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Medicare – for All

I’m happy to see CITY highlight the importance of Medicare for All. So many of the rampant inefficiencies and inequities in our health system are due to an insistence on private health insurance, which is literally killing thousands every year. At the same time, it’s costing the rest of us billions of extra dollars to uphold these inequities.

It’s unfortunate, though, that this local paper didn’t take some time to talk to the many activists and organizations that have been working diligently for years in the fight for genuinely universal health care. These organizations have shifted to a state-by-state strategy, knowing that the federal government isn’t likely to pass this sort of reform any time soon.

In New York State, we’re only a couple of state senators away from having a majority in both the Assembly and Senate signing onto the bill. Single Payer is really possible in the short term in New York.

In Rochester, a coalition of people from Metro Justice, ROCitizen, and the Democratic Socialists of America are leading this fight. They are working closely with the statewide Campaign for New York Health. Maybe CITY will do a follow-up to this informative article, talking with the organizations doing the work about the effort to win these reforms.

COLIN O’MALLEY

O’Malley is organizing director of Metro Justice.

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I monitor this sector closely and consume lots of content on the topic for my clients and work.

This article is one of the clearest I’ve seen on the topic of health care and makes key points on the

subject of reforming it easy to relate to and practical for most consumers of health-care services and insurance. It was a pleasure to read.

this practice indicates profound moral imperfection.

LEE LONDON

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JOHN RODRIGUEZ

Oh, the irony that your story on Medicare for All coincided with the House vote on May 4 on Trumpcare. There’s extra money for pre-existing conditions, because the rates got jacked up.

There’s extra money in for your HSA, because you chose not to buy groceries, save for college, or pay the mortgage this month.

There’s less burden on New York state for Medicaid, because your county taxes just went up to pay for it. Trump and the GOP want to play a shell game with us, and hope we’re not watching.

LINDA PRATT

I enjoyed Mark Hare’s article on health care; readers might be interested in a recent book, “An American Sickness,” by Dr. Elisabeth Rosenthal. It is simply a blow-by-blow description of how the doctors, hospitals, pharmaceuticals, and insurance all rip us off through greed, collusion, corruption, and absolute theft.

The advice in the last few chapters of the book would be invaluable to anyone, especially in today’s world of high deductible and networks.

By the way, if you read the book you’ll quickly see why single payer will never happen here: it would cost the politicians too much!

JIM ANGERAME

Obama’s earnings

Mary Anna Towler’s editorial “Barack Obama’s $400K: dimming hope for change” is in error by singling out Mr. Obama for a practice that has become common among former presidents since Gerald Ford.

According to Mark K. Updegrove, the author of “Second Acts: Presidential Lives and Legacies,” America’s recent former presidents have raked in tens of millions of dollars by making speeches. They speak at corporate conventions, charity fundraisers, and business conferences.

Barack Obama has simply joined the speaking circuit. I don’t believe, as does Ms. Towler, that

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Lincoln in Rochester

This year’s Memorial Day will mark the 125th anniversary of the unveiling of one of the most significant public sculptures in Western New York. On that day, in 1892, more than 100,000 Rochesterians attended the unveiling of Leonard Volk’s monumental Soldier’s and Sailor’s Monument in Washington Square Park.

In addition to the artist and his wife, those in attendance included Frederick Douglass, President Benjamin Harrison, former President Grover Cleveland, and New York Governor Preston Flowers. “Never before,” said an article in the New York Times, “has the city been so crowded and never before has it entertained so distinguished a company.”

Volk’s Lincoln stands atop a 31-foot granite column. Facing north, he holds a copy of the Emancipation Proclamation in his hands. Below are four bronze figures, each representing a branch of the armed services, and between these figures are four bronze reliefs depicting events of the Civil War: the attack on Fort Sumter, a battle at Gettysburg, the battle between the Merrimack and the Monitor, and Lee’s surrender to Grant at Appomattox.

Perhaps a visit to Washington Square Park would be an appropriate way to honor the legacy of Lincoln and those who fought in the Civil War as well as a way to commemorate Memorial Days past and present.

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The ‘unbelievable’ saga of President Trump

This feels worse than Nixon.

The Watergate scandal was riveting, sure. And if we’d known then what we know now about Nixon’s emotional instability, we’d have been more troubled than we were.

Watergate did involve a president who lied – about a burglary – and tried to obstruct justice, but that was nothing like this. Nixon was nothing like Trump.

Best we can tell, Trump has stayed on script so far on his trip to the Middle East. But I don’t find much comfort in that.

For the past few days, he has sounded like a friend of all religions and people.

“Young Muslim boys and girls should be able to grow up free from fear, safe from violence, and innocent from hatred,” he said in Saudi Arabia.

But at home, in word and deed, he has whipped up hatred against Muslims.

He wanted to ban Muslims from entering the US. And as Jesse Singal noted in New York magazine earlier this week, his advisers include anti-Muslim extremists and conspiracy theorists.

We have no idea what Donald Trump really believes. It’s uncertain whether even he knows what he believes one day to the next.

Are there ties between him and the Russians? Even if there aren’t, we know that at the least, he personally disclosed classified information in his meeting with Russia’s foreign minister, Sergey V. Lavrov, and Ambassador Sergey I. Kislyak.

Does that photograph of Lavrov and Trump, taken by the Russian news agency, show Lavrov laughing at a shared joke in the company of his good friend Donald Trump?

Or does it show Lavrov reveling in the pleasure of playing the president for a fool?

It hardly matters, does it?

“I just cannot overstate how unbelievable, literally, this administration has become,” commentator Mark Shields said on last Friday’s NewsHour.

As Eric Posner and Emily Bazelon noted in the Times on Sunday: “A president’s greatest asset is trust. Once he has lost it, he can’t govern.”

Maybe his supporters still trust him.

But it’s doubtful many foreign leaders do.

I can’t imagine that many Republicans in Congress do; more likely, they’re crossing their fingers as they try to use him for their own purposes.

Worst of all, perhaps: it’s inconceivable that the US intelligence agencies trust him.

Then what? At what point do they stop telling him what they know? Are they, Mike Pence, and others already doing a work-around?

A topic of dinner-table conversations, phone conversations, and multiple casual conversations with friends over the past few

What do Congress, the federal courts, and federal agencies do, asks a Times article, 'when the president himself is the pressing danger?' days: Is it better to have him out now, or closer to the midterm elections?

Unbelievable.

Donald Trump’s problems have mounted at absolutely dizzying speed. And yet, as we know, if he leaves – through whatever constitutional mechanism – we get Mike Pence.

As president, Pence would have no problem appointing a Jeff Sessions as attorney general. No problem putting a Betsy DeVos in charge of education. And the Republicans in Congress would be delighted to have Pence as president, supporting their agenda on tax cuts, health care, immigration, the environment, abortion, education, criminal justice.

In their article in the Times on Sunday, Posner and Bazelon raise a sobering question: What do Congress, the federal courts, and federal agencies do “when the president himself is the pressing danger?”

One encouraging sign – I guess – is that there seem to be people in the administration who are so worried about Trump that they’re risking prison to tell reporters what they’re seeing. Classified information is being leaked by government staff, in violation of the law.

An FBI official’s leaks to the Washington Post brought down Richard Nixon. And now, David Brooks said on the NewsHour, there are leaks in the Trump administration, seemingly “in every closet and behind every desk.”

What we are watching, Brooks said, “is a dissolution of an administration.”

This is worse than Nixon. And it’s not good for the country. rochestercitynewspaper.com

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[ NEWS FROM THE WEEK PAST ]

Grants made for affordable housing

Two local non-profit organizations received federal grants for affordable housing initiatives in the Rochester area. PathStone received nearly $588,000 and NeighborWorks Rochester received $376,000. The funding, which comes at a time when the Trump administration is considering cutting HUD by $6 billion, will be used to develop more affordable housing and revitalize neighborhoods.

GRE changes leadership

Mark Peterson, who’s played a major role in economic development around the Rochester area as the president and CEO of Greater Rochester Enterprise, accepted a new business marketing and recruitment job with Intersect Illinois. Peterson’s last day at GRE will be June 11. Matt Hurlbutt, currently GRE’s executive vice president and chief operating officer, will serve as the organization’s interim president and CEO.

Audit flags ESD reporting

The State Comptroller’s Office released an au-

dit report scolding Empire State Development – the state’s economic development agency – for failing to meet more than half of the reporting requirements for its tax credit and job creation programs. The audit covered a period between April 2012 and September 2016, and Empire State Development didn’t provide auditors with explanations for the shortcomings in most cases, according to the Comptroller’s Office.

An ESD spokesperson told state media that the Comptroller’s Office mischaracterizes what the agency is required to report.

Pittsford rejects school budget

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Rochester in 2017 is a city coping with poverty but experiencing new growth. FILE PHOTO

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The Pittsford Central School District failed to get the votes it needed to pass its proposed $134 million budget for the 2017-2018 school year. The district needed a super-majority vote of 60 percent to increase property taxes by 4.7 percent and override the state’s 2 percent property tax cap. The budget increase included funding for full-day kindergarten. The school board is reviewing exit-polling feedback before deciding on its next step.

Warren’s budget ready for scrutiny Mayor Lovely Warren presented her proposed budget for the coming fiscal year on Friday. And while it contains nothing dramatic – no big layoffs, no big tax increases, no major new programs – the budget is noteworthy for the picture of Rochester it provides. Now it heads to analysis: by the public, City Council, and Warren’s political opponents.

Like many cities, Rochester is coping with major challenges.

It has the lion’s share of the taxexempt property in the county, and it has most of Monroe County’s low-income neighborhoods, where

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property values are low. Demand increases some, and adds a few for police services is high. Demands new ones. It cuts a few employee on public schools – which the city positions through attrition. And it funds heavily – are enormous. gives homeowners a small tax cut.

Business and industry have declined, This is despite projected pay increases eroding the tax base. for employees, the rising cost of Despite the challenges, through health benefits, loss of $6 million in a succession of mayors and City state aid, a $4 million loss in fines Councils, city services have remained from cancelling the red-light camera good. And there’s been enough program, and other challenges. confidence in the city that property The budget includes money to values in some neighborhoods have hire additional police officers and increased, strengthening the tax base. more staff at the Public Market; Downtown development is increasing. helps fund several job-training Warren’s proposed budget programs; and provides money for maintains current city services, continues on page 12

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“It’s fun, but the science has a lot of significance to our future,” he says. “We wanted it to be curious, but also meaningful. Curiosity and wonder are like the first and second gears of learning.” [ DANIEL MENELLY, CHIEF SCIENCE OFFICER, RMSC ]

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Holographic tech hits RMSC This summer, the Rochester Museum and Science Center will present a new interactive exhibition featuring a display of working holograms and interactive holographic technology.

The star of the new exhibit is a Holographic Laser Projector, developed and donated by Germany’s Fraunhofer Institute of Applied Optics and Precision Engineering IOF. Fraunhofer is based in Jena, Germany, a city that, like Rochester, is heavily involved in photonics and optical science research and development.

The RMSC will install the projector as a permanent addition to its “Illumination: The World of Light and Optics” exhibit in the Harry Germanow Gallery.

The new exhibit uses a combination of different colored, powerful LED lasers traveling through a lens that has been covered with extremely fine etchings or nanostructures — notches that are a billionth of a meter in size, says Daniel Menelly, the museum’s chief science officer. “The light will be slightly separated, so that when you look at the projection, your eye tries to reconcile

the slight separation of the colors, and it appears holographic,” he says.

The principal hologram on view will show the skylines of Rochester and Jena. RMSC plans to present this along with an interactive exhibit in which visitors can combine different forms of intense laser light, and study how that affects the projection, Menelly says.

“It’s fun, but the science has a lot of significance to our future,” he says.

“We wanted it to be curious, but also meaningful. That’s the high ideal of science museums. Curiosity and wonder are like the first and second gears of learning.”

The “Illumination” exhibit itself is an evolving one, with new content being added continuously, Menelly says. The holographic projector is only one of several additions planned; others include a series of oral historytype vignettes of people who have had or are having some impact on the emerging photonics and optics sector, Menelly says. This includes a series of shorts on a high school teacher whose students get a hands-on lesson of grinding lenses for eyeglasses.

By introducing youths to different types of role models to the community, RMSC hopes to get them to consider roles they can take in this technological resurgence of the region, he says.

The “Illumination” exhibit involves interactive elements for all ages, including a playable laser RMSC chief science officer Daniel Menelly PROVIDED PHOTO harp and a section where visitors can create a giant soap bubble and study the information on particles or waves of way the light reflects off it. light, he says.

“What we try to do is make it The target date for the new meaningful and engaging to all exhibit’s installation is mid-July, learners in all contexts,” Menelly says. but that’s dependent on different “If a grandparent and a grandchild factors, Menelly says. RMSC’s are still talking about it at lunch, you engineers are currently designing know that it worked.” a series of interactive components Engineers are still studying the that will feature this laser projection unfolding applications for this technology; if you visit the museum on new technology, which is part of a busier days like Saturdays or vacation greater interest in the behavior of days, you can participate in the light, Menelly says. For example, prototypes and give feedback on them. certain fields of science could become incredibly more efficient if scientists could find a way to capture and store

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POLITICS | BY JEREMY MOULE

Dems pick candidates, head to primaries The Monroe County Democratic Committee has something of an unofficial maxim: primaries are inevitable.

So it goes with the 2017 city races. The Democrats have designated their candidates for the mayor’s race, five at-large City Council seats, and three city school board seats. Who plans to wage a primary isn’t yet clear, and may not be for a couple of weeks. But some candidates have said from the get-go that they’re going to try to get on the November ballot, one way or another.

Take the mayor’s race: Incumbent Lovely Warren received the party’s designation during its convention last Thursday. She had previously pulled in more than 55.6 percent of the weighted city legislative district committee votes, so she went in with the designation buttoned up.

Former Rochester police chief James Sheppard, who attended the convention, has already made it clear that he’ll primary Warren.

On Friday he picked up the Independence Party endorsement, and on Saturday he held a campaign rally. And soon after the Dems made Warren’s nod official, former television reporter and anchor Rachel Barnhart released a video committing to her own primary run.

Barnhart skipped the convention, which she dismissed as insider politics. (Sheppard got 38.7 percent of the committee votes; Barnhart received 5 percent.)

Warren gave an acceptance speech that was, at various points, a checklist of her accomplishments, a pledge to work for the city’s people, and a blistering call to action against the Trump White House and the Republican Congress. And she did it all to loud cheers, one guy proclaiming, “That’s what I’m talking about,” when Warren said Rochester is a city worth fighting for.

“I would be the first to admit that we’re not where we want to be,” Warren told the crowd.

“But we’re in a better place than we were four years ago.”

Warren also used her time at the podium to throw her support to sheriff candidate Todd Baxter, the former Greece police chief and Veterans Outreach Center leader whom Democrats designated as their candidate at the convention. He’ll face incumbent Patrick O’Flynn, a Republican.

And the mayor said the Democrats – well known for infighting – need to get their house in order if they want to win races. Warren promised to help build up the party and to “reach across the aisle” within the party to mend rifts. But she didn’t elaborate beyond those statements, either at the podium or later in a huddle with press.

The City Council designations proved a little

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Council seats are up for election. The four who made it through the first round of voting were incumbents Loretta Scott, Jackie Ortiz, and Dana Miller, as well as Malik Evans, who is looking to make the jump from school board to Council.

Well over a dozen candidates sought the Democratic designation for City Council, but at the convention, the contest for the fifth seat came down to former County Legislator Willie Joe Lightfoot and Edison high school teacher Matt Juda. Ultimately Juda, who had the backing of some prominent LGBTQ party leaders, prevailed.

Lightfoot received the fifth highest vote totals in the committees (44 percent), while Juda received the ninth highest (30 percent).

To anyone unfamiliar with the finer points of Democratic Committee rules, it might look like Lightfoot should have been the fifth candidate. But long-time party rules require candidates to get more than 50 percent of the weighted city committee votes.

During the second round of balloting, city committee leaders threw Juda enough votes to get him well over the threshold.

Lightfoot knew he wasn’t likely to win the second round of balloting, and he plans to run a primary. He also criticizes the party’s 50-percent vote threshold as well as another rule that allows people from outside of the city to serve on city legislative district committees.

“Clearly, there are some flaws in our system,” Lightfoot said in an interview the day after the convention.

It’s likely at least some of the other Council hopefuls will also run primaries.

For example, Mary Lupien announced her candidacy early, campaigned vigorously, and says she plans to continue on. Many of her supporters were energized by Bernie Sanders’ presidential campaign and haven’t yet been able to get on city Democratic committees, she says.

There was also something of an upset during the school board designations.

Beatriz LaBron was the only school board candidate to get the party’s backing after the first round of voting. Board president Van White and newcomer Natalie Sheppard made it through after the second round, leaving incumbent Cynthia Elliott without the party’s designation. Elliott’s

Rochester Democrats at last week's convention, from top; Rochester Mayor Lovely Warren; City Council candidate Matt Juda, and Willie Joe Lightfoot. PHOTOS BY KEVIN FULLER

been in this position before, however, and she has successfully defended her seat.

The only suburban race to come up during the convention was handled quickly and easily.

The East Rochester, Brighton, and Pittsford Democratic committees formally designated East Rochester Schools Superintendent

Howard Maffucci for the County Legislature District 10 race. He’ll face Republican Jason Rosenberg, a University of Rochester professional staffer and a small business owner.

The seat is currently held by Republican Anthony Daniele, who has to give it up at the end of the year due to term limits.

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Plan 2014 and life along Lake Ontario ENVIRONMENT | BY MARY ANNA TOWLER

There has been water everywhere.

A very wet spring means that bodies of water across Upstate New York are spilling over their banks. Wetlands and swamps are full. And so is Lake Ontario, which is what the other water would normally drain into.

For the home and business owners on Lake Ontario’s southern shore, the flooding has been a slow-moving nightmare. Water – pushed some days by high winds – has been clawing into beachfronts and lawns, shifting sand, flooding buildings, closing roads.

Docks at marinas are under water.

Businesses have been closed. Homeowners have been piling up sandbags, trying to stave off the lake. And many of the lakefront landowners and the elected officials who represent them are furious, blaming the loss of property and revenue on new regulations that control the flow of water out of Lake Ontario into the St. Lawrence River.

The regulations, provided in a report known as Plan 2014, were put together by the International Joint Commission, an organization created by the US and Canada to regulate the use of boundary waters – the five Great Lakes and the rivers that border the two nations – and to look into any disputes over that use.

The high water and the problems it has caused are not Plan 2014’s fault. The level of Lake Ontario is probably higher than it would have been had there been no Plan 2014. But only slightly.

The lake level is high predominantly because of the rain and the snowmelt that preceded it. Nature is the biggest influence on the lake’s water levels, and letting water through a dam can have only so much effect against a gargantuan lake.

Waterfront property is prime real estate.

And proximity to the lake can provide major economic benefits to communities like Olcott in Niagara County, Greece and Irondequoit in Monroe County, and Sodus Point in Wayne County. Unless the water gets unusually high.

Which it has this spring.

It’s no small matter when water threatens to

seriously damage or destroy your house. No small matter to be unable to open your small business for days at a time because water has closed roads or flooded your building.

Shoreline property owners have been pleading for help and attacking the IJC. And politicians representing the communities along

South Bay Front Lane was closed because of flooding from Irondequoit Bay. PHOTO BY JEREMY MOULE

Ontario’s southern shore have joined them.

In her recent State of the County address, Monroe County Executive Cheryl Dinolfo lashed out at Plan 2014. The high water and flooding, she said, “are eroding our shoreline, threatening our infrastructure, impacting our residents, and potentially damaging our tourism and recreation economy.”

“Monroe County’s shoreline is being ravaged,” Dinolfo said, “and this is not an isolated event.”

Dinolfo called on the IJC to reduce the lake level. And she said the federal government should “provide restitution for property damage and economic loss along Lake Ontario and provide resources so that this won’t happen again.”

In March, Western New York Congressional Representative Chris Collins, who’s been fighting Plan 2014 for several years, and Syracuse-area Representative John Katko asked that Congress prevent “the use of any federal funding” to implement Plan 2014 for the remainder of this fiscal year.

In late April, Collins and Katko wrote President Trump asking him to withdraw the United States from participating in the plan’s implementation and to replace current US representatives on the IJC with “individuals who will truly protect our best interest.”

State Senator Joe Robach called Plan 2014 “disastrous” and said the IJC should re-examine it and “make the protection of the south shore

of Lake Ontario its number one priority.”

And earlier this month, Governor Andrew Cuomo – who said he had not supported Plan 2014 – announced that the state was asking the IJC to release more water through the dam “to lower Lake Ontario water levels and protect impacted communities.”

A lot of people live along the Lake Ontario and

St. Lawrence River coasts. About 60 percent of the Ontario and St. Lawrence shoreline has been developed for housing, according to the report, and in Monroe County that figure is nearly 90 percent. In total, all around the lake and along the St. Lawrence above the Moses-Saunders Dam, there are about 25,000 privately owned properties, the report says.

The diverse uses of the water and the extensive private property ownership means that there are competing interests in the lake and the river: the owners of shoreline homes and businesses (and the elected officials who represent them), but also commercial shipping companies, charter fishing companies, marina owners, boat owners, power companies – and the lake and river ecosystem.

The IJC was created more than 100 years ago because, as its website says, the US and Canada “recognized that each country is affected by the other’s actions in lake and river systems along the border.”

The IJC’s members – three from the US (appointed by the president) and three from

Canada – manage the use of all that water, aided by the IJC’s boards, committees, and staff members in both countries.

Regulating the flow of water out of Lake Ontario into the St. Lawrence River began in 1958, when the Moses-Saunders Dam was completed. Construction of the dam, which spans the St. Lawrence between Massena, New York, and Cornwall, Ontario, was approved by the IJC, and it has provided enormous benefits.

The dam is an important source of hydropower for Ontario Province and New York State – and hydropower is clean and renewable. And as part of the St. Lawrence Seaway system, Moses-Saunders lets large commercial vessels continue from the Great Lakes eastward to the Atlantic.

When it was built, the International Joint Commission established the requirements for controlling the flow of the water through the dam, which affects the water level of both Lake Ontario and the St. Lawrence. Those requirements have to serve the interests of people living above the dam, along Lake Ontario, and those living below, along the St. Lawrence.

Under that set of requirements, contained in a document called Plan 1958 (since amended a couple of times and most recently known as 1958DD), the fluctuations in the lake level have been less severe.

Regulating the flow from the lake into the river “has provided significant economic benefits to basin interests” – particularly, says Plan 2014, for property owners along the lake. But the lack of fluctuation has seriously damaged coastal wetlands.

“These impacts were not understood when the project was approved,” says the plan’s summary fact sheet, “but it is now widely recognized that ecosystem needs must be considered along with other interests.”

Over 16 years, the IJC conducted scientific studies, met with representatives of all of the diverse lake interests, and talked with government representatives from the Great Lakes Basin in the US and Canada.

The plan’s developers knew that no one interest could be wholly satisfied. And property owners on Lake Ontario’s southern shore – who will bear the brunt of the lake’s shoreline damage – have been particularly adamant in their opposition. They’ve argued that the plan’s developers underestimated the damage that the new lake levels will do. continues on page 10 rochestercitynewspaper.com

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The Irondequoit Bay Marine Park's boat launch has been submerged in the rising water. PHOTO BY JEREMY MOULE

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And the owners say they invested in their lakeshore homes and businesses based on levels set in the previous plan.

In creating Plan 2014, the IJC tried to balance the needs of property owners and the needs of the wetlands. The new plan, the IJC argues, “produces a large improvement in coastal ecosystems in return for a small reduction” in the benefits the old plan gave the shoreline property owners.

The IJC was convinced that the damage to the ecosystem had become too much. “The scientific evidence for the harm caused by Plan 1958DD is clear,” Plan 2014’s summary says, “and too strong to ignore.”

The IJC adopted Plan 2014 last December, and it went into effect in January of this year.

And then the spring rains came, and the level of water in Lake Ontario rose.

What’s the difference between the old plan

and the new one? In terms of the level of the

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water in the lake, not much.

Both the old plan and the new one protect development along the Lake Ontario shore. “Under natural conditions,” says the report – with no dam, and no regulation at all – “average annual coastal damages on Lake Ontario would be approximately $46 million.”

Under Plan 1958DD, the damage would have been about $18 million annually. And under Plan 2014, damages are projected at $20 million annually.

And, says the report, “even if Lake Ontario were regulated solely for the benefit of Lake Ontario shoreline property owners, disregarding the interests of shoreline owners on the lower river” – the residents of the city of 10 CITY MAY 24-30, 2017

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Montreal, for instance – “navigation, and all other uses and interests, then Lake Ontario shoreline damages SUPERIOR would be reduced by MONTREAL, CA only about 5% from the levels produced by MOSES-SAUNDERS Plan 1958DD.” HURON DAM, Recreational MASSENA, NY ONTARIO boaters will probably MICHIGAN notice a difference, occasionally, under ERIE Plan 2014. The lake’s water level will UNITED STATES sometimes be lower during the summer: good for boaters on Lake Ontario and the people along it are part of an enormous system of water, stretching from Lake Superior to the Atlantic the lower St. Lawrence, Ocean. ILLUSTRATION BY RYAN WILLIAMSON less so for those on and Michigan into Huron, then into Erie, and in Lake Ontario can affect what happens in Lake Ontario. then, via the Niagara River, into Lake Ontario, the St. Lawrence River and to the people, Commercial shipping shouldn’t be affected, which feeds water into the St. Lawrence River. wildlife, and land alongside it – in the US the IJC says, except in “rare low water years, Which takes it northeastward to the Atlantic. and in Prescott, Montreal, Trois-Rivieres, and which have been experienced a couple of times Together, the Great Lakes contain 80 Quebec in Canada. in the last century.” In those periods, boats percent of this country’s freshwater and 20 And in this record-setting spring, Lake would need to carry a lighter load. percent of the freshwater of the world. They Ontario’s southern shore isn’t the only area Plan 2014 is expected to slightly boost the provide a major shipping route. Major cities in the United States coping with high water. amount of energy that the hydropower plants have sprung up around them. Major industries In early April, the National Weather Service at Moses-Saunders produces. have developed. And their beauty and natural issued a flood warning for Susquehanna And the Nature Conservancy, which resources attract people for boating, swimming, County in Pennsylvania. The May 4 Detroit strongly supports Plan 2014, is predicting that fishing. Lakes and rivers provide both Free Press reported that a flood watch the healthier wetlands themselves will have an enjoyment and revenue. had been issued “for most of southeast economic benefit, through increased fishing, Drive a few miles west from Rochester Michigan” and warned that residents in hunting, and other activities. along the Lake Ontario State Parkway, and some areas might be facing “slightly more Lake Ontario and the people who live near it are part of an enormous – and critically

important – system of lakes, fashioned and filled by glaciers. The water in Lake Ontario comes not only from rain and snow but also from the tributaries that empty into it.

Those tributaries include not only rivers and streams but also the other Great Lakes, which feed their water, one after the other, Superior

on a clear day, you can see Toronto. But we are also connected by water with Cleveland, Detroit, Chicago, and Duluth, to Toronto, Hamilton, Sault Ste. Marie, and Thunder Bay to the west. We’re connected to the farmlands and cities and villages along the tributaries that feed into their lakes.

What happens in lakes and tributaries farther west on the Great Lakes chain can affect us. And importantly, what happens

than 3 inches” of rainfall.

Westchester County, Albany, Colorado, Arkansas, Missouri: flooding has occurred in all of those areas this spring. In Rochester, Genesee Brewing’s news-generating event – floating beer fermentation tanks up the Erie Canal from Albany to Rochester – had to be delayed because the water level in the canal was too high. The high water in Lake Ontario, and the IJC’s Plan 2014, had nothing to do with

ENVIRONMENT | BY JEREMY MOULE

Plan 2014’s balancing act: muskrats, pike, and people

(Top and bottom photos) Water spills onto South Bay Front Lane near Sutter's Marina.

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it. The Erie Canal connects to Lake Erie.

But not to Lake Ontario.

Also struggling with the result of this spring’s heavy rainfall: the residents of the province of Quebec. Flooding there in midMay forced the evacuation of more than 3,000 people, the Montreal Gazette reported.

Numerous roads and bridges closed for days.

Nearly 4,500 homes were damaged.

Residents and businesses along Lake Ontario’s southern shore – including many in the Rochester area – have had to cope with the effects of water well above normal this month. But so have those along the St. Lawrence. On May 17, for instance, Ontario’s level was 33.1 inches above its long-term average for this time of year, according to the IJC. On the same day, though, the level of water in Montreal Harbour was 55.5 inches above average, the IJC said.

The Canadian news site Global News reported that Montreal had received almost as much rain in the first eight days of May as it normally gets in the full month. Canadian climate expert Jeannine St-Jacques told Global News that this may become far more common: “In a lot of places worldwide, we’re exceeding our 100-year floods, our 1000-year floods, our 2000-year floods,” said St-Jacques. “As things become more extreme, we will be seeing more.”

In the end, things will settle down. The

high-water season will pass, and when the spring’s threat of flooding and erosion is over, shoreline owners’ pleas may lead to a few tweaks in the IJC’s management of the water level. State and federal officials may provide some money to help shoreline property owners repair this year’s damage and better protect themselves in the future. Maybe some property owners will conclude that their homes or businesses are simply not built in a good location, and they’ll move.

Regardless, one thing is pretty certain: This won’t be the last test for Plan 2014 and for property owners along Ontario’s southern shore. Whether this particular spring’s heavy rains are due to climate change is impossible to say, but climate change is real. And its effects will include more frequent, stronger weather conditions.

Odds are, the long-range forecast for the boundary water we live along is for more rain and more intense storms, more frequently, than we’ve experienced in the past. And that likely will mean more water in the Great Lakes. More water in Superior, Michigan, Huron, and Erie, which will send more water into Lake Ontario and on through the St. Lawrence into the Atlantic.

And unless we plan to flood Montreal to protect property owners on the southern shore of Lake Ontario, that means more occasions when the lake will head onto the land, to flood homes and businesses and wash over streets in Olcott, Greece, Irondequoit, Sodus Point.

We can regulate the lake level, to an extent. But we can’t regulate the rainfall or the severity of the storms. In the end, the water will win.

The report known as Plan 2014 places a lot of emphasis on Lake Ontario’s coastal wetlands, and for good reason. Over the past 50 years, the marshes have taken the brunt of efforts to manage the lake’s water levels.

The wetlands developed over centuries, through constant shifts in the lake’s water levels. But in the late 1950’s, US and Canadian public power utilities built a large hydroelectric dam between Lake Ontario’s eastern outlet and the St. Lawrence River. And with that project came a joint US-Canadian plan for managing levels of the lake and river. For decades, international regulators have followed that plan’s guidelines, which have kept water in both bodies artificially stable. The lake’s waters, for example, rose and fell, but not as much as they should have.

“The highs have happened under Plan 1958DD. The lows have not happened,” says Doug Wilcox, a SUNY Brockport professor who’s spent much of his scientific career studying Lake Ontario’s wetlands and shores.

The result in Lake Ontario: cattails have taken over vital coastal wetlands, leaving important species such as muskrat and northern pike without critical habitat.

This is the problem that Plan 2014 is supposed to alleviate, to the extent it can. The plan just took effect in January, and over the coming years it’s supposed to better mimic the natural rise and fall of Lake Ontario and the St. Lawrence River.

So what does that mean? Nature, in the form of precipitation and snowmelt, has and will always be the biggest influence on the Lake Ontario and St. Lawrence River levels.

But the way water flows are managed at the hydroelectric dam can have a meaningful effect, too. That’s all done through complex criteria involving, among other things, high and low trigger levels. In either case, the plan is meant to moderate extremes.

The plan is also set up to better incorporate climate change, past and future, into the IJC’s decision-making. The Great Lakes are already experiencing heavier, more intense snow and rain storms, as well as a greater number of hot, precipitation-free days. The shifts that have already happened had rendered obsolete the forecasts in Plan 1958DD. Under Plan 2014, when the lake’s water should be naturally high, such as during the spring snowmelt or when the areas that drain into the lake have a wet year, the levels will be allowed to rise accordingly. When the waters are supposed to be low, such as during late summer or during dry spells, they’ll be allowed to drop further than under Plan 1958DD.

The plants that should be growing in Lake Ontario’s wetlands, particularly sedges and grasses common in healthy marsh meadows, need that variability. And as the waters rise and fall over a period of years, various wetland plants should make a comeback, Wilcox says.

The cattails may even die off over time as drier, lower-water periods happen, he says.

The shift should improve habitats for native species. The northern pike, a prized gamefish and a predator fish with an important place in wetland food webs, for example, prefers to spawn in grassy meadow marshes. And where those marshes remain relatively intact, cattail mats often block pike from them, Wilcox says.

“This can be viewed as the second largest wetland restoration project in the country, in the continent, after the Everglades,” says David Klein, senior field representative for the Nature Conservancy of Central and Western New York.

“The impact on the entire coast of Lake Ontario and the shore of the St. Lawrence are projected to be considerable. That’s good for all of us.”

Healthier, diverse wetlands should also better perform other natural functions, including some that directly benefit humans. Research has shown that wetlands, especially healthy ones that aren’t overcrowded, filter nutrient pollutants – animal waste or all manner of fertilizers, for example – out of the water, Klein says. Those pollutants encourage algae and bacteria growth in the waters near the Lake Ontario shore.

Research indicates that healthier, more diverse wetlands could help reduce that problematic pollution, Klein says.

Cattail mats are less effective as pollution filters, Klein says.

Some shoreline property owners have complained – sometimes sarcastically – that Plan 2014 places wetlands and muskrats over homeowners, some of whom have built their houses right up to the water. But long term, the same fluctuations that are expected to help wetlands rebound, could also help coastlines rebuild.

When levels are held high, the water eats at beaches, dunes, and bluffs – particularly when the wind picks up and drives the waves – without replenishing them. But when water levels fluctuate following natural patterns, the high and low water rhythms knock the sediment loose and carry it further down shore, replenishing and building up stores.

That is, if property owners haven’t reinforced the shores, preventing the water from scouring off sand and sediment.

“These are the same low lake levels that the homeowners need,” Wilcox says. “The homeowners should be glad that 2014 is in place.” rochestercitynewspaper.com CITY 11

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a wide range of programs for children and families: developmental screening for 3-year-olds, pregnancy prevention programs, school-based violence prevention programs, and literacy programs, for instance.

The city will continue its development of a Climate Action Plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

It will complete the solar farm at the former Emerson Street landfill, continue LED lighting upgrades, and complete the transition to single-stream recycling throughout the city.

The Warren administration balances the new budget partly through savings – everything from lower fuel and utility costs to delaying some road maintenance.

There’s also new revenue: higher sales tax revenue, the recent sale of Midtown’s Parcel 2, more property tax revenue, more building permits. But it draws down the city’s general fund balance, which City Council and others are certain to question.

Given the challenges, says Council’s Finance Committee Chair Carolee Conklin, there’s reason to worry about how much longer the city can maintain this tight balance.

Conklin said on Sunday that she’s glad homeowners will be getting a bit of property-tax relief. But Conklin said

she’ll be looking at how Warren will offset the loss of state aid and red-light camera revenue, and how much she’ll reduce the general fund balance.

County Legislator Jim Sheppard, who is challenging Warren in the September Democratic Primary, criticized Warren for “using a lot of the city’s accumulated fund balances and slashing cash capital expenditures to fix the budget gap.” Her plan “reflects the Jack Doyle – Maggie Brooks school of municipal finance” that risks the city’s fiscal health, he said.

Former television reporter Rachel Barnhart, who is also challenging Warren in the Democratic primary, said the budget “increases spending but does nothing” to help people in poverty.

Many Rochester apartment tenants will be hurt, she said, because commercial property owners’ tax rates are going up, and landlords will pass on that increase to tenants. And she criticized Warren for failing to get more state and federal aid.

The public will get to give its own critique soon. City Council will hold hearings on June 7, 13, and 14 and will vote on the budget on June 20.

Dining & Nightlife

A vegan Hummus Raclette sandwich with a seasonal salad at Relish. Owner Stephen Rees has been running Relish as a food delivery service, but he recently opened a brick-and-mortar location in the South Wedge. PHOTO BY KEVIN FULLER

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The space that houses Relish (651 South Avenue) is hardly recognizable from its former iteration, Open Face Sandwich Eatery. Owner Stephen Rees has brightened up the place with white walls and light accents and had recently finished painting the ceiling when we recently sat down to talk. “At this current juncture, it’s just me making the bread, printing the signs, painting the ceiling,” he said, laughing.

Over the past year, Rees has run Relish as a food delivery service, and he had been searching for a brick-and-mortar location so he could start offering lunch and dinner.

He also wanted a larger kitchen so he could continue to create his pre-prepared fresh and frozen meals. His goal was to find a place in the North Winton area, but when the owner of Open Face approached him about moving to his old location in the South Wedge, Rees knew it was going to be the right choice.

Relish is currently open for lunch, but Rees plans to introduce a dinner menu in June. The lunch menu categories will remain consistent: there will always be a

variety of salads to choose from, as well as signature sandwiches and homemade sausage. But the options within those categories will change, allowing Rees to play with different recipes. That includes more vegan and vegetarian items.

“I’m not vegetarian or vegan, but I love throwing things together that taste delicious,” Rees said. On the menu when I visited was a Hummus Raclette sandwich ($8) served on whole wheat bread and topped with yams and a crunchy salad.

Relish will also have a rotating pickle bar, with at least four seasonal pickled items available to accompany your lunch.

His plan for dinner will be bistro-casual in the truest sense – there will be a blackboard with four appetizers and four entrees, and when they’re gone, they’re gone – and he plans to not take reservations, if possible.

“I’m in the freakin’ South Wedge,” Rees said. “It’s amazing here. If there’s a 45-minute wait for a table, go have a glass of wine at Solera next door, or a cocktail at Lux across the street, or walk down to Butapub and have a drink and an appetizer and come back here for your entrée.”

Relish will be BYOB to a certain extent – if you’re taking the Tour de Franzia, you might get charged a corkage fee, but if you bring in a nice bottle of wine, Rees is happy to accommodate. He plans to obtain a beer and wine license as well.

Speaking of beverages, Relish also has frozen slushies available. One option will always be a lemonade with a seasonal add-in available (like strawberry or rhubarb juice) or fresh turmeric. A frozen caffeinated option will also be available in the form of iced tea or coffee.

Relish is located at 651 South Avenue, and is open Tuesday through Saturday from 11:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. Lunch is available from 11:30 to 4 p.m. and pre-prepared meals can purchased until 6 p.m.

454-2767; relishdelivers.com.

Quick bites

The first ZooBrew will take place on Friday, May 26, from 5:30 to 9 p.m. at the Seneca Park Zoo (2222 St. Paul Street). A portion of the funds from every ticket will go to the International Elephant Foundation, and a special tour of the elephant barn will be

available for $25. Tickets for the event are $8 in advance and $10 at the front gate and include live music and animal experiences.

Food and drink will be available for purchase. Tickets: senecaparkzoo.org.

The WCMF Roc City Rib Fest will take place on Friday, May 26, through Sunday, May 29, at Barnard Park (360 Maiden Lane). Local and visiting BBQ vendors will be offering up their smoked selections.

There will be live music, craft vendors, and an interactive Kid Zone. Information: roccityribfest.org.

The next Food Truck Rodeo will take place on Wednesday, May 31, from 5 to 9 p.m. at the Rochester Public Market (280 North Union Street). Live music will be provided by Teagan and the Tweeds.

Parking in the market area is limited, so the organizers have arranged for a free Marketmobile Shuttle that will transport attendees from the East End Parking Garage at Scio and East Main Street to the rodeo. Information: cityofrochester.gov/ foodtruckrodeo/.

Black Button Distilling will host a Tasting Cruise on the Sam Patch on Wednesday, June 7, from 6:30 to 8 p.m. The cost is $28 per person and will include tastings from Black Button and an assortment of light snacks. Tickets can be purchased by calling 662-5748 or at sampatch.org.

Openings

Funk ‘N Waffles Music Hall (204 North

Water Street) had its grand opening last Friday. The popular, Syracuse-based music venue and waffle restaurant took over the former Water Street Music Hall space back in February.

Silver Iguana Cantina (663 North Winton Road) has opened in the space formerly occupied by Brunello Wine Bar. Radio Social (20 Carlson Road) is open for dinner Tuesday through Saturday from 5 to 10 p.m. Bar snacks are served seven days a week.

Closings

Sad to report that RYCE, the student-run Caribbean restaurant in Village Gate (302 North Goodman), has closed.

East of Chicago Pizza (2171 West Henrietta Road) has closed.

The 3300 Café & Grille (3300 Monroe Avenue), which replaced Corner Bakery Café in Pittsford, has closed.

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FutureCastle. Wednesday, June 14. Bug Jar, 219 Monroe

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school for 10 days would land you a successful career in hip-hop? Six years ago, Chicago-based rapper, singer, and songwriter Chance the Rapper recorded the “10 Day” mixtape while home from school for being caught in possession of marijuana. His path has been paved with gold ever since, creating two more acclaimed mixtapes, 2013’s “Acid Rain” and last year’s “Coloring Book” (which won the Grammy for Best Rap Album, all while being a streaming-only album). Chance the Rapper’s albums are full of horn sections and clever rhymes, and feature top-level guests like Vic Mensa and Kanye West. — BY AMANDA FINTAK

Biters FRIDAY, MAY 26 GERMAN HOUSE, 315 GREGORY STREET 6 P.M. | $15 | HISTORICGERMANHOUSE.COM; BITERSBAND.COM [ ROCK ] When Gene Simmons declared that rock is finally

dead, he probably wasn’t aware of the Biters. The Atlantabased quartet isn’t as much a band as it is a wrecking ball of wild hedonism. Fueled by booze, groupies, fire-eating, car chases, wrecked furniture, and near rogue-ish anarchy, it’s a classic nod to musicians like early-era Alice Cooper. Biters is a beautiful celebration of rock ‘n’ roll excess, stripped right down to the bones. — BY ROMAN DIVEZUR

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required to be fully conscious while they drilled a hole the size of a quarter into my head. It was the loudest thing I’d ever heard — if you don’t count seeing sludge metal duo of doom Jucifer, which I’ve done about half a dozen times. Onstage, it looks like a going out of business sale with amps literally stacked to the ceiling. Guitarist Amber Valentine sings a little, but all I ever remember deciphering was “Thank you, good night.” This is what it sounds like when doves die. Monolith and Joe Clark will also perform. — BY FRANK DE BLASE

RPO performs “La Bohème” THURSDAY, MAY 25, 7:30 P.M.; SATURDAY, MAY 27, 8 P.M. KODAK HALL AT EASTMAN THEATRE, 60 GIBBS STREET $23-$99 | 454-2100; RPO.ORG [ CLASSICAL/OPERA ] The Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra

will close its 2016-17 Philharmonics series in grand style, with one of the most crowd-pleasing, enduring works in the operatic canon: Giacomo Puccini’s “La Bohème.” RPO Music Director Ward Stare will lead a strong cast of dynamic singers, including Inna Dukach as the seamstress Mimi; Harold Meers as her lover, the poet Rodolfo; Jacqueline Echols as the irresistible Musetta; and Alexander Elliott as the painter Marcello, her on-again, off-again lover. This semi-staged concert production about the romanticism and tragedy of bohemian life in 19th century Paris features the enchanting arias “Che gelida manina,” “Sì, mi chiamano Mimì,” and “Quando m’en vo’ (Musetta’s Waltz).”

Powered by Puccini’s indelibly gorgeous melodies, this opera is ever-charming. — BY DANIEL J. KUSHNER

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Susanna Rose is trying to break my heart, break me down, and make me sad. Her new album, “The Wishing Well,” is mellow in the extreme with chordal patterns that hang like battleship-grey skies in February. She handed the disc to me assuring me, matter-o-factly, it was even sadder than her previous material.

And since I’ve always felt that crying and laughing were kissing cousins, there must be something in there for the hopeful and for the optimist in most of us.

But no, this new one is a fresh crop of gently dying Susanna Rose roses. This record appeals to the hopelessness we’ve all felt while shaking our fist at the sky, begging for more.

What amazes me, however, is Rose’s voice: it defines bittersweet in an upper register lilt that is simply beautiful and devastating. This is a fine record, though a bit maudlin. You should pick it up — I just don’t recommend listening to it alone. — BY FRANK DE BLASE

Noah Preminger “Meditations on Freedom” Dry Bridge Records noahpreminger.com

Many people had strong reactions to the recent presidential election. The response of one of the nation’s top young saxophonist’s comes in the form of music. Noah Preminger’s “Meditations on Freedom” is a collection of tunes that evoke and react to the current political climate in the United States. The album is a burst of energy, some of it angry, some plaintive, and some, in a way, hopeful. In this musical statement, Preminger’s nicely agitated playing is strongly supported by Jason Palmer on trumpet; Kim Cass, bass; and Ian Froman, drums.

Four of the album’s tracks re-invent songs that have sought to communicate ideas of freedom, peace, and equality. Sam Cooke’s “A Change Is Gonna Come” and George Harrison’s “Give Me Love (Give Me Peace on Earth)” are anchored to their original melodies while Bob Dylan’s “Only a Pawn in their Game” and Bruce Hornsby’s “Just the Way It Is” are treated more abstractly. The titles of Preminger’s originals reflect concerns about the environment, civil rights, women’s rights, poverty, and war. Interpreting these issues with music is challenging, but there is no question about the profound feeling of unease permeating this album. — BY RON NETSKY

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Folk Faces is (left to right) Ellen Pieroni, Dan Borodzik, Tyler Westcott, Dan Schwach, and Patrick Jackson. PHOTO PROVIDED

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[ INTERVIEW ] BY FRANK DE BLASE FOR MORE ON FOLK FACES GO TO FOLKFACES.BANDCAMP.COM.

Folk Faces fan the flames of burning Americana and other root styles with a casual unpretentious swing. Electric guitar, banjo, washboard, saxophone, et al — the combined instrumentation isn’t the least bit normal. The band looks like it picked up its gear at a garage sale. Though at times they come on frenetic, Folk Faces frequently cops to a beautiful waltz-time signature for pitching woo or pitching a fit on the dance floor.

Founded on the streets of Buffalo, Folk Faces hasn’t lost sight of its asphalt roots.

Nor has it abandoned them on the new Folk Faces release, “How Long?” where singer and multi-instrumentalist Tyler Westcott sings appropriately glib with an ever-present excitement and urgency.

Folk Faces falls in the folk phylum nicely even though they have the look and attitude of a rock band to a certain degree. When the band played Photo City a few weeks ago, it casually blended load-in, set-up, sound check, and its opening number all into one fluid movement. Before you knew it they were chuggin’ away full speed. It was like a 16 CITY MAY 24-30, 2017

rock ‘n’ roll ballet. Now that’s cool.

Westcott got on the phone to talk with CITY about his influences, songwriting, and wrestling in chocolate pudding; an edited transcript follows.

CITY: How would you describe your music?

Tyler Westcott: Ok um, uhhh, I’m gonna

say… uhh acoustic, or it’s a lot...I dunno. I’d say it’s a bit jug band a bit rock ‘n’ roll… and a whole lot of energy. I like to call it a variety show of American roots music.

How did the group get started?

The band got started 5 years ago as a trio.

I’m the only original member left. I’m from Hunt, New York and moved to Buffalo. I was riding my bike to work one day and I saw a couple of people busking. I ended up hanging out with them later playing some music. They had some line-up changes and needed me to fill in for a gig. We started another little thing after that and that eventually became Folk Faces.

But you don’t come off exclusively as a busker band.

It’s all about the time and place. If we’re in a coffee shop we’ll play more of a busker set. If it’s more of a rock ‘n’ roll bar, we’ll bring in electric guitars and do the louder stuff.

List some of your influences.

I’m really a fan of Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, Joe Strummer, Rev. Gary Davis. Dave Van Ronk, David Bromberg…

How do you write?

Everyone is different. Somedays you’re like a weathervane and you get struck by lightning and it all comes out at once.

Other times you start with a melody you may already have, or a chord change, or sometimes you have a poem and you intentionally write for that poem.

What’s the funniest thing that’s happened to the band on stage?

We’ve played a lot of weird places that I’m not sure some of them even had stages. One gig last summer there was a kiddie pool that was filled with chocolate pudding and there were two grown men wrestling in it shortly after we played. That was pretty awesome. But it’s not always on the stage; it’s at the party afterwards.

What’s important to Folk Faces?

What’s important is the variety; it’s very eclectic, the instrumentation isn’t normal, and my influences are from all over. I try to include some themes of social justice and unrest, all the while trying to have a dance party.

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(left) Filmmaker Nicholle La Vann’s newest project explores sexual assault and raising a child conceived from rape through her own experience and her efforts to heal. PHOTO KEVIN FULLER (above) La Vann will present her film-in-progress, along with her photography and a spoken-word piece, on Saturday, May 27 at Flower City Arts Center. PHOTO PROVIDED

An underexplored result of assault “Reluctant Love: A Visual Love Letter of Healing”

BY NICHOLLE LA VANN FLOWER CITY ARTS CENTER, 713 MONROE AVENUE 244-1730; ROCHESTERARTS.ORG; NICHOLLELAVANN.COM [ FEATURE ] BY REBECCA RAFFERTY

For all of our debates over the right for women to terminate unwanted pregnancies, there’s less conversation about women who decide to keep children conceived through rape. Filmmaker and Flower City Arts Center Artist-In-Residence Nicholle La Vann is creating a documentary about her own assault and her broken relationship with her daughter, in the effort to continue her process of healing. By speaking out, she hopes to start important discussions and embolden other women who have had similar experiences.

La Vann’s residency at Flower City Arts Center will culminate with an exhibit on Friday, May 27, from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m., featuring a selection of her black and white photos, a spoken word piece, and a screening of clips from “Reluctant Love: A Visual Love Letter of Healing,” her film-in-progress.

She’s currently writing grants for funding,

and seeking artist residencies and freelance opportunities to finance the documentary.

La Vann was raped when she was 15 years old, and the assault resulted in pregnancy. “Reluctant Love: A Visual Love Letter of Healing” refers to the traumatic disconnect she felt while carrying and after giving birth to her daughter.

There are as many reasons as there are stars in the sky that women choose to keep or terminate a pregnancy, and each individual decision is as complicated as the next. La Vann says that at the time, she was influenced by religious ideas and chose not to terminate her pregnancy, but rather give her daughter up through a center that placed children with adoptive families. After she witnessed the separation trauma of a girl who changed her mind, but had already signed the papers, La Vann backed out.

Because she was underage, she placed herself into foster care. “I was a child myself, and really didn’t understand the impact of having a child,” she says, “less even how to deal with a child. In my mind I was still this girl who ran track.”

After she gave birth, La Vann struggled with feelings of regret and an unwelcome desire to hurt her kid. “She kept reminding me of this terrible act,” La Vann says, “but I felt guilty, and I didn’t want to act on those feelings.”

This veiled corner of the wider rape

trauma issue isn’t much discussed; the impact of bearing and raising a child born of rape is an under-considered burden. And La Vann says she had trouble finding psychological or emotional assistance when she needed it.

Politicians and the public alike often overlook this side of reproductive rights, La Vann says. “It’s like: ‘Have that baby!’ OK, who’s gonna help after I have the baby?

Can you help me mentally? Can I get some counseling? It just doesn’t happen. It’s the woman who’s left with the bag — ‘Here, have some food stamps. Run along now.’ That’s it.”

La Vann moved in with her grandmother, who helped her navigate new motherhood.

“She knew what I was feeling without me having to say it,” she says. “But I was reluctant to love my daughter in the beginning. I thought I was loving her, but I was reluctant.”

When discussing this period of time, La Vann’s normally bubbly personality disappears inward, her voice becomes soft and incredulous, and her expression unfathomable.

“I felt like I wanted to kill my daughter, because I felt like, ‘Who is this child?’” she says. “It just felt really dirty, like something was wrong.”

really stood up for myself. I’ve always been behind the camera standing up for other people’s rights.’”

In “Reluctant Love,” La Vann discusses her experience as a black woman in America, her assault, and the disconnect she felt during the pregnancy and afterward. She touches on the ways she’s pursued healing and empowerment through making films and by exploring her multicultural roots through the Yoruba tradition.

La Vann originally wanted the documentary to include the stories of other women whose children were conceived from rape, but the women she spoke with backed out.

Not everybody is ready to talk openly, La Vann says. “So I figured I would put myself out there first,” she says. “And I have something to lose. People may never want me to do their films again, they might say, ‘Oh, that’s a hurt black woman, I ain’t having her work on my film.’ But at least they know that I had the courage to come forward, to talk about a very important issue that affects all women globally. This is a sister thing.”

La Vann says that she thinks many sexual assault survivors are reticent to talk about their experiences because socially we still defend rapists and judge victims.

La Vann says she hopes “Reluctant Love” will help other women with similar

PHOTO BY KEVIN FULLER

La Vann’s previous projects, under her “Filmstress Filmz” brand, have included

“Solutionz,” a film that explores the effects of incarceration on children; “Homicidez,” which gives voices to the families of murder victims; and “25 Years 2 Freedom,” about Betty Tyson, a Rochester woman convicted of murder who was released from prison after being exonerated.

“I’m going to be 50 years old this year,” La Vann says. “And I said to myself, ‘I’ve been a force for other issues, but I’ve never

experiences, who may have had a difficult time relating to their children. She also wants the film to serve as a message to her estranged daughter.

“This is my love letter and my legacy to her,” she says.

When her daughter was diagnosed with bipolar disorder at age 12, La Vann didn’t feel equipped to deal with it.

Her child’s emotional problems began to manifest after La Vann’s grandmother told her that she was conceived when her mother was raped. “I wasn’t even sure if I wanted to tell her,” La Vann says, “but I would have liked to have had the choice, later.”

La Vann believes it’s possible that her daughter’s bipolar disorder might have been triggered by PTSD that erupted from this information. “I think anyone knowing such a tragic way they got in this world would be affected psychologically,” she says. “There’s got to be a stigma in the back of their mind, that how they were created was not in a loving way.”

La Vann says that groups of assault survivors coming together for mutual, nonjudgmental support could benefit many women and girls.

“There are so many women out there who are hurt, who walk by us every single day,” she says.

“We don’t know who’s broken, and sometimes we just need another person to lift us up.” rochestercitynewspaper.com CITY 27

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Art Exhibits [ OPENING ] Art Museum of Rochester, 610 Monroe Ave. BONES: A Retrospective. A one-night only retrospective of the work of Bones from the private collection of his family, including sketches, photos, and more. facebook.com/ ArtMuseumOfRochester.

Cat Clay, 1115 E. Main St., Suite 242. Drinkies: Name Your Poison. Presented

by Pop Up ROC. Cocktail inspired jewelry by Christine Meyer, spirits by Black Button, and donations to Planned Parenthood. 4145643. catclay.com.

Central Library of Rochester and Monroe County, 115 South Avenue. Woman Suffrage Centennial Exhibition. Through June 30.

Opening reception Fri. June.

2, 6-9 p.m. An exhibition commemorating the NYS Woman Suffrage Centennial.

428-8304. teen.central@ libraryweb.org. libraryweb. org.

Gallery Q, 100 College Ave. Cowgirls, Vamps and Other So Called Ladies. Through July 28. Opening reception Fri. June 2, 6-9 p.m. Art by Beth Bloom. 244-8640.

Hedonist Artisan Ice Cream, 672 South Ave. Tiger Show.

Through June. Opening reception Thurs. June 15, 6-9 p.m. Artwork by Rina Miriam Drescher. 461-2815. rinamiriam.com.

Hungerford Building, 1115 E. Main St. Rochester Art Club Associate Members Exhibit.

Through July 31. 233-5645. rochesterartclub.org.

Little Theatre Café, 240 East Ave. This is Jazz. Through June 30. Opening reception Sun. June 11, 1-4 p.m.

Creative responses to jazz in a variety of media by 30 artists. thelittle.org.

Penfield Public Library, 1985 Baird Rd. Penfield Art Association’s Spring Art Show. An exhibit of over 100 paintings will be on display and for sale.

Rochester Institute of Technology University Gallery - University Services Center, 158 Lomb Memorial Drive. As Above, So Below. Through July 29. Opening reception Fri. June 10, 4-6 p.m.

Satirical portrait paintings by Steven W. Justice. 475-2411. [ CONTINUING ] ART EXHIBITS 1570 Gallery at Valley Manor, 1570 East Ave. “For the Love of Art” Through July 9.

Opening reception Fri. June 9. 6-8 p.m. Various mediums

by MVP members. 546-8400. epsicopalseniorlife.org.

540WMain, 540 W. Main Street. Art Work of Melissa Huang. Through May 31.

732-0002. 540westmain.org.

Axom Gallery, 176 Anderson Ave., 2nd floor. Conversation With a Stranger. Through June 3. A Photo essay of portraits by Stephen S. Reardon. 232-6030 x23. axomgallery.com.

Chocolate & Vines, 757 University Ave. Earth Bound.

Through May. 28. A show

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ART | “RULE BREAKER, FUN MAKER” Photographer and Image City Photography Gallery founding member Dan Neuberger was a beloved fixture to the Rochester arts scene, both as a maker and staunch supporter of other creatives. I was glad to have the opportunity to get to know the joyful, impishly playful man when CITY profiled him during the run of his last solo show in 2015.

We spent a few hours discussing his life, from his youth in the former Yugoslavia, to his study of chemistry and work as a research scientist for Kodak, which sent him to Paris.

We pored over the simple elegance of his extensive portfolio that reflected his world travels. “I think being successful is being in love with your work,” he told me.

In memory of Neuberger, who died in January, Image City is hosting “Rule Breaker, Fun Maker,” an exhibit of his photographic work, through June 11. During the run of the show, Image City will also display the work of guest photographers Steve Tryon, Emily Berkson, Jared Jones, Julie Oldfield, Don Tilton, Dave Braitsch, Claudia Manchester, Tony Solpietro, Loni Titus, Michelle Turner, and Joan Weetman, and gallery partners Dick Bennett, Carl Crumley, Steve Levinson, Gil Maker, Don Menges, Betsy Phillips, John Solberg, Gary Thompson, Phyllis Thompson, and Sheridan Vincent.

Image City is located at 722 University Avenue. Gallery hours are Tuesday through Saturday, noon to 5 p.m., and Sunday, noon to 4 p.m. The space will also be open on First Friday, June 2, from 5 to 9 p.m. Admission is free.

271-2540; imagecityphotographygallery.com.

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by Gianpaolo. 340-6362. chocolateandvines.com.

Create Art 4 Good Studios, 1115 E. Main St., door 5, suite 201. Feminine Rising.

Through May 25. Work

by Sarah Derrenbacher.

210-3161. Susan@ createart4good.org. createart4good.org.

A Different Path Gallery, 27 Market St. Brockport. Sixth Annual Brockport Artists’ Guild Exhibition. Through June 2. Opening reception Fri. May 12, 7-9 p.m. 6375494. differentpathgallery. com/.

First Unitarian Church, 220 S Winton Rd. Together, Sharing and Inspiring. Through June 9. Ceramics and acrylic paintings by Colleen M. Kunz and Gail W. Rivera. 2719070. rochesterunitarian.org.

Gallery 384, 384 East Ave. Chaos and Structure.

Through May. 29. Acrylic paintings by Shamira Nicolas and color photography by

Andrew E. Jurman.

Gallery 96, 604 PittsfordVictor Road. KAIROS. Through May 27.

Photography by Bruno Chalifour. thegallery96.com.

Gallery Q, 100 College Ave. TransAmericans. Through May 26. Photos by Errol Daniels. 244-8640.

Geisel Gallery, Second Floor Rotunda, Legacy Tower, One Bausch & Lomb Place. Rachel & Cordell Cordaro. Through May 30. thegeiselgallery.com.

George Eastman Museum, 900 East Ave. Richard Renaldi: Manhattan Sunday. Series consists of portraits, urban still lifes, and streetscapes.

271-3361. eastman.org.; Robert Cumming: The Secret Life of Objects. eastman.org.

GOART Seymour Place, 201 E Main St. Batavia. DREAM of America. Through Jul. 7.

A collection of photographs depicting the lives and sacrifices of Latino workers.

343-9313. ghallock@goart.

org. goart.org.

Hungerford Building, 1115 E. Main St. “The Beauty of Line” Works in graphite, silverpoint and scratchboard by Diane Bellenger, Katherine DeWitt Hess and Suzi Zefting-Kuhn.

233-5645. .rochesterartclub. org.

Image City Photography Gallery, 722 University Ave. Dan Neuberger: rule breaker, fun maker 1929 - 2017. Through June 11. Photography

by Dan Neuberger and other guest artists. imagecityphotographygallery. com.

International Art Acquisitions, 3300 Monroe Ave. Rose Blush. Through May 31.

Original paintings by contemporary realist painter David Kerstetter. 264-1440. internationalartacquisitions. com.

Lisa’s Village Gifts, 113 W. Commercial St. East Rochester. Space Travel.

Through May 28. A show of space paintings by Gianpaolo.

Loud Cow, 13 Pine Hill Road.

Spencerport. How did we get here?. Through June 6.

Explores our relationship to interior and exterior spaces.

Work from a five person group. 312-498-1570.

Made On State, 510 State Street. Portraits of Italy by Mark D. Logan. Through June 3. Photographs cityscapes and picturesque countrysides. 530-9049. madeonstate@gmail.com. creativframinganddesign.com.

Memorial Art Gallery, 500 University Ave. Reflections on Place & Culture: Downey, Gower, Kluge. Through June 18. The work of Juan Downey, Terence Gower and Alexander Kluge. Artists work within and against the conventions of documentary film and video.

276-8900. mag.rochester. edu.

Metro Justice, 1115 E Main St. Open House. Celebrate First Fridays Open House at the Hungerford Building with Metro Justice. 397-3540. metrojustice.org.

My Sister’s Gallery at the Episcopal Church Home, 505 Mt. Hope Ave. Reflections on Peaceful Scenes. Through June 25. Paintings by Barb Horvath and Sylvia Ball. 5468439. episcopalseniorlife.org.

Nu Movement, 716 University Ave. Figures in Motion.

Through June 10. Opening reception Fri. June 2, 6-9 p.m. Artwork includes various figures in motion created with pastels. 732-9030. numvmnt. com.

Orange Glory Café, 240 East Ave. Underpants and Overbites: A Diary Comic.

Through June 16. Features autobiographical ink and watercolor comic prints

by Jackie Evangelisti. underpantsandoverbites.com.

Oxford Gallery, 267 Oxford St. Doubles and Doppelgängers.

Through June 17. Exhibit contains interpretations of the theme by over 50 artists. 2715885. oxfordgallery.com.

Pat Rini Rohrer Gallery, 71 S. Main St. Canandaigua. The Lake Country Effect. Through July 31.

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/ T H E AT E R ART | “DOUBLES AND DOPPELGÄNGERS” Ever been mistaken for a stranger, or met your double? That unsettling feeling that may accompany the phenomenon has deep cultural roots that span the globe and time. The German term for it, “doppelgänger,” comes with a dark and doomy association, and variations on the theme is a common one in literature (such as Oscar Wilde’s “The Picture of Dorian Gray”), psychology, and countless works of art.

“Doubles and Doppelgängers” is this year’s pick for Oxford Gallery’s annual themed exhibit, and includes interpretations on this theme by more than 50 artists in a variety of 2D and 3D media. The works go beyond the human form to depict twins or near doubles of flora, fauna, numbers, and other patterns we notice in our world.

The show continues through June 17 at Oxford Gallery, 267 Oxford Street. Hours are Tuesday through Saturday, noon to 5 p.m., and by appointment. Free.

271-5885; oxfordgallery.com.

— BY REBECCA RAFFERTY

Rochester Brainery, 176 Anderson Ave, F109.

Ascension: The Works of Brittany Williams. Through June 30. 730-7034. bdubart. tumblr.com.

Ugly Duck Coffee, 89 Charlotte St. Re-arranged. Through May 31. Collage work by Jesse Amesmith. uglyduckcoffee. com.

Whitman Works Co., 1826 Penfield Road. Penfield.

Reflections, Sacred Landscapes. Through May 27.

Paintings by Beverly Rafferty.

747-9999. WhitmanWorks. com.

Art Events [ THU., JUNE 1 ] Confetti. 10 a.m.-9 p.m International Art Acquisitions, 3300 Monroe Ave. Through June 30.

Paintings by contemporary American painter Marcella Gillenwater 264-1440. internationalartacquisitions. com. [ FRI., JUNE 2 ] First Friday at R1 Studios.

June 2, 5-9 p.m. R1 Studios, 1328 University Ave. Suite B 329-9124. minimalmostly. com.

First Friday Gallery Night GalleryQ. First Friday of every month, 6-9 p.m. Gallery Q, 100 College Ave .

Anderson Arts First Fridays.

First Friday of every month,

6-9 p.m Anderson Arts Building, 250 N. Goodman St. 201-910-1603. andersonartsbuilding@gmail. com. andersonalleyartists. com.

Genesee Valley Quiltfest.

June 2-4, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.

RIT Gordon Field House, One Lomb Memorial Drive Over 600 quilts, professional judging, cash prizes, and more $10-$20. 737-2369. geneseevalleyquiltfest.com.

Hungerford Open Studios. First Friday of every month, 6-9 p.m. Hungerford Building, 1115 E. Main St. Enter Door #2 Free.

Welding for Wellness. June 2, 6-8 p.m. Village Gate Square, 274 N. Goodman St. $10. 325-3145. weldingforwellness.com. [ SUN., JUNE 4 ] Lecture on Minimal Art. June 4, 2 p.m. Memorial Art Gallery, 500 University Ave. Presented by Cathleen Chaffee 276-8900. minimalmostly.com.

Activism [ SAT., MAY 27 ] Food Not Bombs Sort/Cook/ Serve Food. 2-6 p.m. Flying Squirrel Community Space, 285 Clarissa St. [ SAT., JUNE 3 ] continues on page 30 rochestercitynewspaper.com CITY 29

Food Not Bombs Sort/Cook/ Serve Food. 2-6 p.m. Flying Squirrel Community Space, 285 Clarissa St.

Call for Participants [ THU., JUNE 1 ] Mind2Movie: 72 Hr. Film Competition. June 1, 6-8 p.m. Photo City Improv & Comedy Club, 543 Atlantic Ave Producers have 72 hours to write, rehearse, shoot, and edit a 5 minute short film utilizing the given elements $75-$85. 420-8999. rafasny. org.

Comedy [ WED., MAY 24 ] Buta Brawl Comedy Open Mic. 9 p.m.-midnight. ButaPub, 315 Gregory Street 9022010. evan@butapub.com. butapub.com. [ TUE., MAY 30 ] Backdraft II: Laughdraft. 8-11 p.m Firehouse Saloon, 814 S. Clinton Ave. 902-2010. thefirehousesaloon.com.

Dance Events [ MON., MAY 29 ] Flower City Chapter of USA Dance: Ballroom Dance. Last Monday of every month, 7:30-9:30 p.m First Baptist Church of Rochester, 175 Allens Creek Rd $7-$10.

340-8655. flowercityballroom. org.

Festivals [ SAT., MAY 27 ] Annual Tree Peony Festival of Flowers. May 27, 9 a.m.4 p.m. Linwood Gardens, 1912 York Rd. The historic collection of exotic tree peonies at Linwood Gardens will be on display to the public $10. 584-3913. linwoodgardens1912@gmail. com. linwoodgardens.org. [ SUN., MAY 28 ] Annual Tree Peony Festival of Flowers. May 28, 9 a.m.4 p.m. Linwood Gardens, 1912 York Rd. The historic collection of exotic tree peonies at Linwood Gardens will be on display to the public $10. 584-3913. linwoodgardens1912@gmail. com. linwoodgardens.org. [ FRI., JUNE 2 ] Sulphur Springs Festival.

June 2, 4-10 p.m. Downtown Clifton Springs, Main Street . Clifton Springs 315-462-8200. info@ cliftonspringschamber.com.

SulphurSpringsFestival.com. [ SAT., JUNE 3 ] Annual Tree Peony Festival of Flowers. June 3, 9 a.m.4 p.m. Linwood Gardens, 1912 York Rd. The historic collection of exotic tree peonies at Linwood Gardens will be on display to the public $10. 584-3913. linwoodgardens1912@gmail. com. linwoodgardens.org.

Sulphur Springs Festival.

June 3, 9 a.m.-8 p.m.

Downtown Clifton Springs, Main Street . Clifton Springs 315-462-8200. info@ cliftonspringschamber.com.

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THEATER | “THE BELLE OF AMHERST” “Success is counted sweetest/By those who ne’er succeed,” wrote Emily Dickinson in an early poem. Among the more successful interpretations of the enigmatic life, work, and personality of this great American poet is William Luce’s 1976 play “The Belle of Amherst,” which won a Tony Award for its star, the late Julie Harris. A 1990 Rochester production of “The Belle of Amherst” also won local, national, and international honors for Vickie Casarett, its leading performer — in fact, its only performer, playing not only Emily Dickinson but also 14 other characters.

This beloved Rochester actor is still very much around and still giving memorable portrayals, most recently in the Irish Players’ “Philadelphia, Here I Come!” This weekend, after 27 years, Casarett embarks upon a reprise of her tour de force interpretation of Emily Dickinson, and it still sounds like a perfect match of actress and material. “The Belle of Amherst” also returns to the Cobblestone Arts Center, the site of its successful original run, staged by its original director, Michael H. Arve.

Cobblestone Arts Center presents “The Belle of Amherst” May 25-26, June 15-17, and June 22-24 at 7 p.m. and May 27-28, June 18, and June 25 at 2 p.m. at Cobblestone Arts center, 1622 RT-332, Farmington. $20, includes reception. 398-0220; cobblestoneartscenter.com.

— BY DAVID RAYMOND SulphurSpringsFestival.com. [ SUN., JUNE 4 ] Annual Tree Peony Festival of Flowers. June 4, 9 a.m.4 p.m. Linwood Gardens, 1912 York Rd. The historic collection of exotic tree peonies at Linwood Gardens will be on display to the public $10. 584-3913. linwoodgardens1912@gmail. com. linwoodgardens.org.

Film [ SAT., MAY 27 ] Queer As Folk screening.

3-5:30 p.m. LGBTQ Resource Center, 100 College Avenue, #100 5852448640. jeffreym@gayalliance.org. gayalliance.org. [ TUE., MAY 30 ] Film Screening: I Am Not Your Negro. May 30, 7-9 p.m.

Flying Squirrel Community Space, 285 Clarissa St. Presented by Enough is Enough $5. [ SAT., JUNE 3 ] Queer As Folk screening.

3-5:30 p.m. LGBTQ Resource Center, 100 College Avenue, #100 5852448640.

jeffreym@gayalliance.org. gayalliance.org. [ MON., JUNE 5 ] WXXI’s Indie Lens Pop-Up Series presents “Real Boy”.

June 5, 6:30-9 p.m. The Little Theatre, 240 East Avenue 258-0278. [ TUE., JUNE 6 ] Reel Mind Fest: Almost Sunrise. June 6, 7 p.m.

Cinema Theatre, 957 S. Clinton Ave. Two vets walk cross country to raise awareness and find personal healing. Q&A to follow $8.

271-1785. reelmindfilmfest. org.

Holiday Memorial in Time of War Remembrance and Hope.

Mon., May 29, 9 a.m.

Kids Events [ FRI., MAY 26 ] Charlotte’s Web. May 26-28.

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27, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Phillis Wheatley Public Library, 33 Dr. Samuel McCree Way 428-8212.

[ SAT., JUNE 3 ] WXXI presents Be My Neighbor Day. June 3, 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Central Library of Rochester and Monroe County, 115 South Avenue 258-0200. teen.central@ libraryweb.org. interactive. wxxi.org.

[ FRI., JUNE 2 ] RMSC After Dark: Superhero Soiree. June 2, 7-11 p.m. Rochester Museum and Science Center, 657 East Ave. Must be 21+ to attend. Cash bars and food trucks available. Costumes encouraged $15. 697-1942. rmsc.org.

Lectures [ THU., JUNE 1 ] Excellence Through Equity: Creating Schools that Serve All Children Well. June 1, 6-7:30 p.m. East High School, 1801 Main Street East 210-9754. warner. rochester.edu.

Literary Events [ MON., JUNE 5 ] Moving Beyond Racism Book Discussion. June 5, 7-8:30 p.m. Barnes & Noble, 3349 Monroe Ave. 586-6020.

Recreation [ SAT., JUNE 3 ] RSD 9th Annual River Ramble 5k Run/Walk. June 3, 8 a.m.2 p.m. Rochester School for the Deaf, 1545 St. Paul Street $20-$40. 336-5884. rsdeaf. org/ramble.

Museum Exhibit [ WED., MAY 24 ] America at Play. Ongoing.

The Strong National Museum of Play, 1 Manhattan Square 263-2700. museumofplay. org.

Over the Top: Honoring Fairport’s World War I Veterans. Through Oct. 31. Fairport Historical Museum, 18 Perrin St perintonhistoricalsociety.org.

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[ SAT., JUNE 3 ] Stepping Out to Cure Scleroderma. June 3, 9 a.m.

Seneca Park, 2222 St. Paul St. SclerodermaTriState.org.

THEATER | “INCORRUPTIBLE”

SPECIAL EVENT | HISTORY ON TAP

For a left-of-center theater experience offering both humor and poignancy, there’s the Rochester premiere of “Incorruptible,” Michael Hollinger’s 1996 play about two Catholic parishes in France in the Dark Ages, both claiming to possess the bones of St. Foy. As the local monks lose heart, a shady musician with one eye proposes a solution for the cash-poor monastery. Directed by Sandi Henschel, the comedy features a cast of eight, and is presented by Out of Pocket Productions, a theater company dedicated to supporting non-profit organizations. Cash donations and non-perishable food items accepted at the performance will go toward the Brockport Ecumenical Food Shelf.

There might be a few anachronisms — I’m not sure if Western New York settlers rode in on food trucks — but the Genesee Country Village and Museum’s History on Tap event is still a unique way for adults to see the historic village. The 21-and-older happy hour will feature beer, wine, and cider samples, music by Rochester bluegrass band The Crooked North, dancing, and tours of the museum and village. Eat Greek and Cheesed and Confused will be selling food, and around 15 companies — including Amber Lantern Brewing, Blue Toad Hard Cider, Fairport Brewing, Inspire Moore Winery, and Rohrbach — will be sampling their drinks. Also, GCVM will be unveiling its own Flint and Steel Bourbon Barrel Cider.

“Incorruptible” will be performed on Friday, May 26, through Saturday, May 27, and Thursday, June 1, through Saturday, June 3, at 7:30 p.m., as well as 2 p.m. on June 3, at The MuCCC, 142 Atlantic Avenue. $13-$20. 866-811-4111. muccc.org.

— BY DANIEL J. KUSHNER [ WED., MAY 24 ] Vegan Pastry Pop-Up. 3:306:30 p.m 540WMain, 540 W. Main Street 2-10. 1-855540-6246. 540westmain.org. [ FRI., MAY 26 ] May Vegan Meet & Mingle

BBQ. May 26, 7-9 p.m.

540WMain, 540 W. Main Street $15. 732-0002.

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RocCity RibFest. May 26-29.

Barnard Fire Department, 3084 Dewey Ave $9.

History on Tap takes place Friday, May 26, at the Genesee Country Village and Museum (1410 Flint Hill Road, Mumford). 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. $20 pre-sale; $25 at the door ($2 off for members). $10 designated driver tickets. 294-8218; gcv.org.

— BY JAKE CLAPP ZooBrew. May 26, 5:30-9 p.m. Seneca Park Zoo, 2222 St. Paul St $8-$10. 3367200. senecaparkzoo.org. [ SAT., MAY 27 ] 44th Bonsai Exhibition and

Sale. May 27, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Monroe Community Hospital, 435 East Henrietta Road, Rochester NY 14620 $5. 749-3096. bonsaisocietyofupstateny.org.

Community Paint Day. May

[ MON., JUNE 5 ] A Celebration of Rochester Neighbors. June 5, 5-7:30 p.m. Rochester Public Market, 280 N. Union St. nwrochester.org.

Sports [ SAT., JUNE 3 ] Fit Kids Day. June 3, 11 a.m.4 p.m. The Strong National Museum of Play, 1 Manhattan Square $14.50. 263-2700. museumofplay.org.

Theater Audition [ WED., MAY 24 ] Home of the Brave Auditions.

May 24, 7-9 p.m. St. John Fisher College, Cleary Auditorium, 3690 East Ave 385-7277.

Theater The Accidental Hero. June 1-4. Downstairs Cabaret at Winton Place, 3450 Winton Place Through June 4.

Thurs., June 1, 7 p.m. Fri. & Sat., June 2 & 3, 8 p.m.

Sun., June 4, 2 p.m. Written and Performed by Patrick Dewane $25. 325-4370. downstairscabaret.com.

The Belle of Amherst.

Thursdays-Sundays Cobblestone Theatre, 1622 State Route 332 . Farmington Through Jun. 25. Thurs.-Sat. May, 25, 26, June. 15-17, 22-24, 7 p.m. Sat. & Sun. May 27 & 28, June 25, 2 p.m. By William Luce. A whimsical one woman show based on the life of Emily Dickinson $20. 398-0220. sarah.cobblestonearts@gmail. com. cobblestoneartscenter. com.

The Great DuBois. Sat., June 3, 2 p.m. and Sun., June 4, 2 & 4:30 p.m. JCC of Greater Rochester, 1200 Edgewood Avenue $15-$20. 461-2000. tykestheatre.org.

Incorruptible. Fri., May 26, 7:30-9:30 p.m., Sat., May 27, 7:30-9:30 p.m., Thu., June 1, 7:30-9:30 p.m., Fri., June 2, 7:30-9:30 p.m. and Sat., June 3, 2-4 & 7:30-9:30 p.m. MuCCC, 142 Atlantic Ave Through June 3. Thurs.Sat. May 26, 27, June 1, 2, 3, 7:30 p.m. Sat. June 3, 2-4 p.m. Presented by Out of Pocket, Inc $13. 866-8114111. muccc.org.

Riding the Midnight Express.

May 25-31. Downstairs Cabaret Theatre, 20 Windsor St Through May 31. Wed. & Thurs., May 25 & 31, 7 p.m.

Fri. & Sat., May 26 & 27, 8 p.m. Sun., May 28, 4 p.m.

Billy Hayes recounts the true story of his time in Turkish prisons $25. 325-4370. downstairscabaret.com.

Votes for Women!. ThursdaysSaturdays, 8-10 p.m Gallery 74, 215 Tremont St, Building 3, 3rd Floor Presented by the Kingfisher Theater in partnership with the Susan B. Anthony House $15-$18. 454-9371. thekingfishertheater.org.

Workshops [ THU., MAY 25 ] Financial Fitness Evening Class. May 25, 6 p.m.

LECTURE | “A CROSS-CULTURAL DIALOGUE ON ISLAMOPHOBIA” Coming up at the Women’s Rights National Historical Park on Saturday, May 27: “A Cross-Cultural Dialogue on Islamophobia.” Etin Anwar, associate professor and chair of religious studies at Hobart and William Smith Colleges, will lead the workshop.

Anwar is the author of “Gender and Self in Islam,” and she was featured in the WXXI documentary film “Muslim Women in our Midst: the Path to Understanding.” The workshop will focus on several issues: common stereotypes and misconceptions about Muslims and Islam in America, what Islam means to practicing Muslims, and how it feels to be Muslim in America at this time.

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The workshop will be held in the park at Wesleyan Chapel, 136 Fall Street, Seneca Falls, from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. Information: 315-568-2991. The event is free and open to the public.

— BY TIM LOUIS MACALUSO NeighborWorks Rochester, 570 South Ave $85. 3254170. nwrochester.org. [ SUN., JUNE 4 ] A lesson in Espresso & Latte Art. June 4, 7-9 p.m.

Glen Edith Coffee Roasters,

23 Somerton Street $40.

917-497-2279. info@ glenedithcoffee.com. gastronautsacademy.com.

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Movies

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Brockport Strand 93 Main St, Brockport, 637-3310, rochestertheatermanagement.com

Canandaigua Theatres 3181 Townline Road, Canandaigua, 396-0110, rochestertheatermanagement.com

Cinema Theater 957 S. Clinton St., 271-1785, cinemarochester.com

Culver Ridge 16 2255 Ridge Rd E, Irondequoit 544-1140, regmovies.com

Dryden Theatre 900 East Ave., 271-3361, dryden.eastmanhouse.org

Eastview 13 Eastview Mall, Victor 425-0420, regmovies.com

Geneseo Theatres Geneseo Square Mall, 243-2691, rochestertheatermanagement.com

Greece Ridge 12 176 Greece Ridge Center Drive 225-5810, regmovies.com

Henrietta 18 525 Marketplace Drive 424-3090, regmovies.com

The Little 240 East Ave., 258-0444 thelittle.org

Movies 10 2609 W. Henrietta Road 292-0303, cinemark.com

Pittsford Cinema 3349 Monroe Ave., 383-1310 pittsford.zurichcinemas.com

Tinseltown USA/IMAX 2291 Buffalo Road 247-2180, cinemark.com

Webster 12 2190 Empire Blvd., 888-262-4386, amctheatres.com

Vintage Drive In 1520 W Henrietta Rd., Avon 226-9290, vintagedrivein.com

Close encounters [ REVIEW ] BY ADAM LUBITOW

the uneasy relationship between creator and its creations, and the purpose for humanity’s being.

Along with writers John Logan and Dante “Alien: Covenant” Harper, Scott recognizes that the best thing to come (R), DIRECTED BY RIDLEY SCOTT out of “Prometheus” was the character of David, NOW PLAYING the inquisitive and inscrutable android played

by Michael Fassbender. A supporting character Your feelings about the latest installment of the in that film, David is a much more central focus “Alien” franchise will depend largely on how you felt about “Prometheus.” The 2012 prequel marked here, and Scott opens the film with a meaningful conversation between the “synthetic” and his Ridley Scott’s return to the science fiction series he creator, Peter Weyland (Guy Pearce reprises the role established nearly 40 years ago. A direct sequel to he played in “Prometheus,” though here without that ambitious and polarizing blockbuster, “Alien: the old-age makeup).

Covenant” splits the difference between continuing The film then jumps forward to 10 years after the earlier film’s philosophically heady ideas, and the events of “Prometheus,” with the spaceship cramming in plenty of good ole gory Xenomorph Covenant in the middle of a multi-year colonizing carnage. mission, headed toward a distant planet with Despite the “Alien” title, the series’ iconic creatures are not the real focus here, and Scott seems 2,000 colonists and a crew aboard, suspended in hypersleep. A sudden, deadly accident causes the happier to explore his themes of faith and creativity, crew to wake early, and before they’ve even had a chance to regroup, the ship receives a mysterious signal from a nearby planet. Somehow overlooked until now, this uncharted planet appears to be a perfect fit for their settlement. It’s all the more enticing since it’s considerably closer Trouble is brewing for the would-be colonists in “Alien: Covenant.” than their original PHOTO COURTESY 20TH CENTURY FOX

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destination, which is still a several-year journey away. After some debate, the Covenant’s crew decide to set down and check things out.

Along the way, a few key crewmembers come into focus: there’s the second-in-command, Daniels (Katherine Waterston); the newly-minted captain, Oram (Billy Crudup); and the ship’s cocksure pilot, Tennessee (Danny McBride, easing nicely into a rare non-comedic role). The rest of the crew members are mostly interchangeable, but they are at least played by recognizable faces like Amy Seimetz, Carmen Ejogo, Jussie Smollett, and Demián Bichir.

The crewmembers touch down and what they find is too good to be true: a paradise that appears tailor-made for human habitation. But things that appear too good often are, and soon they begin to severely regret their decision as a whole host of troubles begin rapidly thinning out the crew’s numbers.

It’s here that they also encounter David, who’s been marooned on the planet after crash-landing the Engineer’s spacecraft he commandeered at the end of “Prometheus.” Time has not done much for David’s state of mind it seems.

In a dual role, Fassbender also portrays Walter, the Covenant’s resident synthetic, a modified and updated version of David. It’s an extraordinary performance, and the scenes between Walter and David are some of the best in the film, filled with a charged, almost erotic tension — which is appropriate, considering that there is a seduction of sorts taking place.

Much like those aboard the Prometheus, the crew of the Covenant continue to make

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spectacularly stupid decisions, poking and prodding at unknown lifeforms with the reckless abandon of a teenager in a “Friday the 13th” movie. But even more so this time around, that behavior starts to seem entirely by design: people are prone to wrongheaded moves in the heat of the moment, whether due to fear, panic, or the tenuous connection of love for their fellow man. As a result, these films seem to argue that in the grand scheme of things, humanity may not be cut out for long-term survival. As the series has gone on, it’s become readily apparent that the human characters are not where these film’s sympathies lie; there’s a rather nihilistic viewpoint at work, suggesting that our creators may at best be indifferent to our suffering, and at worst, actively pursuing it.

Serving as a link between the prequel and the earlier series of films, “Alien: Covenant” feels more like what we expect from an “Alien” film, amping up the horror and suspense (there’s plenty of gruesome business revolving around foreign bodies invading our own in every disgusting way imaginable). But in trying to simultaneously continue the thoughtful tone of “Prometheus,” the film often feels torn between those differing agendas. As a result, not all of the film’s disparate elements completely gel.

Still, like the ever-evolving creatures the series revolves around, a few of its more intriguing and troubling ideas manage to burrow under your skin, waiting to burst out when you least expect it.

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[ OPENING ] BAYWATCH (R): The beautiful, bronzed bodies of Dwayne Johnson and Zac Efron run slow motion-style through this comedic take on the popular TV show about the lifeguards of LA County. Brockport, Canandaigua, Culver, Eastview, Geneseo, Greece, Henrietta, Tinseltown, Vintage Drive-In, Webster CHUCK (R): Liev Schreiber stars in this drama inspired by the life of heavyweight boxer Chuck Wepner. With Naomi Watts, Elisabeth Moss, and Ron Perlman. Little COMMANDO (1985): A retired elite Black Ops Commando launches a one man war against a group of South American criminals who have kidnapped his daughter. Starring Arnold Schwarzenegger. Little (Sat., May 27, 9:30 p.m.)

COSMOS (2015): Two young men seek the solitude of the country; their peace is disturbed when a set of random occurrences suggest to their susceptible minds a pattern with sinister meanings.

Dryden (Fri., May 26, 7:30 p.m.)

THE LOVERS (R): The separation of a long married couple goes awry when they fall for each other again.

Starring Debra Winger and Tracy Letts. Little, Pittsford OBIT (NR): This documentary offers viewers an inside look at the experiences of the writers staffing the New York Times obituaries desk. Little OLIVER TWIST (1948): David Lean’s adaptation of the Charles Dickens classic.

Dryden (Sun., May 28, 2 p.m.)

NELL GWYN (1926): An actress becomes the king’s mistress and persuades him to convert the palace to a serviceman’s home. Dryden (Tue., May 30, 7:30 p.m.)

PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: DEAD MEN TELL NO TALES (PG-13): In the latest swashbuckling adventure, Captain Jack Sparrow

searches for the trident of Poseidon to defeat an old rival. Brockport, Canandaigua, Culver, Eastview, Geneseo, Greece, Henrietta, IMAX, Pittsford, Tinseltown, Vintage Drive-In, Webster THE SCARLET EMPRESS (1934): Marlene Dietrich stars as young German princess Sophia, who’s married off to Russia’s half-mad Grand Duke Peter in the hope of improving the royal bloodline. Dryden (Wed., May 24, 7:30 p.m.)

WAR AND PEACE (1956): Napoleon’s tumultuous relations with Russia serves as the backdrop for the tangled personal lives of two aristocratic families. With Audrey Hepburn and Peter Fonda. Dryden (Thu., May 25, 7:30 p.m.; Sat., May 27, 7:30 p.m.) [ CONTINUING ] ALIEN: COVENANT (R): Bound for a remote planet on the far side of the galaxy, the crew of the colony ship Covenant discover what appears to be an uncharted paradise, but untold horrors await. Brockport, Canandaigua, Culver, Eastview, Geneseo, Greece, Henrietta, Pittsford, Tinseltown, Vintage Drive-In, Webster BEAUTY AND THE BEAST (PG): Disney’s live-action update of a tale as old as time, about a monstrous-looking prince and the young woman who falls in love with him. Canandaigua, Eastview, Greece, Henrietta, Tinseltown, Vintage Drive-In, Webster THE BOSS BABY (PG): The arrival of a new baby throws the lives of its family into upheaval, in this animated comedy featuring the voices of Alec Baldwin, Steve Buscemi, and Lisa Kudrow.

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DIARY OF A WIMPY KID: THE LONG HAUL (PG): The fourth(!) installment of this popular(?) series finds the Heffley’s family road trip going hilariously(?) off course. Canandaigua, Culver, Eastview, Geneseo, Greece, Pittsford, Tinseltown, Vintage Drive-In, Webster EVERYTHING, EVERYTHING (PG-13): A teenager who’s lived a sheltered life because she’s allergic to everything, falls for the boy who moves in next door. Canandaigua, Culver, Eastview, Greece, Pittsford, Tinseltown, Webster THE FATE OF THE FURIOUS (PG13): In the eighth installment of the “Fast and Furious” franchise, the crew faces their greatest test when it appears that Dom (Vin Diesel) has turned against them. With Charlize Theron, Dwayne Johnson, Kurt Russell, and Jason Statham. Canandaigua, Culver, Greece, Henrietta, Tinseltown, Vintage Drive-In, Webster GIFTED (PG-13): A man raising his child prodigy niece is drawn into a custody battle with his mother. Starring Chris Evans, Jenny Slate, and Octavia Spencer. Greece, Pittsford GOING IN STYLE (PG-13): Desperate to pay the bills provide for their loved ones, three lifelong pals set out to rob the bank that absconded with their money. Starring Michael Caine, Morgan Freeman, and Alan Arkin.

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KONG: SKULL ISLAND (PG13): A team of explorers and soldiers travel to an uncharted island in the Pacific, unaware that they are crossing into the domain of monsters, including the mythic Kong. Culver LOGAN (R): In the near future, an aging Wolverine (Hugh Jackman) finds his attempts to hide from the world upended when a young mutant arrives, being pursued by dark forces.

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Starring Richard Gere. Little, Pittsford A QUIET PASSION (PG-13): The story of American poet Emily Dickinson (Cynthia Nixon) from her early days as a young schoolgirl to her later years as a reclusive, unrecognized artist. Little SNATCHED (R): When her boyfriend dumps her before their exotic vacation, a woman persuades her ultra-cautious mother to travel with her to paradise, with disastrous results. Starring Amy Schumer and Goldie Hawn.

Canandaigua, Culver, Eastview, Geneseo, Greece, Henrietta, Pittsford, Tinseltown, Vintage Drive-In, Webster THEIR FINEST (R): During World War II, a British film crew attempts to boost morale after the Blitz by making an inspirational propaganda film.

Little THE VOID (R): Shortly after delivering a patient to an understaffed hospital, a police officer experiences strange and violent occurrences seemingly linked to a group of mysterious hooded figures.

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The South Wedge is the place to be. With its central location, variety of architectural styles and house sizes, tree-lined streets, and a vibrant commercial spine, it’s easy to see why the neighborhood is in such demand.

The Victorian-era home with Gothic Revival details at 187 Cypress Street sits right in the heart of the Wedge, just a block from South Avenue. Walk a few blocks and you can decorate your home (at Abode or Historic Houseparts); grab some groceries at Mise En Place or the newly relocated Abundance Cooperative Market; get a workout at Tru Yoga; get a haircut; or grab a bite and a drink at any number of local establishments (like Harry G’s, ButaPub, Hedonist, Solera Wine Bar, to name just a few). The world at your fingertips, within an easy walk—this is what city living is all about.

Besides the location, the home at 187 Cypress St. offers rich historic character. At 1,908 square feet, it also has a generous amount of living space. The first thing you’ll notice about the house is the wraparound porch, with Gothic Revival style detailing, and the striking, arched double wood doors that serve as the main entrance. This porch is just waiting for you to decorate it with plants and furniture and start lounging away the warm summer days.

Inside, there are four rooms, each of which could be used interchangeably as a family room, formal living room, office, playroom, or dining room. Grand archways with pocket doors and moldings separate these spaces.

The space that currently serves as the main

living room boasts a wonderful pressed metal ceiling. Beyond the intended dining room, the modern kitchen has vaulted ceilings, a solid surface countertop, cherry cabinets, and a breakfast bar. A laundry room/bathroom combo rounds out the first floor.

A curving staircase leads to the second floor, where you’ll find five good-sized bedrooms.

Like the first floor, the plethora of rooms offers lots of flexibility for alternative uses like a home office, playroom, study, etc.

Throughout both floors, wood floors (some original wide plank pine, some early 20th century updates), original moldings, and original doors with glass knobs add warmth and character.

Outside, the backyard, which is relatively small (read: low maintenance), has plenty of space for off-street parking as well as a charming historic two-car garage.

Overall, the home looks to be in great condition. Like most homes of its age, it has some quirks and could use some touchups here and there. With a little bit of TLC, its innate charm and character could really shine. 187 Cypress St. is listed for $164,900 with Roxanne Stavropoulos of RE/MAX Plus. Contact Roxanne at 585-279-8087 to experience it for yourself.

by Caitlin Meives Caitlin is the Preservation Planner at The Landmark Society and a member of The Landmark Society’s Young Urban Preservationists (YUPs).

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Purpose: any lawful act [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of 3456 Latta Road LLC, Art. of Org. filed with Sec’y of State (SSNY) on 11/3/16. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to Millie Edmond, PO Box 260, N. Greece, NY 14515.

Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of formation of 623/625 West Avenue, LLC. Articles of Organization filed with the NY Secretary of State (“SOS”) on 5/3/17.

The office of the LLC is in Monroe County. The SOS is designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. The SOS shall mail a copy of such process to P. O. Box 444, Brockport, NY 14420. The LLC is formed to engage in any lawful activity for which an LLC may be formed under the NY LLC law. [ NOTICE ] Notice of formation of 631 MONROE AVENUE LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the Sect’y of State of NY (SSNY) on 4/18/2017. Office location, County of Monroe. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 522 South Ave., Rochester, NY 14620.

Purpose: any lawful act [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Abud Real Estate Group LLC. Art. Of Org. filed Secretary of State (SSNY) 04/29/17.

Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designed as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC at 1491 Ruth Circle, Wooster, OH 44691.

Purpose: any lawful

activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Basin Park Dental, PLLC, Art. of Org. filed with Sec’y of State (SSNY) on 4/17/17.

Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of PLLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 15 Fisher Rd., Ste. 115, Pittsford, NY 14534.

Purpose: to practice the profession of Dentistry. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of BB BURLINGTON, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 05/09/17.

Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC, 16 N. Main St., Pittsford, NY 14534. Purpose: Any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Brick By Brick Promotions, LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) July 12, 2016. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC at 1545 South Avenue, Rochester, New York 14620. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of BRRRR Strategy LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) March 22, 2017. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC at 87 Woodgreen Drive Pittsford NY 14534. Purpose: any lawful activities including leasing residential properties [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Cheri’ Marie Salon & Bridal Lounge, LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 4/5/2017.

Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC at 54 Park Ave Rochester NY 14607.

Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ]

Notice of Formation of Chromium Development LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 6/17/16. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o Adams Bell Adams, P.C., Ste. 600, 28 East Main St., Rochester, NY 14614.

Purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Clouds Rest Research & Development, LLC, Art. of Org. filed with Sec’y of State (SSNY) on 3/31/17. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 14 Vantage Dr., Pittsford, NY 14534. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of CNVL LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) November 28th 2016. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC at 513 E. RIDGE ROAD, Rochester NY 14621 Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of formation of E.K. Property Management LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the Sect’y of State of NY (SSNY) on 4/20/2017.

Office location, County of Monroe. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 1920 Salt Rd., Fairport, NY 14450.

Purpose: any lawful act [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Easy Lease Home Purchases LLC, Art. of Org. filed with Sec’y of State (SSNY) on 3/31/17. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to Steven Wyse, 83 South Dr., Rochester, NY 14612. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of formation of ECO CRETE BOARD, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the Sect’y of

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Legal Ads > page 39 State of NY (SSNY) on 5/3/2017. Office location, County of Monroe. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, c/o 4 Hill Creek Ln., Rochester, NY 14626. Purpose: any lawful act [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of EDPASS LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 03-0617. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC 48D Lyellwood Pkwy, Rochester, NY 14606. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of ELLAX LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 03/14/2017.

Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC at 67 Orchard Creek Cir Rochester NY 14612. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of FG Bowie Transport LLC, Art. of Org. filed with Sec’y of State (SSNY) on 2/8/17.

Office location: Orleans County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to Francis George Bowie, PO Box 192, 1140 N. Lyndonville Rd., Lyndonville, NY 14098, the Reg. Agt. upon whom proc. may be served. Purpose: any

lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of G. Kellogg & Co., LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) April 17, 2017. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC at 125 Douglas Road, Rochester NY 14610 . Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Great Outdoor Shop, LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 3/16/20017.

Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC at 486 Genesee Park Blvd Rochester, NY, 14619-2247.

Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Housing Advocacy Services LLC. Art. of Org. filed with SSNY on 4/28/17. Office location: Monroe SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 1 East Main St. Suite 400F Rochester NY 14614.

Any lawful purpose. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Hughson Industries LLC, Art. of Org. filed with Sec’y of State (SSNY) on 2/15/17.

Office location: Orleans County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to Glenn Hughson, 43 Jackson St., Holley, NY 14470, the Reg. Agt.

To place your ad in the LEGAL section, contact Tracey Mykins by phone at (585) 244-3329 x10 or by email at legals@rochester-citynews.com upon whom proc. may be served. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of JK Food Services, LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 04/05/17.

Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC at 72 Tartarian Circle, Rochester NY 14612 Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of JR Smith Consulting LLC, Art. of Org. filed with Sec’y of State (SSNY) on 3/17/17.

Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 554 Drumm Rd., Webster, NY 14580.

Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Kettles Properties LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 4/18/17. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 78 Oxford St., Lower Apt., Rochester, NY 14607.

Purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Lite Real Estate Holdings, LLC, Art. of Org. filed with Sec’y of State (SSNY) on 4/21/17. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall

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mail copy of process to 35 Stonewood Dr., Fairport, NY 14450.

Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Little’s Family Homes, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 4/25/17. Office location: Livingston County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: PO Box 90655, Rochester, NY 14609. Purpose: any lawful activity [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of MC 198 North LLC, Art. of Org. filed with Sec’y of State (SSNY) on 4/7/17.

Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 1080 Pittsford Victor Rd., Ste. 100, Pittsford, NY 14534. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] NOTICE OF FORMATION OF McMaster and Sons LLC. Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 2/15/2017. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY is the designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 647 C Preservation Trail, Webster, NY 14580.

Purpose: To engage in any lawful act or activity.

be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 1080 Pittsford Victor Rd., Ste. 100, Pittsford, NY 14534. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Morgan 4181 Veterans Drive LLC, Art. of Org. filed with Sec’y of State (SSNY) on 3/31/17. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 1080 Pittsford Victor Rd., Ste. 100, Pittsford, NY 14534. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of formation of PLS WOODEN CONCEPTS, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the Sect’y of State of NY (SSNY) on 3/13/2017.

Office location, County of Monroe. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 17 Courtright Ln., Rochester, NY 14624. Purpose: any lawful act [ NOTICE ]

to the LLC at 1200A Scottsville Rd, STE 490E-2, Rochester, NY 14624. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Rainwater Farms LLC, Art. of Org. filed with Sec’y of State (SSNY) on 3/24/17.

Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 6525 Rush Lima Rd., Honeoye Falls, NY 14472. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Robinhood Racing, LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 05/10/2017.

Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC at 1003 Genesee Park Blvd., Rochester, New York 14619. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ]

Notice of Formation of Pogal-Sussman, LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) on 3/29/2017.

Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC at 200 Heatherstone Lane, Rochester, NY 14618 . Purpose: any lawful activities.

Notice of Formation of ROC Alliance Biz LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) April 28, 2017. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC at 87 Woodgreen Drive Pittsford NY 14534.

Purpose: any lawful activities including leasing residential properties

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Notice of Formation of Medina South LLC, Art. of Org. filed with Sec’y of State (SSNY) on 4/7/17. Office location: Orleans County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to Malika Hill, 1479 Waterport Rd., Waterport, NY 14571, the Reg. Agt. upon whom proc. may be served. Purpose: any lawful activities.

Notice of formation of PP ENTERPRIZE, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the Sect’y of State of NY (SSNY) on 5/11/2017.

Office location, County of Monroe. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 51 Country Ln., Penfield, NY 14526. Purpose: any lawful act

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Notice of Formation of Prota Productions, LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) March 27, 2017. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process

Notice of Formation of SENECA FARMS BIOCHAR, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 04/07/17. Office location: Monroe County. Princ. office of LLC: 2040 Ridge Rd. East, Rochester, NY 14622. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC at the addr. of its princ. office. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Notice of Formation of Morgan 3187 Chili Ave LLC, Art. of Org. filed with Sec’y of State (SSNY) on 3/31/17. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may

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[ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of SMC Express LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) on 03/06/2017. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom

process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 43 Quail Ln, Rochester, NY, 14624. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Source One N.A., LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) March 29, 2017. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC at 152 Hummingbird Way, West Henrietta, NY 14586. Purpose: any lawful activities.

process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to princ. bus. Loc.: 105 Long Acre Road ,Rochester, NY 14621; Purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Notice of formation of Tame the Flame BBQ & Catering LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the Sect’y of State of NY (SSNY) on 4/28/2017. Office location, County of Monroe. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 2436 Culver Rd., Rochester, NY 14609.

Purpose: any lawful act

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Notice of Formation of Southview Management, LLC. Art. of Org. filed with Sec’y of State (SSNY) on 6/16/16. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC at 112 Southview Ter., Rochester NY 14620.

Purpose: any lawful activities.

Notice of Formation of Textures Beauty Bar, LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) May 9, 2017. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC at 2352 Lyell Avenue, Rochester, New York 14606. Purpose: any lawful activities.

[ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Starcade Games, LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 03/10/2017.

Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC at 7014 13th Ave. Suite 202, Brooklyn, NY 11228.

Purpose: any lawful activities.

[ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Top Shelf Real Estate Holdings, LLC, Art. of Org. filed with Sec’y of State (SSNY) on 4/21/17. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 90 Knollwood Dr., Rochester, NY 14618.

Purpose: any lawful activities.

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Notice of formation of STATE BANK PROPERTIES LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the Sect’y of State of NY (SSNY) on 3/27/2017.

Office location, County of Monroe. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 1000 State Rd., Webster, NY 14580. Purpose: any lawful act

Notice of Formation of Western New York Exteriors, LLC, Art. of Org. filed with Sec’y of State (SSNY) on 4/10/17. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 1504 Scottsville Rd., Rochester, NY 14623.

Purpose: any lawful activities.

[ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of STONELOVE MASONRY LLC. Arts.

Of Org, filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on ) April 26,2017 Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom

[ NOTICE ] Notice of formation of ZAREMSKI HOLDINGS LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the Sect’y of State of NY (SSNY) on 3/24/2017. Office location, County of Monroe. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against

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Purpose: Any lawful activity.

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Notice of Qualification of Parlec, LLC. Authority filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 04/14/17.

Office location: Monroe County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 03/29/17. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o C T Corporation System, 111 Eighth Ave., NY, NY 10011. Address to be maintained in DE: 1209 Orange St., Wilmington, DE 19801. Arts of Org. filed with the Jeffrey W. Bullock, DE Secy. of State, Division of Corporations, John G. Townsend Bldg., 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901.

Purpose: any lawful activities.

NOTICE OF PUBLIC AUCTION being held at Chester’s Self Storage 600 W Broad St. Rochester NY 14608 on Thursday June 15th at 1:00 pm. The following customers’ accounts have become delinquent so their item (s) will be auctioned off to settle past due rents. NOTE: Owner reserves the right to bid at auction, reject any and all bids, and cancel or adjourn the sale. Name of tenant: Unit 65 Andrew Bogart owes $262, Unit 54 Dennis Bach $328, Unit 47 Latousya Goins Tisdale $328, Unit 22 William Alvarez $228, Unit 73 Jeremy Holmes $348, Unit 62 Kimberly Bennett $328. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Qualification of Brooks Hospitality, LLC. Fictitious Name in NY State: Flats Hospitality, LLC. App. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 4/7/17.

Office location: Monroe County. LLC formed in Minnesota (MN) on 4/5/17. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o United Corporate Services, Inc., 10 Bank St., Ste. 560, White Plains, NY 10606. MN address of LLC: Christenson Corporation, 527 Marquette Ave., Ste. 1915, Minneapolis, MN 55402. Arts. of Org. filed with MN Secy. of State, 60 Empire Drive, Ste. 100, Saint Paul, MN 55103. Purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Qualification of HARRIS INSIGHTS AND ANALYTICS LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 02/28/17.

Office location: Monroe County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 12/21/16. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to c/o Corporation Service Co. (CSC), 80 State St., Albany, NY 122072543. DE addr. of LLC: c/o CSC, 2711 Centerville Rd., Ste. 400, Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Form. filed with Secy. of State, Div. of Corps., John G. Townsend Bldg.,

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[ NOTICE ] Pamela S. Markle Distributing, LLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) on 4/5/17. Cty: Orleans.

SSNY desig as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to 3594 Fruit Ave., Medina, NY 14103.

General Purpose. [ NOTICE ] Reeg Properties LLC (LLC) filed Arts. of Org. with NY Secy. of State (SS) on 8/22/16. LLC’s office is in Monroe Co. SS is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SS will mail a copy of any process to 1101 Winona Blvd., Rochester, NY 14617. LLC’s purpose: any lawful activity [ NOTICE ] ROCHESTER PUB POKER LLC, a domestic LLC, filed with the SSNY on April 13, 2017. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served, SSNY shall mail process to ROCHESTER PUB POKER LLC, 2 Tarrytown Drive, Rochester, NY 14624 General Purpose. [ NOTICE ] ROCHESTER TATTOO REMOVAL, LLC. Art. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 02/28/17.

Latest date to dissolve: 12/31/2067. Office: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may

To place your ad in the LEGAL section, contact Tracey Mykins by phone at (585) 244-3329 x10 or by email at legals@rochester-citynews.com be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, 110 Gillett Road, Spencerport, NY 14559. Purpose: Any lawful purpose [ NOTICE ] RuCo Ventures LLC (LLC) filed Arts. of Org. with NY Secy. of State (SS) on April 12, 2017.

LLC’s office is in Monroe Co. SS is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SS will mail a copy of any process to 442 Brookwood Dr., Webster, NY 14580. LLC’s purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Shuler Construction & Custom Cabinetry LLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) on 4/4/17.

Cty: Orleans. SSNY desig as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to 16771 Kenmore Rd., Kendall, NY 14476. General Purpose. [ NOTICE ] Tech Music and Coin Trading Company LLC filed Articles of Organization with the New York Department of State on March 13, 2017. Its office is located in Monroe County. The Secretary of State has been designated as agent of the Company upon whom process against it may be served and a copy of any process shall be mailed to The Foti Law Firm P.C., 16 W. Main Street, Suite 236, Rochester NY, 14614. The purpose of the Company is to engage in any lawful act or activity within the purpose for which a limited liability company may be organized. [ NOTICE ] The Frugal Foot, LLC Arts of Org. filed SSNY 3/13/17. Office: Monroe Co. SSNY design agent of LLC upon whom process may be served & mail to Leah Valvo 66 Long Branch Dr Henrietta, NY 14467 General Purpose> [ NOTICE ] True Blue Property Management LLC (LLC) filed Arts. of Org. with NY Secy. of State (SS) on May 8, 2017. LLC’s office is in Monroe County. SS is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SS shall mail a copy of any process to LLC’s principal business location at 8 Terry Lane,

Rochester, NY 14624.

LLC’s purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Uttara Light LLC Arts of Org. filed SSNY 3/20/17.

Office: Monroe Co. SSNY design agent of LLC upon whom process may be served & mail to 18 Cedarwood Circ Pittsford, NY 14534 General Purpose [ NOTICE } Notice of Formation of Company Worm LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 2/23/17. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC at 580 East Avenue, Brockport 14420. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE AND SUMMONS ] Index No. 201614003 SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF MONROE THE TOWNHOMES OF EASTBROOKE CONDOMINIUM ONE BOARD OF MANAGERS, Plaintiff, vs. JOHN R. BROWN; The heirsat-law, next of kin, distributees, executors, administrators, assignees, lienors, creditors, successorsin-interest and generally all persons having or claiming under, by or through RUBY W. BROWN by purchase, inheritance, lien or otherwise of any right, title or interest in and to the premises described in the complaint herein, and all creditors thereof, and the respective husbands, or widowers of hers, if any, all of whose names and addresses are unknown to plaintiff; SUSAN HARRISON; HOUSEHOLD FINANCE REALTY CORPORATION OF NEW YORK; NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF TAXATION AND FINANCE; THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK; ROBERT KESSLER; THE CITY COURT OF ROCHESTER; WDVI/WQBW/WHAM/ WKGS; BARCLAYS BANK DELAWARE and “JOHN DOE #1” THROUGH “JOHN DOE #100” Defendants.

TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANTS: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the complaint in the above-entitled foreclosure action,

and to serve a copy of your answer on plaintiff’s attorney within thirty (30) days after the service of this summons, exclusive of the day of service or within thirty (30) days after completion of service where service is made in any other manner than by personal service within the State. The United States of America, if designated as a defendant in this action, may answer or appear within sixty (60) days of service hereof. In case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the complaint. Monroe County is designated as the place of trial. The basis of venue is the location of the subject premises. Dated: January 30, 2017 TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANTS: The foregoing summons is served upon you by publication, pursuant to an Order of Honorable Daniel J. Doyle, a Justice of the Supreme Court, dated February 3, 2017, and filed with supporting papers in the Monroe County Clerk’s Office. This is an action to foreclose a lien for unpaid condominium common charges covering the property known as 820 Eastbrooke Lane, Home 48-1A, Town of Brighton, New York (the “Premises”). The relief sought is the sale of the Premises at public auction in satisfaction of the unpaid condominium common charges. In case of your failure to appear, judgment may be taken against you in the sum of $2,286.45, together with interest, costs, disbursements and attorneys’ fees of this action, and directing the public sale of the Premises. PHILLIPS LYTLE LLP Richard J. Evans, Jr. Attorney for Plaintiff the Townhomes of Eastbrooke Condominium One Board of Managers 28 East Main Street Suite 1400 Rochester, New York 14614 Telephone No. (585) 238-2000 revans@ phillipslytle.com [ NOTICE OF FORMATION ] AOS Real Estate Holdings, LLC (“LLC”) filed Articles of Organization with the NY Sec. of State (“SSNY”) on 4/12/17.

Office location: Monroe County. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may

be served and shall forward service of process to 330 Clay Road, Rochester, NY 14623. Purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE OF FORMATION ] MARK GUGGINO REAL ESTATE LLC filed Articles of Organization with the New York Department of State on April 17, 2017. Its office is located in Monroe County. The Secretary of State has been designated as agent of the Company upon whom process against it may be served and a copy of any process shall be mailed to 5503 W. Henrietta Road, Rochester, NY 14586. The purpose of the company is real estate services. [ NOTICE OF FORMATION ] Name: HAYWARD AVENUE ASSOCIATES LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 04/26/2017. Office Location: Monroe County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to: c/o HAYWARD AVENUE ASSOCIATES LLC, One East Main Street, 10th Floor, Rochester, New York 14614.

Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose. [ NOTICE OF FORMATION ] Name: LEROY 3739 LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 12/08/2016.

Office Location: Monroe County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to: LEROY 37-39 LLC, 336 Averill Avenue, Rochester, New York 14620.

Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose. [ NOTICE OF FORMATION ] Name: NIAGARA ROAD LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 12/08/2016.

Office Location: Monroe County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to: NIAGARA ROAD LLC, 336 Averill Avenue, Rochester, New York 14620. Purpose: Any

Lawful Purpose. [ NOTICE OF FORMATION ] Not. of Form of Beautiful Beginnings Family Life Center, LLC. The Art. of Org. were filed Sc’y State (SSNY) 4/21/17. Office location Monroe County.

SSNY designated as the agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail a copy to 395 Maple Street, Rochester, NY 14611. Purpose ofLLC: any lawful purpose. [ NOTICE OF FORMATION ] Virtuous Woman, Enterprises, LLC filed Articles of Organization with the New York Department of State on 3/20/2017. Its office is located in Monroe County. The Secretary of State has been designated as agent of the Company upon whom process against it may be served and a copy of any process shall be mailed to 363 Ellicott Street, P.O. Box 64828, Rochester, NY 14624. The purpose of the Company is Housing Development. [ NOTICE OF FORMATION ] Walker D’Arcy, LLC (“LLC”) filed Articles of Organization with the NY Sec. of State (“SSNY”) on 4/7/17.

Office location: Monroe County. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall forward service of process to 10 Mandalay Ridge, Pittsford, NY 14534.

Purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE OF FORMATION ] William Spelman Executive Search, LLC (“LLC”) filed Articles of Organization with the NY Sec. of State (“SSNY”) on 4/19/17.

Office location: Monroe County. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall forward service of process to 13 Country Meadow Way, Hilton, NY 14468.

Purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE OF FORMATION OF A LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY ] OLINDO FOODS LLC filed Articles of Organization with the Secretary of State for the State of New York on

04/24/17. The office of the LLC shall be located in Monroe County, NY. The SOS has been designated as the Agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served and the SOS shall mail a copy of any process served upon him to: OLINDO FOODS LLC, 500 Main Street, Medina NY 14003.

The purpose of the LLC is to engage in any lawful act or activity for which limited liability companies may be organized under the NYS Limited Liability Company Law. [ Notice of Formation of BASHA GRILL LLC ] Arts. Of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on Jan 28, 2014. Office location: Monroe Co., NY. Princ.

Office of LLC: 14 Cathedral Oaks Fairport NY 14450. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Princ.

Office of LLC. Purpose: Any lawful activity. [ NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY ] Notice of formation of Cattalani Lighthouse LLC. Art. of Org. filed

by Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) on 04/28/17.

Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. NYSS shall mail process to: Joseph Cattalani, 136 Shore Drive, Rochester, NY 14622. Purpose: Any lawful act or activity. [ NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY ] Notice of formation of ReNova Lighthouse LLC. Art. of Org. filed

by Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) on 04/28/17.

Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. NYSS shall mail process to: Alan J. Knauf, 1400 Crossroads Bldg., 2 State St., Rochester, NY 14614.

Purpose: Any lawful act or activity. [ NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LLC ] 4084 W Henrietta Rd LLC has filed articles of organization with the New York Secretary of State on May 11, 2017, with an effective date of formation of May 11, 2017. Its principal place

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The Secretary of State has been designated as agent upon whom process may be served.

A copy of any process shall be mailed to 560 Chili Scottsville Road, Scottsville, New York 14546. The purpose of the LLC is to engage in any lawful activity for which Limited Liability Companies may be organized under Section 203 of the New York Limited Liability Company Law. [ NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LLC ] DestinationFLX, LLC has filed articles of organization with the New York Secretary of State on April 4, 2017, with an effective date of formation of April 4, 2017, 2017.

Its principal place of business is located at 387 Kilbourn Road, Rochester, New York in Monroe County.

The Secretary of State has been designated as agent upon whom process may be served.

A copy of any process shall be mailed to The LLC, 387 Kilbourn Road, Rochester, New York 14618. The purpose of the LLC is to engage in any lawful activity for which Limited Liability Companies may be organized under Section 203 of the New York Limited Liability Company Law. [ Notice of Formation of MALCHO’S MARKET-PENFIELD, LLC ] Arts. Of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on May 2, 2017. Office location: Monroe Co., NY. Princ. Office of LLC: 2175 Penfield Road, Penfield, NY 14526.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Princ. Office of LLC. Purpose: Any lawful activity. [ NOTICE OF SALE ] Index No. 2015-9010 SUPREME COURT STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF MONROE

To place your ad in the LEGAL section, contact Tracey Mykins by phone at (585) 244-3329 x10 or by email at legals@rochester-citynews.com ESL Federal Credit Union,Plaintiff, vs.

Deborah Hernandez; Capital One Bank USA N.A., Defendants.

Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale dated April 18, 2017, entered herein, I, the undersigned, the Referee in said Judgment named, will sell at public auction in the Foreclosure Auction Area, Hall of Justice Lower Level Atrium, 99 Exchange Boulevard, Rochester, New York, in the County of Monroe on June 14, 2017 at 9:30 a.m., on that day, the premises directed by said Judgment to be sold and therein described as follows: ALL THAT TRACT OR PARCEL OF LAND, situate in the Town of Gates, County of Monroe and State of New York, known as 207 Calhoun Avenue, Town of Gates, NY 14606; Tax Account No. 104.052-19. Said premises are sold subject to any state of facts an accurate survey may show, zoning restrictions and any amendments thereto, covenants,

restrictions, agreements, reservations, and easements of record and prior liens, if any, municipal departmental violations, and such other provisions as may be set forth in the Complaint and Judgment filed in this action. Judgment amount: $87,332.33 plus, but not limited to, costs, disbursements, attorney fees and additional allowance, if any, all with legal interest. DATED: May 2017 David D. Spoto, Esq., Referee LACY KATZEN LLP Attorneys for Plaintiff 130 East Main Street Rochester, New York 14604 Telephone: (585) 3245767 [ NOTICE OF SALE ] Index No. 2016-5510 SUPREME COURT STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF MONROE ESL Federal Credit Union, Plaintiff, vs.

Iliana Justiniano d/b/a Iliana’s Family Day Care; First Niagara Bank, N.A.; Capital One Bank USA, N.A.; St. Pius X Federal Credit Union; Juan

FORECLOSURE OF TAX LIENS BY THE CITY OF ROCHESTER STATE OF NEW YORK SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF MONROE IN THE MATTER OF THE FORECLOSURE OF TAX LIENS PURSUANT TO TITLE 4 OF PART E OF ARTICLE IX OF THE CHARTER OF THE CITY OF ROCHESTER.

LIST OF DELINQUENT TAXES AS OF JULY 1, 2016 PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that on April 19, 2017, the Corporation Counsel of the City of Rochester filed in the office of the Monroe County Clerk a list of parcels of property on which the City of Rochester holds a lien for taxes, assessments, fees or other charges which is at least one year old and which the City of Rochester intends to foreclose by an action in rem pursuant to Title 4 of Part E of Article IX of the Charter of the City of Rochester. A copy of that list was published on April 19, 2017.

The foreclosure list contains as to each such parcel: 1. The tax account number and address; 2. The name of the last known owner; 3. The amount of each tax lien, except for a $175.00 charge which has been added to each tax lien pursuant to Section 9-123(A)(3)of the City Charter but which is not reflected on the printed list.

A copy of the foreclosure list has been filed in the office of the City Treasurer and will remain open for public inspection up to and including September 29, 2017, which is the redemption deadline date.

Any person may on or before that date redeem any parcel on the foreclosure list by paying to the City Treasurer the amount of all delinquent taxes, assessments, fees and other charges stated on the foreclosure list, plus the $175.00 charge referred to above, plus accrued interest and late payment charges.

Any person having any interest in any parcel on the foreclosure list may, at any time up to the redemption deadline date, serve a verified notice of interest or an answer upon the Corporation Counsel setting forth in detail the nature and amount of his interest or any defense or objection to the foreclosure. The notice of interest or All persons having an interest in the real property described in answer must also be filed in the office of the Monroe County the foreclosure list are hereby notified that the filing of the list Clerk. Where a valid notice of interest is served, the parcel constitutes the commencement by the City of Rochester of an will be held for a foreclosure auction pursuant to Section action in the Supreme Court, Monroe County, to foreclose the 9-143 of the City Charter. tax liens therein described by an action in rem and that the list constitutes a notice of pendency of action and a complaint by Any person who fails to redeem or to serve a notice of interest or an answer by the redemption deadline date shall the City of Rochester against each parcel of land therein be barred thereafter from asserting his interest in the described to enforce the satisfaction of such tax liens. This pending foreclosure action, and judgment in foreclosure action is brought against the real property only. No personal judgment will be entered in this action for the delinquent taxes, may be granted without regard for, and in extinguishment of, the interest of any such person. assessments, fees or other charges.

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Justiniano; Amanda Crespo; Anthony Crespo, Defendants.

Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale dated April 17, 2017, entered herein, I, the undersigned, the Referee in said Judgment named, will sell at public auction in the Foreclosure Auction Area, Hall of Justice - Lower Level Atrium, 99 Exchange Boulevard, Rochester, New York, in the County of Monroe on June 1, 2017 at 10:00 a.m., on that day, the premises directed by said Judgment to be sold and therein described as follows: ALL THAT TRACT OR PARCEL OF LAND, situate in the City of Rochester, County of Monroe and State of New York, known as 21 Remington Street, Rochester, NY 14621; Tax Account No. 106.31-1-52. Said premises are sold subject to any state of facts an accurate survey may show, zoning restrictions and any amendments thereto, covenants, restrictions, agreements, reservations, and easements of record and prior liens, if any, municipal departmental violations, and such other provisions as may be set forth in the Complaint and Judgment filed in this action. Judgment amount: $27,068.77 plus, but not limited to, costs, disbursements, attorney fees and additional allowance, if any, all with legal interest. DATED: May 2017 Daniel C. Fulmer, Esq., Referee LACY KATZEN LLP Attorneys for Plaintiff 130 East Main Street Rochester, New York 14604 Telephone: (585) 3245767 [ PROBATE CITATION ] File No. 2017-66 SURROGATE’S COURT- ONTARIO COUNTY CITATION THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, By the Grace of God Free and Independent TO: Julius Kobanck, Father of the Decedent, address unknown, if living, but if dead, his distributees, legal representatives, assigns and all persons who by purchase, inheritance or otherwise have an interest in the Estate of Marie E. Congdon, deceased, derived through Julius Kobank, whose addresses are unknown to the petitioner. Unknown Paternal Aunts, Uncles, Cousins or Distributees of Julius Kobanck, Father of

the Decedent, whose addresses are unknown, if living, but if dead, their distributees, legal representatives, assigns and all persons who by purchase, inheritance or otherwise have an interest in the Estate of Marie E. Congdon, deceased, derived through Julius Kobank, whose addresses are unknown to the petitioner. Charles T. Noce, Esq., as Guardian ad Litem o/b/o Unknowns. An Amended petition having been verified on 3/17 /1 7 and duly filed

by Elizabeth Lacey , who is domiciled at 4504 Mercer Place, Vestal, New York 13850 YOU ARE HEREBY CITED TO SHOW CAUSE before the Surrogate’s Court, Ontario County, at 1:30 o’clock in the after noon of that day, why a decree should not be made in the Estate of Marie E. Congdon, lately domiciled at 56 Picture Book Park, West Bloomfield New York 14585 admitting to probate a Last Will and Testament dated December 16, 2016, as the Will of Marie E. Congdon deceased, relating to real and personal property, and directing that Letters Testamentary issue to: Elizabeth Lacey, to serve without bond. Hon. Frederick G. Reed , Surrogate by: Elizabeth T. Simpson , Chief Clerk Dated, attested and sealed on May 2, 2017 Attorney for petitioner: Name: David L. Henehan Address: P.O. Box 190 Avon, New York 14414-0190 Tel. No. (585) 226-3311 [NOTE: This citation is served upon you as required by law. You are not required to appear.

If you fail to appear it will be assumed you do not object to the relief requested. You have a right to have an attorney appear for you.] P-5 (10/96) [ SUPPLEMENTAL SUMMONS ] SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF MONROE Plaintiff designates MONROE as the place of trial situs of the real property Mortgaged Premises: 836-838 PLYMOUTH AVENUE ROCHESTER, NY 14608 Section: 121.69 Block: 4 Lot: 60 INDEX NO. 2017-2350 BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., Plaintiff,-against- PAUL JOYES AS HEIR AND DISTRIBUTEE OF THE ESTATE OF PAULENA JOYES A/K/A PAULENA E. JOYES; FAITH PERKINS AS HEIR

AND DISTRIBUTEE OF THE ESTATE OF PAULENA JOYES A/K/A PAULENA E. JOYES; any and all persons unknown to plaintiff, claiming, or who may claim to have an interest in, or general or specific lien upon the real property described in this action; such unknown persons being herein generally described and intended to be included in the following designation, namely: the wife, widow, husband, widower, heirs at law, next of kin, descendants, executors, administrators, devisees, legatees, creditors, trustees, committees, lienors, and assignees of such deceased, any and all persons deriving interest in or lien upon, or title to said real property by, through or under them, or either of them, and their respective wives, widows, husbands, widowers, heirs at law, next of kin, descendants, executors, administrators, devisees, legatees, creditors, trustees, committees, lienors and assigns, all of whom and whose names, except as stated, are unknown to plaintiff, SECRETARY OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT; NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF TAXATION AND FINANCE; UNITED STATES OF AMERICA - INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE, ‘’JOHN DOE #1’’ through ‘’JOHN DOE #12,’’ the last twelve names being fictitious and unknown to plaintiff, the persons or parties intended being the tenants, occupants, persons or corporations, if any, having or claiming an interest in or lien upon the premises, described in the complaint, Defendants.

To the above-named Defendants YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the complaint in this action and to serve a copy of your answer, or, if the complaint is not served with this summons, to serve a notice of appearance on the Plaintiff’s Attorney within 20 days after the service of this summons, exclusive of the day of service (or within 30 days after the service is complete if this summons is not personally delivered to you within the State of New York) in the event the United States

of America is made a party defendant, the time to answer for the said United States of America shall not expire until (60) days after service of the Summons; and in case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the complaint. NOTICE OF NATURE OF ACTION AND RELIEF SOUGHT THE OBJECT of the above caption action is to foreclose a Mortgage to secure the sum of $69,000.00 and interest, recorded on December 29, 2009 in Book 22792 at Page 508, of the Public Records of MONROE County, New York, covering premises known as 836-838 PLYMOUTH AVENUE, ROCHESTER, NY 14608. The relief sought in the within action is a final judgment directing the sale of the premises described above to satisfy the debt secured by the Mortgage described above.

MONROE County is designated as the place of trial because the real property affected by this action is located in said county. NOTICE YOU ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING YOUR HOME If you do not respond to this summons and complaint by serving a copy of the answer on the attorney for the mortgage company who filed this foreclosure proceeding against you and filing the answer with the court, a default judgment may be entered and you can lose your home.

Speak to an attorney or go to the court where your case is pending for further information on how to answer the summons and protect your property. Sending a payment to the mortgage company will not stop the foreclosure action. YOU MUST RESPOND BY SERVING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF (MORTGAGE COMPANY) AND FILING THE ANSWER WITH THE COURT. Dated: May 9, 2017 Westbury, New York RAS BORISKIN, LLC Attorney for Plaintiff BY: DANIEL GREENBAUM, ESQ. 900 Merchants Concourse, Suite 106 Westbury, NY 11590 516-280-7675

Fun [ NEWS OF THE WEIRD ] BY CHUCK SHEPHERD

Pedestrian Calming

Officials in charge of a Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal heritage site recently installed “speed bumps,” similar to those familiar to Americans driving residential streets — but on a pedestrian walkway, with row upon row of risers to resemble a washboard. A Western travel writer, along with editors of People’s Daily China, suggested that officials were irked that “disorderly” tourists had been walking past the ancient grounds too rapidly to appreciate its beauty or context.

The Job of the Researcher

“Marine mammologist” Dara Orbach’s specialty is figuring out how bottlenose dolphins actually fit their sex organs together to copulate. When dolphins die of natural causes, Orbach, a post-doctoral fellow at Nova Scotia’s Dalhousie University, is sent their genitals (and also those of whales, porpoises and sea lions) and fills each one with silicone to work from molds in understanding the sex act’s mechanics. Dolphins’ vaginas are “surprising” in their “complexity,” she told Canadian Broadcasting Corporation News in April, for example, with the ability to twist inner folds to divert the progress of any sperm deposited by undesirable mates.

Bright Ideas

Compared to busy coastal metropolises, Indiana may evoke repose, and entrepreneur Tom Battista is suggesting the state’s largest city capitalize on the sentiment by reserving a destination site on a low-lying hill overlooking the

chaotic merge lanes of two interstate highways — affording visitors leisurely moments watching the frantic motorists scrambling below. He plans three rows of seats and a sunshade for the relaxed gawkers to take in the “ocean”-like roar and imagine overwrought drivers’ rising blood pressure (while their own remains soothingly calm).

Several treatments are available to combat the heart arrhythmia “atrial fibrillation,” but all require medical supervision, which John Griffin, 69, said he tried to acquire at the emergency room at New Zealand’s Waikato Hospital in April, only to be met with delay and frustration. Griffin went home that day, took notice of his neighbor’s 8,000-volt electric security fence and, with boots off, in a fit of do-it-yourself desperation, nudged it with his arm. He got quite a jolt, he said, but he walked away, and his heart returned to natural rhythm. The medical director of the Heart Foundation of New Zealand said that Griffin was lucky and sternly warned against the “procedure.”

Weird Science

Medical researchers have been frustrated for years at failures in getting certain cancer-fighting drugs to reach targeted areas in women’s reproductive tracts, but doctors in Germany announced in April a bold technique that appeared to work: sending the drugs via sperm cells, which seem to roam without obstruction as they search for an egg. The process involves coating active sperm cells with an iron adhesive and magnetically steering them to their internal targets.

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[ LOVESCOPE ] BY EUGENIA LAST ARIES (March 21-April 19): Romantic opportunities will be plentiful, but trying to make up your mind will not be so simple. Don’t get involved with more than one person or someone who will have trouble keeping up with you. Honesty will buy you time to figure out who you want to be with.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Emotions will be close to the surface, allowing you to share your feelings and find out if the person you are attracted to is as into you as you are to him or her. Don’t hold back; it’s better to find out where you stand than to waste time.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): You’ll find love in the strangest places and with the most unlikely person. Get out and make a difference in your community, and see what transpires. You’ll be a magnet for love, and it won’t be long before someone sparks your interest. Enjoy your good fortune.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Use your intelligence, knowledge and expertise to entice someone who interests you. Once you have captured his or her attention, you can let your Cancer charm take over and close the deal. Romance is within reach, but it may end up being costly if you try to buy love.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): You’ll have mixed emotions when it comes to affairs of the heart.

You’ll be attracted to someone physically, but when it comes to beliefs, opinions and even what you enjoy doing, you’ll find discrepancies that will make you question the connection.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): You’ll encounter love and romance in the most unusual places. Get out and involved in something that sparks your interest, and someone will make you think and consider taking up a unique interest that includes a partner. Let love grow and develop naturally, and you’ll have no regrets.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): You can engage in a new romance, but don’t let someone from your past interfere. Think about your past relationship and if it’s worth giving up someone you want to get to know better. Don’t choose habit over what might turn out to be your best connection yet.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Put your heart and your thoughts on the line, and share your intentions with someone you are attracted to. You’ll be surprised at the input you get and the counter offer made. Experimentation with an innovative partner will be something you will want to consider. Enjoy the ride.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): You’ll attract all sorts of love interests and find it difficult to decide with whom you want to spend your time. Each will have something to offer, but only one will be spirited enough to take you on. Choose the one who challenges you and holds your interest.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Quality counts. Don’t settle for something less than what you want when it comes to love. Agreeing on a lifestyle that promotes both accomplishment and love will be necessary if you expect to be happy. Plan your future as a couple before you make a commitment.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Chemistry will take you down a slippery slope. Don’t get caught up in the way someone looks when you should be getting to know how he or she feels about the things that concern you most.

Sharing opinions will make it easier to grow old together.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Passion will be the draw, but it may not be safe. Before you get entangled in an intimate relationship with someone trying to entice you physically, consider finding out more about this person’s background, character and temper. Choose safety over the rush of love.

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