florida, and the scheduled trip was 10 hours, on three planes, with a very early start.

This spring my old grammar school classmates (not a typo) from Brooklyn were having a reunion. It was not in Brooklyn,

but in Massapequa, Long Island, where the woman organizing it lives. It was at a busy time for me and I told her I’d try to make it, but wasn’t sure.

“Try hard,” she said (in the mock heroic deadpan native to Brooklyn), pointing out that three people were flying in from Florida.

Yes, I said, but with Florida-to-New York City air schedules, they can probably leave later and arrive before me, driving from Ithaca. (Of course, it’s not Ithaca’s fault that driving time at the tail end of this trip, from the George Washington Bridge to Nassau County, can be two hours or more, but that’s an unavoidable part of the equation.)

The only practical solution is to make plans to enjoy, not just endure, the travel itself, no matter its duration.

I have friends who convene in Maine every summer, and I love to join them, but it’s 15 hours from Ithaca. Generally if I drive solo even half that long, I will arrive hoarse from singing. So it’s tough sledding.

One year I had the chance to make the trip with one of the gang who lives in Pittsburgh. His (Tom’s) wife couldn’t make it and rather than drive alone he wanted to come through Ithaca and travel together.

Great, I thought. I packed a bunch of music we could listen to and discuss (we both play). We’d be traveling on Sunday, so I’d bring the NY Times. There’d be ballgames on the radio, maybe day and nighttime both, between the Yankees, Mets, and Red Sox. As it turned out, for 15 hours we never stopped talking. No newspaper, no crossword puzzle, no napping, no music.

We never touched the dial on the radio.

The joys of traveling can be not just the big things, but the little things, too. Revel in both, and be prepared for the unexpected.

It’s why you’re traveling in the first place. •

YourOPINIONS

Dock Proposal Raises Concerns

The west shore of Cayuga Lake is 40 miles long and has only two public swimming beaches. One is located at Taughannock State Park and the other at the far northern end of the lake. We are writing in order to make people aware of a plan by Carl Mazzocone, the new owner of Taughannock Farms Inn, that would affect the swimming beach at Taughannock Park. He plans to install a floating dock adjacent to the swimming beach that would accommodate an indeterminate number of large motorboats.

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to a number of lakeshore residents and neighbors. Many of the attendees expressed alarm at the idea that a dock for larger boats would be placed in such close proximity to swimmers and kayakers.

Unfortunately, this proposal has not yet been presented to the general public.

Taughannock Falls State Park welcomes over half a million visitors a year, many of whom enjoy swimming at the beach, as well as kayaking and paddle boarding. Many children are also bussed in from area camps and schools in order to swim in the lake. continued on page 13

CommunityConnections

A Just (Be) Cause

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to Places, Audrey Baker’s marvelous Woods n spring 2012 as Jerry and Judy Dietz, were driving to Sloane Kettering Cancer Earth (now part of Youth Farm Project), IPEI, Ithaca Children’s Garden, to name a Center in New York City. Judy, who few stakeholders; the Just Be Cause Center had been living with ovarian cancer since being diagnosed in 2009, said, “We’ve made is the home for many not-for-profit projects Judy was involved in during her life. These it through a tough winter. It’s been so long since we’ve seen our old friends. Let’s have a groups create their own natural synergy, enlivened by the 115 plus other community party this summer.” During that drive Judy groups that have enjoyed available meeting and Jerry made plans for a party to be held and performance/practice space in Just Be on July 29, the day before Judy’s birthday.

Judy said, “I don’t want to tell people it’s my Cause. Monthly board meetings, dance classes (Zumba, tango), workshops, and birthday party. Let’s just say we’re having trainings unfold in these rooms. Members a party just because ...” They called Gregar of farmers markets sign up to use the Brous (of Ithaca Bakery) and he reserved health department-approved kitchen. 24/7 his Agava Restaurant resources. someone is working on something just “It was perfect!” Jerry said as he because it’s simpler now for community recounted the planning that took place members to meet, enjoy, and help each during the road trip. “Gregar, said there other. was already going to be a tent set up in the Each July, as part of the Just Be Cause parking lot for a wedding the day before; mission, Jerry and Gregar create yet and we were welcome to use it. We made a guest list and even arranged for The Destination to play dance music.”

Because of Judy’s involvement with Friendship Donations Network (FDN) before her death, Jerry and his family were determined to create a permanent home for that innovative program where neighbors gather healthy food that will be thrown away and distribute it to those who will otherwise go hungry. Despite the unremitting generosity of Wegman’s and its Ithaca store manager Gary Woloszyn for the last 23 years and the vision Programs for children at the Just Be Cause Center (Photo provided) and drive of the FDN founder Sara Pines, this remarkable volunteer organization was another night with food, music, dancing stymied by lack of a home. Jerry, who in the meadow under the stars to celebrate knows every mover and shaker in a 100and support the community. Judy and mile radius, put the word out on the street Jerry’s Just Because Party seamlessly that he was “looking for a building.” became the annual Just Be Cause Party, In January 2013 Stuart Lewis, then which each year also raises funds for a affiliated with Realty USA, called: “I’ve different, local community organization: found your building. I’ll pick you up.” Four Loaves and Fishes (2013), the Ithaca Health hours later Jerry was the owner 1013 West State Street, now renamed the Just Be Cause Alliance (2014), and Golden Opportunity (Marty Kaminsky’s after school counseling Center.

The newly formed FDN board (created program in local public schools; 2015).

This year Gadabout will be the focus. in large part by Judy Dietz) walked through This longtime essential program not only the former Ithaca Paint and Decorating squires the elderly to crucial medical building shortly after Jerry’s purchase. appointments, but lots of community FDN President Art Pierce, board member members who need a ride.

Linda Finlay, and FDN director Meaghan “Today Gadabout—formed in Sheehan loved the building. But Art told 1974—has a fleet of 30 accessible vehicles,” Jerry “We can’t use all this space.” As they said executive director Kristen Wells, walked through the site and the adjoining “travels over 500,000 miles and provides trailer, FDN claimed about 300-400 square over 60,000 trips annually. Our volunteer feet of the 5,100 square feet available. and staff drivers will take riders to shop, Jerry knew what Judy would do ... and volunteer, work, attend social gatherings, or the Just Be Cause Center was born. Now the home for FDN, plus neighbors Running to doctor’s appointments within Tompkins

County. Anyone age 60 or over, or that has a disability that interferes with their ability to use public transportation is eligible to use the service. If you are interested in volunteering or using our service please call 273-1878.”

Asked about this year’s ambitious plans for Sunday July 31 at 5 p.m., Jerry said, “It’s the easiest fundraiser I do all year. The wonderful folks at Agava do all the heavy lifting and really plan the party. We have them to thank for having the party all set, we just add the star.”• The July 31 event begins at 5 p.m.

Tickets may be purchased on-line by going to the Just Be Cause www.jbccenter.com

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ithaca com A reader took exception to some of the points made by guest opinion writer Joel Fredell in his July 6 submission “The Death of Collegetown”: The author uses a lot of drama, under the knife, thrown under the bus, monolith! Oh my! What he doesn't say is students are here and need more housing as well as "residents".

I have been a resident many years here and now am a graduate student. I see how the voice of students is routinely ignored.

Even if a student is moving to Collegetown or down in the flats somewhere and living there for two or three years, when they graduate/ move on when they leave another student is coming in and has many of the same concerns, the same needs.

The solar panels, since it was such a big point, were installed after the zoning law changed. Neil [Golder], and the solar installation company could have considered the fact their neighbor to the south was likely to develop that property.

I'm happy the city is finally beginning to slowly release the grip on illogical, not environmentally or public-transit supportive zoning law that is the residential parking requirements.

The author also doesn't acknowledge that the people living in these new spaces in Collegetown, i.e. closer to campus and places young people want to get to---many of those people live FARTHER away from where they would like to currently. Some live in places where it is just more convenient to have a car. If we make it very convenient for people in C-town to have cars, more will. YES some students have cars. But why encourage it? If you're concerned about the supply of parking and an already high demand, how about increasing the price of on-street parking slightly, or suggesting the city meters parking after 5 p.m., at times when restaurants could really use the parking space turnover?

It's great to see more housing built in Collegetown and places like Hancock Street with the INHS development. Our city will be a lot better for it.

– Daniel Keough

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there’s a lot of anti-police sentiment out there.”

Ron Davis, the White House’s director of community oriented-policing services, told the gathered law enforcement officers last week that they represent a “small number of police agencies with progressive leadership,” Barber said.

“That tells me folks in Washington are paying attention to what police departments across the nation are doing.

I do believe we are a very progressive agency. We’re always thinking outside the box trying to adopt new ideas to connect with our community and provide the best possible public service.” • – Josh Brokaw reporter@ithacatimes.com Maguiregardens contin u ed from page 5

and upgrade its infrastructure,” according to a release by the PGH board. The deal would also concentrate the garden’s plots on one side of the road that currently bisects ICG, and give it more land where it could build something like a greenhouse. NYSEG power line right-of-ways restrict building construction in much of the area.

ICG was started on an empty Northside lot in 1976 and moved to its current location in 1983 on a lease from NYSEG; the city bought the entire Carpenter Business Park in 1986, but was never able to find anyone to develop the site. In 2000 the city sold everything in the business park but the ICG land.

“There’s a goal to have permanence,” Porras said, “and this appears to offer a path to permanence.”

Phil Maguire, president of Maguire dealerships, said that permission has been granted by the state Department of Transportation for his company to build sidewalk along Route 13 and plant street trees, with approvals for a stoplight at Fifth Street still pending.

A $19 million Maguire expansion in Syracuse – renovating and expanding a 16acre dealership campus with three new car franchises, a used car lot, and a service shop – is happening “completely independent of Ithaca expansion plans,” Maguire said. •

ourCorrections Developer John Novarr begged to differ with the arithmetic in Joel Fredell’s July 6 guest opinion “The Death of Collegetown.”

Fredell claimed that Novarr’s Collegetown Terrace project added 1,150 beds to the existing total (rumored at 1,400). Novarr pointed out that there were beds on the site already; several houses were torn down to make way for the new buildings.

Novarr said there would be 1,245 beds when he was finished, but that would only be 533 more than were there when he started.

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The driest March to June on record

P r e c i p i tat i o n Deficit in Percent (r e d = L e s s t h e n o r m a l) f o r J u n e 2 0 1 6 .

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According to Samantha Borisoff, a climatologist at the Northeast Regional Climate Center at Cornell, this is the driest spring and early summer (March 1 to July 5) on record for this area. The record starts in 1893 in Ithaca. During that period it is normal to get 13.73 inches of rain; we have gotten 7.01 inches this year. u l y

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John Fleming is a dairy farmer in North Lansing who grows all the forage he feeds to his 1,400 cows. “We’re not getting the rain you’re getting,” Fleming said on Thursday, July 7. “Things are going south of us.”

Corn is planted twice each spring. Early corn, which takes longer to reach maturity, is planted in late April and early May. According to Janice Degni, a field crop specialist at the Cortland County office of Cornell Cooperative Extension, the early corn went into moist ground and got a reasonable start. Late corn, which went into the ground in late May and early June, was planted in dry soil and has not done well.

“It’s not growing,” said Fleming. “It is just staying at one height, and the leaves are curling. Some of the smaller plants are going to die.” Fleming said what would be ideal right now is to get an inch and a half of rain; it should be a steady, soaking rain that comes down over two or three days.” Thunder showers, he said, simply run off because the ground is hard now after being dry so long. There are actually cracks in the soil in his fields.

The curling of corn leaves is a sign of stress, said Degni. “The plants are reducing the amount of evapotranspiration; they open up again at night. After a while the

leaves taken on a grayish color and they stay curled.” After that, the plants die.

Fleming would like to see some rain immediately. The corn is due to flower within the next two weeks and if it is too dry it will not pollinate.

“It will try to flower,” he said, “because it wants to survive.”

Once the flowers are pollinated, said the dairy farmer, the plants will put their energy toward “grain fill,” making kernels on the ears. That happens in the last half of August and into September.

Fleming is growing feed corn, not sweet corn for human consumption, so he harvests the entire plant. He is hoping for maximum development of the plants plus the best grain fill in order to have the best nutritional value for his cows.

Corn is not the only crop that is suffering. “Soybeans are in the same boat,” said Degni. “They are stressed because they need water.” The dryness has been repeatedly coupled with heat. “Corn shuts down after 86 degrees; it slows down its metabolism to conserve itself. But I’ve never heard that soybeans could do that.”

Hay farmers were able to make their first cutting, but now the hay is simply not growing again.

Some crops, like “winter wheat” and barley, were planted last year. Both of these grains are doing well because it was moist when they were planted and during their early growth. “Dry weather is good,” Degni said of the later stages of wheat and barley growth, “because the risk of disease is lower.”

She said that the oats she has seen have been “super short,” and the hot weather is likely to lower their test weight.

Test weight is used to measure a given crop against a standard; if it is lower than

the standard, it will have a lower value.

“It’s getting a little scary,” said Degni.

“If we don’t get rain, the crops are going to be damaged.”

Weather and Climate

The Northeast Regional Climate Center (NRCC) at Cornell is a source of climate data; they leave weather prediction to the National Weather Service and the tracking of drought to the United States Drought Monitor at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln. But when you give the NRCC a call, you can get a climatologist on the phone.

NRCC climatologist Borisoff didn’t know how much rain it would take to get out of our present drought, but she can tell you that the next driest March through June was back in 1962, when we only got 7.81 inches of rain in Ithaca. Other dry spring into early summers were, in descending order of dryness, 1955, 1995, and 1938. Which is to say, there is not yet a pattern of progressively greater dryness nor of increased frequency of drought in this region.

The current dry spell began in March with a ridge of high pressure extending over eastern North America from the semi-permanent Bermuda High in the Atlantic Ocean. “This creates sinking air,” said Borisoff, “with a southerly flow and increased evaporation. It deters storms from moving in.” She said that this was followed by a varied pattern through April and May that included “some ridging and some troughs moving through, but with little moisture.”

Ithaca received only half of its normal March precipitation, 79 percent in April, 60 percent in May, 27 percent in June, and, so far in July, only 11 percent.

Is any of this related to climate change? “We can’t attribute one event to climate change,” said Borisoff, “but we can say that with a warming world you will see two things: warmer temperatures will be accompanied by greater evaporation and there will be increases in the frequency of seasonal drought.”

Warmer air, she explained, can hold more moisture. Warmer air masses can therefore absorb more water without dropping it. And when they do drop it, this can create more heavy rain events.

The flooding in West Virginia two weeks ago was caused by “training,” said Borisoff. The analogy is to train cars; like linked box cars, storm after storm piles into a stalled front and drops rain.

sunflowers are sold for birdseed.

“They’re all suffering right now,” Dedrick said of his crops. “Some of the corn is curled, and some of it never germinated. The soybeans are still just popping out of the ground, and they were planted a month ago.”

Soybeans, he said, generally set flowers in July and continue to do so into August. Dedrick’s aren’t flowering yet and he thinks it will be at least a couple of weeks before they start. If the drought continues, he said, the plants simply won’t produce pods.

Dedrick graduated from high school in 1989 and joined his father in farming.

He has seen a year like this before. 1999, he said, was almost identical. Dedrick Farms didn’t have crop insurance that year and they lost $100,000; he is still paying it off. Since then he has purchased crop insurance and made a couple of small claims.

Fleming of Walnut Ridge Farm, doesn’t purchase insurance, but instead is “self-insured”; he has reserves to get through a bad year. Unlike Dedrick, he is growing crops for his own use, and he keeps some back through a growing season in case he needs to stretch it.

Dedrick will harvest his winter wheat this week and take in his rye right after that. He has already noticed that a lot of the heads are empty. “The kernels don’t have enough moisture to fully form,” he said.

He is least worried about his sunflowers—200 acres of them—because they are adapted to drier weather and are grown in vast quantities in places like North and South Dakota. “They’ll send a tap root down,” Dedrick said, “and will fare better than the grains. They look pretty good right now.” He won’t harvest them until between September and December, depending on the weather.

Early in the spring the farm publications that he reads were predicting a dry growing season, Dedrick said, so he tried to conserve the moisture in the ground by minimizing the amount of tilling he did. According to his father’s weather station, Lansing is now six inches below its usual rainfall for this time of year. He said he could use two or three days of steady rain.

“I helped a neighbor with burying a cow the other day,” Dedrick said. “I got down to six feet and it was powder dry.

When I got down to seven or eight feet, I started to get a little moisture.” •

occurred in January and May, before the official start of the season.

Brewster said that best summer storms in terms of steady, more long-term rain, are those that come up the Mississippi valley from the Gulf of Mexico and then veer eastward. There is even a difference between Ithaca and Binghamton, he said, with Binghamton S a m a n t h a B o r i s o f f ( P h o t o : D i a n e D u t h i e) also being able to rely on moisture Borisoff said that at present there is from storms that come in directly off the no overarching pattern affecting world Atlantic. climate, like a strong El Niño, that allows As we spoke to Brewster on July 7, he modelers to make predictions about what received a new prediction from the climate the weather will do in the coming months. prediction center of the NWS. In the latter The Climate Prediction Center offers part of July they were now predicting a standard “6 to 10-day” and “8 to 14-day” trend toward a wetter period. outlooks. When we spoke to Borisoff on “They look at the Arctic Oscillation, July 7 there was an increased chance of like they do in the winter,” Brewster below normal precipitation over the next said of what most of know as the “polar six to 10 days, but an increased chance of vortex.” “The trend,” he said, “is now out above-normal precipitation in the eight to of a strong El Nino and they are trying to 10-day forecast. figure out if it will go to a La Nina.”

Jim Brewster, a hydrologist at the We put the question to Brewster: National Weather Service (NWS) in how much rain do we need to get out of Binghamton, confirmed Borisoff ’s citation the current drought? He said the Palmer of the near-term outlook. “This time Drought Index (PDI) is the tool for of year—summer weather—is not well answering that. “The Palmer says this predicted,” he said. “There is generally not is ‘moderate drought,’ so to get back to a lot of beneficial rain.” Brewster looked normal,” he said, “we need four to eight at his monitors and saw that the chance of inches of rain.” precipitation was going to improve during “One area might get this,” he the weekend of July 9 and 10, which did continued, “but it can just run off because turn out to be the case. Thunderstorms, he the drought has made everything into hard said, were “not efficient or productive.” pan. What you really want is a nice 12“There’s an old adage,” Brewster said, hour rain so that it can percolate down.” “that dry begets dry. It’s just an adage, but it’s sort of true. We need strong evidence for a change.” Brewster is a meteorologist by training, but holds the position of On Sunday, July 10 some of us woke hydrologist at the NWS. So he knows up to the sound of rain. It rained off and about weather, but his job is to keep track on through the morning. It wasn’t nearly of flooding. He said that this time of year enough to change anything out in the it is tropical systems—hurricanes and fields. tropical storms—or their remnants that “We just got a brief little shower,” can change things in the northeast U.S. said Matt Dedrick of Dedrick Farms “We are in our low-precipitation in Lansing. “It just sort of misted. My months now,” he said, “except when we get driveway is still dry.” bailed out by the tropics.” He noted that it Dedrick has corn, soybeans, wheat, is a relatively quiet season in the Atlantic barley, rye, oats, and sunflowers in the low latitudes; as of last week there had ground. Most of it is grown to make been only four named storms. The season animal feed, but he sends some corn and begins on June 1 and extends through wheat to a distillery in Ohio, and the Nov. 30. Two of this year’s named storms

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The members of the meeting voted in support of the presenting the design proposals to the City of Ithaca Planning Committee on July 13 and later to the Common Council in August for official

approval. Five people attended the meeting, none of whom were members of the public. Representatives from PAC, City of Ithaca, Community Arts Partnership (CAP) and Common Council spoke about the three designs for the electrical utility boxes located on North Cayuga Street, Bank Alley, and North Aurora Street.

“We chose designs that most appealed to us and the ones that were most related to Ithaca as a community,” PAC member Sally Grubb said.

Megan Wilson, the planning division liaison for the City of Ithaca, read public comments that were submitted via email regarding the mural designs, which were available to view online since June 28.

The comments generally encouraged the decision to go ahead with the three mural proposals, but the Bank Alley design received a few hesitations.

“I have to be honest number two reminds me of Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds. It’s very dark and scary but I like the other two,” Wilson read from the comment submission.

The design, titled Cayuga Migration created by Catherine Montgomery, features a blackhaired woman flying with the silhouettes of black and coppercolored local birds.

“This piece has a sense of place, bringing a graphic urban aesthetic and softening it without abundant and prominent local fauna,” Montgomery said in her design description.

Other comments were overwhelmingly positive.

City Public Art Committee selects three artists (Photo: Erica Dischino)

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Dr. Rand will see patients at the the Guthrie Ithaca office on Hanshaw Road, and at the Corning Centerway office.

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The electrical box design for the North Cayuga Street location is titled “Commons’ers” and was created by Erica Brath. The mural incorporates the Commons’ downtown culture, including representations of the Ithaca Festival parade, Press Bay Alley, Circus Culture acrobats, and the apple harvest festival.

Ithaca College and Cornell University are symbolized in its red and blue corners. The North Aurora Street design, titled “Dessert Case” by Jennifer Gioffre and David Todd, features a display of confections inspired by the dessert shop Madeline’s, which is located near the electrical box.

“I can’t even find words to describe how much I love these proposals. I think this is another positive step for the Commons and for public art in Ithaca,” another commenter said. “I’m all in favor. I like all three designs, but especially the dessert-case design, which is just wonderful. I can’t see any negative consequence for having this project go forward as proposed with these three particular designs.”

There are currently around 35 electrical-utility-box murals to be found around the city of Ithaca. The mural information will be posted on neighborhood listserv, the Downtown Ithaca Alliance will send a notification to their members and a postcard will be sent out to anyone who lives within 200 feet of the box, informing of the new murals.

“The boxes have a high level of creativity and diversity,” said CAP executive director John Spence. “They were all created by individual artists and almost everybody has a favorite box or one that will stop them in their tracks.

The level of work and detail put into these creations is just amazing. There’s really something for everybody.”

If Common Council approves the new designs, the artists will begin painting the boxes, and they should be finished by late August or early September. Other cities in the surrounding Ithaca, such as Elmira and Cortland, are beginning to install similar murals too.

“When you’re taking something that is usually an eyesore,” PAC member Carol Mallison said, “and turning it into public art, people are going to want to do it.”

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and give everyone a fair opportunity to bring up that here we are trying to ban the Taughannock Falls are not Jones Beach, apply for civil service,” Guerreri said. “This box for people who are being barred from a state park on the south shore of Long really aligns well with our values of a fair employment, basically, to an extent, for Island that is little more than an enormous and equitable recruitment and requirement beach where suburbanites can park their people we know have committed a crime, process.” and yet in that same space I know a lot of cars in enormous lots, slather themselves people who speak about withdrawing rights with sun tan lotion, and eat hot dogs and – Jaime Cone ice cream sandwiches from concession from people who haven’t been convicted of southreporter@flcn.org stands. The only wildlife you’ll find any crime.”

“I hear talk from people—they want there are the gulls swooping in to eat the to register speech. They want to license remains of hot dogs. editorial he Tompkins County Legislature journalists. They want to charge people Any hint of a move toward making contin u ed from page 6 unanimously voted to “ban the box” for certain speech they find objectionable,” Taughannock Falls littered with amenities at the July 5 legislature meeting.

Sigler continued. “They want to take is not in keeping with the spirit of its a conservationist in the same mold.

Within the next two months, most of people’s Second Amendment rights away founding nor, in fact, with how the park According to Gene Endres, writing in the on-line job applications used by county who haven’t been charged with anything.” has been managed for nearly a century. these pages in 2004, in the early 1920s departments, towns, villages, and school “I just find that interesting,” Sigler The cabins and pavilions there are rustic, Treman was instrumental in assembling districts (other than Ithaca City School continued, “that here we have a group of the facilities for boats small and utilitarian, what became Taughannock Falls State District) will no longer have a box that people that we’re trying to get back into the the picnic areas are carry in-carry out, Park.

He purchased a plot just to the west applicants will be required to check at the workforce and give rights to, and yet there’s and the emphasis is on making nature of the falls and deeded it to the county, beginning of the application process if they a whole bunch of people who have never accessible to as wide a spectrum of the which in turn gave it to the state.

He also have committed a crime. been charged with anything, public as possible. Introducing a larger helped the state acquire the lower part of “While an affirmative response and yet there’s a whole lot of boat dock for larger boats and not even the gorge from a Philadelphia family who to the question regarding prior people in the country right making the boaters get the exercise of had built a mansion on the hillside just criminal convictions does not now who would like to pull walking up the hill to their next meal, is south of the creek.

This house is now the eliminate the individual from those rights away.” a silly exercise in snobbery and laziness.

Taughannock Farms Inn, but the rest of consideration for employment, Legislator Anna Kelles Ironically, it is flying in the facing of the gorge is open to all comers. asking the question at the beginning (D-Ithaca) asked if the democratic traditions established by a What neither Mazzocone nor Cuomo of the hiring process may deter an legislature had spoken to bunch of Republicans a century ago. • understand is that upstate parks like individual from applying for jobs people in the community who for which they might be eligible experienced firsthand the and qualified,” states the approved trauma that may be associated David M. Monacelli, MD resolution. with trying to secure Public officer (i.e., elected Plastic, Plastic, Reconstructive Reconstructive and and Hand Hand Surgery Surgery employment with a criminal Amy Wilson Guerreri official) titles would not be affected record.

(Photo: Jaime Cone) by the ban, as New York State’s Specializing inin Cosmetic Surgery Tompkins County Specializing HandBreast, Surgery • Cosmetic surgery: Facial, Body Public Officers Law prohibits administrator Joe Mareane • Breast reconstruction after breast cancer individuals with felony convictions from said that former Ithaca Times reporter Keri • Breast Augmentation • Trigger Facelift finger • Carpal tunnel syndrome serving as a public officer and places • Breast reduction surgery to treat chronic Blakinger had addressed the legislature.

• neck, Breast Lift and • Nose Surgery restrictions on those who have been • Hand numbness andshoulder tingling symptoms Arthritis back “One of the starting points of this whole convicted of misdemeanors.

• Breast Reduction • Eyelid Surgery • Ganglion cyst removal and repair Tendinitis process was a presentation by Keri • Skin cancer For most other positions, applicants Blakinger, who has had the experience Tummy Tucklumps • Liposuction •• Hand carpal tunnel, trigger • Hand and Surgery: wrist Hand Contracture would be asked whether they have prior and really brought a lot of insights to the David finger, arthritis, tendinitis, ganglion cyst David M. M. Monacelli, Monacelli, MD MD convictions only if they are finalists. The conversation at the beginning of this,” he personnel department will evaluate the said. “It’s one person, but I think she is www.ithacaplastisurgery.com relevance of the conviction. If the applicant really very capable of speaking for folks in a is cleared, as most are according to Amy 22 Arrowood Drive, Suite B | Ithaca, NY 14850 similar position.”

Wilson Guerreri, the county personnel ”We want to remove any perceived (607) Board (607) 266-0483 266-0483 Board Certified Certified Plastic Plastic Surgeon Surgeon commissioner, then the department head or barriers and impediments to employment appointing authority is not informed of the criminal history of the applicant.

Legislator Jim Dennis (D-Ulysses), chair of the county budget, capital and personnel committee, said that Tompkins County has 715 employees of which 175 are not covered by “ban the box.” “They are employees we do background checks on as a matter of course,” he said.

Legislator Martha Robertson (D-Dryden) asked if it would be possible to extend the “ban the box” rule to private employers within the county in the future.

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Legislator Michael Sigler (R-Lansing) said he thinks “ban the box” is a “great idea” and that he would vote in favor of the resolution. “But before I vote for it, I just thought it an interesting point to

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and Winkler is one of three Americans nominated for inclusion. The fact that he stomped the rest of the American competitors would seem to bode well, but I am sure Winkler has spent some time wishing that epic heave would have traveled a quarter of a meter farther.

• • • I felt sooo bad for Morgan Uceny For some, complications; for others, a fall (who graduated from Cornell class of 2007 as a four-time All-American), as she ran

By Ste ve L aw re nc e out of gas in the 1,500 meter final. She was ometimes it’s fun to write this column standard of 77.00 meters (yes, a mere passed by two other women in the final as an “expert,” pounding out stories to 0.24 meter beyond Winkler’s best throw), 100 yards, and ultimately finished fifth. enlighten the masses, sharing wisdom and thus far, 18 men have achieved that Unfortunately, only the top three make the that has taken me years to acquire. This standard. Some good news, two of those Olympic team, and that heartache will be week, I am—like many readers I am throwers are Russian, and that team added to the deep disappointment left over sure—learning as I go forward … from the 2012 London We will return this week to Eugene, Olympics. During the Oregon, for the U.S. Olympic Trials, and final, Morgan was on once again we will talk about a Cornell track (good pun) to win athlete trying to make the Rio games. a medal, but she fell and Rudy Winkler, who will be a senior this her Olympic Dream had fall, had a phenomenal season for the Big to wait for another four Red. The hammer thrower finished second years of grueling training. in the NCAA, earning his second AllCompounding the pain American recognition (he finished eighth was the fact that she also in 2015). took a tumble in the Winkler took his throwing game World Championships to the trials, and after three rounds, he the year before. found himself in fourth place. On his next Uceny showed throw, he unleashed a monster throw of tremendous character 76.76 meters (251 feet, 10 inches), and when a reporter stuck that heave—a full five feet further than the a microphone in her effort by the next best thrower—put him face moments after the in first place, where he would finish the Cornell hammer thrower Rudy Winkler (Provided) race, and while she was meet. clearly heartbroken So, the thrower who won the U.S. and struggling to keep Olympic Trials should be jubilantly it together, she gave a is not being invited to the Olympics packing his bags for Rio, right? Well, I classy and emotional interview. Such raw due to rampant corruption. That is not have never in my life thrown a hammer, emotion makes for great journalism and, necessarily good news for those men, or looked into the event’s qualifying while the reporter was just doing his job especially if they happen to be “clean,” standards, so this is where we unravel this when he asked Morgan how she felt, it but it does open up spots for others together … was painful to listen to her respond to a not affiliated with a team that has been Winkler must now wait to learn question with such an obvious answer. whether he will represent the Red, White banned.

Just as she did after her emotional tumble and Blue, as the International Olympic As it now stands, the IOC will invite at the 2012 Olympics, she handled it well, Committee (IOC) has established an event 24 men to take part in the Rio games, and she did her alma mater—and her 76749 Kendal Dog Ad for Ithaca Times T: 10 x 5.5 sports

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• • • Moving the Olympic conversation down the road a half hour, I was very impressed with Elmira native Molly Huddle, as she pulled off a historic “double.” After winning the 10,000-meter event earlier in the trials, she came back to capture the 5,000-meter race as well. I call the accomplishment “historic” because no other American woman has ever won both races at an Olympic Trials.

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he Relay For Life of Tompkins County will take place Saturday, July 16 from 4 p.m. to 4 a.m. Sunday July 17 at Ithaca College’s Butterfield Stadium. The Relay For Life event raises funds for American Cancer Society, which are invested in cancer research and provide free information and services to cancer patients and their caregivers.

Over 5,200 communities and 20 countries take part in this annual fundraising event. The Tompkins County Relay For Life Teams, which range from Cayuga Medical Center to Ithaca College to private teams, camp out overnight and take turns walking or running around the Butterfield track. During this 12-hour event, each team is asked to have at least one participant on the track at all times.

Last year the event raised $93,337.42 for the American Cancer Society. This year Greg Fry, the entertainment chair for the planning committee of Relay For Life of Tompkins County, hopes that the money raised will increase. The BorgWarner team, which is made up of employees from the manufacturing plant on Warren Road in Lansing, acts as one of the main fundraisers for the event. “[BorgWarner] raised more than $20,000 themselves just last year alone, through fundraising efforts and events that they held in the months leading up to relay,” Fry said. “I know they were trying to increase that this year. So, we’re hoping that the numbers are great, and we’re hoping that their team is our best and most popular this year.”

Fry decided to begin participating in Relay For Life after losing his father to pancreatic cancer in 2003 and his mother to colon cancer in 2012. After the loss of both his parents, he wanted to become more involved with the Relay For Life movement. Fry has participated in several other relays, one in Pennsylvania and the continued on page 13

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lost to cancer.

Each relay event varies depending on the location, but Fry said that the one in Ithaca has an interesting combination of factors that he has never seen elsewhere.

“The difference between the relays elsewhere and the relay in Ithaca is that I’ve always felt like there’s a little taste of everything.

You get a slice of Ithaca and an A Relay for Life team on the track at Butterfield Stadium at Ithaca College. (Provided) indication of what the people are like and how the relayfor life people think. When you go to relay here, contin u ed from page 12 it doesn’t feel like a bunch of strangers rest in New York State, but this is the first coming together. It feels very local and year he became involved as a committee impactful,” he said. chair for the event in Tompkins County.

Twenty-five teams, with a total of 178 “Relay brings people together and participants all together, are signed up for brings in those people who are thinking the event. One of this year’s participants, about the same cause. We are all coming Andrew Franzese, will also attempt to together for the same purpose. Cancer is break the record for 83.6 miles set by the a very personal thing. We’ve been through founder of local event, Dr. Gordy Klatt. a lot of wars,” Fry said. “When you have “There’s an understanding among the the chance to come together and talk with people there that this is emotional, and people who may have been through the this hits home for a lot of people. But it’s same experience as you or lend and ear or also a chance to go have fun and smile helping hand, that to me is the benefit of when you’re faced with something that’s having it in such a tight-knit community.” really difficult,” Fry said. “This is what The event includes an opening, makes [Relay For Life] one of the best luminaria, and fight-back ceremony; events out there. You can smile, you can a survivor, caregiver and opening lap; laugh, you can make new friends all in the and individual walking, games, and span of 12 hours.” entertainment. This year, the Cayuga Chamber Orchestra will play during the -Erica Dischino luminaria ceremony in honor of the lives courtconsolidation? contin u ed from page 4

results across the county, depending solely on where the underlying arrest occurred,” according to the report.

Schlather recalled the statewide initiative in 2014 to create specialized DWI courts throughout the state. New York Court of Appeals Chief Judge Jonathan Lippman wrote, in establishing the DWI courts, “DWI recidivism remains a persistent and serious problem … 30 percent of all drivers adjudicated for a DWI offense are repeat offenders.”

Lippman went on to state that effective deterrence of DWI depends on “certain, consistent and coordinated sentencing.”

DWI laws and procedures change constantly, noted Schlather. It is incredibly time-consuming for a town justice to “familiarize himself/herself with the ever-changing and complex rules that are unique to those cases.”

Reading from the report, Schlather continued, “Additionally, there is some evidence that there is a therapeutic impact for group processing of DWI cases. DWI

cases uniquely cut across the sociological spectrum, often involving defendants who otherwise are generally law- abiding members of the community. For DWI defendants to have their cases heard in the presence of similarly situated individuals highlights the gravity of the problem in the community, [and] reinforces that everyone is being treated equally and fairly regardless of personal circumstances …”

The county already has an Integrated Domestic Violence Court, the establishment of which set precedents for transferring misdemeanor and violation level cases from local courts within a county to a single judge. An obstacle in the way of creating a DWI court could be the paucity of available judges: “There is not a surplus of Supreme Court or Acting Supreme Court judges in Tompkins County,” the report notes drily. Costs for creating a DWI court are roughly estimated at $800,000 or more. Estimated savings, also rough, might be around $281,000.

However, Schlather said that most of the courts are running a deficit—as much as $311,702 in the Town of Ithaca—and

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– Judy Abrams, Sherman Kelly, Ruth G. Kahn, Louise B. Kahn, Sarah Adams, Barbara Page, Barbara Nowogrodzki, Ashley Miller, Nancy Goldberg, Alison Rice, Andrew Rice, Nancy Cool, Judy Hyman, Jeff Claus, Celia Clement, Daniel Clement, Ben Littauer, Kathy Kerby, Kaile Tsapis, Mickey Tsapis, and Jodi Tsapis [The signators are residents of the town of Ulysses, the village of Trumansburg, and town of Enfield.]

Concerns include: -Danger to swimmers and kayakers.

-Oil slicks and engine fumes near the swimming area.

-Noise pollution.

-Obstruction of the view across the lake from the swimming beach.

-Increased concentration of motorboats near the park.

Far more swimmers and kayakers would be impacted by this decision than the relatively few boaters who would use the proposed dock slips.

Mazzocone has enlisted a group of financial investors to support him in this endeavor. At this meeting he expressed a plan to “donate” $50,000 to New York State Parks. In return, he would have control of half of the dock spaces and be able to operate golf carts to transport boat customers to and from his restaurant.

Although the New York State Office of Parks is open to mutually beneficial public/ private partnerships, their express mandate (as is presented in their policy statement), is to be “responsible stewards of our valuable natural, historic and cultural resources.”

This plan would clearly disfigure the current natural layout of the park. The existing small boat marina is carefully hidden in a tiny inlet, away from the swimming area. The boats docked there do not mar the natural beauty of Taughannock Falls State Park. On the other hand, placing a boat dock extending straight out into the lake from the shore would be an eyesore. We are concerned that this plan will move forward without public input. We believe that everyone who loves the existing swimming beach and park should have a chance to voice an opinion about this very important decision. You can contact the Office of

Bryan VanCampen Fan Club

I hereby nominate Brian Van Campen to Best Movie Reviewer of 2016.

I am a lifelong Ithacan, not to sound unworldy. And I have read Brian’s reviews religiously as long as I have been an adult.

His writings are my go-to infotainment whenever I have time to kill, whether I’m waiting for a burrito at Viva, using the restroom at Pete’s, or what have you.

Brian’s reviews frequently give me insight into the culture of cinema. He places the movies he reviews in their historical and thematic context. He makes me feel smart, like I know something about the ever (de-?)evolving world of movies. Sometimes Brian’s reviews let me know there is something I just gotta see, but often they just let me know how to gauge my expectations so that I can have a good time at a movie even if it’s not gonna blow my mind.

Thank you Brian, you have never steered me wrong. Best of 2016? How about best of the century.

– Cosmo Alpern, Ithaca Send Letters to the Editor to editor@ithacatimes.com. Letters must be signed and include an address and phone number. We do not publish unsigned letters.

greater efficiency via consolidation might reduce that.

The task force also recommends a county-wide LEAD program, “a relatively new police-administered pre-booking program created to minimize recidivism of addiction-driven crime by connecting offenders with services … LEAD permits police officers to refer an offender to a LEAD case manager or other service provider in lieu of filing of low-level addiction-related … charges.”

“LEAD arises from the fact that historically a relatively small number of individuals with high needs demand a great deal of police time and resources.

They cycle in and out of jail or prisons without treatment of their underlying issues, such as mental illness and substance abuse problems, homelessness, unemployment, and inadequate medical care. This population also tends to be high utilizers of the hospital emergency room, which is costly and not designed to provide preventative or regular health care. By diverting eligible individuals to services, LEAD improves public safety and public order and reduces the criminal T

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The task force’s third recommendation is that the county legislature revive the youth court, which would keep low-level criminal cases from even getting into the criminal justice system, and cut down recidivism as well as reducing the caseload of the town justice courts.

Other changes would require New York State legislation, like a change in the law to allow defendants to ask for their case to be heard by a lawyer-trained justice. Or, towns and villages could consolidate their courts on their own.

Very few people in the room envisioned that happening. “If it has to go through all these votes,” said Ulysses town supervisor Liz Thomas, “it will never happen.” Cayuga Heights village justice Glenn Galbreath was one of the town justices on the task force, along with Betty Poole of Enfield. “I don’t want to lose my court,” he said. • – Glynis Hart editor@flcn.org

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that establishes this great Jack Russell terrier named Max (Louis C.K.) and the wonderful relationship he has with his owner Katie (Ellie Kemper). Then Katie adopts Duke (Eric Stonestreet), and it’s like the first Toy Story: Max and Duke don’t like each other, get lost in the sewers of New York, and in the process of trying to get home, guess what? They learn to like each other, and with the exception of one unfortunate scary snake, every animal in the city gets the happy ending they deserve. That’s the other time that I cried.

I’d heard a review from a friend saying that Illumination Entertainment, the studio behind Minions, Despicable Me, and The Lorax, can’t do sentiment yet. Well, I’d say

Yo-Yo-Ma in “The Music of Strangers” (Photo Provided)

that that’s wrong. C.K. and Stonestreet make a perfect canine Woody and Buzz pairing, or Felix and Oscar, and we get to meet all their pet friends, including Jenny Slate as Gidget, Max’s love-struck pal who leads the charge to find him, and Kevin Hart, Steve Coogan, Bobby Moynihan, Dana Carvey, Hannibal Buress and Albert Brooks in what looks to be his second animated hit of the summer, playing a duplicitous hawk named Tiberius.

Even though the film is set in modern day New York, replete with billboards for SNL and Jimmy Fallon’s Tonight Show, The Secret Life of Pets has a jazzy score by Alexandre Desplat and a zippy, retro feel that really reminded me of the 2003 Rock Hudson-Doris Day parody Down With Love. The 3-D also captures the vertical canyon qualities of NYC buildings and architecture in an interesting way. Oh, and it’s rated PG, but as a non-parent, I couldn’t tell you why.

• • • When I started playing guitar in 1977, an early teacher of mine named Scott Sandel taught me a simple but important lesson. He said that musicians playing were like people having a conversation: you back off and play support while the other player “speaks”; he then does the same, allowing you to speak. Over the years, it’s been very inspiring seeing musicians gather that have never played together, making music, speaking to us. One of the players in The Music of Strangers, Morgan Neville’s new documentary about cellist Yo-Yo Ma’s global collaborative effort The Silk Road Project, says as much: “We may not speak the same language, but musically, we speak perfect.”

Neville, who explored the world of back-up singers in 20 Feet From Stardom, sets out from the get-go to capture the joy of creation, improvisation and performance. The first scene shows Ma and many of the world’s greatest players setting up a simple gig in a town square, and within minutes their music has a crowd in the palm of their hand. The music is a glorious mish-mosh of styles, cultures and predilections. In other words, Ma has encouraged his collaborators to play what they love.

I’ve always liked Yo-Yo Ma, but I like him even better having seen the film, and I had not seen the black-and-white footage of him as a child prodigy, playing for John and Jackie Kennedy. But as much as the film is about Ma finding these amazing musicians, it also allows them—none of whom, I’m ashamed to admit that I’d heard of, but I know them now—to share the stories of their lives. •

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yricist Tim Rice is a Broadway and West End legend. His partnership with Andrew Lloyd Webber produced Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Raincoat in 1965 and then Jesus Christ Superstar in 1970 and Evita in 1978. He collaborated with composer Alan Menken on the songs for animated Disney films like Beauty and the Beast (1991) and Aladdin (1992). His latest effort is a collaboration with Stuart Brayson; they have made James Jones’ 1951 novel—not the 1953 film—into a musical. The Merry Go Round Playhouse is giving it its upstate premiere until July 20.

Ithaca Times: When did the idea come to adapt From Here to Eternity as a musical?

Tim Rice: Well, the idea really came from the show’s composer, Stuart Brayson, who is an English composer, very talented. And he came to me with the idea of doing a musical based on From Here to Eternity some years ago. And I always believe that the most important thing for any musical or any play or any film, is the story. You’ve gotta get a really good storyline, and this is a great story. And I said, “I’ll try to get the rights for this piece, which I managed to achieve from the James Jones estate by Hayley Jones, James Jones’ daughter, and I began writing new songs with Stuart, and playing around with some of his original ones, and eventually we had rather a good show, we thought.

IT: How long has this been in the works?

TR: Well, it’s been in the works, in some sense, for seven or eight years, because it took quite a while to get the rights, and we weren’t in a desperate hurry, but these things do take quite a long time to get going. And we came on in London a few years ago, and did okay, but didn’t do as well as we’d hoped,

but we really believed in the project, and we got really good reviews. I think it was slightly against the trend in London, you know, shows with well-known songs or remakes of films. It was a tough sell, but we got some very nice reviews, and Brett Smock, who as

you know runs the Merry Go Round Theatre with the whole Finger Lakes Musical Festival, he loved the piece, and he saw it in London, and he said he’d got some ideas for it, and would we like to do it over there, or over here, I should say. Would we like to do it in the Finger Lakes for the American premiere,

(Above) A scene from “From Here to Eternity” showing at The Merry Go Round Playhouse. (Below) Lyricist Tim Rice (Photos Provided)

and we thought, well, yeah, that was the best offer we’d had, and it sounded like a really good one. So here we are.

IT: I would assume you’d have gone to Broadway, or a bigger American city or even another country, but I don’t know how these things work.

TR: Well, there are many ways. I mean, there are no rules. When I did, years ago, Jesus Christ Superstar, we forged that with a record (the “Brown Album”). Not really because we wanted to, but because no one else wanted to stage the show, but we discovered by mistake that that was a good way to get the show going. And that was a big hit before the show existed, even though we’d wanted to do a show in the first instance. In this case, we had one or two people thinking about doing it over here, but Brett seemed so keen and had such a good vision for what he wanted to do, and we thought, “Let’s go with him.”

And it’s not a massive, great theater in terms of seats. It’s got 500, which is pretty good.

But the resources he’s got backstage, and the actors are setting such a high standard; his management team, his production team, his technical team, and the actual cast are as good as you’d find in the West End. And if it’s any good, then it’ll probably go on elsewhere.

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The Landscape of Dreams

Corners Gallery showcasing some compelling work

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wo-person exhibits in Ithaca are often ad-hoc pairings. As such, it’s always encouraging to see two artists, strong in their own right, whose works elucidate each other’s through meaningful similarities and differences.

Such is the case with the current “Summer Show” at Corners Galley in Cayuga Heights (it’s up through the end of August). Curated by gallery owner Ariel Bullion Ecklund, it features oil landscapes by local painters Suzanne Onodera and Stan Taft.

Onodera is a well-established artist, with gallery representation in California, Arizona, and Vermont as well as with Corners. “The Wild and the Deep,” her 2014 solo show at Corners, was a tour de force.

Her canvas and panel oils, often large, are abstracted landscapes: contemporary versions of the Romantics’ sublime vistas.

While the classical European landscape offers the viewer places to stand, Onodera’s imaginary scenes transmute solid masses into ghostly liquescence. Her use of amorphous fogs and glazes, subtly accented with more visible brushwork, has been characteristic.

Onodera’s work here though has evolved, with her brushstrokes becoming thicker and heavier, with emphatically expressionist blocks of color standing out more against the thinly painted backgrounds.

A diptych on two upright canvases, Traversing the Steep Ravine is the largest piece here and the most overtly ambitious.

Patches of acidic green—accented in bright yellow-orange and shadowed in black— help make it legible as a “landscape” but any sense of here-and-there is necessarily slippery. As in other pieces of hers here, a mountain seems to rise in the distance.

Both the sky above and the river that winds its way down to our feet are in pale, softly brushed colors.

And Other Observations, a smaller near-square piece on panel, is just as compelling. The brushwork is brusque and broken while the palette combines the ethereal and the earthy.

Stan Taft, a longtime professor of art at Cornell, has had two previous solo shows at Corners. His exhibit last year, “Tree + Landscape,” showed off something of his eclectic range as a painter. The “tree” series featured black silhouettes against fields of flatly painted, often lurid color. Subtler— and easier to digest—were his landscapes, regional scenes of nature and countryside carefully observed and transcribed with both precision and verve.

For the current exhibit, Taft has continued in the latter mode. His panel paintings here have a remarkable sense

of clarity and luminosity with a subtle painterliness inflecting a typically crisp delineation of receding areas of land and water. Skies are often smooth and their light infuses the whole scene. Cayuga Lake is often visible in the distance. An orange underlayer often peeks through the paint

likes to play with the idea of a foreground plane—here as elsewhere, the bottom edge sports a flat band, which on closer inspection, turns out to be a roof.

White Barn is a jaunty winter scene on small panel, memorable for the crisply defined miniature building that anchors its lower right corner.

Although not evident from the focused selection here, Taft’s wide-ranging body of work is interesting as a bridge between modernism and postmodernism: two cultural world-views apparently no longer on speaking terms. His most basic stylistic approach is in the tradition of a sort of modernist realism—in addition to the great French Post-Impressionist Paul Cézanne, it recalls the careful, rigorously empirical work of the 20th century British painter

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(Top) Suzanne Onodera’s “Traversing the Steep Ravine” (Below) Stan Taft’s “Lansingville Road” (Photo Provided)

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Lansingville Road, a larger panel piece, is particularly striking. A smoothly painted pale blue sky—tinged with yellow—spills down more than half way while a distant hillside in impressionistic pale purples stretches down nearly to the bottom edge.

The foreground is defined by a copse of trees, silhouetted in black and rising to touch the sky near the center. These have been accented in a faint blue, suggesting not so much highlighting as haunting. Taft

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But there’s also another side to his work: an idiosyncratic eclecticism of style and subject matter as well as an—often literally—oblique approach to narrative.

That I tend to be skeptical of such approaches is well known—still, it might be interesting to see some of this more “difficult” work outside the campus setting.

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Do Objects Feel Pain?

Two artists and their will to power

By C hr i s tophe r J. Har r ing ton Verdue: The Art of Hitch Lyman & Domenica Brockman, EYE Gallery, through July 31.

are no match for the sheer will of the object alone. It is truly immune. And yet, I still barrel into places thinking I know things—a knower of art—of things. But it is only the art, the object—the essential nature of the subject—that truly knows, and not the viewer (e.g. the knower).

Does that mean that after a transformation (artist to work of art) the artist at once becomes irrelevant? Good question. Could it mean that art that succeeds as art has undergone a sort of ultimate transfer of power? A mutation like this between subject and object could imply a truth. Local artists Domenica Brockman and Hitch Lyman, combine to

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rack their brains against the will of such resistant objects in their July exhibit at eye gallery. The objects—in this case a room full of impressionistic flowers, still lifes, and airy scenes from around the leisurely world—with their massive and pulsing will—grow on you, whether you like it or not. Did the artists intend for such a transformation of power? It’s hard to say, but I’d wager not.

Everywhere in the gallery there are lush and flat renderings of vivid flowers and scenic haunts in abundance. It is a room like an impressionistic wake, a sort of neo-Gatsby-like celebration of taste. Brockman shows her paintings in town often and they always meet certain criteria, resembling a Hitch Lyman in a temple on his property (Photo: Diane Duthie) specific study of light. In her renderings, she gives up any rights to her thoughts when she the surrounding darkness? Either way, a transfers them to the canvas. time capsule is sealed. Brockman co-owns Is it light she is concerned with, or is it the storefront below eye: the clothing store Petrune, and in a way her paintings violently react to the store’s quaint and becoming aura: resolved in their own way and not at all bent towards the standard.

Lyman, a world-class traveler, garden designer, and watercolor specialist, showcases an Egon Schiele by-way-of Henri Matisse sort of gravity. His work verges on the abstract, with a slight blurring placement and acid-entrenched tone.

Working with the idea and sacredness of a sort of flat philosophy, his watercolor paintings haven’t yet completely transferred the way Brockman’s have. For me, this means there’s more of the artist in the work, and thus, the work is calculably stronger, better designed, and more modern. But without a full transformation the object is left with a sort of broken arm, suffering and wailing. The excitement is dulled, though not intentionally.

For my money, I’d say Lyman’s Mecklenberg is the right price, and Brockman’s Pink Roses as well. Both are positive examples of why each artist can make their thing work: Lyman, still headstrong, refusing transformation of power, showing restraint and artistic hope; Brockman, ceding to the object, letting it do the talking, the shoving, the pushing, and letting it form something of a truer Thanks to our Season nature.

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Sleeping Bags and Sopranos Vocal jazz camp comes to Ithaca College

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hey say you can’t go home again, but New York Voices intends to defy that concept this summer.”

Peter Eldridge recently made this claim to media relations director David Maley of Ithaca College when Eldridge’s group announced they will be holding their summer vocal jazz camp in Ithaca for the first time. The camp has previously been held at Bowling Green State University, but Eldridge told Maley “It makes sense to return to where it all began.”

In summer 1986 Ithaca College graduates Darmon Meader, Peter Eldridge, Kim Nazarian, and Caprice Fox were part of an invitational alumni group formed to tour the European Jazz Festival circuit. In 1988 the four of them, along with Sarah Krieger gave their first

jazz standards. Janelle Gelfand of the Cincinnati Enquirer said, “The group’s incomparable blend, hip delivery and great arrangements resulted in one swinging party. Their four-part harmonizing was so close, it was hard to tell where one voice ended and another began.” They have had the pleasure of collaborating with other leading jazz artists such as Bobby McFerrin, Nancy Wilson, the Count Basie Orchestra, and the Manhattan Transfer. For the last eight years, they have been developing programs for the Boston Pops Symphony.

The Pops commissioned a few big band- style adaptations first, and then a full-length holiday show that toured extensively in 2005.

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Voices have cultivated a philosophy of education. They travel around the world holding workshops and clinics for high school and college students. This year they are presenting an international version of their very successful vocal jazz camp for the first time in Ptuj, Slovenia.

The 8th Annual New York Voices Vocal Jazz Camp will be held at Ithaca College from August 1 through 7. The camp is open to anyone that is 14 years old and older. Past attendees have included high school students, choral directors, college students, and professional musicians. Preformed ensembles are also encouraged to attend. The four members of the group, as well as longtime performers and educators Greg Jasperse and Jay Ashby,

will coach singers and groups in clinics and ensemble settings. Participants can also take classes on jazz history, vocal health, music theory, and a myriad of other subjects pertaining to the vocal jazz industry.

Camp director Kate Kooser said, “There is no place I’d rather be than watching the New York Voices Vocal Jazz Camp unfold every summer. The connections fostered at camp last forever, and have built a community of vocal jazz enthusiasts from all over the world!”• For more information visit newyorkvoices. com

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performance as New York Voices. In 1989 they signed a record deal with GRP records and released their debut album, called New York Voices, to critical acclaim.

In the ensuing years they have released 12 CDs and experienced some personnel changes. Sarah Krieger left in 1992, and the group welcomed Lauren Kinhan.

Caprice Fox vacated her position in 1994.

After her departure, the group decided to remain a quartet.

They are known for their close-knit voicings, inspired arrangements, and unparalleled vocal blend. The group’s musical influences have roots in Brazilian music, pop, rhythm and blues, classical music, and, of course, jazz. They often put a unique and unexpected twist on

all have successful solo careers. Peter Eldridge is set to release his fifth solo album on July 22. This is his most diverse effort, and he combines an eclectic range of styles from jazz to alternative to country. His latest release includes seven original songs and five song arrangements from some of his favorite artists. The All Music Guide has said that “Peter Eldridge belongs in the celebrated tradition of melodic poets, most famously represented by such disparate voices as Stevie Wonder, Joni Mitchell, James Taylor, and Van Morrison: singer/ songwriters who create catchy, beautiful tunes with insightful lyrics that are both personal and universal.”

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IT: This was parodied in Airplane! (1980) TR: Yes. [laughs.] Well, we haven’t got that, because technically, I don’t think we have the rights to do that, because that was something that was in the film but not in the book. It was a brilliant image for the film. There’s a scene on the beach where the lovers go, and there’s some importance there, but the actual “washing” of the sea over them doesn’t happen. I think it’s something that technically could be done, but it would seem to me (a) we haven’t really got permission to do it, and (b) it would be a bit of a distraction, really. It would cost a lot of money just for one scene. So if you’re coming to see that, you’d better go

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TR: Well, this is quite a big show in many respects. Certainly in London, we had some pretty special effects for Pearl Harbor, which is a key factor of the story.

And I’m sure we’ll achieve that again here, but it’s not all about spectacle. It’s a plot with two love stories which become intertwined. [There are] four principal characters, two men, two women, and it’s also about military life in the war, even though the soldiers in the beginning of the play, don’t realize obviously that America is about to be thrown into the war, even though everybody at the time was pretty certain America would get into the war, because the Japanese out of the blue bombed Pearl Harbor.

IT: How involved have you been with this? Did you come in for the casting, or did you let them get on with it?

TR: Well, we were involved.

We came over to look at the auditions; we were very much involved with the final auditions. We had something like, I was told, 4000 people auditioning, and they were somehow, I don’t know Disney’s 1991 film “Beauty and the Beast” (Photo Provided) how, cut down to about a hundred. And about three or four months ago, some of us—me, Stuart, Donald [Rice], who wrote the book—sat in on the and watch the film again.

IT: Can you talk about working with final auditions, which were two or three Andrew Lloyd Weber as opposed to Elton days of extensive work, and helped Brett John (The Lion King)? choose. And I think we made some good TR: I think there are more similarities choices. It was encouraging to see what than differences. If you’re gonna write a good selection there was. Now I’m in with somebody, you’ve basically gotta be there every day, because we came over a fan of their work, and that’s obviously 10 days ago, and we’ve been very much the case with Andrew and Elton. The big involved in the final process. We’ve got difference between the two is that Elton about a week to go. wants the words first, and Andrew, like IT: How does it feel? most composers, prefers to write the tune TR: Well, I’m amazed at the speed and without knowing exactly what the lyrics the way Brett puts everything together, are going to be, although he’ll obviously especially with a score that is unknown have an idea of what sort of song is and with a piece that’s brand new. So it’s required. So that’s the big difference, and quite a tough call so far, and I’m amazed when I was working with Elton, I hadn’t at what he’s done, really done it that way round before. I IT: And this is based more on the novel was sort of thinking, do I write a poem? more than the film?

TR: It is based on the novel. Well, the film, Imagine my own tune? But it was good, because I was doing what I felt I could do which was a great film, which came out reasonably well, i.e., write words. But I in 1953, is based on the book as well, and was doing it with a different inspiration. the film guys got the rights for the book I had a blank sheet of paper, and I didn’t and made the film. We wanted to go back have a tune, but I would then send the to the source. I mean, the film is a great lyric off to Elton, and suggest … usually film, but it only dealt with certain aspects of the story, and we wanted the right if we I’d say, “This one is kind of in the feel wanted to, to deal with one or two aspects of Daniel” or “This might be the feel of Goodbye, Yellow Brick Road” or “This is a that weren’t in the film. In essence, of bit like I’m Still Standing.” I would usually course, it’s the same story, but it’s based use one of his songs just to imply what on the book, not the film. sort of tune I felt fitted that scene.

IT: Of course, the iconic image from the IT: “This is an up-tempo, this is a ballad.” film is Burt Lancaster and Deborah Kerr TR: Yeah, yeah, exactly. The composer, … whether he’s already got lyrics or not, has TR: Yeah, yeah. to know what song is required. If you’re IT: … rolling around on the beach. writing a tender love scene, you don’t TR: With the waves crashing around want to have a violent rock number. • them.

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El Caminos | 8:00 PM-11:00 PM | Two Goats Brewing, 5027 State Rte 414, Burdett | Rock and Roll, Country, Folk, Blues, Americana.

WonderMonday | 9:00 PM | Silver Line Tap Room, 19 W Main St, Trumansburg | Indie Rock, Art Rock, Pop. Ladies Night Out Club Dance Party | 9:00 PM-1:30 AM | Oasis Dance Club, 1230 Danby Road, Ithaca | Privatized Air, Glacier Erotics, Stone Flies | 10:00 PM | Lot 10 Lounge, 106 S Cayuga St, Ithaca | Rock, Garage Rock, Alternative Rock, Indie Rock, Blues, Hard Rock.

7/16 Saturday 2nd Annual Carnival of Sounds Festival | 12:00 PM-11:30 PM | Americana Vineyards, 4367 E Covert Rd, Interlaken | Featuring Gunpoets, Blind Spots, Sim Redmond Band, Jeff ove Band, The Fly Rods, Stone Cold Miracle, Perry City 5, Glacial Erotics, Lora Pendleton & Pat Burke, Transistor Radio, Papa Muse, The Yardvarks, and Grey Wolf Jam. Rock, Blues, Americana, Folk, Pop, Funk, Experimental, Chamber Music, Country, Rap, Hip Hop, Gospel, R&B. The Jeff Love Band | 12:00 PM-3:00 PM | Holiday in Homer, Homer Village Green, Homer | Funk, Soul, R&B, Rock, Gospel.

The Grey Wolf Band | 2:00 PM-6:00 PM | Thirsty Owl Winery, Rt. 89, Romulus | Early Rock and Roll, Country, Blues.

Hysteresis | 2:00 PM-5:00 PM | Heavily Brewing Co., 2471 Hayes Rd, Montour

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The Small Kings | 6:00 PM- | Grist Iron Brewing, 4880 NY-414, Burdett | Rock, Pop, Blues.

The Profuslies | 7:00 PM-10:00 PM | Heavily Brewing Co., 2471 Hayes Rd, Montour Falls | Americana, Oldies, Rock, Blues.

Deveroe, Dapper Dan | 8:00 PM- | Ransom Steele Tavern, 552 Main St, Apalachin | Rock, Americana, Covers, Reggae, Dub. The Spectacular Average Boys | 9:00 PM- | Two Goats Brewing, 5027 State Rte 414, Burdett | Rock, Folk.

Ironwood | 9:00 PM- | Silver Line Tap Room, 19 W Main St, Trumansburg | Country, Roots, Blues, Modern Folk.

Pollen | 10:00 PM- | Lot 10 Lounge, 106 S Cayuga St, Ithaca | Indie Rock.

7/17 Sunday Cool Club of Hector | 11:00 AM-2:00 PM | StoneCat Cafe, 5315 Rt 414, Hector | Groove, Jazz.

Music and Mimosas: with Tribal Revival Duo | 12:00 PM-3:00 PM | Hosmer Winery, 6999 State Route 89, Ovid | Spend your Sunday afternoons this summer at Hosmer Winery with live entertainment from Tribal Revival Duo: Marc & Tom and fresh made mimosas. Beer and wine also available by the glass and bottle.

Jerome Attardo and Guests | 1:00 PM-4:00 PM | Moosewood Restaurant, 215 N Cayuga St Ste 70, Ithaca | Classical Piano with Guest Instrumentalists.

Rocky Burning | 2:00 PM- | Grist Iron Brewing, 4880 NY-414, Burdett | Acoustic Soul.

The Family Ties | 4:00 PM-7:00 PM | Two Goats Brewing, 5027 State Rte 414, Burdett | Indie Rock, Rock, Jazz.

The Hilltoppers | 4:00 PM-6:00 PM | Americana Vineyards, 4367 E Covert Rd, Interlaken | Bluegrass.

Al Hartland Trio | 6:00 PM-10:00 PM | Maxie’s Supper Club & Oyster Bar, 635 W State St, Ithaca | Jazz.

AJ Strauss | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM | The Antlers, 1159 Dryden Rd, Ithaca | Honky-tonk blues and ragtime piano.

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CFCU Summer Concert Series | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM | Downtown Ithaca, Center ithaca, Ithaca | Each week a killer band plays for free downtown.

Colin Hay and The Milk Carton Kids | 8:00 PM | Smith Opera House For The Performing Arts, 82 Seneca St, Geneva | Pop. Marie Burns and Friends | 8:00 PM-11:00 PM | New Park Event Centre, 1500 Taughannock Blvd, Trumansburg | Food and beverages provided by Agava.

Elephant Sound Karaoke | 8:00 PM-12:00 AM | Rulloff’s Restaurant, 411 College Ave Ste 1, Ithaca | AJ Strauss | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM | The Antlers, 1159 Dryden Rd, Ithaca | Honky-tonk blues and ragtime piano.

7/19 Tuesday MSZM | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM | Rongovian Embassy, 1 W. Main St., Trumansburg | Jazz, Avant-Garde, Electronic.

Max Garcia Conover | 6:00 PM-10:00 PM | Maxie’s Supper Club & Oyster Bar, 635 W State St, Ithaca | Modern Folk.

Professor Tuesday’s Jazz Quartet | 8:00 PM-10:00 PM | Madeline’s Restaurant, 215 E State St, Ithaca | Jazz.

Tuesday Bluesday with Dan Paolangeli & Friends | 6:00 PM | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Blues, Rock, Every Tuesday.

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Depot Friday Nights | 7:00 PM | Newark Valley Depot, Depot Street, Newark Valley | Live music every Friday.

Chris Thile & Bela Fleck | 8:00 PM | Smith Opera House For The Performing Arts, 82 Seneca St, Geneva | Progressive Bluegrass, Neofolk, Bluegrass.

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Dryden Music Series: Pete Panek and The Blue Cats | 6:00 PM | VFW, 2272 Dryden Rd, Dryden | House Rockin’ Chicago Blues.

Journey, Doobie Brothers | 7:00 PM | Lakeview Amphitheater, 490 Restoration Way, Syracuse | Rock, Pop, Hard Rock, Progressive Rock, Blues Rock, Boggie.

Concerts In The Park: Pasty White & Double Wide | 7:00 PM | Hickories Park, Hickories Park Road, Owego | Kick back in the grass and enjoy free concerts by local and regional musicians.

From Here to Eternity | 7:30 PM | Merry-Go-Round Playhouse, 6877 E Lake Rd, Auburn | Sir Tim Rice’s new musical makes its US premiere right

Yanni | 8:00 PM | CMAC, Marvin Sands Dr., Canandaigua | Contemporary, Instrumental, Crossover, World, New-Age.

7/17 Sunday Jazz Greats at Glenora Wine Cellars: Nelson Rangell and Marc Antoine | 2:00 PM | Glenora Wine Cellars, 5435 State Route 14, Dundee | Spend the day listening to great jazz musicians, overlooking the vineyards and Seneca Lake. www.glenora.com/jazz

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Loren Barrigar and Mark Mazengarb | 8:00 PM | Trumansburg Conservatory of Fine Arts, Congress at McLallen St, Trumansburg | International Guitar Duo. Americana, Jazz, Country Western, Classical.

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Family Movie Night with Electra Woman & Dyna Girl | 7:00 PM-9:30 PM, 7/15 Friday | Groton Public Library, 112 E Cortland St, Groton | New remake of the 1970s television series! Full of fun and humor for all ages! Followed by an episode of the original show! Free Pizza. Sponsored by the Friends of the Library. 898-5055 or email director@ grotonpubliclibrary.org

7/19 Tuesday Music in the Hollow: The Small Kings | 6:00 PM | Ellis Hollow Community Center, 111 Genung Rd, Ithaca | Original roots rock.

Mike Cheng-Yu Lee and Wayne Lee | 7:30 PM | Klarman Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca | Violinist and fortepianist present works by Mozart, Schubert, and Beethoven

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Cornell Summer Films: Stranger on a Train | 9:30 PM, 7/13 Wednesday | Willard Straight Theatre, Cornell, Ithaca | Doors at 8:15 p.m. / Screening at 9:30 p.m. A psychotic socialite confronts a pro tennis star with a theory on how two complete strangers can get away with murder - a theory that he plans to implement. | 101 mins PG | The Wave | 6:00 PM, 7/13 Wednesday | BorgWarner Room, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Directed by acclaimed filmmaker Roar Uthaug, “The Wave”

Swiss Army Man| A hopeless man stranded in the wilderness befriends a dead body and together they go on a surreal journey to get home. | 95mins R | The Innocents | In 1945 Poland, a young French Red Cross doctor who is sent to assist the survivors of the German camps discovers several nuns in advanced states of pregnancy

during a visit to a nearby convent. | 115 mins PG-13 | Our Kind of Traitor | A couple find themselves lured into a Russian oligarch’s plans to defect are soon positioned between the Russian Mafia and the British Secret Service, neither of whom they can trust. |117 mins R | Tickled | Journalist David Farrier stumbles upon a mysterious tickling competition online. As he delves deeper he comes up against fierce resistance, but that doesnt stop him getting to the bottom of a story stranger than fiction. | 92 mins R | The Lobster | In a dystopian near future, single people, according to the laws of The City, are taken to The Hotel, where they are obliged to find a romantic partner in forty-five days or are transformed into beasts and sent off into The Woods. | 119 mins R | Love & Friendship | Lady Susan Vernon takes up temporary residence at her in-laws’ estate and, while there, is determined to be a matchmaker for her daughter Frederica -- and herself too, naturally. |92 mins PG |

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Exercise Your Mind at TCPL: Ithaca Journeys | 10:00 AM, 7/13 Wednesday | Treman Triangle Park, , Ithaca | Free hiking program designed to encourage community members to get active while exploring local natural settings.

Advance registration is required by emailing summerread@tcpl.org Ithaca Sociable Singles Dinner | 6:00 PM-, 7/13 Wednesday | Crossroads Bar And Grill, 3120 N Triphammer Rd, Lansing | RSVP nlem1155@gmail.com Planned Parenthood Volunteer Orientation | 5:30 PM-6:30 PM, 7/13

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Rongovian Embassy, Thursday, July 14, 9:00 p.m.

This dazzling and heartfelt musical tells the story of the unsung heroes of the Broadway stage - the dedicated, talented and overworked chorus dancers. Based on dancer’s actual personal stories, the show brings to life the hope, the dream and the thrill of a Broadway audition. With one captivating song and dance after another, this show is also a brilliant metaphor for all human aspiration. The show is a must-see for anyone with the dream of achieving a life goal, whether it is in show business or not!

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991 State Hwy 12 (3 mi S of Greene), Greene | On the eve of his birthday, Nat’s old high school flame returns for her mother’s burial (she died months before, but the ground was too frozen to bury her!), and walks into the convenience store Nat and his dad run. Performances run July 8 - 31, Thursdays through Saturdays at 7:30 p.m., plus Sunday matinees at 2 pm.

Tickets can now be purchased online at www.chenangorivertheatre.org, or by emailing tickets@chenangorivertheatre.org. 607-656-8499.

Wrongful Rustlings at the Rhombus R Ranch | Old Havana Courthouse Theatre, 408 W Main St., Montour Falls | Runs July 8, 9, 15 and 16 at 7:00 p.m., and July 10 and 17 at 2:00 p.m. A western themed story of love and skulduggery set on the texas plains in the mid 1800’s. There’s a sinister villan, a charming heroine a city slicker and granny and Cookie for fun.

The Ithaca Shakespeare Company: A Tiger’s Heart | Allan Treman State Park, Taughannock Blvd. (Rt.89), Ithaca | When Henry V dies and leaves his young son on the throne, the divisions in the kingdom break open and England erupts into civil war. For dates and showtimes visit ithacashakespeare. org

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Wedge Season: James Joyce’s The Dead | Hangar Theatre, 801 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Runs July Thursday, 14th and Friday, 15th, and both shows begin immediately following the Hangar Theatre’s Mainstage performances.The Feast of Epiphany and its revelation approach.

In celebration, you are formally invited to the Misses Morkan’s Annual Dance.

Dublin, Ireland. 1904. Come, let your soul swoon with us.

Til Death Do Us Part: Late Nite Catechism 3 | 8:00 PM, 7/14 Thursday | Auburn Public Theater, 108 Genesee St, Auburn | Til Death Do Us Part is the latest class to be unveiled in this sinfully funny series. After teaching countless students about the saints, venial sins, limbo and more, Sister is now offering up hilarious lessons on the Sacraments of Marriage and Last Rites, including her own wacky version of the Newlywed Game.

Hello Dolly: Open Auditions | Elmira Little Theatre Building, 1000 Laurel St., Elmira | Bring a prepared song (it does not need to be from the show), and clothes to move in. Also bring a list of any conflicts you may have between 7/18 and 10/16. If you are interested in auditioning but are unavailable on these dates, please contact 607-796-0646 to set up an alternate audition time. Performance dates for the show are: Oct 7-9 and Oct 14-16.

Barry Crimmins | 7:00 PM, 7/16 Saturday | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Stand up comedy.

Pinocchio | Performances are offered on July 14, 16, 22 and 23 all at 10:00 AM. | Cortland Repertory Theatre, Dwyer Memorial Park Pavilion, Preble | In this funny, charming and interactive re-telling of the classic Italian tale, lonely Gepetto the woodcarver longs to have a son to whom he can pass on his knowledge of woodcarving and artistry.

From Here to Eternity | Through July 30. | M erry-Go-Round Playhouse, 6877 E Lake Rd, Auburn | Sir Tim Rice’s new musical makes its US premiere right here in Auburn. Tickets and info at fingerlakesmtf.com/2016-season/ from-here-to-eternity/index.html In The Heights | Hangar Theatre, 801 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Winner of four Tony Awards including Best Musical, In the Heights uses contemporary music and dance to tell the story of the American Dream. For showtimes visit www.hangartheatre.org Running to Places presents: Rent | Kitchen Theatre Company, 417 West State / MLK, Jr. St., Ithaca | Runs July 6-17. The groundbreaking Tony Award-winning Broadway classic Rent comes to life in the Running to Places (R2P) production of the school edition.

The production is part of the Kitchen Theatre Company’s Kitchen Sink Series.

West Side Story | Cortland Repertory Theatre, Dwyer Memorial Park Pavilion, Preble | One of the greatest musicals of all time in its CRT debut! In this breathtaking musical, two rival gangs struggle for control of their west side New York City neighborhood.

The Ithaca Shakespeare Company: Twelfth Night | Allan Treman State Park, Taughannock Blvd. (Rt. 89), Ithaca | An exploration of love in all its forms, the crowning glory of Shakespeare’s romantic comedies is a richly layered and endlessly entertaining play. For dates and showtimes visit ithacashakespeare.org Last Gas | Chenango River Theatre,

Wednesday | Planned Parenthood, Ithaca Health and Education Center, 620 W Seneca St, Ithaca | Join to learn about all services, opportunities, and how you can get involved with PPSFL. You’ll meet staff and other volunteers, and be able to ask any and all questions that you have about volunteering. Info at volunteering@ppsfl.org.

The Vitamin L Project is seeking advisory board members | Please consider joining the Vitamin L advisory board. For more information, please contact Janice Nigro at (607) 273-4175 or vitaminLproject@hotmail.com or board chair Kathleen O’Neil at (607) 257-5543 or oneil_kathleen@yahoo. com Special Evening Hike in Fillmore Glen | 4:30 PM-, 7/13 Wednesday | The CayugaTrails Club will lead a Special Evening Hike. Start time is 4:30 PM. For Further details about this hike visit our website at www.cayugatrailsclub.org.

American Red Cross Blood Drives | Wednesday, July 13th 1:30pm to 6:30pm at the Ithaca Moose Lodge, Thursday, July 14th 11am to 5pm at Tabernacle Baptist Church, Friday, July 15th 1pm to 6pm at the Danby Federated Church, Saturday, July 16th 8am to 1pm at All Saints Catholic Church Lansing, Tuesday, July 19th 1:30pm to 6:30pm at Enfield Fire Department.

Wednesday Night Ithaca Women’s Basketball Association: Open to girls & women ages 16 & up | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM, 7/13 Wednesday | Lehman Alternative Community School, 111 Chestnut St, Ithaca | The league is non-competitive and fun and involves pick-up style playing. Check out the league’s website for more information: https://ithacawomensbasketball. wordpress.com/ East Hill Ithaca Farmers’ Market | 4:00 PM-7:00 PM, 7/13 Wednesday | Located next to Rite Aid, Pine Tree Rd., Ithaca | The Market features local produce, local organic and pasture raised meats, baked goods, plants and more! For more information on area markets, visit www.ithacamarket.com.

Trumansburg Central School All Class Reunion | If you graduated from Trumansburg Central School, mark your calendars and plan to attend the All Class Reunion on Saturday, July 30,

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San Diego’s Garage rockers Privatized Air bring their sunny doom to Lot 10 this Friday, July 15 at 10:00 p.m. Grab some shades! (Photo: provided) at the Trumansburg Fairgrounds. It’s a wonderful event to reconnect with classmates and past teachers. There will be food and fun activities. Mad Dog ’77 band will be performing at 6 pm with fireworks at night. Info at www. tcsalumni.com 1*2*3 Gluten Free | 7:00 AM-1:00 PM, 7/15 Friday | Triphammer Marketplace, , Ithaca | Try out delicious gluten free and vegan baked goods.

Info: (240) 538-3917.

Hiking the Letchworth Trail | Letchworth State Park, 1 Letchworth State Park, Castile | Runs Sunday, July 17, Monday, July 19 and Tuesday, July 20. The Cayuga Trails Club will be leading a three day, three hike series in Letchworth State Park. The hikes are suitable for casual hikers and those interested in hiking the Finger Lakes Trail end-to end. For further details about these hikes visit our website at www.cayugatrailsclub.org.

Certified Foster, Adoptive, or Respite Parent Meeting | 12:00 PM-, 7/19 Tuesday | Human Services Building, 320 W. MLK Jr. St., Ithaca | If you are interested in making a difference in the life of a child, are over 21, and have room in your heart and home, consider attending this informational meeting to learn more

information. More info at 274-5266.

Pickleball at the Ithaca YMCA | 9:30 AM-2:00 PM, 7/19 Tuesday | Ymca, Graham Rd W, Ithaca | Pickleball at the Ithaca YMCA. Tuesdays & Thursdays from 9:30 am – 2:00 pm Cayuga Trails Club Tuesday Evening Hike Series | The Cayuga Trails Club will lead a 4-5 mile hike. Hike locations vary each week. For current information, call 607-339-5131 or visit www.cayugatrailsclub.org.

Circle for Healthy Eating and Wellness (CHEW) | 6:00 PM-7:30 PM, 7/19 Tuesday | Just Be Cause Center, 1013 W State St, Ithaca | A peer-facilitated support group for people in recovery or recovered from eating disorders. An affiliate of Anorexia Nervosa and Associated Disorders (ANAD). Info at chewithaca@ gmail.com

Learning Katy Payne: Singing Whales, Deep-Rumbling Elephants: What Their Sounds Reveal about their Minds | 7:00 PM-, 7/13 Wednesday | Call Auditorium, Kennedy Hall, Cornell, Ithaca | Free summer lectures at Cornell.

Lacto-Fermentation 101 | 7:00 PM-8:30 PM, 7/13 Wednesday | GreenStar Cooperative Market, 700 W Buffalo St, Ithaca | Learn how to make probiotic, live-culture ferments from some of Ithaca’s professional picklers, Silas Conroy and Anna McCown of Crooked Carrot Fermentery. There will be lots of samples to taste. Registration is required - sign up online at greenstar. coop or at GreenStar’s Customer Service Desk or call 273-9392.

Beginner Belly Dancing Series | 6:30 PM-7:30 PM, 7/13 Wednesday | BorgWarner Room, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Tompkins County Public Library invites adults of all ages to exercise their minds and bodies this summer by joining Belly Dancing Basics With Regina, a four-part introduction to belly dancing. To register or for more information, contact Teresa Vadakin at tvadakin@tcpl.org.

Ithaca’s Invasives: How to Identify and Control | 6:30 PM-, 7/14 Thursday | Shirley Raffensburger Gazebo, East Ithaca Recreation Way, Ithaca | The Town of Ithaca Conservation Board presents a hands-on introduction to some of Ithaca’s invasive plant species, the reasons and methods for controlling them, and their relationship with the Town’s overly large whitetail deer population. For more information about the event, please contact the Town of Ithaca Planning Department at 607-273-1747 or msmith@town. ithaca.ny.us.

Ithaca Music Pioneers: Patsy Conway & Hollis Dann | 2:00 PM-, 7/16 Saturday | History Center, 401 E State St, Ithaca | Presentation by Corey Ryan Earle on the impact Patsy Conway and Hollis Dann had on local and national band and choral music in the early twentieth century.

CRAFT Network Farm Tour: Main Street Farms | 1:00 PM-4:00 PM, 7/17 Sunday | Main Street Farms, 116 N. West St., Homer | More info: groundswellcenter.org/events/ Groundswell Technical Course: Grazing & Pasture Management – Permanent and Temporary Fencing and Watering Options | 5:00 PM-8:00 PM, 7/18 Monday | Black Pearl Creamery, 3227 Halseyville Rd., Trumansburg | More info: groundswellcenter.org/events/

Kids Exploring Science! | 10:30 AM-11:00 AM, 7/13 Wednesday | Sciencenter, 601 1st St., Ithaca | Engage with your

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Craft Night | 7:00 AM-, 7/14 Thursday | Groton Public Library, 112 E Cortland St, Groton | Get Creative with: Rock Painting, Clothespin Critters, Cup & Ball Toy, and Beaded Key Chains. All supplies provided. Kids of all ages welcome. Younger children will need Parental Supervision.

SonQuest Rainforest Vacation Bible School | 12:00 AM-11:59 PM, 7/17 Sunday | Allen Memorial Baptist Church, 8 Church St., Candor | Runs Sunday, July 17 to Friday, July 22 from 6:00pm – 8:30pm. Contact: 659-5335.

Preregister at ambccandor.com Circus Culture Workshop | 12:00 PM-1:00 PM, 7/18 Monday | BorgWarner Room, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Circus Culture instructors will teach children and families of all ages and abilities how to juggle, hula hoop, walk on a tight wire, form basic pyramids and more. For more information about the Library’s one-hour, drop-in program, contact Youth Services Librarian Kate DeVoe at kdevoe@tcpl.org or (607) 272-4557 extension 277.

Game on Summer: Larger than Life | 3:00 PM-5:00 PM, 7/18 Monday | BorgWarner Room, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | An opportunity for gamers to try out giant versions of some of their favorite games, including Hungry, Hungry Hippos, Jenga, Angry Birds, live-action Wizards Chess and more. Popular Game On selections Exploding Kittens, Magic the Gathering and Dungeons and Dragons will also be available during this free, family-friendly weekly program.

For more information, contact Teen Services Librarian Regina DeMauro at rdemauro@tcpl.org. or (607) 272-4557 extension 274.

Anime Club | 4:15 PM-6:00 PM, 7/19 Tuesday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Anime Club is open to young adults ages 11 through 19 with an interest in anime and Manga.Participants will watch films, discuss titles and share what they are reading during free Club sessions.

For more information, contact Teen Services Librarian Regina DeMauro at rdemauro@tcpl.org or (607) 272-4557 extension 274.

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13th Annual Waverly Car & Truck Show | 5:30 PM-8:00 PM, 7/13 Wednesday | East Waverly Park, , Waverly | Each year classic, antique, street rods and muscle cars and trucks converge from all over the Southern Tier of New York and northern Bradford County, PA. Throughout the evening, spectators can vote on their favorite and then trophies are given out at the end of the event. For more info call Sarah Rayle at 607-589-7600, ext.

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Sunset Music Series | 6:00 PM-, 7/14 Thursday | Six Mile Creek Vineyard, 1551 Slaterville Rd, Ithaca | Every Thursday Night. Acoustic music. Listings and info at sixmilecreek.com Syracuse Nationals | 8:00 AM-6:00 PM, 7/15 Friday | New York State Fairgrounds, 581 State Fair Blvd., Syracuse | More info at rightcoastcars. com Finger Lakes Wine Festival | Runs July 15, 16, 17. Watkins Glen International, 2790 County Road 16, Watkins Glen | Finger Lakes Wine Festival presented by Yancey’s Fancy.

The Finger Lakes Wine Festival offers the largest showcase of wines produced in New York State with over 80 wineries paired with regional artisans, live music, culinary classes and cooking demonstrations.

34th Annual Antique Boat Show and 33rd Annual Regatta | 9:00 PM-5:00 PM, 7/16 Saturday | Keuka Lake, Hammondsport | The event features free admission to a display of antique and classic boats featuring Classic Wooden and Fiberglass boats on beautiful Keuka Lake. Judged show and parade of boats Saturday. Regatta on Sunday. Race boat regatta held on beautiful Keuka Lake in the Finger Lakes.

2nd Annual Ithaca Police Department Community BBQ | 12:00 PM-3:00 PM, 7/16 Saturday | Southside Community Center, 305 S Plain St, Ithaca | Food, music, face painting, bouncy house, raffle, and more.

Chocoholics Celebration | 9:30 AM-6:00 PM, 7/16 Saturday | Varick Winery & Vineyard, 5102 State Route 89, Cayuga Lake Wine Trail, Romulus | Celebrate National Milk Chocolate Day and indulge your sweet tooth with complimentary milk chocolate treats.

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This annual music event brings together over a dozen different musical groups for one awesome day of music. With two stages playing throughout the entire event, there is always something fun going on. The event is open to all ages and is perfect for anyone looking for a day of good music and good times. Special guests include The Gunpoets, Sim Redmond Band, The Blind Spots (pictured), and a whole bunch of rocking local talent.

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89th Annual Ukrainian Days Weekend Festival | St. John’s Parkway, Harry L Drive, Johnson City | Runs July 16 and July 17, 11:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. Ukrainian Food, Pastries, Arts & Crafts, Outdoor Grill, Games for Children & Church Tour. For Additional Information Visit Our Website at stjohnuoc.org Finger Lakes Finns Summer Picnic | 1:00 PM-, 7/17 Sunday | North Van Community Church/Union Free Church of North Van Etten, Langford creek Rd and Brink Road, Van Etten | What to bring: Dish to pass and serving utensil and your own table service. www. fingerlakesfinns.org Sterling Renaissance Festival | The 40th Anniversary Season at the Sterling Renaissance Festival! Show schedule, special events, and more at www. sterlingfestival.com.

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or those that say the era of the renaissance (wo)man is over, you need look no further than Ithaca’s own emerging virtuoso ‘Remstar’. He’s a community visionary, social architect, and multitalented musician whose hands are stirring pots all shapes and sizes around town. Yes, bold words for an even bolder man. In a given week, you may find Remstar at Sacred Root’s monthly open mic night of spoken word holding space with his blend of hip-hop, poetry, and performance art. Or maybe at Congo Square Market, where he acts as talent manager, director of marketing, and resident hip-hop dance instructor.

Or leading a parade across the Commons as a trumpeter in Fall Creek Brass Band.

Or at New Roots Charter School typing away, conducting research on the supply chains of our region’s restaurants and farms for Ithacash—our city’s latest system of alternative currency exchange.

But don’t be fooled. Remstar is not the unabashed, fast-talking extrovert that these titles typically evoke; no, he’s more much more butterfly than bee.

An honest introvert, Remanu Steele was raised an only child on Long Island, went to a small, cliqueless private school, and spent much of his childhood preferring to remain as unnoticeable as

Saturday | Municipal Parking Lot, George St., Dryden | Enjoy the beautiful gardens and original art on display in each garden. Walking tour through the historic district of Dryden Village, Maps are available the day of the tour. Contact: Dryden Beautification at Facebook or drydenbeautification. weebly.com

Books Rodney Dietert | 5:30 PM, 7/14 Thursday | Buffalo Street Books, 215 N Cayuga St, Ithaca | Celebrate the release of Rodney Dietert’s new book, The Human Superorganism: How the Microbiome is Revolutionizing the Pursuit of a Healthy Life.

ongoing Benjamin Peters | 120 The Commons, Ithaca | Catherine Montgomery: Illustrations. This collection of bright and beautiful illustrations by local artist Catherine Montgomery, feature intricate figurative and floral patterns in gleaming gilt images | www. benjaminpeters.com Buffalo Street Books | 215 N. Cayuga St., Ithaca | 10:00 AM-8:00 PM, daily | 273-8246 | Rafe Harpending: Amateur Hour. A mix of geometric and

Art Artist’s Reception: Suzanne Onodera and Stan Taft | 5:00 PM-7:00 PM, 7/15 Friday | Corners Gallery, 903 Hanshaw Rd Ste 3, Ithaca | Summer show, two person exhibit. www.cornersgallery.com Dryden Open Gate Garden and Art Tour | 9:00 AM-2:00 PM, 7/16

possible. A quiet visionary developed from the hours of indulging in his quirky thoughts, Remstar reflects on his childhood as a contented time of being alone, reading, playing video games — standard kid stuff.

Arriving to Cornell in 2008, Remstar was “truly shy,” though, he was struck by his fellow students. During the day, he’d walk across campus and watch students dart their eyes, avoiding human contact in the flurry and stress of the day. Then, come nightfall, the same students would overtake the streets of Collegetown, boisterous and even belligerent, like a guild of gremlin-people. This juxtaposition struck a chord with the innocent freshman and helped spark his transformation from fly on the wall to glib prankster. He told himself as the true solipsist would, “I know what shy is, and these kids are not shy.”

Fast forward four years, a degree, and a penchant for consciousnessraising, Remstar has realized his heart beats hard in his adopted home upstate. His passing thoughts have been cultivated into visions and his prankster tendencies honed in through careful organizing and what we see now is a man whose commitment to his community are only matched by his love of the zany, the socially queer, those circumstances that suspend our tried conventions even for a moment.

His pursuits may range in scope, but his motivations remain constant. You can find his music on his Soundcloud (soundcloud.com/grotski) and come holiday season, give his eccentric Christmas album Remstar Santa Deluxe Edition a listen (remstar3.bandcamp.

stylized landscape illustrations. | www. buffalostreetbooks.com CAP ArtSpace | Center Ithaca, The Commons, Ithaca | Personal Abstractions: Paintings and Collages by Laura Glenn. | www.artspartner.org Cellar d’Or | 136 E. State/MLK Street, on the Commons, Ithaca | Gabe Carraher, “En plein air”, featuring oils and watercolors done in California. | www.thecellardor.com Collegetown Bagels | 203 North Aurora Street, Ithaca | Nature Made.

Don’t let modernization make you forget the taste of real food. | collegetownbagels.com Community School of Music and Arts | 330 E.State / MLK Street, Ithaca, NY 14850 | Fifteen: Celebrating 15 Years of the Quilt Divas. In celebration of their 15th anniversary, the Quilt Divas present an exhibition of contemporary fiber art by 23 past and present member artists. | www.csma-ithaca.org

Circus Culture in Press Bay Alley, Saturday, July 16, 8:00 p.m.

Ocean Music began in the summer of 2013 as a songwriting project for New York-based multi-disciplinary artist and healer Richard Aufrichtig, and has since evolved into a raucous and rousing fourpiece live band. They have been described as “an explosive update on Replacements-Pixies- Van Morrison, with interlocking guitars [and] pummeling rhythms; full of cathedreal beauty.” This concert will also feature Ithaca’s own Viva Mayhem, and the Brooklyn band The New Brood.

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I don’t want your money/Just your honey/ If you can feed me that would be yummy/I can see Jesus.

At first, the final line comes across as non-sequitur, but in the same way that poetry enters you from below, the lyric somehow clicks in the romantic feeling of being located in heart and soul. Like the line itself, Remstar is non-sequitur.

And busy too. Currently, he’s pouring

Décorum Too | Dewitt Mall | Barbara Mink will be showing works on paper at Decorum Too through July. | 319-0944 or visit www.decorum-too. com Eye Gallery | (126 The Commons Fl. 2) | Hitch Lyman & Domenica Brockman bring the lush expanse of the plant kingdom to the Commons.

Home Green Home | 215 East State/ MLK Street | Water & Life: Fernando Llosa and Ryan Curtis. An invitation into a spiritual experience of Nature, featuring two local nature-centered artists. | www.homegreenhome.com The Ink Shop | 330 E.State / MLK Street, Ithaca, NY 14850 | Conceivably Plausible/Heidi E. Marschner. This exhibit presents prints from the collections of Beauvais Lyons and Jennifer Scheuer that test the limits of belief. | www.ink-shop.org Lot 10 Lounge | 106 S. Cayuga St., Ithaca | Anke Hoffstaetter will be

Briel Driscoll that is best described as quietly disruptive public dance. An upcoming 12-hour durational work “interdependence” is slated for October 8.

He’s someone who will continue being a beacon and shining the beacon around town for years to come. •

displaying her abstract series at Lot 10 through August. | 607-272-7224 | www.lot-10.com Madeline’s Restaurant | 215 E State St, Ithaca | An exhibit of Guy Ciarcia’s Digital Art Paintings | guyciarcia.com PADMA Center | 114 W. Buffalo St., Ithaca | Patty Porter’s oil paintings and Drawn Meditations show an up-close and intimate interpretation of landscapes, both real and imagined. | www.padmacenter.com Rasa Spa | 310 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Trina Bartimer Bruno: Nature inspired mixed media paintings. June through end of August Sarah’s Patisserie | 130 E. Seneca St., Ithaca | 9:00 AM-10:00 PM, daily | The Map is Inside. A voyage of paintings and recycled creations by Alice Muhlback of Spirit and Kitsch. | www. sarahspatisserie.com/ State of the Art Gallery |120 W State St Ste 2, Ithaca | Bowman, Bowman,

and Kather. This is a lively and colorful mix of photographs, digital manipulations and sculpture by three gallery members during July. | www.soag.org Sunny Days of Ithaca | 123 S. Cayuga St., Ithaca | Landscape Paintings of Ithaca Scenes by Nari Mistry Landscapes in watercolors, acrylics, oils and a few pastel paintings make up much of his work. His paintings reflect his fascination with the theme of water in the natural landscape.

Waffle Frolic | 146 East State/MLK Street, Ithaca | Rose Gottlieb will be exhibiting select drawings. | www. wafflefrolicking.com

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Trumansburg Conservatory of Arts, Monday, July 18, 8:00 p.m.

This duo shares a unique musical chemistry and stage presence seldom found among musicians. Their diverse repertoire of original and arranged music consists of stunning guitar instrumentals as well as vocal duets, giving them wide appeal and strong audience connection. Influenced by Americana, Jazz, Country Western and Classical music, Loren and Marks unique style of guitar playing is an experience.

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His matter of fact performance style may leave the less astute of us thinking Remstar aloof.

Words barely fall from his mouth, and it’s not uncommon to have to strain to hear all of his musings. But rather than it be part of an insincere style of performance, it in fact reflects his inclination to not take cues from mere social convention alone.

Hardly one to scoff or use satire, he has Remanu Steele, a.k.a. Remstar (Photo Provided) remained curious and innocent in a world that has made energy into arranging his first song with it difficult to hold onto either.

Fall Creek Brass Band to be premiered In his track “Hiphoptical ‘Theme’” next summer as well as his latest he offers us an opening into his lateral performance endeavor, Spiral Cracks—a worldview: collaboration with movement artist

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Once inside you will find yourself standing on a brand new oak floor and will soon be delighted to find that it extends throughout the house.

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There is a wood-burning stove on the far side of the living room. It is raised off the floor about six inches on a very large, single flagstone slab. The wall in back of it is lined with brick.

An interior window has been added between the kitchen and the living room, letting light in from the southwest-facing side of the house.

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At A Glance Price: $199,000 Location: 31 Pease Street,

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Granite is in quotes because this is a beautiful green and black stone that is not technically a granite, but is instead something more exotic, but likely just as hard.

It is about now that you might notice the windows. All of the trim around them has been replaced with simple, wide, unrouted wood that has not been finished at all. This ties it in with the floors and the kitchen cabinets. In addition, all the windows have been replaced with energyefficient modern inserts.

The full bathroom is large with an especially deep tub and a shower. Old fashioned white hexagonal tiles cover Before you setthere foot isinathat first open the floor and pedestal sink, two house, mortgage thingsget youprequalified don’t expectfor toafind in a modernknow ranchexactly house. what you can afford. and One of the bedrooms is bigger than the other couldofserve Wetwo offerand plenty loan as a master bedroom. This latter room and one of the options and special forthird other bedrooms have programs closest. The first-time homebuyers. room could conceivably be joined to the master to make a master suite.

The basement is not finished, but And decisions take minutes, not days. the ceiling is quite high and it is very Happy shopping.* dry down there (an unusual thing in this

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village). There is a toilet in place next to the laundry machines. The foundation is raised so the windows look out to actual daylight. This space could easily be finished as an entire second level, effectively doubling the size of the house.

A very large deck has been added to the back. It extended across nearly the width of the house and is 14 feet deep. It has a southerly exposure and looks out on a large village lot that is almost entirely unlandscaped. The lawn rises steadily away from the house to a wood. Mature trees also line both adjacent property lines.

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Most of them are black walnut, but there is a huge cottonwood in the back corner.

The present owner has put up at least a cord of wood for next winter. It is neatly stacked next to the deck.

This is a residential portion of the village, but it only a two-block walk to the Main Street. There is a pleasant route down Gregg Street that leads to a foot bridge over Trumansburg Creek behind the post office.

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