Archive: Around Town

(Aurora, NY) President Lisa Marsh Ryerson has announced that she will retire from the presidency of Wells College. While she will conclude her active term as President at the end of this academic year, she will remain with the College for a sabbatical year in which she will work with the Board of Trustees on key institutional initiatives.

For Ms. Marsh Ryerson this marks the culmination of a 28-year professional career at Wells. After graduating cum laude with a major in English in 1981, she served as the College’s assistant director of admissions and associate dean of students before completing her master’s degree at the State University of New York at Cortland and four years teaching public school. Ms. Marsh Ryerson returned to Wells in 1991 to serve as dean of students, executive vice president and acting president before the Board appointed her to the presidency in 1995.

After a week of 'Walkin’ The Country' to support the Food Bank of the Southern Tier’s BackPack Program™ in Tompkins County, Q Country’s Chris Allinger brought back a hefty backpack filled with donations.  As of 5PM on Friday, August 24th, Allinger reported that the donations collected in the backpack alone were in excess of $10,000.  Final totals will be announced during the Q Country 103.7 Morning Show on Monday, August 28th.

At 9:00AM on August 20th, Allinger set out on a mission to walk to every town in Tompkins County filling a backpack with donations.  Throughout the week, Allinger hosted “collection parties” and broadcasted from each of the towns on his route.  After arriving On The Commons in Ithaca around 5PM Friday night, Chris set out for a final wrap-up party at The Haunt to celebrate his journey and to thank the communities of Tompkins County for their support.

The Tompkins County Public Library has announced the addition of six Nook Simple Touch™ eReaders to its teen collection.

Teen Services Librarian Regina DeMauro-Axel said eReaders are an important tool to keep young adults engaged in reading and to ensure that they are afforded access to emerging technology.

“We recognize that teens live in a fast-paced, technologically advanced world and we want to help them learn to thrive in that environment,” DeMauro-Axel said.

Hi! My name is Rudy! I'm a very sweet terrier mix who is looking for a good home, since my previous one didn't properly take care of me. I'm very energetic and would love to have another dog to play with, but no children under the age of 12 please as I'm still pretty puppyish!

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Aurora, New York—Wells College recently announced the addition of Jennifer Michael to the Academic and Student Life Division as the College’s new dean of students. As a member of the College’s senior staff, Dean Michael will be overseeing the student activities and residence life offices as well as the College’s chaplaincy, supporting and assisting students as they complete their educations.

Dean Michael assumed her role in July and directed much of the preparations for the return of Wells’ students this fall and the arrival of the class of 2016, a class larger than any the College has seen in more than four decades. “I’m enjoying orientation, because I—as well as the first-year class—have a chance to learn a lot about the school through the process. Students are what give a college energy and life, and I function best with that energy around me.”

The Lansing-Ithaca Rotary Club dedicated a Liberty Elm Tree Saturday in front of the log cabin in Myers Park.  The elm is the first of what Rotarians hope will be a series of shade tree donations, as well as providing a reminder of Boston's Liberty Tree, which symbolized liberty and resistance to the British Crown in the events leading up to the Revolutionary War.

"If this bit of history does well we'll plant many more here in Myers Park," said Rotarian Jase Baese.  "It will make a more diverse ecosystem and more lovely shade trees for all the residents of Lansing to enjoy."

Most people are happy to live in Lansing.  But it doesn't pay to be a chicken here, because of the huge popularity of chicken barbecues.  Many of Lansing's weekly barbecues use the famous and popular Cornell Sauce.  What you may not know is that sauce was developed by Lansing's own Bob Baker.  Baker passed away in 2006, but Lansing continues to celebrate him with the Baker Cup Chicken Barbecue Contest at the Lansing Harbor Festival.

"He'd love it.  He would love all the different ways to make the chicken," says Baker's daughter, Reenie Baker Sandsted, one of Baker's seven children.  That's what he was all about, using chicken in different ways.  He'd love this artistic way they're doing it today.  He'd be very pleased with it.  He was all about that.

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Hey there, my name is Zeppelin I am a one-year-old domestic short haired/ mix. I'm a loving fellow who is looking for a good home, so please come and visit me at the SPCA to see if i'm the right cat for you!

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Adele O’Rourke, 18, of Ithaca was one of 22 young women from the U.S. and Canada who graduated from the 6th annual Phoenix Firecamp, a weeklong overnight camp in Utica, NY that is designed to introduce teenage girls to the opportunities for women in fire and emergency services. The daughter of  Patricia Anne and Dr. Thomas O’Rourke, she attends Hobart and William Smith Colleges. Adele is a member of the Cayuga Heights Fire Department.

The nationally recognized program, conducted by Fire Service Women of New York State, Inc.(FSWNYS), was the first of its kind in the Northeastern US and remains one of the few nationwide. Camp Director Lt. Anna Schermerhorn-Collins (FDNY) said this year’s campers were the most diverse group since the program began in 2007; to date there are 119 graduates.“We had three young women who are members of volunteer fire departments, nine from Explorer Posts, three with limited EMS training and the other seven had no prior exposure to fire and emergency services.”

'Everything in moderation.' Have you heard that before?  Well it’s particularly true when we think about eating nuts.  Nuts, in moderation, are good for us, but if we mindlessly shovel them into our mouths, we could easily risk obesity and heart disease by ingesting too many calories and too much harmful fat.

Since I’ve introduced moderation into your consciousness, we should all be on the same page as to what constitutes a healthy serving of nuts.  Since nuts have between 160 and 200 calories per ounce, (assuming you’re not a glutton who needs to have them covered with sugar, chocolate or honey), a normal daily serving is about an ounce.  But how can we easily determine how many nuts are in an ounce?   Good news.  I’ve done some research for you and am about to share that information with you.

The SPCA of Tompkins County, in partnership with Best Friends Animal Society, has taken in 20 Chihuahua mixes and other small mixed breed dogs, who originated at municipal shelters in Los Angeles California and were scheduled for euthanasia.

The SPCA received a call from Best Friends Animal Society, based in Utah, to ask if the SPCA would consider taking a transport of dogs who were going to be euthanized.  After nearly two months of logistics and planning, and an overnight drive to and from JFK, the SPCA was able to save 20 small (highly adoptable) dogs from Los Angeles. Los Angeles is still a traditional shelter city where dogs are regularly put down for no other reason than space.