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Remembering The Area’s Civil War Heritage

ravel back in time this summer. Hoop skirts. Civil War soldiers in full uniform. Listen to the crack of a musket and the thunder of a cannon. Take in the smell of the campfires. The Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War will present their Living History encampment June 23-24 on the grounds behind the Danby Community Church, 1859 Danby Road. All events are open to the public. The members of this historical group will be sleeping over, on the ground softened with straw, in period tents. During the weekend, they will be conducting cooking and shooting demonstrations, performing military drills, firing muskets and cannons, and re-enacting all aspects of life as it was known during the Civil War. Saturday morning from 8 to 10:00 a.m. breakfast will be served inside the church, followed by a walk to the Civil War monument that stands in front of the Danby Town Hall, 1830 Danby Road. A service will be held there to honor the memory of those Civil War soldiers who lost their lives in this devastating war. The Finger Lakes Fife and Drum Corp will be on hand to provide military music. At 4:00 p.m. Joe and the Rosebud Ramblers will perform back at the site of the encampment. There is a great deal of history and hard work behind these encampments. In 1866, Union Veterans of the Civil War organized the Grand Army of the Republic (GAR), a veterans’ group that became a powerful social and political force for more than six decades. Membership was granted to men who had served in the United States Army, Navy, Marine Corps, or Revenue Cutter Service during the Civil War. The GAR existed until 1956, when the last Union veteran died. In 1881, the GAR formed the Sons of the Veterans to carry on its traditions and continued on page 4

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Learning The Ancient Art Of... Lightsaber Combat?

tar Wars fans and students of the martial arts don’t seem to have much in common. One closely follows a tremendously popular — but fictitious — movie franchise, while the others commit themselves to practice an ancient East Asian form of combat. But one local class is combining the two to create a unique and popular course that offers participants a chance to learn fighting skills while simultaneously reenacting moves from their favorite movie series. Ithaca Sabers, which takes place every Monday evening from 7:30 to 8:30 p.m. at Centerline Fitness on Elmira Road, teaches students different forms of martial arts and fencing using the lightsaber – the signature plasma-sword from the Star Wars series – as a medium. The class, which had its first formal session on March 5th of this year, is taught by Dr. Benjamin N. Judkins. Judkins, who has a PhD in Political Science from Columbia University and is currently a visit-

ing scholar at Cornell’s East Asia Program, said he first thought about starting the class as an experiment related to his studies of history and martial arts. He wanted to see how people’s perception of history could affect the way they manifest their expression of cultural within the realm of martial arts. “I thought this would be a very interesting case of an art and practice that has no history or has history that is fictional.” he said. “As a social scientist I was fascinated by how this is going to affect people’s behavior when they know the history is coming out of a movie.” The other factor that inspired Judkin to start this class is his love of martial arts. As co-editor of the journal Martial Arts Studies and the co-author of The Creation of Wing Chun: A Social History of the Southern Chinese Martial Arts, his appreciation for the form is well-documented. Judkin is also the author of the martial arts themed blog Kung Fu Tea: Martial Arts History, Wing

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Chun and Chinese Martial Studies. Combining combat sports with the popular series Star Wars (something Judkin is also a big fan of) was a way, he saw, for him to be able to engage more individuals in a class revolving around martial arts. “I knew this [would be] a lot of fun and appeals to people and gets the sort of people into a martial arts classroom who have never studied a weapons system before, never did anything like this. The lightsaber makes this sort of practice very accessible,” he said. The structure of the roughly ten student class is similar to that of most martial arts courses. The hour begins with everyone meeting in a spread-out circle, theatrically illuminating their lightsabers and hoisting them up, and focusing their attention on Judkin who is ready to greet them and give them the day’s recap and instruction. The class shifts between group instruction and one-on-one practice as pupils are able to practice and improve their skills on each other, done so in an excited and enthusiastic manner. The class switches between Judkins demonstrating a new move, and students trying them out with each other, alternating partners after every round in order to switch things up and avoid too much repetition. Judkins is readily available whenever individual instruction is needed, but it usually isn’t as most of the students in the class are passionate about their craft and usually practice at home in-between classes. The Ithaca Sabers curriculum is based off of the teachings of the Terra Prime Light Armory (TPLA) a lightsaber martial arts group that Judkins is a member of. Their mission is to preserve historical practices, spread knowledge, and promote a healthy lifestyle using the lightsaber as a way to do so — the same goal of the Ithaca Sabers.

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Northside Weighs Development Moratorium

ueled by fear their neighborhood would soon be overrun by undergraduate students from Ithaca College, South Hill residents last year staged one of the more impressive

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public movements in the recent memory, showing up at public meeting after meeting in protest before finally forcing temporary zoning that, for the most part, has resembled a moratorium in all but name. A similar, albeit so far less vocal, movement could be brewing in Northside, as was mentioned at the last Common Council meeting. Second Ward Alderperson Ducson Nguyen, acting in response to constituent concerns about potential future density development in the area, confirmed he asked the Planning Department to look into the parameters of extending the overlay zoning district enacted over South Hill last fall to include the Northside neighborhood, which would effectively enact a soft moratorium of sorts on the neighborhood. Leading the charge in the early going, on behalf of Northside residents, is Joel Fredell, who first floated the possibility of a moratorium in front of Common Council. He submitted a 15-page packet to Common Council for consideration in favor of the moratorium as part of a threestep process: first a moratorium, then a referendum involving all three neighborhoods that share the same zoning in the area (Fall Creek, Southside, Northside) to gauge public opinion on the prospect of backyard infill development, followed by the development of a comprehensive 20–26 ,

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He said the action would be pre-emptive, but not necessarily unfounded: while there are no projects right now raising the ire of the neighborhood, one was just recently canceled that would have brought more duplexes to old rental properties on First Street that could have comfortably fit the new structures. The problems lie in what Fredell argues is a loophole in the neighborhood’s zoning. While duplex size and setbacks are spelled out, there is no actual limit on the number of duplexes per property lot. So, as long as there’s room on the lot and any zoning violations are waived by variances, the projects can continue, bringing what he says are new construction duplexes into backyards of existing properties that are bought by developers, seizing the opportunity to double up on the land. He doesn’t mention whether or not the neighborhood would be more amenable to the development if they served a more inneed housing demographic, but did say in his submitted packet that the suitability of the development opportunity presented by the zoning needs to be examined. “The projects under discussion are not mini-EcoVillages nor affordable housing, but concentrated clusters of rental properties charging market rates,” the packet states. “The suitability of these new duplex clusters in medium-

density residential neighborhoods needs further study and discussion.” Fredell said though there’s only been a few infill developments so far, he senses a larger shift in the type of density development. In this vein, his concerns echo those of South Hill, though instead of worrying about student misbehavior he’s more focused on the construction of rental properties where there could be home ownership potential, as well as a loss of greenspace. “The underlying thing is that the zoning hasn’t been changed since the 1970s,” Fredell said. “Essentially, the developers or landlords who buy these residential housing lots in Ithaca, if it’s a big lot, they’re getting a downtown building lot for free, for the price of buying the one property in the first place, which is quite precious.” Planning Director JoAnn Cornish, in an email to the Ithaca Times, said a moratorium for the Northside neighborhood had been discussed, but not in any great detail and “did not have much support.” She demarcated between how the situation had devolved on South Hill and what the future of Northside would appear to be, noting that there would seem to be far less chance that a similar situation could unfold in a place not so adjacent to Ithaca College. She did, though, acknowledge that whatever development does go on, whatever its benefits, should fit rather seamlessly into a neighborhood’s character and aesthetic. “The situation on South Hill got away from us pretty quickly,” Cornish said. “We did not anticipate so many cheaply built student houses going up so fast. While infill housing is a good idea and will help to ease the housing shortage we have in the city, it needs to be done in a way that is sympathetic to the neighborhood. It needs to be designed to encourage good behavior, particularly when designing for students. The infill housing on South Hill, because it is so close to Ithaca College, was built essentially for undergrads while it is not anticipated that the attraction for students to the Northside neighborhood would be as great.”

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memory. Membership was open to any man who could prove ancestry to a member of the GAR or to a Civil War Union veteran. In 1925 the name was changed to Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War (SUVCW). In 1954, Congress officially chartered the SUVCW as a patriotic heritage organization. The SUVCW is a volunteer, charitable, fraternal, patriotic and educational organization, promoting good citizenship, preservation, education, honor and patriotism. The group cares for and provides grants for Civil War memorials and monuments, maintains a database of Civil War veteran graves, seeks out and marks the graves of Civil War veterans, and supports battlefield preservation. It likes to promote observance of Memorial Day, commend ROTC/JROTC and other cadets, recognize Eagle Scouts, encourage respect for our flag, present college scholarships to outstanding students and salute all who have served our country. Their motto, with regard to preservation of grave sites, is to “help keep green the memory of the boys in blue.” My contact for this information has been Danny Wheeler of Danby. Danny served as Commander-in-Chief of SUVCW for the maximum term of one year, 1999-2000. He has been involved with Civil War organizations since 1984. His mother and grandmother were members of the Women’s Relief Corps, and Danny follows in the footsteps of his great-great-grandfather, Jerome B. Kelley, a private in the 45th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry. In 1988 Danny organized Sydney Camp #41 in Ithaca and has been a member of Company E, 148th New York, The Sons of Veterans Reserve. The life and times of the ordinary soldier is Danny’s passion. He has toured Tompkins County schools to speak to students about the history he has so thoroughly researched and participated in. In 2009 Danny wrote up a history of Sydney Camp #41, in which he writes, “We carry on the work of the Civil War veterans as if they were still here, and some of us believe, through our work and dedication, they are with us forever in spirit.” For more information about the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War please visit www. suvcw.org.

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Candidates Make Closing Arguments As Primary Day Approaches

fter countless speeches, thousands of doors knocked on and hundreds of lawn signs planted along sidewalks from here to Jamestown, it all comes down to Tuesday. It’s been nearly 400 days since one-time candidate Rick Gallant announced his intent to run for the United States Congress, kicking off a grueling and unprecedented campaign season that, at one point, counted as many as 10 individuals vying for a shot at incumbent Republican, Tom Reed. On June 26th, roughly 141,000 registered Democrats of New York’s 23rd Congressional will have the opportunity to pick who, out of the remaining five, will represent their party in a showdown with Reed in the midterm election on November 6: Linda Andrei, Max Della Pia, Ian Golden, Tracy Mitrano, or Eddie Sundquist. The question of who actually has what it takes to win over an increasingly diverse Democratic party and mount a successful campaign against Reed, a more moderate brand of Republican in a district with 23,000 more active Republicans than Democrats, is still one that may not be answered until the primary has finished. Significant questions range from surviving the primary – pinning down who can actually win over this newly-energized, Trump-era Democratic Party – to questions about who can go the distance into November, either through the virtues of their platform to their ability to stand up to the scrutiny they are bound to face from an experienced debater and campaigner in the well-funded and highly visible Reed. With anecdotal support divided evenly among the group and only straw polls to rely on as a barometer (Mitrano has won all of them), it should come down to a number of intangible traits for each of the candidates to isolate who, and perhaps where, each candidate will draw their support. Will voters back Mitrano, the highly popular cybersecurity expert who has stayed stable under intense scrutiny from her opponents? Will they back Della Pia – the calm and collected voice boasting the most experience on the national stage – or Golden, the candidate who has best tapped into the Bernie Sanders-inspired

progressive wave that has rejuvenated the Democratic Party? Will they pick Andrei – the retired cardiologist who, while no policy wonk, has credibility to lend to the healthcare debate and the money needed to assemble a significant campaign operation into the fall – or Sundquist, popular among Millenials and Western New Yorkers but, by all accounts, has lacked appeal among Democratic leadership in the eastern part of the district? The Ithaca Times spoke to a mix of candidates, party leaders, political operatives and local activists to get a read on what matters headed into next week’s vote. THE GEOGRAPHIC HURDLE

Vying to represent a district the size of New Jersey, each of the candidates have had to maintain tight itineraries over the past year to cover a significant amount of ground, all on relatively shoestring budgets. And each has taken unorthodox approaches, not just in tapping down the vote of those eligible for the primary, but laying down the groundwork needed to appeal to all shades on the political spectrum in the fall. Golden, a distance athlete who notably, began his campaign by literally running across the district, has since maintained a regular presence in Western New York, supported in the eastern part of the district by an influential progressive wing that has kept his campaign’s visibility high in his home of Tompkins County. Andrei and Mitrano, who by virtue of personality have amassed extremely loyal followings, have been aggressive in working to knock on every door, casting a wide net as they attempt to touch all corners of the 11-county district. Della Pia has taken the most unorthodox wide-net approach, electing to tour the district in an RV that on occasion, has served as sleeping quarters for the campaign. Most interesting might be the approach taken by Sundquist who, with significant on-theground support in Western New York, has taken a more targeted approach to courting voters across NY-23. Saying he has found his message resonating

more with independent voters through his travels, the Sundquist campaign has worked to employ a data-driven approach to targeting voters, being extremely intentional in their travel and appearances in order to get the most benefit out of each event. “I’m really data-intensive, and I like to be super on top of it,” said Sundquist. “I think it’s great that folks are out there and talking to every person, but the reality of it is is that in a primary, it’s super-targeted. We know the folks that are going to come out on election day, so we’re making sure we’re knocking on their doors and making phone calls. So I think we’re making a push for that the most.” Mounting a campaign to unify New York State’s third-largest congressional district by land area (101st in the nation) is by no means a perfect science, a combination of honing a universal message that transcends the cultural differences of Western New York, the Finger Lakes and the Southern Tier while tapping into and maintaining activist enthusiasm in each of the small communities and urban centers dotting the landscape. However, to say there’s been significant focus on the Western end of the district – whose Democratic institutions have already thrown their support behind the Jamestown native, Sundquist – would be an understatement. “I’d venture to say they’ve spent more nights here other than where they actually live,” Norman Green, chairman of the Chautauqua County Democratic Committee, said in an interview. Part of that reason might be the optics of attempting to unite the perspectives of both sides of the 23rd District, with each candidate looking to show that, come November, they have the stuff needed to mount the unified front against Reed that only former Democratic candidate Nate Shinagawa was able to build. Chautauqua County has actually seen a recent drop-off in its Democratic registration – flipping to red this year after years as a blue county – and its voter base has lacked the enthusiasm for primaries often seen on the other side of the district. However, the county does have a substantial pool of Democratic voters – just about as many as Tompkins County – and a powerful party infrastructure to mobilize in the district’s most isolated centers like Wellsville and Jamestown. Carol Jones, a volunteer for Max Della Pia in that end of the district, said she’s met Democrats on that side of district who voted for Donald

Trump in the 2016 presidential election and since, has been working to build up the base of Democratic voters in the area, registering a number new voters in Jamestown at Jamestown Community College, the farmers market, and the public library. “These days I have run into a number of people wanting to change their party affiliation from Republican and independent to Democrat so they can vote in this primary,” she said. “I have given away many NY Voter registration forms, but the voting rules and deadlines are challenging.” “The real issue is turnout,” said Green. “In the Nate Shinagawa race, we experienced about a 10 percent turnout, while Tompkins was closer to about 20 percent. It shows you the difference between the two of us, even though there’s roughly the same amount of Democrats between the two counties.” WHO WILL ACTUALLY SHOW UP?

Primary voters have historically skewed older and traditionally, it is well-acknowledged that turnout in these elections is often abysmal, with a turnout of one in five Democrats showing up to the polls considered in this district to be a rousing success. But 2018 isn’t your ordinary race. Candidates and campaigns alike say they are seeing unprecedented volunteer engagement, and have numerous metrics to show enthusiasm for their campaigns not just in their home counties, but districtwide. Della Pia and Golden have pointed to the quantity of small donations of $200 or less (Della Pia leads that category, with just under $58,000 raised this cycle) as displays of their grassroots appeal, while Andrei – with 300 volunteers on her campaign outside Tompkins County – has inspired enviable mobilization on her behalf. “Though grassroots support is important, you also need the resources to take on an entrenched incumbent like Tom Reed,” Keith Rosendahl, Andrei’s campaign manager, said. “The good news is we have been leading the primary field in fundraising from the start, and we are extremely confident we will be able to raise the critical funds needed to run a serious and well-funded campaign against our opponent next November in the general election.”

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▶▶ Thumbs Up: The reports are unconfirmed. We have to say that up front. But according to an eyewitness, there’s at least a chance that when the Department of Homeland Security made a much-rumored visit to downtown Monday, their vehicle received a parking ticket. Not sorry, boys. ▶▶ Thumbs Down: Immigration is a hugely tough, complex issue with too many facets to possibly examine all of them alone. But this isn’t one of them. This one’s easy. Get the kids out of cages . ▶▶ Heard & Seen It looks like we can finally see how high City Centre will stretch above its downtown surroundings as construction continues on the former Trebloc site. Honestly? Not too shabby. It sounds cliche, but proves out often enough: the deliberate development process in the city, which City Centre certainly felt, does produce a better final product.

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was standing on the Cascadilla Creek bridge some years ago watching the Ithaca Festival Parade pass by when suddenly I saw something that I had never registered before. I had watched most of the parades since they started, often driving home from far away to get here on Thursday night. The year I got a glimpse of what the parade sociologically illustrated about our town was the year that the Tibetan monks were accorded the honor of leading it. That, of course, doesn’t happen everywhere. I had grown up watching the local fireman’s fair parade in one of the rural towns surrounding Ithaca. When I was a kid, there were a lot of marchers: High School bands, a famous fife and drum corps alongside a decorated flatbed truck bearing the dairy princess and her attendants, interspersed with big fancy tractors and fire equipment. Over the years, I noticed a change: almost all the marchers were gone. It had become mostly a procession of firetrucks. Although pervaded with diesel fumes, the kids dove for candy thrown by the firefighters as always. While it now looked like just a parade of trucks, in our rural town it was much more. Each gleaming, polished, truck was the

cherished possession of a volunteer fire department. You could even see an open-topped 1928 American LaFrance ladder truck built in Elmira, complete with varnished wooden ladders hung on the sides. Cornellian Kurt Vonnegut, who had long given up on the human race, admired volunteer fire departments and librarians as the last uncorrupted groups in America. After surviving the bombing of Dresden in Slaughterhouse Five, his idealism was gone. He still admired volunteer fire companies, devoted as they were to the admirable effort of trying to keep things from combining with oxygen too fast. He meant fire. The first thing I noticed about the Ithaca Festival Parade in contrast was that it was still mostly on foot. It was almost all little groups of people devoted to some cause or another. Here were people who rescued Golden retrievers, the rescued marching with Golden placidity and happy dog faces up the crowded street. Then there were all of the groups of people who helped kids: an assortment of kids and adults proclaiming their love of playing music, of singing, of acting, of having adventures in the woods, of yoga. Two people carried a bancontinued on page 7 ner saying that we should be nice to animals and not, for instance, eat them.

By C h a r l ey G i t h l e r urious as to how all this is going to turn out? Me, too. I figured I’d set my hand-held time machine (patent pending) to June 21, 2028. That puts us toward the end of President Trump’s third term and, one hopes, before technological singularity renders all of it moot. I give human beings about half an hour to run for their lives once the machines become smarter than us. The bar for ‘smarter than us’ may not be so high in ten years, and that’s what I’m most curious about. Students educated during twelve years of Betsy DeVos and a Supreme Court that will by then have declared teachers unions illegal…they’ll be out in the world easing themselves into the workplace. Could be interesting. Still got a few bugs to work out in the time machine, but in a puff of smoke I appear on the Ithaca Commons on the programmed date. I’m a little nervous about what I might see, so I open my eyes slowly, fully prepared to wince at a panorama of post-apocalyptic rubble or a forest of North Korean flags. Wow! So many skyscrapers! Still, the street level looks pretty much the same, and I’m immediately relieved to see that Gimme! Coffee is still around. Could be the future’s not so scary. I’ll stop in for a half-caf, sugar-free vanilla skim latte. The barista’s blank stare should have tipped me off, but when I am presented, several minutes later, with what appears to be a cup of steaming Inlet water, complete with hydrilla, I protest that this isn’t what I ordered. “Totally your fault, dude. How am I supposed to know how to make a hal-caf whatever?” replies the young man. “Besides, I don’t speak France-talk. That’ll be 41 dollars.” “41 dollars!” I’m shocked.

“Or 14. I was playing Fortnite when they were explaining about the tens column.” He shrugs and takes a long pull on his Juul. We stare at each other for a long moment. I pull out my wallet and extract four singles. He accepts my explanation that they add up to 41 dollars and I head back outside. I’m heartened to see that none of the pedestrians are wearing man-buns. Maybe there’s still hope for the future after all. But then I spot something I can scarcely believe – a pedestrian is being robbed at gunpoint directly in front of a cop. So I rush over. “Hey, officer!” I say. “Why aren’t you doing something?” “I’m kind of at a loss here, sir,” she says. “All our classes at the Academy were so innovative that we never learned about anything like this.” “But surely you passed some kind of test to become a police officer,” I exclaim. “It’s Officer Shirley, and I got a 100 on that test, just like everyone else,” she shoots back. “Yeah, get off her back,” says the robber. “By the way, what am I supposed to do after I say ‘stick ‘em up?’” Then the victim: “And what does ‘stick ‘em up’ even mean? Am I supposed to tape something to a wall? And what emoji should I use for this situation? I was thinking maybe three turds, but…” I back slowly away and punch today’s date into the time machine. It might be a good idea to savor these last few months before the recipe for a decent onages… page 7 caffeinated beveragecontinued is lost to the

Charley Githler is a columnist for The Ithaca Times. His column, ‘Surrounded By Reality,’ appears biweekly.

YOUR LETTERS Mitrano Oppo Needs Context

am writing this letter as a private citizen and as a former congressional candidate of NY 23rd. I was reading Frank Puglisi’s open letter disparaging Tracy Mitrano. Time and time again, Chairman Puglisi has been relentless in his attack on Tracy Mitrano, not in my opinion, because he doesn’t think Tracy can win, but precisely because from the very start Chairman Puglisi has seen Tracy as a threat. Chairman Puglisi, once I dropped out in January and endorsed Tracy, he either didn’t do his homework or LIED about my allegiance to the Democratic party, suggesting that I was a Trump supporter by mischaracterizing

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BADLY a Tweet I sent just before the November 2016 Presidential Elections. It only took 30 seconds or less to see from my Facebook page and other social media that I abhorred Trump with all of my being. The next day, even after being called out, Chairman Puglisi didn’t apologize but doubled down on his LIE. Another example was when Chairman Puglisi tried to slander a man by the name of Ed Jennings regarding his income, and proclaimed that Mr Jennings was being dishonest. Mr. Jennings, who I can only imagine was flabbergasted by this accusation, quickly published his income and showed the world that Mr Puglisi was the one who was being downright deceptive and NOT

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The second thing that came to me was that if you looked at the parade from the eye of a sociologist, you could say that it was a parade of associational groups. Each group, as Alexis de Tocqueville described in 1834, were citizens who had come together spontaneously to solve a public problem. If you want to know how many associational groups exist in a town, listen to the snow cancellations on a local radio station. Here, you can just go to the parade. It’s on display. Why do I bring attention to the importance of associational groups in our city? Because associational groups - sociologists also call them “mediating structures” - are the organs and muscles of a culture. American parades were once full of these, although they were primarily formally organized: the Boy Scouts, the 4-H future farmers, the high school band, marching with attempted military precision following the Veterans of Foreign Wars. While we still have these things, enthusiasm and musicality,

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Mr. Jennings. As a pastor, social worker, and impassioned concerned citizen of NY’s 23rd, I am here to urge you to recognize someone who tears down, bullies, and belittles, instead of building up any one of these fine candidates and creating an environment of unity in our beloved district. People like Chairman Puglisi aid and abet the real adversary, Tom Reed, and the leadership of the Republican Party. As it says in the Bible, “if a house is divided against itself that house cannot stand (Mark 3:25).” This is true of our great party and district. Please, as you go out and vote make your decision with your heart on what you know is true about the candidate of your choice not the words of people and leaders who wish to only foment negativity, distrust, and general malaise. I can only hope Chairman Puglisi the best and pray that he might use tactics that promote unity instead of division, truth instead of deception, and love instead of hate. Whoever wins on June the 26th, we in the 23rd district are blessed to have several wonderful, talented, and devoted candidates who bring their own unique set of gifts. Each one of them are putting themselves out there for the very first time into the daunting task of bringing compassion and decency back to Washington, especially since the 2016 election. Whoever wins may stumble from time to time through the uncharted waters of the 2018 midterms, but with God’s help and the support of Democrats, Independence, and – yes I hope many Republicans – we will take back the House of Representatives. I am excited to support anyone of these fine candidate and only hope and pray for each one as Democrats take to voting for their nominee on June 26. Thanks for the opportunity to air my

not military marching discipline, fittingly describes the Ithaca High School band. But most of the groups marching in the Ithaca parade are informal. They are simply people who have come together to make Ithaca a better place. They ask and need nobody’s permission to do so. I heard a mom lean over to her five-year old and explain: “These are all groups that help people.” If you have lived long enough to see changes in the United States, you notice that for the average American feelings of isolation, of powerlessness, of life-threatening loneliness have become pervasive. Here in Ithaca, despite our struggles, we remain more like American cities and towns used to be. People in Ithaca can experience what my teacher Seymour Sarason called the psychological sense of community. If you want to know where that feeling comes from, you have only to look at the parade. All these groups are why we feel at home here. They are what makes us feel that we belong to this place. You can see it again next year. Dress for rain. concerns and hopefully increase, in some small way, the likelihood of UNITY going into the 2018 midterm elections.

–Karl Warrington, Former Congressional Candidate, NY-23

In Support Of Mitrano For Congress

hy am I supporting Tracy Mitrano for Congress? Tracy has the right combination of intelligence, compassion, confidence, and spark, plus the ability to connect with people all across the district. She has crisscrossed the 23rd and sees that we all want the same things: integrity, economic security, health care for all, protection of the environment, immigration reform and gun safety. As a daughter of the district, she easily connects with independent, unaffiliated, and Republican voters. There has been a lot of discussion about whether a woman can win this district. I have no doubt that a woman with a connection to both Ithaca and Penn Yan can win, and obviously so do many others: she has won all five straw polls across the district, has the endorsement of three mayors, and the backing of the Working Families and Women’s Equality parties. Around the country there are 472 women running for Congress and 57 for Senate –and many are winning in the reddest of districts. We all want the strongest, most electable candidate. I believe Tracy is best able to frame issues and appeal not only to Democrats, but to moderate Republicans and independent voters, two groups crucial to the outcome of this election. A vote for Tracy Mitrano is a vote to get Tom Reed out of Congress. Please join me in voting June 26. –Barbara Mink

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The TPLA, and by extension Ithaca Sabers, teaches the seven main forms of lightsaber combat that are found in the Star Wars Universe. The real-word, applicable methods of lightsaber combat that Judkins teaches incorporates a vast amount of different martial art styles and techniques whose origins range from China to Japan, to the Philippines, and even to Europe. Certain martial art practices that are taught in the class, through the Seven Steps, include Ming Era military sword work, Wudang Jian sword technique, Filipino blades, Tai chi, European longsword, and Japanese Kendo. The diverse range of these martial art techniques, different in both geographical origin and physical application, seem difficult to incorporate into one class, but the theme of Star Wars is the glue that holds it all together as Judkin explains. “This is what you can do when you move to this mythological world of Star Wars,” he said. “I can, under the guise of a lightsaber, teach you about historic Ming martial arts and other martial art forms.” Aside from the historical lessons and ancient practices learned in Ithaca Sabers, the physical activity promoted by the class is beneficial to the cardiovascular, aerobic, and nutritional systems of the body and it promotes strength both physically and psychologically. “The health benefits are the exercise, the workout,” Javier Rosa, one of the students in the class, said. “It’s a good workout, especially for the arms and physically the upper body, but also mentally, exercising and remembering the movements.” Rosa also noted the challenges of the course, explaining how it isn’t just a fun and easy recreational activity, but rather a serious and demanding discipline that requires a great deal of effort and commitment, both in class and at home. “It’s important to practice at home because the class is once a week and if you don’t you might fall behind or you tend to forget things and have to catch up,” he said. Ithaca Sabers costs $20 a session or $60 monthly and is an open and inclusive class that sees a diverse range of people, with individuals as young as their early teens to those in their forties participating. It’s an intriguing course and its appeal doesn’t necessarily have to be exclusively held by Star Wars fans. “There are a lot of people who think Star Wars is cool, but wouldn’t necessarily call themselves fans, but see what we are doing and say ‘I want in on that,’” Judkin said. “So you don’t necessarily have to be a Star Wars superfan to get into lightsaber fencing and really like it.”

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Barbara Lifton- N.Y. State Assembly 125th District As The Ithaca Times goes to print, the state legislature will be wrapping up its 2018 session this Wednesday. Members of the Assembly and Senate are racing to push mounds of legislation across the finish line. Both chambers are in the process of drafting and debating “big ugly” packages of more controversial legislation they will try to compromise over before sending it on to the Governor as they break down the doors to return home for campaign season. A bill sponsored by Assemblywoman Barbara Lifton made its way through the Assembly last week. The measure would require the Department of State to conduct a study on the security and transparency of digitally stored legal documents. The Assembly also passed the New York Health Act, which would establish a universal healthcare system in the state. The bill has been shuffled around the assembly in some capacity since 1992 and has been passed each year since 2015, but has never had success in the Senate where it will likely once again die this year. Other pieces of legislation cosponsored by Lifton passed the Assembly this week including bills to remove costs on feminine hygiene products in correctional facilities, fight racially and ethnically biased policing, and limit terms of solitary confinement. Tom O’Mara- N.Y. State Senate 58th District Senator Tom O’Mara scored a poignant legislative victory this week after the state Senate approved his bill extending the corporate tax rate to passthrough manufacturers which normally consist of small businesses. The move maximizes the state effects of the federal changes to the corporate tax law made last December. The bill still needs approval in the Assembly and by the Governor, where it could be ardently challenged. O’Mara, along with 15 other Senators voted against the creation of distinctive license plates honoring the Jamaican bobsled team. The Senator’s office did not respond to request for comment on the his “no” vote, but Deputy Senate Majority Leader Republican John DeFrancisco spoke on the floor saying he voted against the measure because there should be an established procedure for establishing distinctive plates. The chamber voted unanimously on Monday to approve a distinctive plate supporting music education. At this point, a signature by Governor Andrew Cuomo is all that separates state motorists from supporting the Jamaican bobsledders. The Senate passed a number of bills out of the Environmental Conservation committee which O’Mara chairs. The bills include initiatives to ensure repair of pesticide containers, collect old solar panels, increase charges on battery acid transactions, and regulate old oil storage tanks. O’Mara also pushed one of his bills through the chamber which increases penalties on drug manufacturers. The Senate also passed Brittany’s law, which would create a registry of violent felons in the state. Tom Reed- U.S. House of Representatives N.Y. 23rd Congressional District Rep. Tom Reed and his bipartisan coalition, the Problem Solvers Caucus, threw support behind the SITSA Act this week. The legislation seeks to combat the opioid crisis by amending the Controlled Substances Act to allow the Department of Justice to independently amend the list of controlled substances subject to law enforcement prosecution.

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Ithaca Gears Up For The Second Coming Of Ithaca Reggae Fest

By K at e ly n n L e boff eggae culture has had a presence in Ithaca since the ‘80s, but native Ithacan and world-renowned reggae artist (and Ithaca Reggae Fest co-founder) Kevin Kinsella played a key part in putting Ithaca on the map as a reggae community, as did onetime The Haunt owner, John Peterson. Kinsella has been a fan of reggae music since he was 12 years old after hearing Bob Marley’s “One Love (People get Ready)” in the car with his father. “I remember I looked at my dad and said ‘That’s what I want do with my life.’ Reggae music,” he recalls. “Though, I didn’t know that’s what it was at the time; I thought it was some kind of funk Christian music, but my brother later explained it was Reggae, and told me more about Rastafarianism. I was hooked. I immediately went off to the library to find out more.” Kinsella started his first Reggae band in 1986 with a friend, playing at The Battle of the Bands at Ithaca High School. Kevin and John Neuman started going to shows at The Haunt freshman year of high school thanks to John Peterson, who let the pair of them into the venue to see shows, even though they were underage. “We basically went down to The Haunt with John Neuman’s stepdad and were like ‘We know we’re underage but we just want 8 T

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to see the music. Will you let us in to see the shows?’” he recalled. “Peterson got it. He was passionate about live music and a big fan of Reggae as well. John Peterson took us under his wing and would send us home with records too.” The Haunt has been a part of Ithaca since the late ‘60s, opening in 1969. Peterson was a 1972 Cornell graduate, taking a bartending job at The Haunt while also working at a record store and the Cornell television studio. Upon graduation, he joined Bob Shannon and Brian Dewart as a partner in 1973 and then in 1980, Peterson bought out Dewart and owned The Haunt for the next 16 years. Peterson was one of the original individuals who helped develop Ithaca’s rich, longstanding reggae culture, bringing in acts like Hot Bed, Phish, The Meditations, and many other reggae legends who helped develop Ithaca’s original reggae scene. Kinsella was most inspired towards his career as a reggae artist after seeing Clinton Fearon and The Gladiators perform at The Haunt. Kevin formed The Tribulations in Ithaca in 1987 with friends John Neuman and Elliot Martin, which relocated to Boston from 1986-1993 and had the chance to tour nationally and even internationally to areas like Japan and Jamaica after winning the Yamaha Soundcheck competition. The group even opened for Toots and the Maytals. After seven years, The Tribulations had a reset and Kinsella continued under a dif20–26 ,

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ferent name, John Brown’s Body, which became one of a small handful of reggae bands that started touring nationally in the U.S. when reggae was in its infancy in the U.S., playing a role in defining “American Reggae.” Kevin also helped found reggae group 10 FT Ganja Plant, launched his own imprint label I Town Records in 1996, and has released four solo records under his own name, making his life discography 20 albums in all. (He said he’ll have another one out soon.) The Ithaca Reggae Fest is the culmination of a vision of Michael Mazza’s, co-founder of the festival and Director of Community Engagement at the New Roots Charter School. Michael’s affinity for the live music scene was born during John Brown’s Body shows at The Haunt in his younger years, and remembers being wowed by Kinsella. “It’s awesome to be able to co-create the festival with Kevin,” he said. “Our friendship has developed over the years from a fan admiring a superstar to a brotherhood that will last a lifetime.” Last year, the group had a meeting with Jason Sokoloff, The Haunt’s current owner, and brought the idea for the festival to him. Sokoloff, they said, was “all for it” and joined them as a partner and has been an active sponsor and supporter from the beginning. “When we brought the idea for the Ithaca Reggae Fest to Jason, he was just like ‘Yes! But why are we talking about the

first annual Ithaca Reggae Fest and not the 25th annual?” laughed Kinsella. “We have a lot gratitude for Sokoloff and other community members for offering a resounding ‘Yes!’ to the idea of the festival.” THE PERFORMERS

Clinton Fearon began his professional music career at the age of 16, when he founded his first band, The Brothers, in Jamaica. Fearon knew that being a reggae musician was what he wanted to do with his life at the age of nine, when he saw the Skatalites perform live. At age 10, Fearon wanted a guitar, but his father didn’t have the money, and so he made one for himself. “My father saw I was really serious about this and so he worked it out with a friend of his who owned a guitar to give it to me in exchange for work,” said Fearon. “I played in church a little and then went off to Kingston, Jamaica, with my guitar and put together The Brothers.” Fearon joined The Gladiators in 1969, when he met and was offered a spot in the trio by Errol Grandison. He remained with the band until 1987. On a tour to America, Clinton decided to stay in Seattle, Washington instead of heading back to his native land, and in 1989 decided to start his own group there, called The Defenders. After five years, the band split and Fearon formed the Boogie Brown Band in 1994 and has been touring with them ever since, though he still performs solo.

Fearon describes his music and sound as old school and rock steady reggae with a new school twist. Most of the musicians he has performed and currently plays with first began their music careers as jazz artists. Now, over 30 years after having seen Fearon live with The Gladiators, Kinsella will be performing with him at this year’s festival. They will be doing an acoustic set on Sunday, June 24, in the backyard of Ithaca Beer Company. Fearon has known Kinsella for a long time and met him in Seattle while still playing with The Gladiators some number of years ago. He also invited him to play in Ithaca a few years ago, and said he had a wonderful time and has wanted to come back ever since. “When I met Kevin, I was taken by his musicianship and artistry,” said Fearon. “Kevin reminds me of myself in many ways and as someone who is doing it for the music, not recogiation or money,” said Clinton. “We formed a link and have tried to keep that up over the years. have tried to keep a link. I haven’t seen Kevin in a few years so I’m excited to see him again and to perform with him.” “We’re psyched to get back together,” Kinsella added. “There are a lot of nice reunions at this year’s festival. A lot of coming together full circle with The Meditations being a headliner and Sister Carol as well. A lot of bands who have been part of Ithaca’s reggae scene over the years are coming back to play.” Ithaca reggae fans will also have a chance to see a reunion between Sister Carol and The Meditations. Sister Carol was invited to open for the Meditations in the ‘70s and toured with them for many years after making a name for herself winning competitions in both Kingston, Jamaica, and in New York. The Meditations formed in 1974 in Jamaica and were invited by Bob Marley as back up vocals on many of his records. They’ve also been coming to Ithaca since the ‘80s and have played at GrassRoots as well. “I actually saw them while in high school at The Haunt,” Kinsella recalls. “They have a special relationship with Ithaca and the community.” Sister Carol’s father worked for Jamaica’s most popular radio network, Radio Jamaica Rediffusion, and was exposed to many influential artists in the ‘50s and ‘60s. Sister Carol began performing at an early age in Kingston then in Brooklyn. She has been one of reggae’s foremost female pioneers with a career that has spanned over 37 years. Her music style is

a mixture of deejay, a predecessor to rapping, emitted in a deep, powerful voice that soothes the soul and ebbs with good vibes. Her performances are a form of “edutainment” and she uses her music to challenge many of the issues surrounding race, discrimination, and poverty that still exist in our society. Her messages and lyrics, while edifying and educational, are always positive and healistic. “Listeners will not hear me doing deejay that degrades others… if the music promotes or exudes any sort of negativity then it is simply not reggae. Reggae is

past, present, and future of Ithaca’s reggae culture and influence.” Education Village, coordinated by Ahrayna Zakos, will give the many scientists, activists, and organizations involved in the protection of the Cayuga Lake a chance to showcase what they are doing. In doing so, they hope to raise awareness, which is a big challenge, of these organizations and their efforts in the community. Education Village will offer interactive activities while spreading awareness and fundamental information on how to keep Cayuga Lake clean and healthy. “For example, an outcome of last year’s

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about unconditional love,” she said. This is Sister Carol’s first visit to Ithaca and promises to be a very special performance especially as her daughter, Nakeeba Amaniyea, who also does deejay and has toured with her mother over the years, will be joining her set on Saturday. But the Ithaca Reggae Fest is not just about the music, it is about sharing the history of reggae in the community and continued efforts to raise money and awareness for the protection of Cayuga Lake. The organizers are debuting a new project with the History Center – a documented exhibition celebrating the reggae history of Ithaca – in which people will be invited to share their stories publicly at the festival. “It is an inclusive story from the community, not a his or her story but ‘our’ story we one day hope to establish as a display at the history center documented and including archival images and photos,” said Kinsella. “Each year we will build upon that project continuing to share the

festival was raising over $7,500 towards Bill Foster’s campaign to acquire a new boat for the Cayuga Lake Floating Classroom (now Discover Cayuga Lake) to continue helping youth establish a connection and respect for the water and our lakes to become future stewards and expanding it to the adult community,” said Mazza. Wellness Village which is sponsored by Mighty Yoga and Greenstar Co-op and is lead by Astrid Jirka of Yoga for the Earth. Multiple instructors will be leading yoga classes throughout the day. The Finger Lakes School of Massage will be offering free massages throughout the festival as well. Greenstar will be offering a free brunch on Saturday morning for those who show up early for the Cayuga Nation presentation. Coordinated by Jhakeem Haltom, the morning will start off with prayers, speakers, and dancing from the Ithaca natives community talking about their culture and how they are stewards of the Lake. The festival will also include Youth VilJ u ne

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lage sponsored by the Child Development Council offering a myriad of activities for the youth including crafts, face painting, games, and more. Yoga and percussion will also be offered for the younger attendees, and if parents need a place to unwind with the little ones, there is an area with books, toys, and a nursing area for mothers. All youth 16 and under are free as well! There will also be lots of food and drinks to keep festival goers hydrated and satiated including Ithaca Beer’s specially brewed easy drinking FYAH IPA. You can also check any of the local food vendors including Luna, Silo Food Truck, The Good Truck, Congo Square Market, Cayuga Lake Creamery, and Franco’s Pizzeria. You can also grab a coffee from Gimme! Coffee which has many locations around Upstate NY and practices sustainability. “That’s what I like about music – the collaboration,” said Mazza. “The friendships that come from those collaborations and the good that comes from those with an aligned mission from the community to share our music culture and protect the environment are both very meaningful to me.” In addition to Clinton Fearon, Sister Carol, The Mediations, and Kevin Kinsella, the lineup for the 2018 Ithaca Reggae Fest includes local artists Double Tiger, Big Mean Dub Machine, Mosaic Foundation, Thousands of One, Root Shock, The Analogue Sons, Crucial Reggae Social Club, and Rebel Fire as well Friday, June 22 will feature an actionpacked kickoff party on Friday night at The Haunt, to be followed by an after party on Saturday night again at the Haunt, and a special acoustic show with Clinton Fearon and Kevin Kinsella in the backyard of Ithaca Beer Co on Sunday afternoon. The Friday kickoff party and the acoustic show at Ithaca Beer are available with the Weekend Pass or a $15 door fee (unless Weekend Passes sell out). “I just want to tell everyone to come with your dancing shoes, open arms, open hearts, and hopefully we all walk away from there with enough rejuvenation to face the world,” said Fearon.

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was being renovated last year, so the hiatus was just for 2017. In a press release from Racker, the event is described as “a spirited, exhibition hockey game, pairing NHL stars, Cornell Hockey alumni and local celebrities in support of individuals with disabilities and their families.” This year’s event is scheduled for July 14th, and will align with the long list of events celebrating the 70th anniversary of the founding of the agency recently rebranded as “Racker.” Once again, one of the main draws will be the return of NHL and Cornell hockey legend Joe Nieuwendyk, who lit up Lynah Rink in the 1980s before going on to a storied NHL career. Joe was a part of three Stanley Cup wins and in 1999, as a member of the Dallas Stars, he won the Conn Smythe Trophy, awarded to the most valuable player of the Stanley Cup finals. He scored over 500 goals, added over 500 assists, numbers part of the reason he, in 2017, was named as “one of the NHL’s greatest 100 players.” At the end of this column, I will share a very funny story about the last time Joe played in the Racker Rivals Big Red event, so please stay tuned… Big Red coach Mike Shafer and Tompkins County Trust Company Vice President Greg Hartz will be the honorary coaches this year, and both are pretty slick on skates. Hartz is smooth, but if Shafer were to put him into the boards (like he was so famous for doing as a player), it could slow him down a bit. Current NHL player Joakim Ryan of the San Jose Sharks will be there, as will former L.A. King Brad Chartrand. Syracuse-based meteorologist Wayne Mahar is on the roster, as is Topher Scott, the former Big Red assistant who was instrumental in launching the event, which is now in its 4th year. (Shafer and Hartz will be adding to the rosters as the event nears, and updates will be available at www.rackercenters.org.) In celebration of Racker’s 70th Anniver-

com, and will be available at Tompkins Trust Company locations in Ithaca and Trumansburg, Maguire Family Insurance Services in Trumansburg and the Maguire Family Insurance Agency in Ithaca, all beginning June 14. *** So, back to that Nieuwendyk story… I have a friend in his mid-sixties by the name of Denny Toyryla, and Denny has been one of the Lynah Faithful for well over 40 years. He accompanied me to the last Racker Rivals Big Red event, and being a polite fellow, he said, “You have known Joe since he was 19 years old, right?” I confirmed that I have. Denny said, “Any chance you could introduce me to him?” My practical joke wheels were turning, so I put on a stern face and said, “No! I’ll be there to work, not introduce you to people.” Denny understood… I quickly composed a note, snuck into the back room and slipped it to Joe, asking if he would be compliant in my chicanery. He grinned and agreed. When Joe entered the reception room, I greeted him and said, “Joe, I’d appreciate an interview.” Several dozen fans gathered, including Denny, looking like a star-struck 12 year-old. I continued, “Joe, after such a brilliant career, is there anything left on your bucket list?” Joe replied, “Well… winning the Stanley Cups was great… it was a great thrill to win Olympic gold for Canada, but to be very honest, my biggest regret is that I never got a chance to meet Denny Toyryla.” As you might imagine, Denny’s knees buckled, and he put his hand over his heart as if he was having a coronary. The crowd burst into laughter, and as usual, Nieuwendyk took advantage of the opening and buried the puck. It was a great moment for Denny, and it is on video for perpetuity.

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ocal businesses are a valued part of the Ithaca community, with examples all over town of companies surviving based on the deliberate patronage of area residents who make a point of dropping by and showing their support. Until now, that had been mostly fueled by good will and a desire to resist the influx of chains and other faceless organizations mining the lucrative Ithaca market. But Hunter Friedland, a rising Cornell senior, wants to find a way to reward customers who eat and drink locally. Or, perhaps more accurately, he wants to Rewardzzz them. Friedland is a bright, excited student hailing from Miami, who’s come up with an idea to create a network of local businesses which can offer deals and, more importantly, points to customers using Friedland’s Rewardzzz system and app. Powered by blockchain technology, the program would accompany each purchase from an enrolled restaurant or bar (to start) by a customer also using Rewardzzz with a certain amount of points that can be collected and redeemed at other businesses in the network. After catching the spark of an idea in class, Friedland spent months calling around to businesses trying to find their most significant problems and concerns with reward programs, identifying them as convenience and value. By creating an ecosystem of businesses all insulated and operating on the same points system, Friedland said he thinks the value issue is solved. But convenience was the biggest obstacle to overcome, though Friedland and his team believe they’ve adequately addressed by turning to credit cards. Once the Rewardzzz app is installed on someone’s phone, the person enters their credit card information after a tutorial (the information is stored by a third-party firm called Stripe) and can begin automatically collecting points from any participating business where they make a credit card purchase, without any extra work during the transaction by merchant or consumer. In a world where people barely want to talk to a cashier anymore, being able to build points simply by swiping a card, without any other hassle on either end, is a very important aspect of the system. Friedland credits the Pillsbury Institute for Hospitality Entrepreneurship, Cornell’s eLab incubator and Blackstone LaunchPad, a consultation network for startups that recently

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size. It’s all about that, from this exposure, people are more incentivized to go to these businesses because they can earn points that are extremely valuable to them.” The points become “extremely valuable” through a delicate balancing act Friedland has to perform in terms of business membership in the program. Some exclusion is necessary: if every bar or restaurant was enrolled in the program, the advantage of using the app diminishes to nil for the consumer. It’s why Friedland said they are probably aiming for 20-25 bars and restaurants to get started, looking for a mix of “cool businesses that everybody goes to and funky businesses that they might not know about” (Rewardzzz signed its first “cool business” with the Collegetown Bagels location on Cornell’s campus earlier this month). By the same coin, if not enough businesses are enrolled, customers won’t be able to stack points as quickly and the program won’t feature the convenience and fast flow of points in and out that Friedland envisions. Speaking of speed, that’s one of the reasons he’s chosen to incorporate cryptocurrency technology into Rewardzzz, using Stellar (a digital value exchange tracker) for inexpensive but fast service on his end. “The way I’m using blockchain is really simple, it’s the system I’m using instead of something like Amazon web services, just to

track points going from user to merchant, from merchant to user, et cetera,” Friedland said. “That’s the basis of how I’m using it, and three main reasons are cost, efficiency and transparency.” Friedland said he thinks utilizing something like blockchain instead of a larger, more invasive service like Amazon will help encourage smaller, local businesses to get involved, since the service is more anonymous and they’ll be required to forfeit less data than they would otherwise. Additionally, though any mention of the term “cryptocurrency” now comes with visions of a valuation rollercoaster alternately plunging and skyrocketing, Friedland said there’s no true risk to Rewardzzz users, since they don’t actually pay anything for the service. Friedland makes money via transaction fees on each purchase made by participating consumers at businesses that are enrolled in the system. In hopes of attracting businesses to get involved, Friedland said he’s lowered prices for early adopting companies. He said the ultimate goal is to take the system worldwide, as virtually any young start-up company would say, but that the initial goal is to spread around Ithaca enough that tweaks can be made to improve the product if necessary before expanding outward. Of course, there’s the name. At best, it’s descriptive, memorable and succinct. At worst, it’s weird and annoying. Friedland, with a laugh, acknowledges the name’s a bit unconventional, but says he likes the uniqueness of “Rewardzzz” and thinks it accurately depicts the spirit of the company: saving money, having fun and feeling good about it. “We’re in a new age and it’s a lot harder to find a name out there, and the pros is, you know exactly what it is [...] it’s easy to say and it sticks in your brain,” he said. “As we go on, I don’t know exactly what’s going to happen with it. But for now, I think we can come up with some funky ways to use those ‘Z’s and have some fun with it. It’s not the first time Ithaca has seen something similar to this, and the other even had a catchy name as well: Ithacash has long struggled to gain a foothold here, as it attempted to serve as an alternative currency specific to the city. The difference, as Friedland tells it, is that while Ithacash looked to replace normal American legal tender as an operative cur-

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By Elia Kacapyr he Ithaca Business Index hit another all-time high in April, rising to a level of 176.64 from a revised mark of 174.65 in March. This amounts to a gain of 1.1 percent. An increase in jobs drove the index higher. Retail sales and home sales disappointed. The labor force, hours worked, and help wanted advertising held steady. Compared to April 2017, the index was up a hefty 4.8 percent. The Ithaca metropolitan area added 300 jobs in April to bring the total number of jobs in Tompkins County to 66,000 on a seasonally adjusted basis. The number of jobs in Ithaca has never been higher. The unemployment rate stood at 3.9 percent. Comparable rates for New York State and the nation are 4.4 percent and 3.7 percent, respectively. Ithaca’s labor force held steady at 51,200 persons. Anyone residing in Ithaca with a part-time or full time job is in the labor force. In addition, anyone residing in Ithaca without a job, but actively seeking

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employment, is also included in the labor force. A larger labor force means more economic potential. April saw retail sales in Tompkins County fall back somewhat after a 10.2 percent in March. The retreat amounted to 3.2 percent. Still retail sales were up 6.8 percent compared to April 2017. The average work week in Ithaca held steady at 32.5 hours. This figure is indeed an average that includes both full and part-time employees in the private sector. Compared to April 2017, the work week was 2.4 percent shorter. Home sales in Ithaca faded 12.4 percent in April. This is a typical change for this volatile indicator. Compared to April 2017 home sales were up 43.6 percent.

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Home prices, however, depreciated compared to April 2017. The median home sold for $209,250 compared to $225,000 last year at this time. Month-to-month home price comparisons can be tricky. The lower prices may simply be the result of more starter homes being sold this April compared to last. Help-wanted advertising slipped 6.9 percent in April. Compared to April 2017, help-wanted advertising was up 12.0 percent. Years ago, help wanted advertising was taken from the local daily newspaper. Today only online sources of advertising for new employees in the Ithaca area are considered. Ithaca’s economy was firing on all cylinders in March 2018 when economic

activity surged 1.5 percent. In April, only employment was driving the index higher. Still, the result was that the index added of 1.1 percent on top of the prior gain. The Ithaca economy is revved up and performing consistently well. For the fifth time in the last six months the Ithaca Business Index hit an all-time high. Ithaca’s economy expanded by 2.2 percent in 2015 and 3.6 percent in 2017. The first four months of 2018 have been equally impressive. The Ithaca Business Index is a public service of Ithaca College Department of Economics • (607) 274-3200 • Kacapyr@ithaca.edu In January 1985 the Ithaca Business Index stood at 100.00. In April 2018 the Index reads 176.64. This means that the Tompkins County economy has grown 76.64 percent in those 400 months. From 1985 until 1988, the Ithaca metro region grew at a rapid clip. The average annual growth rate was 5.4 percent. The Ithaca Business Index reached a peak of 130.34 in March 1989. A recession brought the Index down to a level of 110.98 in April 1992. This 36 month slide was much longer and more severe than the national recession which lasted only 8 months. Since then, the County economy has recovered, but annual growth rates of 1.5 percent are more typical these days. There was a less severe version of the Great Recession here in Ithaca that started in April 2008 and ended in July 2009. The most recent recession began in March 2014 and ended in March 2015. There was no national recession during this time, but economic activity in Ithaca fell 0.2 percent in 2014 and 1.4 percent in 2015. 2017 registered a growth rate of 3.6 percent. The all-time high for the Ithaca Business Index is 176.64, its reading in April 2018.

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n Japanese, the word maru means “perfect circle,” and in Korean, it means “summit.” Soyong Lee and her husband Chris Kim hold dearly to the concept of maru with the perfect circle of the ramen bowl, and the importance to which they ascribe to their restaurant. Thus, the namesake of their restaurant, Maru Ramen was born. The restaurant opened its doors for the first time on Saturday, May 19.

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overnor Andrew Cuomo opened a new battlefield against the administration of President Donald Trump in April when he signed a new bill hoping to defend New York from some of the more controversial parts of the sweeping federal tax reform. Ithaca decided to jump into the New York program the bill created, which allows municipalities to create charitable tax funds to receive donations from citizens in exchange for property tax credits, after a Common Council vote last week. Other states with high taxes, like New Jersey and California, are mulling similar action. But city officials are warning that results from participating in the program may vary. The fund is essentially a work-around of the federal tax laws that were passed earlier this year. Those reforms made it so that someone could only claim a maximum deduction of $10,000 in SALT taxes from their federal income bill, impacting those who pay more than that annually to state and local governments. It did not, however, cap how much can be claimed as a deduction resulting from charitable donations. Herein lies the apparent worth of the program. When someone makes a charitable donation to the city, they can be rewarded with a property tax credit amounting to 95 percent of the sum they just donated, which can be used for the city’s property taxes only. Previously, taxpayers nationwide could have

received federal tax deductions beyond that mark, though if someone already pays less than $10,000 per year in state and local taxes, their deduction is still not impacted regardless of the federal tax changes. Citing a report by the State Department, Cuomo’s announcement said New York stood to lose $14.3 billion total as a result of the deduction cap. While the fund has been established in the City of Ithaca, other property tax billers such as Tompkins County and the Ithaca City School District have not yet followed suit, meaning property tax credits can not currently be distributed in return for donations to those entities. Cuomo made the option available in mid-April when he signed a law on tax day “to protect New Yorkers from tax increases brought about by the federal tax reforms.” City Attorney Ari Lavine said that in accordance with state law, the city keeps five percent of the donated sum, which they are required to do by the state, while the donator is eligible to receive property tax credits equal to 95 percent of their donation. The money the city retains from those donations can be used “to support education, health care and other charitable purposes,” according to a Tax Policy Center analysis of the state’s action. But unfortunately, though it took the step to create the fund, the city cannot guarantee anybody will actually be able to use it responsibly. The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is

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expected to weigh in on the growing number of local governments establishing similar charitable funds, and, according to Lavine, there’s a chance the federal government comes down against the move. Already, there are signs the IRS would elect not to count charitable donations to municipalities as eligible for federal tax deductions. It’s possible, then, that participants in the program could be penalized for violating federal tax law for claiming charitable donations while also taking the property tax credits. This was an objection voiced by Ithaca lawyer Nathan Lyman at the city meeting prior to the program’s approval. Lavine emphasizes that while the city has chosen to make the option available, it’s entirely possible it will fall through before anyone has a chance to take advantage for next year’s filing deadline. He, and the city, are not in a position to advise anyone about what the federal tax implications could be without further input from federal agencies. He said though they opted into the program, they are not necessarily encouraging any Ithacans to take advantage of it. “The city can provide no advice on the federal tax implications of anybody’s choice to participate in the program that the city just authorized, that’s very important for people to understand,” Lavine said. “We honestly don’t know whether this will help individual taxpayers with respect to their federal income taxes or not, we truly do not know the answer there.” The state’s intention with the program, without any guarantee of success, is to allow New Yorkers the chance to recoup deductions they may have lost if they are impacted by the SALT cap. For example, if someone donates $1000 to the city, they can receive a receipt that is worth $950 in city property tax credits, while additionally claiming the $1,000 donation on their federal income taxes. “So you can ask ‘Why would someone do that? One answer might be that they like donating to the city, and that’s great,” Lavine said. “And another might be that they hope, as per the governor’s stated intent for this program, that they would also get the federal income tax deduction for the charitable contribution that they just made.” While there’s obviously upside to the program, the actual, tangible benefit will likely remain murky until word comes down from the federal government, and could go beyond that into the court system until a final resolution is reached. Until then, Ithacans paying high taxes can only hope they’ll be able to avoid the brunt of the federal tax bill’s cutbacks -- but if people are planning to donate to the city and claim the deduction, Lavine strongly encouraged them to consult with a tax expert for “The IRS has already made noises that they are not so sure they are going to allow this,” Lavine said. “The theory we’re working under is that people should carefully consult their tax advisors before choosing what to put on their federal tax return in terms of deductions or not.”

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world without victims of suicide may seem like an idealistic thought, but for the health care advocates at Zero Suicide, a local group aiming to reduce the region’s suicide rate to zero, that is exactly their goal. The program, presented to members of the community on Monday night by Jillian King and Olivia Retallack of the the Suicide Prevention Office of the New York State Office of Mental Health, their main mission is to make suicide not simply to make it an infrequent occurrence, but to make it never happen in the state of New York. According to the presenters, suicide is a major public health crisis, with statistics showing suicide as being on the rise. While diseases like heart disease and types of cancer have become more and more preventable and treatable in early stages, mental health concerns are becoming more and more urgent. According to a Center for Disease Control and Prevention data brief from 2016 the age-adjusted suicide rate in the United States increased 24 percent from 10.5 to 13.0 per 100,000 population between the years 1999 through 2014, The Zero Suicide approach can be adopted on smaller scales, such as within a hospital staff or workplace, but can also taken up by the community and practiced on a wider scale. “It takes communities who are willing to step up as well to step up and say, ‘You know, we care about this and this is what we are going to do it,’” said King. While the efforts of Zero Suicide target individuals who are 25 years old or older, they support initiatives invoking suicide prevention in younger ages as well, not ignoring the crisis of suicide for middle school age through college. Using pertinent data and other successful suicide health care models, Zero Suicide was developed to prevent death by suicide through preventing suicidal individuals to fall through the cracks of the healthcare system. The model employs seven action steps: lead, train, identify, engage, treat, transition, and improve. The NYS Office of Mental Health was recently awarded a $3.5 million federal suicide prevention grant, making it the only state in the nation to receive this award. The grant will support the implementation of Zero Suicide in six large health systems across the state, including efforts in Onondaga County. “It would be ignorant of us to come into a community and say, ‘This is how you have to do that,’ because every community operates a bit differently and has different needs,” said Retallack. “This is a model, but as a community I think you have to go through that process too so that you can really own it and determine what looks best for you.”

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BizBriefs Ithaca-to-Washington/Dulles Air Service Begins October 4th Ithaca Tompkins Regional Airport will offer non-stop air service to Washington, DC beginning this fall, a development that is drawing praise from local air service officials. United Airlines has announced that, effective October 4th, it will replace its Ithaca to Newark service with direct flights to Dulles International Airport. Airport Director Mike Hall indicates that service will begin with two round-trips per day, with the potential to expand to four round-trips daily, based on demand. United announced the new ITH Washington/Dulles service as part of a series of schedule changes for its East Coast hubs, which will fly larger aircraft at United’s smaller capacity Newark hub and offer its regional connecting customers a more optimal schedule and better flight reliability through Washington/Dulles. Word of the new Washington service follows the announcement by Governor Cuomo earlier this month of a $22 million expansion of Ithaca Tompkins Regional Airport as part of the Upstate Airport Economic Development and Revitalization Competition. Work on that project will begin this fall.

TCAD President Receives Lifetime Achievement Award Michael Stamm, President of Tompkins County Area Development (TCAD), was presented with the Brian T. McMahon Lifetime Achievement Award by the New York State Economic Development Council (NYSEDC) at NYSEDC’s 2018 Annual Conference in Cooperstown, NY on May 23rd. The Lifetime Achievement Award recognizes Michael’s contributions to economic development in Tompkins County, the Southern Tier, and at the State level. Michael has been President of TCAD since September 1985. He is past chair of the Board of Directors of the NYSEDC, is a member of the Executive Committee of the Southern Tier Regional Economic Development Council, and is the Vice Chair

of the Southern Tier Economic Development Corporation. Michael was named Economic Developer of the Year for New York State by NYSEDC in 2005.

Handwork Co-op Welcomes New Fiber Artist Members Handwork Artisan Cooperative in Downtown Ithaca is excited to announce the addition of two new artist members working in the Fiber Art category; Olivia Royale from Ithaca and Laureen Quattrini from Elmira. Olivia Royale is the artist behind the local brand Easy Living Hats, which focuses on hand-crocheted cotton sun hats for adults and kids. Olivia was accepted as a member this past February. To create her signature hats, Olivia uses ‘Knit One, Crochet Too’ 2nd Time Cotton, made from (new) fabric remnants from the garment industry that would otherwise be discarded, making it a good choice for the Eco-conscious consumer. Olivia’s tech-

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rency in the city, Rewardzzz doesn’t look to do that. Rather, the system looks to attach itself to actual currency by introducing the points system. A business would give a certain amount of points per purchase to the customer, who could compile the points over time to be able to use them at any businesses that are using Rewardzzz. Facilitating a marketplace in which people actually find enough reason and opportunity to redeem the points they’ve earned is crucial to Friedland’s plans, particularly as he cites that there are $360 billion in unused points sitting around in virtual pockets worldwide through a variety of retailer-created systems for specific companies. “This is creating a universal system, and it’s especially valuable to independent business because it gives them access to this separate consumer base,” Friedland said. “And as it gets bigger and bigger, it becomes more attractive. For consumers, it’s about having more places to earn and redeem the points.” Contin u ed From Page 11

Cayuga Medical Center announced the Ciaschi Family as their Community Partner Award recipient at their annual community meeting, held on June 6th at the Boatyard Grill. Tim Ciaschi accepted the award on behalf of his brothers, Tom and Terry Ciaschi. The meeting, which included community leaders and supporters of Cayuga Health System, allowed the community to hear about all of the exciting advancements and growth currently taking place within the hospital system, including the new Cayuga Medical Associates building currently being constructed at Community Corners. The annual meeting highlighted the Cayuga Wellness Center and included presentations from past Cayuga Wellness Center patients, Paul Rossi and Jeff Johnson, whom shared their personal experiences with the facility.

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Mitrano, who often points to straw polls as a show of her district-wide support, collected 5,300 signatures for her nominating petition to get on the ballot – 2,300 more than her next-closest opponent. “We are living in a new era after the 2016 election,” said Mitrano. “Our team has engaged voters of all ages, political backgrounds, and walks of life. One huge departure we’ve noticed from the past is the exceptionally large number of volunteers and super-volunteers who have never worked on a political

campaign. This speaks to the tremendous energy bursting at the seams to finally unseat Tom Reed.” This, volunteers have said, might have something to do with a new crop of young voters deciding to come off the sidelines – something that could potentially play a factor for younger candidates like Golden or Sundquist who, at 28, is the closest to a Millennial demographic of voter that has long gone untapped by regional party leaders. “I might even go so far as to say that younger voters (I’d say 45 and under) have tended to be even more informed and enthusiastic than older voters,” said Leslie Wille, a volunteer with the Golden Campaign in Western New York. “Typically these are people that are working full time and barely making ends meet, concerned about providing health insurance for their families, raising children who are either in public school systems or higher education, and/or dealing with crippling student debt, and have some major concerns about our environment as well. They share the sentiment that Ian (and I) has expressed; we can no longer wait for “leaders” to come along and facilitate change. We are the leaders, and the time to step up is now.” Paolo Cremidis, Rural Caucus Chair for the New York State Young Democrats who has worked to organize numerous Young Democrats groups throughout the district, said that Democratic momentum at this stage will have an outsized influence in establishing the future of the Democratic party and, in this year’s election, might have an impact on the type of Democrat to emerge from the primary to face Tom Reed. “Places like Chemung (Republican advantage: 4,500 voters), Yates (Republican advantage: 3,200 voters), Cattaraugus (Re-

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publican advantage: 2,300 voters) and Tioga (Republican advantage: 4,200 voters) have never had Young Democrats groups before. When you see the fact young people age 18 through 35 are mobilizing within the party, it shows we have a momentum the Republican party doesn’t. Every one of these counties are Republican-leaning, yet there are no Republican youth groups. The Chemung Republicans tried to make a group, and they said it was open to anyone 40 and younger. So the youth engagement the Democrats are doing in the district is much more oriented with the grassroots, there’s the type of leadership in place that can last generations.”

IS THE FUTURE PROGRESSIVE OR NOT?

The independent and more progressive streak behind the youth element might be important to consider in this race, particularly as voters brew over that mythical definition of electability. Some consider being able to reconcile Democrats and Republicans at the national level a virtue and, rhetorically, Mitrano has been billed as a “Moderate Progressive” to describe those across-the-aisle sensibilities. Golden, endorsed by powerful groups on the left like the New York Progressive Action Network and the Justice Democrats, has the most progressive bona fides and, from that perspective, is arguably the best candidate to ride the “Blue Wave” of activism awakened early in 2015 by the campaign of Bernie Sanders. It’s a question that has certainly been on the minds of local organizers. “The straw poll we took at the State Theatre event strongly favored Tracy Mitrano, but there is a lot of local excitement about other candidates as well,” said Kathy Zahler, Communications Officer for the Tompkins County Democratic Committee. “There has been an enormous amount of one-to-one and group conversation about all the questions you might expect — How important is it to elect more women to Congress? Would a moderate best fit this conservative district, or is this the year that progressive values win? Does a business or law background trump a military or medical background?” Yet the experienced Della Pia, a more moderate candidate who backs Progressive ideals like single payer health care, says labels shouldn’t matter and that, in a race where each candidate’s platform does little to stand 20–2 6 ,

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out from the rest, voters should focus on the virtues of the person, first and foremost, rather than simply checking off boxes over who fits some arcane sense of who is “electable” versus who is not. “I believe people are sick and tired of polarization, and I think they deserve somebody who will engage with people – not to compromise their principles or ethics, but to actually do something that will move the country forward in a direction that makes sense,” said Della Pia. “If you look at virtually every issue, there isn’t that much difference between us on that; the difference is how you approach it.” This is particularly important. Though the

Democratic primary is about one thing – engaging Democrats and encouraging them to vote for you – the midterm election is about courting voters of all stripes, making the need to pick a candidate that can transcend traditional Democratic ideals and gain the support of the 21,500 active independent voters in NY-23 that much more lucrative a prospect. “The number of Millennial voters who aren’t registered with any party was quite surprising to me,” said Sundquist. “There are a ton of people excited and who want to vote for me, but can’t because they aren’t registered with the party. We’ve seen that time and time again. Part of it has to do with the voting laws of New York State, and part of it, I think, is the younger generation being fed up with the party system and having a desire for something different. And that’s an important point – we need those people when we take on Tom Reed, and they’re also the most underrepresented voter class we’ve had in the last several elections.” Even with the youth element growing and a more progressive brand of Democrat beginning to engage in local and national politics, campaign infrastructure, particularly for the most experienced organizers in the race, has a big part to play – at least for this year. “Ian Golden, he’s an exciting guy, a Bernie Sanders-style candidate,” Green said. “He’s got this groundswell of youth and people, he has nothing to do with money. Yeah, he’s raising some, but that’s appealing. Me? I’m a practical guy. That practical guy doesn’t like the system, he doesn’t like how money is so important in politics, but that’s not the reality. Money is important in politics. So I hope they change things. Public financing of campaigns is probably the quickest and easiest way to fix all this.”

AFTER THE VOTE… WHAT THEN?

No matter the result of the primary, all Democratic committees across the district have committed to one thing: supporting whoever will be on the Democratic line in November, regardless of labels or the minutiae of their policy stances. The reason, they say, is simple: they must unseat the Republican incumbent at all costs. “Our committee is not monolithic, but the one thing that all committee members have in common is a desire to defeat the incumbent,

From left to right: Eddie Sundquist, Max Della Pia, Ian Golden, Linda Andrei , and Tracy Mitrano

who not only has done nothing to improve our district but also has gone out of his way to disparage Tompkins County, the only part of the district that is achieving any success at all, no thanks to him,” Zahler said. Regardless of the dynamics at play in this year’s race, activists and organizers believe that the new wings of the party to emerge in the past two years is one that, while perhaps unsuccessful in a bid to elect a progressive to Congress this year, is one that could lay the groundwork for a Progressive Democrat to mount a successful bid for the post sometime in the future, inspiring a new class of leadership to define the party’s future as more moderate sensibilities go by the wayside. “The way we’re setting things up is we’re telling young people and specifically, the Democratic Party that yes, there are moderates in the party, and we don’t all agree with each other – the Democratic Party is not homogenous,” said Cremidis. “But what there is is the ability for young people to run for local office and be the progressive change they want to be. You don’t have to wait so many years to run for county legislature. We’re working with the local committees in order to mount challenges for every local office. And then we can show that even in places like Cattaraugus County, we can actually elect progressive Democrats if we go out and campaign. And Young Democrats are doing that.”

–Nick Reynolds

The Annual Affair On Otsego Lake Promises A Unique Spectacle This Summer

By Jane Dieck mann

he Glimmerglass Festival, on the west shore of Otsego Lake north of Cooperstown, opens on July 7 this year with “West Side Story” and takes off from there with a dizzyingly full program of major productions, concerts and recitals, lectures and discussions, a youth opera, and much more. These programs and experi-

ences have been designed to explore the themes of home and country and to continue discussions that started with the 2017 festival. According to artistic and general director Francesca Zambello, “I believe the festival is a catalyst for great conversation,” and she hopes to inspire the productions will inspire people to talk about identity and deep beliefs. The four main stage productions begin by commemorating the 100th birth anniversary of Leonard Bernstein in performances of his bestknown work, “West Side Story.” With Zambello as director and featuring the original Jerome Robbins choreography reproduced by Julio Monge, who worked with Robbins, this production will have a hip and urban feel, where, as she says, “we envision a world in which each gang has a diverse racial makeup, but the two rival gangs are strongly demarcated” by their clothes, movements, and actions. In the role of Maria is soprano Vanessa Becerra, who sang two lead roles when she was a member of the Glimmerglass Young Artists (YA) Program and was highly acclaimed as Laurey in last year’s production of “Oklahoma!” Tenor Joseph Leppek, a current YA who played one of the burghers in Donizetti’s “The Siege of Calais” last year will be her fated lover, Tony. On the podium is David Charles Abell, a protégé of Bernstein who worked with the composer on many projects in the 1980s and helped prepare definitive editions of his musical 17 T

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theater scores. This show, a co-production with Houston Grand Opera and the Lyric Opera of Chicago, will be complemented by revival of Bernstein’s one-act satirical opera “Trouble in Tahiti” and a Show Talk with his daughter and noted educator Jamie Bernstein. An extra matinee is scheduled for August 16. Following opening night comes “The Cunning Little Vixen” by Czech composer Leos Janácek, who wrote his own libretto based on a fable that appeared as a serial-cartoon fable in the local newspaper. It is a magical tale of a forester who catches a vixen and takes her home, where she converses with the animals in the barnyard and the forest, and dreams of becoming a young girl. The music evokes the star-lit night, birdsongs, and the ancient forest at peace, and the story invites reflection on our place in the universe, no matter who and where we are. Singing the role of the forester is this year’s Artist in Residence (as he was also in 2012 and 2015) and Glimmerglass artistic adviser, the great bassbaritone Eric Owens, who amazed Met audiences as Alberich in Wagner’s Ring cycle, and currently as Wotan in the Ring at the Lyric Opera of Chicago. High lyric soprano Heather Phillips, acclaimed for her “shimmering” voice, plays the vixen. Several youth artists will appear in the chorus and as animals in the show, to be conducted by Joseph Colaneri, music director at Glimmerglass since 2013. A beloved comic opera, “The Barber of Seville,” by Gioachino Rossini, opens on July 14, bringing rollicking music, enormous fun, and great joy to the stage. As the barber and local factotum Figaro, Canadian baritone and former YA Joshua Hopkins has sung major US opera houses, including the Met. He is joined by another Canadian, soprano Emily D’Angelo as the young and resourceful Rosina, and American tenor and also former YA David Walton as Count Almaviva. This rousing show is directed by Zambello with Colaneri on the podium. To observe the centenary of the end World War I, “Silent Night” opens on July 15, and tells the story of the Christmas truce of 1914, when

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Scottish, French, and German soldiers came together in the holiday spirit during a brief ceasefire. All four principals are members of the YA Program, and the production will be conducted by Nicole Paiement. A Show Talk on July 14 features composer Kevin Puts and librettist Mark Campbell who will discuss the creation of this Pulitzer prize-winning work. A concert tribute to veterans on July 22 titled “Over There” will be presented by Eric Owens, featuring songs that have inspired, comforted, and cheered us in times of war. Beyond these four major productions is a wealth of compelling programs and events. You can read about them at www.ithaca.com and also consult www.glimmerglass.org. The Glimmerglass Festival is an outstanding summer event, featured in the New York Times as one of the “15 Classical Music Festivals to See This Summer.” Highlights of the summer presentations: • Famed baritone Thomas Hampson presents the premiere of a new song cycle called “Beyond Liberty,” which will travel to all 50 states after the performance at Glimmerglass. Hampson, who has championed American music for years—his 1994 recording of Copland’s “Old American Songs” is superb—will talk with the audience about liberty, America’s past, and, in his words, “what it means to be American.” • The youth opera “Odyssey,” the revival of a popular 2015 production is an adaptation of Homer’s epic by composer Ben Moore and librettist Kelley Rourke. It features YA artists and the Glimmerglass Youth Chorus and includes sailor songs, dramatic storms, a Siren song, a tango, and love duet. • Comedian Bill Murray, with Jan Vogler and Friends, in a program of chamber music and literature. • Canadian author Margaret Atwood, author of many novels of which two have become TV series, gives a wide-ranging talk. • Show Talks including discussions on “Silent Night” and “West Side Story” mentioned above, plus music director Colaneri on the plays of Beaumarchais as an opera source, most notably for Rossini’s “Barber of Seville” and Mozart’s “Marriage of Figaro.” YAs will perform notable examples. • A gospel concert and a concert by the principal artists of this year’s festival • A presentation of Ivor Stravinsky’s “The Soldier’s Tale” • Before the festival officially opens singer, songwriter, author Rosanne Cash comes on June 23 for an evening of songs and stories about the musical legacy of the American South. • Plus free backstage tours, previews before each presentation of all four operas, chances to see set • changes, and post-performance Q&As with casts and conductors.

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Hangar’s ‘Fortune’ A Sharp, Funny Surprise

The Theatre’s Latest Play Brings A Fresh Take On A Tried Formula

By Ros s Ha ars ta d or all that romantic comedies proliferate on screen, they have become something of a rare bird on the stage. Gone are the days when Broadway was providing Hollywood such fare as Philip Barry’s The Philadelphia Story. The sort

of boulevard plays that Barry, Molnar, Coward, Behrmann, Anouilh and so many others excelled at became outré by the mid 20th century, and most romantic plots were left to musicals. Which is not to say the romantic comedy doesn’t pop up now and then on stage, nor that the genre has lost the ability to

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enchant. Such is the case with the Hangar’s season opener, the charming and off-beat Fortune by Deborah Zoe Laufer. Two lost souls who seem destined for anyone but each other find themselves inevitably attracted to each other. But will they see it in time? And if they do, will they admit it? This time-tested formula gets a sharp theatrical twist in Laufer’s play. Maude is a fortune teller operating under the nom de guerre of Madame Rosa, complete with a veil across her face. She has the unfortunate ability to actually see her clients’ futures and is a little too honest in her pronouncements. Her latest client, Jeremy, a middle-aged accountant, despairs of ever being loved. Foreseeing Jeremy’s imminent suicide, for the first time Maude breaks her rule and tells a little white lie, about a mysterious redhead he will soon meet on the Promenade. Fate and the spirits make for great theatrical mischief. Laufer plays with antic furniture and a gods-driven thunderstorm as Maude finds she has raised the ire of her spirits. Jeremy returns, more frantic than

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ever. The metaphysics of Act One change to variations of Maude as three mysterious redheads in Act Two, as she tries to keep Jeremy on this side of the spirit world. It makes a great dish for two comic actors, and the Hangar has hit the jackpot with Amelia Pedlow and Ian Lowe. Pedlow is a vocal and physical chameleon as she constructs personas both alluring and hapless. Her Maude is essentially a troubled introvert, and the revealing of her unguarded interior lies at the core of both the comedy and the romance. Pedlow hits every note with ease. She is especially affecting in the penultimate scene as Maude risks her heart. Lowe plays off her with an antic sorrow, under Maude’s tutelage his Jeremy slowly but surely climbs out of his nebbish loneliness and opens up. The play is stronger in its first act but maintains its hold through the many scenes of the second act. I do feel, however, that the playwright abandons her penultimate scene — the most intimate and moving — much too soon, having got caught up in the mechanics of the comedy. As director, Laufer gives her actors free play and draws her story in broad, sharp lines. She over-eggs the pudding in her music choices however, not trusting the play to speak for itself. Kent Goetz provides a romantic setting, a run-down half-boudoir, half-sitting room, swathed in fabrics and knickknacks, a mauve and russet interior with accents of deep orange, nestled under a cutaway Brooklyn skyline, offset by the utilitarian promenade. Deborah Constantine lights it with a soft, lush touch. Mira Veikley has a field day with the costumes, including a fabulous. Feathery dressing gown that would suit Norma Desmond. Don Tindall’s sound design includes a fabulously bad-tempered thunderstorm. The laughter is constant, the performances bewitching, and the romance sweet in this fine concoction.

Fortune by Deborah Zoe Laufer; Hangar Theatre through June 23

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Movement Meets Abstraction Two Artists Portray the World in Tandem By Ambe r D onof r io

ne of life’s many pleasures is walking into a room of color, one bursting with the energy of new perspectives and the vivacious movement of active scenes. As a rain-soaked spring makes way for the brightness of approaching summer, artist Michael Sampson’s show in State of the Art Gallery (SOAG), exhibited alongside the work of partner and special guest to the gallery Rachel Philipson, seems a soothingly effervescent fit to the season. While Sampson’s paintings dissect and abstract the nuanced nature of figuration, Philipson’s photographs confront the real and concrete as captured through a camera’s lens, revealing a fresh take on her subject matter and focusing on details one might otherwise overlook. As evidenced by the relationship between the two artists’ works, both Sampson and Philipson alike share an interest in vibrant colors and in capturing the social and ever-present energies of the outside world. Sampson, who is one of the more recent members to join SOAG, is someone who’s work you’ve likely encountered around town. Producing paintings that combine any mixture of acrylic, ink, paint sticks, oil, and the occasional watercolor, each work exhibits broad strokes of black lines, curved and bending into various, shapes that are then filled in with articulate color in a signature style of modernist abstraction. From a distance it’s unclear what each painting depicts. In one, purple oblong ovals are surrounded by bright yellow; in another, pink and flesh tone rectangular shapes take the forefront as part of what appears to be the vague features of a face. The titles of the works, however, provide more clarity: Jacqueline, Soho or Liliya, Spring Studio, April or Marina, Stairs, Everson Museum. It appears that each painting is of a figure, a specific model painted in a specific place and sometimes during a specific time of

year. Unidentifiable in absoluteness, though depicted through the artist’s eyes, the individuals start to take shape. In Sylvie, August, Newman Overlook, a woman’s yellow form reveals itself, pink dress and orange hair blowing in the wind as water flows behind her. Suddenly, Annike, SOAG, which at first looks like a large face, could also be a crouching figure whose head is bent forward looking down as the model pulls her legs inward below her. In Jaime, Ballet Series 1, the model lunges forward with one leg stretch behind herself and her arms reaching into the air in dance. Knowing there are figures within each scene partaking in various poses and actions adds a vigor to each that can’t be unseen, eliciting appreciation for the dynamic combination of works as a whole. Philipson’s photographs, meanwhile, observe and express life in a different form. Showcasing a handful of works taken in Puerto Rico, Cuba, San Francisco, and New York City, Philipson focused largely on the architectural elements of each locale with people often blurred in the distance. In Trolley Car, San Francisco, CA, a hand holds onto the side of a trolley while a man looks out the trolley window. The window itself is the central focus of the image, although the street behind it (with buildings lined with cars) is distant and blurry. Instead, the red frame of the window appears in stark focus. The photograph diverts where one’s eyes might typically look toward in a scene, drawing them elsewhere while also alluding to the action of a moving trolley, to the process of traveling from one place to the next. Graffiti 6443, San Francisco, CA specifically references Sampson’s pieces, or at least draws a direct parallel. As one figure walks down a San Francisco street, the focus becomes placed on a metal garage whose outside has been graffitied in black lines that are then filled in with color, much like Sampson’s style. Though attention is drawn toward a static object, the photograph is somehow imbued with the energy of city life. Likewise, other photographs in the show, whether a chipped blue wall in Havana, Cuba or the yellow spray-painted exterior of corrugated metal garages in SoHo, NYC all exhibit a similar examination of the parts that make up the whole of a place and the bustle of movement without the bustle actually being visible. The show is up through July 1.

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‘The Fulbright Triptych,’ now on display in Elmira By Ar thur W hit m an

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he matter of how to approach visual art has become contentious. A persistent divide concerns whether art objects ought primarily to be “read”— decoded, interpreted, as “texts”— or if, rather, they might be better grasped through their sensuous, non-verbal qualities. Completed 1971-74, “The Fulbright Triptych” occupies a singular place in the career and imagination of distinguished Brooklyn painter Simon Dinnerstein. Composed on three oil painted wood panels and measur-

says on the work. Dinnerstein’s triptych echoes the format of medieval and Renaissance altarpieces. It features a squarish central panel flanked by narrower upright panels on the left and right. In the left panel sits Renée, in a black blouse and red-and-green plaid skirt. She is holding, on her lap, their baby daughter Simone, now a well-known concert pianist—and in reality yet unborn during the couple’s time overseas. In the right panel sits the young artist, stylish in full beard, dark purple shirt,

ing around seven feet high and fourteen feet wide, the painting has been described by the late critic Guy Davenport as an “iconographer’s heaven.” The piece, which combines family portraiture, still-life, and landscape, is overloaded with personal and art historical references and allusions. It’s a “literary” painting, one that rewards bookishness. But it’s also ecstatically visual — shifting itself through close and sustained looking. This labor of love memorably anchors “The Lasting World: Simon Dinnerstein and the Fulbright Triptych,” a travelling exhibit on view through June 30th at the Arnot Museum in Elmira. The triptych dates back to 1970-71, which the artist and his wife Renée, a noted early childhood educator, spent in Hessisch Lichtenau, a small town outside Kassel, Germany. Dinnerstein, who had not painted since he was a student at the Brooklyn Museum Art School, had been awarded a Fulbright to study printmaking and the Northern Renaissance master Albrecht Dürer. Engraving metal plates in a cramped attic studio, he had a vision one day as he backed off from his task: imagining the scene as an enormous painting, Work on the triptych took over the next few years. The piece was brought back across the Atlantic and completed in 1974 in the artist’s Brooklyn studio. It was shown the next year in a solo show at the Staempfli Gallery in Manhattan. In 1982, the painting was purchased by the Palmer Museum of Art at Penn State. where it has mostly languished in storage. The current tour represents an attempt on the part of the artist to get the deeply personal piece out — an ongoing effort that has also resulted in a 2011-2014 display at the German Consulate in New York City and a one-of-a-kind 2011 book, “The Suspension of Time,” an anthology of commissioned es-

and striped trousers. The flat, frontal emphasis of the side panels is balanced by the deep perspective of center one, which holds a black work table and two windows: these open out onto a bird’s-eye-view of postwar houses and distant countryside. The view outside is preternaturally detailed and lucent. Covering the pale brown pegboard studio walls in an informal grid is a collage-like selection of personal images: art historical postcards--ranging from prehistoric to Renaissance to 19th century French--family snapshots, scraps of writing, and — surrounding Renée — children’s drawings replicating the appearance of pen, graphite, and watercolor. On the triptych’s table, close to the piece’s center, lies a metallic disk, resting in sharp perspective and rendered in gold leaf and yellow paint. Surrounded by the artist’s printmaking tools, it represents the incised copper plate used to print “Angela’s Garden” (1970), one of two early engravings also included in the Arnot exhibit. “Garden,” making clever use of the circular format, combines carefully constructed bird’s-eye-view perspective with a spacefilling profusion of textural detail: bricks, vegetation, and architectural fragments. In another lovingly precise Brooklyn engraving, “Polhemus Place” (1969), two barren trees tower over a procession of unassuming row houses. There’s much else besides in this richly conceived exhibit. Early charcoal drawings combine portraiture with elaborately patterned interiors while paintings and color drawings from the ‘80s and beyond explore social realism and erotic fantasy.

The artist will be at the Arnot on June 28th from 1-4 p.m. and will be available to speak with visitors in the galleries.

Highlighting Texture

Photographer Kacyvenski Captures Nature’s Beauty By Ambe r D onof r io

’ll admit that I’m biased. Inevitably drawn to the mysterious beauty of the outside world, I often gravitate toward photography shows that exhibit just that: nature in its grandest form, pure and direct and zoomed in on its many details. It rarely gets old to see, or hopefully to read about in this publication. And given that the Ithaca area and surrounding Upstate New York (as well as the many National Parks, outdoor areas, camping grounds, and general backyards that make up various areas of this country and beyond) are ripe with

moments of nature’s grandeur and its many seasons that only add to its beauty, it’s unsurprising that there are so many art shows that pop up, highlighting just that. This month’s show refers to “Beauty in Hiking,” a collection of photographs by Ramona Lena Kacyvenski that were taken over the past two decades throughout New York, Vermont, Georgia, Alaska and Massachusetts and are exhibited now at the Hilton Garden Inn on East Seneca Street. Focused, as described through the artist’s statement, on the “finer

details of nature’s intricate beauty,” the collection of work exhibits the many sights Kacyvenski came across in her travels, as celebration of the peaceful complexities of the outdoors. It’s amazing how many textures different varieties of trees can have, each pocked and ridged with the years built upon their own individual experiences. In one picture, taken in Denali Park, Alaska, the bark stands out in shades of rich reddish ochre, its lines crossing the horizontal visual space in dips and bends where outer bark was peeled away. In another, captured in the Mohonk Preserve in Gardiner, New York, the tree is more grayish, more cracked, its hard exterior like a weatherladen shield against the outside. The pattern of its bark is more drastic, like a tumultuous sea that’s been frozen in place or an aged mountainside. In one particularly brutal looking tree seen in Groton, Vermont, black scar-like indents stand out against the white bark, marks looking as if cuts were sewn shut with stitches but not quite healed. In yet another, this one from Resurrection Bay in Seward, Alaska, the tree bark appears more like an aerial view of the Earth, its black forms against whitish tan bark like land masses against a larger ocean. In a few photographs, autumn leaves take the forefront, the few moments of vibrant color a pleasant relief against a more muted backdrop of natural earthy tones. In a photo taken at Binghamton University’s Nature Preserve, a single red leaf pops against a group of rocks, standing out as

a surprise as if surreal in its sheer intensity. Though less vibrant in color alone, one image features a close up of leaves clustered together in winter or late fall. Snow crystals brush the leaves’ outsides in a white dust that covers their curled forms, clinging to their veins. The image appears crisp with the familiar taste of frozen chill in the air. In a single rare glimpse of something manmade, one photograph on display, taken in Atlanta, Georgia, features a grassy field upon which what looks to be a small segment of a railroad track unearths itself. The metal sticks out against its green surroundings with shadows of trees also present against the ground. It’s a reminder of humans’ presence beyond the nature scenes, but also carries a subtle beauty in its own way of the natural world’s ability to persist, potentially in harmony with human constructions. I’m an advocate for (or fan of) nature photography as it offers insight into the world in which we already live. Focused on the details of the commonplace, the pieces in “Beauty in Hiking” offer several moments of reflection and meditation on the little bits of beauty that exist everywhere, collected together into a visual experience that transcends location or time. No subject matter is entirely new or untouched, yet the photographs still appear refreshing, rich with their own rhythms and each visually balanced and alluring thanks to the artist’s eye.

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6/26 Tuesday Tuesday Bluesday with Danny P & friends | 6:00 PM, | The Haunt, Ithaca Irish Session with members of Traonach | 7:00 PM, | Argos Inn, Ithaca I-Town Jazz Jam w/ Prof. Greg Evans | 9:00 PM, | The Haunt, Ithaca

Music Bars/Bands/Clubs

6/20 Wednesday Djug Django | 6:00 PM, | Lot 10 Lounge, Ithaca Open Jam Session | 7:00 PM, | Canaan Institute, Brooktondale Open Mic with Marty Flynn and his Good Time Band | 7:00 PM, | Flynn’s Roadhouse Cafe, Lansing Whistlin Dyl | 7:00 PM, | Stonecat Cafe, Hector Folk ‘n’ Kava | 7:30 PM, | Sacred Root Kava Lounge & Tea Bar, Ithaca Reggae Night w/ the Crucial Reggae Social Club & DJ Mike Judah | 9:00 PM, | The Haunt, Ithaca | $5

6/21 Thursday “Dr. K” Paul Kempkes | 5:30 PM, | Collegetown Bagels, Ithaca CFCU Summer Concert Series | 6:00 PM, | Bernie Milton Pavilion, The Commons, Ithaca | Vanishing Sun R&B/Jazz/Funk Christian Matthew | 6:00 PM, | Two Goats Brewing, Burdett HOT BISCUITS | 6:00 PM, | The Calaboose Grille, Owego Myal Soul | 6:00 PM, | Monk’s on the Commons, Ithaca Noon Fifteen | 6:00 PM, | Six Mile Creek Vineyard, Ithaca Houndmouth | 8:00 PM, | The Haunt, Ithaca | $25

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Viva Mayhem | 4:00 PM, | Hopshire Farm & Brewery, Freeville

The Diana Jacobs Band | 6:00 PM, | Boathouse Beer Garden, Romulus

Nate Marshall | 6:00 PM, | The Range, Ithaca The Tarps | 6:00 PM, | Americana Vineyards, Interlaken Xamalian | 6:00 PM, | Silky Jones, Ithaca Ithaca Reggae Fest Festival Kick Off Party | 6:30 PM, | The Haunt, Ithaca | w/ Big Mean Dub Machine, Root Shock & more Iron Horse | 7:00 PM, | Boathouse Beer Garden, Romulus Pete Panek and the Blue Cats | 7:00 PM, | The Westy, Ithaca

Zydeco Trail Riders | 6:00 PM, | Americana Vineyards, Interlaken Bodhi Mountain | 8:00 PM, | Two Goats Brewing, Burdett

Beardslee | 5:00 PM, | Rasta Ranch

Open Mic hosted by Benny T | 7:00

Ithaca Reggae Fest After Party | 11:00 PM, | The Haunt, Ithaca | w/ Double Tiger Sound System

PM, | Flynn’s Roadhouse Cafe, Lansing

Zac Brown Band | 7:00 PM, 6/24 Sunday | Darien Lake Amphitheater, 9993 Allegheny Road, Darien Center | Kate McGarry, Keith Ganz, & Gary Versace | 7:30 PM, 6/25 Monday | Carriage House Cafe Loft, 305 Stewart Ave, Ithaca | Touring in support of ON THE SUBJECT TONIGHT IS LOVE, their first album as a trio, vocalist Kate McGarry, guitarist/bassist Keith Ganz and keyboardist/accordionist Gary Versace. Opening for the trio will be Alice Saltonstall and Molly MacMillan.| $20 Dave Matthews and Tim Reynolds | 7:30 PM, 6/26 Tuesday | Marvin Sands Performing Arts Center (CMAC), 3355 Marvin Sands Dr, Canandaigua | $45-$125

Ithaca Jazz and Blues Jam | 4:00 PM, | Mix Kitchen and Bar, Ithaca

Whistlin Dyl | 9:00 PM, | Casita Del Polaris, Ithaca | $5

Ridgeline Duo | 4:00 PM, | Americana Vineyards, Interlaken

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The Scratch Out Squad | 7:00 PM, | The Westy, Ithaca

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Andrew Alling | 9:00 PM, | Agava, Ithaca

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Blue Skies | 2:00 PM, | Six Mile Creek Vineyard, Ithaca

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Swamp College Brass Quintet | 4:00 PM, 6/24 Sunday | Lodi Historical Society Building, South Main Street, Lodi |

Bound for Glory: Liza DiSavino AJ Bodnar | 8:00 PM, | Anabel Taylor Hall, Ithaca

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SCCA MAJORS Don’t miss the best amateur drivers in the United States as they invade The Glen to battle it out for road course supremacy. The SCCA Super Majors Tour visits the most storied race tracks across the country and WGI certainly fits that description. | Friday, June 22 - Sunday June 24 | Watkins Glen International, 2790 County Route 16, Watkins Glen

Open Mic | 8:30 PM, | Agava, Ithaca Galactic Escort Service | 9:00 PM, | Casita Del Polaris, Ithaca | $5

pop singer-songwriter. The Kennedys | 8:00 PM, 6/23 Saturday | Auburn Public Theater, 8 Exchange St, Auburn | Folk pop duo CD release party | $20-$23

Poison & Cheap Trick | 7:30 PM, 6/26 Tuesday | Darien Lake Amphitheater, 9993 Allegheny Road, Darien Center |

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Stage Mamma Mia | Merry-Go-Round Playhouse, 6877 E Lake Rd, Auburn | Daily shows. Contact Merry-Go-Round Playhouse for times. Saturday Night Fever - The Musical | Cortland Repertory Theatre, Dwyer Memorial Park Pavilion, Preble | Based on the iconic movie, featuring the Grammy Award winning songs by the Bee Gees! Tony Manero is in a dead end job at a Brooklyn paint

American Animals |Four young men mistake their lives for a movie and attempt one of the most audacious heists in U.S. history. | 116 mins R Won’t You Be My Neighbor? |An exploration of the life, lessons, and legacy of iconic children’s television host, Fred Rogers. | 94 mins PG-13

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Stephen Stills & Judy Collins | 8:00 PM, 6/26 Tuesday | Smith Center for the Arts, 82 Seneca St, Geneva | Two icons of folk will tour and be onstage together for the first time ever! The two music legends will pull from their rich catalogs, debut songs from their 2017 album, Everybody Knows, and share warm and intimate stories from their journeys and the 1960s folk and Laurel Canyon scenes they helped build. | $49-$189 QuizBowl Trivia Showdown | 7:30 PM, 6/20 Wednesday | Atlas Bowl, 61 W Main St, Trumansburg | Think you’re the sharpest knife in the drawer or the brightest light in the harbor? We’ll see about that. Join us every Wednesday for T-burg’s trivia throwdown. Salsa Dance Night | 10:00 PM, 6/20 Wednesday | Agava, 381 Pine Tree Rd, Ithaca | Includes free dance lesson from 10-10v:30 | $5 The Vinyl Showcase | 7:00 PM, 6/21 Thursday | Atlas Bowl, 61 W Main St, Trumansburg | Each week a new local DJ, collector or vinyl enthusiast spins an array fresh of of vinyl cuts. Plus, half-priced bowling all night long! Karaoke & Bowl | 8:30 PM, 6/22 Friday | Atlas Bowl, 61 West Main Street, Ithaca | Join us for an evening of karaoke. Sing-a-long to your

Friday, June 22, 2018 through Thursday, June 28, 2018. Contact Cinemapolis for showtimes.

The Rider | After suffering a nearfatal head injury, a young cowboy undertakes a search for a new identity and what it means to be a man in the heartland of America. | 104 mins R

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Art O Susquehanna O Finger Lakes Exhibition | All Day 6/20 Wednesday | North Star Art Gallery, 743 Snyder Hill Road, Ithaca | An Artistic Homage by Brian Keeler to the Susquehanna Region and The Finger Lakes. Molotov Cocktail by Paul Van Atta | Ongoing| Ink Shop Printmaking Center The, 330 E State St Ste 2, Ithaca | Screen printing, drawing, painting and the byproducts of retail displays, sometimes overlayed with his everyman characters in a state of befuddlement or general consumer distress.

Beautiful Botanicals painting class | 6:00 PM, 6/20 Wednesday | Nevin Welcome Center, Cornell Botanic Gardens, 124 Comstock Knoll Drive, Ithaca | An introduction to painting the flora of our gardens. Explore black and white, color pencil, pen and ink, and go into greater depth with watercolor. Pre-registration is required. | $200 The World Bewitchíd: Visions of Witchcraft from the Cornell Collections | All Day 6/22 Friday | Hirshland Exhibition Gallery, Kroch Library, Cornell University, Ithaca | Features rare and unique books and documents and examines themes such as gendered stereotypes, belief in night flying, shapeshifting, demonic pacts, and the witch epidemics that resulted in the deaths of tens of thousands. Who Is Me? | All Day 6/22 Friday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Curated by x rance, Who Is Me? caresses the tongue of AAVE (African American Vernacular English) to tackle the biggest existential question of all: Who am I? This April through June , x rance curates their first exhibition.

First Reformed | A priest of a small congregation in upstate NY grapples with mounting despair brought on by tragedy, worldly concerns, and a tormented past. | 113 mins R Regal Ithaca Wednesday, 6/20 through Tuesday, 6/26. Contact Regal Ithaca for showtimes. Deadpool 2| Foul-mouthed mutant mercenary Wade Wilson (AKA Deadpool) brings together a team of fellow mutant rogues to protect a young boy with supernatural abilities. | 119 mins R Book Club| Four lifelong friends have their lives forever changed after reading 50 Shades of Grey in their monthly book club. | 104 mins PG-13 Superfly| With his sights set on retiring, a successful young drug dealer sets up one last deal. | 116 mins R Race 3 | An internationally mounted saga of a family that deals in borderline crime but is ruthless and vindictive to the core. | 200 mins Avengers: Infinity War | The Avengers and their allies must be willing to sacrifice all in an attempt to defeat the powerful Thanos before his blitz

Special Events

SCCA Majors Super Tour | All Weekend | Watkins Glen International, 2790 County Road 16, Watkins Glen | Don’t miss the best amateur drivers in the United States as they invade The Glen to battle it out for road course supremacy. | 25-35; under 19 free 39th Annual Jamesville Balloonfest | Begins 4:00 PM, 6/22 Friday & continues all weekend| Jamesville Beach, 3992 Apulia Rd, Jamesville | Music and balloon launches daily, amusement rides. Begins at 1pm on Sat and Sun. | $10 parking + activities

JAMESVILLE BALLOON FEST

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BEGINS FRIDAY, 6/22 AT 4PM AND CONTINUES ALL WEEKEND

Bernie Milton Pavilion on the Commons | Celebrate the summer solstice with the first show of this weekly summer tradition. The aptly-named band Vanishing Sun will bring their blend of R&B/Jazz/Funk to the Bernie Milton Pavilion. This show is free and open to the public. It’s the longest day of the year – you might as well get your groove on for part of it!

Jamesville Beach Park, Jamesville, NY| If a short road-trip sounds good to you, head north on Route 81 for Syracuse’s annual kick-off to summer event. Featuring hot-air balloons, non-stop musical entertainment, arts, crafts, rides, food, beverages and more!

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RBG | A look at the life and work of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. | 98 mins PG

of devastation and ruin puts an end to the universe. | 149 mins PG-13 Adrift | Based on a true story, a young couple’s chance encounter leads them first to love and then on the adventure of a lifetime as they face one of the most catastrophic hurricanes in history. | PG-13 Solo: A Star Wars Story | Young Han Solo meets his future co-pilot Chewbacca and encounters Lando Calrissian during an adventure into a dark criminal underworld. | 135 mins PG-13 Ocean’s 8 | Debbie Ocean gathers an all-female crew to attempt an impossible heist at NYC’s annual Met Gala. | 110 mins PG-13 Hereditary | When the matriarch of the Graham family passes away, her daughter’s family begins to discover cryptic and increasingly terrifying secrets about their ancestry. | 127 mins R Hotel Artemis | In riot-torn, nearfuture Los Angeles, the Nurse runs a secret, members-only emergency room for criminals. | 93 mins R Incredibles 2 | Bob Parr (Mr. Incredible) is left to care for Jack-Jack while Helen (Elastigirl) is out saving the world. | 118 mins PG Tag | A small group of former classmates organize an elaborate, annual game of tag that requires some to travel all over the country. | 100 mins R Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom | When the island’s dormant volcano begins roaring to life, Owen and Claire mount a campaign to rescue the remaining dinosaurs from this extinction-level event. | 128 mins PG-13

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Drumstock Music Festival Kicks Off In Geneva By Nick R eynolds

ill-fated disaster that was Woodstock

hile Reggae Fest is the obvious hot ticket in town this weekend,

‘99, Geneva’s Drumstock is a fairly new, albeit small day of music at

there’s another festival happening

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Clinton Fearon & Boogie Brown Band, Sister Carol, The Meditations, Double Tiger, Mosaic Foundation, Thousands of One, Crucial Reggae Social Club, Fall Creek Brass Band, DJ Kamau Preston, Emceeís Queen Mother Makeda and Mike Judah. Downtown Ithaca Food Tour | 11:30 AM, 6/23 Saturday | Various locations, Ithaca | Enjoy local cuisine on a guided walking tour of Ithaca’s unique restaurants. During a three-hour culinary adventure, satisfy your appetite for inventive and delicious food while getting a taste for our town’s history, culture, and architecture. Call†607272-4830. | $57 Greening Your Home | 6:00 PM, 6/25 Monday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | A 3-part series. Participants will learn how to improve their home’s energy footprint, be environmentally friendly, and save money. Topics will be Energy and Water Conservation, Green Cleaning, and Recycling and Composting.

Books Ithaca Rotary Luncheon Speakers | 12:15 PM, 6/20 Wednesday | Colti-

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Varick Winery 14th Annual Cherry Festival | All Day 6/23 Saturday & Sunday | Varick Winery, 5102 Varick Road, Romulus | Bird Watching with Chemung Valley Audubon Society at West Elmira Riverine Forest | 8:00 AM, 6/23 Saturday | Pirozzolo Park, 1255 West Water St., Elmira | Learn about birds from an expert. Walk the trail along the Chemung River in the West Elmira Riverine Forest, looking for raptors, waterfowl, warblers and more. Bring binoculars if you have them. Meet behind the Elmira Town Hall. Garden Tours- Cornell Botanic Gardens | 11:00 AM, 6/23 Saturday | Cornell Botanic Gardens- Nevin Welcome Center, 124 Comstock Knoll Dr., Ithaca | Take a relaxing stroll with a Garden Guide through the gardens around the Nevin Welcome Center and discover the beauty and diversity of our cultivated plant collections. Each tour will be a unique experience, as we observe the gardensí progression throughout the growing season. Tours are offered every Saturday at 11 a.m. and 4 p.m.| $5 suggested donation Ithaca Reggae Fest | 11:00 AM, 6/23 Saturday | Stewart Park, 1 James L. Gibbs Dr., Ithaca | Celebration with

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vare, 235 S Cayuga St, Ithaca | Local writer Stacey Murphy will be speaking about the book she co-edited, NY Votes for Women: A Suffrage Centennial Anthology. | $15 Tarot Event | 6:00 PM, 6/21 Thursday | Buffalo Street Books, 215 N Cayuga St, Ithaca | Come down to the bookstore for our first ever tarot event!Join us for a discussion on various decks, a how-to on basic spreads, and a look at the different ways tarot can be used to explore our deeper selves. Buffalo St. Books Presents Trampoline Thursdays | 7:00 PM, 6/21 Thursday | Lot 10 Lounge, 106 S Cayuga St, Ithaca | A night of competitive storytelling where the public is invited to share their tall tales. Contestants will be given three minutes to share their stories and enter for a chance to be crowned the† Trampoline Story Champ. Drag Queen Story Hour | 12:00 PM, 6/24 Sunday | Buffalo Street Books, 215 N Cayuga St, Ithaca | Our special guests will be joining us from the House of Merlot BSB Book Club | 5:00 PM, 6/26 Tuesday | Buffalo Street Books, 215 N Cayuga St, Ithaca | Join us for a

discussion of this month’s selection, The Leavers by Lisa Ko.

Kids Vacation Bible School | Trinity Lutheran Church, 149 Honness Lane, Ithaca | Crafts - Songs - Bible Stories Snacks - Friends. 6/25-6/29. 9 AM ‘til Noon. AGES 4 years through 6th grade. Pre-registration by June 21, call 2739017. Walk-ins are always welcome! It’s a great way to start your summer. Lego Literacy | 3:00 PM, 6/21 Thursday | Interlaken Public Library, 8390 Main Street, Interlaken | A fun weekly event combining literacy and a fun lego project! Older children read for younger children, modeling success for their peers. Build a fun project out of one of our 1,000-piece kits while you have a snack. Baby Storytime | 10:30 AM, 6/22 Friday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Caregivers and babies up to 24 months embrace early literacy through books, music, movement and rhyming. This storytime is followed by an hour-long ìBaby & Toddler Playtimeî at 11:00 AM.

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Stewart Park | The outdoor celebration portion of the festival will feature 11 acts including Clinton Fearon & Boogie Brown Band, Sister Carol, and The Meditations. And when you want to take a dance break, you can check out the many “Villages” that will be set up around the park including (Cayuga Lake) Education, Wellness, Youth and International Food Villages.

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Comic Creation Workshop Series for Teens | 4:15 PM, 6/22 Friday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Teens will learn to use the skills they already have to tell stories with art. Attendance at all classes is not required, but each week participants will learn new techniques to build upon. Playing Peter Pan | Shows Thur-Sat at 10am & noon | Hangar Theatre, 801 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | J.M. Barrie’s classic tale of the boy who never grows up and the magical journey he creates for the Darling family children. Peterís Neverland is a world bursting with adventure at every turn, if not the comforts of home and family. Family Storytime | 11:00 AM, 6/23 Saturday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Children of all ages and their caregivers are invited to celebrate reading and build their early-literacy skills. Moreland the Magician | 2:00 PM, 6/23 Saturday | Tompkins County Public Library | Summer Reading Challenge for ages 5-10 kick off event! Sciencenter Showtime! | 2:00 PM, 6/23 Saturday | Sciencenter, 601 1st St, Ithaca | Take part in a lively presentation about different science

concepts each week with local scientists, educators, and students. Topics range from chemistry to rockets and more. Monday Storytime | 10:30 AM, 6/25 Monday | Interlaken Public Library, 8390 Main Street, Interlaken | Early literacy education thru reading, writing, talking, singing and playing, combined with a healthy snack and a quick hello to our resident turtle Ted, prepare your child for success in school. Summer Children’s Art Fun with Stiller Zusman | 1:30 PM, 6/25 Monday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Children ages 3 to 6, along with their caregivers, are invited to celebrate summer and create masterpieces at this drop-in program. Stop by any Monday to join the fun! Family Story Time | 10:30 AM, 6/26 Tuesday | Newfield Public Library, 198 Main St. , Newfield | Join us every Tuesday for stories, songs and fun. There is a different theme each week. Stories in the Park | 10:30 AM, 6/26 Tuesday | DeWitt Park, Cayuga St., | Children and families meet at Dewitt Park for stories, music and family fun.

Health Chair Yoga | Various locations, Ithaca | Using breathing techniques, basic yoga postures, relaxation, and focus, you will become more in tune with your body, and improve your breath awareness and control. Classes held in Ithaca and T-burg. Contact Lifelong for times and locations. S.A.I.L. Into Fitness | Various locations, Ithaca | Classes focus on stretching, flexibility, balance, low-impact aerobics, strength training, and deep breathing exercises. Personal progress is measured through comparison of level of achievement in three simple exercises over time. Classes held in T-burg, Brooktondale and Ithaca. Contact Lifelong for days and times. Tai Chi | Varying Locations, | Using precise, fluid movement, dissolve tension, increase your strength, cardiovascular fitness, and overall sense of wholeness. Classes held in Ithaca and Lansing. Contact Lifelong for days and times.

PLAYING PETER PAN

SHOWS THURSDAY 6/21-SATURDAY 6/23 AT 10 AM AND NOON

The Hangar Theatre, 801 Taughannock Blvd. | The popular summer Kiddstuff productions begin with an adaptation of J.M. Barrie’s classic tale of the boy who never grows up and the magical journey he creates for the Darling family children. Peter’s Neverland is a world bursting with adventure at every turn.

Exercise Class for Seniors | 8:30 AM, 6/21 Thursday | Newfield Public Library, 198 Main St. , Newfield | Local fitness instructor Stephanie Wright leads this exercise class for seniors. Increase fitness and strength while having fun. Meets weekly on Tu/Th. Take off Pounds Sensibly | 6:00 PM, 6/21 Thursday | Candor Town Hall, 101 Owego Road, Candor | Contact Jean Dewey 659-9969 or jmdewey@ frontiernet.net Yoga Farm presents BLISS NIGHT: A Community Healing Event | 7:00 PM, 6/21 Thursday | Yoga Farm, 404 Conlon Rd, Lansing | Bliss Night is an invitation for you finally gift yourself the opportunity to nourish yourself, cherish yourself, and love yourself in this relaxing and enriching environment. | Donation Accepted Saturday Sweat Yoga | 9:00 AM, 6/23 Saturday | Yoga Farm, 404 Conlon Rd, Lansing | Start your weekend off with our intermediate vinyasa flow yoga class. Sacred Sunday Community at Yoga Farm | 9:00 AM, 6/24 Sunday | Yoga Farm, 404 Conlon Rd, Lansing | All are Welcome. Discover Your Self & Awaken Your Kindest Humanity. Pray. Move. Sit. Connect. Open Meditation | 10:30 AM, 6/24 Sunday | Foundation of Light, 391 Turkey Hill Road, Ithaca | All are welcome to meditate according to their own practice. 20 minutes of silent meditation, reading and discussion, then 20 minutes of silent or guided meditation. Beginners are welcome and instruction in basic meditation will be provided. Overeaters Anonymous 12-Step meeting | 7:00 PM, 6/25 Monday | Just Be Cause Center, 1013 W State St, Ithaca | Open “Big Book” OA 12-Step meeting. Contact Leigh 379-4858. No matter what your problem with food, compulsive overeating, under-eating, food addiction, anorexia, bulimia, binge eating, or overexercising, we have a solution. No dues, fees, weigh-ins. Chair Yoga | 11:45 AM, 6/26 Tuesday | Interlaken Public Library, 8390 Main Street, Interlaken | Join us for our popular chair yoga class on Tuesdays before the library opens. No experience necessary!

Civic Meetings Tompkins County Planning, Energy and Environmental Quality Committee | 3:00 PM, 6/20 Wednesday | County Administrative Building - Heyman Conference Room, 125 E. Court St., Ithaca | City Administration Committee | 6:00 PM, 6/20 Wednesday | Common Council Chambers - Ithaca City Hall, 108 E Green St, Ithaca |

ing, 400 Lake St., Ithaca | Meetings held in Board room. Candor Village Board of Trustees | 7:00 PM, 6/26 Tuesday | 138 Main Street, Candor Ulysses Town Council | 7:00 PM, 6/26 Tuesday | Ulysses Town Hall, 10 Elm Street, Trumansburg | Includes a privilege of the floor interval when public may speak. Second meeting of the month is a working session (no voting by the council).

long for complimentary tastings with local breweries and wineries! On select Wednesdays this summer, stop by the Aurora Inn Dining Room for live music, tastings, and specials. Open Hearts Dinner | 5:00 PM, 6/20 Wednesday | McKendree UMC, 224 Owego St., Candor | Come and join in the fun. Whether you are looking for fellowship or a free meal this one’s for you. Contact: Denice Peckins denicepeckins@hotmail.com Drop-in Sewing Workshop | 5:30 PM, 6/20 Wednesday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St,

Lansing Town Council | 6:30 PM, 6/20 Wednesday | Town Hall, 29 Auburn Road, Lansing, NY. Tompkins County Public Safety Committee | 3:30 PM, 6/21 Thursday | County Of Tompkins, 320 N Tioga St, Ithaca | Candor School Board Meeting | 6:30 PM, 6/21 Thursday | Candor High School, Academy St, Candor | Meetings are held in the HS library Newfield Schools Board of Education | 6:30 PM, 6/21 Thursday | Weaver Room, 2nd Floor in Newfield Elementary School Building, Main St. Interlaken Board of Trustees | 7:00 PM, 6/21 Thursday | Interlaken Village Office, 8369 Main Street, Interlaken | Ithaca Town Council | 4:30 PM, 6/25 Monday | Ithaca Town Hall, 215 North Tioga Street, Ithaca | Work session; no voting by council. City Board of Public Works | 4:45 PM, 6/25 Monday | Common Council Chambers - Ithaca City Hall, 108 E Green St, Ithaca | Dryden Schools Board of Education | 7:00 PM, 6/25 Monday | Dryden Middle/High School, 118 Freeville Rd., Dryden | Meets in the Middle School Library. Spencer Town Board Meeting | 7:00 PM, 6/25 Monday | Spencer Municipal Building, 79 E. Tioga St., Spencer | City Planning & Development Board | 6:00 PM, 6/26 Tuesday | Common Council Chambers - Ithaca City Hall, 108 E Green St, Ithaca | Includes a privilege of the floor interval where the public may speak. ICSD BOE Monthly Discussion and Voting Meeting - | 6:00 PM, 6/26 Tuesday | ICSD Administration Build-

SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER – THE MUSICAL The hot disco songs speak for themselves: Jive Talkin’, If I Can’t Have You, Boogie Shoes, More Than A Woman, How Deep Is Your Love, Night Fever and, of course, Stayin’ Alive! Dust off that leisure suit, strap on those platform shoes and get ready to dance in the aisles. | Shows all weekend | Cortland Repertory Theatre, Dwyer Memorial Park Pavilion, Preble, NYav

Notices Taste of Summer Series: Shepherdess Cellars | 4:00 PM, 6/20 Wednesday | Inns of Aurora, 391 Maint Street, Aurora | Join us all summer

Ithaca | Participants will work with the heavy duty sewing machines and basic hand sewing techniques. Participants can bring items that require mending, or learn how to make a drawstring bag using the basic fabrics on hand. The first 10 people,

ages 16 and up, will be admitted to this drop-in session.† Men’s Group | 6:00 PM, 6/20 Wednesday | The LGBTQ Center, 73 Main Street, Cortland | Menís Group is a group for gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and straight ally men to get together to support one another. This group meets the third Wednesday of every month at 6 p.m. The History Center - Annual Meeting | 6:00 PM, 6/20 Wednesday | The History Center in Tompkins County, 401 East State / MLK Street , Ithaca | Special guest speaker Sachem Sam George from the Cayuga Nation who will share his vision for the Cayuga people. Pen to Paper: Creative Writing for Adults | 6:30 PM, 6/20 Wednesday | Seneca Falls Library, 47 Cayuga Street, Seneca Falls | Join Ann Ricci for a brand new writing group for adults! All you need is a desire to write.Whether you’re a beginner or a seasoned writer - All are welcome! Wednesday Night Ithaca Women’s Basketball Association | 7:00 PM, 6/20 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. Candor Farmer’s Market | 3:30 PM, 6/21 Thursday | Candor Town Hall, 101 Owego Rd, Candor | Fresh local garden produce, cheeses, meats, eggs, baked goods, handcrafts and more Ithaca Sociable Singles | 6:00 PM, 6/21 Thursday | Dryden Hotel, 42 E Main St, Dryden | Host: Lori K., RSVP: lorikelly003@gmail.com Tioga County Rabies Clinic | 6:00 PM, 6/21 Thursday | Apalachin Fire Station, 230 Pennsylvania Ave, Apalachin | For puppies, kitten, dogs, cats and ferrets. Bring any past shot records. (607)687-8565 Pre-registration is required. | $10 suggested donation Home Buyer Education Class | 6:30 PM, 6/21 Thursday | Ithaca Neighborhood Housing Services (INHS), 115 W Clinton St., Ithaca | Learn the steps to buying a home. Participants get a free copy of their credit report and will meet housing professionals including lenders, attorneys, real estate agents and home inspectors. INHS offers down payment and closing cost assistance to first-time buyers in Cayuga,

Chemung, Cortland, Schuyler, Seneca, Tioga, and Tompkins Counties! Libraries Rock! DJ & Game Night | 6:30 PM, 6/21 Thursday | The Lost Kingdom Brewery, Main St, Ovid | Bring your device, vinyl, or 8-tracks and spin tunes for the crowd. Sign up for date at Ford Library in Ovid. 6/7-Board games (bring your fave); 6/14 D&D; 6/21 Kubb (Viking chess); 6/28 Lego Night - literary theme. Cayuga Waterfront Trail and Friends of Stewart Park Bike Tour | 4:00 PM, 6/22 Friday | Jean McPheeters Trailhead, East Shore Visitor Center, 904 East Shore Drive, Ithaca | Join us for a guided biking tour of the Cayuga Waterfront Trail. This will be a 10 mile and very flat ride at a relaxed pace. Bring your bike or grab a LimeBike and see you on the trail. | $10; $7 ; children under 12 free Stewart Park Then and Now Guided Walking Tour | 11:00 AM, 6/24 Sunday | Stewart Park, 1 James L. Gibbs Drive, Ithaca | Explore the buildings and sites that capture the history of the parkóand hear plans for its ongoing revitalizationóon a guided walking tour. Meet at the Picnic (Large) Pavilion.| $10; $7 ; children under 12 free Knitters and Crocheters | 3:00 PM, 6/24 Sunday | Varna United Methodist Church, 965 Dryden Rd, Ithaca | Come meet other fiber artists and share skills with one another. Sunday Night Alive | 6:00 PM, 6/24 Sunday | McGrawville Church, McGraw | Come sing with the SNA praise band and hear an encouraging word. More details on Facebook. Bring a friend to this upbeat, rockin’ service that honors Christ. D&D Adventure | 4:30 PM, 6/25 Monday | Edith B. Ford Memorial Library, 7169 N Main St, Ovid | Join Luke for an adventure of epic proportions. Registration appreciated. All ages welcome. Meet at the library. Brooktondale Farmers Market | 4:00 PM, 6/26 Tuesday | Brooktondale Community Center, 522 Valley Road, Brooktondale |

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SATURDAY, JUNE 23 AND SUNDAY, JUNE 24, 9:30 AM TO 6:00PM.

Buffalo St. Books, The DeWitt Matt, 215 N. Cayuga St. | Come down to the bookstore for their first ever tarot event! Join them for a discussion on various decks, a how-to on basic spreads, and a look at the different ways tarot can be used to explore our deeper selves.

5102 Route 89, Romulus |There is so much to do in one place: music, food, wine, shop the varied merchandise of local artisan vendors, visit alpacas, hug/love and possibly adopt a pet from a local animal shelter, pick sweet or sour cherries, or even try your hand at SPUD CHUCKIN’! With something for everyone, this event is too good to miss.

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THE WILLIAM GEORGE AGENCY FOR CHILDREN’S SERVICES CURRENTLY HIRING FOR: DIRECTOR OF HARD TO PLACE SERVICES: Full Time position in a residential treatment center for at risk youth. Responsibilities include but are not limited to; Administrative and clinical oversight of multiple hard to place units. MSW required; LMSW or LCSW preferred and 3 years supervisory experience in programs serving youth. Full benefits package available, including health, life and dental insurance, 401K with company match, paid vacation, sick, personal and holiday time. Apply on line at: wgaforchildren.org; or send resumes to: The William George Agency, 380 Freeville Rd, Freeville, NY 13068 EOE. Fax to: 607-844-4998. For a full Job Description and to download an application please see our website at:

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