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fter plenty of speculation, this year’s voter turnout in Tompkins County for the much-hyped midterm elections has indeed increased considerably from previous years. According to Stephen Dewitt, the Tompkins County Board of Elections Democratic Commissioner, the voter turnout for this year’s midterm elections jumped to 34,705, or 63 percent of the total registered voters in Tompkins County. For the 2014 midterm elections, 24,431, or 49 percent, of all registered voters in the county went to the polls. With a jump of over 10,000 counted votes, that represents a fairly stunning 42 percent increase in voter participation. According to past records kept by the county’s Board of Elections, the 34,705 voters on Tuesday are the most in a midterm election since at least 1971, and possibly ever considering the county’s higher population now. Judging by those same numbers, it’s the highest percentage of registered voters to participate in a midterm election since 1998. The figures for 2018 and 2014 do not factor in absentee ballots, so the 42 percent increase in voter turnout is just in terms of election day voting. But it should also be noted that absentee ballots saw significantly more interest in the lead-up to the election than in previous years. Routinely, midterm elections see depressed turnout compared to presidential elections, however this yera’s midterm elections, driven by either admiration or disgust for President Donald Trump, was foreseen as a high turnout event. In 2016, voter turnout saw a massive spike due to the presidential election, with 71 continued on page 11

ART S & E N T E RTAINME N T Old Library

Community shows up strong to demand changes to Old Library demolition

t looks like the Old Library redevelopment project is destined for another showdown between developer and community after a contentious meeting over the building’s planned demolition. A large group of people from the surrounding neighborhood packed the Common Council chambers at City Hall to call for a construction plan that puts asbestos removal first, before any demolition takes place. The current course of action for the building is to remove the asbestos contamination while the building is being demolished and then contain it on the site using a water-based method that is meant to suppress the harmful, asbestos-laden air particles. Air monitoring testing will be conducted frequently to ensure the asbestos is not escaping outwards off the site. This solution has rankled cizens near the project, who say the method is a cost-cutting measure that

could have been avoided if work had started closer to when the project was approved last year, so that the library’s structure wouldn’t have had a chance to decay. They also say its too risky to take the chance when exposure to asbestos can be lethal, even though symptoms can sometimes take decades to surface. The project was approved in 2017, with Travis-Hyde Properties looking to reinvigorate the site into a mixed-use facility, with senior-focused housing units along with space for academic programming, called DeWitt House. The meeting ricocheted between amenable to argumentative throughout the two and a half hours, including an extended back-and-forth between Frost Travis, TravisHyde Properties’ owner and the developer of the site, and residents of the nearby neighborhood. Susie Kramer, specifically, led the charge for the

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area homeowners, saying she felt the city had been remiss in keeping Travis Hyde in line and on schedule, and that the city might be showing favoritism to a popular developer’s financial situation over the needs of other citizens. Mayor Svante Myrick tried to assuage those thoughts, saying that though he believes some parts of the process leading up to this point could be improved (the project has been, frankly, endlessly controversial), he still sees a path to a resolution that could be satisfactory. “I think things could have been done better by the city, the county and by the developer,” Myrick said. “About asbestos, but about the whole thing. This building should never have gotten to this state of disrepair. The county should have abated the asbestos when it had the chance [...] But the

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thaca Neighborhood Housing Services, the city’s main purveyor of affordable housing, has announced it will no longer be involved with one of the largest affordable housing project proposals the city has seen.

proposal, called Asteri Ithaca, is chosen. Though its only public visual presentation has been the watermark sketch submitted to the city over the summer, the project’s scored points for its focus on delivering 209 affordable housing units.

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Though the Vecino Group is still competing for the Green Street Garage redevelopment rights, INHS will no longer be on their team. (Photo online)

INHS informed the Ithaca Urban Renewal Agency of their decision to pull out of the Vecino Group’s Green Street Garage redevelopment proposal earlier this month, citing concerns about their role as property managers and the burden of managing the large number of affordable housing units that would theoretically be coming into the housing market at one time if Vecino’s

INHS was slated to serve as property manager on the project, though they are still involved with the Visum/Newman proposal that is also up for discussion this week. INHS Executive Director Johanna Anderson said the agency does have an ownership interest in the Visum/Newman proposal, which is important to them because she said they would have a larger role in the opera-

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ith much controversy surrounding the topic of climate change, one local organization has decided to take it on in a new way. The Paleontological Research Institute (PRI) organized a crowdfunding campaign to get their latest installment of the “Teacher-Friendly Guide” series to every public

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high school science class across the country. The book, “The Teacher-Friendly Guide to Climate Change” gives teachers a way to properly inform their students about the ongoing issue of climate change. PRI has decided to add an additional year to their fundraising efforts for the project after finding support

tions of the property. The large number of units that Asteri would bring, far more than recent other affordable housing projects in the city, was also a factor. “I look at it as far as Breckenridge Place, I look at 210 Hancock coming online all at once, so for us to handle the property management of Asteri Ithaca, and the leasing of those units, all at once [...] that is more than we’d like to be taking on at this time,” Anderson said. “It was pretty clear to us after internal conversations that it would not be in our best interests to take on the property management for a building that we don’t own when we have other projects in our pipeline that we actually own.” The sentiment that the market may have overcorrected itself and will now provide too much affordable housing in a few years is not new, particularly as the city begins to refocus on workforce or middle-income housing. INHS stated its trepidation over the sheer number of affordable units Asteri Ithaca would bring, which is much higher than the other proposals. But Rick Manzardo, the President of Vecino Group, said they are confident in the firmness of the affordable housing market in the city, even considering the influx of affordable units. “Across the country, we’ve never seen a penetration rate or demand, any of the usual signalers to this degree, just pointing to Ithaca really needing affordable housing,”

Manzardo said, referencing some research that’s been done around the area to test demand and market conditions, including the Ithaca Housing Market Study. “There are waitlists at, I think, every affordable project in town. It’s a market that needs a lot of housing. We’re trying to put our best foot forward with a project that we think will have the most impact.” How this news impacts Vecino’s chances at securing the preferred developer status for the site is unclear. Obviously, INHS is a trusted and prominent name in the community, so having them exit the project probably doesn’t help Vecino, but the proposal may still have enough momentum behind it to gain approval. Common Council is discussing the projects this week, the first time they have convened on the topic with specific proposals to debate. Manzardo said that while he’s unsure of how the move would impact the project’s public perception, it would not have any effect on Vecino’s ability to handle managing the property. “In execution? No, in perception? I mean, possibly,” Manzardo said. “I would not be surprised at all if we work on a project with [INHS] down the road, if it’s not Green Street than something else. We’ve got other property managers that we use in other properties around the state that do a very good job, and we’ve already reached out to them.”•

among the community. PRI’s campaign originally began as a response to the release of the Heartland Institute’s 2015 book “Why Scientists Disagree About Global Warming.” Since the book was sent to science classes across the country, PRI felt the need to attempt to set the record straight about climate change. One unique aspect of the book is its final chapter, which answers some of the frequently asked questions regarding climate change. Dr. Alexandra Moore, a Senior Education Associate at PRI and head of the campaign to get the book mailed across the country, wrote the chapter in the hopes of dispelling any belief of the claims of the Heartland Insti-

tute’s book. “That had been planned when the book was originally conceived and as my co-authors were working through the book, we had sort of gotten to those final little pieces when we found out that the Heartland Institute had sent out another round of their climate denial propaganda, which they do every four or five years,” Moore said. “When we heard that we said, ‘Why don’t we try to send our book out to every public high school science teacher in the country and at the same time take a little bit more pointed tone in the frequently asked questions so that we could address some of

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Rich Schoch leaves town after almost 40 years

fter 37 years as the Parks Maintenance Manager for the Town of Ithaca, Rich Schoch is retiring. In that time, he has kept the flowing landscapes of the Town of Ithaca beautiful as well as created some of the parks the community holds dear. His role will be filled by his deputy, Joe Talbut. Schoch leaves behind some big shoes to fill but is more than ready to pass the baton to Talbut. Ithaca Times: Tell me about some of your experiences as the Parks Maintenance Manager. Rich Schoch: I’ve been here since the summer of 1981, so I’ve got a bit of experience. I started out working under the town’s engineer. They were just getting their parks program rolling so I had a lot of summer youth that helped me build things. Playgrounds, trails, signs, benches, and all that sorts of stuff. That kind of morphed into a full-time job because that was a work-study job that I had as a graduate student at Cornell. It started out like a one-person operation taking care of all the parks and trails. At the time we had a whole lot less, but now we’ve substantially grown. You can look on maps, all over the places we have green space. Then, the department grew a little bit more, then I became under the highway department. My operation moved from Town Hall and I was able to hire more help as well as summer helpers. A lot of our parks we build through the town subdivision regulation, which requires the developer to give 10 percent of the land for parks and open space. That’s how we’ve gotten a lot of our sites over time; we’ve acquired trails, rail trails and other things as a part of the subdivisions. Our concept, as in the town’s Park and Open Space Plan is to have interconnected parks, trails so that people are close by a facility and can walk the trails, stay off roads, and commute to work. We’ve grown considerably do-

ing that and I think that will continue on into the future. The Town Boards that I’ve served under have always been proactive in the maintaining of park space, recreational space, and open space in general. IT: How has this changed since you started way back when? RS: It’s changed considerably, we were a really small department and even the highway department was six guys and the superintendent to take care of the 50 miles of town roads that we have currently. The Town Board recognized that the town was growing and needed to add more help, more

equipment. We built on to this space about 10 or 12 years ago and we’re looking to add on to it again. Some more office space because we’ve increased our engineering staff and some others, and some administrative staff. We’ve also hired more laborers, M.E.O.’s. [motor equipment operators], working supervisors. Basically, 20 years ago, we became a public works department. The town realized we’re just more than a highway department and they acknowledged the fact that we do water work, sewer work, sanitary, storm and road work, parks, trails, cemeteries, preserves. They created the rubric of public works department with a superintendent, my boss, and then three deputy-level people: myself as parks maintenance manager, the deputy highway superintendent, and then the water and sewer manager. And then we hired crews accordingly. We have a complement of people who can do any kind of task. IT: What do you consider your biggest accomplishment or achievement since you’ve been the Parks Maintenance Manager? RS: I would say the consistency of maintenance on all our facilities and instilling in the staff a high degree of concern, of awareness of how things are kept, mowed, mulched, how we plow. We plow some of our trails in the winter just like the roads: a level of care and appreciation for what we do for the people. All the residents can’t say enough about how we maintain the roads and all that stuff. You get occasional people complaining because of a specific issue they might have but I think that’s been one of my greatest satisfaction, and working with the new hires; mentoring them. I’m known in the town as “The Plant Guy” so anybody has a question about a tree or a shrub or a vegetable, or an invasive species, they come to me for the answers; that’s been great to assist people. In the last four years, the town board has recognized we have a problem in the town as well as everywhere. You’ve got the emerald ash borer and various diseases coming in that are harming the landscape. They appropriated money for me to hire a contractor to

come in and site-by-site start eliminating these invasives and then replacing them with native trees, herbaceous plants, and wildflowers, so that’s an on-going effort. We just received word that we got a grant from the DEC (Department of Environmental Conservation) to continue this work on our South Hill Recreation Way next year. We’ve got a $32,000 grant; the town will match some of that to do the 3.3 miles of the South Hill trail, removing the invasives and then replanting with hundreds and hundreds of trees and shrubs. That’s been a great satisfaction but basically, I’m going to say maintaining a high level of maintenance and any new projects. We put a lot of effort into how things are laid out with an eye on keeping the maintenance cost down; we don’t have elaborate things that take a lot of time. IT: What made you decide to retire? RS: I’ve been working basically for about 50 years. And I’m just ready to do something else. My grandson lives with me. He’s a tenth grader at IHS (Ithaca High School) so I’m not leaving the area. My wife passed away about two years ago. We’ve lived in Brooktondale since the late ‘70s. I came to Cornell in January of 1980 and met my wife-to-be. I’m in my 37th year of work here at the town, I’ve had prior work experience before coming to the town, but I think that it’s time to pass the baton. I’m ready. I want to travel more, I have family down in Florida I’ll go visit. I made my contribution, I’m comfortable leaving that legacy behind. IT: Are you going to miss it? RS: I’m going to miss the people here as well as the people I see every day walking the trails, using our parks, the interactions with the volunteer groups, all that sort of thing. I’ll miss that sort of thing: the social interaction. I don’t intend to become a hermit when I retire I hope to volunteer some time, probably do some consulting work in the natural resources field, take on some clients, but staying in the area.

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▶▶ Thumbs Up: A second straight “Thumbs Up” for Tompkins County voters for showing up in record numbers last week. The outcome, at least in terms of the Congressional races, were probably not what the majority of county voters were hoping for, knowing the usual political leanings of the county and seeing some of the returns. But regardless, it’s good to see some follow-through on a lot of the “Get out the vote” rhetoric. ▶▶ Thumbs Down: To the reaction this week over Coltivare’s decision to cancel the Turning Point USA. It was clear from the restaurant’s statement that their choice to not have the event was an attempt to preserve the learning environment for their students, yet they were immediately trashed online for doing the exact thing we demand of them. That’s a shame. ▶▶ Heard: Congressman Tom Reed, who won another term representing the 23rd Congressional District, has pledged to drop his “Extreme Ithaca liberal” attack line that has been a hallmark of his last few campaigns, this year leveling the attack at his Democratic challenger Tracy Mitrano. In his victory speech, he acknowledged some of the concerns from people who felt the line was divisive and committed to having an open door for “rational conversation.” We’ll see if the cheery attitude holds. ▶▶ The most popular stories on Ithaca.com this week are: 1. 2018 Mid-Term results: Osborne wins Sheriff; Reed, O’Mara win as well 2. After feedback, Coltivare cancels Turning Point USA event next week 3. IC’s “Ragtime” an excellent, disconcerting self-exam 4. From health to hops: Former City Health Club site to become new brewpub 5. A Better Path

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he best description of the location of Ithaca was coined by then-Cornell President Frank Rhodes. “Ithaca,” he said, ‘is centrally isolated.” To understand the factors that support Ithaca’s unusual culture, you have to start with the fact that we are in the middle of beautiful rural lands and communities that are far from any interstate. If Ithaca is 10 square miles surrounded by reality, that reality is not that of our rural neighbor communities. (Fair disclosure: when the rush and bustle of Fall Creek gets just too intense for me, I repair to my home in the quiet woods in Lodi, or in adjoining Hector where my family has lived since 1804. That is reality, surely, but the good kind.) The Reality that Ithaca distinguishes itself from is the world of interstates and all the corporate chain enterprises that spring like toadstools around the exits. Because we are far from that Reality, we don’t have a lot of those toadstools here. Neither does Watkins Glen. Francis Perkins, key architect of the New Deal and the first female cabinet member, arrived at the Industrial and Labor Relations School in the nineteen fifties, and said the same thing. “Ithaca,” she wrote, “is the most isolated place on the Eastern Seaboard.” Sixty years later, The Daily Show’s Jon

Stewart was driven up from New York to give a speech. When they got off the interstate at Whitney Point and drove the rest of the way on a two-lane, Stewart was amazed. What city in New York can one not reach on an interstate? Where you drive down a state two-lane through farms and fields and little villages? Only Ithaca. You can’t take a four-lane from Reality to here. You have to go through a two-lane Reality filter. Tolerance is an Ithaca civic virtue. We didn’t invent this. The Statue of Liberty proclaimed this as an American virtue. Other towns in our country remember this, too. When I was a kid, this lesson in civics was part of every public school curriculum. I am full of admiration for Schuyler County for stopping the gas storage facility. Whatever names they (and I) might be called for being against progress, they have shown leadership as truly American citizens, like we were told we were supposed to become, someday. In 1972 both Ithaca city leaders and New York State agreed that Ithaca needed a new four-lane highway. It was to be only 3 1/2 miles long, untangle the octopus, and end at the hospital. In most places such a road would have been put right in. But in continued on page 7

By C h a r l ey G i t h l e r “I’d like to announce today that I will be retiring the ‘Extreme Ithaca Liberal’ label from our campaigns going forward.”

-Tom Reed

unny how a single good faith extension of an open arm and open hand can turn the tide of public opinion in a community. After Representative Reed’s announcement last week that he would cease mocking his own constituents, I took to the streets of Ithaca (an ideology, not a specific geographic place) to interview some of the residents of New York’s 23rd congressional district about their reactions to this momentous development.

“He really said that? Wow! All right, in all fairness I guess I should stop calling him a bloated, Trumppandering, PAC-money-funded, fossil-fuel expanding, environmentalsafeguard-slashing, border-wallbuilding, NRA-appeasing, coattailriding Republican suckhole. I feel better already.” -Wendell Cornstarch

“I’m still pissed.” -Tracy Mitrano

“So stoked. It’s such a great day for us here in Ithaca. I feel represented again.”

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“So is it safe to come back now?” -Nate Shinagawa

“You ask a lot of stupid questions. You’re a horrible person.” -Some guy in a MAGA hat

“It’s long overdue. On an unrelated note, do you know anyone who’d be interested in a 1968 VW bus with tiedyed upholstery?” -Martha Robertson

-Naomi Flanksteak

“So…wait…does that mean we’re not extreme liberals anymore? Mind… blown…” -Wavy Gravy

“I never should have given him that bumper sticker. The whole thing was a big misunderstanding.” -Svante Myrick

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“Whoop-de-friggin-do. This would have meant a hell of a lot more if he’d said it on Sept. 7 instead of Nov. 7. Does he think we’re stupid? What a putz.” -Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

Encouraging, right? The avalanche starts with a single snowflake.

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cranky, progress-opposing Ithaca, citizen’s opposition to this road sprung up and sustained the fight for 15 years, long enough for the state to finally give up and go away. Back in those days I was once in the city plan-

ner’s office. On the wall there was a cartoon of two-lane Rt 13 going up to Lansing, with a mammoth New York State road-building machine poised threateningly at the top of the hill. Ithaca was keeping it at bay. Eventually the West end was re-figured with Rt 13 expanded to four lanes. The octopus was finally untangled and replaced with what local wags called ‘the giant squid.” I must confess that after many years threading the squid, I still find myself leaving town on 79 rather than 96, and have to take the connector on Vinegar Hill to get back right. Maybe it’s just me that’s still confused. Ithaca is still a place that you have to reach by state routes: those early numbered highways that led from one city to another. At the time that the state routes were established, you travelled to and from Ithaca by train. Roads were rutted dirt and mud. State routes were the interstates of their day. I still remember old farmers in Hector who gave you directions by telling you to “get up on the state route.” It was like getting on Rt. 81 today. Up on the state route you could really make time. State routes are now the old, red lines on a highway map. You are not going to take the state route through Binghamton, as I did as a child. But if you want to come to Ithaca for its unique mix of education, arts, civic sense and hospitality to strangers of

all backgrounds and languages, you have to get here the same way that you did in the 1930s if you didn’t take the train. You have to take a state highway. This is why we aren’t ringed by interstates with their Burger Kings, chain motels, and shopping malls. There is considerable controversy about a building boom going on downtown and Collegetown. Will this

raise rental prices to drive out locals to the cheaper periphery? I lived on Sanibel Island, Florida, where this took place at lightning speed after the bridge to the mainland went in. People who had lived and worked on the island for generations were all driven “off island.” I sure hope my neighbors and I don’t find ourselves squeezed off island. I worry also if all those prosperous new residents may want an improved road to get here, someday. If so, I hope that their exposure to Ithacaculture will show them something. Maybe they will see that being able to get to Ithaca only on twolane roads is our greatest protection (seconded by the winter weather) against a massive, antibiotic-resistant infection of Interstate Reality. People here seem inclined to think that rather than building more roads, it might be simpler to ride a Lime Bike. Just don’t try to ride them up the steep hills you have to go up to get out of here for anyplace else. Hook your bike to the front rack of a TCAT bus, and ride up until it’s more flat. Then it’s easy: by bike or by car, get up on the State Route and you’re good to go. Just watch out for the speed trap in Greene. David B. Schwartz, Ph.D., lives and practices psychotherapy in Fall Creek. His website is: www. sidewalkpsychotherapist.com

YOUR LETTERS On the Old Library asbestos removal protests

hile I trust the Department of Environmental Conservation will do its job professionally, I also recognize that this construction is in the Mayor’s city, directly impacting his constituents. If he has reason to lack faith in the DEC to protect these folks, I stand with him so that his faith can be restored. I support the DEC’s work and recognize the top quality of their work, but I also understand the agency needs the full faith of the mayor. I still look at the city building a park at Ithaca Falls, when it was unclear that site was free from lead and which the DEC later found was still contaminated. Travis Hyde Properties is planning to build more than 70 senior apartments on the old library site that has sat in a state of decay for more than a decade. The mayor says he wants THP to hire an outside engineer to see if the asbestos remediation can be done in a different way than the one required by the DEC. Mayor Myrick mentioned shoring up the building in recent remarks to the Ithaca Journal 11/10/18. Mayor Myrick has said without the tax abatement from the IDA, it’s unlikely the project will go forward and has said without that outside assessment, he’s unlikely to endorse the DEC plan, a process that’s been used more than 30 times before in the city, but at least for this site, has some citizens’ concerned. I hope the city will step up and share in the cost of that review since it’s outside what’s required by the state agency in charge, the DEC. I understand an engineer may come in and say that the roof, which is the dangerous part here, can be replaced, and a then a team can go in and remove the asbestos. But it’s likely the cost will make the project impossible. That will mean these apartments will be lost and fewer seniors will be able to live downtown, but I believe Mayor Myrick has weighed those risks and also weighed what using an abatement in this fashion will mean for future development in Ithaca. Mike Sigler, Tompkins County Legislature

ut if you or a loved one is diagnosed with an asbestos-related disease, you should consider contacting a mesothelioma lawyer immediately.” Nancy Brucker, via Facebook

On Ithaca’s new Mental Health Court

hope this is for people with mental illness and not simply another way to keep local drug addicts and dealers out of legal consequences. I’m afraid to read it (and not sure I’d believe it anyway), but given the timing I can’t help being skeptical. This has longgggg been needed for people with serious unavoidable mental health isNo ve m b e r

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sues, and I hope it serves that purpose effectively regardless of the reason for its origins.” - Brian Mayer, via Facebook

On the old City Health Club site changing from a gym to a brew pub “So basically it’s going to change from going there to get a six-pack to going there to drink a six-pack.” Norfe J. Pirro, via Facebook

On the cancellation of Turning Point USA’s event at Coltivare “Freedom of speech is for ALL speech, not just liberals! So much for the “party of tolerance”! Deplorable!” - Dawna Stafford, via Facebook

On the cancellation of Turning Point USA’s event at Coltivare “Why do people keep writing, “so much for the party of tolerance!” Each of us gets to decide what we will and won’t tolerate. We do it many, many times a day. We change our minds about what’s tolerable. There’s no contract or law that requires anyone to tolerate everything. Please stop writing that, it’s foolish.” Barbara Bartholomew, via Facebook

On LimeBike “Those lime bikes are better off on college campuses.” Michelle Weaver, via Facebook

Midterms

am at a loss to know what to do with certain thoughts and feelings following the mid-term elections. I am relieved that my wife and I, as well as tens of millions of other Americans, will not have to fear our Social Security Retirement Benefits being cut by 25% by the Republican Senate and House. With the Democrats taking over the House, we will no longer have to be scared for the next two years. The Democrats will block any Republican attempt to cut our benefits. The same holds true for those who rely on Medicare, Medicaid, Food Stamps, College Student Loans, and Unemployment Insurance Benefits. But I am angry, bitter, resentful, and disappointed with many of my fellow Democrats who I thought cared about people like me who have low-incomes. These affluent Democrats are members of the upper-middle-class and the upper-class, although they don’t see themselves as wealthy and well-off. Stewart B. Epstein Rochester, NYv 2 0 1 8

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Still Fighting

M e m b e r s o f t h e Fa m i ly C o u n c i l at B e e c h t r e e C e n t e r f o r R e h a b i l i tat i o n a n d N u r s i n g at a r e c e n t S u n d ay m e e t i n g , i n c l u d i n g S a n dy F e r r e i r a (b o t t o m l e f t) , A d a m C h a n d l e r (t o p l e f t) , M a r i e F o r e m a n (t o p a n d b o t t o m l e f t) , a n d S ta n H u g o (t o p r i g h t) , a m o n g o t h e r m e m b e r s d i s c u s s i n g B e e c h t r e e i s s u e s . ( P h o t o b y C a s e y M a r t i n)

A group of concerned and connected people are trying to change Beechtree for the better and from the inside By M att Bu tler

ust off the main lobby of the Beechtree Center for Rehabilitation and Nursing, once a month a group gathers around a large table, often bearing treats like brownies. It’s here where the Family Council meets on Sundays at 1:30 p.m. to discuss the status of the facility that houses, or at one point housed, their loved ones. Some members of the group, like Jay Vandemark and Crystal Brehm, are Beech8 T

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tree residents hampered by physical disabilities. Others, like Sandy Ferreira, are patient advocates who provide support for specific patients (for Ferreira, it’s a woman named Effie) in the facility who might be unable to communicate as effectively, rendering them less able to fight for themselves. Others, like Adam and Sarah Chandler, Marie Foreman and Stan Hugo, the group’s president, all have or had loved ones who either live at the facility currently or did at one point. But for all the differences in what drew

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them to Beechtree, they’re all essentially unanimous on what their experiences have been since they got there. They echo, particularly Ferreira, many of the problems people regularly voice about for-profit healthcare services. Ferreira feels there is an “undercurrent of deceitfulness” at the facility, and Vandemark said he thinks the people who work at the home often leave because the administration doesn’t value their work or pay them enough, and they end up becoming frustrated enough to flee.

“We’d like [the administration] to view us as their ally, but they don’t view us as their ally,” Ferreira said. “One of our goals is not to have the administration see us as adversaries, but as people who really want to cooperate with them and make this the best nursing home that there can be. We have people here that we love and we care about.” Their main goal for the duration of the year or so that they’ve been meeting has been to push Beechtree into hiring, in the words of Ferreira, “better trained

staff and more staff.” Their complaints incouldn’t they be honest with us?” tree in terms of staffing stem from getting clude high staff turnover and low staffing workers into the facility through contractShe never truly considered a lawsuit numbers particularly on weekends or at ing with outside agencies, she said. The after her sister-in-law’s death, saying her night, which can leave residents like Vancontracted workers, she said, can somereal desire was closure and honesty about demark or Brehm searching for assistance times be unreliable in terms of attendance, Betty’s situation as opposed to financial when necessary. The New York Times did gain or some sort of finger-pointing blame leaving the facility in a lurch. Compoundan article over the summer, highlighting ing the issue is the hiring process, Grimes game. This happened before the current Beechtree’s struggles among others, but said, which can be long and can discourmanagement group became part of the the Family Council said little has changed age potential candidates, though she also picture, called Excelsior, who became insince then, or even since new management volved with Beechtree in September. That emphasized that she thinks cultivating came in afterwards. homegrown classes of certified nursing asgroup, led by now-Beechtree AdministraIt’s clear from their tone and their sistants is the best way forward and that tor Kathy Grimes, is managing the daily words that their desire is not to shame, per operations of Beechtree for Upstate Servic- Beechtree is trying to do that now. se, the place where their family members Staffing issues are not unusual for nurses Group, who owns the facility. or friends or clients live. They understand ing homes, something residents and those Grimes said Excelsior was interested the challenges the facility faces, and even connected to the facilities had claimed for in getting involved with Beechtree that mistakes may occur, though they a long time before finally being also argue the frequency of those misvindicated by the release of public takes should be minimized and they payroll data that then made its way should be corrected sufficiently when into media reports. This showed discovered. The certified nursing asthat many nursing facilities had sistants (CNA) and other staff membeen operating long-term with low bers that can competently handle the or insufficient staffing numbers job and do stick around are effusively across the country, something that praised by the group as well. was only found out when Medi“There are some wonderful ones, care began requiring the facilities and we want to keep them, that’s part to report payroll figures and began of the reason we want this change,” posting them online. Beechtree was Ferreira said. featured in one of the subsequent “We have good people, but we stories in the New York Times, don’t have enough,” Hugo said. written by Jordan Rau. Marie Foreman may have the Grimes said nursing facilities most harrowing stories of the group, experience some of the highest levstill growing emotional as she reels of scrutiny and oversight from counts it. She said her sister-in-law, the federal government, which is Betty, who was using a walker, fell likely true, though some of the colat their family home and was taken lected data has only recently been to the hospital. Foreman, unable made available to the public. That to care for someone with such dire data shows Beechtree’s staffing levphysical needs, said as soon as Betty els are middle of the road compared Th e N e w Yo r k Ti m e s r a n a s t o r y i n J u ly a b o u t n e w ly- ac c e s s i b l e d a t a t h a t h was able to walk she would be able to other facilities around the area. elped jou r na l ists h igh l igh t sta ffi ng issues with to handle taking care of her, so her Kendal at Ithaca ranks first for lownursing homes. Beechtree in I t h ac a wa s on e of t h e pr i m a ry fo cuse s o sister-in-law was sent to Beechtree est number of average residents per f t h e s t o r y. to stay during her rehabilitation. registered nurse (RN) and licensed Foreman said things went downhill practical nurse (LPN) on duty, with because it looks for places that can “use from there. First, she claimed, her sister13.3 on weekdays and 14.6 on weekends, their expertise.” She said Excelsior uses a in-law’s teeth were misplaced, or at least as well as first for lowest average number holistic approach, and that she’s currently mixed up with someone else’s. Then, at of residents per certified nursing assistant, one point she visited Betty to find her with using her background in quality examinawith 9.4 on weekdays and 9.8 on weektion to assess Beechtree’s history and any sores on her back and body from bedrest. ends. For comparison, Beechtree had 16.6 need for adjustments that do exist. Soon after, Betty developed gangrene, and and 21.4 average residents per RN and “What I’ve been doing for the last two subsequently passed away from a list of LPN on weekdays and weekends respecmonths is looking at the operations and other physical maladies. tively, with 12.3 and 13.7 average number “I kept going back and forth to see how where there are obvious strengths and of residents per CNA on weekdays and where there might be opportunities for things were going, and I noticed she was weekends respectively. (Numbers are from improvement,” Grimes said. neglected, she wasn’t changed,” Foreman the first quarter of 2018). Grimes said finding those strengths and said. “I believe it all happened because of But Grimes did also commit to workneglect [...] Our problem is, there’s nobody weaknesses won’t be a unilateral process. ing with the Family Council and ResiGrimes said currently, she does not feel the dents Council going forward, particularly to tell us anything, why something happened, why there’s neglect [...] I guess what facility is understaffed or that their staffing centered around a batch of focus group numbers overall are much of a weakness. we wanted was some kind of explanation. meetings she said will be held in DecemWhy? Just why things happened, and why ber. These meetings, she said, would be Much of the struggles faced by BeechNo ve m b e r

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held to yield feedback from the Beechtree community, including residents, advocates, family members, staff (both support and care) and administration, about ways Beechtree can improve going forward, most specifically seeking input on the 2019 budgetary plans for the company. She said the groups will be dedicated to “strategic planning” for the future, and that she values the circling up the input of everyone, including those who work there, to set the best path, particularly as long-term nursing home care goes through a turbulent time. “The focus group will be a mix of whoever really wants to volunteer, I’m hoping we get a good representative sample,” Grimes said. “We need to hear all the voices [...] In long-term care, t’s an interesting time, the Woodstock generation is knocking on our door, a whole generation of people who had a lot of independence and make their own choices. We want to support them.” One thing that’s consistent, between virtually all members of the Family Council, regardless of resident or advocate, is the level of concern they all still possess for Beechtree. Even when their connection to the nursing home has seemingly faded, like when their relative has passed away or returned home, they don’t appear willing to move on themselves. Their efforts are no longer strictly personal, they extend out beyond family ties and what each member of the Family Council may see as their own futures (growing old in a facility away from family and friends) to include, it appears, each resident of the facility and even its staff. “It keeps me coming back because I want to see people treated right,” Foreman said. “I have a heart for people, and I just hate to see people treated this way [...] Let us know what’s going on. Just talk to us. [...] Like I said, we had no intentions of going after them, we just want people to be honest and truthful with us, and to do the best they can by the people that are there, especially people like Betty that couldn’t or wouldn’t [complain].” “They grow to love people like Crystal, and they just can’t not help them. When you see something like this, you can’t really walk away from it and sleep at night, you have to get in there,” Ferreira said, before lowering her voice. “Plus, some of us like a good fight.” 2 0 1 8

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Tompkins County Planning, Development, and Environmental Quality Committee voted Friday to urge the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation to reject the Cayuga Operating Company’s proposal to convert to natural gas and urging the Governor to support the plant’s conversion to renewable energy and energy storage. The resolution passed by a 4-1 vote, with legislator Deborah Dawson the only member to vote against. The bill will now appear before the Tompkins County Legislature on Nov. 20 to seek final approval. Residents from communities all across Tompkins County showed up for the public comment portion of the meeting, which last around 90 minutes. Pleas were made with the committee to support “Resolution A,” which asks for the DEC to reject the proposal outright instead of “Resolution B,” the more moderate of the two which would have asked for an environmental impact study conducted on the project as well as inform the DEC that the proposal could create one or more significant adverse environmental impact(s). Opponents of the proposal also revived their previously voiced concerns that the proposal could be dangerous or damaging to local infrastructure since the natural gas would have to be trucked in from Pennsylvania. Comments varied from asking the health- and safety-based questions of whether or not a truck could possibly get into an accident that could cause an explosion (the likelihood of which seems unclear) or what could happen should something malfunction at the plant. Other comments displayed a concern about what kind of planet they would be leaving future generations. Many people cited the recent (and much-publicized) climate change study done by the United Na-

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the global economy and energy usage. Some of the speakers at the meeting also had words to say about the effects this has had on communities in Pennsylvania, where fracking has been a constant point of tension. A couple of people in attendance spoke about how escaping the effects of fracking was the reason they moved to Tompkins County and wouldn’t want to see the roots they put down tainted by the effects of natural gas. But there were proponents of the natural gas change as well. Tompkins County Legislator Mike Sigler, who said that concerned people should be voicing their concerns at their town/village boards about land-use ordinances, has been a proponent of the plan since it was first introduced (though he noted his personal support for renewable energy usage). He also said that based on the results of this project, there could be plenty of backlash when it comes to getting an Environmental Impact Statement on other projects involving natural gas. Dawson, the lone dissenting vote, said that getting an environmental impact study would be the prudent way of navigating the situation and that it’s the right choice for the DEC to be making. Dawson drafted “Resolution B.” Cornell University, as well as the City of Ithaca’s Planning Board, have seen plenty of pushback from students, residents, and environmental advocates regarding the Cornell North Campus Residential Expansion Project, which would require the use of natural gas to power the buildings in the expansion. The plant in question is more of a “peaker plant” and is used primarily during peak hours when the extra power is needed, during particularly hot days in the summer or cold days in the winter. -E dw i n J. Vi er a

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purpose of this meeting is to see how this demolition can be completed as safely as possible.” It appears asbestos removal followed by demolition was the initial plan, before the building was condemned, which opened the option for the developers to demolish and abate the asbestos simultaneously. If it had to be boiled down, that’s probably the crux of the community’s anger: they feel as if Travis Hyde Properties dragged its feet on the asbestos abatement, potentially so that they could receive a condemnation order once the building had decayed past the acceptable point. Kramer articulated these points again and again, often to a chorus of support from the crowd. Travis, for his part, argued that the time delay was just part of the development process and that by the time the third-party engineering firm wrote their report on the building, commissioned by Travis-Hyde, it was bad enough that the city’s Director of Code Enforcement Mike Niechwiadowicz followed their recommendation and condemned the building based on New York State code. Niechwiadowicz said during the meeting that the primary structural deficiency with the building involves the roof decking, and said parts of the roof have started to collapse, putting potential workers at risk and directly leading to the condemnation order.

One idea floated by Myrick, and which gained momentum throughout the meet-

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ing, was using the tax abatement process to leverage some sort of compromise. The idea, basically, was that the Tompkins County Industrial Development Agency would increase, or at least reconfigure, the abatement given to the project if the developers agree to clean out the asbestos prior to knocking the building down (which may mean restoring the structure

Dryden’s ninth district had the highest percentage of voters with 72.80 percent of those registered turning out.

to the point it’s safe for asbestos workers to enter). Theoretically this would satiate the desires of the community by carrying out

percent of registered voters heading to the polls. Once all was said and done, Dewitt said, 79 percent of registered voters turned out for the 2016 Presidential Election including absentee ballots. Early polling data from the Tompkins County Board of Elections shows that voters predictably skewed far more liberal than conservative. For statewide government positions, a majority of voters in the county chose to re-elect Governor Andrew Cuomo and Lieutenant Governor Kathy Hochul as well as plenty of Democrats to statewide positions In the race for New York’s 23rd District seat in the U.S. House of Representatives,

Republican Tom Reed defeated Tracy Mitrano with 54 percent of the vote; while Mitrano garnered 44 percent of total votes, though Mitrano won over 75 percent of the vote in Tompkins County. According to the Tompkins County Unofficial Voter Turnout Report, the Town of Dryden’s ninth district had the highest percentage of voters with 72.80 percent of those registered turning out. The Town of Lansing’s fifth district had the most number of total voters, with 820.

into the unknown, Moore has found the but he’s been encouraged by the number of crowdfunding aspect of the campaign an supporters they have accumulated, both of exciting success. the project but people who are willing to “When we first started, we said okay, help teachers who are short on funding. we have no idea whether we’re going to be As a former science teacher, Haas has in any way ‘successful,’ so we decided we found that this is an important topic to were going to attempt bring into the classa one-year fundraisroom because of how it ing effort,” Moore said. stretches into other ar“Now we know there are eas. He said that this is approximately 200,000 not just an issue where high school science someone can examine teachers in the country, Just look at that and you’ll be the physical science and reaching all of them it. Rather, climate able to have conversations with that’s is about a half-million change is a complex Uncle Fred at the dinner table recipe for disaster, with dollar proposal. And so, we said that we’re going different parts stemor in those conversations on to take it piece by piece. ming from different Facebook or Twitter We actually work state aspects of human by state so we try to history, starting with raise enough money to the Industrial Revolureach every teacher in tion and flowing into a given state, and once economics, politics, and we’ve done that, we psychology. Haas found move on. After the first a unique challenge in year, we were so pleased with the result, that along with dealing with the physithat we decided to add a second year onto cal science in the book, having to deal the campaign, so if we’re successful by the with the social sciences aspect can make end of the second year, we would have climate change more challenging to teach reached half of the teachers in the counthan photosynthesis. try.” Haas has found that some of the atHeartland is a difficult opponent in this tributes of the book are that it isn’t just arena, Haas said, considering their deep teacher friendly but can be beneficial for pockets containing plenty of resources, anyone to use to educate themselves on

climate change. “Its applicability goes far beyond the classroom,” Haas said. “Just look at that and you’ll be able to have conversations with Uncle Fred at the dinner table or in those conversations on Facebook or Twitter [...] Calling someone a jerk is not a way to get them to see your point-of-view and that the advocacy can deepen convictions more than understandings.” The campaign is on-going with Moore and Haas seeking more supporters to ensure students and teachers are being given a proper understanding of climate change. One thing that both Haas and Moore are grateful about is that there has been very little pushback to the campaign. Moore commented about some of the responses she has seen from teachers. “We’ve done some teacher surveys to see if they get pushback when they teach climate change and for the most part the answer is no,” Moore said. “Anybody who said yes said it comes from their administration, their principal, their school board, and stuff. But I haven’t had anybody say they get pushback from kids or parents and we have not had any pushback from anybody except the Heartland Institute itself, which we consider a victory because we got their attention, which is cool.”

what they feel is a safer asbestos removal process, while also compensating Travis Hyde for the increased cost they will incur. Myrick doesn’t have any control over that, though; the extent of his involvement would be a letter of recommendation sent to the IDA, though the public would likely be a powerful voice in the process as well. It’s unclear when the project is scheduled to be discussed or voted upon by the IDA.• -M att Butler

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the things that we knew Heartland would bring up?’ So, that’s what I did, writing those FAQ’s, I turned a couple of them on Heartland and the denialist claims that they frequently make.” Some of the questions Moore writes about are; how can we be sure that changes going on now are not just part of natural climate variation, how do we know the increase in carbon dioxide since the 1800s is from human activities, and how it’s possible for those who assert that climate change is real and those who deny it both show data and graphs that support these opposing positions?. Dr. Don Haas, a co-author of the book, found it difficult to bring the project to fruition without getting too deep into politics. “It’s a challenge to think about the nuances of that but I think we did a good job,” said Haas. “I think we were careful to police ourselves and how to ground what we wrote in evidence than in bias and rather than in politics. It was a challenge but I think we met the challenge well.” For now, the campaign has made $115,000 and has managed to send the book to all high school science classes in the states of Idaho, New Hampshire, Connecticut, North Carolina, South Carolina, Maine, Vermont, Florida, Nevada, as well as all of the schools in New York City. Currently, the campaign is working its way through Iowa. Despite some initial steps

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Cornell drops Sunday matinee and chance for record start By Ste ve L aw re nc e

must admit, it felt like an â€œAre you sure youâ€™re supposed to be here?â€? moment. It was Sunday, just after lunch, and I was walking into Newman Arena to watch a Cornell basketball game. Such games are usually played after dinner on Friday or Saturday and I felt out of sorts. Iâ€™m sorry to report that the Big Red apparently shared my out of sorts mood, as they dropped the game to Colgate to move to 2-1 on the season. A win would have secured the hostsâ€™ first 3-0 start in nearly two decades, but truth be told, these early season losses can be valuable for the lessons learned. One of the lessons learned on this day, I would surmise, is that playing from behind can be exhausting. For the entirety of the first half and much of the second, the outcome was in question. Colgate played a consistently solid game, running up a double-digit lead on a couple of occasions, but the Big Red came back. The home fans were waiting for Cornell to run up a lead of their own, but every time they made it close the Raiders mustered another run. Over the last 10 minutes, the visitors seemed to be open for one layup after another, and Cornellâ€™s poor 3-point shooting (4-28) took its toll. Despite the fact that the Big Redâ€™s Matt Morgan put up another double-double (12 points, 10 boards and 4 assists), he did not look like his usually electrifying self. The senior has now scored

in double figures 82 times, including in 54 consecutive games. I told my buddy Mike Richmond that I anticipated that Morgan would come alive and take over the game â€” as he has done so many times over the course of his exceptional career â€” but on this day, Morgan was mortal and the rest of the team did not step up to the degree needed. There were some positive takeaways, however. Sophomore Jimmy Boeheim looks a year wiser and quite a lot stronger. Josh Warren looked sharp as well, putting up 10 points of his own and showing a lot of hustle. Cornell got roughed up in the paint â€” getting outscored 54-34 â€” and the absence of Stone Gettings (who is graduating in December and transferred to Arizona for his final year of eligibility) was palpable. The Big Red will try to get back on track on Thursday, as they will host the Blue Hens of Delaware. (Matt Butler â€” the Ithaca Timesâ€™ Managing Editor â€” is a Delaware alum, and while I make it a habit to try my best to keep Butler happy, I must tell him that the Hens are about to be plucked.) Game time is 7 p.m. â€˘â€˘â€˘ Back to the aforementioned Mike Richmondâ€Ś Longtime readers know that I have periodically chronicled Mikeâ€™s participation on the national senior softball scene. Well, he told me that he just returned from a national tournament in

Cornell sophomore Jimmy Boeheim, shown here against Binghamton University, has shown promise in his second year with the program. (Photo provided)

Florida, and his team finished a frustrating second after entering the final day undefeated. I asked Mike if he pitched a lot â€” as has been his custom - and he stated, â€œNo, I am more of a manager these days, but I did do some pinch-hitting.â€? I asked if it was uncomfortable to insert oneself into the lineup with the bases loaded twice and Mike answered â€œWell, it might be under some circumstances, but the guys wanted me to swing the bat.â€? Swing the bat he did, and with two of those swings â€” a double and a single â€” Mike put 5 RBI in the scorebook. Not bad for a guy who will turn 80 on New Yearsâ€™ Day.

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Touring the “Ten Square Miles” through food BY EDWIN J. VIERA

thaca carries a few reputations with it, most of them having to do with education and politics. Its food scene might not be chief among those, but the city does boast a deep list of impressive restaurants. One local woman is looking to make sure Ithacans and visitors to the city know about the past and present of Ithaca food. Sarah Barden, the co-owner of Ithaca is Foodies, has been running food tours of Ithaca since 2017 with adjustments made

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along the way to accommodate changes to the culinary environment of Ithaca. Barden started the business with her husband in May 2017 after many months of initial setup. During its first two years, the business operated tours primarily from May to October with a specialty tour doing a limited run during the winter of 2017. Since then, business has been steady with interest growing around Ithaca. Ithaca is Foodies’ flagship tour is the Downtown Ithaca Food Tour, which shows the essence of Barden’s business. “We visit six restaurants over the course of three hours,” Barden said.

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“At each restaurant, you get a prepared tasting, something that we’ve collaboratively selected with the establishment that showcases what they do really well or something that they want to show off. And then we also talk about the history of that restaurant and the food that you’re eating. In between, we have a dozen cultural and historical points of interest so you can get the lay of the land.” Some of the restaurants that partner with Ithaca is Foodies for the Downtown Ithaca Food Tour are Moosewood Restaurant, Ten Forward Café (Barden feels this is an accessible way for people to try vegan food), F. Oliver’s, Coltivare, Hawi Ethiopian and Sweet Melissa’s for dessert. During the winter, she will be bringing back a tour that ran for a limited time last year and has a different basis than the Downtown Ithaca Food Tour. “It’s a winter specific tour and it’s called The Science of Taste,” Barden said. “It’s an exploration of your five basic tastes so

Sarah Barden’s Ithaca is Foodies tours is looking to expand its offerings as it enters its third year of operations. (Photo by Casey Martin)

sweet, sour, salty, bitter and umami. It’s going to have a similar format. It’s going to have five restaurants over the course of two and a half hours but every tasting exemplifies a different one of those basic tastes and we talk about how you experience it, how you can use it in cooking. There’s not so much history on that one because it’s winter so instead of spending the time outside talking about the history of Downtown, we spend the time inside talking about food science.” For anyone wondering what “umami” is, it’s the taste of “savory,”Barden said. She explained that this taste was discovered by Japanese chemist Kikunae Ikeda and that umami is the taste of glutamates, which are a building block of protein. These can continued on page 15

Women’s Opportunity Center provides safe space to develop back into the workforce BY EDWIN J. VIERA

or the last 40 years, the Women’s Opportunity Center, officially called the Displaced Homemaker Center of Tompkins County, Incorporated until 2005, has been trying to give women the necessary experience they need to re-enter the workforce. In this time, the center has helped 15,000 women in Tompkins County, with another center located in Syracuse. Executive Director Kate Shanks-Booth has been on the job since 2016. Since taking over, Shanks-Booth re-evaluated some of the programs that the center does and made some adjustments to ensure these programs speak to the current work environment these women are facing. “We decided to take our on the job training program and we launched our L.E.A.D.S. program,” Shanks-Booth said. “We sort of renamed it. It’s called the Leadership, Employment, and Development Skills program. We still do one-onone career counseling but the idea behind this is that there is a cohort of women.

They go through the experience together. They come in and it’s a 12-week program.” Shanks-Booth said the program includes a two-week boot camp to start the sessions, which include advice on resumes, how to dress, applying for jobs online, and other more surface level, introductory lessons. This program has some classes that teach women about nutrition and healthy eating what a positive relationship looks like, Shanks-Booth said, as well as teaching women how to navigate online applications and how to dress based on the workplace. The center also partners with Tompkins-Seneca-Tioga BOCES to help women get their high school diplomas and obtain their college degree from other partnerships with SUNY-Empire and Tompkins Cortland Community College. In the program, the women also develop a PowerPoint presentation on a topic of their choosing, which serves as their capstone from the L.E.A.D.S. program. During their time at the center, the women are also given a safe space to think outside the box, according to Shanks-Booth, as well how to help them consider what paths

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ing from deeply damaging situations. One of the common misconceptions of the center is that it is primarily for lowincome people but the center is looking to the future as they approach their fortieth anniversary next year. Shanks-Booth is looking into developing some new partnerships in some non-traditional work field for women. The center is creating an all-inclusive network for these women to find strength in their similarities but are also given the room to develop their own way of going about the workforce. And according to Shanks-Booth, people are able to go get help regardless of who they are, what they believe in, or what they look like. She also said they want to encourage women to consider jobs that they might not traditionally be hired for, something like maintenance or handiwork. “And so, we are looking at creating different partnerships with those organizations and we’re going to get them the training to make sure the services that we’re going to provide in the future are actually relevant and is actually a stepping stone to get them into those nontraditional things like being a carpenter or a plumber,” Shanks-Booth said. “I think a lot of times we have this idea that higher education is the only way. It is a way and it is a good way. But it is hard to find a plumber in this town. They always have work to do.”

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be found when proteins are broken down, like when you age cheese or meat, or when you cook them. These are the types of lessons incorporated into the food science aspects of the winter tours. Along with The Science of Taste tour, Barden is in the process of designing a brunch tour, which will cover three brunch stops over three hours. This would be a collaboration with Wanders Touring because it is a driving tour since some of the stops are not easy to walk to. Barden only had limited details about the brunch tour because the restaurants on the tour have not been finalized as of yet. She did say that the tour will feature brunch spots with a focus on local sourcing and that every stop will have a food tasting as well as a beverage. Barden’s process for creating a tour is an in-depth process that ensures a tour is both informative and had great quality. “First I want to come up with a cohesive concept,” Barden said. “For our downtown Ithaca tour, the theme of that is variety and history. We knew we wanted to have a restaurant that was a dessert stop, we wanted something that represented the variety of international cuisine we have here, we wanted a stop that represents Ithaca’s 70’s spirit and our co-ops and our collectives. We wanted a restaurant that represented a more adventurous culinary

approach. As we fleshed out that tour, we said “alright these are our categories” and then we looked at restaurants that would fit into those categories. There’s a number of criteria for a restaurant; we want them to be a locally owned small business, we want them to be community focused, we want them to have awesome food.” Barden said the idea of a food tour is new to many of their restaurant partners, so there’s always an adjustment process when they’re searching for new partners or to setting up a new season of tours. Once the tours are set, Barden does about four weeks of test tours, in which invited guests take the tour but are asked specific questions that aide her in refining the tour so it’s perfect. Business has been good, Barden said, with some fluctuations occurring throughout the years since Ithaca is Foodies began. “We’ve seen peaks and valleys throughout the season, with fall tours selling out weeks in advance,” Barden said. “We’re planning to hire our first employee next year so that we can offer additional tours on popular weekends. Our private tour business is also growing, and we take requests for private group and custom tours that are an excellent activity for work retreats, department mixers, reunion groups, and bachelorette parties [...] In all, over the past two years, we have hosted 709 people during 89 tours.”

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BizBriefs Announcing 4th Annual Tompkins Connect Fab5 Young Professional Awards Ithaca, NY — Tompkins Connect is excited to announce their Fourth Annual Fab5 Awards, sponsored by Tompkins Trust Company. The Fab5 Awards honor five young professionals aged 21-40 in Tompkins County who are growing and excelling in their respective fields and the community. The community is encouraged to showcase “Who’s FABulous in your life?” and nominate qualifying individuals in the following categories:

winners.” The Fab5 Awards are co-sponsored by the Tompkins Chamber and the United Way of Tompkins County. Nominations will be open Nov. 1 until Dec. 7. To nominate an individual or to learn more about Fab5, please visit tompkinschamber.org/Fab5Awards. Winners will be announced at the awards ceremony on February 25, 2019.

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“We are fortunate to live in a place with an abundance of talented, creative, and tenacious young professionals whom have started successful business endeavors, run and won local political office, and have made an impact on the lives of others,” said Tompkins Chamber Events and Program Manager Steph Bailey. “We look forward to reading this year’s nominations and honoring the next class of Fab5

which represent some of the most esteemed restaurants in the country. While the panel of judges are from throughout the United States, most are from some of the top restaurants in California. Penguin Bay was awarded with two gold medals, a 91 point rating and two silver medals. The gold medal winners were the 2017 Dry Gewürztraminer and the 2015 Lemberger Pinot Noir, both of which received 91 point ratings. 2017 Dry Vidal Blanc and 2017 Dry Rosé brought home silver medals. “ This was the second consecutive year and second consecutive vintage that our Gewurztraminer scored 90 plus points at this judging, and that our Lemberger Pinot Noir blend also scored so high validates that the Finger Lakes is a top wine region for much more than just Riesling”, added Penguin Bay Co-Owner David Peterson. Penguin Bay Wineries is owned by the Peterson Family and is located on the east side of Seneca Lake in the Finger Lakes. For more information about Penguin Bay’s wines, awards, and tasting room visit www.PenguinBayWinery.com or call 607.403.0029

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The Finger Lakes’ most misunderstood wine

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mong the many hard-topronounce wine names, Gewürztraminer is relatively easy to say. Try ordering a bottle of Dobričić or Grenaš Crni at a restaurant and your tongue will be tied in a knot. Like many German words, Gewürztraminer is a concatenation of two words – Gewürz and Traminer. The ancient Traminer grape got its name from its origin in Tramin, a German-speaking town in South Tyrol in the northern Italian Alps. Gewürz has multiple meanings and translations. It could be spice, herb or condiment. The most common English translation of Gewürztraminer is spicy Traminer. A better translation is perhaps aromatic Traminer, as it is one of the most opulent wines you’ll ever come across. Gewürztraminer’s calling card is its explosive nose of lychees, a tree fruit from southern

China. Throw in some rose petals, grapefruit and pineapple and you get a cornucopia of tropical fruit aromas that leaps from the glass and engulfs your olfactory senses. The association of lychees with Gewürztraminer is no accident. A 1999 published study from Peter Ong and Terry Acree at Cornell University showed that both shared a high concentration of a chemical compound called cis-rose oxide. This larger-thanlife bouquet of Gewürztraminer and its typically bright golden color make some people think that it is a blowsy and simple wine, not worthy of a seat in the pantheon of fine wines. “Gewürztraminer is a misunderstood wine,” said August Deimel, the winemaker at Keuka Spring Vineyards. Deimel is an unabashed champion of Gewürztraminer in the Finger Lakes. Back in the 1880s, his paternal side of the family emigrated to America from Alsace, the most famous Gewürztraminer winegrowing region in the world. Maybe his passion for the varietal is in the genes. “It is a winemaker’s grape,” he added. “You can shape it in the vinification process into the kind of the style you want it to be. But it’s best to let the vineyard decide the style that is best for

its grapes.” While Gewürztraminer could be clay in the hands of a winemaker, it is also quite terroirtransparent. Deimel’s 2017 Keuka Spring Gewürztraminer was sourced from six different Finger Lakes vineyards. “Every vineyard tasted different,” Deimel said. “The blending of the six vineyards really added to the complexity of the wine.” The judges at the 2018 New York Wine Classic certainly agreed, awarding it the winner of this year’s Governor’s Cup as the best wine in New York state. It marked the first time a Gewürztraminer has won the Governor’s Cup. The grape has always been an outlier. It has an unstable genome, so it’s prone to mutations. Its skin color is pinkish red, rare for a white wine grape. The skin color of its ancestor, the Traminer grape, is green, with a nose that is not that aromatic. But somehow during its centuries-long journey from South Tyrol to Alsace via the Rhine River, its propensity to mutate gave it a new color and an über bouquet. Gewürztraminer is by nature a high-alcohol and lowcontinued on page 21

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August Deimel, of Keuka Spring Vineyards, has won awards with his Gewurtztraminer wines. (Photo by Dave Sit)

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Awakening of Spring Edgy new play at Cornell explores the darkest urges By Barbara Ad am s

Dominique Thorne, a senior at Cornell, in one of the rehearsals for “The Awakening of Spring,” which is playing at the Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts. (Photo by Thomas Hoebbel)

ost theatergoers are now familiar with “Spring Awakening,” the musical about sexually ignorant 14-year-olds in repressive late 1800s Germany, which swept Broadway in 2006. Probably fewer know the controversial 1890 play, “The Awakening of Spring,” on which it was based. Scandalous for the time, this was the first major play by Frank Wedekind, a German actor, singer, dramaturg and playwright, whose own life was as edgy as his themes. Wedekind was countering an authoritarian, hypocritical society that preached strict notions of proper social behavior, keeping children naïve about sexuality while some adults privately broke all the rules. “The Awakening of Spring” ripped the façade off this conventional morality, presenting rape, abortion, suicide, homosexuality, group masturbation and sadomasochism. It’s a dark and bitter social portrait, and difficult theater to watch. Under the co-direction of David Feldshuh and Carolyn Goelzer, Cornell University students are taking on this challenging play in the Schwartz Center’s Flex Theatre, fittingly transformed into what looks like a prison yard. High bleak stony walls, broad wooden lattice-ladders, large rocks scattered everywhere –– which is actually the depressing, confining townscape, with oblique black forms serving as benches or later, cemetery stones. Kent Goetz’s creative set is complemented by E.D. Intemann’s expressive lighting, which sharpens our focus while reinforcing the surrounding literal and spiritual darkness. In this narrow world, schoolboys cram, worry about impending exams, and speculate about sex. Meanwhile the girls cluster apart, dreaming about their possible futures as wives and mothers. Kept uninformed, they’re told the stork brings babies, but darkness creeps in the corners of their world: Martha (Sara Pistono) reveals she’s beaten and molested at home; another girl, Ilse (Ilana Wallenstein), has

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left the community to consort freely with artists. One daring youth reads and questions: atheist Melchior (Andrew Dettmer) tries to enlighten his close friend Moritz (Bryan Hagelin), who’s obsessing about sex even as he’s on the brink of failing school and shaming his family. No spoiler by this time, I think, to say that the despairing Moritz shoots himself. When the vivid sketches and facts of Melchior’s frank sex manual are found, he’s blamed for causing Moritz’s death and expelled. And when his encounter with the naïve Wendla (Dominique Thorne) turns to rape and her eventual pregnancy, he’s sent, at first against the wishes of his mother (Caroyn Goelzer), to a reformatory. He’s unaware, until near the story’s end, at her grave, that Wendla has died of a botched abortion her mother arranged. Moritz appears to him from the dead, beckoning, but an enigmatic masked figure urges him to live. We’re left with a damaged Melchior, moving forward blindly into a brutal world. The play’s apt original subtitle was “A Children’s Tragedy.” The censorious adults, so harshly present in the later musical, are here shadowy figures, all masked –– a directorial choice that reduces them to emblems and makes them appear less, not more, powerful and responsible for this disturbing culture. The large cast of youths dominates the stage and the action, with some striking visual moments when they’re scaling the ladders or trapped behind them, trying to break free. Wedekind was addressing alternative sexualities (two of the boys are drawn to each other; Wendla begs Melchior to beat her because she’s never experienced pain) just as Krafft-Ebing’s influential “Psychopathia Sexualis” was defining any nonprocreative sexual behavior as perversion. Today the dominant social values manifest in the play may seem almost medieval to some – but the work has offended audiences by its freethinking right up to the present. For his highly dramatic themes and staging, Wedekind has been seen as a precursor to German Expressionism. And that quality is played up in this production, not only with the masking of the oppressors, but the exaggerated acting of some characters (especially Moritz, and at times Melchior as well). It’s a theatrical style we’re no longer used to, and so the more naturalistic acting of Thorne’s beautiful young Wendla strikes us as truly moving. Her fierce integrity, along with Wallenstein’s independence as Ilse and the other girls’ feelings all seem genuine; the boys tending histrionic by comparison. Emotions and ideas are in conflict here, both onstage and within at least this viewer. Regardless, this coming-of-age story forces us to confront the past as well as our own society’s suppressions. “The Awakening of Spring,” by Frank Wedekind, directed by David Feldshuh and Carolyn Goelzer. Flex Theatre at Cornell’s Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts, Nov. 16 & 17. Tickets 607-254-2787 Barbara Adams, a regional theatre and arts writer, teaches writing at Ithaca College.

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Mahogany Grill shows its staying power By He nr y Stark

ahogany Grill is one of the restaurants on Aurora Street I tend to think of as an Ithaca institution because it has survived in the same location, under the same ownership, for an extended period, having opened in 2002. This is not the first time the location at 114 N. Aurora Street in downtown Ithaca has been a restaurant - old timers might remember it as Plum’s. It blends well with the other bars and restaurants that populate restaurant row and attracts a wide variety of visitors including college students. The restaurant and bar are open continuously from lunch through dinner with lunch starting at 11:30 a.m. and the dinner menu coming online at 4:00 p.m. I selected the Mahogany Burger from the lunch menu after I learned the beef came from a local Trumansburg farm. I ordered it rare and received it rare. It was topped with cheddar cheese, bacon, and onion straws which are thin shavings prepared in the kitchen. I was pleased to learn that I could substitute sweet potato fries for the usual French fries at no additional charge however they would have been a bit

more appetizing had they spent less time in the fryer. In addition to menu offerings, our cheerful and efficient server told us about two specials. My companion ordered one, a pizza and salad which he enjoyed. And while I’m on the topic of cheerful and efficient servers, I want to acknowledge Daisy, Monika, and Mario from Mahogany Grill, three of the most competent and accommodating servers I’ve encountered in my reviewing travels. I recently enjoyed two of the daily dinner specials, a veal chop, served on the bone atop some garlic mashed potatoes and accompanied by sliced carrots and broccolini. Everything was cooked perfectly. The chop was medium rare as ordered and the veggies were al dente and fresh tasting. The garlic mashed potatoes were cooked well too but I had to take the server’s word that they were cooked with garlic. The other dinner special was seafood with penne and vodka in a cream sauce. There were substantial chunks of shrimp, scallops and swordfish and everything was moist and tender. The Fettucine Shrimp Scampi was quite enjoyable with spinach, tomatoes and a touch of garlic.

At dinner there’s a complimentary offering of a homemade tomato puree dip made with olive oil, balsamic vinegar, a pepper puree and some roasted garlic. I found it a bit on the hot side but a dinner companion thought it was just perfect. A word about specials: The servers mentioned the prices without asking. I like that a lot, as it can be embarrassing to some diners, like students and business guests, to ask. And sometimes, the most noticeable feature that stands out about specials is the special price that is higher than other menu items. In this case, the chop was $37 which was, indeed, higher than all the other entrées except the three steaks. I find some of the food offerings at Mahogany Grill to be on the expensive side. For example, there are four sides and they are all $9 which I think is high for a side order of pasta or mashed potatoes. I learn quite a bit about restaurants by carefully studying their wine menus. Here there are 19 reds by the bottle but only four whites. There are additional offerings under the by-the-glass section. Most varieties and countries are well represented and the prices for glasses and bottles are reasonable. There are also a dozen interesting and unique specialty cocktails and a good choice of beer on draught and in bottles. Mahogany Grill has been a reliable purveyor of quality food and beverages for a long time in the competitive downtown restaurant environment. The atmosphere is cheery, and the service is top notch. It has been serving the area for more than 15 years for good reason.

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uitar virtuoso Richard Thompson last played in Ithaca at the State Theatre in October 2011. At the time, he was recording and touring with a project called Dream Attic, in which all the songs were recorded live, with no overdubs. No matter what the format may be, whether it be Thompson’s career-making stint with Fairport Convention, his work with ex-wife Linda Thompson or his varied acoustic and electric solo work, Thompson’s talent, taste and tone always shine through. Not that he’s let the music go to his head. As he told me back in 2011, looking back on the start of it all, “There was always someone who was ahead of me […] It was always that feeling of catching up. You can always find a guitar player on a record who’s better than you. It’s an endlessly sobering business, this guitar playing business.” On Friday, Nov. 16, Richard Thompson will bring his guitar playing business in the form of his Electric Trio, featuring Michael Jerome on drums and Taras Prodaniuk on bass, to the State Theatre at 8 p.m.; the Sisters of Slide (Rory Block and Cindy Cashdollar) will open the evening. Richard Thompson spoke to the Ithaca Times about what drives him, suffering abuse at early gigs and playing in a trio. Ithaca Times: You’ve been at this for so long, what keeps you interested and motivated?

Richard Thompson: I think for me […] the most enjoyable thing that I do in music is to play in front of an audience. I think there’s nothing that beats that. And what that brings is a sense of communication, the sense that people get it, and that’s a rewarding feeling. I think you put up with 14-hour plane rides and [laughs] all kinds of discomforts in order to achieve those live moments. It’s the best thing. It’s better than recording; in some ways, it’s better than songwriting, that thing of playing in front of an audience and being a success.

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RT: [laughs] Well, I’ve been playing live pretty much since I was 13, and the first few times I did play were really disasters as far as I can remember. [laughs] So it wasn’t those shows. There were early audiences where people threw coins. Threw chairs in one case. But probably around the age of 18, when audiences became a bit more steady and sort of appreciative, it became

a regularly enjoyable thing. And it’s mostly been that ever since. IT: That fascinates me. You got coins thrown at you, but you stuck with it. RT: [laughs] Well, you know, it’s really a thrill to play music and to have someone pay you to go and play. I think there’s always that optimism of, “Well, today didn’t go so great, but there’s always the next gig.” There’s always tomorrow. That’s the general attitude. IT: You’ll be playing in your Electric Trio format here at the State Theatre this week. What do you look for in a rhythm section? RT: I think one thing is probably feel, you know? Also, things like the steadiness of rhythm has a certain standard. And great musicianship. But mostly it’s not so much the notes, but the way the whole thing’s approached. So [I look for] feel, and a sense of swing. It’s an elusive thing to talk about, but you know when it’s there, and you’re very aware when it’s not there.

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Melon Brothers | 7:00 PM, | The Haunt, Ithaca

The Tarps | 4:00 PM, | Americana Vineyards, Interlaken

Bars/Bands/Clubs

Party of Four | 7:00 PM, | Two Goats Brewing, Burdett

Brian Spencer | 7:00 PM, | The Westy, Ithaca

11/14 Wednesday

The Analogue Sons & DubberRucky | 8:00 PM, | Casita Del Polaris, Ithaca

Cornell Jazz Combo Showcase | 7:00 PM, | Carriage House Cafe, Ithaca

Djug Django | 6:00 PM, | Lot 10 Lounge, Ithaca

Brian Spencer & Barry Miller | 9:00 PM, | Agava, Ithaca

Canaan Jam Session | 7:00 PM, | Canaan Institute, Brooktondale

Papa Muse w/s/g | 9:30 PM, | The Range, Ithaca

Ray McNamara’s WednesRay Monk’s Raysidency | 7:00 PM, | Monk’s on the Commons, Ithaca

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Synth Night | 8:00 PM, | Sacred Root Kava Lounge & Tea Bar, Ithaca Reggae Night with TreeHouse & DJ Mike Judah | 9:00 PM, | The Haunt, Ithaca | $5 The Crucials Wednesday Night Residency | 9:30 PM, | The Range, Ithaca | $5

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Backtalk Band | 6:00 PM, | Americana Vineyards, Interlaken Karaoke at the Cafe with Mike McWilliams | 6:00 PM, | Dryden Community Center Cafe, Dryden Stereopticon | 7:00 PM, | Two Goats Brewing, Burdett Dark Hollow | 8:00 PM, | Auburn Public Theater, Auburn | $9-$10 Kitestring | 8:00 PM, | The Range, Ithaca

Bob & Dee | 6:00 PM, | Americana Vineyards, Interlaken

The Tarps | 8:00 PM, | Silver Line Tap Room, Trumansburg

Ken Hallett - folk music | 6:00 PM, | Ten Forward Cafe, Ithaca

11/18 Sunday

Long John and the Tights with special guests | 6:00 PM, | Felicia’s Atomic Brewhouse and Bakery, Trumansburg

Jim Hull | 12:00 PM, | Agava, Ithaca

Three Stone Fire | 6:00 PM, | Hopshire Farm & Brewery, Freeville

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

Erin & the Backwoods Blues Project | 7:00 PM, | The Westy, Ithaca

Stratcat Willie & the Strays | 4:00 PM, | Two Goats Brewing, Burdett

November

Professor Tuesday’s Jazz Quartet | 6:30 PM, | ZaZa’s Cucina, Ithaca Swing Time Tuesday w/ Southern Tears | 6:30 PM, | The Range, Ithaca | $7/$5

Horns & Ivory with Dino Losito and Terry Light | 4:00 PM, | Scalehouse Brewery, Hector

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Tuesday Bluesday with Danny P & friends | 6:00 PM, | The Haunt, Ithaca

Irish Session with members of Traonach | 7:00 PM, | Argos Inn, Ithaca

Peaches & Crime w/ Sugarlumps + Whiskey Tango Sideshow | 8:00 PM, | The Haunt, Ithaca | $15

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Blue Skies | 5:00 PM, | Red Newt Bistro, Hector

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Bound for Glory: Debra Cowan | 8:00 PM, | Anabel Taylor Hall, Ithaca

Midday Music for Organ: Matthew Hall | 12:30 PM, 11/14 Wednesday | Anabel Taylor Chapel, Cornell University, Ithaca | Matthew Hall, organ: The French Connection: Music by De Grigny, Marchand, and J.S. Bach

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Cornell Wind Symphony and US Air Force Heritage of America Concert Band | 7:00 PM, 11/17 Saturday | Bailey Hall, Cornell, Ithaca | The program includes works by Roberto Sierra, Tielman Susato, and Leonard Bernstein’s Prelude, Fugue, and Riffs and Symphonic Dances from West Side Story.

Drag Show with Cassanova’s Royal Court | 9:00 PM, 11/15 Thursday | The Range, 119 E State St, Ithaca | Cassanova’s Royal Court’s bi-weekly drag show.

Preservation Hall Jazz Band | 7:30 PM, 11/17 Saturday | Corning Museum of Glass, One Museum Way, Corning | Legendary New Orleans live band Juanito Pascual Trio | 8:00 PM, 11/17 Saturday | Trumansburg Conservatory of Fine Arts, Congress at McLallen St, Trumansburg | Cornell Symphony Orchestra | 3:00 PM, 11/18 Sunday | Bailey Hall, Cornell, Ithaca | Cornell Symphony Orchestra; Octavaio Mas-Arocas conducts Mahler’s Symphony No. 1. Cayuga Chamber Orchestra: Generational Gap | 4:00 PM, 11/18 Sunday | First Unitarian Church Ithaca, 306 N Aurora St, Ithaca | Nielsen, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Frank Proto, Beethoven Cornell Voice Studio Recital | 8:00 PM, 11/19 Monday | Barnes Hall, Cornell, Ithaca |

Stage Open Mic Comedy | 10:00 PM, 11/14 Wednesday | Lot 10 Lounge, 106 S Cayuga St, Ithaca | ComedyFLOPS | 7:00 PM, 11/15 Thursday | The Haunt, 702 Willow Ave, Ithaca | | $5 suggested LHS Drama Club Presents: 12 Angry Jurors | 7:00 PM, 11/15 Thursday thru 11/17 Saturday | Lansing Middle School , 6 Ludlowville Rd, Lansing | Guilty or Innocent? This production, based on the award winning play and movie 12 Angry Men, depicts the life or death struggle of 12 strangers who must decide on the guilt or innocence

The Mild, Mild West - Mystery Dinner Theater | 6:00 PM, 11/16 Friday & 11/17 Saturday | Owego United Methodist Church, 261 Main St., Owego | For more info call church office at 687-2417. | $20 La Cerise Noire | 7:30 PM, 11/16 Friday & 11/17 Saturday | The Cherry Artspace, 102 Cherry St, Ithaca | Welcome to the New Vaudeville created by Scott Hitz and the Mighty Mickie Quinn featuring a tantalizing variety of delectable delights: burlesque, drag, comedy, circus, bellydancing, grown-up puppetry, magic, and much more to tickle your fancy. The Awakening of Spring | 7:30 PM, 11/16 Friday & 11/17 Saturday | Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts, Cornell University, Ithaca | Frank Wedekind’s tragicomedy about adolescence written in 1891, and censored in whole or part for more than half a century. Repression and the dangerous chasm between ideologically imprisoned adults and innocent children on the brink of learning about the world are explored with originality and daring in this revolutionary play. The Fantasticks | 7:30 PM, 11/16 Friday; 3PM & 7:30 on 11/17, Saturday; 3pm, 11/18 Sunday | Community School Of Music And Arts, 330 E State St, Ithaca | Walking on Water Productions (WoW) proudly presents their 2018 season production. Guys and Dolls | 8:00 PM, 11/16 Friday & 11/17 Saturday; 2:00PM, 11/18 Sunday| Anderson Center for the Performing Arts, 4400 Vestal Parkway East, Binghamton | The Extraordinary Muffin Theatre Spectacular | 3:00 PM, 11/18 Sunday | Circus Culture, 116 W. Green Street, Ithaca | The eclectic cast includes an

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ex-Cirque du Soleil performer and an international Lindy Hop champion among other extraordinary performers. One complimentary muffin per ticket. Kids show at 3PM and full show at 7PM. | 0-$15 Ballet Folklorico de Mexico | 7:30 PM, 11/19 Monday | Anderson Center, 4400 Vestal Parkway East, Binghamton | A Mexican folkloric ballet ensemble in Mexico City. The ensemble performs three times weekly at the Palace of Fine Arts in Mexico City. A Charlie Brown Christmas Live On Stage | 6:00 PM, 11/20 Tuesday | Forum Theatre, 236 Washington St, Binghamton |

Art Only Planet: Messages for a Warming World | Ongoing | Collegetown Bagels, East Hill Plaza, Ithaca | Exhibit of climate change related artwork by Christine Finnigan and Geraldine Keil will be on display for the month of November. Elsewhere : a journal, new work by Suanne Onodera | Ongoing | Corners Gallery, 903 Hanshaw Rd

Ste 3, Ithaca | A solo exhibition of new paintings and works on paper by Ithaca artist Suanne Onodera, which examines the fleeting place where ideas originate, gestate, and eventually are made tangible. Exhibit on view through Nov. 17. Gallery open 10 - 5 Tues - Fri, 10 - 2 Sat. 20th Mini-Print International | Ongoing| The Ink Shop Studio Gallery , 330 E.State / MLK Street Ithaca, NY 14850 , Ithaca | Thru 11/25. This show invites artists from around the world to submit prints no larger than 4”x 4”. The Bright, The Bleak, The Enigmatic: Art of Haiti. | Ongoing| Community School Of Music And Arts, 330 E State St, Ithaca | The exhibition will feature works by contemporary artists trained in the studio of renowned painter PhilomÈ Obin and the related Arc-en-ciel studio in the port city of Cap HaÔtien. The exhibition will remain on view through November 30. Photo Exhibit - Carl Schofield & Mark Sussman | Ongoing| Leidenfrost Vineyards, 5677 State Route 414, Hector | Exhibit on display through Dec. Rural Landscapes and Harvest Time | Ongoing | North Star Art

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Gallery, 743 Snyder Hill Road, Ithaca | North Star Art Gallery’s new exhibition features the works of Brian Keeler celebrating the lush scenes of the rural landscapes and harvest time of the Northeast.

Film Cornell Cinema All films are shown at Willard Straight Hall on Cornell campus. The Ancient Law | 11/14, 7:00PM| Baruch Mayr, son of an orthodox rabbi from a poor shtetl in Galizia, decides to break with the family tradition and leave the shtetl to become an actor. *FREE* w/ original score performed LIVE! Cold Water | 11/15, 7:00 PM| When one half of a rebellious teenage couple finds out she is being sent away, they both believe escaping the rigid order suffocating them is the only way to be free. But is it? BlacKkKlansman | 11/15, 9:15PM; 11/16, 7:00PM and 9:45PM | Ron Stallworth, an African American police officer from Colorado Springs,

Beautiful Boy | Based on the best-selling pair of memoirs from father and son David and Nic Sheff which chronicles the heartbreaking and inspiring experience of survival, relapse, and recovery in a family coping with addiction over many years. | 120 mins R

Overlord | The story of two American soldiers behind enemy lines on D Day. | 109 mins R

The Old Man & The Gun | Based on the true story of Forrest Tucker and his audacious escape from San Quentin at the age of 70 to an unprecedented string of heists that confounded authorities and enchanted the public. |93 mins PG-13

The Nutcracker and the Four Realms | 99 mins PG

Free Solo | Follow Alex Honnold as he becomes the first person to ever free solo climb Yosemite’s 3,000ft high El Capitan Wall. With no ropes or safety gear, he completed arguably the greatest feat in rock climbing history. |100 mins PG-13

A Star Is Born | 135 mins R

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CO, successfully manages to infiltrate the local Ku Klux Klan branch with the help of a Jewish surrogate who eventually becomes its leader. Based on actual events. Cornell Cinema will not be screening film from 11/17-11/27. Cinemapolis Week of Friday, November 16, 2018 through Thursday, November 22, 2018. Contact Cinemapolis for showtimes. New films are listed first*. Boy Erased* | The son of a Baptist preacher is forced to participate in a church-supported gay conversion program after being forcibly outed to his parents. | 114 mins R

Wednesday, 11/14 through Tuesday, 11/20. Contact Regal Ithaca for showtimes. New films listed first*. Thugs of Hindostan* | A thug sent by Lord Clive to spy an Indian Revolutionary pirate gang unexpectedly joins them which leads to an epic saga of revolt and war for freedom between 1790 and 1805. | 164 mins Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald* | The second installment of the series set in J.K. Rowling’s Wizarding World featuring the adventures of magizoologist Newt Scamander. | 134 mins PG-13 Instant Family* | A couple find themselves in over their heads when they adopt three children. | 119 mins PG-13

Can You Ever Forgive Me? | When Lee Israel falls out of step with current tastes, she turns her art form to deception. Based on Israel’s memoir. |106 mins R

Widows* | Four women, with nothing in common except a debt left behind by their dead husbands’ criminal activities, take fate into their own hands and conspire to forge a future on their own terms. | 129 mins R

Suspira | A darkness swirls at the center of a world-renowned dance company, one that will engulf the artistic director, an ambitious young dancer, and a grieving psychotherapist. |152 mins R

The Girl in the Spider’s Web | Young computer hacker Lisbeth Salander and journalist Mikael Blomkvist find themselves caught in a web of spies, cybercriminals and corrupt government officials. | 117 mins R

Bohemian Rhapsody | A chronicle of the years leading up to Queen’s legendary appearance at the Live Aid (1985) concert.| 134 mins PG-13 The Grinch | 90 mins PG

Nobody’s Fool| 110 mins R Halloween | 106 mins R The Hate U Give | 133 mins PG-13 Venom | 112 mins PG-13

Special Events Warren Miller’s Face of Winter | 7:30 PM, 11/14 Wednesday | State Theatre Of Ithaca, 107 W State St, Ithaca | Visit some of Warren’s favorite locations, from Engleberg to Chamonix, British Columbia to Alaska, Chile, Iceland, New Zealand, Washington and more. Watch world-class skiers like Jessie Diggins, along with the U.S. Nordic Ski Team as they train like champions, and catch big mountain athletes like Anna Segal, Dash Longe, Forrest Jillson, Amie Engerbretson, Seth Wescott, Jim Ryan, Marcus Caston and others as they carve down the faces of remote mountain ranges in pursuit of a life lived in high places. | $19.00 St. Mary’s of the Lake Holiday Bazaar | 9:00 AM, 11/17 Saturday | St. Mary’s of the Lake, 905 N. Decatur St, Watkins Glen | St. Mary’s of the Lake, Watkins Glen, Holiday Bazaar. Vendors, Food Raffles, Santa’s Workshop. Santa arrives at noon! St. Matthew’s Fall Festival | 9:00 AM, 11/17 Saturday | St. Matthew’s Episcopal Church, 14 Church St., Moravia | Bazaar, luncheon, and tours of the church. Holiday Shopping Spree - Cayuga Wine Trail Event | 10:00 AM, 11/17 Saturday & 11/18 Sunday | Travel winery to winery to sample their holidayinspired dish and sip their fine wines. You’ll also leave each winery with a

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Bailey Hall, Cornell | A performance of classic military band repertoire by the U.S. Air Force Heritage of America Concert Band and a collaboration with Cornell dancers under the direction of Jumay Chu. The program includes works by Roberto Sierra, Tielman Susato, and Leonard Bernstein’s Prelude, Fugue, and Riffs and Symphonic Dances from West Side Story. (photo: provided)

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The Haunt, 702 Willow Ave., Ithaca | Enjoy a night of music and dance that harkens back to the days of vaudeville and speakeasies. (photo: provided)

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Sixth Annual Festival of Trees | 10:00 AM, 11/17 Saturday | Ward W. O’Hara Agricultural and Country Living Museum, 6880 East Lake Road, Auburn | An Annual Holiday Tradition. Vote for your Favorite Tree. Over 100 trees on Display/ Miniature Circus/ Toy Trains/ Doll Houses/ Miniature Buildings. Kids Play Area with Farm Toys/ Puzzles/ Wood Trains.

Gail Holst-Warhaft - Lucky Country | 3:00 PM, 11/18 Sunday | Buffalo Street Books, 215 N Cayuga St, Ithaca | A long time fixture of the Ithaca literary scene celebrates the release of her new book.

Baby Storytime | 10:30 AM, 11/16 Friday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 East Green Street, Ithaca | Also one from 3:30 to 4:00 PM.

Argos Warehouse Lounge & Events Space Grand Opening Celebration! | 7:00 PM, 11/17 Saturday | Argos Warehouse Lounge & Events Space, 416 East Seneca Street, Ithaca | Featuring Vanissa Santi Quartet featuring Mike Stark, Nicholas Walker, Ashley Ickes and djGOURD with rare vintage grooves at 10PM. Vertebrate Evolution and the Secrets of the Skull - Dr. Warren Allmon | 5:30 PM, 11/19 Monday | Museum Of The Earth, 1259 Trumansburg Rd, Ithaca | An in-depth look at our Secrets of the Skull exhibit and the history of vertebrate life on earth. Part of the Museum of the Earth’s History of Life Lecture Series.

Books Pipeline Politics: Assessing the Benefits and Harms of Energy Policy | 4:00 PM, 11/15 Thursday | Mann Library, Room 160, Cornell University, Ithaca | In a Chats in the Stacks book talk, Madelon L. Finkel will present her new book. An Evening with the Poets of Sage House | 6:00 PM, 11/15 Thursday | Buffalo Street Books, 215 N Cayuga St, Ithaca | Cheryl Quimba, Ange RomeoHall, Dean Smith, & Carmen Torrado Gonzalez with David Lehman Buffalo St. Books Presents Trampoline Thursdays | 7:00 PM, 11/15 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.

Kids Cuddle-up Infant & Toddler Library Time | 10:00 AM, 11/14 Wednesday | Southworth Library, 24 W. Main Street, Dryden | Sciencenter Science Together | 3:00 PM, Wednesdays & Fridays; 10:30AM Tuesdays & Thursdays | Sciencenter, 601 1st St., Ithaca | Engage with your toddlers and preschoolers through self-guided, hands-on activities like playing with flubber, using tools to sift through sand, magnet fishing, and more!| General admission fees apply Maker Kids | 3:45 PM, 11/14 Wednesday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | A drop-in craft and activity program. Each session will provide a range of activities for varying ages and ability levels; the program is most well suited to children ages 5 to 12. Lego Literacy | 3:00 PM, 11/15 Thursday | Interlaken Public Library, 8390 Main Street, Interlaken | Comic Creation Workshop for Teens | 5:00 PM, 11/15 Thursday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Preschool Storytime at Southworth Library | 10:00 AM, 11/16 Friday | Southworth Library, 24 W.

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Comic Book Club of Ithaca - From Doctor Strange to Mr. A: Remembering Steve Ditko (Part 2) | 7:00 PM, 11/20 Tuesday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | In addition to co-creating The Amazing Spider-Man, artist Steve Ditko also created or co-created many offbeat characters such as Doctor Strange, The Question, and Mr. A. Steve Ditko Month continues at the Comic Book Club of Ithaca with a look at these and other Ditko creations that march to a different drummer.

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Tompkins County Public Library to Offer Teen Writing Workshop | 4:30 PM, 11/16 Friday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Workshops are appropriate for people in grades 6-12. Family Storytime | 11:30 AM, 11/17 Saturday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 East Green Street, Ithaca | The Maker Is In: An exploration of the Library’s STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Math) resources. | 1:00 PM, 11/17 Saturday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 East Green Street, Ithaca | With volunteers from The Cornell Society of Women Engineers. During these fun-filled, informal, drop-in sessions, families can explore games and tools that teach children about robotics, circuitry, engineering, and more. Sciencenter Showtime! | 2:00 PM, 11/17 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. | General admission fees apply Sciencenter: Chemsations! | 2:00 PM, 11/18 Sunday | Sciencenter , 601 1st St. , Ithaca | Local high school students demonstrate fun and exciting chemical reactions with color changes, bubbles, and light.| General admission fees apply Monday Storytime | 10:30 AM, 11/19 Monday | Interlaken Public Library, 8390 Main Street, Interlaken |

Family Story Time | 10:30 AM, 11/20 Tuesday | Newfield Public Library, 198 Main St. , Newfield | Join us every Tuesday for stories, songs and fun. There is a different theme each week. Toddler and Preschool Storytime | 11:00 AM, 11/20 Tuesday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 East Green Street, Ithaca |

Ithaca Sociable Singles | 6:00 PM, 11/14 Wednesday | Wednesday, November 14, 6:00 PM Dinner: Dryden Hotel. Host: Norma H.,RSVP: spicechick2@verizon.net. AND: Note date change** - Tuesday, November 20, 6:00 PM Dinner: Crossroads Bar and Grille, Lansing. Host: Mark H., mark.humphrey4@gmail.com

Frank Einstein Book Club w/ Cargill Engineers | 3:30 PM, 11/20 Tuesday | Southworth Library, 24 W. Main Street, Dryden | Experiments and activities in science, math, technology, reading, engineering and art using Jon Scieska’s Frank Einstein series. For grades 2-5.

Wednesday Night Ithaca Women’s Basketball Association | 7:00 PM, 11/14 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.

Notices Lansing Senior Citizens to benefit Hospicare | 12:00 PM, 11/14 Wednesday | All Saints Community Room, 347 Ridge Road, Lansing | An auction of collectibles, crafts, bric a brac, raffle baskets, a live and silent auction with all proceeds to benefit Hospicare. President Edward LaVigne will serve as auctioneer and master of ceremonies. Please join us by bringing a dish to pass and table service. For more info, call Carol Halseth (533-7725) or Pat Sawyer (272-5349). Ithaca Rotary Club Luncheon Speaker Series | 12:15 PM, 11/14 Wednesday | Coltivare, 235 S Cayuga St, Ithaca | 11/14: Kelsey Fiori, Community Solar Manager for Nexamp ñ Learning About Community Solar | $15 ESL Talk Time at TCPL | 3:30 PM, 11/14 Wednesday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Tompkins County Public Library invites English language learners to attend a weekly, drop-in discussion circle.

Maker Mondays for Teens at TCPL | 4:00 PM, 11/19 Monday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | For ages 12 to 17 to becoming familiar with the equipment in the Library’s Makerspace.

Open Hearts Dinner | 5:00 PM, 11/14 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

Tuesday Morning Story Hour | 10:15 AM, 11/20 Tuesday | Candor Free Library, 2 Bank St, Candor | No Story Hour during holidays, School Closings or Bad Weather.

Candor Library Board of Trustees Meeting | 6:00 PM, 11/14 Wednesday | Candor Free Library, 2 Bank St, Candor | For more info call library: 659-7258.

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The Cherry Artspace, 102 Cherry St., Ithaca | Not quite sure what you feel like seeing this weekend? This show has everything- burlesque, drag, comedy, circus, belly dancing, grown-up puppetry, magic, and much more to tickle your fancy. (photo: provided)

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Current Trends in Job Searching | 2:00 PM, 11/15 Thursday | Tompkins County Workforce Center, Center Ithaca, Suite 241, | Workforce Forum: Join our staff and your professional peers to discuss new trends that may impact your job search as you move forward. Staff will share current news articles and invite discussion between participants. Auction:The Phoenix Auction & Estate Co. | 3:00 PM, 11/15 Thursday | Previews start at 3:00 pm; Tools will be auctioned at 4:00-5:00 pm; Box lots at 5:00 pm; Live Online Catalog Auction at 6:30 pm. 478 Lower Creek Road Suite B, Ithaca, NY 14850 Homeschool Information Night | 6:00 PM, 11/15 Thursday | Edith B. Ford Memorial Library, 7169 N Main St, Ovid | An informal meeting to share information and network; learn about community resources and free library services; provide guidance on homeschool requirements. Registration appreciated. Networking@Rev: Demystifying Deep Tech | 6:00 PM, 11/15 Thursday | Ithaca Startup Works, 314 E State St, Ithaca |

Center Ithaca, Suite 241, | How do you really introduce yourself to a business? In this workshop, participants will learn about the 60-Second Pitch, how to use it and begin creating and practicing their very own! American Red Cross Blood Drives | 1:00 PM, 11/16 Friday | 11/16 Danby Community Church 1-6pm; 11/17 Tompkins County Library 10-3pm Open Mic Night | 7:00 PM, 11/16 Friday | Dryden Community Center Cafe, 1 W Main St, Dryden | Come share your songs, stories, poems and enjoy your favorite coffee or tea and delicious homemade baked goods. Contact Arron Bound: (607) 844-1500 or email at manager@1westmain@ gmail.com. Beginner Bird Walks | 8:30 AM, 11/17 Saturday | Cornell Lab of Ornithology, 159 Sapsucker Woods Rd, Ithaca | Guided bird walks every Saturday and Sunday morning, starting at 8:30 a.m., sponsored by the Cayuga Bird Club. Targeted toward beginners, but appropriate for all. Binoculars available for loan. Newfield Lioness Craft Fair | 9:00 AM, 11/17 Saturday | Newfield Fire Hall, 77 Main St. , Newfield | Lots of crafts and more. Pictures with Santa 11AM - 1PM. The Listening Workshop | 9:00 AM, 11/17 Saturday | Ithaca Community Childcare Center, 579 Warren Rd, Ithaca | Please RSVP by emailing: thelisteningworkshop@gmail.com. The promise of the workshop: You will walk away from this workshop with a life-altering skill that if practiced and applied, will shorten the time between conflict and resolution, build intimacy and enhance performance and productivity.

UPL Presents: an Antarctic Explorers Lecture Series with Louise Adie | 7:00 PM, 11/15 Thursday | Ulyssess Philomathic Library, 74 East Main Street, Trumansburg | Learn about the expeditions of Sir Ernest Shackleton, Roald Amundsen, and Jean-Baptiste Charcot.

Elizabeth Ann Clune Montessori School Open House | 10:00 AM, 11/17 Saturday | Elizabeth Ann Clune Montessori School, 120 East King Rd, Ithaca | Parents and children are invited to attend and learn more about the Montessori curriculum and philosophy, specific programs, take a tour of our campus, and meet with teachers.

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TCPL Board Game Club for Adults | 1:30 PM, 11/17 Saturday | Held in the Library’s Tompkins Trust Company

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Community School of Music and Arts, 330 East State St., Ithaca | Local theatre ensemble Walking on Water Productions presents the longest-running musical in the world. The funny, romantic story about the seasons of life told through the eyes of a boy and girl who fall in love, grow apart, and find their way back to each other is great entertainment for all. (photo: provided)

Metrix Overview | 10:00 AM, 11/19 Monday | Tompkins County Workforce Center, Center Ithaca, Suite 241, | Metrix is an online skills and job-related training program that contains over 24,000 courses. Courses range in topics covering accounting, leadership, healthcare, computer programming, and more. Once registered, customers have accounts with unlimited access for 6 months. Please Note: This workshop requires a mid-level competency with computers. Parents of Young Children Support Group: Ithaca | 6:00 PM, 11/19 Monday | Beverly J Martin Elementary School, 302 W Buffalo Street, Ithaca | Please join us for this educational and supportive group for parents of adopted school age kids. Connect, share stories, and learn together! Childcare will be provided. Re-thinking Thanksgiving: A Native American Perspective on an American Holiday | 6:00 PM, 11/19 Monday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Perry Ground will discuss the common story of Thanksgiving, a blend of fiction, myth, and history that has become widely accepted as truth. Homebuyer Class @INHS | 6:30 PM, 11/19 Monday | Ithaca Neighborhood Housing Services, 115 W. Clinton St., Ithaca | BUILD ASSETS through homeownership! INHS’s homebuyer class will teach you how to become a happy and healthy homeowner. | $75 Social Networking | 1:00 PM, 11/20 Tuesday | Tompkins County Workforce Center, Center Ithaca, Suite 241, | At our Social Networking Workshop, you will learn how to take advantage of social networking sites such as LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter to help you in your job search. American Red Cross Blood Drive | 1:30 PM, 11/20 Tuesday | Enfield Fire Hall, 172 Enfield Main Rd, Ithaca | Call The American Red Cross at 273-1900 for an appointment.

Art Classes with Johanna | 1:00 PM, children younger than 12 need to be SHEMEKIA COPELAND 11/18 Sunday | Candor Free Library, 2 | Electric Friday, November 16 at 8:00PM | Center for the Arts of Homer, 72 S. Main St., Homer blues vocalist daughter accompanied by and an adult. Space is limtheir own games to play orTexas playblues one guitaristBank St, Candor Each month is album, America’s Child, Copeland of legendary and singer Johnny| Copeland. Withthere her new ited so please register ahead of time a different topic. Artinclasses are open confidently announces an electrifying new chapter her constantly evolving story. (photo: provided) we provide. to emerging artists of all ages, though by calling Johanna at 607-659-7375. Study Room. Participants can bring

HeatSmart Tompkins community meeting | 6:30 PM, 11/20 Tuesday | Van Etten Village Offices and Community Center, 6 Gee Street, Van Etten | HeatSmart Tompkins is a non-profit community organization devoted to increasing home energy efficiency,

HeatSmart Tompkins community meeting | 6:30PM, 11/20 Tuesday | GrotonGroton Public Library112 E. Cortland St., Groton History of Sampson | 6:30 PM, 11/20 Tuesday | Ovid Firehouse, Community Meeting Room, 2136 Brown Street, Ovid | County Historian Walter Gable will trace the history of the area known as Sampson from 1942 to the present. Attendees are encouraged to bring their memorabilia about Sampson to share. Registration appreciated.

between two sessions: 10:00 AM - Noon OR 12:30 - 2:30 PM. Must preregister by calling the library at (315) 568-8265 x2. Sacred Sunday Community at Yoga Farm | 9:00 AM, 11/18 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, 11/18 Sunday | Foundation of Light, 391 Turkey Hill Road, Ithaca | Dance Church Ithaca | 11:30 AM, 11/18 Sunday | Fine Spirit Studio,

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The Range, 119 E. State Street, 2nd Floor, Ithaca | A four-piece hometown alternative rock band based featuring all-original music that ranges from indie rock to rootsy Americana. Featuring singer-songwriter Josh Ross, bassist Jeremy Betterley, guitarist Marty Farchione, and drummer Phil Shay. (photo: provided)

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