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Keeping You Connected
June 13-19, 2016
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Vol. 11, No. 16
Renovations address needs at jail
City decides to tear down
Lake Street house page 2
Community solar initiative
is launched page 3
Legislature approves jail transition program page 4
Ithaca High welcomes new
athletic director page 5
Ithaca artist is inspired by
true stories page 9
City seeks input on sidewalk
improvement plan page 10
The $1 million Tompkins County
Jail renovation project, completed
this spring after years of sometimes
contentious debate, has addressed
the need to reduce overcrowding at
the jail, but officials note that the
ability to house all of the county’s inmates is an ongoing concern.
The project essentially involved
constructing a covered outdoor recreational structure and converting
the interior recreation area to dormitory space for seven additional jail
beds. By increasing the jail capacity
the county expects to significantly
reduce the nearly $250,000 spent
each year to board out inmates at
jails in nearby counties.
County Sherriff Ken Lansing explains that renovations were finished
in March. The first stage involved
creating the covered recreation area,
which took about five or six months,
and the second stage involved creating a seven-bed holding area in the
existing dormitory space.
Capt. Ray Bunce, the Jail Administrator, says that all of the new beds
are filled, which has helped alleviate
the overcrowding situation at the
jail. “We had no board-outs for the
first month after the expansion was
completed, but we now have eight
board-outs—all female prisoners who
are not part of the expansion area,” he
says.
Full capacity at the county jail is
82 inmates, with a variance from the
state for 18 more for a total of 100
inmates, Bunce says. “But that variance depends on the classification
of the inmates, based on their criminal history and behavior. We are still
overcrowded, but we can now house
Photo by Jay Wrolstad
By Jay Wrolstad
Capt. Ray Bunce in front of the new recreation area created by the renovation
project at the Tompkins County Jail.
seven more individuals, so this helps,”
he says.
Lansing adds, “What most people
don’t know is that we have no control
over the number of prisoners we have
to hold at the jail. It depends on the
number of arrests on a given day and
how individuals are processed by the
courts. We’ve done all we can, but we
can’t control who comes through the
door. We now have a dormitory system, but if we add any more beds it
will have to be with single cells.”
The renovation project was proposed, about three years ago, following more than a decade of county
efforts to push back against state
pressure to build a larger jail, while
increasing its investment in alternatives to incarceration and keep the
jail population stable despite projections of growth.
Some legislators, and members of
the public, voiced concern that expanding the jail was the wrong approach as it was an extension of a misguided prison system that does little
to address the issues behind criminal
behavior. They maintained that the
funds should instead be spent on social services and other programs designed to keep people out of jail.
A task force was formed to conduct an in-depth review of alternative measures that could be employed
to reduce the local jail population, including the Reentry Plan for inmates
proposed by the county’s Criminal
Justice/Alternatives to Incarcera-
slaves. The news was delivered to
the enslaved African Americans in
Galveston two-and-a-half years after
the Emancipation Proclamation was
issued in Washington.
Many of the former slaves who
heard the news left the plantations and headed north. Those who
remained in Galveston, however,
marked June 19 the following year
with a celebration. The term Juneteeth was a combination of June and
19th, but the day was also dubbed
Emancipation Day. Slowly, recognition of the day spread to neighboring
states.
Banned from gathering in many
public parks, African-Americans
in different cities bought pieces of
land specifically for the event. It was
a time to celebrate their freedom,
and to encourage one another in the
midst of a hostile, segregated country.
“We really want to be intentional
about the message; the fact that it
commemorates the emancipation
of all African American slaves,” says
Jennifer Forbes of the Southside
Community Center. Forbes is chairperson of this year’s Juneteeth organizing committee and sees the day
not just as an important one for the
African-American community, but
for all Americans. “When it comes to
the importance of what Juneteeth
is, we should all want that,” she says,
“That was the time every African
American understood I, too, am human.”
This year’s celebration at Southside will feature a youth talent show,
live music (which band is yet to be
determined), drumming, the GIAC
Jumpers and food, raffles, prizes and
activities. There will also be a fashion
show featuring local designer Leanora Erica Mims, and “bold, brilliant
and beautiful” apparel from local
stores including Plato’s Closet and the
Mary Durham Boutique.
Due to transitions in staff at
Southside, the festival did not occur
last year, so this coming weekend
marks the return of Juneteeth to
Ithaca since it was last held in 2014.
Fifteen planning committee members and 20 volunteers have worked
to make the event take place, and
funding for the event has been provided by a Tompkins County Tourism Grant, registration fees and sales
of food and merchandise.
Since it was first commemorated
in 1866, Juneteeth has spread across
the country. Texas made it an official
Continued on page 13
Juneteenth celebration at Southside
By Pete Angie
This coming weekend Juneteenth
will be remembered in Ithaca with a
celebration at the Southside Community Center. The event marks a
crucial day in American history, particularly for African-Americans.
In June of 1865 Major General
Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston, Texas, with a few thousand federal troops to occupy the former confederate state. On June 19, from the
villa where he was headquartered,
Granger read a number of general orders outlining how things were going
to be in Texas now that the Civil War
was over.
The orders dictated that the state
government of Texas was now illegitimate, that confederate soldiers and
officials must report for parole, and
how cotton was to be bought and sold
with government oversight. General Order Number 3, however, was
the one that sparked pandemonium
and celebration: “The people of Texas
are informed that...all slaves are now
free.”
The order went on to state that
there would be “absolute equality”
of personal and property rights between former masters and former
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City council votes to raze Lake Street residence
A little piece of creek-side property at 401 Lake Street in Ithaca became one of the more contentious issues facing Ithaca’s Common Council
in recent months, leading to over an
hour of discussion and multiple votes
on June 1.
Council ultimately voted 8-1 to
demolish the house on the property
and turn the site into a natural area,
with Alderperson Cynthia Brock dissenting.
Here’s some background: the
property is located near the north
rim of Ithaca Falls. The City of Ithaca
purchased the property from Tompkins County for around $25,000. The
county had foreclosed on the property after the previous owners stopped
paying their taxes.
The city made the purchase with
the idea of maintaining its natural
areas by preventing development so
close to Ithaca Falls. The property
contains an 808-square-foot home
which stood abandoned for several
years.
The city then had to decide between two options for what to do
with the property:
Destroy the home and zone the
area as park land. The demolition
would cost up to $25,000, would eliminate the property from the city’s tax
rolls and another unit of housing unit
from the city’s limited supply.
Sell the home. This would keep the
housing unit and taxable property for
the city, but would open the possibility of additional development, albeit
subject to the city’s Board of Zoning
Appeals.
For a more in-depth overview, see
our earlier coverage of the issue at
http://ithacavoice.com/2016/06/
competing-ideas-future-401-lakestreet/.
While the vote was ultimately
Photo provided
By Michael Smith, Ithaca Voice
After considerable debate, city lawmakers decided to demolish this house on
property near Ithaca Falls for use as a natural area.
relatively clear-cut, almost every
member of the Common Council expressed that they were torn over the
issue.
“To be completely honest, my
thoughts on this parcel changes pretty much with every passing ten minutes or so,” Brock said. Several other
council members echoed her sentiment, saying they had changed their
minds multiple times while deliberating on the issue.
Alderperson Seph Murtagh said
he’d initially been in favor of demolition, but leaned toward keeping it after visiting the house and seeing that
it was salvageable.
Murtagh ultimately settled into
the demolish camp, because he felt
that it was unlikely that if the house
were renovated, that it would be creating affordable housing.
Alderpersons Josephine Martell
and Graham Kerslick shared the
concern that if the house remained,
it would end up being market-rate
housing.
“The sale price might be good, but
I see this as potentially something
that’s going to take a lot of investment, to the point that it’ll end up not
being affordable house for somebody
but actually somebody’s weekend
home. I mean, it’s a very attractive
site,” Kerslick said.
Alderperson George McGonigal
was one of the few who seemed to be
firmly in one camp, arguing to keep
the house intact and put the land up
for sale.
He noted that the house’s value
was estimated at $125,000, and it
would cost roughly $25,000 to demolish it—added to the loss of taxable
property it added up to a not insignificant loss to the city.
It was also pointed out that the
plot of land was so small and would
require so many zoning variances
that tearing down the structure and
trying to build something new would
be impractical, at best.
Ultimately, more council members found themselves taking the
“long-term vision” on the issue, and
a majority decided that demolishing
was the right call.
As Martell put it, “I certainly support long-term vision on this one. I
think it’s an investment in the city
to take down this house…to right a
wrong, I don’t think the house should
ever have been there in the first
place.”
Brock also initially leaned toward
keeping the house, saying she was
loath to tax property off the tax rolls.
Later in the discussion, however, she
began to oppose the resolution for a
different reason.
Clauses that would provide for
funding the demolition of the 401
Lake Street house had been added at
the last minute. Brock said that since
the house wasn’t a safety concern,
there were other buildings in the city
that should take priority for demolition.
Brock said that there was an old
building near on Giles Street that
posed an immediately safety risk, as
people would jump from the building
into the creek below.
Murtagh argued that it was a
matter of principle; the city has been
pushing property owners to not let
their buildings fall into disrepair or
go unused. Thus, leaving the Lake
Street house would be setting a bad
example, he said.
The measure ultimately passed
8-1, though it may take some time
before the building is actually demolished.
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Renovus launches community solar initiative
Saturday at the Ithaca Festival
was a bright and sunny occasion,
perfect weather for Renovus Solar to
launch its community-wide solar initiative. The company’s goal is to sign
up 1,000 new customers to use the energy produced by the new solar farms
it is building.
An enthusiastic kickoff at Bernie
Milton Pavilion featured Seneca Lake
defender Sandra Steingraber, Renovus President and CEO Joe Sliker
and Tompkins County Area Development’s (TCAD) Heather McDaniel.
“This program allows anyone who
wants to go solar, to go solar,” Sliker
said. “It doesn’t take any up-front investment, it doesn’t take tax liability,
it doesn’t require good credit, it’s just
if you want to choose solar then you
can choose solar. That makes it a benefit for everybody. As more people do
that, we have more work to do, we employ more people, everyone benefits.
We hired 50 new people last year, and
we’d love to hire 50 more this year.
“This is really the evolution of
what solar wants to be,” Sliker continued. “We can do things with solar
power that we never thought were
possible just by tapping into the
strength of the community, and the
strength in numbers when we come
together and do something different.”
Renovus currently has two solar
farms up and running in Enfield, and
just finished construction of a new
facility in Ulysses. Plans are in place
to build solar farms throughout the
county, with the ultimate goal of
having solar arrays throughout New
York State. There are now eight new
solar farms currently before planning
boards around the state.
“The advantage of distributed
power generation like this is that it
produces power where the grid needs
it,” Sliker explained. “We’re trying to
Photo by Eric Banford
By Eric Banford
Sandra Steingraber, left, Joe Sliker and Heather McDaniel discussed some of the
benefits of Renovus Community Solar at the Ithaca Festival.
strategically locate these farms to
benefit the utility grid, and if everybody benefits, then the change will
occur.”
“For a long time we have wanted to
bring solar to everyone,” shared Keith
Liblick, a Renovus sales representative who was busy signing people up
at the Renovus booth on the Commons. “People in all economic situations, people of all credit situations,
whether people are renting, whether
they live in an area where there are
trees. Whatever the reason that they
couldn’t go solar, it’s been our singleheaded mission to bring solar to
them, too. Pay-as-you-go solar is our
way of building a bunch of solar arrays and having it cost the customer
10 perent less than their current elec-
tric bill. It’s now that easy,” he added.
“Response at Ithaca Festival was
overwhelming,” said Jon McNamara,
general manager for Renovus. “We
had a dozen signup stations with
lines at them at various points, and
we signed up hundreds of people over
the weekend. We anticipate bringing
our new solar farms online in the fall,
and will honor signups in the order
that they come in. We’ll keep going
down the list and get people into solar.”
At the festival launch, TCAD’s McDaniel cited the Tompkins County’s
goal of reducing carbon emissions by
80 percent by 2050. “There’s a delicate balance between reaching those
goals and allowing businesses to operate in a manor that creates jobs and
strengthens our economy. I think
we’d all agree that community solar
is one of those actions that we can
take to reduce our footprint and save
our planet for our kids,” she said.
Ecologist and author Sandra Steingraber then reflected on the simultaneous approaches needed to move
away from polluting our planet: saying no to fossil fuels and saying yes
to renewable energy. “I’m known as
someone who says no, and I mean it,”
she said. “I go to jail if no one listens.
But today I’m here to say yes because
this is the other half of our fight. We
have to shut the door on fossil fuels
and open the door on renewable energy.”
Steingraber added that she
“sometimes wondered in these big
human rights struggles like the Seneca Falls Women’s Rights Convention,
the Stonewall riots, or the Greensboro lunch counter, if the people who
participated in those iconic moments
were aware while it was happening that everything was changing,
and they were that agent of change.
Because I think we are those agents
right here and right now in the Finger
Lakes, in New York State, saying no
to the fossil fuel industry with all the
success and resolve that we have, and
saying yes to Renovus and community solar. We’re becoming an incubator
for new, just ideas for how renewable
energy can provide jobs, can save our
environment, can save public health,
and make New York the kind of place
that not only Mexico but the whole
world is looking to.”
Since the beginning of 2014, Renovus has added more than 50 new jobs,
bringing the company’s payroll to
over 70 full-time, living wage positions. And their commitment to having a positive impact doesn’t stop at
the products they sell, as each employee gets a CSA share, their vehi-
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Legislature gives nod to jail transition program
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Last week the Tompkins County
Legislature voted unanimously in favor of releasing $100,000 in funding
for a Reentry Plan for inmates of the
Tompkins County Jail.
The reentry program will focus on
helping released inmates access the
county’s services and ease their transition back into the community, in an
effort to reduce the likelihood that
person will commit another crime,
lower the cost of incarceration and
provide greater opportunities for former offenders to live productive lives.
According to a report from the
Criminal Justice/Alternatives to Incarceration Advisory Board (CJATI),
Tompkins County actually put a basic reentry program in place eight
years ago, but limited funding and
eligibility requirements led to only
143 inmates being served by the program. A total of 92 of those inmates
(64.3 percent) have not returned to
the Tompkins County jail.
For context, 68 percent of prison
inmates were rearrested for a new
crime within three years of release,
and about 77 percent were re-arrested within five years, according to a
study by the U.S. Bureau of Justice.
While prison and jail are different experiences, inmates in both often face
similar issues such as drug abuse or
The aim of the program is to ease the transition back into the community among
inmates leaving the county jail.
mental illness.
The bulk of the funding for the
new program—$65,000—will go toward establishing a Reentry Coordinator that will oversee the program
and coordinate with the various
stakeholders, agencies and organizations involved with the program,
such as Offender Aid and Restoria-
tion (OAR) and Ultimate Reentry
Opportunity (URO).
An estimated $25,000 will be allocated toward enhanced basic education services and life skills training offered through the County’s Day
Reporting Program. The remaining
$10,000 will go toward grant writing
services aimed at augmenting local
funding for reentry services.
The Reentry Plan is divided into
four phases. Here’s how they break
out:
Phase 1—Hire or contract a Reentry Coordinator. This person will be
responsible for case management of
inmates, identifying the needs and
risk level of each inmate and coordinating with other services to ensure
that the inmate is referred to the
appropriate services. For example:
mental health treatment, substance
abuse treatment, or job training.
Phase 2—Evaluate the effectiveness of services and pinpoint inefficient or deficient areas. The Reentry
Coordinator and CJATI will establish
performance measures to help identify which services are particularly
effective and which ones aren’t, and
make changes as necessary.
Phase 3—Collaborate with groups
like OAR and URO to pursue grant
opportunities to help improve current services or develop services that
aren’t currently available.
Phase 4—Examine the need for assistance for the coordinator over the
first 12 to 18 months of the program
and pursue funding for additional
staffing if needed.
The full Reentry Plan is posted at
the CJATI page of the County website at www.tompkinscountyny.gov/
ctyadmin/CJATI.
Cornell names new dean for Johnson Graduate School
all aspects of the deanship, Johnson
and the College of Business. We are
extremely pleased and enthusiastic
about his acceptance of this post.”
Nelson will report to Dutta, who
said he will make an excellent dean
and has the support and respect of
the Johnson faculty.
“Mark is not only ideally equipped
to lead Johnson at this complicated
and exciting time, but it is clear that
he will contribute tremendously to
the success of the College of Business,
as well,” Dutta said.
A member of the Johnson faculty
since 1990, Nelson served as associate
dean for academic affairs from 2007
to 2010, overseeing the school’s tenure-track faculty and research.
Nelson said he was humbled to
have been chosen as dean: “I’m enormously grateful for the opportunities
that were given to me when I joined
Mark Nelson, Cornell professor of
accounting, has been named the 12th
dean of the Samuel Curtis Johnson
Graduate School of Management.
Nelson, the Eleanora and George
Landew Professor of Management,
will begin his five-year term as the
Anne and Elmer Lindseth Dean July
1. He will succeed Soumitra Dutta,
who will step down from the post
June 30.
Dutta will continue to serve as
dean of the College of Business, a
position to which he was appointed
March 22.
“Mark is an internationally recognized scholar and an award-winning
teacher of Johnson MBA students,”
said Provost Michael Kotlikoff. “The
selection committee and I have been
extraordinarily impressed by the
depth, sophistication and comprehensiveness of his thinking regarding
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this campus and in the last 26 years as
a member of this community. When
you have the opportunity to give
back and make a difference at a place
that you love, you take it.”
Nelson praised Johnson’s strong
teaching and research, as well as its
dedicated faculty, staff and alumni.
His vision for the school includes the
conviction that Johnson’s MBA programs can be “among the absolute
best in the world.” Opportunities that
will emerge from the College of Business will play a central role in achieving that goal, he said.
“I’m excited to help Johnson and
the College of Business flourish,” Nelson said. “We’re all in this together for
the long term, and by supporting each
other and collaborating on teaching
and research, we can do more collectively than any of us could do on our
own.”
An expert in accounting, Nelson
has conducted research examining
psychological and economic factors
that influence how people make decisions; interpret and apply accounting, auditing and tax regulations;
and trade in financial markets. His
research has been published in many
scholarly journals in accounting and
psychology.
He has been recognized with
the American Accounting Association’s (AAA) Notable Contribution
to Accounting Literature Award,
the AAA’s Wildman Medal, the journal Auditing’s inaugural best paper
award, and the Johnson School’s Faculty Research Award.
Nelson earned his Ph.D. in accounting in 1990 and a Master of Accounting degree in 1989, both from
Ohio State University.
SPORTS
Ithaca High welcomes new athletic director
David Hanna previously served as a positions and special teams coach for the Cornell football team.
cently was a positions and special
teams coach at Cornell since 2012.
He also had coaching stops at Notre
Dame, Salve Regina, Washington and
Lee and Johns Hopkins, but his main
pitch for the Ithaca City Schools job
wasn’t the Xs and Os of coaching, but
the relationships established along
the way.
“The main motivation I had in applying for the job was that I got into
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From the gridiron at Cornell’s
Schoellkopf Field to the playing fields
at Ithaca High School, David Hanna
has maintained his values at every
stop he makes.
On June 1, Hanna officially began
his tenure as the Wellness and Athletics Officer for the Ithaca City School
District, taking over for Jeff Manwaring, who held the position on an interim basis for a year. Hanna did not
want to waste any time, and had full
intentions of hitting the ground running in his new position.
“In the first 100 days, I want to
engage with a lot of the stakeholders,
principals, coaches and students,” he
says. “Now, the seasons are winding
down, so I got to observe the spring
coaches, watch the spring contests
and I got to observe the players. So, I
got a taste of that and now I can go
into the summer and those will be my
planning months.”
Included in those planning
months, Hanna hopes to find ways to
increase athletic participation at the
12 schools that he governs in the district and implement other programs,
including more awareness of healthy
eating habits for athletes. He looks to
implement fueling stations for athletes that would let them rehydrate
and have healthy food options to improve athletic performance.
Hanna comes from a background
of football coaching, as he most re-
Photo by Patrick Shanahan
By Will LeBlond
Tor Wildenstein, left, Abbey Yatsko and Liam Joyce are among the Purple Lions
who participated at the state competition.
Dryden athletes qualify
for 2016 state track meet
By Will LeBlond
A storm has been brewing for the
past few years at Dryden High School,
and the Purple Lions track teams
have brought it to its apex after their
performance at the Section IV track
and Ffeld meet.
The Purple Lions put on a show at
the sectional meet, with eight place
winners in events and six athletes
who advanced and will make an appearance at the state meet, which
was held the weekend before this issue went to press.
Liam Joyce, Tor Wildenstein,
Ali Abel-Ferreti, Eric Varvayanis,
Kris Kelchner and Abbey Yatsko all
qualified for states during the sectional meet. Joyce and Yatsko led
the charge, as Yasko’s performance
in the 400-meter hurdles set a new
school record, which helped her earn
her third consecutive scholar-athlete award at ESPN Ithaca’s Night of
Champions. While Joyce qualified for
three state events (100 meters, 200
meters and 1600-meter relay) to lead
the team.
For Dryden track coach Lee Stuttle, this type of success wasn’t a surprise. “We knew we would be good,
but to have an amazing year, we had
to stay healthy and we did.”
With that, the athletes and coaches understand the process involved
with getting to this highly regarded
benchmark, but the accomplishments along the way are something
Stuttle enjoys.
“Whether it is kids making it to
States, a new school record or a personal record, I get very excited for the
kids when goals are reached and attained,” the coach says. “I love their
look of accomplishment when they
realize what just happened.”
For seniors like Liam Joyce, the
state meet could serve as a fitting
culmination to his track career at
Dryden. While two of his events are
individual, he is especially excited to
compete in the relay so that he could
potentially share in that glory.
“Competing with fellow seniors
Tor Wildenstein, Kris Kelchner and
Eric Varvayanis in the 1600-meter relay gives me a chance to share in the
moment with my teammates, hopefully with a medal around our necks.”
The senior class may be moving
on from Dryden with an exclamation
point, but the hope and the goal for
those moving on from Stuttle’s program is that their experience can be
passed down to those younger than
them who are about to move into
those larger roles.
“It should help show the younger
athletes that hard work for the four
years will pay off in the end,” says
Joyce.
coaching because I wanted to help
young people,” Hanna says. “With
football, at the college level you only
have 10 weeks where you’re playing,
you only have 10 contests. So what
are you doing in the other 42 weeks of
the year? You’re building young men
into players.”
He cites his clinical psychology
background to show how he discovered that coaching is much the same
as teaching and building the lives of
young people.
David Archer, the head football
coach at Cornell, was able to work
with Hanna for the program, and
Archer attests to the qualities that
Hanna brings to his new post.
“He cares about the student-athletes as people, but also how sports
and athletics can help develop them
as a person and the intangibles that
sports can bring,” says Archer. “I
think his role with wellness will also
help him build confidence and selfesteem in others around the district.”
Archer, who hired Hanna as a
member of his staff with the Big
Red, also suggests that Hanna’s new
role fits him as a person. “I think his
heart is always in the right place, because he’s always thinking about the
student-athlete, or now, in this case,
the student,” Archer says. “He puts
the student first, and that is a nonnegotiable quality that you want in
someone that is going to be leading a
group of students.”
Hanna wants that leadership to
shine through with the school district, as he hopes to implement a Captains Council, which will include varsity captains and will meet multiple
times each academic quarter to help
with the leadership of the programs
and get more interpersonal interaction with the athletes.
That interpersonal interaction
has already begun for Hanna, who has
been involved with the district longer than just his June 1 starting date.
Manwaring has been dealing with
day-to-day operations, according to
Hanna, which has helped him get accustomed to the athletic programs.
Hanna has even been on the sidelines
for events and has been shaking the
hands of players and coaches to help
get his face known around the district and to get his message across.
“We’re running right now, I’m listening and engaging,” says Hanna.
“But I’m also sprinting as fast as I can
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County resolution opposes energy policy change
By Tompkins Weekly Staff
The Tompkins County Legislature
at its June 7 meeting came out firmly
against a proposed retroactive policy
change by the New York State Energy
and Resource Development Authority (NYSERDA) which would claim
NYSERDA ownership of Renewable
Energy Certificates (RECs) from NYSERDA-supported
customer-sited
projects, with transfer of those RECs
to investor-owned utilities, at no cost,
enabling the utilities to claim the environmental attributes of those customer-sited projects as their own.
The opposition resolution passed
by a 13-1 vote, with Legislator Dooley
Kiefer voting no. Legislator Martha
Robertson said, “What they are doing is getting everybody to register
their RECs, then they are sweeping
their value and calling their value
totally under their control, with the
intention to give their value to the
utilities—then they will be able to say
how ‘green’ the grid is…This has legal
meaning and financial value.”
Although no Tompkins County
government projects are affected, the
policy change would impact other
entities, including other local governments and Cornell University.
The resolution, in part, urges the
Department of Public Service and
NYSERDA to reaffirm that those investing in customer-sited renewable
energy projects retain ownership of
RECs associated with NYSERDAsupported projects. It also states
that municipalities and other entities that currently own such RECs
must be appropriately compensated
if the state’s plan proceeds as currently proposed, and cautions that
the NYSERDA plan will undermine
the state’s policy goals of encouraging motivation for the public sector
and private customers to invest in
renewable installations, as they will
lose their ability to claim leadership
on renewable investments.
It calls upon the Public Service
Commission and NYSERDA to work
with counties, local municipalities
and other impacted entitles to “develop a solution that will promote—
rather than undermine—continued
broad-based green investments.”
Kiefer cited inaccuracies and inconsistencies within the wording of
the resolution for her “no” vote.
Ithaca Plan presented
Prior to the legislature meeting,
at a special session of the Health and
Human Services Committee, legislators received a 90-minute briefing by
Ithaca Mayor Svante Myrick, along
with District Attorney Gwen Wilkinson and Lillian Fan of the Southern
Tier Aids Program, on “The Ithaca
Plan: A Public Health and Safety Approach to Drugs and Drug Policy”.
Communicating information that
has been covered in prior community
presentations, Myrick and the other
presenters talked about the process
that produced the plan, its findings
and recommendations.
While some legislators indicated
that they may not agree with everything that is in the plan, several did
urge that the approach to the local
drug abuse problem be handled as a
coordinated, countywide issue.
Peter Stein said, “I think our social
unit is now the county…I would like
to believe that this problem is not
only a city problem…I would like to
see us really seriously doing this as
a unit, together. Jim Dennis added,
“I hope that as we move forward, the
county, the city, and the agencies can
sit down and figure out how we can
do this.”
Martha Robertson observed that
involvement of county departments,
such as Social Services, Public Health
and Mental Health, will be critical in
seeking funding to support Plan initiatives such as job training, housing
and a local detox center. “You can’t
do what you’re proposing without
County departments,” she said.
Committee Chair Leslyn McBeanClairborne said that this is widely
considered a draft plan, with room
for tweaking and input, and that she
looks forward to developing a comprehensive Tompkins County plan.
William George Agency bonds
The legislature, by a 12-2 vote
(Carol Chock and Kiefer voted no),
approved the issuance of up to $3.1
million in tax-exempt revenue bonds
for the William George Agency for
Children’s Services, in the Village of
Freeville.
The bonds, issued by the Tompkins County Development Corporation, will support construction of a
15,000-square-foot, 24-bed residence
hall, as well as renovation of other existing buildings on the campus. The
legislature’s action has no effect on
the indebtedness of Tompkins County; authorization by the legislature
is required to exempt the non-profit
from taxes on the bonds under the
federal Internal Revenue Code.
Kiefer cited inconsistencies between documents and the resolution
for her “no” vote. Chock cited her concerns related to expansion of a facility that requires those being treated
to do so far away from their families.
Hearing set on tax cap law
The legislature, by a vote of 10-3
(Peter Stein, Glenn Morey, and Dave
McKenna dissenting and McBeanClairborne excused), authorized a
public hearing for June 21 regarding
a local law to permit the county to
override the New York State tax levy
limit for 2017. The hearing will be
held at Legislature Chambers in the
Governor Daniel D. Tompkins Build-
ing, 121 E. Court Street, Ithaca.
Under New York State Property
Tax Cap legislation, if a county government decides to adopt a budget
with a property tax levy that exceeds
the level set by the state, the county
government must pass a local law to
override that cap. While it does not
mean that the county necessarily
will override the cap, the law, which
has routinely been passed each year
since Property Tax Cap legislation
took effect, would provide the legislature flexibility to exceed the cap if it
is deemed necessary.
Airport grant approved
Lawmakers auhorized the county
to accept a nearly $350,000 grant
from the New York State Department of Transportation under its
Statewide Opportunities for Airport
Revitalization (SOARs) program to
assist with marketing and promotion
at Ithaca Tompkins Regional Airport.
The grant will be used to offset
the cost of marketing and associated consulting fees to help improve
and increase service at the airport.
Airport Manager Mike Hall notes acceptance of the grant will enable the
airport to increase the promotion
and marketing as part of its work to
obtain additional service, without increasing the airport’s operating budget for marketing.
In other business, the legislature
formally supported an application by
Lounsbery Farm in the Town of Caroline for New York State Assistance
payments for farmland protection
implementation project funding to
hold a conservation easement on the
farm.
The Tompkins County Agriculture and Farmland Protection Board
has identified the farm as a high priority for protection and preservation.
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Ithaca Garden Club notes ties to hospital gardens
Jay Wrolstad in his fine article
which tells the story of the recent
restoration of the animal sculptures
in one of the gardens at the Cayuga
Medical Center (Tompkins Weekly,
May 30) noted that they had been
moved there from the former Biggs
Memorial Hospital “sometime over
the past 80 years.” In point of fact,
in 1988 and 1989, the Ithaca Garden
Club funded the creation of the special garden space at the southwest
side of the Cayuga Medical Center
building where they have lived ever
since.
There is a long history of Ithaca
Garden Club funding of gardens on
the hospital grounds dating to 1983
when the building was first opened
and the club undertook to raise
$15,000 for gardens designed by for-
mer professor of landscape architecture at Cornell Marvin Adelman.
Three additional projects have been
the courtyard garden in 1994, again
funded with $15,000.
During the last 10 years the Garden Club has made donations of container plantings for the new admissions area and decorations for the
renovated lobby. Annually for many
years Ithaca Garden Club members
have enjoyed decorating the lobbies
and other waiting areas throughout
the hospital for the holiday season;
we are always grateful for the warm
welcome given us by Cayuga Medical
Center staff.
Beatrice Szekely
Ithaca Garden Club Member and
Archivist
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Question: Did you go to the Ithaca Festival?
“A little bit. I caught the
parade and listened to The
Horse Flies.”
- Adrianna Hirtler, Ithaca
History shows that bigotry can be overcome
I’ve been following the controversy on public bathrooms and transpeople with interest. Civil rights
movements are often focused on access to bathrooms.
I use a wheelchair and when I was
younger, used crutches. When the
Pyramid Mall opened in the mid1970s, there were no accessible bathrooms. I tell funny stories about how I
supported myself on toilet paper dispensers; and the times I fell and needed assistance getting back up. Today
I can dependably find an accessible
bathroom when needed.
The
African-American
Civil
Rights Movement was galvanized in
part to abolish the idea that separate
is equal and to assure that people of
color had access to the same public
accommodations as white people,
public bathrooms included. Without
the victories of the Civil Rights Move-
ment, people with disabilities might
still be looking for any public restroom to squeeze ourselves into
The early LGBT movement fought
police entrapment of gay men in public restrooms. Gay men were fired,
lost their housing, or lost their families upon reports of arrests. Some argued that the defeated Equal Rights
Amendment would eliminate single
gender public bathrooms.
Transpeople are the latest group
of Americans to have to battle for
access to public bathrooms. Public
bathrooms are for the public, not just
certain segments of the public. If history teaches us anything, though,
bigotry fails in the end.
Larry Roberts
Director of Community Advocacy
Finger Independence Center
Ithaca
“I did. I went to the Circus
Culture performance and
it was mind-blowing and
inspiring.”
- Emily Rodekohr, Enfield
“Yes. I sold festival buttons,
wearing an Ithaca Festival
hat and a wild yellow wig.”
Area libraries now offer digital downloads
The Finger Lakes Library System
and the public libraries of Cayuga,
Cortland, Seneca, Tioga, and Tompkins counties announce the public
availability of thousands of digital
movies, television shows, music albums, eBooks, audiobooks and comics, all available for mobile and online
access through a new partnership
with hoopla digital (hoopladigital.
com) starting Monday, June 13.
All that’s required is a library card
from one of the 33 libraries in the Finger Lakes Library System.
Cayuga, Cortland, Seneca, Tioga,
and Tompkins card holders will be
able to download the free hoopla digital mobile app on their Android or
IOS device or visit hoopladigital.com
to begin enjoying thousands of titles—
from major Hollywood studios, record
companies and publishers—available
to borrow 24/7, for instant streaming
or temporary downloading to their
smartphones, tablets and computers.
Patrons are able to borrow up to
three hoopla selections per month
with their library cards. Movies and
television shows are available on patrons’ devices for three days after
checkout. Music is available for seven
days and audiobooks are available for
21 days. All items are returned automatically, eliminating the possibility
of late fees.
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York State, the Finger Lakes Library
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Cayuga, Cortland, Seneca, Tioga, and
Tompkins counties. Member libraries
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by its own Board of Trustees.
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Southside considers a merger with the city
“We would have a couple of great
years, then we’d have some instability
over the next couple years,” said Richard Onyejuruwa, one of the presenters. “It becomes a constant struggle
because you’re not necessarily taking
the time to advance, more so you’re
having to restart each time.”
Former Southside Board of Directors President Khalil Griffith noted
Depend and United Way are coming together to promote healthy, active, and independent living throughout an individual’s life, with a focus
on volunteering.
Depend is sponsoring volunteer projects with United Way of
Tompkins County Tuesday, June 21,
through Saturday, June 25.
Over 60 volunteers at six sites will
participate in the United Way Day
of Action. Projects include landscap-
ing and gardening at the Ithaca Children’s Garden, performing “Farmer
for a Day” chores at Wood’s Earth
Living Classroom, serving brunch
to seniors poolside with the Greater
Ithaca Activities Center (GIAC) and
undertaking trail maintenance and
cleanup at Robert H. Treman State
Park.
To volunteer, visit http://getconnected.uwtc.org/aem/general/
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The Southside Community Center may become an official department of the City of Ithaca, which
would merge some of its services and
responsibilities with those provided
by the Greater Ithaca Activities Center (GIAC).
The idea of Southside becoming an official part of the city was
sparked late last year when the organization was making a push to give
its employees a living wage and seeking support from the city. From there,
the question was asked if it might be
mutually beneficial for Southside to
become part of the city and a task
force was assembled.
During the most recent Common
Council meeting, representatives
from the task force presented the
current state of the plan.
Southside, which was established
in 1934, currently exists as an independent non-profit focused on
providing education and recreation
programs for the African-American
community in Ithaca.
The organization has faced a
number of challenges in recent years.
In addition to financial difficulties, it
has struggled with leadership instability, with several executive directors coming and going in recent years.
Among the changes under discussion is locating programs aimed at teens at
Southside, while more youth-oriented programs would move to GIAC.
United Way Annnounces Day of Action program
that the specifics are still a work in
progress, but did provide some details
of what sorts of changes may come
if the Southside Community Center
becomes part of the city.
One of the major changes that is
slated is that programming directed
at teens, including job training programs, would be located at Southside,
while Southside’s more youth-oriented programs would move to GIAC.
“I’m at Southside almost every
day and every day and you see teens
walking through and they’re just sitting around and not doing anything,
they’re not active,” said Griffith. “The
conversation has come up in the task
force is that there comes a point
where they grow out of GIAC, where
GIAC is seen as a youthful place.”
Ithaca Mayor Svante Myrick said
he appreciated this idea, noting that
it may help foster more neighborhood cohesion.
“I know a lot of kids who will
stand on South Plain Street and say,
‘We don’t go over to the north side,’”
Myrick said. “Because there are different centers, it reinforces this sort
of localism. Whereas if, as a young
person, you’re always at GIAC and
as you grow older you move over to
Southside, it feels like both neighborhoods belong to you.”
Structurally, Southside and GIAC
would be each be overseen by a single
executive director and deputy director under them. Southside would
then have its own program director
focusing specifically on that center.
It was suggested that, by splitting
responsibilities between the two centers, both Southside and GIAC should
be able to enhance their services
while remaining cost-efficient.
It was also noted that despite the
changes, it was a priority that Southside retain it’s own unique identity
and historical heritage.
The task force still has a number
of other details to work out, including improving its current programs,
securing stable leadership, getting
their staff up to a living wage and
working out how best to communicate with the city.
Griffith said the task force will
continue to work on the details of the
model in the coming months, including hosting sessions to solicit public
feedback. The intent is to present a final version before the August budget
deadline. Should the merge be agreed
upon by both sides, Griffith said the
hope was to begin implementation as
early as Jan. 1, 2017.
If Southside does opt to join with
the city, it will then fall to Common
Council to make a final decision.
(Note: Since the Common Council meeting last week, Khalil Griffith
has stepped down from the Southside Board of Directors. It’s unclear if
or how this will impact the merger
plan.)
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By Sue Smith-Heavenrich
Marie Sanderson is the guest artist
at the gallery in Buffalo Street Books
this month. The show features her illustrations and sketches from “The
Golden Cap,” a book written by Cortland author Sally Kamerling. The
opening gallery night happened to be
the night of Ithaca Festival parade,
but even so, plenty of people dropped
by to look at the artwork and taste
the yummy Dutch cookies Sanderson
and Kamerling provided.
Sanderson, of Ithaca, has always
enjoyed art, but found her career in
music; she teaches clarinet lessons
and enjoys working with her students. But art has always been in her
life.
“I’ve been drawing and painting
since I was a kid,” she says, remembering drawing all over her bedroom
wall. Over the years she’s taken art
classes, and a few years ago took a
watercolor class from local artist Camille Doucet.
“It was a eureka moment,” says
Sanderson. “I loved working with colors.” Until then, she had been working
in pen and ink, and pencil. Much of her
work is inspired by the landscapes of
this area. “I love the greens,” she says,
explaining that she moved to Ithaca
from a much drier California.
Sanderson’s studio is in her home.
“It’s located at the north end of the
dining room table,” she jokes. Watercolors are easy to work with, clean up
well and don’t have noxious fumes.
Lately she’s been experimenting with
multimedia, combining pencil and
watercolor.
“The pencil gives it more depth,”
Sanderson says, but you won’t find
any pencil in her current watercolors
on display. Just color and wash, with
the shadows and folds and unlined
edges you’d see in the real world.
Becoming an illustrator just hap-
pened, says Sanderson. A few years
ago a friend asked her to do some illustrations for a book, and she liked
it. Soon after joining the Society of
Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI), a colleague sent an
email: an author was looking for an
illustrator. That author was Kamerling and her story was a Dutch immigration narrative set in the early
20th century.
“I had just finished reading a novel
about immigrants,” Sanderson says,
“so I really identified with Sally’s
story. The themes seemed like they’d
be fun to paint.” “The Golden Cap”
is Kamerling’s family story, about
her grandmother who stayed in the
Netherlands while her siblings immigrated to the United States. Later,
as a young teen, the girl crosses the
ocean by herself to meet her family in
New York City. Sanderson, thoughtful
for a moment, muses, “Most of us have
immigrants in our family.”
Sanderson likes painting landscapes. She likes painting portraits
and architecture. Illustrating this
book allowed her to bring all of these
together. But she needed to do some
research. What were the canals like in
the late 1800s? What kind of houses
did the Dutch people live in, and what
kind of clothing and shoes did they
wear?
Then there’s the Statue of Liberty.
“It was copper-colored then, because
it was new and hadn’t tarnished yet.”
Sanderson also had to learn bow from
stern, as she was painting a steamship and needed to make sure it was
docked correctly.
As a painter, one of the challenges Sanderson faced in illustrating a
book is keeping the characters’ images constant. So she asked her granddaughter to be a model for the girl in
the story. Sanderson also did photo
research of expressions and gestures.
Then she lucked out. “Right when I
Photo by Sue Heavenrich
Artist/illustrator is inspired by true stories
Marie Sanderson with one of the illustrations from “The Golden Cap.”
needed it, Rob Licht was teaching a
figure-drawing class at CSMA (Community School of Music and Arts). I
was struggling with how to make the
gestures look realistic.” She appreciated the opportunity to look closely
at a human skeleton, to study how
muscles attach to the bones.
“It was very helpful,” Sanderson
says, “especially since I wanted a realistic look for the illustrations.”
Working on the book project with
Kamerling was an educational experience that Sanderson says will help
her as she moves forward with her
own project. “I’m working on a picture book that I can’t wait to illustrate,” she says. “My goal is to do five
illustrations and submit them with
the manuscript.” The illustrations
will include landscapes and animals,
“and I’ll probably experiment with
mixed media.”
Sanderson’s work is on display
through the end of the month. Buffalo Street Books is located in the Dewitt Mall, between Cauyga and Tioga
streets in downtown Ithaca.
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Public input sought on sidewalk repair plan
By Christopher Hanna, Ithaca Voice
The City of Ithaca is seeking
public input into a plan to complete
nearly 7,000 feet of sidewalk repairs
in 2017.
Under a system established by the
Common Council in 2013, Ithaca was
divided into five sidewalk improvement districts, which can be viewed
here.
Since 2013, the city’s Board of Public Works and Common Council have
sought community input regarding
the construction and maintenance of
sidewalks for each district on an annual basis. This year, three public forums are scheduled for June.
Seph Murtagh, who represents
Ithaca’s Second Ward on the Common Council, says that although the
system adopted in 2013 is “vastly su-
perior” to what existed before, gathering public input on sidewalk development is a challenge.
“We need to keep working on the
public input piece,” said Murtagh,
noting low attendance at previous
meetings. “City residents are the
experts on their own sidewalks. We
need to get local knowledge about
sidewalks from city residents to City
Hall,” he added.
Ducson Nguyen, who also represents Ithaca’s Second Ward on the
Common Council, said he wants to
ensure high levels of participation
in the upcoming discussions. “I’m really hoping people get engaged since
many of the people I spoke to when I
went door-to-door expressed concern
about sidewalk maintenance and
safety,” said Nguyen.
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architect. Demarest and O’Connor
previously worked together on the
6-unit apartment house recently
built at 707 East Seneca Street.
The second project is a proposal
for a renovation and addition at 107
South Albany Street, a couple blocks
west of Downtown Ithaca.
Another Ithaca landlord and developer, Nick Stavropoulos (of the
same family that runs the State
Street Diner), is planning to renovate
and expand the existing building onsite. 107 South Albany is a former
residence converted into a law office, storage space and a second-floor
apartment. Stavropoulos proposes to
make the building entirely residential and add a new wing on the back
of the property.
Plans call for converting the existing building into three units of housing, a studio and two two-bedroom
units. The new three-story addition
at the back would contain six onebedroom apartments, for a total of
nine units. The house at 107 South Albany dates from the early 1900s, and
most of it will be reused. A screenedin rear porch will be removed to make
way for the addition, along with a
carport and shed.
The project, designed by local architect and engineer Larry Fabbroni,
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board’s Design Review Committee
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have initiated plans to head before
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month.
The first is located at 312-314
West Spencer Street on the edge of
the city’s Southside neighborhood.
Local developer Charlie O’Connor is
proposing to build two two-family
houses on land formerly part of the
backyards the houses at 312 and 314
West Spencer.
The properties would be reorganized through a lot consolidation and
re-subdivision to create three lots,
one for each new house, and third
for the existing two houses. The land
and houses are currently owned by
the Lucatelli family, who ran the former Lucatelli’s Restaurant next door.
O’Connor has an option to buy the
land from the Lucatellis, which would
be exercised if the project is approved.
The new houses would face Old
Elmira Road. Plans call for a threebedroom unit on the first floor and
second floor of each house (four
apartments in total).
According to city Site Plan Review
documents, the cost of the project is
estimated at $513,000, and would be
under construction for about a year,
wrapping up by August 2017. Noah
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The Ithaca Concert Band will provide a special treat for fathers and the
entire family at its annual Father’s
Day Concert at 2 p.m., Sunday, June
19, at Kendal at Ithaca. It is free and
open to the public.
Your musical appetite will be tantalized by the “Big Band Polka”, including the Beer Barrel Polka and a
number of other foot-stomping tunes.
Conductor Rick Eleck has challenged his musicians with Joseph
Wilcox Jenkins’ “American Overture”, composed to match the instrumentation of the U.S. Army Field
Band in 1953.
The band will perform the first
three movements of “Old American
Dances”, that was originally entitled
“Electric Park” by composer Robert
Russell Bennett. Another toe-tapping tune on the program is Scott Joplin’s “Something Doing”, crafted by
ICB’s de facto arranger, Phil Krasicky.
Fathers and other attendees will
be taken down memory lane through
the pen of Warren Barker with his
“Tribute to Irving Berlin”, featuring
several of Berlin’s most popular compositions.
One of the band’s favorite composers is John Philip Sousa, and it will
perform Sousa’s “The Liberty Bell”, as
well as the concert closer, “The Stars
and Stripes Forever.”
Ithaca Welcomes Refugees responds to global crises
By David Rhodes
This is the latest installment in
our Signs of Sustainability series, organized by Sustainable Tompkins.
Visit them online at www.sustainabletompkins.org.
Imagine if you were about to be
born, and you didn’t know if you were
entering the world now or 100 years
from now. What approaches to environmental protection would you
want to see in place from this position
of uncertainty?
Now imagine you were about to
enter the world into either a situation of peace and stability or one of
lethal risk to yourself and your loved
ones. What approaches to refugee resettlement would you want to see in
place?
In both of these scenarios, the goal
is the same—a world in which present
and future generations have access
to resources and opportunities that
enhance the ability to live peaceful,
healthy and meaningful lives. This
concept lies at the heart of sustainability and it connects directly to
the work of a new community initiative called Ithaca Welcomes Refugees
(IWR).
IWR is an organization compris-
ing volunteers dedicated to creating a
fair and welcoming environment for
refugees who come to our region. We
believe that when people are faced
with impossible choices and forced to
weigh risks to their lives and the lives
of their loved ones as they leave their
homes to seek refuge, we can stand
up and offer support and community.
Ithaca has been a place of refuge in
the past, and there have been ongoing
efforts to serve newcomers through
the decades.
Our work is part of these efforts,
intended to enhance the ability of
our communities to respond in an
organized and intentional way to the
global crises of today. As unsustainable practices and conflicts lead to increasing numbers of displaced people,
part of creating a more sustainable
world is to ensure that refugees have
access to opportunities and feel welcomed into new communities.
With regard to ensuring access to
opportunities, IWR volunteers focus
on many aspects of relocation, including housing, employment, education and health care.We work closely
with other local organizations, such
as BOCES and Catholic Charities, to
help ensure that needs are met and
opportunities are accessible to refu-
gees in our area. As we continue to
build the volunteer network of IWR,
it is inspirational to see people of all
ages and from diverse backgrounds
join together to contribute to these
efforts on a variety of levels.
To create a welcoming atmosphere in Ithaca, IWR is also engaged
in community education and events
related to refugees with the goal of
deepening understanding and bridging divides.
Part of deepening our understanding involves hearing the stories
of individuals who have already come
to Ithaca and the surrounding area;
stories of fear and survival, stories of
harrowing journeys through refugee
and transit camps, stories of determination to not only survive but to
thrive, stories of integration into new
communities with the dedication
to create new beginnings and make
meaningful contributions.
In each of these stories, there is
the infinite complexity of individual
identities that cannot be contained
in the term “refugee” or in any of the
categories we create. We may, for example, meet a refugee from Syria and
initially we may only know that she
is a Muslim woman from a war-torn
country. Then, we may find out that
she is also a mother, a daughter, a
sister and a wife, with wide ranging
interests, political beliefs, personal
preferences. The list of particular aspects of individual identity would be
infinite.
Voices of refugees break down
the barriers of “us” and “them” and
have the potential to unite people in
a sense of shared responsibility and
hospitality. The stories not only inspire members of IWR, but are also a
part of the lived experience of some of
the members of IWR.
As we move forward, the experiences and insights of people who have
faced the realities of being a refugee
can help guide our efforts and motivate us to work together towards
a more sustainable world. The common goal of sustainability inherently
transcends the particular communities with which we identify, and
can instill hope in our potential to
thoughtfully engage with unfolding
crises.
Ultimately, strengthening our
communities and assuming a global
perspective on responsibility will be
essential to address global challenges
and meet the needs of people who
have been displaced or will be in the
future.
INHS awarded funding for workforce housing development
On June 1, Ithaca Neighborhood
Housing Services, through its affiliation with Better Housing for Tompkins County, was awarded funding to
move forward with a workforce housing project in Tyre, in the northeastern section of Seneca County.
The project, named Pine View Circle, will be located just one mile from
the site of the Lago Casino, which is
under construction and anticipated
to be completed in 2017.
Pine View Circle will provide
workforce housing for the anticipated 1,800 jobs being created by the
Casino as well as the employees of
the Waterloo Outlet Mall just a short
drive from the planned housing development. This housing is available
to working families earning between
48 percent and 90 perent of area
median income (AMI), or between
$21,000 and $41,000 annually.
The funding announced for Pine
View Circle, a 48-unit, $12.8 million
dollar project includes a combination
of Federal Low Income Housing Tax
Credits, and Housing Trust Fund Corporation funds.
James S. Rubin, Commissioner of
New York State Homes and Community Renewal said, “Affordable housing is essential to building thriving
neighborhoods that attract families
and businesses, and allow seniors and
young people to stay in the places
they call home. Congratulations to
Ithaca Neighborhood Housing Services and to the future residents of
Pine View Circle.”
INHS Executive Director Paul
Mazzarell, saw value in moving the
project forward.
“This is our first real estate development project outside Tompkins
County,” states Mazzarella. “We’re
very excited about this opportunity and have been working closely
with the local community to develop
housing that complements the area
and makes the most sense for working families in Seneca County.”
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Shakespeare Company moves to new outdoor site
By Tompkins Weekly Staff
All the world’s a stage, and the Allan H. Treman State Marine Park in
Ithaca will provide the stage for outdoor Shakespeare in Ithaca beginning in July.
The Ithaca Shakespeare Company
Inc. will present its outdoor performances in a beautiful meadow at the
north end of the Marine Park that is
bounded on one side by the Cayuga
Inlet and encircled on all other sides
by a grove of tall trees.
“We are delighted that Ithaca
Shakespeare will present its summer
program in our Park,” said Fred Bonn,
Director of New York State Parks for
the Finger Lakes Region. “They have
a long tradition of excellent performances, and we are very pleased to
offer theatre of such fine quality to
our visitors at the Park.”
Jim Brophy, Park Manager, added:
“I’m a Shakespeare fan, and I could
not be more pleased that the Park
will be hosting these shows.”
“We’re grateful to have this new
home,” said Michael Pinnisi, President
of the Ithaca Shakespeare Board of
Directors. “The Park’s meadow on the
Inlet is an exceptional performance
space with great natural beauty, clear
lines of sight, and protection from the
sun for our audiences, and there’s no
traffic noise. There is ample parking
in paved lots, and the Cayuga Waterfront Trail passes nearby. And, we’ll
have the space to offer something
new – an area for pre-show entertainment and refreshments. We’re working out arrangements with some very
talented people, and we’ll share more
information about this as it develops.”
“The Hangar Theatre warmly
welcomes its new neighbor for summer theatre,” said Josh Friedman,
Managing Director of the Hangar.
“We have collaborated with Ithaca
Shakespeare in the past few years by
hosting its indoor shows in our facility, and we are jointly marketing
our summer programs this year in a
‘Come for the Gorges, Stay for a Show’
campaign. We think it’s wonderful
that the Park will host Ithaca Shakespeare and I’m excited by the energy
and opportunity that this move creates for our audiences, tourists, and
our two organizations.”
Ithaca Shakespeare began performing outdoor Shakespeare at the
two very different shows this summer: “Twelfth Night,” one of Shakespeare’s most popular romantic comedies, in rotating repertory with a
rare treat, “Henry VI: A Tiger’s Heart,”
the latest episode in Ithaca Shakespeare’s presentation of the Bard’s
epic history plays. Be prepared for
many laughs in the former, and for
much sword play and power struggles
in the latter—a true game of thrones.
“Twelfth Night” will be performed
July 7, 10, 14, 16, 22 and 24; and “Henry
VI” will be performed on July 8, 9, 15,
17, 21 and 23. All shows will begin at 6
p.m. Pre-show activities will begin at
about 5 p.m. on each show night.
The Allan H. Treman State Marine Park is on Route 89, just north of
Cass Park. Entrances for the Marine
Park are through the access road off
of Taughannock Boulevard immediately next to the Hangar Theatre, and
via the Cass Park Access Road next to
the ice rink. Signs along the access
roads will direct you to the parking
and Shakespeare performance areas.
To purchase tickets online, and
for more information about Ithaca
Shakespeare and its upcoming shows,
visit www.ithacashakespeare.org.
Cornell Plantations in 2003. The first
performances were done on a very
small scale, but the program has
grown steadily since then and is now
the largest Shakespeare festival in
Central New York, with a total attendance of about 4,000 a year.
“We have many fond memories of
our time at Cornell Plantations, and
we’re grateful to them for hosting the
performances for so many years,” said
Stephen Ponton, Artistic Director of
Ithaca Shakespeare. “But this move
is a necessary step as we continue to
expand the scope of our program.”
“We are saddened to learn that
Ithaca Shakespeare will be moving its
summer productions from the Cornell Plantations to a new location. As
the Bard wrote, ‘parting is such sweet
sorrow,’” said Christopher Dunn, the
E. N. Wilds director of Cornell Plantations. “It has been our honor to watch
the ISC grow from the Summer House
in the botanic garden, to Jackson
Grove in the arboretum, and now to
the shores of Cayuga Lake. Our partnership has been a mutually rewarding one. We wish them nothing but
great success in the years to come.”
Ithaca Shakespeare will feature
Summer in Ithaca is short and
sweet and the Finger Lakes Land
Trust hopes you will get outside to
enjoy these gorgeous days. Step away
from your screen, pull on your hiking
shoes, gather your children and go
explore one of our 10 public conservation areas in Tompkins County.
To make getting outside even easier, the Land Trust is hosting three
special trips for families this summer
and, like all of our events, there is no
charge to come learn. Please join us
for one or all.
Story Walk, Friday, June 17, at
10:30 a.m. at the Ellis Hollow Nature
Preserve.
Valerie Akers, founder of Corner
of the Sky preschool, will guide families through the woods and over two
creeks, stopping along the path to
read a book. Now in its fourth year,
Story Walk encourages childhood literacy and an early love of nature.
Bonus: families who attend the
kickoff walk will receive a free copy
of the book to bring home (while
supplies last). If you miss the kickoff
walk, don’t worry, the story walk will
open through early fall for self-guided adventures.
Bugs & Butterflies, Saturday, June
18, at 10 a.m. at the Roy H. Park Nature Preserve (south entrance).
Join Cornell entomology graduate
student Heather Connelly on a hunt
for the bugs and butterflies living all
around us. Heather will lead families
on an easy walk through a field, forest and into Six Mile Creek capturing,
investigating, (and releasing) insects
along the way.
Creek Walk, Saturday, August 20,
at 10 a.m. at the Ellis Hollow Nature
Preserve.
Sarah Fiorello, Interpretation Coordinator for Cornell Plantations, will
join us for an exploration of what lives
under the rocks and in the streambed of the Ellis Hollow Nature Preserve. We’ll learn a little about stream
health and see what else we can find
on the preserve. Be sure to wear shoes
you don’t mind getting wet.
For directions and more information on our events, visit the Land
Trust’s website at www.fllt.org/
events.
The Finger Lakes Land Trust has
protected more than 18,000 acres of
our region’s undeveloped lakeshore,
rugged gorges, majestic forest, and
scenic farmland. The Land Trust today owns and manages a network of
nature preserves that are open to the
public and holds conservation easements on more than 120 properties
that remain in private ownership.
The Land Trust focuses on protecting critical habitat and land that
is important for water quality, connecting conserved lands, and keeping prime farmland in agriculture.
The organization also provides programs to educate local governments,
landowners, and local residents
about conservation tools and the region’s unique natural resources. The
Land Trust’s service area includes 12
counties that encompass the Finger
Lakes and a significant portion of the
Southern Tier.
More information on the Land
Trust may be found at www.fllt.org.
Photo by Rick Lightbody
Land Trust to host summer events for kids
Three trips for families are offered at
area conservation areas.
Temple Beth El announces annual Jewish film festival
The Arts Committee of Temple
Beth El announces its second Jewish film festival with a series of three
entertaining and uplifting films this
summer.
It will take place in the social hall
of the temple, located at the corner
of Court and Tioga Streets in Ithaca.
The lineup includes: “Dough”on June
23, “Raise the Roof” on July 21 and
In “Search of Israeli Cuisine” on Aug.
18. These are all Thursday evenings.
Doors open at 6:3 p.m. for free refreshments and socializing. The films
begin at 7 p.m. Tickets are $8 at the
door. All films are appropriate for
children ages 10 and above.
“Dough” is being showcased in
theaters around the U.S. this summer.
It stars Jonathan Pryce and Pauline
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relationship between an old Jewish
baker in London’s East End and his
young Muslim apprentice.
“Raise the Roof” is a documentary
by Yari & Cary Wolinsky. It describes
the reconstruction of the Gwozdziec
Synagogue in Sonak, Poland which
was destroyed by the Nazis in WWII.
Over 300 students and professionals
participated in the artistic and architectural reconstruction of this most
beautiful wooden structure.
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tion Board (CJATI) that was approved
by the legislature last week (see story
on page 4). In the end, the renovation
project was approved in 2014.
“In Tompkins County we have a
number of alternatives to incarceration programs, which we support and
are involved with,” Bunce says. “We do
try to help them get a job, help them
with education, so that the county
can reduce its jail population.”
Concerning the Reentry Plan,
Bunce says the key is providing someone who serves as a case manager for
the inmates. “We need someone who
can offer guidance and support to
monitor individuals after they leave
the jail, and follow up with those individuals to make sure they are on the
right track.”
Lansing says, “The community
needs to grasp the reality of the situation in our county, and elsewhere—
the amount of crime rises and falls,
and drug use is a huge factor. At the
same time, governments are closing
rehab facilities and putting people in
jail because they have nowhere else
to put them.”
Legislature chairman Mike Lane
says the additional beds at the county jail are step in the right direction. “It’s reducing our board-outs,
although it may take up to a year to
see if there is a significant reduction.
It’s an ongoing problem, particularly
with women prisoners and inmates
whose classifications require that
they be housed elsewhere,” he says.
Overcrowding an state mandates
for county jails are regional concern,
he says, noting the Cortland County
jail is struggling with the same situation facing Tompkins County and is
mulling the construction of a new jail.
“We have variances for our jail, allowing double-bunking, for example,
and the state has made it clear they
are not happy about that, but we have
to look seriously about adding variances above and beyond the current
expansion,” Lane says. “We need more
space for the jail administration staff,
and for programs aimed at inmates.”
Lane points out that the county
has for several years supported alternatives to incarceration efforts, and
that the Reentry Plan, along with
initiatives included in Ithaca Mayor
Svante Myrick’s Ithaca Plan, will help
with recidivism issues and reducing
drug-related crime.
Peter Stein, chairman of the legislature’s Public Safety Committee,
concurs. “It’s well known that people
who serve time and leave jail are apt
to return to jail. With the Reentry
Plan, the idea is to help people who
get out and have no job, no car, no
place to sleep; what they know is how
to commit crimes,” he says. “We can
keep them from recirculating in and
out of jail by helping them find jobs,
find housing—give them the support
they need.”
As for the county jail renovation
project, Stein says, “We were able to
add a few more beds in a relatively
inexpensive way. It was costly, but
we needed to reduce the number of
board-outs, and we have done that.
It also is important for prisoners to
have visitors, and that’s much more
difficult when inmates from this area
are sent 50 miles away.”
Juneteenth
state holiday in 1980, and 45 states
currently recognize it in some way.
Governor George Pataki first gave
official New York State commemoration to the day in 2004.
The Juneteeth event at Southside
will be held on Saturday, June 18, from
11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Community members are encouraged to bring drums,
horns or any other instruments to
the festival. “We are all one. It’s about
celebrating that,” adds Forbes.
For more information, visit www.
ssccithaca.org/juneteenth.html.
Renovus
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headquarters is a net zero (creates
more energy than it uses) facility, and
they have a free mobile solar power
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ported that high winds have caused
severe problems with the roof on the
Tompkins Cortland Community College (TC3) main building, and the
roof must be replaced.
Half of the $3.5 million cost will be
paid by the state, and the remainder
must be supported by the sponsoring
counties—over $1 million from Tompkins County and about $600,000
from Cortland County.
The legislature scheduled a public
hearing on the TC3 2016-17 operating budget for June 21 at Legislature Chambers, the Governor Daniel
D. Tompkins Building, 121 E. Court
Street, Ithaca. The proposed budget
includes no increase in sponsoring
county contributions for the coming
year.
The Legislature also scheduled
two other public hearings on June 21,
one on a proposed law that would create a new chapter of the County Code
regarding residency, revising residency requirements for the positions of
corrections officer and assistant district attorney; and another regarding continuation and modification of
Agricultural District No. 2, located on
the west side of Cayuga Lake.
Athletic director
to establish academic benchmarks in
our programs to support the kids in
helping to achieve those goals.”
Along with increasing academic
success, Hanna would also like to
improve athletic success across the
board for Ithaca’s sports teams. The
football program has struggled over
the past decade, but Hanna holds firm
that he was not brought into the position just to help out with one team’s
success, but that he wants to see the
whole athletic program grow.
“I believe that we should be the
beacon of athletic excellence in this
region and there’s no reason that
Ithaca can’t do that,” he says. “I feel
wholeheartedly that Ithaca is a sleeping giant when it comes to high school
athletics, and it’s about to wake up.”
Lansing Democrats endorse Baldridge
At their May meeting, the Town
of Lansing Democrats met with and
endorsed Kenan Baldridge, candidate
for the New York State Senate from
the 54th District.
Baldridge is running for the seat
held by Michael Nozzolio, who will
not seek re-election. Baldridge is currently serving his third term as Town
Supervisor in Rose and before that
spent 11 years on the North RoseWolcott Board of Education in Wayne
County.
He is running on a platform of
Albany ethics reform and equitable
funding for schools. He holds Master’s
Degrees from Syracuse University’s
Maxwell School of Public Affairs and
SUNY Albany’s College of Public Affairs and Policy and a Ph.D. in Public
Administration from Akron University.
He has worked for many years in
health care management.
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June 13
June 17
3rd Annual CRCFL President’s Cup
Golf Tournament
WHERE: Country Club of Ithaca: 189 Pleasant Grove
Road, Ithaca
DATE: Friday, June 17
TIME: 8am registration, 9am shotgun start.
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June 18
Fifth Annual Prince Hall Unsung Heroes
Scholarship Benefit Luncheon
WHERE: Hotel Ithaca: 222 S. Cayuga St., Ithaca
DATE: Saturday, June 18
TIME: Noon-2:00pm
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Ithaca Free Concerts 2nd Annual Benefit with
Stearns Matthews
WHERE: Kitchen Theatre: 417 W. State St., Ithaca
DATE: Monday, June 13
TIME: 6:30pm, doors open at 6:00pm
MORE INFO: kitchentheatre.org/kitchen_sink.html
June 14
The 27th Annual Ithaca Taste of the Nation
WHERE: Athletics & Events Center at Ithaca College: 953
Danby Rd., Ithaca
DATE: Tuesday, June 14
TIME: 5:30pm
MORE INFO: 607-275-4987
June 15
Juneteenth Celebration
WHERE: Southside Community Center,
305 S. Plain St., Ithaca
TIME: 11:00am – 6:00pm
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That Old House Tour: Trumansburg
WHERE: Trumansburg Conservatory of Fine Arts. 5
McLallen St., Trumansburg
TIME: Noon – 4:00pm
MORE INFO: historicithaca.org
Lonely Heartstring Band
June 19
WHERE: La Tourelle: 1150 Danby Rd, Ithaca
DATE: Wednesday, June 15
TIME: 7:30pm
MORE INFO: www.latourelle.com
The Partial Shade Garden
WHERE: Tompkins County Cornell Cooperative Extension
Education Center: 615 Willow Avenue, Ithaca
DATE: Wednesday, June 15
TIME: 6:30-8:30
MORE INFO: Pat Curran at 607-272-2292
June 16
EMOJI Bowl Thursday
WHERE: K-House Karaoke Lounge and Suites: 15
Catherwood Rd., Ithaca
DATE: Thursday, June 16
TIME: Doors open at 4pm, Karaoke Suites open until 2am
MORE INFO: www.welcometokhouse.com
Ithaca Concert Band to Present Father’s Day
Concert at Kendal
WHERE: Kendal at Ithaca. 2230 N Triphammer Rd.
DATE: Sunday, June 19
TIME: 2:00pm
MORE INFO: dpw5@cornell.edu
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FURNITURE
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607.882.9038 Mon-Sat 10-6, Sun 12-4
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GreenStar 701 W. Buffalo St.
273- 9392 & 215 N. Cayuga St
273-8210
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FOOD
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nell.edu for more information.
CLEANING SERVICES
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REUSE
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GIFTS
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Finger Lakes Fingerless Knit Mitts
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607-2733238
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Women’s Opportunity Center offers employment and computer
training services to low income
parents and displaced homemakers of Tompkins County. Check
us out to find out if you qualify at
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editor@tompkinsweekly.com.
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Hotel Ithaca - Now hiring
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Hotel Ithaca, 222 S. Cayuga
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ACROSS
1. Beaten as punishment in
some countries
6. Tai’s partner
9. Suite cleaner
13. Savory taste sensation
14. Time delay
15. *Colonial money: pounds,
shillings and ____
16. Dyed fabric
17. Pooh’s wise friend
18. Can’t stand
19. *Grilled July 4th favorite
21. *The Washington Monument, e.g.
23. Confession subject
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37. Before “saw” and “conquered”
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53. Worker’s reward
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64. Foreign Language Oscar
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69. Equipped with feathers
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72. Famous cookie brand
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74. City in France
DOWN
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3. North Atlantic Alliance, acr.
4. Gives off
5. Tiny antelope
6. Heidi’s “Magic Wooden
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7. TV variety show “Hee
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9. One of three square ones
10. Opposed to
11. Frosts a cake
12. Office furniture
15. ____ red, pH indicator
20. On the rocks
22. Baby’s apron
24. Lemonade cousin
25. *Guthrie of “This Land Is
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26. Lock horns
27. “Private Parts” author
29. *”...star-spangled banner
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31. Sodium
32. The Three Musketeers
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42. Gossipmonger
45. Say it differently
49. Indian restaurant staple
51. *”The Independence Day:
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54. Grind teeth
56. Post-rain ditch
57. Mount Vesuvius output
58. Mosque V.I.P.
59. Nay, to a baby
60. Prompter’s comments
61. Lawyers’ charges
62. Too much ____
63. *What you hope it
doesn’t do on July 4th?
66. Poe’s Morgue
68. Lt.’s subordinate
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