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posticon Health Alliance Board of Directors Announces Leadership Transition

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Ithaca Health Alliance Board President Kelly White announced today that Abbe Lyons has resigned her position of Executive Director effective at the end of January 2016. Lyons has served in the position since 2012. Lyons has a long history with Ithaca Health Alliance as a provider member in the early years of the organization before her current tenure as Executive Director. Lyons said she is leaving to focus on her family.

Ithaca Health Alliance envisions a community where everyone is connected to compassionate, quality, integrative healthcare. "Abbe is the embodiment of Ithaca Health Alliance's core value of compassion. The board accepts Abbe's resignation with regret and understands her decision to focus on primary caregiving for an elderly family member," said White.

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posticon Fine Arts Boosters Award Grants To Ithaca District Teachers

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ihs2012 120The Fine Arts Booster Group (FABG), an affiliate of IPEI, has awarded $5,330 in mini-grants to 13 Ithaca City School District (ICSD) projects that will reach 2,095 students.

Funded projects include support for DeWitt, Boynton, Lehman Alternative Community School and Ithaca High School drama programs grants; Enfield Band Mentors Program; technical theater hand tools; a dance residency in pre-K classrooms; Maori sticks for Beverly J. Martin and Caroline Elementary schools; artist visits following a Kids Discover the Trail! Ithaca Johnson Museum field trip; Boynton Middle School music sight reading assistance; Beauty and the Beast; and Ithaca High visual arts tools for ceramics.  For example, through an early childhood dance/creative movement and literacy initiative, dancer Lisa Tsetse will work with three Beverly J. Martin Elementary pre-k and kindergarten classrooms on a project called "Inside Outside Upside Down".

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posticon SPCA Pet of the Week - Trip

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by Sarah Post

Trip This handsome boy is named Trip, and isn't he just gorgeous? In his former home, Trip used his cardboard scratching post faithfully and didn't ruin the furniture with his claws. He's a nice boy, but not fond of other cats at all. Hence we recommend that Trip be the ONLY critter in your home! His persona is certainly large enough to fill any space! He has been neutered, microchipped, and vaccinated up-to-date, so he's ready to go home with you! Ask an adoption counselor about how to adopt Trip as your new fur-ever companion today!

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posticon Newman Arboretum Named Most Beautiful College Arboretum

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cornellarboretum 120Best College Reviews, an online journal, has named Cornell Plantations' F. R. Newman Arboretum as the most beautiful college arboretum in their list of 'The 50 Most Beautiful College Arboretums.'

Plantations' F.R. Newman Arboretum is a place for the scientific study and public exhibition of a diversity of trees and shrubs. These plantings, all hardy to the central New York area, help foster Plantations' scientific, educational, and plant appreciation efforts. Here, visitors can learn about and enjoy native species, as well as species imported from similar climate zones around the world.  The arboretum's collections—including nut trees, crabapples, oaks, maples, shrubs, and urban trees—comprise a 100-acre pastoral setting. Specialty gardens in the arboretum include the Zucker Shrub Collection and the Treman Woodland Walk.

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posticon Ithaca Rotary Club Makes Award Presentations

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rotaryPrideOfWorkmanship 120On October 28, the Rotary Club of Ithaca presented its 18th annual Pride of Workmanship awards to three deserving individuals in Tompkins County. The award recognizes area employees whose outstanding work performance in their organization is "above and beyond the call of duty" and is instrumental in the achievement of the organization's performance goals.

Rotary's Pride of Workmanship committee chair Joan Schnaper announced the 2015 winners:

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posticon Groton School News

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groton mapEarly College Degree Pathway Parent Informational Meeting

Groton High School has teamed up with TC3's Concurrent Enrollment Department to offer your child an unbelievable opportunity to earn their associate's degree before their high school diploma! Please join us to learn all about the process, the numerous benefits of earning college credit during high school, and to speak to representatives from Groton and TC3's College Now Department. Don't miss the Early College Degree Pathway parent informational meeting this Thursday, November 5th from 6:00 – 7:30 p.m. in the Groton high school cafeteria.

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posticon Lansing Lion's Club Donates Ludlowville Pavilion

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ludlowville pavilionThe Lansing Lions are at it again! They have erected this beautiful new pavilion at Ludlowville Park. The club has erected several pavilions in Myers Park over the year, as well as building the band stand there.
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posticon The Best Tasting Election In Town

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nlads 3567If it's Election Day it's the North Lansing Auxiliary Election Day Dinner and Supper, a tradition that spans well over a century. This Tuesday hundreds of voters were served chicken, mashed potatoes, biscuits, gravy, squash, beet salad, cabbage salad, and ham. And, of course, pie. It's all about the pie! Volunteers served 644 meals Tuesday, 226 dinners and 403 suppers.

nlads 1244All the money stays in the community, purchasing supplies for the fire station, providing scholarships, help for the Salvation Army, food pantries, Loaves and Fishes, bereavement dinners, and people in need. Auxiliary members also volunteer to maintain the fire station.

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posticon Hug A Bus Driver

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boces TransportationAppreciation 50School transportation employees honored by Smith School students Transportation department employees from area school districts were recognized during an annual appreciation breakfast recently held at Tompkins-Seneca-Tioga BOCES.

Photo caption Jaron Russell shared (photo) a hug with his school bus driver during the annual transportation appreciation breakfast held recently in the Smith School cafeteria at TST BOCES. Exceptional Education students expressed their gratitude to the dozens of school bus drivers, aides and monitors who ensure the students arrive safely and on time to school each day.

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posticon Lansing Librarian Named Library System Director of the Year

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susie gutenberger 120Susie Gutenberger won the 2015 Finger Lakes Library System Director of the Year Award and it was presented on October 23, 2015 at their annual meeting.

"Susie is an exceptional library director and every day she brings her substantial skills and knowledge to making LCL the amazing place it is," says Lansing Community Library (LCL) board chair Emily Franco.  "Under her guidance, the Lansing Community Library received its permanent charter in just five years, an unusually short time.  However, the charter was granted because of the amazing growth of the library under Susie's direction."

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posticon Pre-college STEM Program Launched

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cornell2Cornell's Public Service Center, working with partners at the Ithaca City School District and Office for Academic Diversity Initiatives, is encouraging middle school and high school students in the Ithaca County School District to apply for their new Science & Technology Entry Program (STEP). STEP is a pre-college program for historically underrepresented and economically disadvantaged students, designed to help prepare them for entry into postsecondary degree programs in scientific, technical, health related fields, and the licensed professions.

The Cornell STEP program was granted from July 2015 until June 2020, and will be working with 99 students from Ithaca High School, Boynton Middle School, and DeWitt Middle School.

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posticon SPCA Pet of the Week - Chief

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by Rochelle Davis

Chief This handsome senior feline was brought to the SPCA from the Village of Lansing. Sadly, no one has asked after her, so now she seeks a new home and loving folks to appreciate her. She is friendly and sweet, solicits with rubs and vocalizing how much she wants to be petted - but watch our for her tail, which seems to be off limits to human hands. The Chief is pretty playful for an older girl, and especially favors wand toys. We think she would be fine in a home with children older than 12 years, who would be sensitive to her needs. Would this black beauty fit nicely into your home scene? She has her forepaws crossed...

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posticon Groton School News

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groton mapAcclaimed Encaustic Artist to Teach at Groton HS

This fall, as part of an Arts Education Grant from the New York Council for the Arts, award winning artist Kohlene Hendrickson will be sharing her passion for creating art with students at Groton high school during her two week-long residency. Hendrickson will be teaching the ancient process of encaustic painting using a medium made by combining beeswax resin and pigments.  Chad DeVoes' science class will be collaborating on the project by contributing the beeswax directly from the Groton student farm.

"We are doing a farm to art connection and we hope to get a little of our own beeswax, the whole idea of using our own hives to make our own pigments to make our own art is something Kohlene will show us how to do,"  said Art teacher Brookley Spanbuaer.

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