Archive: Around Town

Dear Margaret: I've been in a relationship with a woman for the last 15 years and for the most part we're quite happy together. However, my partner's work has started to become the central focus of her life. She works late many nights, and takes calls during off hours, including vacations. I understand this is part and parcel of her particular occupation, and I appreciate the substantial monetary benefits her work affords us. However, I'm left feeling like the third wheel in a relationship between my wife and her career. I don't even know how to broach this subject without appearing whiney and needy. How can I become more in focus in this relationship?
Feeling Unimportant

On Friday, March 3rd from 6AM-6PM WHCU Morning Newswatch host Lee Rayburn once again took over the radio station and offered a different restaurant and wine pairing every hour to listeners with the highest bid. All the proceeds went directly to the United Way of Tompkins County. Each restaurant had donated a $200 gift certificate and each winery donated a case of wine or craft beer. The auction raised $5,030.00 and has raised over $16,000.00 in the past three years. Lee Rayburn, "I am humbled and grateful for the generosity of WHCU's listeners. I am overwhelmed by the support that our local businesses give to the United Way's efforts. I am overjoyed by the difference that the United Way makes through its affiliate organizations and their daily work in creating a quality of life in our community that is clearly second to none."

Throughout the Wine & Dine Radiothon, Lee had local leaders talk about the impact the United Way has on individuals and families in Tompkins County. The proceeds will go to the United Way's efforts to help people meet their immediate, basic needs while empowering lasting change by strengthening the three building blocks for a good life: education, income, and health. wineanddine2017leeandjoeCayuga Radio Group's GM/VP Chet Osadchey, "The United Way of Tompkins County plays a critical role that positively impacts all people in our community. Friday's event raised awareness to individuals and companies to remind them to donate financially to the United Way. We can all make a difference."

The History Center in Tompkins County and Cayuga Radio Group are pleased to announce a new series, 'Local History Minutes' in honor of this year's Tompkins County Bicentennial.

Starting in March and continuing through the rest of this year you will hear 'minutes' that will address a wide variety of local history themes and topics.

Canandaigua isn't exactly around the corner, but close enough you can make delightful day trip to visit an unreasonably beautiful place, Sonnenberg Gardens. After all, 'Within Reach' varies with who you are and how far you want to reach.

Hidden away in a quiet residential area of the village of Canandaigua is a 52 acre retreat of greenhouses, flowers, wide open spaces, immense trees of every description, topped off by a 40 room mansion at the highest point of the property.

by Emily Selland

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Dear Margaret: My mother-in-law is a busybody. She calls every day and always has to know everything our children are doing and voice her opinion, which usually means her disapproval. She wants to know every time they are sick, what I am doing about it, who their friends are, when their sports events are scheduled, how their grades are, and on and on. And, if they fall short in any area, I'm to blame. She's getting on my nerves and I'm having trouble being civil to her. My husband doesn't seem to mind the intrusions, and our kids don't realize their grandmother is so nosey. I don't want to cause a rift in my marriage or cause hard feelings between my mother-in-law and me. How can I handle this without rocking boats? I'm the only one that's getting seasick!
Seasick of Mother in Law

Next Wednesday (March 8th) the Lansing Middle School Auditorium will be transformed to the 1960s when Lansing High School presents its rendition of the musical 'Hairspray'.  Director Cindy Howell says over 100 people are involved in making this production happen, including 40 cast members, around 20 musicians, and many parents and students working behind the scenes.  Howell says the show is controversial, addressing issues from the '60s that are still problems in the 21st century.

"Lansing prides itself on how we treat people and how we think," she says.  "I said to the cast that we need to take a step higher.  We need to think about how we treat people within the cast.  And we need to be ready because people are going to criticize our show and why we did it."

Students in grades 5-8 at Lansing Middle School recently participated in the Northeast Thinking Cap Quiz Bowl. Teams from Connecticut, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania participated. The team from Lansing Middle School in Lansing, New York won first place in the 5th grade division of the Northeast Thinking Cap Quiz Bowl.

Lansing's fifth grade high score was a fine 1347. Second place was won by Lynnewood Elementary School in Havertown, Pennsylvania with a great 1219. A super 6th grade score of 1336 won the first team trophy and ribbons for Middlesex Middle in Darien, Connecticut. Lansing’s sixth grade team placed 9th of 24 teams. Lansing’s fifth graders scored with the most points of all fifth and sixth grade participating teams.

On Friday, March 3rd , from 6AM-6PM, News Talk WHCU’s Lee Rayburn will host the third annual Wine & Dine Radiothon to benefit the United Way of Tompkins County.

Listeners will have the opportunity to call in every hour to bid on packages that includes a $200 gift certificate to a local restaurant, as well as a case of wine or craft beer from world-renowned wineries and breweries in the Finger Lakes. The radiothon in the past two years has raised over $10,000.00 for the United Way of Tompkins County.

Challenge Workforce Solutions announced that over $3,000 was raised in the second year of the organization's Krispy Kreme Fundraiser.

Challenge supporters, staff, and individuals who participate in its programs sold doughnuts during the first three weeks of February. Over 430 individuals and businesses placed orders, and over 760 boxes of glazed and specialty doughnuts were sold. Doughnuts were distributed starting at 9 a.m. on Friday, February 24th, at Challenge's main office in the South Hill Business Campus on Danby Road.

Albany, NY: March 1, 2017 - The Brain Injury Association of New York State (BIANYS) will kick off Brain Injury Awareness Month on Monday, March 6 in Albany as hundreds of individuals from around New York State gather for their Annual Brain Injury Advocacy Day.

Every year, serious falls, assaults, car accidents and other incidents such as stroke result in brain injury for thousands of New Yorkers. Brain injury profoundly effects individuals' physical and cognitive abilities and makes it extremely difficult or impossible for individuals to live full productive lives. Brain injury can impact family dynamics, community activities, employment and social life. Behavioral changes that may occur as a result of brain injury can also have a significant impact on the ability to interact with others and conform to the rules and structure of society.

Lynn Perry Wooten, senior associate dean for academic and student excellence at the University of Michigan, has been named David J. Nolan Dean of the Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management.

Wooten, also clinical professor of strategy, management and organizations at Michigan's Ross School of Business, will begin her appointment at Cornell on July 1. She succeeds Edward McLaughlin, the Robert G. Tobin Professor of Marketing, who has served as interim dean of the Dyson School since June 21, 2016.