Archive: Around Town

All The World

: By -Staff; Around Town; | May 28, 2009 |

New York City, April 28, 2009—Captivating audiences with a performance of a sonnet and monologue from Shakespeare, Adam Beckwith, a student at Lansing High School, placed as a semi-finalist at the English-Speaking Union National Shakespeare Competition. The competition was held on April 27th at Lincoln Center in New York City for 59 winners of ESU Branch competitions nationwide. Beckwith had won the ESU Syracuse Branch regional competition.

This year’s winner of the ESU Boston regional competition, Talene Monahon, won first prize in the ESU National Shakespeare Competition, winning a full tuition scholarship to the British American Drama Academy’s Midsummer Conservatory Program in Oxford, England. Second place winner, Addison Hamilton, representing the Atlanta Branch, won $1000.00 from the English-Speaking Union. Third place winner, Matthew Amira, representing the New York Branch of the ESU, won $500. From the Shakespeare Society.

High Honors for Lansing at WordMasters Championship

: By Cathy Moseley; Around Town; | May 28, 2009 |

Five students representing Lansing Middle School recently won highest honors in this year’s WordMasters Challenge-a national language arts competition entered by over 230,000 students annually, which consists of three separate meets held at intervals during the school year.

Completing in the difficult Blue Division of the Challenge, eighth graders Agi Csaki, Lucy Rogers and Jonathan Sun earned perfect scores in each of the year’s three meets. Sixth grader Meeta Shrivastava made only two mistakes over the course of the year’s three meets. They placed, respectively, among the seven highest-scoring eighth graders, and 19 highest-scoring sixth graders in the entire country in the Challenge’s year-end cumulative standings.

Cancer Survivors Day Ice Cream Social

: By -Staff; Around Town; | May 28, 2009 |

Tompkins County’s 3000 cancer survivors will join America’s 12 million cancer survivors who in turn join survivors around the world in observing the 22nd annual National Cancer Survivors Day on Sunday, June 7.

Hundreds of communities throughout North America will host events on this day to celebrate life and demonstrate that cancer is not an automatic death sentence. The contributions of the families, friends, researchers, and healthcare providers who support cancer survivors will also be recognized.

Fire Department Carnival 2009 in Pictures

: By Karen Veaner; Around Town; | May 28, 2009 |

Last weekend the Lansing Fire Department hosted their annual Carnival. Department President Robert Wagner says attendance was about average or above average, and the carnival went well. About 30 volunteer emergency responders manned the carnival, cooking and selling food at the food pavilion, working the fire dog, selling tickets, and monitoring the event.

Recently the department voted on whether or not to continue the event. "Some people are just getting burned out. It's tough to get more people to work on it," Wagner says. But enough wanted to continue the community event to continue the contract for another two years. "I look forward to it every year," Wagner adds.

Community Leaders Urge Safe Prom and Graduation Celebrations

: By Marcia E. Lynch; Around Town; | May 28, 2009 |

ITHACA NY - Over 2000 families of high school Junior and Senior students from all six of the public school districts in Tompkins County will receive letters this spring, urging them to provide celebrations that are fun, chaperoned, and alcohol-free.

The letters are signed by four community leaders: the student’s high school principal, District Attorney Gwen Wilkinson, Amanda Verba, President of the Community Coalition for Healthy Youth, and Nancy Zahler, Director of the Tompkins County Youth Services Department.

SPCA Pet of the Week: Abby

: By Allison Veaner; Around Town; | May 28, 2009 |

Hey there my name is Abby. I am a female domestic shorthair mix. I am four years and 8 months old and I came to the SPCA on 1/23/09. I'm a great cat looking for an awesome home so come and visit me at the SPCA to see if I'm the right cat for you!

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SPCA Pet of the Week: Angie

: By Allison Veaner; Around Town; | May 21, 2009 |

Hey there my name is Angie. I am a female domestic/longhair mix. I'm a great girl who just needs a wonderful home and family before my life is complete so please come and visit me at the SPCA today!

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Fitness: Bend, Don

: By Jon Clancy, Certified Strength Coach; Around Town; | May 21, 2009 |

Right now we are in a storm of stress and depression (or so the media would have you believe). Some people are in a category 5 hurricane and some people see it as a drizzle. Whatever the level of your stress, the key to reducing the stress on your mind and body is to bend, not break.

Deepak Chopra, spiritual guru and author, writes of the law of least resistance in which you accept what the world throws at you and not let it bother you either way. It is simply acknowledging what is in your control and what is not in your control. The analogy to illustrate this is that of an oak tree and a palm tree in a huge hurricane. The oak tree is strong but inflexible and either stands firm or breaks, no in-between. The palm-tree, on the other hand, bends and sways in the storm and is left standing at the end no matter what. Stress reduction doesn't always mean making the storm go away but changing the way you react to a storm of stress by being a flexible and strong palm tree. Thus you have to yield to the stress and not break from the stress.

$845,000 For NY Organic Agriculture

: By -Staff; Around Town; | May 21, 2009 |

New York State Agriculture Commissioner Patrick Hooker today announced the availability of nearly $845,000 to encourage organic production in New York State. The funding is provided by the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Services (NRCS) as part of its Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP).

“With the growing trend of organic agriculture here in New York, we are particularly pleased that the new Farm Bill is helping farmers fund conservation practices that will in turn aid in their transition to organic production,” the Commissioner said. “Farmers who are currently in the transition process, as well as those who are certified organic, are eligible to take advantage of USDA’s EQIP Organic Initiative funding and encouraged to do so.”

Lansing's 1791 Log Cabin Ressurected

: By Dan Veaner; Around Town; | May 21, 2009 |

All of a sudden the North Log Cabin has gone from a pile of logs with an uncertain future to a whirlwind of activity. Lansing Community Council President Ed LaVigne met with Town Councilman Bud Shattuck and McCarthy Building Companies' Pete Peters to talk about progress on getting the 1791 cabin restored. The North cabin is the oldest log cabin in Tompkins and Cayuga Counties.

"We have money, we have material, we're focussed," LaVigne said. "We've got June to raise the money, July to put it together, and August to celebrate."

Profile: New Roots School

: By Dan Veaner; Around Town; | May 21, 2009 |

When the school year begins next Fall a new Tompkins County high school will open its doors. The New Roots Charter School will serve students from around the county and beyond. In its first year the school will include a ninth and tenth grade class. Eleventh grade will be added in 2010 and twelfth in its third year.

"It's a small school," explains Executive Secretary Melissa Mueller. "We'll end up as a ninth through twelfth grade high school. Our full enrollment will be 225 students. In this starting year our target enrollment is 125."

Local Priest Celebrates Silver Jubilee

: By Robin Tobin; Around Town; | May 21, 2009 |

Fr. Scott Michael Kubinski will celebrate the 25th anniversary of his ordination to the priesthood with a Mass of Thanksgiving on Pentecost Sunday, May 31, at 11 a.m. at All Saints Church, 347 Ridge Road, Lansing. A reception will follow the liturgy.

"I offer my congratulations to Father Scott on this important milestone in his priestly ministry," said Bishop Matthew H. Clark. "He is a wonderful blessing to the Diocese of Rochester and of great service and comfort to the people he has encountered along the way. May God continue to bless his ministry for many decades to come!"

5th Grader Places in Writing Contests

: By Dan Veaner; Around Town; | May 14, 2009 |

Cayuga Heights Elementary School 5th grader Madeline Horrigan won second place in WVBR's "Top Mom" essay contest. She has also earned third-place in the TST-BOCES writing contest in the poetry category.

'Top Mom' contestants had to write a short essay about their mothers. Madeline wrote about her Mom Alice, a jewelry designer whose PAMA Designs features hand made dichroic glass jewelry.

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