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Ithaca Festival celebration decides to stay
downtown ......................page 2
T-burg Envirothon team
heads to the state competition ..............................page 3
Local activists support
NATO protesters ........page 4
ICSD TV is now on the
air ........................................page 5
There are about 20 interstate natural gas pipeline
systems crisscrossing the
region from West Virginia
to Maine. That number is
bound to grow as gas
drilling operations expand,
with thousands of miles of
new pipelines added to connect gas wells to existing
lines. The problem is how to
integrate pipeline development with the least risk to
the public.
On May 17, Cornell Cooperative Extension and the
Tompkins County Council
of Governments cosponsored a public meeting on
regulations, risk and land
use issues associated with
development of gas pipelines. There are different
types of pipelines, from
gathering lines that collect
gas from wells to large
transmission lines that
carry the gas to market.
Then there are smaller
lines that carry gas to
homes and businesses.
Each of these is subject to
different
regulations,
explains Jim Austin of the
Environmental Certification and Compliance division of the New York State
Department
of
Public
Service.
The Department of
Public Service is a regulato-
ry agency whose responsibilities include oversight of
the Public Service Commission, which regulates
the state’s electric, gas,
steam, telecommunications
and water utilities. Siting
pipelines requires public
input, says Austin—except
for gathering lines handling gas at less than 125
pounds per square inch
(psi). Unlike gas wells, each
pipeline
project
must
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include an environmental
impact review; there is no
GEIS (Generic Environmental Impact Statement).
Small pipelines, or those
carrying gas at 125 psi, are
more than 1,000 feet long
and generally less than six
inches in diameter; they
require Notice of Intention
reports. It’s a bare-bones
process in which the
drilling company describes
where the pipeline will go,
In Step at IHS
Visitors of all ages got a taste of exercise and wellness activities at
the open house for Ithaca High School's new multi-million dollar
Wellness Center. The events on May 20 included refreshments from
the ICSD Child Nutrition Program, complimentary “L’il Red” T-shirts,
“iDance” computer-led aerobics (above), seated chair massage, words
of welcome from administration officials and tours of the facilitiy.
why it is needed and when
it will be built. “Basically
all the commission (PSC)
has to find is that it is ‘needed’ and that they have minimized the environmental
impact to the greatest
extent practical,” Austin
says.
Medium lines, those
greater than six inches in
diameter and less than 10
miles long, require more
information on their applications. Drillers must show
the locations of public
resources and determine
that their project won’t
impact archeological sites,
parks and other important
resources. They also must
use approved environmental management construction practices. Still, it’s a
fairly short application, and
Austin notes that some
companies are able to offer
projects that fall just under
10 miles in length.
He cites the Laser pipeline
that
runs
from
Pennsylvania into New
York State; each section is
about 10 miles long and falls
under state review. Anything longer that 10 miles
requires a review by an
administrative law judge,
and larger projects often
require federal review.
Deborah Goldberg, an
attorney with the nonprofit
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Food Pantries Growing Their Own
By Patricia Brhel
Letters, opinion ..........page 6
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Volume 6, No. 29 • May 28-June 3, 2012
While Ruth Williams and the Rev.
Ronald Benson come from different
backgrounds they both agree, as
Williams says, that, “More people
need to know that they can donate
vegetables and fruit that they’ve
grown in their personal gardens or on
local farms to the nearest food pantry
or soup kitchen. Fresh fruits and vegetables are very welcome and make a
big difference in the diets of our
clients and in their health.”
Both Williams and Benson are driving members of their respective food
pantries and the gardens that help
provide clients with fresh food in season. Williams runs the pantry at
Tompkins Community Action on
Spencer Road in Ithaca; Benson is pastor of the Baptized Church of Jesus
Christ of the Apostolic Faith on First
Street in Ithaca and is the head of its
pantry outreach.
Both pantries provide clients with
seeds and plants so that they can
become more food secure through
their own efforts.
With their main source of food, the
Food Bank of the Southern Tier in
Elmira, experiencing a drop in donated fresh vegetables, area food pantries
are doing all they can to attract food
donors as well as grow their own.
Williams comes from a family of
gardeners. Her grandfather was
Nelson Rockefeller’s head gardener.,
and her father taught neurobiology at
Cornell but also developed his own
variety of rhododendron. “I grew up
in the family garden. We were always
growing something, and eating fresh
vegetables” she says.
Benson laughs when asked about
his gardening credentials. “I’m a city
boy!” he exclaims. “I grew up in
Detroit and before Ithaca I lived in
San Francisco. When we started this
garden 20 years ago,” he says while
gesturing to the neat raised beds
planted with collards, tomatoes,
onions and other vegetables, “I didn’t
know what I was doing. Fortunately,
we had a person from Cornell
Cooperative Extension to teach us and
egg us on. We still rely on Cooperative
Extension for seeds, plants and some
fertilizer. We couldn’t do this without
them.”
In addition to providing seeds and
plants for some 100 households,
including an estimated 318 individuals last year, Williams gardens organically on a small plot outside the
Tompkins Community Action offices
“This year we expect to provide
seeds and plants for about 360 people,
many of them newcomers. While the
people who received gardens last year
are still welcome to come, we’re
always hoping to get new people started on the road to healthy living and
gardening organically is a great way
to go,” Williams says.
This year she is concentrating on a
Victory Garden project, distributing
seeds and plants, especially tomato
and pepper plants, so that clients have
everything they need for a self-contained garden; and a wellness garden
project.
“We hand out heirloom seeds and
plants and teach people how to save
seeds. We then encourage them to
share the seeds with other people the
following year.” Williams, too, gets
help from Cornell Cooperative
Extension, but also from volunteers,
including Doug Robinson, who grew
900 tomato and pepper plants, and
Michael Nock of White Harvest Seed
Company who donated seeds.
Williams and Benson are always
looking for volunteers of all ages. “I
like to grow new gardeners,” Williams
says. “Kids really enjoy gardening so
we do workshops just for them, teaching them to transplant tomatoes. This
year we hope to have a children’s section in the garden. “
Benson says, “We have wonderful
help, and I thank the Lord for that.
This garden is a real blessing for the
people that come to our pantry, and
some of them specifically ask for the
collards. We’ve tried pole beans,
though we don’t really have enough
sun for things like that. The property
the church is on is surrounded by tall
trees. This year we’ll be adding kale
and squash to what we grow.”
Benson notes the importance of
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Ithaca Festival Will Stay Downtown
Ithaca Festival organizers have
made a significant change in the
community celebration this year,
reflecting a desire to reduce logistical challenges and cut costs while
preserving the best aspects of the
annual event. In the past the festival was held on the Commons and
downtown streets on Friday and
Saturday, then moved to Stewart
Park on Sunday. This year the event
that has been themed “Finger
Lakes Luau” will remain downtown for the duration, May 31 to
June 3.
“Certainly from the participants’
viewpoint, this is a welcome
change, and we haven’t received
any negative feedback,” Jes Seaver,
executive director of the festival,
says. “Stewart Park is actually
rather difficult for the participants
for several reasons, including
weather concerns or footing,
because some of them find that
their booth is located in a marshy
spot. There are a lot of logistical
issues down there, and the sense
that I’m getting from the vendors
and other participants is that they
are relieved that they don’t have to
pack up and move everything to a
different location.”
Seaver notes that the scheduled
performers should be pleased with
the change of Sunday’s venue,
because Stewart Park’s location on
Cayuga Lake makes them vulnerable to the discomfort of inclement
weather or sudden wind gusts coming off the water. “When it’s cold
out, they’re the ones up on the
stage freezing with the wind blowing in their faces,” she says.
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Photo by Ann Krajewski
By Ann Krajewski
Marie De Mott Grady, left, and Jes Seaver model some of this year’s Ithaca Festival
apparel.
The single location also presents
a significant economic advantage.
“It’s very expensive to do the location switch; Stewart Park doesn’t
have as much infrastructure as
downtown, which perhaps isn’t
obvious to the average festival-goer,
but we have to rent tons of tents
and stages, and that cost adds up
really fast,” says Seaver. In contrast, downtown and the Commons
have the built-in pavilions for
stages, easy access to electrical
power and participants can use
smaller tents that are much simpler to put up, she adds.
Marie De Mott Grady, the festival’s program director, says that as
for the patrons, the majority of people she’s heard from are delighted
with the change. “People have told
me they are happy with not having
to figure out how to get down to the
park, or that they’ve always felt the
entire festival should remain downtown for the duration. Of course
there are those who will miss not
having Sunday at Stewart Park, but
by and large, they are in the minority,” she says.
The festival will kick off with the
traditional parade and the Ithaca
Festival Mile run on Thursday, May
31, at 6 p.m. The parade runs down
Cayuga Street from Lewis Street to
DeWitt Park, where concession
booths will sell refreshments, and
an after-party is planned for those
21 years and older, featuring performances by The Double E and
Not from Wisconsin at 9 p.m. at Lot
10. Admission is free with a festival
button or $5 at the door.
Speaking of performers, in keeping with the luau theme, festival
organizers have enlisted the talents
of Julianne Wrolstad and the
Official 2012 Ithaca Festival Finger
Lakes Luau Hula Dance Team.
Wrolstad is the owner of Hula Hut
Polynesian Dance in Ithaca, and
her dancers will perform throughout the festival in addition to holding a hula dance workshop at noon
on Sunday in the Jam Tent at
DeWitt Park.
Seaver said other acts not to be
missed include The Bernie Milton
Tribute Band on the Commons, and
on Friday, June 1, The Sim
Redmond Band will perform at the
Finger Lakes Luau and pig roast by
The Piggery at the Farmers’
Market at 8 p.m. They will be joined
by Larry Real and his Hawaiian
slide guitar, plus the Hula Dance
Team and fire dancing by Lyca on
Fire.
Other highlights this year
include the Family Fun Zone in
DeWitt Park, pony rides on State
Street, the Wine Garden in Tree
Grove on the Commons and the
new Beer Garden Sound Stage in
the Ithaca Journal parking lot
which will serve a large selection of
regional wines and beer.
On Sunday, the Gorges Green
Expo, now in its seventh year at the
festival, will take a prominent position at the heart of the Commons.
The expo promotes sustainable
businesses and initiatives and
focuses on increasing community
involvement in local “green” initiatives.
Along with more than 150 sing-.
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By Sue Henninger
The “Aquatards,” Charles O.
Dickerson High School’s Envirothon team, is heading to the state
Envirothon Competition at Hobart
and William Smith College in
Geneva on May 23 and 24. The
Trumansburg team’s journey
began four years ago when Sue
Stein, science teacher and co-advisor to the high school Naturalist
Club, suggested that the students
enter the annual contest, sponsored
locally by the Tompkins County
Soil and Water Conservation
District (TCSWCD).
Envirothon is an environmental
competition for teens designed to
test their knowledge in five areas:
wildlife, aquatic ecology, soils and
land use, forestry, and a different
current-events issue each year. The
Trumansburg
team
includes
Corina Miner, Julia Zuckerman,
Josie Kinzie, Russ Limber and
Marina Howarth.
The three levels of the annual
competition are county, state and
canon (national), and they follow a
similar process each year. Every
fall TCSWCD’s education coordinator, Seth Dennis, reconnects with
past teams and their advisers. He
also reaches out to schools that
haven’t tried Envirothon. His office
has many study resources and
materials for interested teams to
take advantage of, and what they
can’t find there, they can usually
locate on the state Envirothon website.
The last Thursday in April,
teams from around the region met
at the Tioga County Sportsman’s
Association to compete, rotating
through the stations, most of which
consist of hands-on activities related to a specific topic. Once the
teams have been scored, awards are
presented and the winner advances
to the state competition.
“It’s a unique experience; there’s
nothing else out there like it,”
Dennis says. “We have sports,
music, the arts, but nothing that
lets us look at the environment. …
Envirothon takes hobbies, interests, learning and fun and compacts them all into one event.” This
year, not only did Trumansburg
win for Tompkins County, but the
team also beat 38 other teams in the
region, which includes Broome,
Chemung, Schuyler, Tioga and
Tompkins counties.
Dennis notes that the Aquatards
were the only team to submit an
optional oral presentation video on
the topic “Nonpoint Source
Pollution/Low Impact Development,” a move that won them a $100
prize for the team. Carissa Mann
Parlato, youth program manager
for Cooperative Extension of
Tompkins County, who co-leads the
group with Stein, likes the format
for the presentation.
“They give you a problem which
you have to address like you’re the
member of a planning board or a
committee,” she explains. “Then
you have to rationalize why you’re
approving or disproving the project.” To prepare for the presentation, the group met twice with
Darby Kiley, Town of Ulysses environmental planner, to gain a better
understanding of
the issues
involved.
Parlato attributes the Aquatards’
win to the cumulative effect of
Photo by Sue Henninger
T-burg Team Advances in Envirothon
The Trumansburg Aquatards and their advisers prepare to board the van for the New York
State Envirothon competition. From left are Sue Stein, Corina Miner, Marina Howarth,
Josie Kinzie, Julia Zuckerman, Russ Limber and Carissa Mann Parlato.
gaining new knowledge and the
repetition of studying similar topics for several years. Their field
trips and guest speakers also add
an interest level to the topics that
students might not get from reading books. Parlato and Stein feel
they complement each other as
leaders because Stein is knowledgeable about science and has an animal skull collection, while Parlato’s
skills are more on the organizational and logistical levels, making
them a winning combination.
The teens develop their own
study guides, which consist of a
binder of materials and Powerpoint presentations that are related
to the five test areas.
Senior team member Corina
Miner says she makes time for the
group because it’s fun, and she
likes learning new things. She’s
competed in the Envirothon for
four years, including the year
Trumansburg went as an alternate
to the state level after the Lansing
team declined to attend.
“That was hard,” Miner admits.
“We found out that we were going at
the last minute, and we had no idea
what we were doing, which really
hurt us on the oral presentation
section. She believes the competition will go more smoothly this
time because the team works well
together. “There’s never too much
pressure, and we don’t push each
other,” she explains. “We all learn
everything and hope to remember
something between the five of us
that will help us answer all the
questions.”
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Local Activists Support NATO Protests
Chicago Police Superintendent
Garry McCarthy spoke passionately at a press conference the evening
of May 20, following a tense day of
protests and police suppression of
said protests at the NATO gathering in the city. He got choked up
while expressing his thoughts on
the day’s events, saying, “Asking
people to put themselves in harm’s
way—knowing that they’re going to
get assaulted and be able to stand
there and take it—these guys were
amazing.”
While McCarthy was presumably
speaking about his officers on the
scene, it was the protesters who
were bloodied by billy clubs.
According to an Associated Press
report, one officer did sustain a
stab wound to the leg, but the
report was silent on the officer’s
condition or other pertinent details
(the Chicago Police Department
has been contacted for clarification, but a response was not made
by presstime).
NATO—the North Atlantic military organization largely responsible for this past year’s bombing and
overthrow of the Libyan government—held a summit May 20-21 in
Chicago, hosted by President
Obama. Chicago Police report
about 90 arrests of protesters and
claim that eight officers sustained
injuries over the course of the summit.
In the weeks leading up to
NATO’s scheduled events, local
police forces, federal security
forces and protesters all prepared
Photo by Mark Cassello
By Theodore Scheriff
Protesters at the NATO summit were under the watchful eyes of Chicago police officers.
for their own purposes. Protesters
brought signs. Police brought riot
gear. The U.S. Coast Guard secured
the shoreline and a no-fly zone was
enforced. Protesters learned days
earlier that they would sent further
away from the site of the meetings
than they had previously been
aware of.
Activist and Tompkins County
resident Ellen Grady went to
Chicago before the NATO Summit
to take part in a march with Voices
for Creative Nonviolence (www.
VCNV.org). “Voices for Creative
Non-Violence has been speaking
out against the war from the get-go
and we wanted to bring that voice
to the country and the world,” she
says.
Survey Seeks Input on Broadband Access
As it seeks to determine how high-speed Internet access can be achieved
for all county residents, the T ompkins County Legislature’s Special
Committee on Broadband over the next few weeks is surveying residents
and businesses concerning the need for expanded broadband service.
The telephone survey, administered by the Cornell Survey Research
Institute (SRI), seeks feedback from residents and local businesses, particularly those in rural areas of the County, regarding how high-speed
Internet could improve their quality of life—socially, professionally, and
economically. The information provided will be used to develop a business plan to expand county broadband service.
The survey began last week and will run for about three weeks.
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During that march, in what she
called a “wealthy suburb just north
of Chicago,” Grady reports an
encounter with a local police officer. According to her, the local officer told her, “I hope things go well
for you this weekend in Chicago. I
think it’s crazy when police get out
of control with protesters.” She
said that she appreciated the officer’s candor.
John Hamilton, local activist and
Ithacan, shares his support for the
protesters in Chicago, saying, “The
very first and most important thing
to keep in mind is that NATO has
no legal authority to intervene in
any nation in the world.”
According to his understanding of
international law, Hamilton says,
“Only the UN Security Council can
authorize use of force—so every
time NATO uses force or initiates
aggression against another nation
[without UN authorization], they
are committing war crimes.”
On the topic of recent police and
federal agency preparations and
responses to protests such as the
recent events in Chicago—specifically what have become known as
“free speech zones” and the use of
physical force to contain crowds
and limit their movements—
Hamilton says, “It’s an ongoing pre-
emptive dismissal or complete violation of our Constituional rights.
As long as nations or governments
are allowed to get away with lawlessness on an international level,
it is much easier for them to act outside of the law on a domestic level.”
Tompkins County Workers’
Center representative Pete Meyers
says, “I’ve been a part of protests
for over 30 years and my brother
was just a part of this one [in
Chicago].” David Meyers, Pete’s
brother, had what Pete called a
“major role” in organizing the
“Barefoot Summit,” a free concert
in Chicago in support of the NATO
protests. Tom Morello, musician
abd activist (of Rage Against the
Machine and The Nightwatchman),
was among the musical contributors.
Pete Meyers says of the recent
events in Chicago that he’s largely
concerned with the manner in
which the protests are portrayed in
mainstream media. “The powers
that be and how they use the media
to frame their message have effectively closed off protests in the
streets. The way the protest will be
portrayed to the public is that,
while the protesters could be ‘fighting for our freedom’ it’s portrayed
that the protesters are ‘dangerous.’
The larger population doesn’t know
people at the protests. So, the
images they’re getting fed by the
media effectively marginalize the
protesters and what the protests
are about,” he says.
Veterans for Peace (Veteransfor
Peace.org) among the groups that
staged an event in opposition to
NATO during the summit. Many
former soldiers and military personnel who were involved in the
veterans’ event, held uup their
medals and explained why they
were “giving them back.” One participant said, “I’m letting go and
releasing this medal because love is
the most powerful force that we can
employ—as human beings on this
planet—and we cannot love [while]
holding weapons!” That former soldier then threw his medal in the
direction of McCormick Place, the
site of the Chicago NATO Summit.
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By Anne Marie Cummings
The idea for the Ithaca City School
District (ICSD) to air a weekly TV
show on cable access channel 16
came to Superintendent Luvelle
Brown one evening, a few months
ago, in the middle of the night. “I
was watching news feed on channel
16, and I thought: Why not air
episodes organized by young people?” he says. “That’s when I contacted Time Warner Cable and
asked them if we could start ICSD
TV.”
Brown believes that there are two
primary benefits of regular programming from the ICSD: First, to
ensure that taxpayers, and other
concerned citizens, can find regular content and information about
their city school district on television. “And, it’s meant for young
people to have a platform to produce and share their work,” Brown
says.
ICSD TV program can be viewed
online as well, and each episode
looks almost as professional as network television. Episodes begin
with a 10-second introduction with
music underneath the voice of Los
Angeles–based voice-over guru Joe
Kelly. The weekly programs aired
on Channel 16 are available at
www.icsd.k12.ny.us and at the ICSD
YouTube page.
Lauren Stefanelli is the access
coordinator at PEGASYS, which is
operated by Time Warner Cable.
Stefanelli says that members of the
PEGASYS oversight committee
have stated they regret that the education access channel, channel 16,
has been underutilized by local
educational institutions, other than
Ithaca College.
“The committee is very excited
by Brown’s vision,” says Stefanelli.
“Brown invited me to brainstorm
program ideas with him and how
the ICSD can take advantage of an
educational access channel—a free
resource to the ICSD.” Stefanelli
says that the superintendent’s
interest in creating programming
for cable-access television is very
exciting because “his vision encompasses the whole district, and he
can make ICSD TV a priority.”
And, adds Stefanelli, “He can tie
together human and equipment
resources that wouldn’t be connected without his support.” She notes
that district consultant Joe
Scaglione will develop content, so
ICSD won’t be dependent solely on
teachers.
Joe Scaglione is the president of
3D Cinemation & Multimedia
Company, which was hired to film,
edit, create animation and produce
the ICSD TV episodes. He says that
current scheduling for 30-minute
episodes is before and after ICSD
board meeting broadcast reruns
every Friday and Saturday; 11:30
a.m. and 8 p.m. on Fridays and 8
a.m. on Saturday.
Fe Nunn, coordinator for the district-wide co-curricular enrichment initiative, views ICSD TV as
an opportunity to bring student,
staff and community together.
“While teaching at Boynton
Middle School, I ran an internal
news television program for six
years called the Boynton Student
News Network,” Nunn says. “We
had always wanted to expand the
network: however, we needed our
equipment updated. Months ago we
received help from Ithaca College
and PEGASYS.”
Scaglione is also pitching in by
providing some of his own equipment so that ICSD TV student
newscasts can be filmed in the
Boynton studio. “I’ll also be coordinating with Shane Taylor, a digitalliteracy teacher at Boynton who
now runs the Boynton TV studio,”
says Scaglione.
Taylor and Scaglione are currently collaborating with 15 seventh- and eighth-grade students for
the newscasts. “They are excited
and eager about this project,”
Taylor says. “Right now, Joe and I
are collaborating with them, but
the goal is for them to completely
write and edit their own material
as we guide them along the way.”
Scaglione has been working with
the district since 2006. “We started
out by introducing video and electronic media to the ICSD,” he said,
adding that his company document-
Photo by Anne Marie Cummings
ICSD TV Launches on Cable Access
Joe Scaglione, on camera, and professor Shane Taylor with three students who attend
the ICSD TV studio class: Steven D’Alterio, Olivia Harris and Sydney Trumble.
ed and produced media for the
pubic relevant to the facilities bond
of 2007.
From spring of 2007 to the present, Scaglione’s segments have
been shown primarily on the ICSD
website showcasing classroom programs, district events, budgetary
administration, staff training and
public information videos. He has
spent 25 to 30 hours a week filming
hundreds of ICSD videos since
2006.
“Today, just about every student
can buy a high-definition camcorder and shoot video. They can
even shoot videos with their iPads
or their cell phones,” Scaglione
says. “This makes it easier for them
to get involved in ICSD programming, because it’s hands-on technology and they go to town with it.”
Scaglione said that he and others
involved in the creation of the ICSD
TV are discussing how to create a
student news network in the fall in
which youth actively collaborate in
the classroom, venture into the
community and then produce and
edit their own newscasts.
“In a perfect world, every school
in the ICSD would have the capability of covering community and
school news for ICSD TV,” says
Scaglione. “It’s not impossible to do
this.”
Family Reading Partnership Celebrates
The Family Reading Partnership invites families and children and everyone in the community to the Bright Red Birthday Bash, celebrating 15
years of the Family Reading Partnership, on Saturday, June 9, from 10 to
11:30 a.m. at Ithaca High School’s Performing Arts Center in Kulp
Auditorium.
The celebration, emceed by Amy Dickinson of “Ask Amy,” will feature
live performances of Family Reading Partnership favorites, Read-Along
Songs with John Simon and Cal Walker, and Love Those Letters! with the
ABC Performers.
For more information contact Liz Kinast at 277-8602 or liz@familyreading.org, or visit www.familyreading.org.
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industry in Tompkins County - Dairy farming!
Looking for family fun? You’ll find it here!
Rotary 5K Dairy Dash - 8:00 a.m., Dryden Lake.
Parade down Main Street starting at 9:30
Activities in Montgomery Park from 10:00 - 3 p.m.
Theme: "Dairy Around The World”
Back by popular demand: Cows in Dryden’s Time Square
Visit drydendairyday.org for more information
Local entertainment in Montgomery Park (behind Dryden Hotel);
food, games, live animals, crafters, ice cream eating contest.
"A hand-dipped ice cream cone is just a quarter"
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Tompkins Weekly
May 28
5
Dangerous Perversions of Our Rites
By M. Tye Wolfe
The extent to which three would-be
“brothers” of George Desdunes are
responsible for his death via alcohol poisoning on a February 2011
morning at Cornell University is
now a question for the court. One
young life is gone—three more are
potentially devastated but almost
certainly to be haunted.
One bit of evidence is particularly shocking. Desdunes’ blood alcohol content, when measured, was
.35 percent. This means that he
could have had the equivalent of 17
drinks or more. If all three brothers had evenly shared those drinks
with him, he would be alive, but
none of the four would have been
able to legally drive.
Desdunes was participating in a
ritual that supposedly had been
undergone by many pledges before
they earned the glory of entering a
fraternity. It is true that rituals at
fraternities—whether they be
Lambda Lambda Lambda, Skull
and Bones or even Freemasons—
can get out of hand. But in college
frat-land (sororities rarely come
under fire), there does seem to be
an unwavering trend toward the
sadistic use of alcohol and even
water, resulting in dozens of freshmen deaths and hospitalizations in
the past decade. Even among the
elite of America, responsible consumption of alcohol does not seem
to be in our DNA, which is why we
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have wrestled with it (as with the
disastrous Volstead Act in the
1920s) far more than, say,
Europeans.
In France, at least, alcohol—particularly wine—is well integrated
into the culture. As 16-year-old junior brats on a sojourn to France, my
classmates and I could buy what we
affectionately called McBeer from
the local McDonald’s. But that was
with the intention of using it in our
private, irresponsible way. Adolescents I met in France were apt to
take or leave (usually take) a glass
of wine with dinner, which they
enjoyed with their family, who
encouraged them to drink responsibly. I rarely saw the use of hard
liquor, and I have spent more than
year there.
When I was a 23-year-old language assistant, I was invited to
one student’s 17th birthday party. A
secluded building was rented—
from the town. The parents arrived
with the beer and wine, and then
left. During the night, the only substance I saw abused was tobacco—
cigarettes.
While I think a jury is well suited to determining a just resolution
to this local tragedy, I am loath to
engage in a pile-on against the boys
involved or even the fraternity system, as loathsome and despicable
Fair Appraisal of
Candidates in Needed
How many readers are aware that
there is a Democratic primary for
our 23rd Congressional district on
June 26? This is the open seat created by Maurice Hinchey’s retirement
from
the
House
of
Representatives. The district runs
from Tompkins County all the way
over to Jamestown.
There are three candidates running for this position: Leslie Danks
Burke, Nathan Shinagawa and
Melissa Dobson.
And while there has been one
forum sponsored by Tompkins
County Democratic Committee,
there has been little additional
information regarding the candidates’ records and positions on the
issues.
There is a online video record of
as it often is.
As I have written before,
America, with a few exceptions
among certain ethnic groups,
seems to fail at granting its young
people valid rites of passage—doorways that tell them they have left
one stage of life and entered another. Not everyone graduates from
high school. Fewer still graduate
from college. How do we, for example, help young boys understand
that they have reached the age of
putting away childish things, or
putting away adult things, such as
alcohol, that they intend to use in a
childish manner? How does one
welcome them into the world of
adulthood, while at the same time
ritualistically conveying on them
the responsibilities of being an
adult?
One rite of passage that used to
be more common in North America
still exists, reportedly, among the
Inuit people. It was reserved for
children, usually boys, who started
to show scary mental-health symptoms, often similar to schizophrenia, at an early age. The family
would despair until visited by the
shaman, who served as a healer and
guide to a multitude of Arctic
tribes in the area. He would observe
the boy and determine he had what
was called “the shamanic sick-
Letters
this forum available at http://wordpress.cmprovideo.net/tcdc/2012/05
/01/ny-23rd-congressional-districtcandidates-forum-tcpl/ and I would
strongly urge people to start with
this if they are looking for more
information. I have checked the
local newspapers’ archives and
have found almost no coverage of
this important election and hope
that they are going to provide candidate profiles soon, especially
since some Democratic committees
are choosing to endorse prior to the
primary.
The Tompkins County Democratic Committee appears to be
rushing to endorse a candidate
before the primary. Wouldn’t it be
more democratic to ensure that we
all know more about the candidates
and what their positions on the
issues are?
Sarah Adams
Trumansburg
A Vote for Danks Burke
As the democratic primary for our
U.S. House seat approaches, I hope
that my friends and neighbors in
Tompkins County to look carefully
at which candidate will be able to
beat Tom Reed and represent our
values in Washington.
For me, that candidate is Leslie
Danks Burke. I’ve talked to Leslie
about her priorities and how she’ll
meet her goals. She has told me
that she’ll fight for legislation to
ness.” His solution? March the boy
several days through the snowy
wilderness, where the shaman
would help him build an igloo.
There he would leave the boy with
little food.
The shaman would visit him days
later, checking for fever and supplying a bit more food. He would
instruct the boy that he was to stay
until he saw the White Goddess. She
would give spiritual context to the
disturbing voices that haunted him
and put him on the road to being a
shaman himself. By the third time
the shaman appeared, the boy would
be healed, ready to be an apprentice.
The consequence of not having
such a rite of passage specific to (as
exemplified above) a “mentally ill”
child is that we have warehoused
and overmedicated such people in
America. How likely are they ever to
be healers of their communities?
Fraternities, in an attempt to
establish bonds among the brothers
with the reckless use of alcohol,
prove themselves to be the worst
candidates for administering what
might be a sacred initiation to help a
young person feel like he belongs.
Because American societies often
fail to make sure such a responsibility goes into the right hands, fraternities take up the slack by default.
The consequences are evident to the
family of young George Desdunes.
M. Tye Wolfe is a columnist for
Tompkins Weekly.
fund sorely needed infrastructure
upgrades to keep our roads and
bridges safe and provide jobs in our
community. She’s also dedicated to
creating partnerships between government, universities, and industry to create more opportunities in
the high-tech, green energy and
manufacturing sectors.
Like me, she is concerned that
everyone pay their fair share and
will work to close tax loopholes that
advantage the ultra-rich. She’s a
mom who worries about our
schools and how our kids will pay
for college—I know she will work
hard to secure federal funding to
support our schools and ensure
that interest rates on federal college loans remain low. On June 26, I
hope you will join me in voting for
Leslie Danks Burke.
Elizabeth K. Peck
Ithaca
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Question: What’s the best thing about the
Ithaca Festival?
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“The parade. It’s a way to be
part of the community, makes
me feel like I belong to Ithaca.
It’s an initiation.”
- Bridgett Perry, Ithaca
“Play Ball,” starring Olive Thomas and filmed in 1916 by the Whartons in Ithaca and in
New York City at the Polo Grounds during a baseball game between the Yankees and the
New York Giants, will be shown at the Ithaca Silent Film Event on June 1.
Ithaca Silent Movies
on the Silver Screen
Two rare episodes of the 1916
Ithaca-made serial film “Beatrice
Fairfax” will have a free screening
on Friday, June 1, at the sixth annual Ithaca Silent Film Event at 8:30
p.m. at the historic State Theatre in
downtown Ithaca, during the Ithaca
Festival weekend.
Also screening at the event will
be rare animated short cartoons
from the period. Live music will be
provided by world-renowned silent
film accompanist Philip Carli on
the State Theatre’s 1907 Steinway
grand piano.
The “Beatrice Fairfax” serial was
one of many popular silent films
produced and directed by brothers
Theodore and Leopold Wharton,
who established an important early
movie studio in Ithaca during the
heyday of the silent film era.
The 15-episode serial was made
in Ithaca by the Whartons for the
International Film Service, a movie
company owned by publishing magnate William Randolph Hearst. The
movies’ stories were based on the
popular Beatrice Fairfax advice-tothe-lovelorn column then running
in Hearst newspapers.
The Whartons gained worldwide
fame producing silent films in
Ithaca that featured movie stars
like Pearl White, Irene Castle,
Lionel Barrymore, and Warner
Oland (before he became famous
playing Charlie Chan).
In addition to the Whartons,
Ithaca also played host to other
silent film companies. Among the
other silent movie stars who
worked in Ithaca were Theda Bara,
Norma Talmadge, Francis X.
Bushman, and Oliver Hardy (before
he teamed up with Stan Laurel).
“The Wharton brothers were
remarkable filmmakers in their
time,” said Aaron Pichel, the Ithaca
Silent Film Event organizer. “We
want to give everyone a chance to
see some of their early films in an
authentic setting and with live
musical accompaniment.”
The evening event at the State
Theatre is free and open to the public.
A free reception will be held after
the screening for attendees to meet
and talk with visiting musician
Carli and learn more about Ithaca’s
silent movie history. The afterparty will take place at the Autumn
Leaves Bookstore at 115 the
Commons, just down the street
from the State Theatre. Attendees
are welcome to come savor free food
and drinks.
This year marks the 100th
anniversary
of
Theodore
Wharton’s arrival in Ithaca in 1912
to film the short “Football Days at
Cornell.” In the past year, vintage
silent cinema has garnered
renewed interest since the release
of the Oscar-winning Best Picture
“The Artist” and Martin Scorsese’s
“Hugo,” movies that lovingly cover
the silent film era.
“The parade.”
- Maija Cantori, Ithaca
“Something that’s not happening this year: Stewart
Park. Being on the grass
makes a huge difference.”
- David Gallahan, Ithaca
“Spending time with my
family, seeing other local
families. I also like the local
vendors, and keeping the
money local.”
- Jack Brown, Lansing
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Tompkins Weekly
May 28
7
Ithaca Hours Marks 20th Anniversary
By Leslie Strebel
This is the latest installment in our
Signs of Sustainability series,
organized
by
Sustainable
Tompkins. Visit them online at
www.sustainabletompkins.org.
One of the world’s most wellknown alternative currency systems is marking its 20th anniversary this year, and you’re invited
to the party! The celebration will
be held on Wednesday, June 6, at
5:30 p.m. at The Space @
GreenStar. It will feature presentations about upcoming innovations
and a potluck dinner. Under the
leadership of
Ithaca Hours
President Paul Strebel and several
new board members, the system
has been expanded and modernized.
At a time when economic uncertainty is high, alternative currency systems make communities
more resilient, provide needed
goods and services to local residents and bring citizens closer
together as they look for new ways
to help one another.
The future of Ithaca Hours
includes an electronic/mobile
trading platform and a timebank.
Timebanking enables participants
to exchange goods and services,
with each person’s hour being valued equally. While traditional
barter systems require trades
back and forth, timebanking systems give much greater flexibility.
For example, Joe might walk
Suzy’s dog, Suzy might take Mary
shopping, Mary might babysit
Sasha’s children and Sasha might
weed Joe’s garden. No money
changes hands, and Internetbased software tracks people’s
credits, debits, needs and offers.
Ithaca Hours is supported in this
way by the hOurworld timebanking system, recently featured on
the PBS “Fixing the Future”
series.
The electronic trading (LETS)
system offers a platform for tracking exchanges of Ithaca Hours
currency remotely, bringing the
system into the modern world of
money management. Using local
currencies keeps money circulating in the community, as Hours
can only be spent at locally owned
and
controlled
businesses.
Keeping money circulating within
the community for as long as possible is one of the building blocks
of a resilient local economy.
Use of the Ithaca Hours system
is experiencing a resurgence, and
the list of businesses accepting
Hours is growing. Strebel expects
that the expansion of the system
into the electronic world will
make it easier to transact business
“It’s Grillin’ Time! And when you want a
great cut of meat to savor at your next
Bar-B-Que, remember, an eight ounce
steak cut lean with less fat makes more
tasty portions. So don’t just buy the
cheapest cut. People come from all over
the region to shop our meat department
because of the quality of our cuts. So
stop in today for tasty cuts of meat and
find savings storewide where you’re
always shur to save!” ~ Brad Schoffner
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and increase usage of the system
even further. “People have been
accumulating Hours through the
years, and they are starting to circulate again in a big way,” says
Strebel, “indicating the health of
these systems in general and this
one in particular.”
To support these innovations, a
crowd fundraising drive is being
developed on Indiegogo, and it will
launch at the June 7 event. Those
who exchange some of their cash
for Hours will have their pledges
matched with a 25 percent donation (in Hours, of course) to one of
the following local organizations:
Dream Catalyst, Loaves and
Fishes, Sustainable Tompkins or
Durland Memorial Alternatives
Library. The minimum exchange
for an individual is $10, and businesses are requested to exchange a
minimum of $100, with inclusion
in the online directory.
The birthday festivities begin at
5:30 p.m. with a brief look back at
the history of Ithaca Hours and a
short presentation of the LETS
system by Greg Kops of Think
Topography. At 6:30 p.m. there is a
dish-to-pass potluck dinner and at
7:00 p.m. the timebanking portion
of the event begins. All of the
evening’s activities are free and
open to the public.
The Ithaca Hours 20th Anniversary Celebration is part of Local
First Ithaca’s Community Capital
Week. Other events include the
Alternatives Federal Credit Union
annual meeting on Tuesday, June
5, featuring keynote speaker
Michael Shuman (free and open to
the public); a workshop for community
stakeholders
with
Shuman ($75) on Wednesday, June
6; and The SEEN presents Co-ops,
Power to the People on Thursday,
June 7, at 5:30 p.m. at LaTourelle
($5/members
and
students,
$10/nonmembers, Ithaca Hours
accepted).
Call Ithaca Hours Ambassador
Danielle Klock at 379-1527 or email
danielle@thinktopography.com
for more information about the
event or Ithaca Hours.
Leslie Strebel is a financial planner who serves on the boards of
Alternatives Federal Credit Union
and Local First Ithaca in addition
to her role as managing partner at
The Strebel Planning Group.
Groton Alumni Association to Meet
The Groton Alumni Association will meet on Tuesday, June 5, at 7 p.m.
at the Community Room of Center Village Court, 200 W. South St.,
Groton.
Plans are progressing for the Aug. 4 reunion event and the group welcomes all interested Groton alumni to help with this annual gathering.
For more information contact Lee Shurtleff at 279-0732, or Rose Tucker
at 280-3322, or email roseingroton@yahoo.com.
By Nicholas Nicastro
H H T h e D i c t at o r. W r i t t e n by
S a ch a B a r o n C o h e n , A l e c B e r g ,
D av i d M a n d e l a n d Je f f S ch a f f e r.
D i r e c t e d b y L a r r y C h a rl e s . A t
Re g a l C ine mas.
If you dare, feel sorry for poor
Sacha Noam Baron Cohen. Not too
long ago, he had a whole satiric
niche to himself, in which he would
present himself to ordinary folks
and celebrities in the guise of one
of his outrageous “alter egos” (Ali
G, Borat, Brüno). His characters
were invariably racist, sexist, antiSemitic pigs, and the unscripted
reactions he drew from the haters
said volumes about them. Living
somewhere in the twilight zone
between reality TV and political
comedy, Cohen’s stuff was edgy and
funny as hell—especially in the
small, punchy doses he served up
on British TV in Da Ali G Show.
Unfortunately, then success happened. Nearly everybody got hip to
Cohen’s shtick after his surprise
hit
feature
Borat:
Cultural
Learnings of America for Make
Benefit
Glorious
Nation
of
Kazakhstan, and most of the rest
after his less-successful follow-up,
Brüno. Getting even half-drunk frat
boys to expose their foolishness on
camera is impossible now, let alone
baiting public figures like Pat
Buchanan or Ron Paul (whom
Cohen got alone in a hotel room for
Brüno). Since then he’s done small
supporting roles—as in playing a
character in a scripted story—in
such films as Talladega Nights,
Sweeney Todd and Hugo. But Cohen
as an ordinary comedic actor isn’t
half as fun as that other guy, the
provocateur who once satirized
Islamo-misogyny by boasting he
got his Kazakh wife by trading her
for a can of gas.
Cohen’s The Dictator is his first
feature since becoming too recognizable to be good. Rumored to be a
very loose adaptation of a novel by
Saddam Hussein, it features Cohen
as “General Admiral Aladeen,” the
strongman of the fictional North
African nation of Wadiya. The
fright-bearded Aladeen is a caricature, but only just: an amusing
scene where he swears his rogue
nation only wants “peaceful
nuclear power”, but can’t keep a
straight face while saying it, seems
not so far-fetched given the taste for
drama of rulers like Ahmadinejad,
Gaddafi and Chavez. Yet there’s an
air of discomfort in Cohen’s wholly
scripted comedy. When we watch
Aladeen in his palace playing what
appears to be an anti-Zionist shooter game (including a Wii-enabled
beheading sword and a late-night
visit to the Israeli Olympic team),
the joke comes off as more funny in
principle than in fact.
The rest of the story, wherein the
shaved and unrecognized Aladeen
is cut adrift in New York City by his
duplicitous general (Ben Kingsley),
is hit or miss. Forced to engage in
normal human interactions for the
first time, the dictator ends up
befriending the fervently sustainable manager of a Brooklyn food
co-op (Anna Faris). Despite his
taste for kicking small kids and
slapping impertinent customers,
Aladeen soon proves he can make
the trains run on time, putting the
co-op’s Jew in charge of the cash
register and the “sub-Saharan” on
stock-boy duty.
The Dictator is rude, but it’s still
conventional to a fault. Like Borat
and Bruno in their trips through
America, the haplessly hateful dictator is supposed to be an x-ray
through the chest of American culture, revealing what is busy metastasizing in there. Trouble is, the
ignorance being satirized here is
just pretend, while real hate, with
all its gleaming, wild-eyed fascination, is all too easy to find. (As of
this writing a YouTube video has
gone viral of a North Carolina
Baptist preacher, calling from the
pulpit for gays and lesbians to be
put in concentration camps until
they “die out.”) Compared to the
shock value of the real thing,
Cohen and his three co-screenwriters simply can’t compete.
Given the premise, it’s hard to
believe Cohen and director Larry
Charles didn[‘t have in mind
Charlie Chaplin’s classic The Great
Dictator (1940). Chaplin, as he tried
to deflate fascism through satire,
never stopped being a Victorian
sentimentalist. Channeling his
basic optimism in human nature
through dictator Adenoid Hynkel’s
final speech, he presented a stemwinding oration on the virtue of
peace and the basic dignity of all
peoples—in short, exactly the kind
of thing the real Adolf Hitler
would never say.
Cohen and Charles punctuate
The Dictator with a speech, too, but
they make a different choice.
Instead of affirmation they opt for
sarcasm, suggesting that America
must stand for freedom because she
“never, ever” tolerates starting
wars based on lies, unlawful detentions, or rigged elections. In short,
he suggests there’s some moral
equivalency between the U.S. and,
say, the Islamic Republic of Iran.
It’s the kind of wise-ass cynicism
we see everywhere these days, from
people who prefer to sound smart
rather than make a constructive
difference.
Indeed, there’s more than a hint
of romantic authoritarianism in
The Dictator, as when Aladeen
proves he can run the store better
than the do-gooder lefties that
loathe him. Laughing at dictators
can be subversive, but it can also be
the first step toward identifying
with them. Given the choice
between corrupt, inept democracy
and honest-to-goodness tyranny,
The Dictator prefer to keep its
options open.
Nicholas Nicastro's new travel
blog, Meridians and Meditations, is
now live. Find it at www.meridiansandmeditations.blogspot.com.
Photo provided
The Dictatorship of the Snarkitariat
Admiral-General Aladeen and entourage in
The Dictator.
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Tompkins Weekly
May 28
9
eTompkins Rotary Club Seeks Charter
By Nick Babel
The newly formed eTompkins
Rotary Club has been working on
several fundraising efforts in
recent months, including holding a
chicken barbeque on May 12 and
raising $1,000 which will pay for
school supplies for the Arise and
Shine Nursery School in Jinja,
Uganda, Africa.
eTompkins Rotary is working on
helping children in Africa to get the
proper supplies they need for their
education. “Our barbecue, pampered-chef fundraiser and pancake
breakfast are all for this effort. We
raised over $1,000 on the barbecue,
$300
on
the
pampered-chef
fundraiser. We are trying to raise
$4,500 toward this effort,” club secretary Courtney Osborne says.
The next event planned to help
raise money for this international
project is a flapjack breakfast on
Sunday, June 24, at the Applebee’s
restaurant on Triphammer Road.
Although some of the biggest
fundraisers so far have been for
their international effort, the
group has still found the time to
keep an active hand in helping local
communities. “Locally, we painted
the outside of the East Shore Skate
Park in Lansing in an attempt to
make it more appealing for children who wish to attend. We recently sent members to help build a
playground at the Franziska
Racker Center in Trumansburg,
have plans to help with a healing
garden at Ithaca's downtown
Cancer Resource Center, and will
be participating in Relay for Life,”
Osborne says.
The group was founded by
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Tompkins County Undersheriff
Derek Osborne, who was asked by
Rotary to participate in its Group
Study Exchange (GSE) Program in
the spring of 2011. The program is
responsible for sending a group of
professionals to a foreign Rotary
district in order to study their
respective careers, culture and traditions. As a result, Derek, along
with four other team members
from various professions, visited
Taiwan.
As the undersheriff, Derek
toured various police agencies
throughout Taiwan, learning about
their style of law enforcement, and
exchanged ideas and methods. He
also stayed with many different
host families, where he interacted
with the day-to-day life of the
Taiwanese. When he returned
home, he was asked by many area
Rotary clubs to join as a member.
Because of his career and family
obligations, he could not commit to
the traditional weekly meetings.
Derek and his wife Courtney
wanted to join together, but they
found it difficult to attend meetings
at the same time. Most clubs have
weekly breakfast, lunch or dinner
meetings. Then Derek learned
about
Rotary’s
new
New
Generations club-style organization. Rotary created this in an
attempt to bring in younger professional people who find it difficult to
attend regular meetings. As a
result, he and five other individuals
formed the eTompkins Rotary
Club.
Following the new model, this
club meets only once per month
(the third Thursday at 6:30 p.m. at
Buffalo Wild Wings). Meetings are
nontraditional and are held in an
informal setting. “The club wants
their time together to be focused on
things more important-that being
local and international service
projects. What can’t be handled
during the monthly meeting is
done via our website and blog
(etompkinsrotary.org) We currently have 11 members, with three
more expected to join soon,”
Courtney Osborne says.
Rotary seeks peace through
international understanding, one
example being the GSE program.
Rotary is also responsible for helping eradicate polio and other such
health-related efforts. More can be
learned at Rotary.org.
The club has many fundraising
goals for this year, but that is not all
they have in mind. “Our numberone goal is to become chartered by
Rotary International, our parent
organization. To become chartered,
we need 25 members. We are seeking new members now and are anxious to celebrate our charterhood,”
Courtney says.
Those interested in joining the
eTompkins Rotary Club may contact Courtney Osborne at vprecord@etompkinsrotary.org or go to
www.etompkinsrotary.org.
The
eTompkins Rotary Club is grateful
to its club members and two Groton
Rotary Club members who assisted
with the barbeque. Also involved
were the experts on doing chicken
barbecues: Dave Buck, Dave
Hatfield and Tom MacKenzie.
“Anyone seeking to join should
visit our website; the membership
form can be found there. They can
also enter the members’ blog from
the website homepage to learn
about our projects. People can also
visit one of our regular club meetings to see what we're about, with
no pressure to join,” says Courtney.
United Way Offers Internships
United Way of Tompkins County
announces the fifth year of its
Stephen E. Garner Summers of
Service Scholarships.
This employment and learning
opportunity, funded primarily by
Cornell’s Student United Way
Campaign, will provide five paid
summer internships for local high
school students (first priority to
those entering their senior year) at
one or more of United Way of
Tompkins County’s member organizations.
The $1,500.00 annual internships
give high school students the opportunity to learn about the health and
human services sector and make an
important difference in Tompkins
County. For the past four summers,
students have gained a wealth of
knowledge about the programs and
services offered to individuals and
families from our communities, in
addition to learning more about
United Way of Tompkins County.
Position descriptions and the job
application can be found online at
www.uwtc.org/summer-inter nships under Community Impact, or
picked up at United Way of
Tompkins County. Applications are
due on Wednesday, June 6, at 5 p.m.
For more information call 2726286 or email Carmela LoRusso at
clorusso@uwtc.org.
Google Offers Space to Cornell Tech Campus
By Tompkins Weekly Staff
Internet giant Google will provide
22,000 square feet of its New York
headquarters to CornellNYC Tech
while the university completes its
campus on Roosevelt Island. The
space will allow Cornell to establish a presence in New York near
the tech companies and entrepreneurs with whom it will collaborate.
This arrangement, announced
last week by New York City Mayor
Michael R. Bloomberg, Google Inc.
CEO Larry Page and Cornell
President David J. Skorton, represents a collective commitment by
Google, Cornell, Technion and the
City of New York to developing
engineering and tech talent in New
York City.
Google will initially provide
Cornell with 22,000 square feet of
office space on July 1, free of
charge for five years and six
months or until the completion of
Cornell’s campus on Roosevelt
Island—whichever occurs first.
Cornell may expand the space to
58,000 square feet.
“We’re about to find out what
happens when you marry one of
the world’s most innovative companies with one of the most innovative economic development
strategies any city has undertaken,” Bloomberg said in a statement. “When we first envisioned
the Applied Sciences initiative, we
hoped the winning school would
establish strong relationships with
the tech sector. But this kind of
synergy is beyond anything we
could have imagined. CornellNYC
Tech is well on its way to being
fully integrated into New York
City’s vibrant tech industry, and
Google’s support is another huge
vote of confidence for that industry. Just a few years ago, our tech
sector was barely on anyone’s
radar screen – now, it’s creating
jobs and becoming a major player
in our diversified economy.”
“We are proud to be launching
CornellNYC Tech in what is
becoming the center of the tech
world,” said Cornell President
David J. Skorton. “The one missing ingredient has been a pipeline
of top-level tech talent, and that is
what the tech campus will provide.
Building on Mayor Bloomberg’s
vision, we are creating a new academic model for this time, this
place and this industry. The key is
engagement between world class
academics, companies and early-
stage investors to catalyze innovation. That’s what we’ll be creating
on Roosevelt Island, and thanks
to.”
Though classes do not begin
until the fall, CornellNYC Tech has
made progress since being chosen
as the winner of the city’s Applied
Sciences competition in December.
Leadership of the new campus has
been named, including Dean Dan
Huttenlocher and Vice President
Cathy Dove.
Earlier this month, Cornell
chose Pritzker Prize-winning
architect Thom Mayne to design
the first academic building on the
Roosevelt Island campus. A town
hall forum was held on Roosevelt
Island in April, just one of many
opportunities for residents to get
to know more about how the campus will benefit the entire Island.
Ithaca Health Alliance Names New Director
The Ithaca Health Alliance’s Board of Directors
has announced that Abbe Lyons has been hired
as executive director, and began work on May 7.
Lyons is a long-time member and provider
member of the Health Alliance, and has prior
experience volunteering at free clinics in San
Francisco and Washington DC. She is trained as
a Feldenkrais (R) practitioner and Reiki Master,
and has additional training in acupressure.
Lyons brings financial management experience from her work at an agency for people with
developmental disabilities. She is a musician
and Cantor at Tikkunv'Or, Ithaca's Reform
Temple, and a volunteer Chaplain at Cayuga
Medical Center. Her chaplaincy internship at
CMC focused on work with the Intensive Care
and Behavioral Services Units.
Board President Deirdre Silverman said in a
statement, "We are delighted that Abbe Lyons
shares the mission and spirit of the Ithaca
Health Alliance, and will lead the organization
as we expand our services to help meet the
health care needs of un- and underinsured
community members.”
The Ithaca Free Clinic is located at 521 W.
Seneca St. in Ithaca, Call 330-1253 for more
information regarding Health Alliance services and hours of operation, or visit www.ithaca
health.org. Founded in 1997, the Ithaca Health
Alliance offers community grants, education
and outreach, in addition to free health services through the clinic.
Food
donated fresh fruits and vegetables
in
his
pantry’s
success.
“Everything goes to someone
who’ll appreciate it. Some of our
clients are recent immigrants, so
even unusual vegetable go. We also
appreciate the efforts of our donors
to extend the season. One of our
donors grew lettuce under plastic
through most of the winter,” he
says.
For more information contact
Williams at Tompkins Community
Action, 273-8816; Benson at 277-1640
or 272-1984; or the Caroline Food
Pantry garden manager Sam Smith
at 330-4383. All area pantries and
Loaves and Fishes appreciate donations of fresh vegetables and fruits.
For a list of pantries in the area go
to foodbankst.org.
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Photo by Patricia Brhel
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The Rev. Ronald Benson raises fresh vegetables for the food pantry run by the Baptized
Church of Jesus Christ of the Apostolic Faith in Ithaca.
her team captured the county
Envirothon, she attributes their
success to the birds of prey.
“Knowing that the wildlife section
would focus on birds like hawks
and owls really helped us; we
learned to identify them by sight,
by their habitat and by their prey.
On the test this really paid off,”
Miner says.
The team also attended a crash
course at Cornell’s Museum of
Vertebrates Wing of the Lab of
Ornithology, where they met with
professional staff who could provide information on the birds and
answer their questions. Though
Parlato says Miner has “an incredi-
ble amount of knowledge about
wildlife,” the teen environmentalist views herself as more of a
forestry expert. “I live in the country surrounded by woods and next
to the National Forest,” she says.
“My dad cuts a lot of wood, and he’s
great at tree identification. I followed him around as a kid and
learned how to tell trees apart by
their bark, how they burn and how
they smell.”
This is Miner’s last year competing in the Envirothon. She plans to
attend Oberlin College in Ohio this
fall and is looking forward to taking classes in the college’s science
building, which she describes as
“off the grid.” She says she’ll keep
the environment in her social life
by joining clubs or groups that are
interested in “green” issues.
For next year, Parlato would like
to add a hunter or a fisherman to
the team. “Those kids have a set of
knowledge that would really add to
our group,” she explains, encouraging anyone with an interest in science to come to a meeting and
check out the club. For more information, contact Stein at 387-7551 or
Parlato at 387-4910.
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Tompkins County Community Calendar...
28 Monday
Drawing Through Time, 2pm, Museum of the
Earth, Join us on an artistic journey through time.
Learn how to draw an Ice Age animal using the specimens in our collection and hear interesting facts
about our study subject. We supply the paper and
pencils, you supply the creativity, Included with the
price of admission.
Emergency Food Pantry, 1-3:30pm, Tompkins
Community Action, 701 Spencer Rd., Ithaca. Provides
individuals and families with 2-3 days worth of nutritious
food and personal care items. Info. 273-8816.
Food Addicts in Recovery Anonymous, 78:30pm, Cayuga Medical Center, 101 Dates Dr.,
Ithaca, Fourth Floor North Conference Room. Food
Addicts in Recovery Anonymous (FA) is a free
Twelve Step recovery program for anyone suffering
from food obsession, overeating, under-eating and
bulimia. Info., 607-351-9504, Visit our website at
www.foodaddicts.org.
GIAC Teen Program 4-7pm, 318 N. Albany St.,
Ithaca, Game Room, Video Games, Open Gym &
Field Trips.
Harmony Falls Women's A Cappella Chorus,
rehearsals 7- 9pm every Monday at TBurg Seneca
Rd Baptist Church. Women of all ages and singing
ability invited to their special Summer Sing program.
www.HarmonyFallsChorus.com.
Hatha Yoga in the Svaroopa® Style, 10:1511:45am, Finger Lakes Fitness Center, taught by Shelley
Clark, Every Monday, Non-members welcome.
Jazz Dance Classes with Nancy Gaspar,
7:15pm, Finger Lakes Fitness Center, 171 E. State
St., Center Ithaca, Non-members & drop-ins welcome. Info 256-3532.
Jazzercise, 5:45 & 6:45pm, 119 W Court St.,
Ithaca. Jazzercise combines dance, resistance training, pilates, yoga, kickboxing and more to create programs for people of every age and fitness level.
More info. 288-4040 or www.jazzercise.com.
Knowledge is Power, 6pm, group for those who have
been in abusive relationships, For info., 277-3203.
Kundalini Yoga Classes, 7:30-9pm, Fine Spirit
Yoga Studio, 201 Dey St., Ithaca. Info., 760-5386.
Loaves & Fishes Community Kitchen, 12Noon, St.
John's Church, 210 N Cayuga St., Open to all, no limitations or requirements. Info., www.loaves.org.
Masters' Swim Team, Our Masters' Swim Team
meets Monday nights to work on improving speed
and efficiency in the water. Swimmers range from
beginning lap swimmers to advanced, and some are
competitive
swimmers. Registration required.
www.ithacaymca.com.
Muffin Mondays, 8am 'til gone!
Dryden
Community Center Cafe, 1 W. Main St. Dryden.
Different homemade, from scratch, muffins every
week. Muffin Monday special $3.25 for a muffin &
a 12oz. coffee. Info., 844-1500.
Open Family Swim, 6pm-9pm, Tompkins Cortland
Community College, Dryden, Fee, 844-8222.
Out Loud Chorus, 7-8:30pm, Briar Patch Vet, 706
Elmira Rd., Ithaca, Urban Choral Music. No auditions,
no experience necessary. Looking for new singers.
All genders and sexual expressions welcome. Find
out more at www.outloudchorus.org. Email outloudchorusny@aol.com, or call 607-280-0374.
Overeaters Anonymous, 7:30-8:30pm, Henry St.
John Building, 301 S. Geneva St., #103, corner W.
Clinton St., Speakers/Literature meeting, Meetings
are free, confidential, no weigh-ins or diets, Info.,
387-8253.
Personal Defense, 7:30-8:30pm, World Seishi
Karate, Catherwood Road, Ithaca, Info., www.seishihonbu@verizon.net or 277-1047.
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Meeting, PTSD
Ithaca is a Post Traumatic Stress Disorder support
group for individuals in and around Ithaca, NY who
have been diagnosed with (or think they may have)
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Meetings are every
Monday at 6:30 p.m. Please call 607-279-0772 for
more information.
Pre-School Story Hour and Craft, 10am, The
SPCA Annex at The Shops at Ithaca Mall.
Seishi Karate Classes, All-Belts 7:30AM, 4PM and
5PM. Green, Brown and Black Belts 6PM. and
7PM, Info., www.seishijuku.com.
Shakuhachi Flute w/Senpai Kim, 6:30-7:30pm,
World Seishi Karate, 15 Catherwood Rd., Ithaca,
Info., www.seishihonbu@verizon.net or 277-1047.
Tai-Chi, Increase your balance, sense of body
awareness and well-being. Mondays 3:30-4:30pm.
Registration required. www.ithacaymca.com.
VOICES Multicultural Chorus Rehearsal, 7-9pm,
Ithaca Unitarian Church Annex, 2nd floor, 208 E.
Buffalo St., Ithaca, VOICES is a NO AUDITION choral
project of the Ithaca Community Choruses singing
songs from diverse & ethnic choral traditions.
Come at 6:30 to register or on line at http://ithacacommunitychoruses.org/g-voices.
Yoga Classes, 5-6:15pm, Mindful Movement in
Community Corners, 903 Hanshaw Rd., Suite 201,
Info., 607-592-5493.
Zen Meditation Practice, Every Monday 5:306:30pm, Anabel Taylor Hall, Cornell, founders Room.
Sponsored by the Ithaca Zen Center. Prior sitting
experience or attendance of an orientation session
required to participate.For information or to schedule
an orientation, contact Tony @ 277-1158 or Marissa
@ 272-1419.
NOTE: Please check with your venue to confirm the
program is scheduled for the Holiday.
29 Tuesday
Adult Karate, Seishi Honbu, 15 Catherwood Road,
Ithaca.
Formal, traditional, japanese discipline,
Progressive noon time classes for men and women.
Info., (607) 277-1047 Email seishihonbu@verizon.net.
Al-Anon, 12noon, 518 W. Seneca St., Ithaca,
Meeting open to anyone affected by another person’s
drinking. Info., 387-5701.
Art Jump Start, ages 2–4, Tuesdays and Thursdays
10am–12noon, Abovoagogo Art Studio, 409 W.
Seneca St., Ithaca, Registration is ongoing, $23/class,
$200/10 classes, $375/two days a week for 10
weeks; Info., 262-6562 or visit abovoagogo.com.
Barbell Club, 4-5pm, YMCA, Ithaca. It's an opportunity for a group of individuals to work out together
focusing on all aspects of weight training. The club
meets weekly to work out together under the supervision of a Y fitness trainer. Junior Barbell Club
Tuesday
(YMCA Member ages 13 and up).
Registration required. www.ithacaymca.com.
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Belly Dancing, 7:30-8:30pm, CSMA, 330 E. Martin
Luther King Jr./State St., Nathanielsz Dance Studio,
Drop-ins welcome, Katharyn Howd Machan.
Boy Scouts Troop 55, Ellis Hollow Community
Center, Pack meets 7:15pm, every Tuesday, Contact
Liam Murphy at 272-4526 or liam.murphy@clarityconnect.com for more information.
Candor Library Story Hour, 10:15am, Candor
Free Library, Bank and Main St., Info. ,659-7258.
Cancer Resource Center Knitting Group, 5:307pm, CRC, 612 W. State St., Ithaca, Meets every 1st
& 3rd Tuesday of the month, This group is for those
with any level of knitting experience who'd like to
spend time with other cancer survivors in an informal
setting. Anyone with cancer is welcome and may
bring a friend or family member (they don’t have to
be cancer survivors themselves). Wine and light
snacks will be served.
Cayuga Club Toastmasters, 6-7pm, meets every
Tuesday, 6th floor of Rhodes Hall, Conference Room
#655, Cornell University, Ithaca. Info., http://cayuga.freetoasthost.us.
Cortland Farmers Market, 8am-2pm, Main St.,
Downtown Cortland. Visit us on Facebook for up to
date local fruits & vegetables when they are available
at our market. Our Farmer's Market is celebrating 40
years on Main Street.
Cortland Youth Center, 12noon-9pm, www.cortland.org/youth, 753-3021.
Crown City Toastmasters Club, meets on the 1st
and 3rd Tuesdays from 6:30-7:45pm, Caring Hospice
Center of Cortland, 11 Kennedy Parkway. Info.,
http://crowncity.toastmastersclubs.org.
Cub Scouts Pack 55, Ellis Hollow Community
Center, Pack meets 5pm, every Tuesday, Contact
Dawn
Thornton
at
277-1051
or
neiko1999@aol.com for more information.
Dewitt Park Farmers Market, 9am-2pm, Dewitt
Park, Ithaca. Runs through 10/30/12.
Dryden Community Garden's Grow Your Own
Classes, Come dig more deeply into the opportunities provided by the Dryden Community Gardens
team, or just come to learn. 6:30-8pm, in the
Dryden Cafe. Please contact Kerra Quinn with any
questions, at 844-3006 or kerraquinn@gmail.com.
Emergency Food
Pantry,
11:30am-2pm,
Tompkins Community Action, 701 Spencer Rd.,
Ithaca. Provides individuals and families with 2-3
days worth of nutritious food and personal care
items. Info. 273-8816. For a complete listing of
daily pantries, see: www.211tompkins.org.
Finger Lakes Fencing Society, 5:30-7:30, Varna
Community Center, 943 Dryden Rd., Beginners and
Fencers of all ages, levels, and skills are welcome.
First practice is free, floor fee applies thereafter.
Info., 539-6369 or http://flfs.vivi.com.
Finger Lakes Gymnastics Unstructured PlayTime, 10:30-11:30am, Sept.-June, 215 Commercial
Avenue, Ithaca, Ages 6mo-5yrs, Cost: 6 Mths - 1
Year - $3. 1 Year - 5 Years Old - $5 for current
members, $7 for non-members; Info., 273-5187,
www.flga.net.
Free GED classes, GIAC- 9:00am-12pm; TST
BOCES, 5:30pm-8:30pm; TC3, 10am-1pm; Newfield
Elem.- 9:00am-12pm; South Seneca Elem., 9:00am12pm; Call 257-1561 to register.
GIAC Teen Program, 7-9pm, BJM, 318 N. Albany
St., Ithaca, Game Room, Video Games, Open Gym &
Field Trips, 272-3622.
Guided Nest-Monitoring Walk, 1-2pm, Cornell Lab
of Ornithology, 159 Sapsucker Woods Road, Ithaca,
May-July, weather permitting, Learn more about the
birds breeding in the Ithaca area on guided nest-monitoring walks through Sapsucker Woods Sanctuary.
Free, Info., (800) 843-BIRD, www.birds.cornell.edu.
Immaculate Conception Church Food Pantry, 11:45pm, Seneca near Geneva St., Ithaca, Free, fresh
produce, breads, desserts, dairy and deli. For low to
moderate incomes, limit 1 pantry per week.
www.friendshipdonations.org.
Ithaca Gay Mens Chorus, 7-9pm, First Baptist
Church, Ithaca, every Tuesday.
Jazzercise, 5:45pm, 119 W Court St., Ithaca.
Jazzercise combines dance, resistance training,
pilates, yoga, kickboxing and more to create programs for people of every age and fitness level.
More info. 288-4040.
Karate/Tai Kwon Do, 5:30pm, Kwon's Champion
School- 123 Ithaca Commons, All ages & all abilities
welcome. Traditional Korean combination martial
arts.Good health for your mind as well as your body.
Info., CJichi@Yahoo.com.
Knowledge is Power, 6pm, group for those who have
been in abusive relationships, For info., 277-3203.
Lifelong Schedule, 9–12noon, Morning Watercolor
Studio; 11-12PM, Moon Machines; 10AM–12PM,
Open Computer Lab/Discussion; 11:30–12:30PM,
Tai Chi, Lansing Community Library, Auburn Road;
1–4PM, Afternoon Art Studio; 2:30-4:30PM, Open
Computer Lab; 2-4PM, Natural Springs Cemetary;
5–6PM, Young at Heart Yoga; Info., 273-1511 or
www.tclifelong.org.
Loaves & Fishes Community Kitchen, 5:30pm,
St. John's Church, 210 N Cayuga St., Open to all, no
limitations or requirements. Info., www.loaves.org.
Lot 10 Lounge Event, 8pm-10pm, Lot 10 Lounge,
Cayuga St., Ithaca, Trivia with Becca.
Meditation at Rasa Spa. 7:30-8:30pm, Tranquility
Room, Shamatha, or “calm abiding”, meditation. $5
donation. Info., 273-1740, visit www.rasaspa.com.
Overeaters Anonymous, 12:15-1:15pm, Henry St.
John Building, 301 S. Geneva St., #103, corner W.
Clinton St., 12 Steps & 12 Traditions meeting; 78pm, Watkins Glen Library; Meetings are free, confidential, no weigh-ins or diets. Info., 387-8253.
Qigong for Breast Wellness, classes every Tuesday
May 15th - June 19th from 4-5pm, Ahimsa Studio,
behind the DeWitt Mall in Ithaca. Learn 7 simple meridian stretches to support breast health & healing. Get
relief from: Anger, Anxiety, Depression, PMS, and
Menopausal Symptoms.Everyone is Welcome! $10-20
donation,trade or barter appreciated. For information
contact Shawn Tubridy at (607) 279-6543 or
beewellest@yahoo.com.
Photo and Photoshop, √4-5:30pm, Abovoagogo
Art Studio, 409 W. Seneca St., Ithaca, with Gwen
Bullock, Info., 262-6562 or visit abovoagogo.com.
Sciencenter Earth Time: Caves: Mysteries
Beneath Our Feet, 10:30am, hear the story Caves:
Mysteries Beneath Our Feet by David L. Harrison and
create their own cave art. Sciencenter, 601 1st St,
Ithaca, www.sciencenter.org or 607-272-0600.
Seven Valley Chorus, 7pm, First United Methodist
Church, 734 Rt 222, Cortland, Those who love to
sing are invited to visit this Chorus Info., 844-4155
or 844-9528.
Sexual Compulsives Anonymous, 5:30pm, This is an
anonymous 12-Step Group of men and women whose
purpose is to recover from sexual compulsion. Info.,
scaithaca@gmail.com or www.sca-recovery.org.
Stress Management Group, 11am, Starlight Center,
301 S. Geneva St., Ithaca, Suite 110, 277-7337.
Studio Workshop, Abovoagogo, 409 West Seneca St.
Ithaca, for the older elementary kids (7 and up), Our time
will be spent on drawing, painting, sculpture, printing, a
truly mixed media session. Info., 262-6562.
T'ai Chi Classes at Lansing Library, 11:30AM12:30PM, Lansing Community Library, 27 Auburn
Road, Lansing, John Burger - Instructor. T'ai Chi promotes balance, flexibility, coordination and can
reduce pain. T'ai Chi is also been shown to lower
the risk of falls, increase energy levels, enhance
sleep, and reduce stress and anxiety. Using precise, fluid movements, T'ai Chi can dissolve tension,
increase your strength and cardiovascular fitness,
and leave you with a greater awareness, calmness,
and overall sense of wholeness. Please wear loose,
comfortable clothing. $5/class (Scholarships and
reduced monthly payment options available through
Lifelong - 607-273-1511 - www.tclifelong.org and the
Lansing Library).
Tai Chi Yang Long Form, 7-8pm, Abovoagogo Art
Studio, 409 W. Seneca St., Ithaca, with Anthony
Fazio LAC, CA, Fees: $10 per class; $30 for the
month; Info., 272-0114.
Teen Studio Workshop, 4:30-6pm, Abovoagogo,
409 West Seneca St. Ithaca, It is open to anyone,
Middle School and up. Info., 262 6562.
Toddler Time Storytime, 10am, Groton Public Library,
Enjoy stories with Mrs. Radford, Info., 898-5055.
Tuesday Morning Art Classes for Children, 9:1511:30am, Dryden Community Cafe, Main St., Dryden,
Please come by to sign up, or email Leslie at robertcobb@frontiernet.net, or leave a note at the Cafe.
Women's Barbershop Chorus, 6:45-9:15PM, practices Tuesday evenings at Boynton Middle School, New
voices welcome.
Zumba Class, 6-7pm, Newfield Fire Station, First
class is free, $8 drop in or $55 for 9 classes good
for 3 months from date of sale.
30 Wednesday
Adult
Children
of
Alcoholics
and
Dysfunctional Families Group, ACA Meets
every Wednesday 7:30-8:30pm at The Ithaca
Community Recovery Bldg. 2nd floor of 518 W.
Seneca St Ithaca, Info: www.adultchildren.org.
Belly Dance Class, 6:30-7:45pm, Finger Lakes
Fitness Center, in the Lower Level of Center Ithaca,
Info., www.tessadances.com.
Bread of Life Food Pantry in Candor, Rt 96,
across from Post Office, 3-6pm. For a complete listing of daily pantries, see: www.211tompkins.org.
Cortland Youth Center, Open from 12-9pm. Info.,
www.cortland.org/youth, 753-3021.
Dance Warm-Up and Conditioning Classes,
9:30-10:15am, City Health Club, 402 W. Green St.,
Ithaca. Info., www.movingjoystudios.com or call
Maren Waldman; maren@movingjoystudios.com,
607-227-7422.
Drawing Like Crazy, Abovoagogo, 409 West
Seneca St. Ithaca,
for children age 7 and up,
Students will expand their visual language through
drawing and observation. They will learn many techniques for mark-making and increase their range of
self-expression. Info., 262 6562.
Food Addicts in Recovery Anonymous, 7-8:30pm,
The First Congregational Church, 309 Highland Rd.,
Ithaca, Food Addicts in Recovery Anonymous (FA) is
a free Twelve Step recovery program for anyone
suffering from food obsession, overeating, undereating and bulimia. Info., 607-351-9504 or www.
foodaddicts.org.
Healing Power of Sound, 7-8:15pm, GreenStar
Cooperative Market's West-End Store, 701 W.
Buffalo St., Ithaca. Martin Kelly-Smyth will discuss
the use of sound in Traditional Chinese Medicine and
in Energy Kinesiology. Free and open to the public, To
register, sign up at GreenStar's Customer Service
Desk or call 273-9392.
Hydrilla Happy Hour, 5-6pm, Corks & More, 708
West Buffalo Street, Ithaca, Join members of the The
Cayuga Inlet Hydrilla Task Force for a presentation
about ongoing plans to combat highly invasive
Hydrilla verticillata in Cayuga Inlet, followed by an
open conversation period. Share information, ideas
and concerns with Task Force members in an informal setting. This event kicks off the first monthly
forum to be held at Corks & More on the last
Wednesday of each month February through May.
The forums promote community input and transparency as a long-term hydrilla response plan is created. A more formal public meeting will be scheduled for March 8. Corks & More is located on the
Cayuga Inlet at 708 West Buffalo St., in Ithaca. For
more information, contact Sharon Anderson at
Tompkins County Cooperative Extension (607) 2722292, or browse http://ccetompkins.org/hydrilla to
learn more about this invasive plant.
Intermediate/Advanced
Technique
&
Choreography Classes, 10:15-11am, City Health
Club, 402 W. Green St., Ithaca. Info., www.movingjoystudios.com or call Maren Waldman;
maren@movingjoystudios.com, 607-227-7422.
Ithaca Community Police Board Drop-In Hours,
2-5pm, GIAC, 301 West Court Street, Ithaca, you
can also make an appointment. To leave a private
message or make an appointment, call 275-0799.
Ithaca Veterans Acupuncture Clinic, 5pm, Ithaca
Community Acupuncture, free "ear" acupuncture for all
US Veterans and their families. IVAC takes place every
Wednesday evening. Info., www.ithacacommunityacupuncture.com or call 607-319-5454.
Jazz Dance Classes with Nancy Gaspar, 5:45pm,
Finger Lakes Fitness Center,171 E. State St., Center
Ithaca, lower level, Non-members & drop-ins welcome,
Info., 256-3532.
Jazzercise, 5:45pm, 119 W Court St., Ithaca,
Jazzercise combines dance, resistance training, pilates,
yoga, kickboxing and more to create programs for people of every age and fitness level. Info., 288-4040.
Karate, progressive classes for all experience levels, teaching Demura-Ha Shito-Ryu Karate-Do.
Mondays & Wednesdays 6:30-7:30pm (10 weeks
session). Registration required.
www.ithacaymca.com.
Karen Winters Schwartz Reads from "Reis's
Pieces", Buffalo Street Books, 215 N. Cayuga St.,
DeWitt Mall, Ithaca, Info., 273-8246.
Knitting/Crocheting Night, 6:30pm, Newfield
Public Library, Main St., Newfield.
Kundalini Yoga Classes, 6:30-8PM, Pure and
Simple Yoga Studio, Cortland.
Lansing Writers' Group, 7PM, Lansing Community
Library, 27 Auburn Road, Lansing, Meetings are open
to adults (18 years old and up) who strive to improve
their writing skills and learn from each other. All
genres, skill levels, and writing types are welcome.
Additional
information
available
at
www.groups.yahoo.com/group/lansingwritersgroup.
Free and open to the public.
“Let’s take a walk” 8-9am, A low key walk for men
and women with any type of cancer; enjoy a weekly
walk and good conversation. Meets inside entrance to
Border’s, The Shops at Ithaca Mall. Info, Cancer
Resource Center of the Finger Lakes. 612 W State St.
277-0960.
Lifelong Schedule,
8:30–9:30AM, Enhance
Fitness®, Lifelong, 119 W. Court Street, Ithaca;
9–10AM, Enhance Fitness®, Juniper Manor I, 24 Elm
St., Trumansburg; 9–10AM, Enhance Fitness®,
Kendal at Ithaca, 2230 North Triphammer Road;
9–12Noon, HIICAP Health Insurance Counseling, by
appointment.
Call 273-1511; 9:30–10:30AM,
Enhance Fitness®, Newfield Garden Apartments,
261 Main St.; 10–11AM, Chair Yoga @ St. Catherine
of Siena Parish Hall, Room 3; 10-12PM, Current
Events/World Affairs; 10:15–11:15AM, Enhance
Fitness, Dryden Veterans Memorial Home, 2272
Dryden Rd., Dryden; 10:30-12PM, Retire from
Driving, Lansing Library, Ray Weaver; 11-12:30PM,
Sing, Anyone Can®; 11:15AM–12:15PM, NEW,
Gentle Beginner Mat Yoga @ St. Catherine of Siena
Parish Hall, Room 3; 1-3PM, German Class;
1–3:30PM, Crafting Circle-Needlework and Quilting;
2–3PM, Enhance Fitness®- McGraw House Annex,
211 S. Geneva St.; 2-4PM, The Play’s The Thing;
7–8:30PM, Tai Chi for Wellness; Info., 273-1511 or
www.tclifelong.org.
Lit Lunches Book Club, 12noon-1pm, Ulysses
Public Library, 74 E Main Street, Trumansburg, Free,
Info., 607-387-5623.
Loaves & Fishes Community Kitchen, 12Noon,
St. John's Church, 210 N Cayuga St., Open to all, no
limitations or requirements. Info., www.loaves.org.
Lot 10 Lounge Events, Lot 10 Lounge, Cayuga St.,
Ithaca, 6pm-9pm, Djug Django; 10pm-1am, THE
FINAL Steppers Lounge featuring members of Sim
Redmond Band, John Brown's Body and more.
Mindfulness Practice, 7:30-9pm, Hospicare, 172
E. King Rd., Ithaca, In times of stress, the present
moment can seem anything but wonderful. The
group meets each Wednesday to practice mindfulness as taught by Vietnamese Zen monk, Thich Nhat
Hanh. This group is open to everyone, regardless of
experience or spiritual affiliation. For more information, contact Pamela Goddard at 607-273-8678 or
Dr. Nancy Stewart at 607-277-0260.
Open Family Swim Tompkins Cortland Community
College, Dryden. 6pm-9pm. Fee. 844-8222.
Play Mah Jongg!, 1PM-4PM, Lansing Community
Library, 27 Auburn Road, Lansing, Play American
Mah Jongg in an informal, relaxed setting. Free and
open to the public.
Qigong for Breast Wellness, Every Wednesday
from 1-2pm at Ahimsa Studio, behind the DeWitt Mall
in Ithaca. No class 11/23. For more information call
Shawn at (607) 279-6543.
Qigong for Health, 6pm, Ithaca Karate Harmony
with Nature School, 120 E. King Rd., ancient energy
practices, 273-8980.
Retiring from Driving, 10:30AM-12PM, Lansing
Community Library, 27 Auburn Road, Lansing, Free
workshop sponsored by Way2Go and Cornell
Cooperative Extension of Tompkins County will educate participants about how to approach retiring
from driving. Topics include, county resources to
aid in transportation, medical transportation, benefcial programs to help keep seniors active. Free of
charge. Please register with Lifelong at 607-2731511 or at the Lansing Library at 607-533-4939.
Seidaiko “Taiko” Japanese Drum Classes, 78:30pm, World Seishi Karate, 15 Catherwood Rd.,
Ithaca, For beginning students. Info www.seishihonbu@verizon.net or 277-1047.
Story Time, 3pm, Newfield Library, Main St.,
Newfield. Info., 564-3594, Info., www.newfieldpubliclibrary.org.
Technology Class in Microsoft Word, 7-9pm,
Ulysses Philomathic Library, Main St., Trumansburg.
Free, Class size is limited, so please register by calling the library at 706-387-5623.
Teen Tech Club, 3:30-5pm, Newfield Public Library,
Main St., Newfield. Teens, drop in after school to
explore our new tablets and e-readers, and to share
your favorite tips and apps.
Tompkins County Youth Orchestra, 7pm, Ford
Hall, Ithaca College. Free admission but recommended donation of $5, Performing Mozart, Schubert,
Copland, Badlet, Smith, Ford. Info., www.tcyo.org.
Tribal Fusion Belly Dance Classes, Wednesdays
7-8:15 pm, Moonlight Dance Studios 407 taughannock Blvd., Ithaca, Info., www.tessadances.com.
Trumansburg Farmers Market, 4-7pm, Every
Wednesday, June through October, 4-7pm, corner of
Rte 227 and Rte 96 in Tburg. Fresh, local seasonal
fruits and vegetables, crafts, food vendors, and live
music. More info, including a list of vendors, at
www.trumansburg-ny.gov/farmersmarket.htm .
Waffle Wednesdays, 9-11am, Dryden Community
Center Cafe, 1 W. Main St., Dryden. Serving hot
fresh waffles from scratch, served with either real
New York maple syrup or fresh strawberries and
whipped cream. Info., 844-1500.
Waiting for Spring, 7:30pm, The Kitchen Theatre
Company, State St., Ithaca. In that extraordinary
cold time after a New York City New Year’s Eve, a
chance encounter between a widow and a widower
finds them hoping for renewal as they wait for spring.
Info., www.kitchentheatre.org.
Wednesday Breakfast Club, 8:30am, Royal Court
Restaurant, 529 S. Meadow St., Ithaca, An informal
breakfast get-together for bereaved adults.
Participants pay for their own breakfast. Info.,
Hospicare and Palliative Care Services email dgeorge@hospicare.org or 272-0212.
Youth Workers Brown Bag Lunch, 12:15-1:15pm,
Human Services Building, Ithaca, to share your experiences and learn from our colleagues. This networking opportunity encourages participants to collaborate to support all youth in Tompkins County through
the most consistent and cost effective means possible. Please join us as we work to build a healthy sustainable community of the future.
Zen Meditation Practice, Every Wednesday 5:306:30pm, Anabel Taylor Hall, Cornell, founders Room.
Sponsored by the Ithaca Zen Center. Prior sitting
experience or attendance of an orientation session
required to participate.For information or to schedule
an orientation, contact Tony @ 277-1158 or Marissa
@ 272-1419.
31 Thursday
90’s Rock, 7pm, Center for the Arts, 72 S. Main St.,
Homer. The socio-political climate was drastically
changed with a musical revolution that was dubbed
“90’s Rock.” Gain a new appreciation for this musical
decade. Presenter: Alex Caminiti. For information
call (607) 749-4900, e-mail info@center4art.org, or
visit www.center4art.org.
AL-ANON Hope for Today, 7:30pm, 518 West
Seneca St., Ithaca, main floor, Meeting open to anyone affected by another person’s drinking, Info.,
844-4210.
Anorexia Nervosa & Associated Disorders, 7pm,
Cooperative Extension, 614 W. State St., for those in
need of help & recovery. Info., 272-2292.
Asperger's Support Group Meeting, 7pm, basement of St. Luke Lutheran Church at 109 Oak Avenue
in Collegetown. If you have questions, please contact Robin L. Booth at rlmbooth@gmail.com.
Cancer Resource Center Yoga Class, 9:30am11am, Island Health and Fitness, The classes are
free to anyone with a cancer diagnosis, but registration is required. To do so, call the Cancer Resource
Center at 277-0960 or contact ann@crcfl.net.
Cortland Youth Center, Open from 12-9pm, Info.,
www.cortland.org/youth, 753-3021.
Creative Movement for ages 2-4yrs, Thursdays at
11:30-12noon, Ithaca YMCA, www.ithacaymca.com.
Danny Speer and Town Without Pity, The Rongo,
Danny Speer was guitarist, vocalist and principal
songwriter for The Peabody Band, one of Ithaca's
original "Ithacasound" groups. Here he leads some
familiar and some not so familiar faces through material from the later 70's to current songs. Always a
pleasure hearing Danny's inventive turn of phrase
and melodic creativity.
Depression Support Group, 5:30-7pm, Finger
Lakes Independence Center, 215 Fifth Street, Ithaca.
Every Thurs. The group is free, confidential and
organized by people who have personal experience
with depression. Info., 272-2433.
Dewitt Park Farmers Market, 4pm-7pm, Dewitt
Park, Ithaca. Runs through 10/30/12. Info.,
www.ithacamarket.com.
"Eldercare and Minfulness", 6:30pm, Lifelong,
119 W. Court St., Ithaca. The meeting is open to
anyone caring for an elderly spouse, parent, other
relative or friend. The group meets every week. For
more information on the group, please contact
Robert Levine at the Office for the Aging at (607)
274-5482 or at Rlevine1@binghamton.edu or view a
flyer about the group on the Office for the Aging
website: www.tompkins-co.org/cofa.
French Conversation Group, 7pm, Ulysses Public
Library, 74 E Main Street, Trumansburg, Free, Info.,
607-387-5623.
Game Club, 3:30-4:30pm, Edith B. Ford Memorial
Library, Ovid, Play chess, monopoly, or bring a new
game to share. www.ovidlibrary.org.
Game Time, 3-5pm, Tompkins County Public
Library, Children ages 6-13 are welcome to join in on
Thursday afternoons for family-friendly board games!
And come early or stay after to browse the shelves
for summer reading ideas.
GIAC Teen Program, 4-7pm, 318 N. Albany St.,
Ithaca, Game Room, Video Games, Open Gym & Field
Trips, Info., 272-3622.
Intermediate Modern Dance, 5:30-7:30pm,
CSMA, 330 E. Martin Luther King Jr./State St.,
Nathanielsz Dance Studio, Drop-ins welcome. Info.,
www.movingjoystudios.com.
Ithaca Festival, Downtown Ithaca, Parade,
Music and activities.
Food vendors.
Info.,
www.ithacafestival.org.
Karate/Tai Kwon Do, 5:30pm, Kwon's Champion
School, 123 Ithaca Commons, All ages & all abilities
welcome. Traditional Korean combination martial
arts.Good health for your mind as well as your body.
Info., CJichi@Yahoo.com.
Lifelong Schedule, 10AM– 11:30AM, Asking the
Right Questions; 12:30–1:30PM, Strength Training
Class; 2:30-4:30PM, Open Computer Lab; 2–3PM,
Senior Theatre Troupe; 3:15–4:30PM, Preparing the
Soul for Death; 6:15–6:45PM, Couples Pattern
Dance Lessons; 6:30–8PM, Family Caregiver
Support Group; Call 274-5482 for information;
6:45–8:30PM, Line Dancing Lessons; Info., 2731511 or www.tclifelong.org.
Live Music, Autumn Leaves, the Commons, 7-9pm.
Info., 229-4825.
Lively Live Music, 8-11pm, 2070 East Shore Dr.,
Lansing, Every Thursday musicians play in the pub at
Rogues' Harbor Inn. The entertainment changes from
week to week so check out our website for
Information, www.roguesharbor.com.
Loaves & Fishes Community Kitchen,
5:30pm, Loaves & Fishes, 210 N Cayuga St.,
Open to all, no limitations or requirements. Info.,
www.loaves.org.
Lot 10 Lounge Event, Lot 10 Lounge, Cayuga St.,
Ithaca, 9:30pm-1am, The Official Ithaca Festival
Parade After Party with the Double E and Not From
Wisconsin.
Men’s Breakfast Group, 8–9am, location TBD, for
men with any type/stage of cancer, Every Thursday,
Call 277-0960.
Out of Bounds Radio Show, hosted by TISH
PEARLMAN will feature writer and professor DANIEL
SCHWARZ, 7pm: WEOS-FM ( 90.3 & 89.7 Geneva
region), Live Stream: weos.org.
Preschool Story Hour, 10:30AM, Lansing
Community Library, 27 Auburn Road, Lansing, Join
us for stories, songs, and fun! Different theme each
week. Free and open to the public.
Spring Kids Yoga Classes, Transform Yoga and
Community Recreation Center, 15 Catherwood Dr.,
Lansing and 1767 E. Shore Dr., ithaca. This Spring
Anna's Movement Arts will be offering Yoga classes
for kids ages 4-6 yrs and 7-9 yrs, Yoga classes start
March 31st, April 4th and 5th and run ten weeks,
Special offer: register before first day of class and
save $10, Late registrations will be accepted based
on class size, For more information please go to:
www.annagoehner.blog.com or contact Anna directly
at:
(607)
342
7115
/
annasmovementarts@yahoo.com.
Waiting for Spring, 7:30pm, The Kitchen Theatre
Company, State St., Ithaca. In that extraordinary
cold time after a New York City New Year’s Eve, a
chance encounter between a widow and a widower
finds them hoping for renewal as they wait for spring.
Info., www.kitchentheatre.org.
June 1 Friday
4-H Foundation Golf Tournament, 7am-2pm,
Country Club of Ithaca, 189 Pleasant Grove Road,
Ithaca, The event, benefitting the New York State 4H Foundation, raises funds to support 4-H programs
across the state. Player fees are $125 and include
a round of golf, card and luncheon. Sponsorship
opportunities range from $5000 to $100. There are
also volunteer opportunities for those who are interested in assisting with the event. Info. and registration Foundation website at www.nys4hfoundation.org
or 272-2292.
Al-Anon, Meeting open to anyone affected by another person’s drinking. 7pm. Dryden Methodist Church,
Park in Rite-Aid lot. Info., 387-5701.
Baby Playtime, Fridays, 11-12noon, Tompkins
County Library, Thaler/Howell Programming Room,
Baby Playtime is an hour long unstructured play and
social time for children and adults featuring a large
enclosed environment with a beautifully painted fairytale mural, books, music, and a variety of toys to
keep the children entertained.
Bird Walk, 7:30am, Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca.
Come for a leisurely walk through the Sanctuary to
look for birds. These 90 minute walks are aimed at
beginner bird watchers.
Birthday Parties, Seishi Honbu, 15 Catherwood
Road, Ithaca. Karate, Taiko Drums or your own
Theme.
Info.,
607-277-1047
Email
seishihonbu@verizon.net.
"Brown Bag Lunch" 12noon-1pm, Cancer
Resource Center, 612 W. State St.; open to women
with any type/stage of cancer, Info., 277-0960.
Congo Square Market, 4-8pm, Southside
Community Center, 305 S. Plain St., Ithaca. Runs
from May 4-Sept. 17. Info., congosquareithaca.com.
Drawing Like Crazy, Abovoagogo, 409 West
Seneca St. Ithaca,
for children age 7 and up,
Students will expand their visual language through
drawing and observation. They will learn many techniques for mark-making and increase their range of
self-expression. Info., 262 6562.
Finger Lakes Gymnastics Unstructured PlayTime, 10:30-11:30am, Sept.-June, 215 Commercial
Avenue, Ithaca, Ages 6mo-5yrs, Cost: 6 Mths - 1
Year - $3. 1 Year - 5 Years Old - $5 for current
members, $7 for non-members; Info., 273-5187,
www.flga.net.
First Friday Gallery Night, 5pm-8pm, Downtown
Ithaca, A walkable tour of Downtown Galleries and Art
Houses on the First Friday of every month. After visiting the galleries and grabbing a bit to eat, drop by
the Finger Lakes Wine Center for their monthly
Gallery Night afterparty from 6 to 9pm. Info.,
www.gallerynightithaca.wordpress.com.
Frugal Friday, The Gemm Shop, Main St.,
Trumansburg.
Every Friday all items with a yellow price tag are 1/2 price, Call 387-5678 for
more information.
Gallery Night Reception, 5-8pm, he Ink Shop
Printmaking Center's Annual Members' Exhibit features Ink Shop artists exploring many varied printmaking techniques.
GIAC Teen Program After Hours Spot 4-midnight,
318 N. Albany St., Ithaca. Movies, open gym, game
room, video games, snacks, computers, skating &
more, Info., 272-3622.
Interlaken Reformed Church Pantry, 3–6pm, 8315
Main Street, Interlaken, Free, fresh produce, breads,
desserts, dairy and deli. For low to moderate incomes,
www.friendshipdonations.org. For a complete listing of
daily pantries, Info., www.211tompkins.org.
Ithaca Festival, Downtown Ithaca, Music and activities.
Food vendors. Info., www.ithacafestival.org.
Lifelong Schedule, 8:30–9:30AM, Enhance
Fitness®, Lifelong, 119 W. Court Street, Ithaca;
9–10AM, Enhance Fitness®, Juniper Manor I, 24 Elm
St., Trumansburg; 9–10AM, Enhance Fitness®,
Kendal at Ithaca, 2230 North Triphammer Road;
9–10:30AM, Knitting Circle, All Levels Welcome; 912PM, Duplicate Bridge Class, Beginner and
Intermediate Lessons and Practice Play, Seats
Available; 9:30–10:30AM, Strength Training @ St.
Catherine of Siena Parish Hall, Room 3, 302 St.
Catherine Circle, Ithaca; 9:30–10:30AM, Enhance
Fitness®, Newfield Garden Apartments, 261 Main
St.; 10–11AM, Chair Yoga; 10:15–11:15AM,
Enhance Fitness, Dryden Veterans Memorial Home,
2272 Dryden Rd., Dryden; 11:30–1PM, Tai Chi
Class, All levels welcome; 1–3PM, Mahjong; 2-3PM,
Enhance Fitness®, McGraw House Annex, 211 S
Geneva St.; 2–4PM, Square, Round, Line & Polka
Dancing, Dish to Pass; Info., 273-1511 or www.tclifelong.org.
Live Jazz, 6-9pm, Oasis, Danby Road, Ithaca, Every
Friday evening.
Loaves & Fishes Community Kitchen, 12Noon,
Loaves and Fishes, 210 N. Cayuga St., Open to all, no
limitations or requirements. Info., www.loaves.org.
Lot 10 Lounge Events, Lot 10 Lounge, Cayuga St.,
Ithaca, 6pm-7:30pm, Improv Comedy Hour with
Comedy FLOPS; 10pm-1am, Boy with a Fish and
Plastic Nebraska.
Men's Breakfast Club, 8-9am, Royal Court
Restaurant, for men with any type of cancer and at
any stage of treatment or recovery. Call 277-0960.
New England Contra and Square Dance, 8-11pm,
Bethel Grove Community Center, NYS Rt. 79, about 4
miles east of Ithaca. For more information: Ted Crane,
607-273-8678 or visit www.tedcrane.com/TCCD.
New Roots Performs at Ithaca Festival, Ithaca
Commons, 1:30-4:00 pm; 1:30pm, New Roots
Charter School Dance Crew; 2pm, Bümph; 2:30pm,
New Roots Charter School Jazz Ensemble; 3pm,
New Roots Charter School Chamber Ensemble;
3:30pm, New Roots Charter School Chorus. New Roots
also will have an information table at the Ithaca Festival.
Night Hike, 8pm, Cayuga Nature Center,
Taughannock Blvd., Ithaca. Hike our wooded trails
under the big sky of our back fields or around our
ponds. Find out who is awake and stirring under the
moonlight. No need to bring a flashlight?you will be
surprised how much you see without one.
Open Family Swim Tompkins Cortland Community
College, Dryden. 6pm-9pm. Fee. 844-8222.
Pay What You Can Yoga Classes, 5-6pm, Fine
Spirit Studio, Dey, St., above Hickey’s Music, All
welcome, Bring a mat or rent one for $1.
Recommended to bring a bottle of water and a
small towel. More info about class and teacher:
http://vidayoga.org/schedule.
Preschool Story Time,
10am, Southworth
Library, Dryden, For preschoolers and their caregivers. Come for stories, crafts and snacks. Info.
844-4782.
Relay for Life, 6pm, Friday through 6 am Saturday,
Davis Field, SUNY Cortland. Teams of 10-15 people
take turns walking to earn pledges for the American
Cancer Society. For info., visit http://main.acsevents.org/site/TR?pg=entry&fr_id=36447.
Seishi Karate Classes, All-Belts 4PM, 5PM and
6pm, Green, Brown and Black Belts 6PM. and
7PM, Info., www.seishijuku.com.
Sim Redmond Band at Ithaca Festival Finger
Lakes Luau, 8pm, Ithaca Farmers Market. Finger
Lakes Luau at its finest with a pig-roast by The
Piggery and performances of Hawaiian music by
Larry Real, dancing by The Official 2012 Ithaca
Festival Finger Lakes Luau Hula Dance Team, fire
dancing by Lyca on Fire and last but not least, the
Sim Redmond Band.
Info., 273-3646 or
http://www.ithacafestival.org.
Spring Craft Show, One of America's best homegrown arts festivals, the craft show takes place on
Friday, Saturday and Sunday in the downtown area on
the Ithaca Commons. Everything from photography
to woodworking, from glass to clothing will be on display and for sale throughout the weekend. Browse
jewelry, pottery, folk art, pet accoutrement and
much, much more. Each year the Craft Show continues to be a huge success attracting over 100
crafters and artisans from across the greater North
East region and beyond. Spring Craft Show Website:
http://www.ithacafestival.org/craft-show.
Story Time, 10:30am, Edith B. Ford Memorial
Library, Ovid, Children enjoy stories, hands-on arts
and crafts, science activities, and songs. Info.,
www.ovidlibrary.org.
Taiiko Drumming, Seishi Honbu, 15 Catherwood
Road, Ithaca. "Seidaiko" Taiko classes for adults and
children. Pre-registration now open. Pleasure and or
performance training. Info., 607-277-1047 Email
seishihonbu@verizon.net.
Take a Tour of the Museum, 11:30am, Museum of
the Earth, 1259 Trumansburg Rd., The Museum of the
Earth is pleased to offer exhibit tours included with
admission. The tour is of the Museum’s permanent exhibition hall, A Journey through Time, share the story of the
Earth and its life. Info., 273-6623.
Tales for Tots Storytime, 11am, Barnes & Noble,
we read fantastic and imaginative stories for young
readers. Info., 273-6784 or www.BN.com.
Ulysses Historical Society Museum, 39 South
St., Trumansburg, 2-4pm. Genealogical research.
Info., 387-6666.
Village of Quilts, 5-8pm, The History Center in
Tompkins County, 401 East State Street, Ithaca.
Village of Quilts will be an exhibition specially
designed to engage and actively involve community
members in raising resources to support and sustain
the important work of the Village at Ithaca. For
more information about Village of Quilts, please contact The History Center at 607.273.8284 ext. 0.
Waiting for Spring, 8pm, The Kitchen Theatre
Company, State St., Ithaca. In that extraordinary
cold time after a New York City New Year’s Eve, a
chance encounter between a widow and a widower
finds them hoping for renewal as they wait for spring.
Info., www.kitchentheatre.org.
Yoga Dance, Live Music, Abstract Nature
Photography, 8:30pm, Finger Lakes Wine Center,
237 South Cayuga St., Ithaca.
Yoga for People with Cancer, 10:30am-12noon,
Island Health & Fitness. Gentle stretching, relaxation
exercises, healing visualizations, and meditation.
For information, contact instructor Nick Boyar at
272-2062 or Sharon Kaplan at 277-0960 $10 per
class. Scholarship available through the Cancer
Resource Center.
2 Saturday
4-H Open Fun Horse Show, 9:30am-4pm, Barton
Valley Farm, 560 Irish Settlement Rd., Freeville.
Youth do not need to be enrolled in 4-H to participate,
but must be between the ages of 8 -19.
Performance and Gymkana classes will be offered.
Youth not enrolled in 4-H cannot ride over jumps or in
Gymkana classes. Classes will start at 9:30 a.m. and
run until all are completed. Classes may be split or
combined according to age and experience level,
based on the number of entries received. For additional information on the Tompkins County 4-H Fun
Horse Show, contact Brenda Carpenter at 272-2292
or Doug or Kathy Barton at 844-9931.
Animal Feeding, Cayuga Nature Center. Noon.
Feel free to visit CNC as our animal volunteers feed
our many animals, then hike one of our trails or visit
the tree house. Free for members, low cost to visitors. Info www.cayuganaturecenter.org.
Annual Fishing Derby, 8:30-11am, Casterline
Pond, Rt. 11, Homer. Youngsters 15 and younger are
invited to test their fishing skills and win valuable
prizes. Register throughout the derby. Sponsored by
Cortland Youth Bureau, Izaak Walton League,
Cortland County Federation of Sportsmen, and
Homer Lions Club. For more information call the
Youth Bureau at (607) 753-3021.
AppleJazz, Opens at 5 pm, concert begins 6 pm,
Pavilion at Dwyer Memorial Park, Little York.
Performances by Charlie Bertini, John Allred, Terry
Myers, Dave Hanlon, Ronnie France, Ronnie Leigh,
Jeff Phillips, Mark Doyle, Lauren-Jessica Bertini. All
tickets are $40. Please specify Concert Seating or
Table
Seating.
To
order
tickets
visit
www.applejazz.com, call 407-248-2898 or send
check to AppleJazz Records, 10825 Wheaton Court,
Orlando, FL 32821. No tickets sold at the door. 275
seats available, first come first served.
Catlin Methodist Church Food Pantry, 2-4pm, 1st
Saturday, 402 Chambers Rd., Horseheads.
Caroline Farmers Market, 10am-2pm, May-Oct, Old
Fire Hall, 522 Valley Road, Brooktondale. Produce,
Meat, Cheese, Baked Goods, Food, Art & Crafts.
Cortland Farmers Market, 8am-2pm, Main St.,
Downtown Cortland. Visit us on Facebook for up to
date local fruits & vegetables when they are available
at our market. Our Farmer's Market is celebrating 40
years on Main Street.
Dances of Universal Peace: 7:15pm, Foundation of
Light, 391 Turkey Hill Road, Ithaca. Celebrating the
world’s spiritual traditions through music, song and
dance, Live Music, No experience required, $5 donation
requested, Every 1st Saturday, Info: 272-7582.
Expectant Parent Workshop, Cayuga Medical
Center, 9am-4pm. Meet the 1st Saturday of the
month. Fee $75 per family. Info., 274-4408 or
www.cayugamed.org.
Genealogy Study Group, 10am, Newfield Public
Library, Main St., Newfield.
GIAC Teen Program After Hours Spot 4-midnight. 318 N. Albany St.. Ithaca, Music, movies, open
gym, game room, video games, computers, skating
& more. Info., 272-3622.
Guided Bird Walk, 7:30am, Cornell Lab of
Ornithology, 159 Sapsucker Woods Road, Ithaca,
April-September, Meet in front of the Visitor Center,
Info., (800) 843-BIRD, www.birds.cornell.edu.
Hand Drumming for Humans Classes, 3-4pm, Soma
Yoga & Living Arts, 409 West State St., Ithaca, Info.,
www.somayogaithaca.com.
Homer Farmer's Market, 9am-1pm, The Green on
Main Street in Homer. Cortland County's 'local-only'
market. Dedicated to increased local production,
access to healthy nutrition for all, and the promotion
of a sustainable local economy through grassroots
organization. Meet your neighbors, who just happen
to be growing the best food you can buy, For information e-mail tammie@homerfarmersmarket.com or
visit www.homerfarmersmarket.com.
Ithaca Ballet 50th Anniversary Celebration,
7pm, State Theatre, Ithaca. Dance performances,
followed by a gala with delicious eats and drinks.
Ther performance will feature both professional alumni and current Ithaca Ballet Company dancers, and
will tell the history of the company through some of
its pivotal ballets. Info., www.itacaballet.org, tickets
at stateofithaca.com.
Ithaca Farmers Market, 9am-3pm, Steamboat
Landing, Ithaca. Runs through 10/27/12. Info.,
www.ithacamarket.com.
Ithaca Festival, Downtown Ithaca, Music and activities. Food vendors. Info., www.ithacafestival.org.
Jazz Dance Class, 11am, Finger Lakes Fitness
Center, 171 E. State St., Center Ithaca, lower level,
Beginners. Non-members & drop-ins welcome. Info.,
256-3532.
Karate/Tai Kwon Do, 9-10AM & 10-11AM, Kwon's
Champion School- 123 Ithaca Commons, All ages &
all abilities welcome. Traditional Korean combination
martial arts.Good health for your mind as well as
your body. Info., CJichi@Yahoo.com.
Lifelong Schedule, 9–12PM, Men’s Group; Info.,
273-1511 or www.tclifelong.org.
Lot 10 Lounge Event, Lot 10 Lounge, Cayuga St.,
Ithaca, 10pm–1am, No Radio Presents the official
VS. Dance Party.
Monthly Mother/Daughter Book Club, 3:304:30pm, Thaler/Howell Programming Room,
Tompkins County Public Library. The Club provides a
wonderful opportunity for participants to learn about
themselves and others by discussing literature.
There are no right or wrong answers during Club
meetings, simply open discussions where all input is
valued. A complete list of Club dates and titles will
be provided at the December 3 meeting. For information, contact Carrie Wheeler-Carmenatty at (607)
272-4557 extension 248 or cwheeler@tcpl.org.
Morning Story Time 10am. Caroline Community
Library 2670 Slaterville Rd. Slaterville Springs.
www.tcpl.org.
One Heart Community Drumming Circle,
3:30pm till done, Stewart Park, Ithaca. Info.,
www.oneheartcommunitydrumming.org.
Open Family Swim Tompkins Cortland Community
College, Dryden. 11am-1pm. Fee. 844-8222.
“Our Brothers, Our Sisters’ Table” hot cooked
community meal, 12noon, served at the Salvation
Army, 150 N. Albany St. Ithaca. All welcome, No
income guidelines.
Overeaters Anonymous, 11am-12:15pm, Henry
St. John Building, 301 S. Geneva St., #103, corner
W. Clinton St., 12 Steps & 12 Traditions meeting; 89am, Cortland Memorial Nursing Facility; Meetings
are free, confidential, no weigh-ins or diets.
Newcomers always welcome. Info 387-8253.
Qigong for Health, 10am, Ithaca Karate Harmony
with Nature School, 120 E. King Rd., ancient energy
practices, 273-8980.
Secular Organizations for Sobriety Meeting,
2pm, Unitarian Church Offices, Basement at Aurora
and Buffalo Streets, S.O.S offers a secular approach
to recovery based on self-empowerment and individual responsibility for one's sobriety.
Seidaiko “Taiko” Japanese Drum Classes, 4pm,
World Seishi Karate, 15 Catherwood Rd., Ithaca,
Info., www.seishihonbu@verizon.net or 277-1047.
Showtime!, 2pm, Sciencenter, 601 First St., Ithaca.
See science in action with a special interactive presentation at the Sciencenter every Saturday at 2 pm.
Info., www.sciencenter.org.
"Sidewalk Saturday", 10am-1pm, The Gemm
Shop, Main St. Trumansburg. On nice weather days
the shop with have sidewalk sales. The shop is volunteer run and all proceeds, from sales, can be given
back to the community as donations to local, nonprofit organizations. Info., 387-5678.
Spring Craft Show, One of America's best homegrown arts festivals, the craft show takes place on
Friday, Saturday and Sunday in the downtown area on
the Ithaca Commons. Everything from photography
to woodworking, from glass to clothing will be on display and for sale throughout the weekend. Browse
jewelry, pottery, folk art, pet accoutrement and
much, much more. Each year the Craft Show continues to be a huge success attracting over 100
crafters and artisans from across the greater North
East region and beyond. Spring Craft Show Website:
http://www.ithacafestival.org/craft-show.
Taiiko Drumming, Seishi Honbu, 15 Catherwood
Road, Ithaca. "Seidaiko" Taiko classes for adults and
children. Pre-registration now open. Pleasure and or
performance training. Info., 607-277-1047 Email
seishihonbu@verizon.net.
Take a Tour of the Museum, Museum of the Earth,
11am. The Museum of the Earth is pleased to offer
exhibit tours included with admission. The tour is of
the Museum’s permanent exhibition hall, A Journey
through Time, share the story of the Earth and its life.
Info 273-6623. 1259 Trumansburg Rd.
Ulysses Historical Society Museum, 2-4pm, 39
South St., Trumansburg, Genealogical research. Info
387-6666.
Waiting for Spring, 8pm, The Kitchen Theatre
Company, State St., Ithaca. In that extraordinary
cold time after a New York City New Year’s Eve, a
chance encounter between a widow and a widower
finds them hoping for renewal as they wait for spring.
Info., www.kitchentheatre.org.
Water Exercise Class, 9:45-10:45am, Island
Fitness, Ithaca. Includes cardio, toning for major
muscles, and stretching. Open to anyone with cancer. Free for Island members/ $30 for non-members.
Scholarships available to Cancer Resource Center
clients in need. To register, please contact Sharon
Kaplan at sharon@crcfl.net or 277-0960.
3 Sunday
Bird Walk, 7:30am, Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca.
Come for a leisurely walk through the Sanctuary to
look for birds. These 90 minute walks are aimed at
beginner bird watchers.
Bound For Glory Show, 8-11, Anabel Taylor Hall,
Cornell, with live sets at 8:30, 9:30, and 10:30. All
three sets are different. Kids are always welcome.
Refreshments are available. For information, call Phil
Shapiro at 844-4535, or e-mail pds10@cornell.edu or
visit www.wvbr.com.
Cruising to the Airfield, 10 am-2pm, Cortland
County Airport. Classic car cruise with live music,
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food, and a special "car cruise" from the airport and
back for all participants. This event is open to all
makes, models and years of automobiles.
Sponsored by 7 Valley Street Rods. Net proceeds
from events go to local charities.
"Fireplace" Contemporary Worship Service, 67PM, Lansing United Methodist Church Route 34B and
Brickyard Road, Lansing. Modern praise music, fellowship and food in a relaxed, welcoming atmosphere.
GIAC Teen Program 4-7pm, 318 N. Albany St.,
Ithaca, Game Room, Video Games, Open Gym &
Field Trips.
Healing Meditation, 7-8pm, Ahimsa Yoga Center,
Dewitt Mall, Ithaca, $5 suggested donation, Info.,
www.ithacayoga.org.
Ithaca Farmers Market, 10am-3pm, Steamboat
Landing, Ithaca. Runs through 10/27/12. Info.,
www.ithacamarket.com.
Ithaca Festival, Downtown Ithaca, Music and activities. Food vendors. Info., www.ithacafestival.org.
Music in the Woods, 1-3pm, Lime Hollow Visitor
Center, 338 McLean Rd. Celebrate the beginning of
summer with this multi-sensory event that brings the
community together. Let the sound of music guide
you along the trails of Lime Hollow. This event features local musicians playing various instruments on
our trails. Held rain or shine! Members $5 per person, non-members $6 per person, children 3 and
under - free. This event is made possible with funds
from the New York State Cultural Resources Council.
For more information call (607) 662-4632 or visit
www.limehollow.org.
Open Family Swim Tompkins Cortland Community
College, Dryden. 1pm-4pm. Fee. 844-8222.
“Our Brothers, Our Sisters’ Table” hot cooked
community meal, 3pm, served at the Salvation
Army, 150 N. Albany St. Ithaca. All welcome, No
income guidelines.
Out of Bounds Radio Show, hosted by TISH PEARLMAN will feature writer and professor DANIEL SCHWARZ,
11:30am: WSKG-FM (89.3 Binghamton, 90.9 Ithaca
91.7 Cooperstown/Oneonta, 91.1 Corning/Elmira, 88.7
Hornell/Alfred)Live Stream: wskg.org.
Reach Out to Christ Pantry and Outreach,
Johnson Rd, Freeville. 12 to 2pm, alternating
Sundays. For a complete listing of daily pantries,
see: www.211tompkins.org.
Recovering
Couples
Anonymous,
8pm,
Downstairs @ 518 W. Seneca St., Ithaca, RCA is a
12-step group for couples wanting to restore commitment, communication & caring in their relationships. Open to all.
SALSA: From Scratch, 4-5pm, June 3 - July 8, 6
week class series, Island Health, Community
Corners, Cayuga Hts., For beginners, no partner
needed. $70/series, with multiple discounts available, Info., www.ithacadance.com.
Spring Craft Show, One of America's best homegrown arts festivals, the craft show takes place on
Friday, Saturday and Sunday in the downtown area on
the Ithaca Commons. Everything from photography
to woodworking, from glass to clothing will be on display and for sale throughout the weekend. Browse
jewelry, pottery, folk art, pet accoutrement and
much, much more. Each year the Craft Show continues to be a huge success attracting over 100
crafters and artisans from across the greater North
East region and beyond. Spring Craft Show Website:
http://www.ithacafestival.org/craft-show.
Waiting for Spring, 4pm, The Kitchen Theatre
Company, State St., Ithaca. In that extraordinary
cold time after a New York City New Year’s Eve, a
chance encounter between a widow and a widower
finds them hoping for renewal as they wait for spring.
Info., www.kitchentheatre.org.
West Village Apartments Food Pantry, alternating
weeks, 150 West Village Place, Ithaca, 12:301:30pm. For a complete listing of daily pantries,
see: www.211tompkins.org.
Zumba Class, 6-7pm, Newfield Fire Station, First
class is free, $8 drop in or $55 for 9 classes good
for 3 months from date of sale.
4 Monday
Board of Public Works Meeting, 4:45-6:45pm,
Common Council Chambers, Ithaca.
Breastfeeding for the Health of It, 10am12noon or 6-8pm, CCE-Tompkins Education
Center, 615 Willow Avenue, Ithaca, Info., 2722292 or http://ccetompkins.org.
Cornell University Offers Site Grading
Workshop, The program includes lecture and individual studio instruction daily from 9:00 a.m. to
5:00 p.m.
in
the Landscape
Architecture
Department's elegant, air-conditioned facilities.
Grading problems are structured in a format that
can serve as preparation for the LARE, and work in the
studio is critiqued on a one-to-one basis. To learn more,
please visit the Site Grading Workshop website, call
607-255-7259, or e-mail cusp@cornell.edu.
Emergency Food Pantry, 1-3:30pm, Tompkins
Community Action, 701 Spencer Rd., Ithaca. Provides
individuals and families with 2-3 days worth of nutritious
food and personal care items. Info. 273-8816.
Food Addicts in Recovery Anonymous, 78:30pm, Cayuga Medical Center, 101 Dates Dr.,
Ithaca, Fourth Floor North Conference Room. Food
Addicts in Recovery Anonymous (FA) is a free
Twelve Step recovery program for anyone suffering
from food obsession, overeating, under-eating and
bulimia. Info., 607-351-9504, Visit our website at
www.foodaddicts.org.
GIAC Teen Program 4-7pm, 318 N. Albany St.,
Ithaca, Game Room, Video Games, Open Gym &
Field Trips.
Harmony Falls Women's A Cappella Chorus,
rehearsals 7- 9pm every Monday at TBurg Seneca
Rd Baptist Church. Women of all ages and singing
ability invited to their special Summer Sing program.
www.HarmonyFallsChorus.com.
Hatha Yoga in the Svaroopa® Style, 10:1511:45am, Finger Lakes Fitness Center, taught by Shelley
Clark, Every Monday, Non-members welcome.
Jazz Dance Classes with Nancy Gaspar,
7:15pm, Finger Lakes Fitness Center, 171 E. State
St., Center Ithaca, Non-members & drop-ins welcome. Info 256-3532.
Jazzercise, 5:45 & 6:45pm, 119 W Court St.,
Ithaca. Jazzercise combines dance, resistance training, pilates, yoga, kickboxing and more to create programs for people of every age and fitness level.
More info. 288-4040 or www.jazzercise.com.
Knowledge is Power, 6pm, group for those who have
been in abusive relationships, For info., 277-3203.
Kundalini Yoga Classes, 7:30-9pm, Fine Spirit
Yoga Studio, 201 Dey St., Ithaca. Info., 760-5386.
Loaves & Fishes Community Kitchen, 12Noon, St.
John's Church, 210 N Cayuga St., Open to all, no limitations or requirements. Info., www.loaves.org.
Masters' Swim Team, Our Masters' Swim Team
meets Monday nights to work on improving speed
and efficiency in the water. Swimmers range from
beginning lap swimmers to advanced, and some
are
competitive
swimmers. Registration
required. www.ithacaymca.com.
Muffin Mondays, 8am 'til gone, Dryden Community
Center Cafe, 1 W. Main St. Dryden. Different homemade, from scratch, muffins every week. Muffin
Monday special $3.25 for a muffin & a 12oz. coffee.
Info., 844-1500.
Open Family Swim, 6pm-9pm, Tompkins Cortland
Community College, Dryden, Fee, 844-8222.
Out Loud Chorus, 7-8:30pm, Briar Patch Vet, 706
Elmira Rd., Ithaca, Urban Choral Music. No auditions,
no experience necessary. Looking for new singers.
All genders and sexual expressions welcome. Find
out more at www.outloudchorus.org. Email outloudchorusny@aol.com, or call 607-280-0374.
Overeaters Anonymous, 7:30-8:30pm, Henry St.
John Building, 301 S. Geneva St., #103, corner W.
Clinton St., Speakers/Literature meeting, Meetings
are free, confidential, no weigh-ins or diets, Info.,
387-8253.
Personal Defense, 7:30-8:30pm, World Seishi
Karate, Catherwood Road, Ithaca, Info., www.seishihonbu@verizon.net or 277-1047.
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Meeting, PTSD
Ithaca is a Post Traumatic Stress Disorder support
group for individuals in and around Ithaca, NY who
have been diagnosed with (or think they may have)
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Meetings are every
Monday at 6:30 p.m. Please call 607-279-0772 for
more information.
Pre-School Story Hour and Craft, 10am, The
SPCA Annex at The Shops at Ithaca Mall.
Seishi Karate Classes, All-Belts 7:30AM, 4PM and
5PM. Green, Brown and Black Belts 6PM. and
7PM, Info., www.seishijuku.com.
Shakuhachi Flute w/Senpai Kim, 6:30-7:30pm,
World Seishi Karate, 15 Catherwood Rd., Ithaca,
Info., www.seishihonbu@verizon.net or 277-1047.
Tai-Chi, Increase your balance, sense of body
awareness and well-being. Mondays 3:30-4:30pm.
Registration required. www.ithacaymca.com.
WEDDING DANCES: first dance, parent dance,
guests, 8-9pm, June 4 - July 9, 6 week class series,
Island Health, 310 Taughannock Blvd., For beginners, no partner needed. $70/series, with multiple
discounts available, Info., www.ithacadance.com.
VOICES Multicultural Chorus Rehearsal, 7-9pm,
Ithaca Unitarian Church Annex, 2nd floor, 208 E.
Buffalo St., Ithaca, VOICES is a NO AUDITION choral
project of the Ithaca Community Choruses singing
songs from diverse & ethnic choral traditions.
Come at 6:30 to register or on line at http://ithacacommunitychoruses.org/g-voices.
Yoga Classes, 5-6:15pm, Mindful Movement in
Community Corners, 903 Hanshaw Rd., Suite 201,
Info., 607-592-5493.
Zen Meditation Practice, Every Monday 5:306:30pm, Anabel Taylor Hall, Cornell, founders Room.
Sponsored by the Ithaca Zen Center. Prior sitting
experience or attendance of an orientation session
required to participate. For information contact Tony
@ 277-1158 or Marissa @ 272-1419.
Everyday
Bright Red Bookshelf Book Drive, The Family
Reading Partnership, located in Ithaca, New York, is a
coalition of organizations, individuals, schools, libraries
and businesses that is working to create a "culture of
literacy" by promoting family reading practices in the
community and beyond. If you have gently used books
to donate please contact: 607-277-8602, Email:
office@familyreading.org.
Freeskool Classes, Calendars with complete class
descriptions are being distributed throughout Ithaca and
are available online at http://ithacafreeskool.wordpress.com/class-descriptions.
Galaxy Golf, From May through early November, the
Sciencenter’s 18-hole, science-themed miniature golf is
open during regular museum hours (weather permitting). Individual game: $4 per person. 10-game Galaxy
Golf discount cards are available: $20 for Sciencenter
members (half price!) and $30 for non-members.
Sciencenter, 601 First St, Ithaca, www.sciencenter.org
or 607-272-0600.
Museum of the Earth, Trumansburg Rd., Ithaca,
Hours: Monday, Thursday, Friday & Saturday 10am5pm, Sunday 11am-5pm, Closed Tuesday and
Wednesday from Labor Day to Memorial Day, Closed
Thanksgiving Day. Visit us on the web at www.museumoftheearth.org.
Volunteer Opportunities in Tompkins County,
sign-up for various volunteer opportunities with flexible hours.
Info., Toll-free: 1-877-211-8667,
www.211tompkins.org.
Women’s Opportunity Center Retail Training
Program and women’s clothing boutique at 110
West Court St. Check us out for great prices on new
and used clothing. Shop local, shop green, support
your community and our program! Call 256-9957,
www.secondsoncourt.com.
“Writing Room Classes - Writing Through the
Rough Spots”, with Ellen Schmidt. May through July
9, Writing can help to create clarity about challenging
&
registration:
situations. Information
www.WritingRoomWorkshops.com or 273-4489.
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Classifieds
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Travis Hyde Properties Apartments - All Kinds! All Sizes! Office:
323 N Tioga St., Ithaca 273-1654
www.travishyde.com
Newfield Horizon
Apartments
*** Now Renting ***
New Construction
1,2,3 Bedroom Apts.
36 Unit Country Setting
Just 7 miles from Ithaca on Rt. 13
All Appliances Included
Radiant Heat • Pet Friendly
Handicapped Accessible
Free Garbage Pickup
On Bus Route to Ithaca & Elmira
For Information call
607-589-4630
1980 Elmira Rd., Newfield
Typewriters
Manley Typewriter sales and service. IBM, Panasonic, Cannon, Brother,
Electronic Typewriters 607-273-3967.
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Wildlife Services
Jack Ryan’s
Wildlife
Removal
Service
We remove wildlife such as Skunks,
Raccoons, Squirrels, Woodchucks, etc.
Live trapped & removed. 20+ yrs exp
Call 607-257-9396
Licensed by NYS Dept of Environmental
Conservation Division of Fish & Wildlife
Photography
Book your Family Portrait. Also wedding and Resume Photos. Call
Studio 97 Photography by Kathy
Morris 277-5656.
Calendar Submissions:
Event Listings: Email details to
jgraney@twcny.rr.com. The deadline
to submit items is each Wednesday at
1pm for the next Monday’s paper.
Food & Drink
Lunch Delivery - Free Lunch Delivery
from the Ithaca Bakery M-F 11am2pm. Call 27-BAGEL.
Shortstop Deli Open 24/7 at 204 W.
Seneca
St.,
Ithaca
273-1030
www.shortstopdeli.com.
Two Locations to Serve You Best
GreenStar 701 W. Buffalo St. 2739392 & 215 N. Cayuga St 273-8210
Education
Western Books
Saturday Morning Yoga in the
Iyengar tradition, at Fine Spirit Studio,
Dey St. Ithaca. For information contact
kathy@kathymorris.net
At least 50+ books. Read once -Buy
One or More. 607-539-7366
Wiles Guitar Studio
Suzuki Guitar Lessons
Children thru Adults
Community Corners Ithaca
592-2591
Lawn Mowing
J&R’s Lawn Mowing Service.
Affordable rates. Don’t wait until it’s
too late. Spots are being filled. Call
John @(607)756-2915.
Automotive
Martial Arts
Beginner’s Special 3 months $99
Discipline,
Concentration,
SelfDefense. Kwon's Champion School,
Ithaca 607-227-6932
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Classifieds
Antiques
ReUse
The Collection Antiques
One of the largest selections
of quality antiques
in the Finger Lakes
Tues-Sun 1-5 • 387-6579
9 W. Main St., Rt. 96, Trumansburg
ReUse Center: Affordable furniture,
housewares, building materials,
computers, electronics, more. Open
daily Triphammer Marketplace.
www.fingerlakesreuse.org
(607)257-9699. Donations welcome.
Nonprofit organization .
Calendar Submissions:
Septic Service
Event Listings: Email details to
jgraney@twcny.rr.com. The deadline
to submit items is each Wednesday at
1pm for the next Monday’s paper.
Kenny's Septic Pumping &
Repairs.
Porta John rentals too!
607-738-4302
Home Improvement
Employment
SNOOTY FOX ANTIQUES
Come and Shop with Dick & Jane Classen
Open Saturdays 9-7
and by appointment
607-564-3369
21 Taber Rd • Newfield NY
Just off Rt. 13 at the Newfield Exit
NYS CERTIFIED SECONDARY
TEACHERS. Math, Special Ed, Social
Studies, Earth Science Systems (.5)
School Counselor (.75). Teachers
with dual certification and experience
teaching in innovative high schools are
especially encouraged to apply. All are
11 month positions beginning in
August 2012. For more info please
visit www.newrootsschool.org or call
607 882 9220
Problems at work? Know Your
Rights!
Contact
607-269-0409
www.TCWorkersCenter.org
LPNs, Nurse
Practitioners,
Front Office
Receptionist
PONZI'S
18th & 19th Century
Country & Formal
Furniture & Accessories
RESTORATION
AVAILABLE
Full-Time. Benefits include:
Blue Sheild Medical, Dental,
Vision 401K plan, Long Term
Disability and Life Insurance.
Generous vacation and personal
time! Come join our growing team
serving Ithaca and the surrounding area for 35 years. Family
Medicine Associates of Ithaca.
Please fax resume and cover
letter attention: Human
Resources Fax # 607-216-0587.
No phone calls please.
Merchandise
• Refinishings
• Repair Work
• New & Old
Paul and Connie Polce
9838 Congress St., Ext.
Trumansburg, NY 14886
607-387-5248 Open Daily 9-5
www.ponzisantiques.com
Cash for Bikes
Now buying new, used.
All brands and conditions.
H ig h es t
C as h P ri ces P aid
Just bring them up and
we’ll put money in your hand.
Ithaca Antique Center
www.ithacaantiquecenter.com
1607 Trumansburg Rd • 607-272-3611
Logging
$$$ Logging $$$
Buying
Standing
Timber
Professional & Insured
Free Consultation
15-1000 acres
Paid before cut
Cell 607-345-8015
Office 315-668-3786
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Pipelines
public
interest
law
firm
Earthjustice, puts those regulations into context. She uses
Inergy’s Marc I pipeline project in
Pennsylvania as an example;
Earthjustice is currently in litigation over that project. The 39-mile
pipeline
will
connect
the
Millennium pipeline with two
other major pipelines in Bradford
and
Susquehanna
counties.
Earthjustice contends that the environmental review did not pay attention to cumulative impacts.
Federal projects begin with an
application and request for
“resource reports,” says Goldberg.
These reports focus on a wide range
of impacts including noise, air, climate and wildlife “because
pipelines affect everything from
soup to nuts.” Goldberg explains
that anyone can become a party to
the pipeline review, or serve as an
“intervener.” But she cautions that
the Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission (FERC) does not make
it easy for the public to participate.
If there is enough public interest,
FERC often opens the process to
public comment after officials complete the environmental impact
statement. But, says Goldberg, “I
have never known a federal transmission line to be denied by FERC.
Their standard seems to be: if there
is a customer, there is a need.”
Meghan Thoreau, a planner with
Southern Tier Central Regional
Planning and Development Board,
addressed land use and planning
issues. There are a number of
pipeline operators in Tompkins
County, she says, listing Dominion
Transportation, Buckeye Partners,
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Photo by Sue Heavenrich
Continued from page 1
Building the Millennium pipeline through Candor in 2008.
NYSEG and Enterprise Products
Operating. These pipelines transport such things as gasoline, nitrogen, liquefied petroleum gas and
natural gas.
The problem with pipelines is
their proximity to people, she says.
Most pipelines were originally constructed in rural areas, but towns
and suburbs have grown, encroaching on the lines. Poorly planned
neighborhoods can result in
pipelines running beneath backyards. As the area becomes more
developed, roads expand and communities may erect sound barriers
that cut off access to the pipelines.
Residents may build fences, place
pools or plant trees that interfere
with access to a pipeline—and that
access is critical to maintain and
repair the lines, Thoreau says. She
showed slides illustrating poor
planning, and the impacts of
pipeline failure on roads and neighborhoods.
It’s not just homes that are at
risk; Thoreau notes that a lack of
planning could result in road crews
breaching lines, resulting in liability for towns. She suggests that
municipal planners take advantage
of tools such as the National
Pipeline Mapping System and the
Pipeline Integrity Management
Mapping Application.
“Land use planning and development has a direct impact on
pipeline safety,” Thoreau says. She
recommends that local governments adopt transmission pipeline
zoning ordinances and other practices that safeguard their citizens.
“Unless these [recommendations]
are in your regulations, there is no
way to ensure that they will be followed.” She then showed where
land use planning turned pipeline
easements into community assets
that increased property values for
homes nearby.
As if to underscore the urgency
for municipal planning, 24 hours
after the meeting, a gas pipeline
ruptured in the town of Woodhull,
65 miles west of Ithaca. Fortunately
there was no fireball, but the explosion shut down a section of State
Route 417, triggered a massive
emergency response and forced
some residents to evacuate.
You can find Thoreau’s presentation
at
www.stcplanning.org/usr/Progra
m_Areas/Energy/Naturalgas_Reso
urces/Gas
Pipelines,
What
Municipalities Need to Know v2
(slides).pdf.
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ers, dancers, musicians and other
performers, there is a wide array of
local food, handmade crafts and
activities for children or those who
are just children at heart.
Festival programs, buttons and
T-shirts with artwork by student
artist Meghan Wood are now available at Wegmans and other businesses all over town. They will also
be easily found at merchandise
booths throughout the festival.
Proceeds from merchandise sales
provide funding for the celebration.
Visit www.ithacafestival.org to
see the updated schedule of events
and learn more about this year’s
activities. For more information, or
to become a much-needed volunteer
for the Ithaca Festival, call 273-3646
or e-mail marie@ithacafestival.org