Archive: Around Town

Hey there, my name is Gwendalyn. I am a one year old domestic shorthair/ mix. I'm a gorgeous girl who is looking for a loving home, so please come and visit me at the SPCA today to see if I'm the right cat for you!


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Andrea Huskie, a Lansing High School English teacher, was selected as an NEH Summer Scholar from a national applicant pool to attend one of 34 summer study opportunities supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities.  The Endowment is a federal agency that each summer supports seminars and institutes at colleges, universities, and cultural institutions so that teachers can study with experts in humanities disciplines.  The approximately 715 NEH Summer Scholars who participate in these programs of study will teach almost 90,000 American students this academic year.

Social Studies Teacher Isis Ivery brought four members of the 2011 senior class to present a video on tolerance they completed as their final project in her class.  The video explores tolerance in Lansing High School, and proposes a campaign to make students and faculty more tolerant in the future.  While all four students graduated this year, they said that younger students are on board to make this proposed program work in the high school.  Ali Robinson, Kathryn Hornibrook, Joycelyn Ford, and Nina Lindberg asked school board members to sign a pledge to make the 'Civility Pursuit' reality in Lansing.

The video is called 'Five Simple Questions'.  It asks frank questions of students, faculty, and staff about the level of tolerance in the school, and then asks respondents whether they would join an initiative to bring more understanding and tolerance to the school.  After the video, school board members were asked to sign the pledge.

Hey there my name is Darius. I am a four year old domestic medium hair/ mix. I'm a friendly fellow who is looking for a loving home, so please come and visit me at the SPCA to see if I'm the right cat or you!


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Hey there my name is Gizmo.  I'm an eight-year-old domestic shorthair/ mix. I'm a handsome fellow who is looking for a loving family. So please come and visit me at the SPCA to see if I'm the right cat for you!


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Last Friday in Ludlowville Park could have been a scene from half a century ago.  Kip Opperman and Richy Stano played an acoustic concert in the gazebo, and the Lansing Lions Club held an ice cream social in honor of the late Jim Howell, a charter member who was instrumental in forming the club 50 years ago this year.  Many members of Howell's family were present, and the money raised is targeted for recreational equipment for the park in the hamlet where Howell was born.

"He was a charter member of the Lansing Lion's Club," says Howell's wife Phyllis.  "When he passed away he was the last living charter member.  They have such lovely playground equipment in Myers Park that is all new.  He had expressed an interest to the Lions Club to see if there was anything they could improve here in the Ludlowville Park."

The Lansing Lions club honored three community members with Robert J. Uplinger Distinguished Service Awards Monday.  The Uplinger Award honors outstanding Lions or community members who perform exemplary service to their communities.  this year the Lansing Lions honored three non-Lions, Gene Tobey, Kathy Miller, and Karen Bishop.

Tobey and Bishop were unable to attend, but Lions Club President Debbie Mann said they would be presented with the awards later in the week.  Clubs donate $250 to the Uplinger Foundation in order to nominate a recipient.  The foundation uses the money to award grants for humanitarian service, vocational assistance, operational needs, and emergency aid.

Lansing Harbor Festival is celebrating its fifth anniversary this year.  On August 13th the festival will take over Myers Park for a day of music, food, vendors, games, and fun.  This year, weather permitting, you'll have a chance to literally get a birds-eye view of the festival from the REMAX hot air balloon.   The seven-story tall balloon will be tethered at Myers Point.  If there is no wind tethered rides will be offered for $15 with the procedes being donated to the Lansing Community Council.

"The view is going to be amazing," says Festival Chair Karen Veaner.  "I am really hoping that this will be possible.  We are grateful for the REMAX office for bringing this to us.  Amanda Ryen-Yowhan is on the Community Council, and she's done a great job of bringing this to the festival."

The Finger Lakes Land Trust announced that Lansing resident Susanne Lorbeer was chosen as the organization’s Volunteer of the Year. The presentation of the award took place Sunday, July 24 at the Skaneateles Country Club on Skaneateles Lake.

Susanne, a retired elementary school teacher, has been volunteering with the Land Trust for nearly ten years and is well known in the community, especially among botanists and nature enthusiasts. Susanne recently undertook a large project for the Land Trust involving cataloging and organizing lists of species on the Land Trust’s nature preserves.

Hey there, my name is Bluebell. I am a seven-month-old domestic longhair/mix. I'm a gorgeous girl who is looking for a loving home, so please come and visit me at the SPCA to see if I'm the right cat for you.


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Kathryn MillerA student representing Lansing Middle School recently won highest honors in this year’s WordMasters Challenge, a national language arts competition entered by approximately 220,000 students annually, which consists of three separate meets held at intervals during the school year.

Competing in the difficult Blue Division of the Challenge, eighth grader Kathryn Miller made only three errors over the course of the year’s three meets.  By achieving such outstanding cumulative results, she was one of the highest-scoring eighth graders in the entire country this year.

Hey there, my name is Gizmo.  I am an eight-year-old domestic shorthair/ mix.  I’m a friendly fellow who is looking for a loving home, so please come and visit me at the SPCA to see if I’m the right cat for you!


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