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By Jamie Swinnerton find the meaning of home, hence the campaign and help fulfill budget produce a film. He sees Central New Tompkins Weekly film ‘Stationed at Home’.” needs. York as the one doing him a favor by After getting a draft together “Daniel’s eye for finding the being filled with the resources and hen you believe in he brought it to his friend and right people in the right circumstance talent that he was looking for. serendipity, and you’re cinematographer Jackson Eagan is unparalleled,” Dubin said. “No other actors could play the open to seeing the beauty who immediately joined on. Since Now, the film is in the financing roles in this film,” Masciari said. in the seemingly mundane, you then they’ve cleaned up the script, and pre-production stage with plans “They’re just so specific. They’re based W scouted out locations to shoot in to start filming in February. So far, on actors, and the kinds of characters can create entire worlds out of one abandoned train station. At least, you Binghamton, and created a short Masciari has been reaching out to that I know they can play.” can if you’re Daniel Masciari. proof of concept. his own network to find supporters Going from the outside The in, knowing inspiration for the the specific film Masciari is actor for the currently working character, on, “Stationed allowed him to at Home”, came go deeper into to the young each character, filmmaker Masciari said. while he was He knew what driving through they were Binghamton one capable of and night back in what kind of 2016. There was performance something about they could the train station bring to the that seemed full piece. of character. Indeed, this “When I’m was when the making a film, main character I’m trying to of his film make the film began to form: that comes it’s 1999 and a into my head,” Binghamton cab he said. “And driver and part- it’s not about time hoarder is where people keeping his eyes are from. It’s turned skyward about who’s looking for the the best person first passover of for the role. the International Honestly, Space Station, set Photo provided by Stationed at Home I never to be right above Left, actor Erik Bjarnar plays the character of Ralph, a cab driver who loves the International Space Station. On the right, actor questioned who Central New York Darryle Johnson plays the character of Harry, who befriends Ralph after getting a ride in his cab. Both actors trained at The is best for the at midnight. From Actor's Workshop of Ithaca. role. It’s always there, all the other pretty obvious characters started to form and a plot to me.” was constructed. Now, Masciari has found and funders for the film. The next His former teacher, Eliza Masciari kept coming back to several producers, including Clayton step will be a soft launch, coming VanCort, agrees. She herself has one place while casting the film in his Dubin, a Cornell University graduate within the next few weeks, with helped cast dozens of projects in the mind. While still a student at Ithaca who met Masciari in the same classes a wider network of connections past, for film and for the stage. College he had taken a class at the that he met many of these actors, at building on what has already been “There’s a temptation when Actor’s Workshop of Ithaca, founded the Actor’s Workshop of Ithaca. At established. Finally, a hard launch you have access to New York and by Eliza VanCort. This is where he the time, Dubin was working in tech likely in August, which will give the LA actors, to go for a name, to cast met many – most, in fact – of the in New York City. The timing was wider public a chance to be involved a really wide net so you can see actors who would end up being cast perfect, and the project was special, so in funding the film, and will likely hundreds of people and who’s going in “Stationed at Home.” he enthusiastically agreed to join on include a crowdsourcing option. to be the best-known actor you can “The film just unfolded over as a producer. Each person involved This isn’t a film that Masciara find,” VanCort said. “Daniel doesn’t in the project, Dubin said, brought said he has been planning for years. six months,” Masciari said. “This film Continued on page 4 is about characters from all different a very specific talent. His talent It wasn’t a conscious goal to come backgrounds and they’re all trying to has been to help create an outreach back to Central New York to cast and Also in this Issue Spotlight On: Alliance of Families for Justice...... page 3 Ithaca celebrating Pride beyond June...... page 8

TC3 childcare center to fill local gap...... page 5 The Democratic View...... page 9 . Rev: Ithaca hosts startup event...... page 6 Eli Gobrecht: Life in Major League Lacrosse...... page 16

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2 TOMPKINS WEEKLY July 2 - 8, 2018 News Spotlight On ... Alliance of Families for Justice Tompkins Weekly Staff

on-profit organizations are plentiful throughout Tompkins County, Nand make a big impact in our communities. Despite their contributions, area non-profits can sometimes go unnoticed or unknown. In an effort to shine a spotlight on those who are making a difference in our county, Tompkins Weekly will be showcasing these organizations on a regular basis. This week we are highlighting the Alliance of Families for Justice. To learn more about the organization, we spoke to Central Region Coordinator Phoebe Brown.

Tompkins Weekly: What is your mission? The mission is to support families of incarcerated people and people with criminal records. Empower them as advocates and mobilize them to marshal their voting power and achieve systemic change. Photo by Jamie Swinnerton Phoebe Brown stands outside of the Multicultural Resource Center on State Street where her office for the Alliance for Fami- lies for Justice is located. TW: How do you fulfill that mission? “I fulfill the mission by having and disseminate news about changes your organization faces? Again, since the branch, and the a space for formerly incarcerated to prison policy. The organization has “I’m finding, actually, a lot of organization is new, just knowing individuals and their families to been working with state politicians hope,” Brown said. AFJ has only been about the organization itself is what meet to support and empower each in Albany to advocate for policy around since 2016 and Brown said people don’t know. While Brown has other,” Brown said. “If they have change around the issues of mass the activist system they have put in been working on numerous other needs like transportation to visit incarceration. The organization place has been working well, raising projects (the family retreat and the their loved ones, or if they need bus originally started in New York City awareness, and gaining traction. upcoming retreat among them) she passes, or they’re looking for work, and has since branched out. Its The marches and conferences hasn’t had as much time as she would we do referrals. We try to have bus first conference around the issues that AFJ has organized were well like to go out and advertise AFJ’s passes on hand and have meals of mass incarceration and its effect attended, successful in the eyes of the local branch. here every Thursday to help them on families and communities was organization. The local branch of AFJ feel loved unconditionally, and to held in NYS, but AFJ is hoping to was officially opened earlier this year TW: How can people best support empower one another.” AFJ also hold conferences in their own areas, but AFJ started working in Ithaca your mission? holds retreats for family members of including here in Ithaca in October. last September. One of the challenges “By giving out this information incarcerated or formerly incarcerated “Our goal is to really change the Brown said she is having comes from that we’re here, that we’re ready to individuals for free to give them a stigma of people having loved ones being a young agency. She’s still work,” Brown said. AFJ does work space to come together for support. incarcerated because a lot of people getting the word out to let people with volunteers, and does take The organization held their first are ashamed, a lot of people are know that AFJ is here. Getting donations, both of which would retreat this past weekend and will embarrassed to tell friends,” Brown families of incarcerated, or formerly be appreciated, Brown said. Find be holding another next August. By said. “We want to help to change that incarcerated, individuals can also be a more information at afj-ny.org. For partnering with other organizations stigma to society but also to people bit tough. individuals interested in volunteering throughout the state AFJ has created who are dealing with it.” or working with Brown here in a network that helps spread their TW: What is something people do Ithaca, her email is peb28@cornell. mission against mass incarceration TW: What are the biggest challenges not know about your organization? edu. Business, Auto, Home & Life TOMPKINS WEEKLY Jamie Swinnerton,Keeping Managing You Editor, Connected [email protected] Michael Alderson, Production ______Will LeBlond, Sports, [email protected] Kevin English, Account Manager, [email protected] Janice Streb, Project Manager, [email protected] Todd Mallinson, Advertising Director, [email protected] Maguire Family ______Jodie Gibson, Sales Manager, [email protected] ______Todd Mallinson, Publisher, [email protected] Contributors: Insurance Eric______Banford, Charley Githler, Cosmo Genova, Sue Henninger, Mariah Mottley 607-261-1301 ______Calendar Listing: [email protected] Letters and Commentary Policy Tompkins Weekly welcomes letters to the editor. They should contain no more than 450 words. Letters should be emailed to [email protected], or mailed to our address below. Letters must be signed and include an address and phone number; unsigned letters will not be published. Proudly Representing: CONTENTS OF TOMPKINS WEEKLY ARE COPYRIGHT (C) 2018, BY VIZELLA MEDIA, LLC

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July 2 - 8, 2018 TOMPKINS WEEKLY 3 News Home Continued from page 1 think that way. His approach is he has a pool of actors that he knows are incredibly talented and it takes the most talented people that he can find, regardless of whether or not they’ve done 50 films or one film, because he has a vision in his mind of how he’s going to direct them, and he knows they have the talent to back it up.” In VanCort’s opinion, this approach produces a superior product. By putting aside motives that don’t have to do with the art, allowing your choices to be solely about the art, the product will be better and more specific. Most of Masciari’s work is inspired by the magical realist genre, which tries to find the magic that already exists in reality. For him, this magic is found in the

Photos provided by Stationed at Home Above: Masciari, right, works with actor Darryle Johnson, who plays the character of Harry, on the left. Left: Masciari and his crew film inside a diner in Binghamton.

“micro-moments,” a look between blessing, and a lot of help, from the characters, a small or hidden action Mayor of Binghamton’s office. Taking that normally goes unnoticed. Films some of the history of the area are the perfect genre to showcase into account, one of the characters this view of the world by asking the (played by Dubin) is the heir to a viewer to look at these moments shoe factory, similar to the Endicott- specifically. Johnson Shoe Company that once It was the power of thrived in Broome County. Telling Masciari’s script and proof of the story of the area is just as much concept, VanCort said, that pulled in apart of the project as telling the two non-Central New York actors story of the characters. that she knew. VanCort, who will be “This is a film set in Central making an appearance in the film, has New York about everyday people seen hundreds of scripts, and watched and what it really magnifies is that dozens of her student’s proof-of- everyone has a story,” VanCort concept short films. This one was explained. “The person behind special. In her opinion, all of the the counter who is the clerk has characters are fully-realized humans, a story, and the President of the they aren’t the stereotypes and one- United States has a story, but if you dimensional projections that she has examine those stories, if you examine read numerous times before. everyone, everyone has an interesting “The film does turn a lot of and captivating story and I think that stereotypes on its head,” she said. is actually symbolic. Binghamton, “Daniel certainly did not write New York has a story. There’s through that intention, it’s just that something incredibly humanizing these are the characters that jumped about a film that makes us all realize into his mind.” that we’re all experiencing the human The area that the story is set condition and we all have a story.” in plays its own part in the film, and thankfully the project was given the

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4 TOMPKINS WEEKLY July 2 - 8, 2018 News TC3 childcare center to fill local gap By Jamie Swinnerton Tompkins Weekly

dream years in the making will be coming to fruitionA in mere months as the Tompkins Cortland Community College (TC3) broke ground in May on what will become their new bigger and better childcare facility. The new center, which is being built within a short walking distance from the main TC3 building, will be over 8,000 square feet, including six classrooms with two infant rooms, three playgrounds, and be, in part, staffed by students studying to be teachers and childcare providers. The new center will be available to students, staff, and faculty at TC3 but will also be available to Photo provided by TC3 members of the community A rendering of what the entrance to the new childcare center will look like upon completion in January of next year, just in time for at large. Infant care in both spring semester students to get started without having to worry about where their kids are during the day. Tompkins and Cortland counties is badly needed and the new child care center could end up being for early education and childcare the thing that helps parents of young slots for children. There’s virtually no children make the decision to go back openings for children under three in to school or continue their education Tompkins County.” after high school. Out of the three projects put Back in 2015, the TC3 forward, the childcare center was foundation board was looking for a chosen. From there, fundraising project to help fund that would help began. meet the needs of the students to “Both of our counties and help them succeed. Outgoing director our community really stepped up of the TC3 childcare center, Johanna to the plate to support this and Hartnett, put together the initial were really integral in the whole proposal for the new center that is fundraising aspect of it,” said Julie expected to open in January of next Gerg, Executive Director of the TC3 year. Foundation. “We wanted it to be serving The total cost of the project different people,” Hartnett said. “So, is around $6 million, including $4 it serves a lot of non-traditional million in construction costs, and a students as well as helping out $1.5 million endowment to be used the staff and faculty, and then the to help a select number of parents community as well. Also, we wanted afford to send their kids to the center a place for the Early Childhood with scholarships. interns, and other interns from “We want them to have the Human Services and other programs, opportunity not only to get their would be able to do placements. The center right now is only two Continued on page 7 classrooms and there’s a big demand Solution to the puzzle is on Page 15

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July 2 - 8, 2018 TOMPKINS WEEKLY 5 Sponsored by BOUSINESSpinion Rev: Ithaca event discusses local startup economy By Jamie Swinnerton here in Ithaca. In short, it’s Rev’s job Tompkins Weekly to help entrepreneurs and startups navigate the complex waters of e may not be Silicon creating a business, which includes Valley, but the Ithaca finding the right investors and area isn’t without its own gaining capital. But Rev may not success stories when it comes to always be the best place for a startup W to continue growing. Startups that helping grow and produce startup businesses. At an event held on begin their journey in Ithaca may Wednesday, June 27, at Rev: Ithaca not always stay local. Reasons for Startup Works headquarters on moving are numerous: moving the East State Street, a conversation was business closer to where the product started around the state of Ithaca’s is produced, finding an investment startup economy, a conversation that opportunity in a different city, finding Tom Schryver, Executive Director another incubator with different of the Cornell Center for Regional resources that fit better with where Economic Advancement, said was the company wants to go, etc. But, meant to be continued and built just because they may not always upon in the future. But, it was also continue to grow in Rev doesn’t mean a little bit about celebrating the they can’t be ambassadors for other startups that have seen success. Rev is Ithaca and Southern Tier startups. At Photo by Jamie Swinnerton a business incubator and workspace least, that’s the positive aspect that The investor panel. From left to right: moderator Jason Salfi, Marnie LaVigne, opened as a partnership between Schryver sees. Clayton Besch, and Jennifer Tegan. Ithaca College, Cornell University, The event’s first panel was and Tompkins Cortland Community made up of investors. Clayton Fund. The panel was moderated by been a fruitful strategy in finding College, and was created to give Besch, the director of Empire State Jason Salfi, a graduate of Cornell entrepreneurs who may not have the young entrepreneurs mentorship Development’s New York Ventures, University, an entrepreneur himself networks necessary to get funding. and resources while building their which provides seed and early-stage and CEO of the solar fuel company All three panelists spoke to the need business. funding to high growth startups; Dimensional Energy. to be intentional in seeking out In 2017, Rev’s members raised Marnie LaVigne, President and When it comes to finding the opportunities in underserved regions. $21 million in capital, $18.2 million CEO of Launch NY, a 27-county entrepreneurs who may be hungry A lack of mentors for early- right here in Ithaca; generated $8.2 venture development organization; for growth but, for many reasons, stage businesses is one are that million in revenue, $7.8 million in and Jennifer Tegan, a partner with may not have the resources to get LaVigne sees room for improvement Ithaca; and created 92 new jobs, 76 Ithaca based Cayuga Venture their dream off the ground, LaVigne when it comes to helping young said that’s where her company, businesses in the state. Launch NY, has found it’s sweet spot. “We frankly can’t have Because the company isn’t attached enough,” she said of mentors. “The to one region or one organization, innovators are coming up with these its portfolio is made up of as much brand-new ideas in sectors that are as 40 percent minority and women- evolving every day.” owned businesses. Partnering with For Besch, a common loan providers, she said, has also Continued on page 12 ACROSS 1. Guinean seaport 5. They __ 8. Electromotive force 11. "McVicar" director 13. Monetary unit 14. Mother of Hermes 15. Broadway actress Daisy 16. Tobacco mosaic virus 17. Expression of surprise 18. African financial inter- mediaries 20. Fully ripe egg 21. Soothes the skin 22. Editors write them Photo by Jamie Swinnerton 25. Nashville-based rockers The real estate panel. From left to right: moderator Michael Stamm, Phil Proujan- 30. Surgical tube sky, Jeremy Thomas, David Lubin, and John Guttridge. 31. Lasting records 32. 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“Stay inside and eat ice cream.” — Layla, West Virginia Photo provided by TC3 A rendering of the inside reception area of the new childcare center at Tompkins Cortland Community College. The center will be staffed in part by TC3 students from the Early Childhood program.

TC3 Continued from page 5 Childhood program. One of the “Whether you’re a first-time college infant rooms will be open in the student and you don’t want to put off spring and the other will be open in going to college because of daycare education but have a safe place for the fall, but Hartnett said enough and other issues, or you’re a returner their child while they’re doing that,” demand was there that both could and you still need childcare, we want Hartnett said. have been opened in the spring. to offer that here. So, we’re looking The endowment will be “There’s no doubt in my mind at ways that we can support our permanent and generate income we should have opened them all students.” each year for the center to use for because the demand is there, right off Montague said she thinks operating expenses. The number of the bat,” she said. “We were trying to people don’t realize the impact that families that will be given grants is wait so students could get in in the having available childcare can have likely to change each year because fall and it wouldn’t be all community on prospective students. in January.” “Let’s say my class begins "Drink lots of lemonade." they will be handed out based on — Jeremy, Binghamton need. Along with fundraising locally, at 8 o’clock, so I have to get up, The current childcare facility vital funds were secured through get my child ready, drop them off was getting calls every day, Hartnett state senator Jim Seward and state somewhere, get here by 8, get back said, from people looking for Assemblywoman Barbara Lifton. to them before the daycare closes, childcare, and many had to be turned But, the center will be named for the and most daycares close at 5 or away. largest private donor, Arthur Kuckes, 6 o’clock, so doing that with my “You’re turning away who donated $2 million to the own transportation, or on public prospective students as well,” she said. project and has been a friend to the transportation, it just has obstacles,” “So, it’s a win for both. It’s a win for college for years. she said. the college with enrollment and it’s a Looking to the future and Right now, Montague said, win for the parents who need to find other opportunities that the childcare is the time to take a broad look at a safe place for their child.” facility could bring, TC3 President everything TC3 does for its students, Like the current facility, the Orinthia Montague said that perhaps taking into account the expansion new facility will be open all year, not with the new center the college could of non-traditional students seeking just during the school year. With the explore the idea of family housing for an education, and the changing new center comes around 12 new students. landscape of childcare needs and jobs at the center, possibly including “I just see it as something options. recent graduates of the TC3 Early that we need to do,” Montague said. “Go to the park.” —Jawell, Ithaca Your Celebration Starts Here

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July 2 - 8, 2018 TOMPKINS WEEKLY 7 News Ithaca celebrating Pride beyond June By Jamie Swinnerton gunman in 2016. Tompkins Weekly But the attitude of Planned Parenthood of the Finger Lakes (PPSFL) and several or LGBTQA individuals across local groups and organizations the United Sates, and beyond, that support the LGBTQA the month of June is often community is that Pride doesn’t, reserved as Pride month. In 1969, the and shouldn’t, be relegated to just F one month a year. So, on Saturday gay pride movement, which would expand to include numerous other July 7, the entire community gender and sexual orientations, was is invited to a Pride Block sparked by what are now known as Party hosted by PPSFL, with the Stonewall Riots in New York entertainment from Ithaca’s own City. Here in Tompkins County, drag troupe The House of Merlot, very little has been done to celebrate Circus Culture, and the Ithaca Pride month, and the events that league of Women Rollers, among were organized have come from the others. LGBTQ community itself and the The party will be centered local organizations that stand with in the PPSFL parking lot on it. This past weekend a Pride Family West Seneca street starting at Picnic was organized by Finger 3 and ending at 8 p.m. But the Lakes Pulse, an LGBTQA group party isn’t over then, at least Photo by Jamie Swinnerton created just last year and named in not for those 21 years old and Kat Von Riesling performs at The Range during a House of Merlot drag show. The drag honor of the Pulse Nightclub, a gay older, because just down the troupe has worked with Planned Parenthood of the Southern Finger Lakes in the past club in Florida that was attacked by a street at The Rhine House the to raise money and interact with local LGBTQA youth.

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8 TOMPKINS WEEKLY July 2 - 8, 2018 Opinion The Democratic View Extremism in the defense of liberty By Kathy Zahler as ranked voting or runoffs, elections speech at the 1964 Republican with the Age of Trump. Today, even at the Congressional level can National Convention. Goldwater’s Congress has rolled on its back and thought this column would come down to a handful of votes! concern had to do with the perceived put its feet in the air, allowing the be all about the winner of the Tom Reed’s campaign manager, Communist threat, but his words executive branch to tickle its tummy Democratic primary in the 23rd who fancies himself a master of are worth recalling: “…extremism on its way out the door to wreak ICongressional District, but that’s dirty tricks, declared in print that it in the defense of liberty is no vice… havoc. what I get for planning ahead. As was unsurprising that “with a field moderation in the pursuit of justice is Our Founders created a I write, we are at something of a of Extreme Ithaca Liberal options no virtue.” system by which no one branch of standstill, with Max Della Pia ahead to choose from,” the Democrats I would suggest to Congressman government was supposed to have by a tiny margin over Tracy Mitrano, couldn’t pick just one. This despite Reed and his campaign that that kind of power because they with 32.4 percent and 32.3 percent the fact that Max is from Owego and resistance to their ideas is not understood that such power could of the vote, respectively. We face an Tracy from Penn Yan. (Poor Eddie extreme, but rather right, fair, and lead to tyranny. But the majority in unusual situation wherein a federal from Jamestown got tarred with the moral. If he wants to see more our current Congress seems happy race will be determined by absentee same brush earlier.) It’s sad that the moderation from our candidates, he with the current trajectory, and why ballots. opposition doesn’t know its own may have to wait a while. shouldn’t they be? They managed district well enough to differentiate Goldwater’s successor in to hold up an appointment on the The one town from another, but it is Congress was John McCain. Both Supreme Court to ensure that the unsurprising that Reed, who emulates were conservatives who fought current administration could appoint Democratic View Trump in most things, prefers a against heavy-handed government. one new right-wing justice—and By Kathy Zahler meaningless trope to substantive Goldwater, like McCain today, would with the departure of Kennedy, discourse. probably be revolted by the current now two. That has led this session I’m alarmed to be quoting the executive overreach. to court-approved gerrymandering right-wing Barry Goldwater in my There was a time after Watergate and union-busting, which in turn So, all of you who thought: Why column title, but his statement is when it seemed that the executive damages Democratic odds and should I bother?—here’s your answer. surprisingly apt for our times. It branch had lost power and that funding, which in turn gives certain Because New York State does not was written by speechwriter Karl checks and balances might truly be Continued on page 11 have a system of tie-breaking such Hess for Goldwater’s acceptance working. That era ended definitively Covert Mom Strawberry girl By Mariah Mottley solstice, 2007. I was worried about put her bunk bed together. I have contraction. how I would love another one as been ordering Percy Jackson books “UNNNNGH,” I said, holding illie June, my middle child, is much as the first. The date came and from Amazon and sneaking out to onto to the bedposts, impressed. concerned about her birthday. went; I lost all my bearings. Bed and Bath Beyond to procure her Noise was no longer optional. I enjoy giving her a hard time; I woke every three hours, certain birthday requests. She’s powerful. Another, on the heels of the first, no BI pretend that I can’t really remember that things were starting to happen, I had a mouthful of M&M’s warning, no break. which day it is, or exactly how old she that the Braxton Hicks contractions in my mouth when it felt like a I watched the veins pop out on is going to be. I was constantly feeling would settle thunderbolt hit the house, a loud my knuckles, the noise pouring out into the deep rhythm of labor that cracking. Except it was in my pelvis. I of me. Sean sat up and turned on I remembered from the first time. I stood up, confused, but unimpressed, the light, now wide awake. He called walked the fields behind our house eyes still on the screen, chocolate the midwife. “Something might be Covert Mom just before dawn and doubted every melting in my mouth. It happened happening,” he told her. By Mariah Mottley aspect of the future. again, and I heard my teeth click “UNNNGGGGGGHH.” I I saw the midwife, explained that together. concurred. my body was broken; that my success I had to stop twice on the steps, I got back down the stairs; with the first baby was merely an dropped almost to my knees each found a comfy spot dangling from According to her, being the aberration. I was washed up. time, too stubborn to make any noise. the doorjamb to what is now Billie’s middle child is unfair. She is “Soon,” she said, after examining Flopped down in bed next to Sean. bedroom. The midwife arrived. She crammed in by an older sister who me. “You’re doing the work ahead “I think something might and Sean stood around, watching gets to do everything first, and a little of time is all.” She gave me some be happening,” I was just able to me. It felt like my underwear was brother who is too large and too loud herbs, said second labors could go mutter. Asleep, he laid a hand on and always up in her business. I can quick. I didn’t believe her. My father my hip. Patted it. Snored. Another Continued on page 11 never answer her questions about asked if I was sure it wasn’t a novel I what she was like as a toddler in the was carrying. I wished fervently for detail that she would like. him to die, then ate the rest of his Try Before You Buy on our Test Pond! “There was a lot going on,” I meatball sub when he wasn’t looking. shrug when she asks. “Are you excited Later that night, husband to be turning 10 this year?” and toddler asleep, I settled down “Eleven, Mom.” She glares at with some M&Ms in front of the me. She wants to be taller, older, television. different. Billie speaks softly, but she I was 27 when she was born, her carries a big stick in our family. She is big sister had just turned 2-years- always nice to everyone yet somehow old. Her due date was the summer we all do her bidding. Her father skipped this year’s solstice party to

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July 2 - 8, 2018 TOMPKINS WEEKLY 9 Opinion On the Hunt Sunfish, America's fish By Cosmo Genova change being chief among them. fertile warm water lakes with plenty devoted to it- directly and indirectly Human impact both intentionally of aquatic plant cover and shoreline pumping hundreds of millions of ven if you’ve only caught one and inadvertently has since spread cover but can thrive in places many dollars annually into the economy fish in your life, there’s a good sunfish species throughout most species simply cannot. From massive and conservation funding between chance it was a sunfish. Kids of the United States and Southern lakes and reservoirs to the smallest fishing licenses sold, fishing Ehave been watching bobbers bob to Canada. Their range varies greatly farm ponds and puddles you wouldn’t tournaments, and excise taxes on sunfish for hundreds of years in this within the family, but each species’ expect to find a tadpole, let alone fishing equipment and boat fuel. country, and they remain a prolific northernmost reach is generally a population of fish, sunfish can Fishermen employ a variety of tactics and important part of our warm determined by their winter prosper. In the spring you’ll often see for bass, from live bait to jigged water fisheries. There are few fish that survivability. Largemouth bass, large females in the shallows sitting rubber worms, to spinning lures, and better represent America than the for example, have very poor cold over small nests indented into the silt, top water “poppers.” Fly fisherman sunfish. Ecology aside, you’d be hard- acclimatization and therefore their while smaller fish huddle in groups use a variety of streamer patterns that pressed to find anything quite as range is limited. Other species like for safety. They spawn in abundance imitate everything from leeches, to beautiful as a pumpkinseed reflecting smallmouth bass, bluegills, and and can survive in extremely warm frogs, to smaller bass. Largemouth the sun off its scales. green sunfish are better suited for and deoxygenated conditions. As bass are prolific and can be found in Centrarchidae, or sunfish as they cold weather survival and have even most fishermen can attest, they’ll most ponds and lakes with enough are commonly known, are a family of undergone some degree of range eat just about anything, and their food to support them. Smallmouth freshwater ray-finned fish comprising expansion. As the climate continues spiny dorsal fins can leave would-be- bass are a bit more sensitive and approximately 34 different species. to warm, warm water species like predators with second thoughts. That require colder water lakes and rivers. While generally associated with centrarchids will likely spread even being said, they are an important During the spring, you can find species such as the bluegill, further. This is both good and bad, as food source for many larger fish smallmouth bass spawning in many pumpkinseed, green sunfish, flier, and while this means more opportunities species, birds, reptiles, and mammals, of the Finger lake tributaries. If you various crappies, even the rock bass, for recreational and subsistence as well as provide nutrients for happen to catch one, be mindful of smallmouth, and largemouth bass fishing, they will become invasive to aquatic ecosystems and wetlands. your handling and try to release them belong to the Centrarchidae family some waterways with possibly dire While most sunfish species unscathed so that wild reproduction and are considered sunfish. ecological consequences. This may are smaller, low-level predators, can continue and the species can Species within the Centrarchidae also ring true abroad where sunfish the “black basses” consisting of flourish. family are solely native to North have been transplanted such as largemouth and smallmouth basses “Sunnies” like bluegills and America. The earliest fossil evidence Europe, South America, Africa, and are the highest on the food chain of crappies are fantastic table fare, of Centrarchidae found in Montana Asia. the sunfish family. In many systems, evidenced by their other nickname- and South Dakota stretches back Part of what gives sunfish the they are the apex predators, often panfish. Filleted or cooked whole, nearly 40 million years. Subspecies potential to be environmentally outcompeting smaller fish species. panfish are a relatively mild of ancestral sunfish emerged and deleterious is also what makes Bass fishing is as American as flavored, somewhat flaky white dispersed to a near-modern diaspora them so great. They can live almost apple pie and baseball, with a loyal due to a number of causes, climate anywhere. Sunfish generally prefer following and an entire industry Continued on page 11 Contact Us Where’s Today for a my Free Quote bus?

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10 TOMPKINS WEEKLY July 2 - 8, 2018 Opinion View Continued from page 9 only 87.5 percent of the time. So and humanity. At different points in backward-leaning Court, and you did Reed is +8.8 for Trump, rolling back our existence, we have moved away not vote, look in the mirror. You are bank regulations, supporting the from or closer to those goals. Our the problem. Republicans potential lifelong seats Farm Bill that decimated SNAP, current administration is racing away ********** in the House and Senate. Why reauthorizing warrantless spying, from them at a terrifying clip. July is traditionally slow, but the shouldn’t they lie back and roll over? delaying implementation of ozone Although the number of 2018 Dryden Town Caucus will choose Their course is set. They don’t even standards, increasing penalties for primary votes in the 23rd District one town board and one town justice need to work in order to win. certain undocumented immigrants, was twice those cast in 2012, they candidate at Dryden Village Hall Congressman Reed is right up penalizing states with sanctuary laws, still represent under one-fifth of Tuesday, July 24, at 7:30 p.m. All there with the rollover Republicans. and so on, and so on. registered voters. Nearly every nation registered Democrats in the Town of According to FiveThirtyEight, he So it matters who’s in Congress. in the world where elections take Dryden are welcome. has a 96.3 percent score voting in The system cannot work without a place have better turnouts than we ______line with the president’s positions. healthy tension among its branches. do. Our Founders would be appalled. Based on the 23rd Congressional Our nation was founded Primaries are the closest we Kathy Zahler is Director of District’s winning margin for Trump 242 years ago this month on come to direct democracy. If you Communications for the Tompkins in 2016, FiveThirtyEight would Enlightenment principles of are troubled by our overreaching County Democratic Committee. See the predict Reed to vote with Trump democracy, liberty, equality, justice, executive, do-nothing Congress, and committee website at tcdemocrats.org. Covert Continued from page 9 labor I had experienced two years the scene at the beginning of “Jaws.” “She’s so perfect,” I told the before, which had taken all night, was The pain and smells all got mixed up midwife. now compressed into a 48-minute together in my memory. Strawberry “Second babies always are,” she falling down inside my pants, about extravaganza of brutal efficiency and season, every year, the daylilies observed. “They know they have to to fall off my hips onto the floor. I raw power that I had not known I crawling out of the ditches, and I be.” wasn’t wearing pants; none fit. But possessed. remember that night. The speed of it, Billie sleeps in the room she was something was slipping down. I couldn’t get oriented, couldn’t the slowness of my mind. Billie. Born born in and will be 11 tomorrow. “Oh,” I said, the thought finally find the rhythm, because there was in an under an hour. She can’t possibly understand the bubbling to the surface of my brain. none. It was chaos. The smell of the A beautiful baby girl with brown bond we share. So, I pretend that That wasn’t my underwear. Those summer night came in through the eyes. Lashes like paintbrushes. I don’t know who Rick Riordan is, were my bones. They were moving. window, the air thick and scented. Different from the alabaster child and forget to return her library book. And they felt hot. Homebirth can be many things, with gray eyes who had arrived Later, she will glare at me with my The contractions came in doubles peaceful, woman-centered, private. before. She looked like mine. own eyebrows. and triples. The textbook Cadillac Later, I would compare this one to Hunt Continued from page 10 made their way to North America, History of Tompkins and in our bellies as soon as we made it far enough south to find meat that compliments a variety of them. They have provided countless County preparations. Most commonly the meals and memories, and introduced filets or whole fish are simply breaded generations of people to the outdoors or battered and fried and served with and jump-started their passion for lemon or on a sandwich. For the conservation. You’ll find them just culinarily inclined, the meat suits about everywhere nowadays, and an infinite number of dishes and a there’s a good chance you already variety of ethnic themes. Bluegill know them well. curry is one that I am partial to. Despite the stereotype, bass can be delicious too. Once again, frying is most common and can be prepared similarly to haddock or pollock. If fishing for the table, try to keep only the medium sized fish, as the largest specimens are usually the breeders that will continue to propagate the Visit us online at species. Because they are so prolific, www.TompkinsWeekly.com you can frequently keep the legal limit of bass and panfish with a clear Facebook.com/TompkinsWeekly @TompkinsWeekly conscience. Sunfish are America’s fish. From Photo provided by The History Center in Tompkins County their ancestral roots to modern day Barges performed the unglamorous but necessary business of transporting goods in the prevalence, sunfish have been on 19 th century, before railroads and trucks displaced them. On the lake they were usually the landscape since before humans towed by steamboats. This image was taken in the inlet in Ithaca.

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July 2 - 8, 2018 TOMPKINS WEEKLY 11 Business Rev Continued from page 6 Consulting, and a member of the Board of the Downtown Ithaca Alliance; and David Lubin, challenge is introducing manager of L Enterprises, LLC, a opportunities to be found to real estate development company funders outside of the usual in Horseheads. suspects, particularly for later Finding real estate stage startups. As an investor, solutions for startup companies a topic Tegan typically hears needs can be tricky because these is the difficulty of a consumer young businesses can outgrow a to invest early in a company space very quickly and might have they like because companies are high-tech needs with a startup waiting longer, until they build budget. At Cornell, Thomas up incredible value, before going said they have found success public. in this area through a flexible Real estate was the space at the university’s eLab, a second panel of the day and the class and incubator for student least diverse. Panel members entrepreneurs. included Phil Proujansky, a “We are able to sign them founding member of Cayuga up for short-term, year-to-year Venture Fund, as well as a leases, that’s the model that we founding managing partner have to give,” Thomas said. of the commercial real estate Tapping into the ecosystem firm Integrated Acquisition & that these startups grow in is Development; Jeremy Thomas, part of the strategy Thomas said Senior Director of Real Estate the university takes to grow for Cornell University; Photo by Jamie Swinnerton with successful startups. By The entrepreneur panel. From left to right: moderator Andrea Ippolito, Gabriel Rodriguez- knowing the ecosystem and John Guttridge, founder Calero, Julie Baker, Nick Nickitas, and Charlie Mulligan. of Brightworks Computer where a company will head, and with whom, helps the real estate aspect keep in step with the companies. Being flexible as businesses have to add in new pieces bit by bit has also been a successful strategy. The entrepreneur panel was MORE GREEN. moderated by Andrea Ippolito, executive director of the Engineering Management Program at Cornell. The local experts on the panel were Charlie Mulligan, CEO and co- founder of the local fundraising LESS DOUGH. and donor engagement platform GiveGab; Gabriel Rodriguez- Calero holds a Ph.D. in chemistry from Cornell and is the founder of Ecolectro, a chemical company; Julie Baker, co-founder and VP of operations at Ursa Space Systems; FINGER LA and Nick Nickitas, CEO of Rosie, a local eCommerce company born out FINGERLA of Cornell’s eLab. “Ithaca has a lot of the big city things, without being a big city,” said K E Rodriguez-Calero, explaining how S– he would pitch this area to someone WE interested in growing a startup here. K “There’s a lot of art, there’s a lot of S E T S– culture, there’s a lot of talks and well- N renowned speakers that come here, SO EAS S and you don’t have traffic. Well, not a A lot of traffic.” SE SN O T S SA S The area is a great place to raise A8 E 1 A S a family, and there’s a lot of talent in 8 0 P 1 the area that startups looking to hire P 0 2 F 2 can tap into, Rodriguez-Calero said. F L Locally, Baker cited Rev as one L O of the best resources she had while growing her company. Her company, S G DS O D UN F Ursa, needed the space to grow as a F UN RO OFGOL company, which was provided at Rev, G ROFGOL and the mentorship and advice from O 3 the Rev network. 2 “It’s not only the resources in the community but who can you be connected with?” Baker said, citing one of the branding firms that came to give a talk at Rev as a connection More than 50% OFF Greens Fees! that her company used later while rebranding. “It’s things like that, it’s the extended network that Rev helps 2 passes available with 5 courses in total facilitate.” Ken Rother, Director of Rev, said they plan to hold more events like For more details, go to ESPNIthaca.com this one in the future. But until then, Rev hosts local networking nights or call 607-533-0057 throughout the year for numerous industries present in the area.

12 TOMPKINS WEEKLY July 2 - 8, 2018 Sports Sound Bites Interview with Cornell head football coach David Archer By Tim Donnelly for overall enjoy that type of thing, that’s what admissible. You know, a challenge for ESPN Ithaca athleticism. you are looking for, kids that love Cornell football for years is, we don’t We will have playing it, because they are going to admit by AI (Academic Index) like ecently on ESPN Ithaca’s seen them want to constantly be coached and some of my competitors do. So, you Between the Lines, host Tim all on film. learn more and improve because it’s don’t have the final say like at Penn or Donnelly spoke with Cornell When they something they love to do and they Columbia and so you’re working that Head Football Coach David Archer. register, we’ll don’t look at it as a job or drudgery. angle, but then you are also looking R then look up So, you’re looking athleticism for that intangible. You know, no The Big Red recently announced the incoming recruiting class that will who they are, but then you are also looking at matter what a kid’s ACT score or be playing in ‘the #1 college town in watch their intangibles. GPA is, you never know how they America’ this Fall. Here is a snippet Tim Donnelly highlight and are going to truly react in college, of that conversation; to hear the full grade them TD: We were talking with Coach just like our admission people can interview, visit ESPN Ithaca’s on- out on tape. And then in person, Brian Earl of the Cornell Basketball never truly predict how a non-athlete demand PodCenter at ESPNIthaca. you’re looking for overall athleticism team and he said he wished at some of applicant that they admit will truly com. and you’re looking for what type of these camps that their jersey numbers react to college. So, you’re looking kid it is. You know, it’s very hard at could be their GPA when you’re trying for that prospect that can enjoy a Tim Donnelly: I remember Cornell to be an Ivy League student- to recruit to Cornell. What are some of challenge and overcome adversity. from my playing days showing up at athlete with the academic rigors and the challenges that you deal with when camps and trying to show the coaches Division 1 football and trying to it comes to, not only finding athletes – – – everything that they are looking for. build a program that has never been that fit your system and can play to the When someone shows up in Ithaca for a winner, into a winner. So, we are quality on the field but also live up to Between the Lines with Tim those prospect camps, what are you looking for guys with extremely high the expectations in the classroom? Donnelly can be heard weekdays 4-6 looking for from a prospective student- character. Guys that love the game. DA: You are obviously looking p.m. on ESPN Ithaca (1160 AM/107.1 athlete? You know, it’ll be hot during camp, for the baselines that the admissions FM) and at ESPNIthaca.com. David Archer: You are looking we’ll do hard drills. Guys that really folks give you so that they can be Gobrecht Continued from page 16 missed flights or missing baggage experience with this type of he’s been a key piece and a surprising here and there,” said Gobrecht. “We professional lifestyle though. He was story for the team after he was don’t always, but it’s nice when we signed by the Vancouver Stealth of selected in the seventh-round of the as a high school and travel lacrosse can get a full squad together for the National Lacrosse League during league’s supplemental draft. coach and flies to every destination, practice.” the fall of 2017 and got his first taste Gobrecht has appeared including home games. A typical Gobrecht and company then of box lacrosse, which is played in in every game so far and also game week for him includes a Friday wake up the next morning and fly tighter quarters than what he has registered his first professional goal morning flight out of the pacific right back home to get ready for the been used to. on May 13 against the Chesapeake northwest to wherever the team’s work week. “It was a humbling Bayhawks. It’s helped the Outlaws, game is being played, which could The crazy amount of time in experience,” said Gobrecht. “I was who have appeared in the last two range from Texas to Boston and the air is just part of the challenge for only there for a couple of weeks championship games, win five games anywhere in-between. Gobrecht and his teammates. during their training camp. It was in a row heading towards the end of When he gets in, the team has a “The travel is a big part of pretty humbling to play against that the year. Friday night practice, which is usually it,” said Gobrecht when asked about caliber of player, especially in a sport For Gobrecht and the rest of when most of the team will meet the toughest parts of pro lacrosse. that I’m not totally familiar with yet. his teammates, another title game up. With Outlaw teammates flying “It’s also a commitment all summer. I had played field lacrosse for my berth, and a second championship in in from the likes of New York City, You’re giving up your weekends to entire life.” the past three seasons is squarely on Texas and California varying from go and play, but I think the hardest Major League Lacrosse their minds. coaching jobs to work on Wall Street, part is being on a training regimen. is considered field lacrosse, but “One of the goals I had once I it can be difficult to get the whole You don’t have a trainer every day Gobrecht wants another whirl at the made the roster was to play in every group together at once. Often times, like you do in college. We’ll have one box game. He has been training in game this year,” said Gobrecht. “That a Saturday morning “shootaround” is practice and one game a week, so the Western Lacrosse Association was really my only individual goal the first time in the week where the the other five days are left up to you. with the Burnaby Lakers in British that I set. And now as a team, we’re whole team is together for any final The training all comes down to the Columbia, but he has yet to get into on a roll and the goal is to win a preparation before that night’s game. individual player.” game action, primarily because of his championship and I think we have “There always seems to be some Gobrecht does have some commitment to the Outlaws. And the team to do that.” Football What’s On ESPN Ithaca This Week Continued from page 16 back. “We look at it as an Live Play-by-Play Schedule opportunity we’d like to have down (1160 AM/107.1 FM) missed out on a trip to the sectional the road,” said Hotchkiss. “More than title game. With just four teams likely for us, this eight-man is a good Monday, July 2 Sunday, July 8 with eight-man football inside of fit in the short term. If we can keep 6:25 p.m. — Braves @ Yankees 12:25 p.m. — Yankees @ Blue Jays Section IV, both teams are virtually the numbers healthy at the younger 6:00 p.m. — Dodgers @ Angels guaranteed a playoff spot inside of a levels, we’d look to switch back.” Tuesday, July 3 four-team bracket. For Newfield, they had 32 6:25 p.m. — Braves @ Yankees Monday, July 9 Logistics of the league also players sign up and they could have 6:25 p.m. —Yankees @ Orioles include a shorter schedule, as they’re most likely managed to play the Wednesday, July 4 expected to play in five regular 11-man game according to Bubble. 12:25 p.m. — Braves @ Yankees Tuesday, July 10 season games, which is three less When it comes to the future though, 6:25 p.m. —Yankees @ Orioles than their eight-game schedule last the Trojans may end up staying put. Friday, July 6 fall. Aside from the three games this “That decision may be made 6:25 p.m. — Yankees @ Blue Jays Wednesday, July 11 season against Section IV opponents, by the kids,” said Bubble on the 6:25 p.m. —Yankees @ Orioles the teams are expected to play a possibility of switching back to the Saturday, July 7 couple out-of-section games against traditional style. “If we’re playing 3:25 p.m. — Yankees @ Blue Jays Thursday, July 12 Rochester area teams that have also eight-man and they’re having a great 6:30 p.m. — Yankees @ Indians adopted eight-man football. time and we’re having a great time In terms of the future, both coaching it, it allows schools like ours teams could still one day go back that have a lower enrollment to keep to the traditional 11-man game. on playing football.” Hotchkiss said that a little over 20 Lansing and Newfield will Check out ESPNIthaca.com for the most up to date Play-by-Play players signed up this year, which play the first eight-man football schedule. would have made it very difficult to game in history for both programs play the standard game this season. against each other on September 15. If Lansing can get more players involved, he would like to switch July 2 - 8, 2018 TOMPKINS WEEKLY 13 July 2 July 4 July 6 July 7 Intro to Lightsaber combat Lansing Lion’s Club Chicken BBQ Downtown Ithaca Architectural WHERE: Centerline Fitness and WHERE: Myers Park Walking Tour Martial Arts, 335 Elmira Road, DATE: Wednesday, July 4 WHERE: Trolley circle near Center Ithaca TIME: 11 a.m. Ithaca DATE: Monday, July 2 MORE INFO: Dinners will sell DATE: Friday, July 6 TIME: 7:30 p.m. for $9.00 and include ½ chicken, TIME: 4 to 5 p.m. MORE INFO: Do you want to salt potatoes, beans, and dessert. MORE INFO: Starting in July, fight like a Jedi or a Sith? Have you A half-chicken will sell for $7.00. Ithaca Heritage will offer a “Down- ever wanted to wield “an elegant There will also be a “Cake Wheel” town Ithaca Architectural Walking Open Days Garden Tours weapon for a more civilized age?” featuring some of Lansing’s fin- Tour” to highlight the significant WHERE: Various locations in If so, come and experience real- est cakes and pies, and with a spin historic gems that illustrate chap- Tompkins County istic lightsaber combat training! of the wheel, you could be the ters in the history of the city. See DATE: Saturday, July 7 This weekly class will introduce you lucky winner of a fantastic des- how preservationists and developers TIME: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. to the quickly growing world of sert to share with family or friends. have worked together to save these MORE INFO: Visit four outstand- lightsaber combat, which combines The Lions will also be selling their key components of Ithaca’s past. ing private gardens that are open techniques drawn from several real- Brooms in various sizes to accom- to the public for one day only on world fencing systems to explore modate everyone’s sweeping needs. Talk on Women’s Suffrage the 2018 Open Days Garden Tour. everyone’s favorite science fiction Raffles, vendors, and other sur- WHERE: The History Center in Featured gardens are in Ithaca, weapon. Topics covered will include prises will be in store, so come out Tompkins County Freeville, Lansing and Spencer. basic strikes, parries, footwork, and support the Lansing Lions. If DATE: Friday, July 6 Tours are drop-in and self-guided two-person drills and an introduc- you would like to bake or donate a TIME: 6 p.m. and are held rain or shine. Admis- tion to “Shii-cho,” or Form I light- cake for the “Cake Wheel”, please MORE INFO: In conjunction with sion is $7 per person per garden. saber combat. This form was the bring them to Myers Park by 10 First Friday Gallery Night and the Visit ccetompkins.org/opendays first one to be introduced to every a.m. on Wednesday, July 4, 2018. Women's Suffrage Exhibit at the for garden descriptions and photos. youngling at the Jedi Temple. All proceeds from this event go Public Library, Karen Pastorello, This event is sponsored nationally toward scholarships and community co-author of Women Will Vote: by The Garden Conservancy, with projects in our town. Winning Suffrage in New York local participation coordinated by State, will speak at the History the Tompkins County Community Center in Tompkins County on Fri- Beautification Program; proceeds July 5 day, July 6 at 6:00 PM. Pastorello are split between the 2 organiza- Happy Hour with Larry Sharpe, will discuss how women in New York tions. Questions? Call Martha candidate for Governor State struggled for over six decades or Chrys at Cornell Cooperative WHERE: Brookton’s Market, 491 to win the right to vote. She will Extension of Tompkins County at Brooktondale Rd, Brooktondale highlight the grassroots activism (607) 272-2292. DATE: Thursday, July 5 of rural, urban, African American, TIME: 4 to 5:30 p.m. Jewish, immigrant, and native-born Dryden Farmer’s Market MORE INFO: Larry Sharpe, women who formed a loose coali- WHERE: Dryden Agway candidate for Governor of NY and tion aimed at attaining full suffrage DATE: Saturday, July 7 his Lt. Governor, Andrew Hollis- for women. TIME: 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. July 3 ter, will be meeting voters during a MORE INFO: The Dryden Farm- Ithaca Rotary Community Fire- happy hour at Brookton's Market. er’s Market changes every week works Weather permitting, we'll be in the with new vendors! WHERE: Stewart and Cass Park outdoor seating area. Larry Sharpe DATE: Tuesday, July 3 (rain date is a Marine Veteran, Father, Hus- Thursday, July 5) band, Businessman, and Candidate July 8 TIME: Event starts at 6, fireworks for Governor of NY. Fall Creek Garden Tour at dusk WHERE: Thompson Park, Ithaca MORE INFO: The Ithaca Rotary Thursday Night Market DATE: Sunday, July 8 Community Fireworks Celebra- WHERE: Ithaca Farmer's Market TIME: 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. tion will be held on the evening DATE: Thursday, June 28 MORE INFO: Azaleas, lilacs, of July 3, 2018 at Stewart Park TIME: 5 p.m. permaculture, and more! Join us and Cass Park (rain date July 5). MORE INFO: Spend summer for a self-guided walking tour of The Fireworks will launch off the at the market! Join us at Steam- beautiful gardens, landscaping, Newman Municipal Golf Course. boat Landing every Thursday from and yards in Fall Creek at the 16th There will be musical entertain- 5-8pm for a SPECIAL market. Groton Fireworks Annual Fall Creek Neighborhood ment, food vendors, and activities Find your favorite food, adult WHERE: Groton Elementary Garden Tour. Visitors will not only at both Stewart and Cass Parks. beverage and craft vendors along School see enticing, well-tended front Check out musical acts, get your with musical guests and KIDS AC- DATE: Friday, July 6 yards but also the hidden delights faces painted, and joke around with TIVITIES! Stay tuned for a detailed TIME: 7:30 to 11 p.m. of private backyards. Begin the tour Crossroads the Clown while nib- schedule of events. MORE INFO: Come enjoy a at Thompson Park at the corner of bling on some of your favorite local night of fireworks sponsored by the N. Cayuga and Cascadilla Creek. food truck fare. Groton Fire Department. Music Start and stop whenever you'd like, by DJ Kelly, sponsored by Groton chat with gardeners along the way. Recreation. Concessions will be Rain or shine - FREE and open to available by Groton Youth Softball all! Be sure to find us on Facebook and Baseball. Rain date is July 8. @FallCreekGardenClub to learn more. Submitting calendar events Non-profits, churches, schools and organizations are welcome to submit calendar listings to [email protected]

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Aside from the crazy lifestyle that goes li Gobrecht is chasing the with playing lacrosse professionally, dream as a professional Gobrecht has had to adjust to lacrosse player, and that dream taking on the top talent in the has been taking him just about world on a weekly basis. E “I was a little starstruck everywhere. The 2011 graduate of Ithaca at first for sure,” said Gobrecht, High School and 2016 Ithaca who is primarily a defender for College graduate has taken his talents the Outlaws, just like his time in to the next level as a member of the Ithaca. “These are some of the guys Denver Outlaws in Major League that I’ve been watching my whole

Photos provided by Pretty Instant Eli Gobrecht (number 77), a graduate of Ithaca High School and Ithaca College, is chasing the dream of playing professional lacrosse with the Denver Outlaws.

life, but I’ve adjusted to it. Once you and nine-time reigning league First- get into this league, everything you Team All Pro selection Paul Rabil. did before to get here doesn’t really It’s just par for the course now for matter, it’s the same field. I just try Gobrecht, as he continues to get used to go out there and play my game.” to the MLL life. His first starstruck moment It’s a life that’s unlike most came in his first time on the field in professional leagues in the world. an Outlaw jersey. His first defensive Gobrecht maintains a job in Seattle assignment, in his first shift on the field, was two-time league MVP Continued on page 13 Newfield and Lansing football enter the future By Will LeBlond obvious difference is fewer Tompkins Weekly people on the field, but the field size will be the same, hanges are coming to which will become a huge the local high school advantage for skilled teams football landscape. like Lansing and Newfield After dealing with and they’re getting ready for C it accordingly. low numbers of players for the past few seasons, both “I think it’s exciting,” Newfield and Lansing will said Bubble. “It’s a little bit switch from the traditional of a change in the way we 11-man game to an eight- teach the game, it’s going man variation. They’re not the to be a bit more of a focus only ones who will make the on conditioning in our change in Section IV, as both preseason training because Unadilla Valley and Oxford we need athletes that can will opt for the smaller make moves in space.” version, which will complete a Hotchkiss and the four-team league. Bobcats are also set for what The decision to switch could turn into some high- was made in the offseason for powered offensive games. both Newfield and Lansing, “With less players, as it became more and more the dynamic of the game logical for them to play the changes,” said Hotchkiss. eight-man game. Photo provided by Hank Neubert “Some games do end up Newfield and Lansing will adopt eight-man football starting this fall, which will cut down on line being more of a shootout “There was always play. a possibility, it was in our style of game offensively. minds,” said Lansing head There’s really just more coach Brett Hotchkiss about the for another teaching job. Lansing is in a similar boat where spacing given the field potential of playing eight-man. “I In Newfield, the choice to they have plenty of skilled players, parameters.” think for our kids, we wanted to switch was also made because of a but not much in terms of linemen. The switch will also give stay with the 11-man game if it was low amount of players. Luckily for both teams, the eight- Newfield a chance for more success, a possibility, but when we started “We agreed that it was man game is an advantage for rosters as they’ve struggled mightily the doing the signups and looking at the something we should do given our of that makeup. past couple seasons in the win/ number of guys, it just made more numbers,” said head coach Chris With it still being relatively loss column. Lansing, on the other sense.” Bubble. “So, we felt like it fits where new in the area, (Seton Catholic was hand, was a playoff team last season Hotchkiss will enter his first our program is at. We have athletes, the only eight-man team last season, inside of Class C Section IV and just but we’re struggling with having a lot but they will not field a team this season as the sole head coach, as Continued on page 13 Miles Levesque was a co-head coach of those linemen type of kids.” year) the game is still very similar last season, but he has left the district According to Hotchkiss, to the full 11-man variation. The 16 TOMPKINS WEEKLY July 2 - 8, 2018