Response System Upgrade Set

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Response System Upgrade Set
By Mike Levy
Tompkins County is one
step closer to completing its
new emergency response
system. Lee Shurtleff, director of emergency response,
has recommended that the
county use a balance in the
$2 million capital project to
fund radio equipment that
agencies throughout the
county will use to connect
to the system.
His move, once approved
by the County Legislature’s
Public Safety Committee,
will allow testing of the system and an eventual unveiling by this fall.
“It’s the last major piece
in
the
puzzle,”
says
Shurtleff. “Part of the problem has been that it’s such a
major expense for everyone
involved. There are some
small departments out
there that would have a
challenge having to buy and
replace their equipment all
at once.” For their communications gear to be compatible with the county’s new
800-watt emergency system,
all county fire, emergency
and medical service and
law enforcement agencies
must replace their mobile
radios and control station
equipment.
While municipalities
often borrow money for capital expenditures, Shurtleff
says the nature of this
equipment makes that
impossible. Daily use and
changing technology force
agencies to replace equipment often, so the only
choice is to pay for them
now.
“They’re used in some
tough environments,” says
Shurtleff.
“Technology
does change, and everything today is softwaredriven, so there comes a
point where [the equipment] is no longer supported and you move on to the
next generation of systems.”
“The way we’ve been able
to put this together has
saved us from having any
one department or one entity being forced to borrow
money or put in huge sums
up front,” says Shurtleff.
“That was a fear at one
point. Being able to do this
all in one basic package, we
can move the users onto the
system rather quickly.”
departments
Individual
will be responsible for
maintenance and replacement of their equipment
from this point onward.
The county was able to
offer a solution to the
upgrade problem thanks to
Photo by Kathy Morris
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Lee Shurtleff, director of Emergency Response for the county, with the
radio transmitting equipment for the new communications system
housed at 92 Brown Road.
the efficiency of the project,
which county public information
officer
Marcia
Lynch calls the largest capital project in the county’s
history. “It’s been managed
so well that there’s about $2
million that’s projected to
be left over,” says Lynch.
Other project funds were
two
through
secured
$500,000 grants obtained by
congressmen
Sherwood
Boehlert
and
Maurice
Hinchey, as well as another
$80,000 in funding obtained
by State Sen. James
Seward.
Construction of the new
system puts the county in
compliance with federal
standards for interoperability — the current buzz word
meaning communications
among departments.
“It’s a federal priority,
even more so a mandate
now, after the World Trade
Center event and other
events where the responders were on different radio
frequencies,”
Shurtleff
explains. “That’s been a
goal of ours — to get on the
Please turn to page 20
Kerrigan Gets Nod for City Judge
By Nathan Dougherty
There will be a new face
behind the bench in Ithaca.
James
Local
lawyer
Kerrigan has been selected
as the part-time city judge
following a month-long
search process and a final
vote delayed by a 90-minute
executive session of common council.
Kerrigan was chosen
from among two other finalists. Marjorie Olds, the former city court judge, and
local
attorney
Pamela
Bleiwas were also considered. Before the meeting,
several members of the
audience spoke in favor of
Olds, who had run the city’s
drug court during her time
as judge.
Mayor Caroline Peterson
says the decision did not
come easily, and was influenced in part by the decision of full-time judge
Judith Rossiter. “For many
reasons, I’ve taken in consideration a great deal of
material and I have to the
ability
my
best
of
researched and examined
items brought to me, things
I’ve heard and phone calls
made to me and by me
regarding the decision,”
Peterson says. “With my
belief of the shift of certain
duties that appears to be
the intention of the fulltime judge, I decided to
offer James Kerrigan for
consideration.”
$54,000 salary, had been
vacant since April 5, when
Olds’ six-year term expired.
Peterson called on a committee of common council
members to interview candidates and help select
“Judges are paid by the state, not
the city, so this appointment is an
unusual situation in my opiniuon.”
- Carolyn Peterson
Eight common council
members
voted
for
with
Robin
Kerrigan,
Korherr (D-Ward 5) recusing herself because of conflicts with the sheriff ’s
office and Maria Coles (DWard 1) abstaining. Coles
says she respects the
mayor’s selection process,
but believes Peterson made
the wrong decision. “I know
an
excruciating
what
process it’s been and I don’t
want my vote to become a
reflection against the person who’s been appointed,”
Coles says. “My conscience
tells me the right person
was not picked.”
Selection Process
The
position,
with
its
finalists. Because the position is filled by mayoral
appointment once every six
years, Peterson and the current council members are
new to the process.
“None of us in office have
worked on a judge appointment, so I am literally taking the act at face value and
asked common council to
help
guide
selection
process,” Peterson said earlier in the process.
Olds, who was appointed
to the position in 1995 and
again in 2001, says she
underwent different evaluations each time. The first
appointment, by former
mayor Ben Nichols, included a committee of lawyers
and community members
who interviewed her and
helped make the selection.
The second, made by former mayor Alan Cohen,
was an appointment without an interview.
Because of the current
administration’s inexperience in this area, one of the
first acts the committee
took during the process was
to educate itself on the
judge’s duties and to determine what questions could
be asked of candidates.
“We held a learning session to understand how the
courts work, because this is
the one and only time I as
mayor do something with
the courts,” Peterson says.
“Otherwise we don’t manage the courts. Judges are
paid by the state, not the
city, so this appointment is
an unusual situation in my
opinion.”
Peterson faced some criticism for what was perceived as a closed process,
but she said it would be
unfair to release the names
of all applicants and allow
the decision to turn into a
public popularity contest.
Members of the committee
backed her intentions,
5 Candidates Vie for School Board
By Glynis Hart
Both incumbents and newcomers
are competing for four Ithaca
school board seats in the election
coming up on May 15. Driven by a
sense of civic duty, the candidates
will find their reward in an unpaid
position that involves three or four
meetings a week, endless committee sitting, and an education in
itself concerning how the Ithaca
City School District is run.
Judith Maxwell, who has been
on the board for three years after
34 years as a teacher, says that
after a career in the classroom
she’s well prepared for the school
board. “I thought I would know a
lot, but the learning curve on the
board is very steep,” she says.
“There’s a lot of information to
master.”
Maxwell emphasizes three critical issues confronting the district:
equity, finances and maintaining
the buildings. “We should not have
had to have such a big bond [due to
maintenance issues], but we put
off smaller bondings until now,”
she says, adding that Ithaca has a
small tax base yet loses state and
federal funding because it’s listed
as a high-income area.
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Having taught in Caroline
Elementary, the old and new
Central Schools, Belle Sherman
and Boynton, Maxwell is concerned that students in lowincome areas aren’t getting the
support they need. “My big interest in equity is in literacy. If every
kid can read we’re not going to
have the achievement gap we have
now.”
Elizabeth Kunz is the parent of
a third-grader at Beverly J. Martin
School and president of the
school’s PTA. “We need to compensate for the inequities kids face
outside school by adjusting the
curriculum, having smaller class
sizes and by having a curriculum
that’s more approachable,” she
says.
Kunz cites the equity issue as
one that has the most resonance
for her. “Equity is first and foremost. The district is not doing a
good job giving everyone an equal
opportunity,” she says. Although
the playing field outside the
schools is not level for all kids,
within the schools there’s an
opportunity to counteract that, she
contends. “Six hours is a huge part
of their day. They take the school
home with them.”
Robert DeLuca, the current
board president, is running for a
second three-year term. Citing a
30-year career in public service,
including serving as commissioner of mental health for Tompkins
County, DeLuca is most interested
in the equity goals. “Public schools
enable the existence of a fair, free
and democratic society,” he says.
“A quality education is the right of
all citizens. We ask the school district to find, with community partners, strategies that mitigate the
effects of poverty, historical
racism and the challenges of disabilities so that these factors are
no longer determining variables of
academic and co-curricular performance.”
DeLuca also has an interest in
following through with the extensive facilities bond project the
board sent to voters. “I want to
help shepherd these projects to
fruition. This will require the
board funding essential programs
carefully while looking for effective programs and efficiencies to
offset additional taxes from the
bond.”
Bradley Grainger, who has
served as a volunteer (unelected)
on the district’s audit committee,
cites a high level of involvement
with school issues and feels it is
time to do take his turn on the
school board. “I’ve been involved
in various things in the district for
years. Part of my running for the
board is the sense that it’s time to
get on the other side of the table,”
he says. “It’s easy to decide what to
do if you’re sitting in the audience.”
Grainger has a global interest in
school issues but also offers his
background in construction lending. “I work in finance and lending
and I bring skills as far as overseeing the facilities bond issues,” he
says.
Robert Ainslie grew up on a
dairy farm in Enfield and graduated from Ithaca High in the class of
1974. He was captain of the football team and went on to play football for Cornell. After many years
of farming, Ainslie is a financial
advisor with Merrill Lynch. “I
publicly and actively worked for
the bond,” he says. “I want to make
sure that the process is done correctly and equitably. None of the
projects are etched in stone.
Decisions still need to be made.”
Lansing Loses a Popular Principal
As Earlene Carr leaves her job as
principal at the R.C. Buckley
Elementary School in Lansing this
summer, her legacy might be hard to
pin down. She is described as a
dynamo, a people person and an
energetic supporter of teachers and
kids who is witty, charming, stylish
and focused. She favors words like
“exhilarating,” “exciting” and
“proud,” perhaps a reflection of the
values and spirit that others say she
has brought to the school.
And she likes to laugh. “If you
can’t laugh, then it’s a dull day. It
makes difficult things a little more
palatable,” says Carr. Still, her
morning mantra, issued in early
announcements day after day, might
be among her most enduring contributions. “Remember, kids,” Carr
would say over the loudspeaker system. “It’s cold outside. Please dress
in layers today.”
It became an in-joke, Lansing
Mark
Lewis
superintendent
explains. “She said it so many times,
the kids really got the message, but
we kind of tease her about it.”
Maybe, for all that, the last day of
school this year should be “Dress In
Layers Day,” as a tribute to a the
interim principal who couldn’t seem
to find an exit, stayed three years
and made an impression on everybody. This was, in fact, one of those
reports where you had to ask,
“What’s the funniest Ms. Carr
moment you remember?” But there
were so many they seemed to collapse into a Ms. Carr blur.
She could keep the school board in
pitched laughter throughout her
Photo provided
By Anthony Hall
Earlene Carr
reports on the school, pausing in the
patter to make sure, with great
emphasis, that teachers and kids got
the praise she felt they deserved. In
faculty meetings, irrepressible and
inimitable, “She keeps things lively
and moving, and her wit definitely
comes out,” says third-grade teacher
Sherry Williams, who has been with
the district for 23 years.
As experienced as that seems,
when Williams was considering a
move from second to third grades a
few years ago, looping for a year
(staying with the same kids) to make
the transition, it was a difficult, personal decision to make, she recalls.
“It was something I wrestled with.
Did I really want to do that? Ms. Carr
made me feel the positives of that.
She was extremely supportive, and
helped me come to a decision,” saya
Williams, who made the transition
successfully.
Art teacher Jessica Stratton saya
Carr is extremely supportive of the
school’s art program, arranging at
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one point to have size-appropriate
tables delivered to the art room. But
then, Stratton says that Carr quickly
decided, all in fun, that the art
teacher was suffering from a
“Cinderella complex” because she
had to have the right tables.
In return, Stratton, who also started at Lansing three years ago,
begged Carr to stay on board. In fact,
the elementary school art show will
be a dedication to Carr’s departure
at the end of the year. It is a surprise
event “with adorable drawings the
kids all made for her,” Stratton says.
“And she could be an art teacher
with those beautiful clothes she
wears,” Stratton adds.
Her emphasis on art, theater and
music were meant, “to level the playing field for a lot of kids,” Carr says.
As an interim principal, Carr
seemed caught in a time loop, or a
Groundhog’s Day scenario at
Lansing, staying on year after year
to maintain some stability in a district that was having trouble keeping administrators on board. In the
past five years there have been five
changes in the superintendent’s
office and four different elementary
school principals, including Carr.
Every year, with departures at the
top, the school board asked Carr to
stay. With some stability in hand,
the district announced that Chris
Pettograsso, the director of curriculum and professional development
at the Watkins Glenn Central School
District, would take over as principal on July 1.
“Well, you know what? There
comes a time to depart and a time to
ride your charger out, so that you
don’t have to ride the junk wagon
out,” says Carr. Carr, in her fashion,
“has been extremely welcoming to
me and has already included me on
some decision making at Lansing,”
Pettograsso says.
Lewis is excited about the new
principal. “She comes extremely
well recommended from the people
at Watkins Glenn,” he says. But
everyone acknowledges that Carr is
a tough act to follow. Everyone, that
is, except for Carr herself.
“It’s been exhilarating and a lot of
fun, seeing kids progress and grow,”
says Carr, who grew up in
Pennsylvania, went to Penn State
and began teaching second grade in
East Orange, N.J. When she moved
to New York, she subbed in Ithaca,
taught reading in Dryden and then
became the K-3 principal there.
When she retired, her career seemed
only to begin again, including several interim positions in Ithaca before
coming to Lansing.
She is at the point now where you
want to ask, like a baseball player
often traded, which uniform she
would like to pose in for her plaque
in the hall of fame. But she says the
R.C. Buckley Elementary School
was already a gem before she got
there.
“I’ve had such a rewarding experience here, and such cooperation
with staff and between staff,” she
says. “But you know, I’m gracious
about the fact that I really didn’t do
anything. I just came in here and
tried to lead these things on because
they were already here. I just tried to
make sure they were in place a little
tighter, but the essence was already
here.”
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Concert Highlights Local Poverty Issue
The fickle spring weather held out
for Ithaca’s first “Rock Against
Poverty” concert on the Commons,
an event highlighting a problem
throughout the county and sponsored by the Tompkins County
Worker’s
Center,
Alternatives
Federal Credit Union, Neighborhood Legal Services, Loaves and
Fishes, Model Citizen, Beyond the
Wall and a slew of Ithaca College
organizations.
“Turnout is OK,” says IC junior
and member of Students for
Economic Equality Dan Carrion during the gathering held on Sunday,
April 29. “We are getting a lot of foot
traffic and raising [the walkers’]
awareness, which is the most important thing.” The event featured live
music and speakers throughout the
day. Dozens of event volunteers,
adorned in spray painted T-shirts,
buzzed around the Bernie Milton
Pavilion making posters and answering questions.
Placards were designed to capture
the attention of passersby with factoids like “1 in 8 children in
Tompkins County lives in poverty”
and “Sustainability is the opposite of
poverty,” written in bright neon
paint. Event organizer Pete Meyers
expresses pride in the volunteers’
efforts. “The idea of college students
taking a role in the community is
always good and, unfortunately, relatively rare,” he says. “I am proud this
was their expression on how to end
poverty.”
Musicians included Ayurveda,
Jimkata, and Adam Day. The music
spanned genres with pop-acoustic
Photo by Andres Perez-Charneco
By Andres Perez-Charneco
Kendra Lynn, left, a senior at Ithaca College, was among the student volunteers making
signs for both the anti-poverty and immigrants rights rallies.
guitar, R & B, hip-hop and blues-rock
filling the air. Music coordinator
Christian Debrigard, an IC senior,
proposed the idea of a benefit
through his role in the Ithaca
Achievement Program, a multicultural scholars effort. “[I] wanted the
music to appeal to the diversity of
the audience walking on the
Commons,” says Debrigard. “A concert on the Commons gets a lot more
people than a benefit event at a club.”
The gathering also included a
donation drive to benefit Sarah
Carthon, a local woman raising her
six grandchildren alone, a crafts
table, spontaneous sidewalk art and
the aforementioned awareness campaign. “Awareness is my key focus as
it must come before anything else
and before true change can occur,”
says Melanie Serrou, an IC sociology
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major, intern at the Worker’s Center
and member of SEE-IC.
Organizers emphasized the differences between urban and rural
poverty, the latter being of greatest
concern in Tompkins County. “In a
bigger city, poverty is a lot more in
your face,” says Meyers, who then
cites the limited public transportation options in this area, which
forces all to buy or rely on a car, as an
example of the difference between
the two classes of poverty. But
Meyers also lauded the availability of
human services organizations within the county, which help the poor get
back on their feet.
While the event raised $1,011
through donations, 75 percent of
which will go to Carthon and 25 percent will go to the Worker’s Center,
Serrou reiterates the educational
goal. “That is not to say that we want
to say that charity is the answer to
poverty and our goal for the concert,
because it is not.” Instead, she says,
the concert emphasized the adoption
of a living wage by all county
employers. The living wage for a single person in Tompkins County is
$20,450 a year, roughly $9.83 per hour
with employer-sponsored health
care. Without healthcare, the county
living wages jumps to $11.18 per
hour.
“We are trying to get people who
work and aren’t on a living wage
angry enough that they begin to ask
for it,” says Meyers, summarizing
the main point of his speech to the
audience. He challenged local big
businesses to pay their employers a
living wage since the smaller, local
competition could.
Carthon and Serrou also spoke,
relating their own experience as a
single mother and a student working
her way through college, respectively, to their efforts in combating
poverty. Serrou dismissed the catcalls of sporadic naysayers who
claimed the event did little to actually combat county poverty. “If [the
concert] makes a difference in at
least one person’s life then that is
what is important. I know it will
make a difference to Sarah [Carthon]
and already has,” she says.
The Tompkins County Worker’s
Center also sponsored a May 1
Immigrants Rights rally on the
Commons. While organizers agreed
that issues of immigration (legal and
illegal) relate to poverty, the events
were not related. “They are not really meant to play off one another,
though they do nicely,” says Serrou.
By Sue Henninger
What are the youth of Trumansburg
and
Ulysses
up
to?
Elementary school students recently completed their first “Math-AThon.” Principal Carolyn Lange
notes that the students kicked off
the event with a Family Festival
night, featuring literacy activities,
a family wellness area and math
games such as an “estimation station” and a replica store.
The Math-A-Thon involved discovering how many math problems
elementary students could solve in
a week. Kindergartners through
fourth-graders were offered a variety of sheets of math problems,
ranging from simple to more complex, to fill out at whatever pace
they chose. Lange states that the
response was “amazing” and that
she did not anticipate the level of
excitement that built around the
event as the week went on. “We
worked our fingers to the bone, getting teams of parents to come in to
correct and count the sheets in the
morning and afternoon so we could
give the kids the total number of
problems solved each day”, she
says.
Lange also notes that students
initiated much of the math-related
activities, arriving early and staying after school to pick up extra
sheets. Suzanne Kuntz of the
Family Math Partnership agrees
that the “kids were going wild,”
especially upon learning that the
grand total of problems solved all
week was 51,129.
Kuntz, whose goal is to encourage math literacy in students of all
ages, believes that the event was
successful because, “There were so
many different types of math problems offered that students could
choose a comfortable level to practice their math skills at and thus
become excited, rather than frustrated, about doing the problems.”
Many feel that skateboarding is
so
the
local
an
artform,
Conservatory of Fine Arts was an
appropriate venue for boarders and
their supporters to hold a
“Celebration and Rally.” Skateboarding Information, food, live
music and a number of raffles,
including one for a year of homemade pies and one for a discounted
tattoo from Sacred Art in Cortland,
were offered all day.
There were also photos of local
skateboarders
Luke
Thomas,
Sawyer Fritz, Jake McClain, Tyler
Higbee and Matt King in action.
The photos were taken by Alan
Thomas using a special camera
lens and displayed throughout the
conservatory. A Powerpoint presentation highlighting the Skate Park
Committee’s activities was also
presented, along with a video of
Mack Zaharis, one of the group’s
original members.
Event organizers Kim Boland
and Mary Bouchard report that
attendance was steady, with people
coming and going all day. Bouchard
adds that although she invited village and town officials, because
“they say that they want to learn
more about the Skate Park and we
had lots of educational materials,
pictures and videos here”, only
town board member Roxanne
Merino attended. Debbie Thomas
feels that the event was successful
as a number of donations and suggestions were received. To learn
more about the project visit
www.kaboom.org/tburgskatepark.
On a global level, the high school
Model
United
Nations
and
Amnesty
International
clubs
recently returned from a “Get on
the Bus” day in New York City. The
GOTB Web site (www.gotb.org)
describes the 12th annual event as
“one full day of human rights
action and education.”
The first GOTB trip was offered
in 1996 and it has continued to grow
each year, both in size and scope of
activity. The success is primarily
due to “young people who feel that
they can make the world a better
place through learning about global issues and injustices and speaking out about them,” the organization states. For some students, this
was their first time to make the
trip, while others, like John
Murphy, Jake Sheavly and Kim
Hall, have done it for several years.
Hannah Parker-Carver says that
she has attended similar gatherings with her family and that she
plans to continue her activism as
an adult.
The day begins with either a
guided tour of the United Nations
or listening to human rights speakers
such
as
Margaret
Satterthwaite, co-director of the
International Human Rights Clinic
and one of the faculty directors of
the Center for Human Rights and
Youth Think, Act Locally and Globally
Kimbly Boland, Trumansburg Skate Park Committee member, displays the logo on skate
park T-shirts and hoodies that were for sale at the Skate Park Celebration and Rally at
the Trumansburg Conservatory of Fine Arts.
Global Justice at New York
University’s School of Law. The students found that Adriana PortilloBartow, a survivor of the war in
Guatemala and also one of the
plaintiffs in a lawsuit filed in
Spanish courts against Rios Montt
and other military and government
officials, to be an effective speaker.
Later, the Amnesty and Model
UN groups, along with students
from throughout the Northeast,
participated in demonstrations for
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Innovative Tree Nursery Takes Root
On Route 13 in Dryden, hoop greenhouses are springing up on 159
acres where RPM Ecosystems is
building its first growing center, a
nursery specializing in native
hardwood trees. RPM stands for
root production method, the company’s proprietary and innovative
technology that accelerates growth
rates and survivability of many
plant species but whose biggest
promise lies in forestry restoration
and conservation.
Spokesperson Leslie Carrere
says the Dryden site will be the
new company’s international headquarters. “There will be different
centers built in the future, but this
will be the main campus, the main
center, and within this center there
will also be an educational center.”
RPM Ecosystems seems to be
everywhere at once. They supplied
shade for Al Gore at an April
Enviro-fair
in
Buffalo.
In
December they delivered live oak
trees to New Orleans, which should
be full-grown in 20 years instead of
the usual 60, much to the delight of
folks who thought they’d never see
live oaks again in their neighborhoods battered by Hurricane
Katrina. Even the oaks of Central
Park in New York City are getting
help.
Wayne Lovelace, a Missouri
nurseryman, invented the RPM
system 20 years ago, gathering
seeds within 200 miles of the target
site. Lovelace found that his
method of greenhouse nutrition,
husbandry and air pruning of
roots resulted in a root biomass 18
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May 7
Photo by Tina Wright
By Tina Wright
Wayne Lovelace, inventor of the RPM system, with some of his large three-year-old oaks.
times that of conventional trees,
which is especially helpful with
native hardwoods that are difficult
to transplant, With no genetic modification and all natural selection,
the RPM process claims 90 percent
survivability and something close
to magical growth rates in trees,
even after transplant, three times
faster than conventional trees. A 20
year-old oak started the RPM way
is as big as a 60 year-old conventional oak. You can use 50 RPM
transplants or 400 to 500 bare-root
trees to get the same forest canopy,
according to company studies.
Marvin and P.J. Marshall of
Toronto formed a partnership with
Wayne and Judy Lovelace and
their Forest Keeling nursery in
Missouri. Now Ithacans, the
Marshalls plan to build a house on
the Dryden site in the future. Tom
Atkins and Laurie Bethke, directors of nursery and field operations, relocated from Missouri to
get the new nursery up and running. With a basic staff of 12 and
others being hired for the growing
season, Carrere says, “Things are
well
underway.
Our
pretty
seedlings are already upsizing to
the milk carton stage. We will ship
500,000 trees this year.” RPM plans
to double tree production next year
and get to about 50 employees during the busiest time.
Part of their farm is on wetlands, and Virgil Creek runs
through the property. Carrere says,
“We want to use our wetlands as an
educational demonstration as well.
We plan to restore them, clear out a
lot of the invasive species and
replant them in a way that really is
a showcase for how to restore a
wetland to its best state possible.”
“Our main mission is wholesale
restoration conservation efforts,”
she explains. “And we’re involved
with many different kinds of projects
right
now,
from
the
Mississippi and Louisiana coasts,
to the Mohawk River Valley, to putting back trees in Central Park that
can adapt to the conditions there. A
lot of the challenge in restoration
is survival in difficult conditions.”
Clearly, RPM feels it has the key
to tree and forest survival and
rapid restoration. Their trees are
framing large-scale restoration
projects by park systems, cities and
agencies like the U.S. Department
of Agriculture, the U.S. Army
Corps of Engineers and Soil and
Water Conservation.
Moving from global to local,
RPM is selling six trees to local
people this spring: the Big Red oak,
pin oak, swamp white oak, sugar
maple and red maple. The company
is located at 2150 Dryden Road
(Route 13) near George Road. The
Big Red Oak campaign started with
5,000 acorns collected from
Cornell’s grounds. RPM is growing
the Big Red trees for sale to the
Cornell community, and this project will fund improvements at the
Cornell Plantations.
Ithaca City forester Andy
Hillman was first exposed to RPM
10 years ago in Missouri when he
visited the nursery there. “I saw
Moving Around Town Gets Greener
By Jennifer Dotson
This is the latest installment in our
Signs of Sustainability series.
Any way you go, there are more and
sustainable,
low-carbon
more
for
getting
around
options
Tompkins County. Click on your
bike helmet, lace your shoes, buckle
your seatbelt, flash your bus pass
(or $1.50) and you’ll travel in good
company. Not to mention you’ll
avoid construction-related backups.
Hoof It
Walking in Ithaca should get easier
with the city’s new and dedicated
sidewalk crew. Lynne Yost of the
engineer’s office says a first focus is
new walkways along Elmira
Road/Route 13 south. City code
requires property owners to clear
sidewalks of snow, ice and other
obstructions. Several city departments, including public works,
building and police, work to keep
walks clear of summer obstructions such as bushes, trash and
parked cars.
On the Bus
By fall, there will be six 40 percent
more efficient hybrid TCAT buses.
Soy-based fuel will power the fleet:
200,000 gallons of B5 biodiesel.
Semester and summer youth passes
make the bus more affordable,
either a $30 five-month semester
pass or all three summer months
for $50. Updated schedules and construction routes are at www.tcatbus.com, or call 277-7433 (weekdays).
Pedal Power
Those who are ready for the wind
rushing past on a bike should be
sure to check their equipment
before pedaling away. Recycle
Ithaca’s Bicycles (RIBs) shares tools
and skills to get that bike that’s
been parked in the basement or
garage rideable. Newly settled in a
repurposed brick pumping station
at Buffalo and Meadow streets, the
Southside
Community
offsite
Center program is open Thursdays
from 5 to 8 p.m. and Saturdays from
noon to 3 p.m.
Open shop has been a mainstay
for RIBs, staffed by volunteers with
bike repair experience. No cash is
needed; the RIBs economy works in
volunteer hours. Parts, time using
tools and even complete bicycles
are “paid” in time. Volunteers don’t
need bike repair skills, as RIBs outfits the new space and labor of all
kinds is welcome. More information and a wish list are at
ribs.velonet.org (shop phone 2565355).
Valet bike parking will return for
a third year at the Ithaca Festival
on Sunday, June 3, at Stewart Park,
providing secure parking for those
cycling to the park. Look for details
in Festival materials. To volunteer,
contact Jennifer Dotson at [email protected].
Ten Miles on a Trail
Can you imagine walking from
Trumansburg to Ithaca? The Black
Diamond
Trail
Enthusiasts
Network (BDTEN) can. A March 31
workday drew 38 people for trail
maintenance. New York State is
planning further trail construction,
and
BDTEN
organizer
Jan
Zeserson expects a public hearing
on the trail master plan this summer. “It’s critical that trail enthusiasts show up in large numbers to
register their support,” she says.
For details contact [email protected].
The Cayuga Waterfront Trail has
a new trailhead at the Ithaca
Farmers’ Market, and soon another
will be established west of
Taughannock Boulevard on Buffalo
Street in Ithaca. Waterfront history
kiosks near benches make these
good spots for a rest during a walk
or ride (www.cayugawaterfronttrail.org).
Baby, You Can Drive My Car
Tompkins Weekly readers are well
aware that the county extends
beyond the city limits, and some
trips are easiest by car. Ithaca
Carshare continues to work
toward local carsharing. Members
will have convenient access to wellmaintained cars and avoid the
unpredictable expenses and hassles of car ownership. Plans call
for cars in convenient locations
downtown, in residential neighborhoods and on the Cornell and
Ithaca College campuses by year’s
end. Members will reserve the cars
by internet or phone, then use an
Ithaca Carshare key fob to get in
and drive off, paying by the hour
and mile. Studies show that carshares save users money and
reduce the environmental impacts
of driving. Find a car cost calculator at www.ithacacarshare.org.
Jennifer Dotson is Ithaca
Carshare’s executive director, and
works with the city’s Bicycle/
Pedestrian
Advocacy
Council
(bpac.rockwren.us/wiki) and many
other groups on sustainable transportation.
Help Sought in Monitoring Streams
Throughout Tompkins County and
into adjacent counties, volunteers
play an important role monitoring
water quality in local streams flowing into Cayuga Lake. The
Community Science Institute and
Cornell Cooperative Extension of
Tompkins County will offer an orientation for those interested in
joining a volunteer monitoring
group on Wednesday, May 23, from 6
to 8 p.m.
Participants will learn about the
role of monitoring in protecting
water quality, sampling techniques,
how to make sense of the data and
how to join a volunteer group mon-
itoring water quality in the Cayuga
Inlet, Fall, Salmon, Six Mile,
Taughannock,and Trumansburg
creeks, or the youth 4-H2O
Monitors Club.
The session will begin in the
lower level conference room of the
Henry Saint John Building on the
corner of South Geneva and West
Clinton Streets in Ithaca. It will
include walking three blocks to Six
Mile Creek for an outdoor segment.
Indoor and outdoor portions will
take place rain or shine, and participants should dress for the weather.
Register by calling 272-2292 or email [email protected].
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May 7
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Briefly...
Breast Cancer Alliance Sets Open House
In appreciation of the community support that turned their new building into a welcoming residence, and to invite the community to visit and
see what the Ithaca Breast Cancer Alliance offers the community in the
way of supports and information, an open house will be held on May 23
from noon to 8 p.m. at 612 W. State St. in Ithaca.
Jean McPheeters, the executive director of the chamber of commerce
will join in a ribbon-cutting ceremony at 5 p.m. Members of the local
plumbers’, carpenters’, laborers’ and electrician’s unions and their families are especially invited, after donating hundreds of hours and materials to rehab the building.
For more information call 277-0960 or visit www.ibca.net.
Street Beat
The word on the street from around
Tompkins county.
By Kathy Morris
Question: Why do you think that
we’re in Iraq?
“With so many lives lost, it’s a
tragedy — but I have no good
idea.”
‘Outstanding Women’ to Be Recognized
In coordination with its Women’s Expo 2007, the Cayuga Radio Group is
honoring “20 Outstanding Women You Should Know.” The women, representing a wide range of backgrounds and careers, will be honored during
a ceremony at the Ithaca Hilton Garden Inn.
The inaugural group of “20 Outstanding Women You Should Know”
includes Melinda Sue Alvich, Colleen Barnes, Jalaja Bonheim, Marian
Brown, Jennifer Engel, Shawn Galbreath, Peggy Haine, Brigid
Hubberman, Laurie Linn, Ruth Lucas, Maj. Deborah Lugiano, Jemma
Macera, Terry Martinez, LaBerta McGruder, Alice Reid, Constance V.A.
Thompson, Catherine Valentino, Marianne Dougan Varn, Anke Wessels
and Lori Westervelt.
Women’s Expo 2007 will be held from 4 to 8 p.m. on Thursday, May 10.
The event is free and open to the public.
- Steve Rae, Vermont
“Favoring interest groups
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- Kuei-Chiu Chen, Ithaca
“I don’t think there’s a simple
answer. The federal government perhaps needed a target
after 9/11.”
- Karen Creenan, Lansing
“I was in the military.
Personally, I think we were
lied to. I think we’re trying
to make up for what his
father wasn’t able to do.”
- George English, Freeville
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By Ann Krajewski
For those seeking information
about the history of Slaterville
Springs or Brooktondale in the
Town of Caroline, there's a good
chance that local resident Molly
Adams has the answers they are
looking for. Adams has lived in her
Valley Road home since 1963, and in
those 44 years she has made many
contributions of time and talent to
her community, including work
with the town's fundraising committees, government and charities.
Sitting down for a chat with
Adams is like cracking open a verbal time capsule and listening to its
contents, but she is much more
than a walking resource library
with a civic mind; she's a passionate preservationist.
“I’m the one who came up with
the idea to buy the [former gas station] Midnight Sun for the Caroline
Town Hall,” says Adams, while sitting in her breezeway sewing floral
appliqués on a square of fabric,
“because among other reasons,
there’s a shortage of room in the
existing building and we most definitely don’t want to alter it. This
landmark was built in 1869 and
used to be the Slaterville school for
elementary through high school
grades.”
There’s a good reason for Adams
to feel that way, because, as
Caroline volunteer Pat Brhel says,
“It was Molly who was responsible
for getting the town hall on the
National Register of Historic
Buildings, as well as making sure
the soaring original arched windows remained.”
When the town board voted to
replace the windows, Adams
sprang into action. “I did a naughty
thing,” she says with a laugh. “I
wrote an opinion piece in the local
daily newspaper saying that [the
windows] shouldn’t be taken out,
because doing that would destroy
the historic character of the town
hall. So between inertia and not
having enough money, the windows
remained. Then I got some grants
to pay for necessary improvements
on them. By doing this the building
retained enough of the original elements to petition for it to be on the
National Register.”
While securing the town hall's
future, Adams also played an active
Photo by Ann Krajewski
Keeping Tabs on Town’s Best Interests
Molly Adams works on a section of the next
Brooktondale quilt.
role in celebrating its past, as she
was a key member of Caroline’s
Bicentennial committee. Festivities
took place in 1994 and lasted well
into the next year with parades and
memorials. One of Adams’ most
important contributions to the
events involved extensive research
using local archives and sifting
through endless documents which
she painstakingly organized to create the markers that stand at locations of historical significance,
specifically the Old Mill, the
Brooktondale trestle and Besemer
Station. “Historic markers are like
poetry to me,” she muses, “and you
have to get a whole story in about
five lines.”
Such writing talents also served
her well in writing and editing the
local newsletter and contributing a
chapter on Caroline to the locally
book
“Towns
of
published
Tompkins County.” She, along with
Brhel, Barbara Kone and others,
has been instrumental over the last
decade in identifying the individuals in photographs that are an
important part in the history room
in Caroline.
On the civic end, Adams has
served as a past member of the
town board, attending meetings on
behalf
of
the Brooktondale
Community Center and summarizing the minutes (a post from which
she retired last month) since 1989.
She also has been a member of
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By Ann Krajewski
For those seeking information
about the history of Slaterville
Springs or Brooktondale in the
Town of Caroline, there's a good
chance that local resident Molly
Adams has the answers they are
looking for. Adams has lived in her
Valley Road home since 1963, and in
those 44 years she has made many
contributions of time and talent to
her community, including work
with the town's fundraising committees, government and charities.
Sitting down for a chat with
Adams is like cracking open a verbal time capsule and listening to its
contents, but she is much more
than a walking resource library
with a civic mind; she's a passionate preservationist.
“I’m the one who came up with
the idea to buy the [former gas station] Midnight Sun for the Caroline
Town Hall,” says Adams, while sitting in her breezeway sewing floral
appliqués on a square of fabric,
“because among other reasons,
there’s a shortage of room in the
existing building and we most definitely don’t want to alter it. This
landmark was built in 1869 and
used to be the Slaterville school for
elementary through high school
grades.”
There’s a good reason for Adams
to feel that way, because, as
Caroline volunteer Pat Brhel says,
“It was Molly who was responsible
for getting the town hall on the
National Register of Historic
Buildings, as well as making sure
the soaring original arched windows remained.”
When the town board voted to
replace the windows, Adams
sprang into action. “I did a naughty
thing,” she says with a laugh. “I
wrote an opinion piece in the local
daily newspaper saying that [the
windows] shouldn’t be taken out,
because doing that would destroy
the historic character of the town
hall. So between inertia and not
having enough money, the windows
remained. Then I got some grants
to pay for necessary improvements
on them. By doing this the building
retained enough of the original elements to petition for it to be on the
National Register.”
While securing the town hall's
future, Adams also played an active
Photo by Ann Krajewski
Keeping Tabs on Town’s Best Interests
Molly Adams works on a section of the next
Brooktondale quilt.
role in celebrating its past, as she
was a key member of Caroline’s
Bicentennial committee. Festivities
took place in 1994 and lasted well
into the next year with parades and
memorials. One of Adams’ most
important contributions to the
events involved extensive research
using local archives and sifting
through endless documents which
she painstakingly organized to create the markers that stand at locations of historical significance,
specifically the Old Mill, the
Brooktondale trestle and Besemer
Station. “Historic markers are like
poetry to me,” she muses, “and you
have to get a whole story in about
five lines.”
Such writing talents also served
her well in writing and editing the
local newsletter and contributing a
chapter on Caroline to the locally
book
“Towns
of
published
Tompkins County.” She, along with
Brhel, Barbara Kone and others,
has been instrumental over the last
decade in identifying the individuals in photographs that are an
important part in the history room
in Caroline.
On the civic end, Adams has
served as a past member of the
town board, attending meetings on
behalf
of
the Brooktondale
Community Center and summarizing the minutes (a post from which
she retired last month) since 1989.
She also has been a member of
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May 7
Hot Fuzz: Fun with Guys with Guns
By Nicolas Nicastro
Recent events in Virginia and
Iraq have put “Guys With Guns”
back on the agenda. The Justice
Department reports that over the
last 28 years, more than 91 percent of gun-related murders in
the U.S. were perpetrated by
guys. Almost 83 percent of the
victims were also guys. If “Guys
with Guns” were a new product
being tested for safety today, their
makers would be laughed out of
court. If the problem was conceived like any other social issue
in America, there would be an
official “War on Guys with
Guns.”
And so, while a light-hearted
spoof like Edgar Wright’s Hot
Fuzz provokes its share of
laughs, the laughs now have a
decidedly hollow ring. This isn’t
the movie’s fault. For their part,
Wright and partner Simon Pegg
are only trying to do for the shoot
’em up potboiler what they did
for the zombie thriller in Shaun
of the Dead — satirizing a popular genre by replicating it, only in
the twee, eccentric context of
modern Britain. The result is as
bizarre as staging the gunfight at
the OK Corral in an assisted living center in Coral Gables, Fla.
Pegg plays Nicholas Angel, a
super-gung-ho London cop. Angel
has an arrest record 400 percent
higher than the department average, but this earns him no grati-
Photo provided
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Edgar Wright. Written by Edgar
Wright and Simon Pegg. At
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Simon Pegg and Nick Frost demonstrate the proper technique in Hot Fuzz.
tude at Scotland Yard, where his
gaudy competence only serves to
make his colleagues look bad. Put
to pasture in the quiet “model village” of Sandford, Angel finds an
admirer in pudgy PC Danny
Butterman (Nick Frost), but not
much street action. When an
apparently unrelated string of
townspeople turn up grotesquely
dead, the local cops prefer to
think of them as accident victims. PC Angel suspects worse.
As he investigates, he loosens up
enough to teach PC Butterman
such essential skills as how shoot
two pistols while flying through
the air and how to suck a toothpick while mowing down the bad
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There’s a story here, and even
a character or two, but the real
pleasure is the way the movie
riffs on the bottomless legacy of
testosterone-fueled actioners. At
one point, PC Butterman actually
tries to reassure Angel by telling
him, á la the end of Chinatown,
“Forget
it
Nicholas,
it’s
Sandford.” At least in that
instance Wright and Pegg are satirizing a good movie — in this
universe, so-bad-they’re-good cult
favorites like Point Break and
Bad Boys also rise to the level of
fundamental texts.
All of this seems like a thin
foundation on which to build a
movie that runs more than two
hours. Sure enough, Hot Fuzz
drags mightily in the second act,
only salvaging itself with a brilliantly realized 15-minute outburst of comic gunplay to close
the story. If there can be such a
thing as a sarcastic action
sequence, Wright and Pegg actually find a way. But the whole
thing seems just a little overstretched.
This kind of spoof is more
clever than new. Shaun of the
Dead was funny, but hardly anything unique — people have been
poking fun at zombie horrors for
as long as George Romero has
making
them.
(Dan
been
O’Bannon’s Return of the Living
Dead is funnier than Shaun, and
came out about 20 years earlier.)
Likewise, I’m not sure in what
universe a send-up of he-man
action flicks counts as something
fresh, but it surely isn’t the universe we live in. Indeed, it’s
almost impossible to explain how
schlock-slingers like Michael Bay
and Tony Scott can live with
themselves without believing
they are also satirizing the genre,
at least on some level. Is it really
necessary to lampoon something
that insists on lampooning itself ?
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Tompkins Weekly
May 7
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Famous Staged Debate Still Resonates
Poor Charles Darwin. All this fairly
unassuming English naturalist of
the Victorian Era wanted to do was
make a thorough scientific study of
nature and report on what he
observed. When Darwin finally did
publish the results of his decades of
research in 1859, under the title of
“On the Origin of Species,” the cultural response was beyond even his
keen mind.
Various political groups took
Darwin’s concept of how organisms strive to be the ones to survive
and reproduce their species and
turned it into an excuse to create
oppressive dictatorships. Others
took the theory of evolution as a
personal affront both to their religion and their God. Feeling reduced
to the role of mere creatures in an
indifferent Universe, many labeled
the man who disliked confrontation
as a tool of Satan, or even the devil
Incarnate himself.
Why is the concept of evolution,
among all the fields of science
developed over the centuries, still
among the hottest of the hot buttons that stir up society to this very
day?
This question and other themes
were explored in the play “Inherit
the Wind,” recently performed at
Cornell’s Schwartz Center for the
Performing Arts. The play, written
by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E.
Lee and first performed in 1955, is a
fictionalized version of the events
of the famous Scopes “Monkey
Trial” of 1925, in which a
Tennessee high school biology
teacher was arrested for teaching
evolution to his class in the town of
Photo by Andrew Gillis
By Larry Klaes
Ed Schiff, left, and J.G. Hertzler play attorneys Clarence Darrow and William Jennings
Bryan in “Inherit the Wind.”
Hillsboro, which was against state
law.
The actors delivered fine performances, from the two main
lawyers in the trial — Ed Schiff as
Matthew Harrison Brady and J. G.
Hertzler as Henry Drummond — to
the children in various bit parts.
While “Inherit the Wind” does
have some interesting people in its
story, most of them are essentially
God-fearing Christians with rudimentary educations. Outsiders
such as Drummond, the defense
lawyer hired to represent the
accused teacher Bertram Cates
(played by Ansel Brasseur), may be
intelligent and shrewd fellows, but
to the townsfolk they are perceived
in the same light as Darwin: agents
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of evil out to corrupt the very
moral fiber of the community.
Why are so many people and
whole communities and institutions in this country against biological evolution, despite the strong
scientific evidence in its favor?
What is it about Darwin’s ideas that
upsets people not only in 1925
Tennessee, but also in modern day
Dover, Pa., and the Kansas Board of
Education, where these groups
tried to make evolution just one
method for the development of life
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while the concept of everything
being composed of incredibly tiny
particles called atoms or the formation of the Universe from a Big
Bang of primordial matter does
not?
One answer lies in the reaction to
what many see as a demotion of our
species by evolution. In the Bible,
humans are just below the angels in
the Christian hierarchy, while evolution claims that we evolved from
the “lower” creatures on this planet. Even a kinship to some of the
more advanced organisms, namely
the primates, does not bring any
emotional comfort to those who
believe they came straight from a
divine God with no biological middle steps along the way.
Even when religiously devout
creationists such as Brady are confronted by Drummond with scientific evidence, and are shown the
logical fallacies of certain parts of
the Bible, Brady and the rest of
Hillsboro remain adherents to their
Christian faith. The townsfolk may
not be the most worldly of people,
but neither are they fools; so why
do they persist in a philosophy and
way of life that may not be a reflection of the real world?
Biologist David Sloan Wilson of
Binghamton University may have
one answer to this. Sloan, who
came to talk at Ithaca’s second
annual Darwin Day last February,
thinks that religion serves an evolutionary advantage for a large and
complex species like humanity by
having people function as a united
group with similar modes of
thought and action. Darwin also
thought that beings in groups had a
better chance to survive to reproPlease turn to page 18
How Will You Pay for Retirement Years?
By Greg Garvan
The answer to this familiar question is, “Save more; save more;
save more.” People are retiring
earlier then ever, with more then
50 percent of us collecting Social
Security at age 63; dropping from
the typical retirement at 68.
Pensions used to support many
people, but those funds are drying
up at a quick rate. Which, well,
actually leaves it up to each individual.
Let’s look at some of the
specifics:
Social Security — These benefits are based on earnings averaged over most of a worker’s lifetime. Actual earnings are indexed
to account for changes in average
wages since the year the earnings
were received. Then the government calculates average monthly
indexed earnings during the 35
years in which an individual
earned the most. Then a magic
formula is applied to arrive at the
basic benefit. This is the amount
you receive at full retirement age.
Here is where it gets a little tricky,
because that age varies. Assume
somewhere between 65 and 67 is
the retirement age. Examine the
annual earnings report that
Social Security mails out to each
one of us 90 days before our birthday each year for specifics. This
report shows a calculation of benefits, based on the most recent
information.
Pension — This is a specific
amount of money paid out by a
prior employer. The employer sets
the terms, and while a worker
may have choices about how it is
distributed, the assets of the pension are managed by the employer. Only about 25 percent of us are
covered by pensions, and this figure is in decline.
401k/403b/IRAs, etc. —
Whether we like it or not, as a
country we have moved to a retirement economy based on stock
portfolios, not pensions and social
security. Twice as many people
are covered by 401ks as private
pensions. Many people are busily
adding to their workplace retirement options, as well as Roth
IRAs, traditional IRAs and for the
self- employed a myriad of retirement choices.
With all of these accounts, the
size of retirement income is
dependent on how well the funds
of these accounts are invested and
how well the stocks do in the stock
market. The bottom line is retirement income is more uncertain
than it has been in years. There
are huge liabilities associated
with the requirement that the
individual manages his or her
retirement income upon completion of his or her working years.
For those who weren’t good “do-ityourselfers” in their 30s and 40s,
managing retirement funds probably won’t improve as they age.
What to do — A new study
reports that some people are oversaving for retirement years.
Depending on what retirement
means to an individual, this may
be true. But for most people here
in Ithaca, it’s a good idea to keep
saving through the available
retirement vehicles. Remember
“Save more; save more; save
more,” from the beginning of this
article? It’s still true.
Check the social security annual earnings statement, and make
sure it is correct, as well as
describing
projected
annual
income if it remains steady.
Schedule a meeting with a human
resources retirement specialist, if
applicable. Review retirement
assets, both from current work as
well as any prior work accounts.
Consider consolidating accounts
for more efficient management
when appropriate.
Have a meeting with a
spouse/partner about what retirement means. Will you work until
you are unable to? Want to retire
at 60? Be sure to track current
spending. Then imagine which
costs will still be in place, and
which will be gone, at age 65.
Create a tentative budget for those
years.
Finally, set up an annual review
of all retirement assets and plans.
If changes have occurred, factor
them in.
Greg Garvan is the president of
Money with a Mission/FAFN, in
Ithaca.
Tompkins Weekly
May 7
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May 2007
7 Monday
Australian Environmental Leader
to Speak on Coping with Climate
Change, Tompkins County Human
Services Building, 7-9pm. Rainforest activast John Seed will present “Climate
Change, Despair, & Empowerment”.
Sponosred by BeingChange. Info 2560224 or [email protected].
320 State St
Birding Babylon: A SoldierNaturalist in Iraq, Cornell Lab of
Ornithology, 7:30pm. Jonathan TrouernTrend will discuss the natural history of
Iraq in the context of his deployment and
as a crossroad of familiar paleartic birds as
well as exotic Afrotopical & Oriental avifauna. Info 254-BIRD. Sapsucker Woods Rd
Coffee and Talk Book Club, Lime
Hollow Nature Center. 1st Mondays of the
month 6:30-8pm. Info: 758-5462
Cortland Youth Center Open 129pm. Info: www.cortland.org/youth 7530872
Culturally Sensitive Parenting for
All Parents and Caregivers, Cornell
Cooperative Extension, 6-8pm. Share
your strengths Learn new strategies
(Pyramid of Success, Behavior Charts,
Thinking Persons Approach and more).
Free class, snacks and childcare. Info &
reg 272-2292. 615 Willow Ave.
Downtown Ithaca Comes to Prime
Time
on
WCNY's
Antiques
Roadshow, 8pm. Joe Cassaniti will be
on with a giant Buster Brown display head.
email
Info
[email protected] or 2778679
Safety
Class,
Food
Cornell
Cooperative Extension, 8:30am-5:30pm.
This is the second class of the 16-hour
Servsafe Food Manager Certification
Course offers nationally-recognized certification in food safety. Fee. Info & reg
www.CCETompkins.org or 272-2292. 615
Willow Ave
Friends of the Library Book Sale,
509 Esty St., 10am-8pm. New textbook
section. Children's & adults books, records,
games, puzzles, video's, CD's, DVD's,
computer games & software. Info
www.booksale.org or 272-2223
GED Classes, at GIAC, 9am-12pm.
Free. Info BOCES 273-8804
GED Classes, at TC3 Campus, 11am2pm. Free, Info BOCES 273-8804
GED Classes, at TST Community
School, 5:30-8:30 pm. Free. Info BOCES
273-8804
GED Classes, at Groton Elementaty, 79pm. Free. Info BOCES 273-8804
GIAC Teen Program Game Room,
Video Games, Open Gym & Field Trips 47pm. 318 N. Albany St., Ithaca
Lansing Community Library Center
to Host Open Forum, 7pm. This meeting is being held to share info with the community regarding the vote on May 15th to
establish the library as an inependent
library. Open to all. 27 Auburn Rd
Lifelong, Enhance Fitness at Lifelong
8:30-9:30am, Clay Class 10am-Noon,
Enhance Fitness at Enfield Comm. Center
10:15-11:15am, Enhance Fitness at Titus
Towers 10:30-11:30am, Open Computer
Lab 10:30am-Noon, Strength Training at
Lifelong 12:30-1:30pm, Community Bridge
Group 1-4pm, Enhance Fitness at McGraw
House 2-3pm, Book Discussion: The
Hours 2-4pm, International Folk Dancing 79pm. Info 273-1511. 119 W. Court St.
Open Computer Lab, Lifelong,
10:30am-Noon. Drop in for free internet
access, one-on-one tutoring or computer
help. Beginning and advanced learners
are welcome. Info 273-1511. 119 W.
Court St.
Parenting, The Hardest Job in the
World Workshop Series, Dryden
Elementary School 6-8pm. Learn how to
talk with your children using the skills
Encouragement, Can Do, Choices, Self
Control and Respecting Feelings. Free
class & snacks. Info 272-2292. 36 Union
St., Dryden. Sponsored by Cornell
Cooperative Extension, Dryden Central
School & Dryden PTA
Town of Ithaca Transportation
Plan-Final Public Hearing, Board
Room, Town Hall, 7pm. This hearing will
be the public’s final opportunity to comment on the Plan in its entirety. Info 2731747. 215 N. Tioga St
Yoga for Women in Midlife, Tiamat
Studio, 7-8:30pm. Explore the possiblities
for renewed strength and aliveness, calm
and alert mind, with acceptance and com-
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May 7
passionate awareness. Info 319-4138 or
[email protected] 136 E. State St.,
2nd floor
8 Tuesday
National Teacher’s Day
Arthritis Self-Help Course, Lifelong
1-3pm. April 17 thru May 22. The Finger
Lakes Independence Center and Lifelong
are offering a free 6-week course. Open to
those with any form of arthitis or rheumatic
condition. Reg & info 272-2433. 119 W.
Court St.
Birding in Babylon: A Soldier’s
Journal from Iraq, The Lost Dog Cafe,
7pm. Jonathan Trouern-Trend has been a
birder since a young age, while at the
Anaconda Base in the Sunni Traingle he
saw a number of variety of birds, keeping a
journal of what he saw. Free. Space limited. Info [email protected]. 112
Cayuga St
Business Seminar for the Local
Tourism and Hospitality Industry,
La Tourelle Inn. The Institute for European
Studies at Cornell Univesity is sponsoring
a number of events in celebration of
Europe Day. Info 255-7592 or www.einaudi.cornell.edu/Eurpoe
Choral Union, Dowd FIne Arts Center,
SUNY Cortland, 8pm. Students, faculty,
staff, & members of the community combine to present classical choral singing at
its best. Free & open to all. Info www.cortland.edu or 753-2811
Cortland-Lime Hollow Birding
Group,
Lime Hollow Center for
Environment & Culture, 7pm. Meets 2nd
Tues of the month. Feb thru June. All ages
welcome. 758-5462. 3091 Gracie Rd.,
Cortland
Educator Appreciation Week,
Barnes & Noble, 10am-10pm. Pre-K thru
Grade 12 Educators can get an extra savings on classroom & personal purchases
with a valid Educator Discount Card. Info
273-7296 or www.barnesandnoble.com.
614 S. Meadow St
Evening Wildlife Walks, Cornell
Plantations, 7pm. Tour the woodland pathways and varied plant habitats of the
Mundy Wildflower Garden. Fee. Info 2552400 or www.plantations.cornell.edu. Meet
at the Caldwell Rd.
Free. Info BOCES 273-8804
273-8804
I Can Cope Series, Howell Education
Classroom, Cayuga Medical Center, 4:406:30pm. This is a series of educaitonal
classes for people facing cancer and their
families and caregivers. Dinner provided.
Free. Info & reg 274-4060 or 800-ACS2345
Lifelong, Canceled-Open Computer Lab
9am-Noon, Morning Watercolor Class
9am-Noon,
Strength
Training-St.
Catherine 9:15-10:15am, Community
Walk-Upper Buttermilk State Park 1pm,
Afternoon Watercolor Class 1-4pm,
Arthitis Self-Help Course 1-3:30pm,
Advanced Microsoft Word 1:30-3:30pm.
Info 273-1511. 119 W. Court St.
Open Computer Lab, Lifelong, 9amNoon. Drop in for free internet access,
one-on-one tutoring or computer help.
Beginning and advanced learners are
welcome. Info 273-1511. 119 W. Court St.
PeeWee Naturalists, Cayuga Nature
Center, 10am-Noon. Bring your favorite 35 year old to explore nature with us. Each
program is different & includes activities,
crafts, a nature walk, & snack. Info & reg
www.cayuganaturecenter.org. or 2736260. 1420 Taughannock Blvd.
Storytime: “The Carrot Seed”,
Sciencenter, 10:30am. Listen to the story
“The Carrot Seed” and plant snow pea
seeds to take home. Info www.sciencenter.org or 272-0600. 601 First St
Story Time, The Lansing Community
Library Center, 10am. Story Time will
resume for children ages 2 & up. Free &
open to all. Adult must accompany children. 27 Auburn Rd.
StrollerFit, Stewart Park Toddler
Playgroung, 9:30am, May thru July.
Parents can exercise with their stroller-age
children (ages 6weeks to 4yrs). First class
free.
Info
351-2945
or
www.strollerfit.com/ithaca
Toddler Storytime, Tompkins County
Public Library, 10:30am. Parents and caregivers with children from 16months-3
years. Every Tuesday. 272-4557 x275
Toddler Time Storytime, Groton
Public Library, 10am. Enjoy stroies every
Tuesday with Mrs. Radford. Info 898-5055
Tuesday Lunch Club, the Royal Court
Restaurant, Noon. An informal lunch gettogether on the second Tuesday of the
month for bereaved adults. Particiapants
pay for their own food and beverage. Info
email [email protected] or 2720212. 529 S. Meadow St
and alert mind, with acceptance and compassionate awareness. Info 319-4138 or
2nd floor
9 Wednesday
Adult-Programming Event featuring Tess Gerritsen, The Lansing
Community Library Center, 7pm. Tess
Gerritsen is an internationally renowned
author of many medical thrillers. Free &
open to all. Info 533-4939 or 533-7779. 27
Auburn Rd
Bereavement
Cofffee
Hour,
Hospicare Center, 10-11:30am. Group
focuses on the loss of a spouse or significant other, adult children are welcome to
accompany.
Free.
Info
email
[email protected] or 272-0212 172
E. King Rd, Ithaca
Bereavement Support Group,
Hospicare Center, 5:30-7pm. This group
is for those who have experienced loss
within the last 13 months. Free. Info email
[email protected] or 272-0212 172
E. King Rd., Ithaca
Children's Story Time, Borders,
Pyramid Mall, 11am. We'll read stories
about Spring! Gather at the children's
ampitheater. Info 257-0444
Cortland Youth Center Open 129pm. www.cortland.org/youth, 753-3021
DES Beginner Band/3rd Grade
Chorus Spring Concert, Dryden
MS/HS Auditorium, 7:30pm. Info 8448694
Dividing Daylilies and Other
Cornell Cooperative
Perennials,
Extension, 6-8pm. Participants will practice on plants from the Demonstration
Garden. Fee. Info 272-2292 or www.ccetompkins.org. 615 Willow Ave
Elves Faire Workshop,
9:30am.
Presented by the Ithaca Waldorf Initiative.
Location & info call 539-6099
Education
Family-to-Family
Program, Henry St. John Building,
Suite 103, 6:30-9pm. Starting Feb 28th.
The Finger Lakes Chapter of the National
Alliance on Mental Illness is offering a
series of 12 weekly classes to help family members understand & support their ill
relatives while maintaining their own well
being. Free. Class size limited. Pre-reg
req. Info & reg 273-2462 or 272-6573.
Corner W. Clinton & S. Geneva Streets
Food
Addicts
in
Recovery
Addiction
Cayuga
Anonymous,
Recovery Services Building. 7-8:30pm.
There are no dues, fees, or weigh-ins.
Info 387-8329. Crn. State & Plain Sts.,
Ithaca
Free Senior Citizen Preview of
Alice In Wonderland, Lansing MS,
6:30pm. Info 533-4271
GED Classes, at TST BOCES
Campus, 9-noon. Free. Info BOCES
273-8804
GED Classes, TC3 Campus, 11am2pm. Free. Info BOCES 273-8804
GED Classes, Newfield Elementary,
9:30-11:30am. Free. Info BOCES 2738804
GED
Classes, South
Seneca
Elementary, 9am-Noon. Free. Info
BOCES 273-880
GED Graduation, New York State
Electric & Gas Auditorium, 7pm. Please
join TST BOCES Annual High School
Equivalency GED Graduation for a rewarding & memorable experience. Info 2571555 x282. Intersection of Rts 13 & 366
Video Games, Open Gym & Field Trips 47pm. 272-3622 318 N. Albany St., Ithaca.
Basketball 7-9pm Tuesdays at BJM. 272-
3622
How to Ger “Your” Foot in the Civil
Service Door, Tompkins Workforce NYCareer Center, 1-3pm. How to look up
exam & job information for Tompkins
County, City of Ithaca and New York State.
Info 272-7570 x118. Center Ithaca Bldg,
Suite 241, 171 E. State St
Jazz Dance Classes with Nancy
Gasper, Finger Lakes Fitness Center,
5:45pm. Nonmembers & drop-ins welcome. Info 256-3532. 171 E. State St.,
Center Ithaca, lower level.
Kundalini Yoga, Cayuga Nature
Center, 5:30pm. An ancient and exciting
practice which utilizes 4 tools: Breath,
Movement, Sound and Meditation. Fee.
Info www.CayugaNatureCenter.org or
273-6260. 1420 Taughannock Blvd.
Lecture Series, Cornell Lab of
Ornithology, 7:30-9:30pm. Warbler and
vireo identification; Seabird conservation;
Video:Watching Warblers. Fee. Info & reg
254-2452 or www.birds.cornell.edu. 159
Sapsucker Woods Rd.
8:30-9:30am, Health Insurance Counseling
9am-Noon, I’m Retired, Now What?-Film
Screening 9:30-11am, Enhance Fitness at
Enfield Community Center 10:15-11:15am,
Greek Favorites: Baklava and Spanokopita
10:30am-12:30pm, Enhance Fitness at
Titus Towers 10:30-11:30am, Chair Yoga
Class, St. Catherine 10:30-11:30am,
Lansing Community Senior Group Meeting
All Saints Church (533-4920)Noon-2pm,
Crafting Circle 1-3:30pm, Intermediate
German
1-3pm,
Canceled-Italian
Group
1:30-3pm,
Conversational
Philological Curiosities 1:30-4pm, Arthritis
Peer Support Group 2-3:30pm, Enhance
Fitness at McGraw House 2-3pm, Long
Term Care Planning Insurance Counseling
3-6pm, Community Book Discussion
Group 7-9pm. Info 273-1511. 119 W. Court
St.
Lynn Wiles , Watercress Bistro, Noon2pm. Performing solo guitar every Wed.
Info www.watercressithaca.com or 2570823. 2 Hickory Hollow Lane, Ithaca
Salad Farmers, Ithaca Children’s
Garden, 4-5pm. Lots of hands-on gardening, garden ecology, games, and tastetests. For youths ages 6-12. Fee. Reg &
info [email protected] or 272-2292 x186
Save Energy Save Dollars, Cornell
Cooperative Extension, 6:30pm. This is a
free 2-hour workshop to help households
reduce their energy usage and save
money on their energy bills. Pre-reg req.
Info & reg 272-2292 or [email protected].
615 Willow Ave
Science
Colloquium
Series,
Zabriskie Hall 102, Wells College,
12:40pm. Ayaka Harada will give a presentaion entitled “Determinants of Life
Expectancy in the US: Do Economically
Wealthier People Live Longer?”. Info 315364-3279
Tompkins County Water Resource
Council Meeting, Borg Warner Room,
Tompkins County Public Library, 6:308:30pm. WRC will discuss what monitoring
is currently underway in Cayuga Lake, finidings of and insights from these monitoring
efforts, & what should be monitored in the
southern end of Cayuga Lake. Open to all.
Info 274-5560 or [email protected]. 101 E. Green St
Wednesday
Breakfast
Club,
Friendly's Restaurant at 323 Elmira Rd,
8am. An informal get-together for
bereaved adults. Participant's pay for
their own breakfast. Info [email protected] or 272-0212.
Wednesday Night Drumming and
Dancing, Moonlight Dancer Studio, 79pm. Exploring rythms and expressive
dance, come with your drums and desire to
move, bring your friends and families. Info
email
[email protected].
407
Taughannock Blvd
Yellowman, the Kitchen Theatre,
7:30pm. This is a tragic love story of Alma
and Eugene who struggle against the prejudices of color, gender and class that have
ensnared generations of their AfricanAmerican families. Tix & info 273-4497 or
www.kitchentheatre.org
10 Thursday
AL-ANON Hope for Today, Meeting
open to anyone affected by another person’s drinking.
7:30pm
844-4210.
518West Seneca St., Ithaca, main floor
Cayuga Radio Group Women’s
Expo 2007, Ithaca Hilton Garden Inn, 48pm. In coordination with Women’s Expo
2007, Cayuga Radio Group is honoring “20
Outstanding Women You Should Know”.
The 20 women will be representing a wide
range of background and careers & will be
honored during this ceremony. Free &
open
to
all.
Info
[email protected] or 257-6400
Cortland Youth Center Open 129pm. www.cortland.org/youth, 753-3021
Dryden Middle School Spring
Instrumental Concert, Dryden MS/HS
Auditorium, 7:30pm. Info 844-8694
Festival of Music Concert, Kulp
Aditorium, Ithaca HS, 7pm. Boynton Middle
School will feature Four World Premiers.
Program made possible by a grant from
the Ithaca Community Fine Arts Booster
Group. Free & open to all. Info 274-2241,
[email protected], 257-6059, or [email protected]
Care/Adoption
Foster
Meeting, Human
Informational
Services Building, Room 142, Noon-1pm.
For anyone who may be considering
becoming a foster parent and/or adoptive
parent and wants more info. Tompkins
County has a special need for foster families in the Ithaca City School District and for
families who will foster teenagers. Info 2745266. 320 W. State St
GED Classes, TST BOCES Campus,
9-Noon. Free. BOCES 273-8804
GED Classes, Groton Elementary,
9am-Noon. Free. Info BOCES 273-8804
GED CLasses, Newfield Elementary,
GED Classes, Candor Elementary,
Video Games, Open Gym & Field Trips 47pm. 272-3622 318 N. Albany St., Ithaca
of
Education
Ithaca
Board
Forum, Ithaca HS
Candidates’
Cafeteria, 7-9:30pm. Candidates will make
brief opening statements, questions will be
taken from the audience. Election will be
held on May 15.
Kripalu DansKinetics, Tiamat Studio
139, The Commons, 7:25-8:30pm. Every
Thursday. Info Sigrid Kulkowitz 272-0407
or www.flyingleaps.com
Lifelong, Strength Training-St. Catherine
9:15-10:15am, Take A Break Coffee Time
9:30-11am, Poetry Writing 10-11:30am,
Strength Training at Lifelong 11:30am12:30pm, Northside-Southside Book Club
Noon-1:30pm, Senior Theatre Group 12pm, Open Computer Lab 1-3pm, Couples
Country and Line Dancing 7-9pm. Info
273-1511. 119 W. Court St.
Northside-Southside
Program
Book Club, Noon-1pm. Join us for a discussion of Poems written by Paul Laurence
Dunbar. Info 273-1511. Lifelong
Open Computer Lab, Lifelong, 1-3pm
Drop in for free internet access, one-onone tutoring or computer help. Beginning
and advanced learners are welcome. Info
273-1511. 119 W. Court St.
Out of Bounds, WEOS-FM 88.1, 7pm.
This weekly interview program will feature
host Tish Pearlman in conversation with
Daniel Mendelsohn who is a frequent contributor to the NY Review of Books & The
New York Times Magazine. He has published an autobiographical book called
“The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million”.
Info www.outofboundsradioshow.com or
277-4128
Center, 10am-Noon. Begins April 17th.
Bring your favorite 3-5 year old to explore
nature with us. Each program is different &
includes activities, crafts, a nature walk, &
snack. Info & reg www.cayuganaturecenter.org. or 273-6260. 1420 Taughannock
Blvd.
Prenatal Yoga Classes 5:30-7pm.
Diane Fine. Info [email protected]
564-3690 or dianefineyoga.com
Senior Theatre Troupe, Lifelong, 12pm. Meets every Thursday. Accepting
new members, all levels of experience
welcome, Instructor Sue Perlgut. Info
273-1511 or www.tclifelong.org. 119 W.
Court St
Spencer VanEtten Kidergarten
Registration, Spencer
VanEtten
Elementary School Cafeteria, 6:30pm.
Registration for eligible students planning
to be enrolled for the 2007-08
Kindergarten classses. Bring proof of age,
social security number & proof of immunizations. Info 589-7110.
Playgroung, 9:30am, May thru July.
Parents can exercise with their stroller-age
children (ages 6weeks to 4yrs). First class
free.
Info
351-2945
or
www.strollerfit.com/ithaca
Parent
Toddler
Waldorf
Peach
Blossom
Afternoons
Kindergarten, 23 Nelson Road. 1-3pm.
For ages 2-5. Info/Register: 272-2221
Wetland Adventures After School
Program, Ithaca Children’s Garden, 35pm. Learn about wetlands and the plants,
animals, and invertebrates that live there.
For youth ages 8-12. Fee. Info & reg 2722292 x186 or [email protected]
Yellowman, the Kitchen Theatre, Lunch
Time Theater, 7:30pm. This is a tragic love
story of Alma and Eugene who struggle
against the prejudices of color, gender and
class that have ensnared generations of
their African-American families. Tix & info
273-4497 or www.kitchentheatre.org
11 Friday
6th Annual Trumansburg Festival
of Flowers, Main St. Enjoy a variety of
events. Art Sudio Open House 7-10pm.
Live music throughout the night. Info 3876111
Alice in Wonderland, Lansing MS,
7:30pm. Info 533-4271
Back to Democracy Movie Night,
Trumansburg Fire Hall, 7pm. We will be
showing the revised documentary film
about September 11, “Loose Change 2”, by
Dylan Avery, Korey Rowe and Jason
Bermas. Free. Info www.backtodemocracy.org or 387-5080. Main St./Rt 96
Butterflies in Acrylic and Colored
Pencil, Cornell Plantations, 10am-3pm.
This seminar focuses on the scientific illustration of butterflies and moths using acrylic
paints & color pencils. Guest artist Dolores
Santoliquido will provide instruction. Fee.
Info www.plantations.cornell.edu or 2552400. Lewis Education Center
GIAC Teen Program After Hours
Spot 4-midnight. Movies, open gym,
game room, video games, snacks, computers, skating & more. 272-3622 318 N.
Albany St., Ithaca
8:30-9:30am, Chair Yoga Class at Lifelong
10-11am, Beginning Bridge 10am-Noon,
Enhance Fitness at Enfield Community
Center 10:15-11:15am, Enhance Fitness at
Titus Towers 10:30-11:30am, Tai Chi Class
11:30am-1pm, Line Dancing 1:15-1:50pm,
Mahjong 1:30-3:30pm, Enhance Fitness at
McGraw House 2-3pm, Square, Line &
Polka Dancing 2-4pm. Info 273-1511. 119
W. Court St.
Movie Night, Borders Books in
Pyramid Mall, 6:30-8pm. We’ll show
movies that appeal to kids age 5-10. 2570444
Pajamarama Storytime, Barnes &
Noble, 7pm. Join us for stories for preschool & elementary age children. Juice
& snacks provided, pj"s welcome. Info
273-6784 or www.BN.com
Physical Therapy for Urinary
Incontinence, what you should
know, Dewitt Clinton Auditorium, Kendal
at Ithaca, 2-3pm. Christine Feely, MPT, of
the Cayuga Medical Center Physical
Therapy Department will speak on this
topic. Free & open to all. Info 274-4498
Story
Hour
at
Preschool
Southworth Library, Dryden, 10am.
No sign-up required - just come and enjoy
stories, activities and refreshments. We are
also looking for volunteer readers for this
program. 844-4782
Rookie Reader Storytime, Barnes &
Noble, 10:30am. Join us for stories perfect for infants & toddlers. Activities will
follow. Info 273-6784 or www.BN.com
Story Hour at Lansing Community
Library Old Town Hall, Lansing. 2 yr
olds: 10-10:20am. 3 yr olds: 10:30-11am.
All children with care provider. Info:
Susan 266-0266
Student Films II, Kiplinger Theatre,
Schwartz Center for Performing Arts, 8pm.
A showcase of seven films by Cornell
advanced filmmaking students will be
shown. Tix & info 254-2730. 430 College
Ave
Submission Deadline: Call for
Artists working in monochromatic
media, Community School of Music and
Arts. Local artists exhibit their monochromatic works in pencil, pen-and-ink, charcoal, prints, and other media. Write to
[email protected] for application details
Urban Cowbay, the Musical, The
State Theatre, 7:30pm. Hit songs from
Clint Black, Travis Tritt and Brooks and
Dunn are paired with original tunes from
composer Jason Robert Brown. This is a
rousing, high-energy rodeo of a show that
dances up a storm. Tix & info www.stateofithaca.com or 27-STATE
Yellowman, the Kitchen Theatre, 8pm.
This is a tragic love story of Alma and
Eugene who struggle against the prejudices of color, gender and class that have
12 Saturday Nurses Day
2nd Annual Truck & Vehicle Show,
Ithaca Community Childcare Center,
10am-3pm. Explore construction & community vehicles, enjoy food, entertainment
& fun. Fee. Ticket info 257-0200. 579
Warren Rd.
6th Annual Trumansburg Festival
of Flowers, Main St. Enjoy a variety of
events. Tree walking tour 9-10am;
Taughannock Garden Club Sale 9amNoon; self guided walking and driving
tours; Agriculture/Horticulture Show 9am;
Antique Trail Tour 9am; Ulysses Historical
Society Luncheon & Speaker Noon-2pm
(tix req), Ulysses Philomathic Library Food
& Wine Tasting 6-9pm (tix req) & more. Info
387-6111
7th Annual Food & Wine Tasting,
Ulysses Philomathic Library, 6-9pm. Enjoy
a pouring of world-renowned Finger Lakes
wines accompanied by hors d’oeuvres provided by some of T’burg’s best cooks &
chefs. Fee. Tix & info 387-6330 or 3874003
AARP Safe Driving Course, Lifelong,
9am-1pm. This course will teach defensive
driving techniques & include info on agerelated cognitive and physical changes that
affect driving. Two 4hour classes. Pre-reg
& info www.tclifelong.org or 273-1511. 119
W. Court St
Alice in Wonderland, Lansing MS,
7:30pm. Info 533-4271
Benefit Event for Bert Scholl, Ithaca
Montessori School, 6-11pm. Viewing of
“Dying to Have Known”, food, raffles, silent
auction, music of Kevin Kinsella and Hank
Roberts, also Pasa Fino & others TBA. Info
& contributions [email protected] or
[email protected]. 12 Ascot Place
Big Fun at the Fairgrounds, Rt 96,
10am-2pm.
The
Trumansburg,
Trumansburg Community Nursery School
invites area residents to join in a spring celebration. Kids can get a up-close look at a
tractor, police car, fire truck, ambulance &
race car. Chicken BBQ available. Info 3875235 or www.tcns.info
Borg Warner Health & Fitness
Expo, Hilton Garden Inn, 11am-4pm.
Meet Dr. Kip Keino and most of the elite
runners who will be participating in the Kip
Keino Fun & Fitness Mile on Sunday. Info
email [email protected]
Cayuga Bird Club Field Trip, Lab of
Ornithlology, 7am. Go to local hot spots to
search for early spring warblers. Open to
all. Info 257-0130. Sapsucker Woods Rd
Celebrate Urban Birds, Cayuga
Nature Center, 1pm. Today we will spend
the day looking at the variety of birds who
visit our area. We will be talking about how
you can attract these brightly colored feathered freinds to your yard. Fee. Info 2736260 or www.CayugaNatureCenter.org.
1420 Taughannock Blvd
Defensive Driving Course, TST
BOCES, 9am-3:30pm. Fee. Pre-reg &
pre-payment required. Info & reg 2571551. 555 Warren Rd
Early Morning Bird Walk and
Breakfast, Bakers Acres, 7am. Martha
Fisher will be the guide for this tour. Bring
binoculars & appropriate clothing.
Continental breakfast after walk. Fee.
Info www.bakersacres.net or 533-4653.
104 Auburn Rd., Rt 34, N. Lansing
European Short Film Festival,
Cornell Cinema, Willard Straight Hall,
9:15pm. The Institute for European Studies
at Cornell Univesity is sponsoring a number of events in celebration of Europe Day.
Info www.einaudi.cornell.edu/Eurpoe or
255-7592
Explorers
Storytime 11am at
Borders Books in Pyramid Mall, 2570444
Families
Learning
Science
Together, Tompkins County Public
Library, 2nd Saturday of the month, 1:002:00PM.
(607)
254-8256
or
[email protected]
Family Fun Workshop: Salad
Quilts, Ithaca Children’s Garden, 1011am. These fun, one-hour workshops are
great for children 5-11 and their families.
Fee. Info & reg [email protected] or 2722292 x186
Family Storytime Tompkins County
Public Library. 11:30am-12pm. Free.
www.tcpl.org, 272-4557 x272
Fossil ID Days, Museum of the Earth,
10-11:30am. Let us ID that funny rock or
fossil find. Info 273-6623 www.museumoftheearth.org
Free Boating Seminar, Auxiliary Base
508 Old Taughannock Blvd, 9am-Noon
Using GPS, 1-3pm Using VHF/DSC Radio.
This seminar is offered by The Ithaca Sail
and Power Squadron. Reg req. Info & reg
532-4915
509 Esty St., 10am-8pm. Children's &
adults books, records, games, puzzles,
video's, CD's, DVD's, computer games &
software. Info www.booksale.org or 2722223
GIAC Teen Program After Hours
Spot 4-midnight. Music, movies, open
gym, game room, video games, computers, skating & more. 272-3622 318 N.
Albany St.. Ithaca
Impeachment Tabling, in front of the
Worker’s Center, 2-5pm. Info 387-5080 or
[email protected]
Ithaca in Bloom-A CommunityWide
Planting
Day,
Cornell
Cooperative Extension, 11am-1pm. The
City of Ithaca is entered in the national contest, America In Bloom. Volunteers will
assist local businesses in filling planters
and window boxes with free annuals. In
return volunteers will be given plants. Info
272-2292 or www.ccetompkins.org. 615
Willow Ave
11am. Beginners. Nonmembers & dropins welcome. Info 256-3532. 171 E. State
St., Center Ithaca, lower level
Kaeda Vocal Ensemble, Ford Hll,
Ithaca College, 7:30pm. A Japanese
women’s community chorus will perform
with Voices Multicultural Chorus in their
annual spring concert Sounds Across the
Seas. Info & tix 257-6925
Lifelong, AARP Safe Driving Course
9am-1pm, Men’s Group 9am-Noon,
Community Writing Group 1:30-3:30pm.
Info 273-1511. 119 W. Court St.
Moms Play Free Galaxy Golf,
Sciencenter, Noon-5pm. Mothers are invited to a free round of miniature golf at the
Sciencenter’s Galaxy Golf course. Info
272-0600 or www.sciencenter.org. 601
First St
Morning Story Time 10am. Caroline
Community Library 2670 Slaterville Rd.
Slaterville Springs. www.tcpl.org
Celebration
Day
Mothers
Weekend, Tree of Life Health and
Wellness, 10am-3pm. Join us for a relaxing weekend with womens health workshops, natural remedies, free drawings,
healthy snack, chiropractic, massage, & a
sunset cruise on Cayuga Lake. Info & res
www.IthacaTreeofLife.com or 256-5433
510 W. State St
Natural History Class: Migration,
Lime Hollow Center for Environment and
Culture, 6am (but call to check time). This
class, led by Matt Young, will involve field
trips only. Fee. Info & reg [email protected] or 758-5462 or 345-7713
Nature Collage Workshops, Earth
Arts, 2-4pm. For parent (or grandparent)
with child aged 4 to teen, or child 8+ alone.
These workshops offer creative bonding
time with your child, and a chance for your
child (and inner child) to play with nature.
Different imaginative theme each week.
Fee.
Info&
reg
277-5817
or
[email protected]. 689
Coddington Rd
Open Community Drum Circle,
Stewart Park NW corner (warm weather
permitting) or inside at the Alternative
Community School, 111 Chestnut St.,
Ithaca, 6pm. Bring your family and friends,
lots of extra drums availlable. Potluck
optional. Info [email protected]
Open
Family
Swim Tompkins
Cortland Community College, Dryden.
11am-1pm. Fee. 844-8222
Poetry Reading, The Red Door Cafe,
7-9pm. Featuring Katharyn Howd, Paul
Hamill, Jerry Mirskin. Free. Info 898-9888.
111 Main St., Groton
Skating,
Public
Community
Recreation Center, Ithaca, 8:30-10pm.
277-7465
Real Estate Seminar-First Time
Home Buying, RE/MAX Real Estate
Office, 10:30am-1pm. Step by step guide
to home buying, learn about the buying
process, learn to avoid buying mistakes, a
mortgage lender will be available to
answer
questions.
Info
www.REinMotion.com or 277-1500. 531
Esty St.
Showtime Gardening to Attract
Birds, Sciencenter, 2pm. John Alvarez
del Castillo will share ways to make your
garden attractive to birds that are in Ithaca
this time of year. This presentation is part
of Cornell Lab of O’s Celebrate Urban
Birds event. Included with admission. Info
272-0600 or www.sciencenter.org. 601
First St
Stone Circle School Spring Faire,
The Foundation of Light, 11am-3pm. Fun,
games, food, silent auction, bazaar. Fee.
Info 273-5184. Turkey Hill Rd
Playgroung, 9am, May thru July. Parents
can exercise with their stroller-age children
(ages 6weeks to 4yrs). First class free. Info
351-2945 or www.strollerfit.com/ithaca
The
Language
of
Color-Art
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Workshop, Tompkins County Public
Library, 12:30pm. Info www.tcpl.org or 2724557
Waldorf Open Mornings
2nd
Saturday. 10am-12pm. Register: 2722221
Yellowman, the Kitchen Theatre, 8pm.
This is a tragic love story of Alma and
13 Sunday Mother’s Day
14 Monday
Cayuga
Bird
Club
Meeting,
Chasing Summer Down Under:
Birding Travels in Australia, Cornell
Lab of Ornithology, 7:30pm. Marie Read,
natural history photographer, traveled
around Australia and will share her adventures in this photographic safari. Info 254BIRD. Sapsucker Woods Rd
Creating Your Resume, Tompkins
County Workforce NY-Career Center,
10am-Noon. Topics include: what you will
need in order to create an effective resume
for an effective job search. Info 272-7570
x118. Center Ithaca Bldg, Suite 241, 171 E.
State St
Dryden Senior Citizens, the Dryden
Fire Hall, 12:15pm (dinner served), seating starts at 11:30am. Please bring your
own table service. The menu will be
baked ham, sweet potato, sliced beets,
cole slaw, roll, & ice cream. The program
will be presented by Toni Liu who will be
talking about orchids & their care. Fee.
Anyone who is 55 yrs or older is eligible to
join Dryden Senior Citizens. If Dryden
Schools are closed due to weather there
will
be
no
meeting.
Info
[email protected]
Free. Info BOCES 273-8804.
273-8804.
Infant Care Class, Cayuga Medical
Center. The basics on the care and feeding of your little one in the first few weeks.
Fee. Info 274-4011. 101 Dates Dr.
Lifelong, Enahance Fitness at Lifelong
8:30-9:30am, Clay Class 10am-Noon,
Enhance Fitness at Enfield Comm. Center
10:15-11:15am, Enhance Fitness at Titus
Tower 10:30-11:30am, Open Computer
Lab 10:30am-Noon, Dryden Community
Senior Group Meeting (Dryden Fire Hall
Info
844-4454)
Noon,
Northeast
Community Senior Group Meeting (St.
Carherine Info 257-0756) 12:30pm,
Strength Training at Lifelong 12:301:30pm, Community Bridge Group 1-4pm,
Enhance Fitness at McGraw House 23pm, Book Discussion: The Hours 2-4pm,
Ithaca AGWAY
Butterfly House Open House,
Cayuga Nature Center. We will be opening
our popular Butterfly House for the season.
Join us for some fun and learn how your
can help us raise these flutterbys. Fee. Info
273-6260
or
1420
www.CayugaNatureCenter.org.
Taughannock Blvd
Cabin Fever Concert Series,
Americana Vineyards, 4-6pm. Kitchen
Chair. No fee for concert. Info 387-6801.
4367 E. Covert Rd., Interlaken
Food
Addicts
in
Recovery
Cayuga
Addiction
Anonymous,
Recovery Services Building. 9am. There
are no dues, fees, or weigh-ins.
Everyone is welcome including those
who think they may have a problem with
overeating, bulimia, or anorexia, or are
concerned about someone else. Info 3878329. Crn. State & Plain Sts.
Honoring Our Mother: A Mother’s
Day Evening, Common Heart Interfaith
Fellowship. Through song, poetry, silent
reflection and simple participatory ritual, we
will express gratitiude for our many mothers: those who raised us; our spiritural
mothers; & Mother Earth. Bring an object
that represents Mother to you. Free. Info
227-5683 or www.commonheart.org
Impeachment Tabling, GreenStar, 25pm every Sunday Info 387-5080 or [email protected]
7:15pm. Nonmembers & drop-ins welcome. Info 256-3532. 171 E. State St.,
Center Ithaca, lower level
Kip Keino Fun & Fitness Mile, Ithaca
High School Track, 11am-4pm. Open masters, elite women, elite men, runners with
disabilities & more. Fee. 13yrs & under
free. Info email [email protected]
Lab of Ornithology Field Trip, Meet
at Lab of Ornithology, 7-11am. Local trip.
Fee. Info & reg 254-2452 or www.birds.cornell.edu. 159 Sapsucker Woods Rd.
Lifelong, Community Luncheon Hosted
by the Ithaca Sunrise Rotary 12:30-2pm.
Info 273-1511. 119 W. Court St.
Morning Bird Hike, Cayuga Nature
Center, 7:30am. Jim Spear will lead the
hike which will range from easy to moderate & last about two hours. All ages welcome. Info www.cayuganaturecenter.org or
273-6260. 1420 Taughannock Blvd
Mother Natures Day Hike, Cayuga
Nature Cener, Noon, Join our staff as we
wander the woods in search of Mother
Nature’s handiwork. Info 273-6260 or
www.cayuganaturecenter.org.
1420
Taughannock Blvd
Mother’s Day Buffet, Bakers Acres,
11am, 1:30 & 4pm. Treat Mom to BBQ
Chicken, asparagus quiche, salads,
breads, muffins, & dessert. Res req. Info &
res. www.bakersacres.net or 533-4653.
104 Auburn Rd., Rt 34, N. Lansing
Mothers
Day
Celebration
Weekend, Tree of Life Health and
Wellness, 10am-3pm. Join us for a relaxing weekend with womens health workshops, natural remedies, free drawings,
healthy snack, chiropractic, massage, & a
sunset cruise on Cayuga Lake. Info & res
www.IthacaTreeofLife.com or 256-5433
510 W. State St
Mother’s Day Hike, Meet at Cornell’s
“O” parking lot (Rt366 & Caldwell Rd),
9:30am. Join the Cayuga Trails Club for a
6.5 mile hike on the Virgil Mountain Loop.
Info www.cayugatrailsclub.org or 273-1708
Mother’s Day Special Event at Art
of Renewal, Art of Renewal, 10am-5pm.
Treat Mom to a day of bliss, complete with
massage, yoga, sailing and refreshments.
Info www.aorenewal.com or 592-0316
Center, 1-3pm. Celebrate Earth Day by
exploring spring flowers and birds, reading a story & sharing it all together. Crafts
&
healthy
snack.
Fee.
Info
www.CayugaNatureCenter.org or 2736260. 1420 Taughannock Blvd.
Spring Birds Hike, Cayuga Nature
Center, 7:30-9;30am. Fee. Info 273-6260
or
www.CayugaNatureCenter.org.
1420 Taughannock Blvd
The Enfield Volunteer Fire Co.
Chicken BBQ, Enfield Fire Station,
11am till gone. Names will be entered for
prizes which will be drawn at this BBQ.
Fee. 172 Enfield Main Rd, Rt 327
Yellowman, the Kitchen Theatre, 4pm &
8. This is a tragic love story of Alma and
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May 7
Caroline Community Senior Group
Meeting (Brooktondale Comm Center Info
273-2029) 5pm, Ellis Hollow Community
Senior Group Meeting (St. Catherine Info
277-8149) 7pm, International Folk
Dancing 7-9pm. Info 273-1511. 119 W. Court
St.
Open Computer Lab, Lifelong,
10:30am-Noon. Drop in for free internet
access, one-on-one tutoring or computer
help. Beginning and advanced learners
are welcome. Info 273-1511. 119 W.
Court St.
Senior Art Exhibit, String Room
Gallery, Main Building, Wells College, 79pm. The Wells College Art Department is
pleased to present the spring senior thesis exhibit featuring paintings and photographs by graduates Abby Corbly and
Blythe Untiet. Info www.wells.edu or 315364-3237
and alert mind, with acceptance and compassionate awareness. Info 319-4138 or
2nd floor
Upcoming Events
Art In Bloom, the Johnson Museum of
Art, 5-7pm. See the amazing floral creations of the Ithaca Garden Club, inspired
by works of art in the Museum’s collection.
Free. Info 255-6464. Friday May 18th
6th Annual Primitive Pursuits Day,
4-H Acres, 10am-5pm. A full-day family
festival of primitive technologies. Info
www.primitivepursuits.net. Fee. Lower
Creek Rd off Rt 13. Saturday May 19th
Spring Garden Fair & Plant Sale,
Ithaca HS, 9am-1pm. Vendors and sales
of annuals, perennials, herbs, shrubs &
trees, demonstrations, exhibits fun activities for kids& more. Info 272-2292 or
www.ccetompkins.org. Sponsored by
Cooperative
Extenison
.
Cornell
Saturday May 19th
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There was much talk but no
approval on May 1 for setting county financial goals for 2008. The
Tompkins County Legislature
failed to muster enough votes to
approve a proposal that would have
established the target of a maximum 3.6 percent tax levy increase
and 2.1 percent tax rate increase, to
frame the 2008 budget process and
require a projected $1.1 million
reduction in locally controlled
spending.
The failed proposal also would
have established the intent to use
2008 to begin a process of stabilizing the rate of county tax levy
increases.
Although the vote was 6-5 (with
four legislators absent), the measure did not win the eight votes
needed for passage. Legislators
Martha Robertson, Greg Stevenson,
Jim Dennis, Dooley Kiefer voted no,
and chairperson Tim Joseph broke
the tie to defeat the measure.
(Legislators Dick Booth, Kathy LuzLeslyn
McBeanHerrera,
Clairborne and Tyke Randall were
absent.)
An alternate proposal advanced
earlier by Legislator Mike Hattery
to set a more stringent goal of a 1.5
percent tax levy increase, with a 0
percent increase in the tax rate,
failed by a vote of 4- 7. Hattery
called the proposed targets too high
and said a lower target would
force the county to face up to necessary program and personnel cuts.
Dennis, Robertson and Kiefer all
advocated having no financial goal
for 2008, saying that the legislature
should leave it to the judgment of
County
Administrator
Steve
Whicher and department heads to
present a budget proposal for
Legislature consideration. Dennis
expressed confidence that the
County Administrator and department heads “have a good sense of
what we need and what the county
can support.”
Robertson said she’s not convinced that setting a goal at this
early stage does anything other
than cause tension and called a goal
“patronizing” to county staff. It’s
up to the legislature, she said, to
show discipline and not be restricted by a “straitjacket.” Kiefer called
the 2007 budget process “a failed
experiment” and said that, unlike
last year, she wants to see a budget
proposal that the county administrator can recommend.
Supporters, however, countered
that setting a target provides needed direction and, as Legislator
Mike Sigler put it, adds transparen-
cy to the budget process. Legislator
Nathan Shinagawa called the proposed 3.6 percent tax levy increase
goal realistic, and Budget and
Capital Committee chairperson
Mike Koplinka-Loehr said that the
projected spending reductions of
more than $1 million would impose
significant discipline.
Whicher cautioned that no reduction in the tax levy can be achieved
without reducing programs. What’s
really important, said Legislator
Pam Mackesey, is stabilizing tax
levy increases and not being subject to “wild gyrations” of tax
changes that have happened in the
past which, she said, waste both
time and money.
A motion to reconsider the proposal is likely at the legislature’s
next meeting on May 15.
In other business, county lawmakers reviewed the 2007 Criminal
Justice/Alternatives to Incarceration (CJ/ATI) Strategic Action
Plan, the product of nearly a year of
research and analysis by the county’s Criminal Justice/ Alternatives
to Incarceration Board. CJ/ATI
board chairperson Suzi Cook said
Legislature Fails to
Agree on Budget Goals
Green Thumb: TST-BOCES instructor David Corning, left, helps Shawn Warters select
flower packs at the student-run greenhouse in preparation for the school’s 23rd annual
plant sale on Warren Road. The greenhouse is open to the public starting Monday, May
7, and hours are weekdays from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m.
that the program’s goal, as established in the plan, is to “safely
reduce the county’s jail population
through measurable accomplishments in criminal justice practices
related to ATI programming over
the next 12 months.
Without dissent the legislature
also accepted the 2007 Alternatives
to Incarceration Consolidated
Service Plan, as approved by the
CJ/ATI board, to be submitted to
the state Division of Probation and
Correctional
Alternatives.
Submission of the service plan is
required each year to secure state
funding for ATI programs. The
$26,800 to be received this year will
fund salary and benefits for an
Alternatives
to
Incarceration
Substance Abuse Counselor.
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May 7
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Cauga Medical Center
Birth Announcements
SINN – Anthony Sinn Sr. and
Heather Carman, Ithaca, a daughter,
Aubrie Faith, on April 3.
BECKLEY – Donald and Kimberly
(Schlobohm) Beckley, Newfield, a
son, William Matthew, on April 4.
GREEN – Alan and Christina
(Sheriff) Green, Newfield, a daughter, Grace Christiana, on April 4.
NICHOLS – Heather Marie French,
Ithaca, a son, Aiden Michael, on
April 4.
FISHER – Paul and Karen
(Geissinger) Fisher, Ithaca, a daughter, Julianna Grace, on April 5.
FULLER-STETSON
–
Richard
and
Elicia
Fuller,
Stetson
Brooktondale, a daughter, Dakota
Lynn, on April 5.
HENDERSON – Kyle Henderson
and Erin Flannery, Newfield, a
daughter, Alissa, on April 6.
KLINGLE – Glenn Klingle and April
Andersen, Richford, a son, Aiden
Andersen, on April 6.
RENNE – David and Georgia
(Allenbaugh) Renne, Ithaca, a son,
Nason David, on April 6.
STONE – Robert and Amy (Boykin)
Stone, Moravia, a daughter, Sophia
Ann, on April 7.
TAGUE-BLEAU – Cat Tague and
Jeanine Bleau, Brooktondale, a
daughter, Eva Rose Frances Jeanine,
on April 8.
NEFF – Frederick Neff and Debra
Woodard, Trumansburg, a daughter,
Samantha Renee, on April 9.
HORTON – Thomas and Casey
(McAfee) Horton, Cortland, a daughter, Gwyneth Faith, on April 10.
SULLIVAN – Robert and Susan
(Chamberlain) Sullivan, Lansing, a
daughter, Kathleen Marie, on April 10.
ALBRECHT – Victor Albrecht and
Katelyn Cooper, Interlaken, a son,
Eli Christopher, on April 12.
JUNG – Jai Kwan Jung and Woojung
Nam, Ithaca, a son, Justin Sol, on
April 12.
MILLER – Woodrow and Eunice
(Wilson) Miller, Ithaca, a daughter,
Tumude Nahnie Hadassah, on April
12.
STULL – Scott Stull and Laurie
Hemmings, Dryden, a daughter,
Emma Carol, on April 12.
VAZQUEZ – Frasmo Cruz Lopez
Vazquez and Martha Leticia
Vazquez Jonapa, a daughter,
Samantha Jacqueline Lopez, on
April 14.
BREHM – John and Renee (Hoover)
Brehm, Groton, a daughter, Lena Jo,
on April 15.
PANKAJ – Pankaj Jaiswal and
Sushma Naithani, Ithaca, a son,
Aroonim Sushma, on April 15.
ALLEN – Bridget Mosher, Ithaca, a
son, Michael Joseph, on April 16.
LEONARD – Bill Leonard Jr. and
Nichole Wayman, Willseyville, a
daughter, Ava Lynn, on April 18.
RILEY – Christopher Riley and
Nicole Roy, Ithaca, a son, Julian
Freer, on April 18.
NEWKIRK – Gregory and Carrie
(Ensign) Newkirk, Marathon, a
daughter, Catherine Joann, on April
19.
OSBURN – Brent and Liza (Graham)
Osburn, Berkshire, a daughter,
Addysen Rose, on April 19.
RUNYAN – Todd and Abby (Nielson)
Runyan, Ithaca, a son, John Russell,
on April 19.
SALAMANCA – Hans SalamancaGranados and Kristina BlakeHodek, Ithaca, a daughter, Isabella
Sofia, on April19.
GARZON – Francisco and Joyce
(Reaume) Garzon, Trumansburg, a
daughter, Erica, on April 20.
ARROYO – Juan and Michelle
(Morin) Arroyo, Ithaca, a son,
Tomas Ciriaco, on April 21.
BIDWELL – Albert Bidwell and
Heather Lockwood, Dryden, a son,
Ian James, on April 22.
CRUZ-JOHNSON – Jonathan Cruz
and Pamela Reh Cruz, Ithaca, a son,
Elijah Matthew Amir, on April 22.
AUBLE – Brandon and Alecia (Turo)
Auble, Ithaca, a son, on April 23.
RAQIB – Toyetta Diaz Johnson,
Ithaca, a son, Malik Hanif, on April 23.
SCOFIELD JR. – Douglas and
Tammy (Smith) Scofield, Enfield, a
son, Douglas Jay, on April 24.
LANSING – Shawn and Carrie
Lansing, Trumansburg, a son,
Lincoln Michael, on April 25.
JUETT – Michael Juett and Holly
Franklin, Ithaca, a son, Cameron
James, on April 26.
PARK – Chang Hee Park and
Jiyoung Lee, Ithaca, a daughter,
Claire Sieun, on April 27.
PURINGTON – Zachary and
Amanda (Drake) Purington, Locke,
a daughter, Kylah Gylden, on April
27.
SINE – Wesley and Anne (Myres)
Sine, Ithaca, a daughter, Claira Faye,
on April 28.
DONAHUE – Joshua Buisch and
Toni Lupo, Newfield, a son, Mason
Edward, on April 29.
PAZ – John Paz and Deanna Nassar,
Ithaca, a daughter, Maria Elena
Teresa, on April 29.
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Among the changes he’d like to
see in the district is an improvement in staff morale. “The atmosphere when I graduated was very
positive. There were always issues,
but the morale of staff was high
and it was an excellent place to
attend and be part of,” Ainslie says.
“The atmosphere now is not what it
should be. There are leadership
issues, and diversity issues. A large
part of the community feels disenfranchised, and there’s a lack of
communication between school
administration and the community.
It can be better.”
Meet the Candidates
A forum featuring the five candidates for four seats on the Ithaca
City School District Board of
Education will be held Thursday,
May 10, from 7 to 9:30 p.m. in the
Ithaca High School cafeteria.
Each candidate will make a brief
opening statement, and questions
from the audience will be verbal and
strictly timed with a two-minute
time limit. Questions may be directed to a specific candidate but other
candidates will also be allowed to
answer if they wish. Candidates
have two minutes to answer.
If time allows, candidates will
make a closing statement. The
event will be videotaped for later
viewing on public access TV. Tables
will be available for candidate campaign literature. The event is sponsored by the League of Women
Voters of Tompkins County, Ithaca
Council of PTAs and the American
Association of University WomenIthaca Branch. The moderator is
Lucia Arm-strong.
The school board election and
budget vote is onTuesday, May 15
Items Needed for
Brooktondale Sale
The Brooktondale Community
Center is looking for books,
records, tapes, CDs and DVDs in
good condition for the annual
book sale on May 11 and 12. Call
Mary at 539-9949 or Brooke at 5396858 if you have something to
donate. Those who want to be listed on the May 12 yard sale map
should send $5 to help with advertising costs and a list of the five
most interesting items to the center at P.O. Box 135, Brooktondale,
N.Y. 14817. There is space available for rent at the yard sale.
Also, a meeting will be held at
the Old Fire Hall, Brooktondale
Community Center, on May 9 at 7
p.m. for those own a business in
Caroline or are interested in
starting one. Organizers are
working on a new edition of the
Caroline Business Directory. If
you would like a free listing, send
information.
The
me
your
Community Center, which prints
the directory, is accepting donations to help with the printing
costs. The next edition will be
available in May at the Town Hall,
the Community Center, the farmers market, the post offices and at
businesses in town.
Keino Event Draws
Elite Class Runners
A star-studded international field
is expected in Ithaca on Sunday,
May 13, for the inaugural Kip
Keino Mile, a race that honors the
legendary Kenyan runner for his
accomplishments as an athlete
and humanitarian.
The men’s race is arguably the
finest mile/1500 meter field
assembled outdoors in the U.S.
this year, including nine sub-4minute milers from five countries. Headlining the field are 2006
Commonwealth
Games
gold
and
Willis
medalist
Nick
American Anthony Famiglietti,
winner of the 2007 U.S. 8k championships in New York City. The
women's field boasts nine top runners from the U.S., Canada and
Ethiopia.
The Kip Keino Weekend, May
11 to 13, includes elite and citizen
races, the Borg Warner Health
and Fitness Expo and an evening
banquet saluting Kip Keino.
For more information e-mail
[email protected], or contact Michelle Thompson at
227.8374.
Debate
ductive age than individuals on
average.
While the idea of group-level
adaptation may not be the only
answer to this enigma, it does offer
some insight into why an entire
town, or a nation, often place their
knowledge and trust in a concept
and hierarchy of beings that are
emotionally and socially satisfying
while remaining unproven by science. The next question is, will we
evolve beyond the need for comfort
that has no visible means of support, and will we still be human
after that event?
The program notes from the
Schwartz Center playbill offer this
perceptive quote from Charles
Darwin: “We can allow satellites,
planets, suns, universe, nay whole
systems of universes, to be governed by laws, but the smallest
insect, we wish to be created at once
by special act.”
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Excavating & Drainage. Estimates,
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Inc. 608 Elmira Rd., Ithaca 272-3600
Seed Starting Supplies - Ithaca
Agway Lawn & Garden Center. 213 S.
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“The infrastructure
Shurtleff.
we’re working with is on borrowed
time.”
Kerrigan
same operating platform — long
before those events occurred. It’s
now a national initiative.”
With these expenses secured,
Shurtleff anticipates testing the
equipment in July. Users will
require training, as well. “The
equipment for the most part is very
similar to what they operate with,”
says Shurtleff. “Now we’ve got additional frequencies and the ability to
talk to people you couldn’t talk to
before.”
Shurtleff says that the unveiling
of the system will be only the
beginning of changes in the county’s emergency communications.
“The system has been built with
enough capacity to provide for
other responders to be a part of it,”
he says. Agencies that may eventually have an opportunity to tap into
the system include the county public health, highway and transportation departments.
“The sooner I can retire the older
system and be working on the
newer, more reliable one, the better
we’ll be, the safer we’ll be,” says
some even comparing the process
to the way the city appoints department heads.
While in some municipalities the
judge is an elected position,
Ithaca’s charter gives the mayor
power over the appointment,
including how the selection process
is run. But if Peterson had her way,
that would change. “I would just as
soon have this be an elected position,” she says.
Youth
human rights in Ethiopia, Bhopal,
Guatemala and Darfur. Student
Andrew Harned says that he is
most interested in the Guatemala
situation, as he would like to see
the dictator Montt go to trial. He
and adviser Kara Frost Clapp also
report that there is always a “special focus case” — this year
Ethiopia’s Mesfin Woldemariam —
for all of the GOTB groups to rally
around, and that the Trumansburg
contingent does a lot of letter writing beforehand to people in
involved with these countries, such
as ambassadors. “Historically, the
chosen person is almost always
freed by the end of the school year,
which gives us all a sense of accomplishment,” she says.
According to Harned and ParkerCarver the Trumansburg Amnesty
International group sponsors
speakers and movies, followed by
discussion, that are open to the
public throughout the year.
Tree Nursery
the root systems they were getting
and I was very impressed by it,” he
says. The city parks division and
Shade
Tree
Advisory
the
Committee hope to tap into this
new local resource. “We're happy
they are here. We have high hopes,”
says Hillman.
RPM Ecosystems also has high
hopes. They are researching biomass fuels based on fast growing
hardwoods, formerly an oxymoron,
and they feel strongly that their
trees will aid carbon banking and
mitigation in a global-warming
future. Fighting global warming
with trees and helping to landscape
the post-Katrina Gulf south,
sounds like serious fun.
Town
Historic Ithaca and a tireless volunteer with the center since it opened,
the former Brooktondale pre-school
and the Town Historian. Of all the
obligations she has taken on, however, she does have a favorite — the
well-known Brooktondale quilt.
“My husband, Barry, who is an
English professor, and I took a
year’s sabbatical to England in
1974,” she recalls. “When we
returned some of the neighbors I’d
previously volunteered with were
busy working on a quilt. This was
something I was very interested in
doing and this quilt was our first. I
can say that I've worked on every
one of them. In fact, at this point
much of the time we gather at my
home to work on it.”
When the quilt is finished it will
be on display at the Handwork
Gallery in downtown Ithaca until it
is raffled off at the annual
Brooktondale Apple Festival in the
fall. The Brooktondale Quilt is
regarded by many as a coveted
work of art and is consistently the
the
for
fundraiser
biggest
Brooktondale Community Center.
Briefly
Builders Association
Members become
Certified Graduates
The Tompkins/Cortland Builders
& Remodelers Association is
pleased to announce that a select
group of members have earned the
Certified Graduate Builder (CGB)
or Certified Graduate Remodelor
(CGR) designation. CGB and CGR
are exclusive professional designations designed to emphasize business management skills as they key
to a professional operation.
Developed by the National
Association of Home Builders, the
programs require that graduates
meet prescribed standards of business practice, possess industry
experience, have a proven track
record of successful project management, complete a comprehensive education curriculum, and
pledge to uphold the program's
code of ethics.
The most recent graduates are:
Brooke Greenhouse, CGB, Cayuga
Country Homes
Gregory Hoover, CGB, Hoover
Industrial Supply
Kevin McMahon, CGB, KJM
Contracting, Inc.
Ronald Ronsvalle, CGB, Perfect
Painters/Heritage Builders
Dean Shea, CGR, Sunny Brook
Builders of Enfield
Builders and remodelers who are
interested in taking the classes to
earn the CGB or CGR designation
can take courses held throughout
New York State. An assessment
test is required first. More information about the class schedule can
be found at www.tcbra.com.
Consumers can find more information and a current listing of certified professionals at www.nahb.org.
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