August 15, 2016 - Tompkins Weekly
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August 15, 2016 - Tompkins Weekly
Keeping You Connected August 15-21, 2016 T O M P K IN S W E E K LY Locally Owned & Operated ALSO IN THIS ISSUE To m pk i n sWeek l y. co m Permaculture information and celebrations set Vol. 11, No. 25 By Pete Angie Grant provides instruments at Belle Sherman page 3 Cass Park renovation plans launched page 5 Stu Dean adds football head coach role at Lansing page 5 Hundreds of area residents have participated in the past two Finger Lakes Permaculture Institute Tours. The third-annual edition will take place at the end of the month and include discussion on how all factors work together in ecosystems. has five basic steps: making goals, assessment of the land and resources, design, implementation, and evaluation of how those goals are being met. Assessment can be 80 percent of the process, and looks not only at things like soil composition or availability of water, but also at human resources, finances and even family dynamics. Design and implementation are Continued on page 12 Community bonding event upcoming By Eric Banford At a time of paralyzing political discussions about different conflicts, the Ithaca Coalition for Unity and Cooperation in the Middle East (ICUCME) invites the Ithaca community to connect, human-to-human, in an activity that benefits the entire community. On Sunday, Aug. 21 at 5 p.m., “Building Unity: Cleaning the Hate” will be held at the Cass Park Pavilion. The event will begin with music by Vitamin L, a potluck dinner, a community conversation about what “cleaning the hate” means to each of us, followed by a cleanup of trash in Cass Park. “The event is a way for people from different viewpoints and communities to join together in public service and demonstrate that coexistence is possible, positive, and within the power of each of us to make happen,” said Linda Glaser, chair of ICUCME. “This is an opportunity to reach out to the larger community in a way that expresses what our values are and what we believe the values of the Ithaca community are. And that is really about coexistence and working together to solve the problems in our world.” Cleaning the Hate originated with a joint Palestinian-Israeli peace organization in Israel called Home whose goal is “the humanization of the other.” The idea has now spread around Photo Provided Grants available for local organizations pages 8-9 Photo Provided Recycling now easier at Stewart Park page 2 The Third Annual Finger Lakes Permaculture Institute Tour and Convergence will occur the weekend of Aug. 26-28 at regional farms, homes, parks, patios and at Cooperative Extension in Montour Falls. This is the first year the event has expanded to a full weekend and will include music, dance and the screening of a film. The event drew 200 and 400 participants in its first and second years, and the Institute hopes for an even larger turn out this year. The Finger Lakes Permaculture Institute (FLPI) was established in 2005 by three individuals with the goal “to provide high quality permaculture education in the region,” according to Karryn Olson-Ramanujan, one of the co-founders. At its most basic, permaculture practitioners utilize a design practice that seeks to incorporate all of the factors than can affect a system, such as a farm. It is organized around key principals of care for the earth, care for people, and fair share (or, equitable distribution). “The design process helps them to tease apart their landscape to come up with what is best,” said Michael Burns, one of the co-founders and an organizer of the tour. According to Burns, the permaculture process New leadership at Ithaca Salvation Army page 11 Building Unity: Cleaning the Hate is an event that will take place Aug. 21 at the Cass Park Pavilion to bring together people from different backgrounds to make a difference in the community the world, and this will be its first observance in Ithaca. “These events bring people together from lots of different backgrounds to do something really positive for the community,” Glaser said. “Cleaning “I was thrilled with Dr. Winkler and Cayuga Medical Center’s personal service. It’s like you are family.” Learn more about Wound Care at cayugamed.org up an area is a symbolic and meaningful way of showing how you can move beyond the mess we’ve made of the world. Clean it up and move forward together. So ‘Cleaning the Hate’ Continued on page 12 Public-space recycling bin new to Stewart Park Photo Provided The Tompkins County Solid Waste Division has installed its fourth public space recycling bin in Ithaca’s Stewart Park, along the Cayuga Waterfront Trail. It features receptacles for both trash and common single-stream recyclable items like cans, bottles and newspapers. The bins are serviced on a regular basis by Casella Waste Systems, and will be monitored frequently by Solid Waste Division staff. The City removed other garbage receptacles in Stewart Park once the public space bins were installed near the small pavilion and playground. “We’ve found an increasing number of communities are focused on expanding recycling opportunities to public settings such as streetscapes and parks,” said Nancy Webster, an Assistant Recycling Specialist for Tompkins County. “The more successful programs are those that provide options for both recycling and trash.” Tompkins County worked closely with the City of Ithaca to site the public space bin in Stewart Park. “It will provide park visitors and trail users with a better option to recycle materials, rather than sending them to a landfill,” said City Forester Jeanne Grace. In 2015, the County installed public space recycling bins next to the Public Library on East Green Street in Ithaca, near the Lansing Town Center on Route 34, and along Main Street in Trumansburg. It has plans to site at least two additional public space bins before the end of 2016. The public space recycling initiative is one of several programs supported by the County’s solid waste annual fee. City Forester Jeanne Grace (left) and Tompkins County Assistant Recycling Specialist Nancy Webster show off the new public space recycling bin in Ithaca’s Stewart Park. Cayuga Med honored as Fit-Friendly workplace For the second consecutive year, Cayuga Wellness Center’s Cayuga Center for Healthy Living, has been awarded an annual national recognition from the American Heart Association (AHA) for creating a culture of good health in the workplace. The award names several of the entities of the newly name-enhanced Cayuga Wellness Center. “These entities contribute to the wellness and healthy living for our employees: Cayuga Center for Healthy Living, Island Health & Fitness, Rasa Spa, along with the hospital’s nutrition and dining team. This team has offered a long varied list of healthy lifestyle programs to our employees that include exercise, healthy eating and cooking, weight loss programs, diabetes care, stroke rehab, and smoking cessation. We are grateful that their hard work has been recognized each year by this prestigious national award,” said John Rudd, president and CEO of Cayuga Medical Center. This innovative wellness center provides a wide range of health and wellness services for our community and the surrounding region. It brings together a group of approximately 255 professionals across several specialties — people who are both knowledgeable in their fields and genuinely committed to the concept of helping clients reach their personal health goals. Each entity within the Cayuga Wellness Center works in collaboration to provide a continuum of care. The award, the Gold Level Fit-Friendly is earned for providing programs for Cayuga Medical Center employees that meet the AHA’s strict standards. These standards include: physical activity, good nutrition, and a culture within the organization that offers and promotes a healthy lifestyle to its employees. HOME OFFICE, BLOOMINGTON IL. Lee Newhart, AGENT 1011 West State St., Ithaca, NY 14850 607-273-6391 lee@leenewhart.com, www.leenewhart.com Providing insurance protection to the community since 1968 Let us solve your Driveway Problems! Paving • Surface Repair New Driveways Hot Crack Patching 3 Year Guarantee • Free Estimates Sealer is 100% applied by hand Fully Insured! Hours of Operation Mon-Fri 9:00am to 6:00pm Sat 9:00am to 1:00pm Sun Closed HONDA SALES - SERVICE - PARTS 1575 Trumansburg Rd., Rt. 96, Ithaca, NY 14850 | 607-273-2230 (607) 319-4960-office, (607) 342-8097-mobile petesabsoluteasphalt40@gmail.com 2 TOMPKINS WEEKLY August 15-21, 2016 Last school year, members of the Belle Sherman Mariachi Ensemble received a brand new addition to their band. A Teacher Grant from the Ithaca Public Education Initiative (IPEI) provided the means for their teacher Cindy Daly to purchase harps, contributing to multicultural musical enrichment for Belle Sherman Elementary School students. Mariachi, Mexican folk music, often features harps as a standard instrument. The opportunity to learn to play the harp is now offered to fourth and fifth-graders at Belle Sherman allowing them to explore the genre in its entirety. The grant provided funding for a community partner, Lisa Craig Fenwick, as well as purchasing harp cases, an extra set of strings, small accessories, and the instrument. Music teacher and band director Daly expressed her enthusiasm for this project in her application for the grant: “I am excited about turning a one-time experience of telling about the harp into putting actual harps into students’ hands and allowing them to truly experience playing them.” Fenwick, a professional harpist, frequented Belle Sherman to teach the students basic harp techniques. During her visits, the students were taught basic harp techniques and given take home materials that outlined the history of the harp. If students demonstrated a great interest in harp technique, Fenwick would conduct a follow-up lesson with those students and weekly instruction during the school day. Daly also explained that there could be long-reaching benefits to this project. “We had a harp soloist perform with the Boynton Middle School Orchestra in 2010, and I heard about a harpist possibly performing with the Ithaca High School Orchestra,” she said. “Perhaps from a simple beginning introduction to harp in the Mariachi ensemble, our next harp soloist may be inspired to start their study.” In addition to the project’s longterm goals, the students were able to demonstrate what they learned about the harp during school concerts in March and May. IPEI Teacher Grants are awards up to $1500 for projects that strengthen and enrich learning in the Ithaca City School District (ICSD). IPEI is a community-based notfor-profit 501(c)(3) organization that develops supportive community and private sector relationships with the ICSD. For more information, visit www.ipei.org or contact 256-IPEI (4734). Local arts organization Ithaca Underground will celebrate with its second-annual Benefit for Ithaca Underground, hosted Saturday, Aug. 20 on the beautiful Littletree Orchards property at 345 Shaffer Rd. in Newfield. Proceeds from this year’s event fund major Ithaca Underground events such as Big Day In, November Music Series, and Naked Noise. The fundraising efforts are vital to keeping the quality and frequency of Ithaca Underground’s year-round programming and training opportunities. This year’s fundraising showcase features local performers Misses Bitches, Sammus, Water Bears, Kristina Camille, Spazzare, ANANSI, and First Pet, plus local art (Melissa Casano, Anne Eller, Courtney Beglin) and food (The Sol Kitchen, el Taino). Photo Provided Instruments, instruction enhance school band A grant from the Ithaca Public Education Initiative provided harps and instruction from local musician Lisa Craig Fenwick at Belle Sherman Elementary School. Ithaca Underground event coming up in Newfield Founded in 2007, Ithaca Underground is a 501c3 not-for-profit organization providing the people of Ithaca with an all-ages, radically inclusive environment for their do-ityourself ambitions, ensuring that new and challenging music and art is available to all. Presenting over 60 events per year, Ithaca Underground is entirely volunteer-run, strengthened by more than 50 volunteers assisting with logistics, outreach, fundraising, and headed by a volunteer board of seven. In addition to presenting year-round events, IU trains youth and community members on sound, photography, videography, social media, fundraising, grant writing, and more. For more information visit ithacaunderground.org. 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The lecture begins at 5:30 p.m. in Call Alumni Auditorium in Kennedy Hall on Cornell University’s campus, and will be followed by a complimentary garden party in the botanical garden of Cornell Plantations celebrating the 20th Anniversary of the Harder Family Lecture. Describing his own works, Gary Snyder has written, “I try to hold both history and wilderness in mind, that my poems may approach the true measure of things and stand against the unbalance and ignorance of our times.” According to The Poetry Foundation, many of Snyder’s poems aim to instill an ecological consciousness in the reader, and reflect “a concern for the environment and the plight of the American Indian as well as insights engendered by his role as a husband, father and steward of the land.” In this lecture, he will explore the concept of “bioregionalism” through the literary works of Daoist and Buddhist hermits and other peoples of the land, and how that perspective relates to the mission of Cornell Plantations. Snyder will read several of his ‘Cold Mountain’ translations of poems by the Tang Dynasty poet Han Shan, as well as some of his own poems for different landscapes. “We are thrilled to be able to bring Gary Snyder to Cornell for this 20th Anniversary celebration of the William and Jane Torrence Harder Lecture,” stated Dr. Christopher Dunn, the E. N. Wilds director of Cornell Plantations. “The Harders have always encouraged us to feature speakers that celebrate the link between the literary and natural world, and Mr. Snyder is a perfect choice. As a Guggenheim Fellow and Pulitzer Prize winner who focuses his time on issues related to wildlife, ecology, indigenous cultures and bioregional philosophy, he is uniquely posed to tell the story of human connection to nature through his poetry and essays. This lecture and Garden Party are not to be missed!” Gary Snyder is an American poet, Zen Buddhist, mountaineer, environment activist, and founding member of the Beat Generation. He has written 16 collections of poetry and prose, including No Nature, Mountains and Rivers Without End, The Practice of the Wild, Axe Handles, and Turtle Island. Described as “the Thoreau of the Beat Gen- Fall Lecture Series Line-Up Aug. 24, William and Jane Torrence Harder Lecture “Scholars, Hermits, and people of the land” by Gary Snyder Poet, author, scholar, cultural critic, and Professor Emeritus of English at the University of California at Davis Lecture, 5:30 p.m., Call Auditorium Garden Party to follow at the Botanic Garden Sept. 14 “The Woman Who Seeded the Earth: A Haudenosaunee Ecology” by Amber Meadow Adams, Ph.D. Visiting Scholar at the Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy, University of Buffalo Lecture, 7:30 p.m. Statler Auditorium Sept. 28 William J. Hamilton Lecture “Planting in a Post-Wild World” by Claudia West Planting Designer and International ISLA Lecture, 7:30 p.m. Statler Auditorium Pulitzer Prize-winning Beat poet Gary Snyder is the first featured speaker of the annual Fall Lecture Series hosted by Cornell Plantations. eration,” his work is rooted deeply in elements of nature and preservation. Since 1970 he has lived in the watershed of the South Yuba River in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1975 and a finalist for the National Book Award in 1992, Snyder has been awarded the Bollingen Poetry Prize and the Robert Kirsch Lifetime Achievement Award. This Present Moment is Snyder’s latest collection of works. Cornell Plantations is the botanical gardens, arboretum, and natural areas of Cornell University, and is a member of Ithaca’s Discovery Trail partnership. Plantations is open to the public year-round, free of charge, during daylight hours. For more information call 255-2400, or visit cornellplantations. org. Oct. 14 Class of 1945 Lecture “The Wayfinders: Why Ancient Wisdom Matters in a Modern World” by Wade Davis Chair in Cultures and Ecosystems at Risk, Professor of Anthropology, University of British Columbia Lecture, 7:30 p.m. Statler Auditorium Oct. 26 Audrey O’Connor Lecture “Bread, Wine, Chocolate: An exploration of agricultural biodiversity and ways to save endangered foods by savoring them” by Simran Sethi Author, journalist, educator Lecture, 7:30 p.m. Statler Auditorium Nov. 2 Elizabeth E. Rowley Lecture “It’s For the Birds” by Doug Tallamy, Ph.D. Professor of Entomology & Wildlife Ecology, University of Delaware Lecture, 7:30 p.m. Statler Auditorium Serving the Community for over 45 years! Call now to order, or upgrade 607-589-6235 or 800-338-6330 www.htva.net *Reflects average bundled rate. Actual speeds may vary. Call today to schedule your fall burner service! Find out why our Service sets us apart! 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While the potentially new look will be a change, the goal is still to have the same traditional feel that local residents have enjoyed over the course of the past four decades. “Fully enclosing the arena includes modernization while preserving its traditional charm,” as mentioned in a press release regarding the campaign. “The enclosure will make the rink more efficient, extend the ice skating season, and improve conditions for spectators and all users year round.” Cass, which is still the only open air rink remaining in upstate New York could receive other benefits if the plan to enclose the venue moves forward. Included in the list of new elements is: dehumidified ‘conditioned’ air, ventilation, insulation and adaptations for climate change. A vision for an addition to the lobby area and the building’s locker rooms is also in place. All of these new additions have the potential to benefit both the girls and boys Ithaca High School hockey teams, which will both call Cass home for the upcoming season. The IHS boys team just signed on recently to play home games at Cass this upcoming season, and Chairperson of the Friends of the Ithaca Youth Bureau, Jeff Love, hopes that with the new enclosure, the venue could attract more tenants. “I think absolutely that’s the goal and that would be ideal to attract as many tenants as we can,” Love said. “We hope that Cass Park can once again be the facility of choice for local participants.” An aspect of Cass that had previously kept prospective tenants away was the winter months and how cold the facility can get without a full enclo- By fully-enclosing the Cass Park Arena, it is hoped that the renovated facility will attract community groups and events throughout the year. sure. If the campaign moves forward and the addition is completed to Cass, Love thinks that the arena can become a well-rounded place for all stages of the year. “The enclosure will keep it warmer in cold months and cooler in warm months, with air conditioning and such,” said Love. “It will be less subjective to the elements that are uncontrollable, it will be more under control and that in itself should help promote usage by the community.” Depending on community support, the goal for the Ithaca Youth Bureau is to get construction on the building underway as soon as 2017. Construction has already been done to the arena this year with a roof and ceiling renovation project done during the spring and summer months that was funded by the City of Ithaca. Stu Dean adds third head-coaching role at Lansing High School By Will LeBlond In sports, every team needs a utility player – someone who can be put into any situation or any position and get the job done. At Lansing High School, it’s not a player that’s doing it all, but instead it is coach Stu Dean. The longtime Bobcat coach was recently hired as the new head man for the school’s football team. That makes it three sports now that Dean holds the role as head coach for, as he was already at the helm of the boys basketball and baseball programs. To go along with that already demanding schedule, he is a physical education teacher at LHS and is a driver’s education instructor. Put all of that together and Dean does not see much in terms of vacation time, as he wrapped up his lone week off recently before fall high school practices begin in advance of the new school year. With so much of his time going towards athletics, it is the thrill of winning and helping mature his players that keeps him going. “I’m extremely competitive, I think that’s the one thing that draws me toward coaching,” said Dean. “It’s an opportunity to see them grow as an athlete and as a person, to me that’s the most rewarding piece, it’s just to see their development.” With coaching three sports, there are a few individuals that Dean will see quite often in their maturation process. Dean thought of two athletes, Eric Eastman and Zack Walker, as players that he expects to coach in the fall, winter and spring with both of them partaking in football, basketball and baseball. When Eastman, Walker and the rest of the Bobcat football team hits the gridiron for the football year, they will not be led by someone inexperienced at coaching the sport, as Dean did not take the role blindly, however he already holds a long background in the game. Even before Dean was coaching at the high school ranks, he was starring on the gridiron on Ithaca’s South Hill with the Ithaca Bombers and before that with Ithaca High School. While at those schools, he was lucky enough to be coached by two men who have their names enshrined at both schools’ stadiums. During his football career, Dean was coached by legendary head men Jim Butterfield at IC and Joe Moresco at IHS. Needless to say, there was plenty to draw from when Dean first started coaching sports during his senior year of college. “I’ve had some great mentors, who’ve showed me the correct way to do things,” said Dean. “They have helped me develop my style and approach.” That style and approach has developed over the decades and Dean will not be new to coaching three sports in the same school year, as he once had triple duty for Lansing as the football assistant coach in the fall, the head girls basketball coach in the winter and the JV baseball coach in the spring. Continued on following page August 15-21, 2016 TOMPKINS WEEKLY 5 Tompkins Sports Council lunches announced Stu Dean continued from previous page Tasks certainly change and more is expected out of head coaches, but Dean is optimistic that he can juggle the adventure of having a trio of head jobs that he is about to embark on. “It remains to be seen if I can balance all of them, but I’m going to sure try,” said Dean. “It’s going to be interesting, that’s for sure.” With most baseball teams fielding around 15 players, and basketball teams fielding even less traditionally, it will be a different animal for Dean to balance the higher numbers that are involved with football traditionally. To make matters more challenging, he has not been involved much in the Bobcat football program in recent years, although he was the head coach in 2006 and does have 25 years of assistant coaching experience with LHS. Now with the regular season on the horizon, Dean is aware of the tickets by credit card by calling Becky at the Ramada by phone at 257-3100; or by check or cash from members of the Sports Council Committee: Lou Withiam, chair; Georgian Leonard; Mark Kryedt; David Moore; John Perko; and Dave Wohlhueter. the door each week. Every week the football head coaches at Ithaca High School, Ithaca College and Cornell University will discuss the previous week’s games, and give a scouting report on the future opponent. Football head coaches at other Tompkins County high schools will make guest appearances through- out the fall. Various winter sport coaches will also make guest visits. The Tompkins County Sports Council is a not-for-profit organization. All money available at the end of the fall season, after expenses, goes to the high school football programs in Tompkins County. You have the option of obtaining challenges that he will face and how differently he needs to approach his players this time around, now that he’s in the main role. “The hardest part is that there are a lot of responsibilities. It’s time consuming,” said Dean. “When I was an assistant coach, I had the liberty to let my emotions come out, but as a head coach you have to remain under control for the most part, because that’s what I preach to our kids.” It will not be just remaining under control that Dean will teach to his football players, but there is one aspect that carries over all three sports that he holds as the one thing that will drive his teams. “I try to preach defense, I think that’s the key to success,” said Dean. “We talk a lot about defense and spend a lot of time on defense, if I would say there’s one aspect to it, it would be the defensive side of the ball.” Lansing begins its football season with a home game Friday, Sept. 2 against Elmira Notre Dame at 7 p.m. The Lansing High School baseball program (2016 Team Shown) has enjoyed success under the leadership of head coach Stu Dean. He’ll take on head-coaching dutied for the Bobcats’ varsity football team this fall. Provided Photo The 40th annual Tompkins County Sports Council Football Luncheons will begin on Monday, Sept. 12. The weekly luncheons will commence at 11:45 a.m. each Monday through Nov. 14, at the Ramada Inn, 2310 N. Triphammer Rd. The cost of a season admission is $105 for the 10 Mondays. Tickets are also available at Local student led women’s health initiative Ithaca Voice A recently-graduated Ithaca High School student led a charge this year to collect thousands of feminine hygiene products for needy women in the city. Abby Cooper, 18, spent the last semester of her senior year interning at Planned Parenthood, where interns are encouraged to lead their own community projects. Cooper, who was one of the copresidents of the feminist group Strong Women Impacting Society, said she had recently heard about an organization in California that was collecting feminine hygiene products for women in need. So she proposed it at Planned Parenthood as something organizers might be interested in starting in Ithaca where there hasn’t been a drive solely for hygiene products in recent memory. “I guess I wasn’t that surprised (that there wasn’t a feminine hygiene product collection) because it wasn’t really something I had even thought about until learning about it,” Cooper said. “It kind of makes sense that it’s overlooked a lot.” Devon Anderson, sexuality educator and transgender patient navigator 6 TOMPKINS WEEKLY at Planned Parenthood, said, “I think people, by and large, all over our country that have periods are not able to have access to very expensive products.” She said that most facilities don’t put out open calls for tampons or maxi pads, and if they do, don’t collect nearly enough products to meet the demand for them by homeless or lowincome women. SNAP (food stamps) also doesn’t cover the cost of feminine hygiene products. So women who cannot afford products sometimes don’t go to school or work during their monthly periods. Planned Parenthood kick-started Cooper’s project by purchasing several hundred tampons and sanitary napkins which were sorted into packages with 10-20 products in them. Then, Cooper and members of the Strong Women Impacting Society Club helped organize a drive at the high school were students were encouraged to donate. In total, more than 600 care packages were made for women and dis- Ludi Augustine, SWIS Advisor, Abby Cooper, a recent graduate of Ithaca High tributed to resource centers, such as School, organized a donation program to provide women’s health products to the Rescue Mission and Tompkins women in need. County Advocacy Center. The last of People can donate products to the the products were delivered to facili- efforts this year and has anecdotally ties in mid-June. been told that there has been an in- Rescue Mission and Planned ParentCooper said the high school group crease in donated products since the hood year-round. plans on continuing the collection drive. Provided Photo By Jolene Almandarez August 15-21, 2016 Public invited to event honoring Sen. Nozzolio The Lansing Republican Committee and the Tompkins County Republican Committee are co-hosting the Summer’s End Dance Party from 7-11 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 9 at the Lakewatch Inn. DJ entertainment will be provided by Central New York’s own Chris Washburn. All are welcome to join the festivities. The highlight of the evening will be a special presentation for retiring New York Senator Michael F. Nozzolio (54th Senate District). Honored guests include New York Senators Thomas F. O’Mara (58th Senate District) and James L. Seward (51st Senate District), and United States Representative Tom Reed (New York’s 23rd Congressional District). This is a great opportunity to meet state and local candidates and elected officials. Tickets may be purchased for $20 in advance or $25 at the door. The price includes food and non-alcoholic beverages. A cash bar will be open. Ticket holders are eligible to win door prizes. Tickets are being sold at Lansing Market, Trumansburg Shur-Save, Covered Bridge Market in Newfield, Pete’s Grocery & Deli in Ithaca and The Dryden Hotel. For further information contact Rick Hayes, Chairman, of the Lansing Republic Committee by telephone at 279-3826 or by email at rwh31691@yahoo.com. Tompkins DA nominating process explained The following letter was provided by Stephen M. DeWitt and Elizabeth W. Cree, Commissioners of Elections, Tompkins County Board of Elections in order to clarify the process for nomination of candidates for Tompkins County District Attorney. The Tompkins County Board of Elections has had several inquiries regarding the sudden turn of events regarding the position of Tompkins County District Attorney. We are writing this to clarify what has happened and what the procedure will be going forward. On July 8, Gwen Wilkinson resigned as the District Attorney for Tompkins County. This created a vacancy in the office. On Nov. 8, 2016, when voters in Tompkins County vote for President of the United States and other offices, the position of Tompkins County District Attorney will also be on the ballot. The person that is elected will serve a full four-year term beginning Jan. 1, 2017. Normally, candidates for this office are designated by the political parties through the petition process, which this year concluded on July 14. Because the vacancy occurred too late in the petition process, the political parties will not be able to designate candidates by petition. Fortunately, New York State Election Law provides solutions any time such situations arise. Section 6-116 of Election Law applies in this situation and says that a party nomination of a candidate for election to fill a vacancy in an elective office required to be filled at the next general election shall be made, after the day of the primary election, by a majority vote of a quorum of the members of a county committee or committees last elected in the political subdivision in which such vacancy is to be filled, or by a majority of such other committee as the rules of the party may provide. A certificate of nomination shall be filed as provided for herein. To put the previous paragraph in lay terms, the members of the Democratic and Republican county committees must meet after Sept. 13 and with a quorum present, and by a majority vote of those present, select a candidate to run on their respective party lines. The Conservative, Green, Working Families, Independence, Women’s Equality and Reform Party can select a candidate by a majority vote of such other committees as their rules provide. All of the political parties that nominate a candidate for District Attorney must then file a Certificate of Nomination at the Tompkins County Board of Elections, no later than 5 p.m. on Sept. 20. The Tompkins County Board of Elections notified all eight parties of the vacancy and the process for filling the vacancy and nominating candidates in a letter which was mailed July 8. Any person interested in seeking this position or seeking to have input in a particular party’s selection process should contact that party. Party contacts can be accessed on the Tompkins County Board of Elections website at www.votetompkins.com. If you have any further questions, please feel free to contact the Tompkins County Board of Elections by telephone at 274-5522. Have a stress-free vacation Time to service your vehicle! 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Earlier this summer 17 local building owners, community partners, and professional stakeholders came together to launch the Ithaca 2030 District. In doing so, Ithaca joined the ranks of 12 other forward-thinking cities in the United States and Canada that are working toward the goal of cleaner and greener commercial buildings. 2030 Districts, initiated by the non-profit research organization Architecture 2030, are unique private and public partnerships bringing together property owners and managers to meet the energy and resource reduction targets of the 2030 Challenge for Planning. Through collaboration, leveraged financing, and shared resources, they benchmark, develop and implement creative strategies, and establish best practices and verification methods for measuring progress towards a common goal. Thanks to the outstanding work of Sustainable Tompkins, EcoVillage at Ithaca, Local First Ithaca, our local governments, and many other organizations, Ithaca and Tompkins County have long been leaders in sustainability and climate action. The establishment of the Ithaca 2030 District, building on these efforts, places our community in the vanguard of a movement of private sector pioneers coming together to reduce energy use, water use, and transportation emissions. Ithaca joins Albuquerque, Cleveland, Dallas, Denver, Grand Rapids, Los Angeles, Pittsburgh, San Antonio, San Francisco, Seattle, Stamford, and Toronto as part of the 2030 Districts Network. It is a well-known fact that the built environment – commercial and municipal office buildings as well as multi-family housing – is a large consumer of natural resources and generator of emissions. Indeed, 75 percent of all the electricity produced in the United States is used just to operate buildings, and the building sector is responsible for 45 percent of the na- The newly established Ithaca 2030 District will further strengthen our commitment to combat the effects of climate change and, at the same time, spur innovation in our downtown. The recently-implemented Energize NY Finance program, which offers financing for energy efficiency and renewable energy projects in commerciallyowned buildings, will help facilitate the building upgrades necessary to meet the goals of the 2030 District movement. These include the following: Property owners and managers are voluntarily committing their properties to Ithaca 2030 District goals; they are not required to achieve the District The Ithaca 2030 District got its initial impetus from a 2013 visit by Ed Mazria, the founder and CEO of Architecture 2030, which issued the 2030 Challenge. Mr. Mazria was the keynote speaker at HOLT’s 50th anniversary celebration and he met with the members of the Tompkins County Climate Protection Initiative (TCCPI) while he was in town. TCCPI and HOLT began soon after to explore the potential of a 2030 District in Ithaca. With the support of its coalition members, establishing a 2030 District in Ithaca became an official project of TCCPI in 2014. The Park Foundation and the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA), through the Cleaner, Greener Communities program, have provided support to plan and begin building the Ithaca 2030 District. In addition, Cornell Cooperative ExtensionTompkins County, HOLT Architects, and Taitem Engineering have contributed significant in-kind gifts in the form of pro bono services. Besides promoting crucial climate protection measures, the Ithaca 2030 District seeks to demonstrate that healthy and high performing buildings make good financial sense. District members will do this by bringing together diverse stakeholders, leveraging existing and developing new incentives and financing mechanisms, and creating and sharing joint resources. They will develop realistic, measurable, and innovative strategies to assist district property owners, managers, and tenants in meeting aggressive goals that keep properties and businesses competitive while operating buildings more efficiently, reducing costs, and reducing the environmental impacts of facility construction, operation, and maintenance. These collaborative efforts will establish the Ithaca 2030 District as an example of a financially viable, sustainability focused, multi-sector driven effort that maximizes profitability and prosperity for all involved. The District builds on the TCCPI model to provide a non-competitive environ- Sustainable Tompkins is accepting applications for its fall round of Neighborhood Mini-grants. Applications are due Sept. 1. The Sustainable Tompkins Neighborhood Mini-grant program provides support for initiatives promoting environmental sustainability and social and economic vitality in Tompkins County. Individuals, neighborhood groups, and organizations are welcome to apply, as are modest-income owners of micro-enterprises seeking to green their operations or extend their ser- vices to low-income clientele. The program was recently expanded to include small local businesses, beginning in December 2015 with an award supporting the purchase of an electric cargo bike by mobile food vendor ¡BiciCocina! Grants from the summer round included an award to the Finger Lakes Permaculture Institute for its Third Annual Permaculture Tour on Aug. 26-28, showcasing diverse ways to grow crops in healthy, resilient landscapes. Another grant went to a partnership between Cornell’s Engineer- ing Leadership Program and Ithaca High School to overhaul the school’s composting system. College students will work with IHS students to build a solar-powered compost tumbler that can process some of the school’s food waste onsite, and spread awareness about composting through the school with outreach materials and talks. A Neighborhood Mini-grant will help fund materials for building the tumbler and solar panels. Grants range from $150 to $750 and have been awarded to diverse entities for locally-based initiatives Existing Buildings and Infrastructure Operations 50% reductions in energy use, water consumption, and transportation emissions by 2030. Energy Use: A minimum 10% reduction below the national average by 2015, with incremental targets reaching a 50% reduction by 2030. Water Use: A minimum 10% reduction below the District average by 2015, with incremental targets reaching a 50% reduction by 2030. Transportation CO2 Emissions: A minimum 10% reduction below the District average by 2015, with incremental targets reaching a 50% reduction by 2030. New Buildings, Major Renovations and New Infrastructure Immediate 50% reductions in water consumption and transportation emissions, with energy use in the design year reaching carbon neutrality by 2030. Energy Use: An immediate 70% reduction below the national average, with incremental targets reaching carbon neutral by 2030. Water Use: An immediate 50% reduction below the District average. Transportation CO2 Emissions: An immediate 50% reduction below the District average. Why Ithaca? ment where building owners, community organizations, and professionals come together to share best practices and accelerate market transformation in Ithaca’s built environment. The Ithaca 2030 District network includes the following members: Property Owners and Managers Alternatives Federal Credit Union Cascadilla Oasis, LLC Cornell Cooperative Extension of Tompkins County City of Ithaca GreenStar HOLT Architects Ithaca Bakery Purity Ice Cream Taitem Engineering Tompkins County Tompkins County Chamber of Commerce Travis Hyde Properties Urban Core, LLC Community Stakeholders City of Ithaca Cornell Cooperative Extension of Tompkins County Park Foundation Tompkins County Tompkins County Area Development Tompkins County Chamber of Commerce Tompkins County Climate Protection Initiative Professional Stakeholders Building Performance Contractors Association of New York State HOLT Architects Taitem Engineering Six of the 13 Property Owners and Managers, as this list indicates, are also either Community or Professional Stakeholders, making a total of 17 unique founding members. The Ithaca 2030 District, with the support of these founding members, will be able to implement the national standards of the 2030 Districts Network and work with our utilities to meet measurable reductions of greenhouse gas emissions. For more information, visit www.2030districts.org/ithaca. Sustainable Tompkins accepting mini-grant applications supporting sustainable food systems, alternative transportation, waste reduction, energy conservation, renewable energy production, environmental education, social justice, and community building. Proposals are reviewed quarterly by a team of community members and the program is sponsored by Park Foundation, Beck Equipment, Natural Investments, Finger Lakes Wealth Management, and local supporters. To request an application form, please contact Sasha@SustainableTompkins.org. 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Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Emergency Management Agency and consists of representatives from American Red Cross; Catholic Charities, USA; National Council of the Churches of Christ in the USA; The Jewish Federations of North America, The Salvation Army; and, United Way Worldwide. The Local Board was charged to distribute funds appropriated by Congress to help expand the capacity of food and shelter programs in high-need areas around the country. A Local Board made up of representatives from the county, city, Human Services Coalition, United Way, faith community, and others will determine how the funds awarded to Tompkins County are to be distributed among the emergency food and shelter programs run by local service agencies in the area. The Local Board is responsible for recommending agencies to receive these funds and any additional funds made available under this phase of the program. Under the terms of the grant from the National Board, local agencies chosen to receive funds must: 1) be private voluntary non-profits or units of government, 2) be eligible to receive Federal funds, 3) have an accounting system, 4) practice nondiscrimination, 5) have demonstrated the capability to deliver emergency food and/or shelter programs, and 6) if they are a private voluntary organization, have a voluntary board. Qualifying agencies are urged to apply. Tompkins County has distributed Emergency Food and Shelter funds previously with the Advocacy Center, Catholic Charities, Child Development Council, Loaves and Fishes, Salvation Army, and Tompkins County Food Distribution Network participating. These agencies were responsible for providing meals, pantry food, and formula for Tompkins County residents. Public or private voluntary agencies interested in applying for Emergency Food and Shelter Program funds must contact John Mazzello, Human Services Coalition, by telephone at 2738686 or via email at jmazzello@hsctc. org for an application. The Women Building Community (WBC) Grants 2016-17 cycle has been announced by the board of the City Federation of Women’s Organizations (CFWO). Completed grant applications are due Monday, Sept. 26. Guidelines and application requirements are available at www. womenbuildingcommunity.org, according to CFWO Board President Diane Shafer. An optional informational meeting about the fourth annual WBC Grants program is open to the public on Thursday, Sept. 8 at 4 p.m. in Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E. Green St., Ithaca. Questions can also be directed to grants@womenbuildingcommunity.org or by phoning 272-1247. The mission of the WBC Grants is to support all women and girls regardless of race, color, national origin, religion, sex, gender identity (including expression), sexual orientation, disability, age, marital status, and socioeconomic status; and to act as a catalyst for the improvement of the lives of all women and girls in Tompkins County, thus making a contribution to the entire community. The CFWO owned the Women’s Community Building on West Seneca Street where Breckenridge Place is now operated by Ithaca Neighborhood Housing Services. The proceeds of this sale and existing CFWO resources created an endowment fund that makes WBC grants possible. Applications are accepted this September for grants up to $5,000 for programs to be completed by Dec. 31, 2017. An additional special grant, called a WBC Legacy Grant, of up to $10,000 will be awarded to an organization that has a project that will have high impact on our community’s women and/or girls. Organizations may submit applications in both categories. Nonprofit organizations and governmental agencies serving Tompkins County women and/or girls are eligible to apply for one or more than one activity that is in need of funding. Applications from other organiza- tions that carry out charitable projects or activities that address issues facing women and/or girls in Tompkins County may also be funded. Organizations and individuals without nonprofit 501 (c) (3) designation need to be sponsored by an eligible nonprofit organization. In the first three annual grant cycles, approximately $50,000 has been awarded for a total of 28 projects. They were awarded on the merit of the program, quality of the application, and available funds for the cycle, explained Marge Kline, chair of the Grants Committee. “We have budgeted $30,000 to allocate as WBC Grants for 2016-17,” Kline said. The following projects organized by these organizations were WBC Grant recipients in 2015: A Place to Stay (Catholic Charities), GIAC Jumpers (Greater Ithaca Activities Center), Dryden Girls Brigade (Cornell OURS), MBCI Wise Women (Opportunities, Alternatives and Resources), Connie Cook Wants You (Close to Home Productions), Removing Roadblocks (Child Development Council), Girl Ventures (Cornell Cooperative Extension), Overcoming Obstacles (Tompkins Learning Partners), NLI Grassroots Women’s Leadership (Natural Leaders Initiative), and Work Preserve Apprentice (Historic Ithaca). For the first time, one $10,000 grant was available in addition to grants of $5,000 or less. It was awarded to A Place to Stay, a women’s guest house. It was a new initiative of Catholic Charities to assist women in need of safe and stable housing. The other nine grants totaled $20,000. Project areas to be considered for funding must address needs and opportunities that improve the quality of life for Tompkins County women and girls. At least one of the following priorities needs to be addressed: Community Development, Education, Health, Human Services, and Activities that address Gender Equity. More information on the WBC Grants criteria and process is available at www. womenbuildingcommunity.org. Women Building Community grant cycle open August 15-21, 2016 TOMPKINS WEEKLY 9 Saga of Harold’s Square project continues By Brian Crandall Ithaca Voice It’s back again. The Harold’s Square mixed-use project for the Ithaca Commons will be seeking the city’s affirmation on changes to its size, layout and appearance. Many readers who have been following this project will note that Harold’s Square has been in and out of city chambers for a few years now. The project was first approved by the city planning board in August 2013, followed by CIITAP tax abatement approvals that autumn. Since planning board approval is only good for two years, an extension on planning board approval of the 2013 plan was filed and granted last year. More recently, the project submitted a pair of application proposals to the city in an effort to obtain a Restore New York grant. In fact, in the Ithaca Urban Renewal Agency’s analysis of grant feasibility, the Harold’s Square project was dinged because they weren’t confident it would move forward. The reason for that is financing. It’s a large project, and difficulties in securing a tenant for the proposed office space made it a risky prospect to lenders. So it’s taken a few years, but the developer, David Lubin of Horseheads-based L Enterprises LLC, says he has financial commitments in place. But in order to get those commitments, the project was changed. What was approved and re-approved is no longer accurate, and as a result, it Your Hometown Grocery Quality Products, Friendly Service, Everyday Low Prices CUSTOM MEAT DEPARTMENT has to head back before the Planning Board for a third round of discussion. The revision calls for a larger building -- from the approved 151,410 square feet (SF), to 168,750 SF, an 11% increase. The footprint is still the same size, however, and the height is only two feet taller. The additional size comes from changing some of the office space over to apartments - floorto-ceiling heights for apartments tend to be shorter than for offices (10 feet vs. 14 feet), and they replaced three floors of office space with four floors of apartments. The other size changes come from design tweaks of the building, such as a full-sized floor-plate on the top floor. The change is purely a practical one. Apartments downtown are in high demand. Office space is not, especially now that Tompkins Trust is building its new headquarters. Similar logic was used by Jason Fane to explain his plans to convert Bank Tower to apartments. Similarly, the project is turning towards the trend of the studio microunit, pioneered by the Carey Building addition and also planned for 201 College Avenue. 40 units would be micro-units, 30 one-bedrooms, and 38 two-bedrooms. The Danter study yet to be fully released by the county noted occupancy rates are highest for smaller units (2 bedrooms and less), and from a cost analysis of dollars per square foot, the return on investment may be better with the micro-units, if the developers and their lenders are confident that there’s a market for them. Harold’s Square’s new design has the same general design motif and materials, but it’s not without changes, which will be subject to the scrutiny of the Planning Board before any approvals are granted. Assuming the elevation drawings are accurate, a likely point of contention will be the section of the north face that was previously apartments and glass curtain wall, now replaced with what appears to be a blank wall. The board will be particularly sensitive to that side’s facade since it faces the Commons. Reopening the environmental review isn’t likely, because although the building is being revised substantially, it’s not fundamentally different. It’s still L Enterprises LLC proposing a mixed-use downtown high-rise with a modern design. However, the board can still make any number of critiques or suggestions before, or as conditions of approval. More Expansive, Less Expensive Local Groceries Delivered Powered by Click, Shop and Send at TBurgShurSave.com Now delivering to all of the 14850 zip code “Hosting a Backyard BBQ or reunion? Don’t sweat the food. 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The show promises some excellent acoustic music, presented by long-time host Phil Shapiro. Bound for Glory runs Sunday nights from 8 to 11, with live sets at 8:30, 9:30, and 10:30 p.m.All three sets are different, and guests are invited to attend as many sets as they wish. Admission in the live audience at Anabel Taylor is free and is open to everyone in the area. Kids are always welcome and refreshments are available. For further information, call Phil Shapiro at 844-4535, or e-mail pds10@ cornell.edu. Find out about upcoming Bound for Glory shows, and about how you can help, through the Friends of Bound for Glory, by visiting wvbr.com or boundforglory.org. The websites also link to streaming audio of every show. New leadership at Ithaca Salvation Army The Ithaca Salvation Army welcomes Major David Dunham and Major Tina Dunham as the new commanding officers and ministers to The Salvation Army Worship and Service Center in Ithaca. Major David Dunham and Major Tina Dunham succeed Envoys Jonathan and Madeline Soza who have been assigned to Quincy, Illinois. The Majors Dunham have been appointed Corps Officers for Ithaca. “Major David Dunham and Major Tina Dunham will bring the love of God and God’s saving grace to those who are in need in the community,” said Major Ronald Foreman, divisional commander for the Empire State Division of The Salvation Army, covering all of upstate New York. Prior to this appointment, Majors Dunham served the community in Akron, Ohio as Area Coordinators. They have been with The Salvation Army for 35 years. While much of their time had been spent in the state of Ohio, the Dunhams spent five years at Empire State Divisional Headquarters in Syracuse. When asked how the Dunham’s feel about being in Ithaca, the response was, “We are thrilled to be in Ithaca. The town is very interesting and the people have been helpful and encouraging. We are blessed and hope to be a blessing right here where the Lord has placed us,” said Major Dunham. Major David Dunham graduated from Ashland Theological Seminary in 1992 and has a master’s degree in New Testament. Major Tina Dunham graduate from Alliance Theological Seminary in 2006 with a master’s in Professional Studies. The Salvation Army provides services to area seniors through The Salvation Army’s Golden Age group. The group is for seniors and provides numerous opportunities for older persons, allowing them to stay active, engaged and involved. Membership is open to individuals over 50 years of age. The Army serves breakfast and hot lunches daily and offers a variety of activities each week. Instructional classes, computer classes, social service referrals, shopping and overnight trips are but a few of the benefits of membership. Youth groups for preteens and teenagers are offered as after school programs. The after school program offers critical development advancements, an opportunity to socialize, and as an extension of their education by offering one-on-one support for various subjects such as reading, math, or whatever the subject area may be. In the summer, they offer an opportunity for local children to go to the Army’s residential camp, Long Point Camp on Seneca Lake. The Worship and Service Center at The Salvation Army is located at 150 Albany St. in Ithaca. This location is also home to the Ithaca Kitchen Cupboard, which is a food pantry run by the Area Congregations Together and is open Monday-Friday. Additionally, through Our Brother’s & Sister’s Table, a free lunch is served on Saturday and a Sunday meal. The Salvation Army also has a Women’s Auxiliary group that is very active in the community and involved in helping underprovided children. Sunday Holiness Meetings and Sunday school are offered as well. The Salvation Army first opened in Ithaca in 1885. 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F L GORD CA You're invited to join us in celebrating the SON A E S 6 201 For more details, go to ESPNIthaca.com or call 607-533-0057 Wednesday, August 17 at 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM Ithaca Health Alliance 521 W Seneca St, Ithaca, New York 14850 Join us for this family friendly event featuring live music, food, fun & good company. Meet the new Executive Director. Take a walk down memory lane and learn about what things were like when the clinic first started... and see how far we've come! Enjoy a tour led by one of our volunteers and learn about our current services. Meet providers, volunteers, and community partners. Honor the contributions the Free Clinic has made to our community over the past ten years. Join us in looking towards the next 10 years! August 15-21, 2016 TOMPKINS WEEKLY 11 carried out on many levels, like painting a canvas, Burns explained. There are broad brush strokes, such as using topography to determine where pastures and hedgerows should be located, and the small details, like choosing which plants to cultivate together in a way that might utilize every square foot of a garden patch. Ithaca College does the later, even growing crops vertically in a small space. Wellspring Forest Farm, in Trumansburg, raises both ducks and mushrooms in the forest. The ducks aid in mushroom production by eating slugs that would otherwise damage the crop. Other farms, like Cayuta Sun, in Catharine, and Hawk Meadow Farm, in Trumansburg, have utilized the forests on their land to raise shitake mushrooms, which grow well in the woods. Good Life Farm, in Interlaken, pastures turkeys in their orchards. The birds eat pests and fallen fruit, and provide fertilizer. Burns points out that these methods are not specific to permaculture. The permaculture process, however, aided these farmers in coming to decisions on what methods work best where they are farming. “A key part of permaculture is to teach design as a discipline,” OlsonRamanujan said, to see a site and a family as a system, not as many separate things. Many permaculturists see themselves as part of a decentralized worldwide movement. FLPI is “focused on building a local movement of permaculture practitioners,” at all levels, home patio, farm, systems, according to Rebecca Cutter, a long time FLPI board member. FLPI has offered yearly two-week intensive courses for the past 13 years. They have also provided 10- to 12-week evening courses, and workshops on specific topics. Howev- Building Unity continued from page 1 is meant to build bridges and create relationships between people who might not have other opportunities to connect with each other.” When ICUCME organizers were planning this event, they didn’t want the title Cleaning the Hate to sound negative, so they added Building Unity to clarify the end goal of the gathering, according to Glaser. “We didn’t want to emphasize the hate aspect,” she shared with a laugh. “This is really about building unity through cleaning up Cass Park together. We are symbolically moving past negativity toward the positive. I think that is a beautiful element that Ithaca has, that value in our community of coming together. There are elements in the world that seek to drive wedges between communities by making one group the villain, and we want to move beyond those kinds of labels and move to a way of looking at one another as human beings.” Inclusion of local singing group Vitamin L was a natural fit for this event, Glaser said. “Vitamin L has graciously volunteered to be part of this event. They’ll be playing about 15 minutes of music. They’re such a Bay Alley, followed by a performance from Circus Culture, and music from Astro Hawk, Travis Knapp, Remstar Steele and Jacksonic. Local food vendors will also be there. Saturday, Aug. 27 holds the tour of up to 13 permaculture locations from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., followed by a reception at The Finger Lakes Cider House, where folk-jazz fusionist Jen Cork will be performing. Carpooling is encouraged for the tour, and a link is located on the FLPI’s website to help with organization. Aug. 28 will close the weekend with a day of workshops and lectures at Cornell Cooperative Extension in Montour Falls. Well-known names in permaculture that will be giving presentations include Steve Gabriel and Brett Chedzoy, who are known for their shining light in our community. They are all about building connections and moving beyond negativity. Their songs are about cooperation and positive things that we want to teach our kids. We’re grateful to them and honored that they are participating,” added Glaser. The potluck meal aspect of this event is really important for building camaraderie, according to Glaser. “When you are breaking bread together, you are at peace together. That’s one of the profound symbols in history. When people are eating together they are clearly not at war together. So we thought having a meal together was a wonderful way to gather before cleaning up the park together,” Glaser said. This event is the kickoff for a series of monthly potluck and conversation events that ICUCME is planning going forward. “It’s our hope to bring people together on an ongoing basis to give them the opportunity to talk with one another,” Glaser said. “Ithaca has so many people involved in different kinds of activism and ways of repairing the world, and we hope these conversations will offer a way for different communities to talk with one another about who they are and what matters to them. It’s a way of building bridges and finding ways to achieve cooperation.” “The world is a troubled place and there is always more to do, but it’s heartening to be someplace where people care,” continued Glaser. “I feel grateful to be in Ithaca. We have so many blessings here, and so many initiatives that enable people to move beyond their own concerns to touch those of others.” According to its Facebook page, ICUCME is “a grass-roots anti-racist community organization working to preserve the plurality and diversity of work in growing mushrooms and woodland grazing, respectively. Other presentations include ethical and profitable landscape management, on-site renewable energy, designing collective impact projects for social change, creating a more inclusive permaculture movement, permaculture in Japan, home composting, raising tree crops, and melding permaculture basics with entrepreneurial skills. A full schedule can be found at www.fingerlakespermaculture.org. All events are free, but donations are encouraged. “Let’s get people together,” said Olson-Ramanujan of her vision for the weekend, and the networking, learning and relationships she hopes it fosters. “Get the energy together, something will happen.” Photo Provided continued from page 1 er, the founders of the institute “didn’t envision ourselves to be a catalyst of a movement” on their own, said OlsonRamanujan. The tour and convergence are an effort for practitioners and newcomers to learn from each other and build a local community around permaculture. “Our big focus is to support individuals, organizations, businesses and institutes that are practicing permaculture,” Cutter said. “Permaculture extends beyond farming,” added Cutter, citing examples such as alternative currencies like the Ithaca Hour or Ithacash, babysitting cooperatives, bartering, communal meal sharing, and preserving indigenous knowledge. Cutter views the practice as a means of promoting social justice and equity, though feels that FLPI’s goals in that area are not being met. “Right now we’re working to build a more inclusive movement,” she said, and is asking how permaculture concepts could be supportive of other movements like Black Lives Matter, or the struggles of refugees. Participants in FLPI workshops have primarily been white and middle class, notes Olson-Ramanujan. Olson-Ramanujan also sees that women make up a smaller number of those making a living in permaculture or becoming prominent figures in the movement than men, despite an equal or higher number of females seeking training in the field. Olson-Ramanujan has created a series of on-line courses specifically designed to support women in permaculture in an effort to address this disparity. “We’re doing some deep soul searching in the movement nationally and locally about how to make it more accessible,” said Olson-Ramanujan. “Plants grow, but it’s the human systems that implode if we don’t tend them well.” The weekend will open with a screening of “Inhabit: A Permaculture Perspective” at 7 p.m. Aug. 26 in Press Photo Provided Permaculture An example of how permaculture works is in a forest where ducks aid in mushroom production by eating slugs that would otherwise damage the crop. the Middle East, advocating for peace and security for all. Rather than onesided tactics that prolong conflict, our group embraces fact-based, respectful dialogue, mutual recognition and cooperation to promote justice in the Middle East.” Reservations are requested so organizers can have sufficient supplies for the event. For more information, email ithacacucme@gmail.com or see ICUCME’s Facebook page at facebook.com/IthacaCoalition. The Coalition will host monthly potluck meal and conversation events following the kickoff event at Cass Park on Aug. 21. Group embarks on 10th year of Rotary Harvest The Rotary Club of Ithaca is engaging in its 10th annual Rotary Harvest food collection during three weekends this summer. On Saturdays, Aug. 20, Aug. 27, and Sept. 3, volunteers from the Ithaca Rotary Club will gather at the Ithaca Farmers’ Market to gather donated produce and other fresh foods to supplement selected families’ meals. Ithaca Rotarian Heidi Goldstein conceived the idea in 2007 when she had a booth at the Farmers’ Market. “Children are my passion and I wanted to do something that would directly affect their lives,” Goldstein said. “This is very personal for me. This food distribution has a direct impact on our local children.” Now in its 10th year, Rotary Harvest has served 51 families, including 168 children. The collaborative effort between the Ithaca Rotary Club, the Ithaca Farmers’ Market, and the Ithaca City School District provides fresh fruits and vegetables and other staples to families who participate in the pre- 12 TOMPKINS WEEKLY K meal program. For three weeks in late summer every year, the school meal program is unavailable, so Rotary Harvest helps bridge that gap. This year, 10 families with 37 children will receive fresh food through Rotary Harvest. Five or six Rotarians will meet at the Farmer’s Market each Saturday morning, fill a wagon with fresh produce donated by vendors, and then shop at a local grocery store for meat, cereal, peanut butter, and other necessities. The volunteers then deliver the goods to the recipients’ homes. Email questions about Rotary Harvest to Heidi Goldstein at hjorganics@aol.com. 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