Archive: Around Town

Kutler Wins Hoby Award

Thousands of men and women have participated or volunteered in Hugh O'Brian Youth Leadership (HOBY) programs, making it America's premier youth leadership development program.

Started in 1958 by legendary actor Hugh O'Brian, the HOBY program nationally reaches out to every public and private high school, and internationally there are HOBY-style programs in Argentina, Bolivia, Canada, China, England, Korea, Mexico, and Taiwan.

On December 16th the Ithaca- Cayuga Rotary Club presented Dan and Karen Veaner with the club's 2008 Kirk Shreve Memorial Distinguished Community Service Award. The Veaners were recognized for their many achievements in Lansing, not the least of which is the publication you are reading. Karen was cited for her work with the Lansing Community Council, the Lansing Harbor Fest, assorted theatrical ventures, the annual LUMC Rue-mage sale, CROP Walk and the Lansing Food Pantry.

The award was presented Tuesday evening after a tasty dinner at the East Shore Café attended by many of the club members, families and friends, as well as the club's exchange student from Bolivia, Laurita Sotomayor and her current host family, the Garnetts. Also attending were Dave Vieser and Geoff Dunn of the Cayuga Radio Group, and the full Veaner family.

 

Hey there my name is Caboodle. I am an adult gray tabby with some white. I am a wonderful cat who loves to have my tummy rubbed and my ears scratched. I am very loving and I am looking for a home to call my own. I need a great family to come and take good care of me so please, come visit me at the SPCA!

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The SPCA of Tompkins County is looking for the owner of a young, 1-2 year old, Pit Bull mix. He is a neutered male with cream and white coloring and distinctive dark markings around his eyes. He was found on Van Dorn Road in the Town of Enfield. If you think this is your dog, or may know who the owner is, please contact the SPCA of Tompkins County at 257-1822 or This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

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Lansing High School was identified as one of the top high schools in the United States in a U.S. News & World Report study of 21,069 high schools across the nation.  In the pool of schools that met all required standards, the top 100 were awarded gold medal recognition and another 504 received silver medal standing.  Lansing is listed among silver medal schools, which represent only 2% of all schools considered.

"You can't achieve this type of recognition without outstanding leadership at the building level," says Lansing School Superintendent Stephen Grimm.  "You have to have a building leader that can culminate all those different ideas about what the school is all about and who we're going to serve.  This award recognizes service to all students."

With an anticipated start date of September 9, 2009, New Roots Charter School in Ithaca is now enrolling students. For its inaugural year, the school will be open for 9th and 10th grades, capping at 125 students. 

The information sessions will introduce the New Roots Charter School staff, program, curriculum, and enrollment process to interested parents and teens. 

	Key 2008 Parties Stories CDC Raises $24,500 Rogues Harbor Reopens Historic Ballroom

If you missed the reopening of the Rogues Harbor Inn ballroom in December or the CDC Auction and Dance in October you missed the Lansing 'It' parties of the season.  One celebrated Lansing's past, and the other Lansing's future.

The Corporate Development Committee had just purchased $60,000 of technology equipment for the Lansing schools when it turned around and hosted its 12th annual auction.  They raised another $24,000.

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	Lansing Harbor Festival 2008!

With Ithaca Festival and the Trumansburg Grassroots Festival did Tompkins County really need another festival?  When the Lansing Community Council reconstituted a few years ago members thought the town should revive Lansing Day, a much smaller scale community event that the council had hosted for a decade in the '80s and '90s.  What they came up with, Lansing Harbor Festival, was much grander, and two years ago people wondered whether they would be able to pull it off.

The 2007 festival almost didn't happen at all when a freak storm assaulted the town, forcing organizers to scramble to reschedule a week later.  It was a testament to them and to countless community members who wanted the festival to happen and weren't going to let even an Act of God deter them.  This year's success cemented the festival's reputation and future.

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	Key Events Around Lansing Lansing Library Gets Its Librarian An Interview With William Kabbis: Part 1 , Part 2 , Part 3 Historic Barn Burns in Lansing Lansing's Cabin May Be Oldest Lions Give Band Stand to Town Bullets Over Lansing A Rich Heritage of Lansing Historians

Lansing is such a vital community that it would be impossible to list all the significant things people did here in 2008.  There were many notable events.  Perhaps the key event of the year for the Lansing Community Library was the hiring of a professional librarian, Susie Gutenberger.  Her hiring was the most tangible evidence that the library is for real.  Meanwhile the board of directors has been working steadily to make their provisional charter a permanent one, and to stabilize services and hours of operation.

One was a visit from the principal of a small Kenyan school half a world away.  But when William Kabbis visited Lansing it was a very big deal.  Kabbis is the Head Teacher at the Mbaka Oromo school in Kenya, the school the Partnership of African and Lansing Schools (PALS) chose to partner with four years ago.

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HOUSTON, TX (Dec. 15, 2008 ) – Lansing native Kelly Cheatham will be part of a group of 20 undergraduate and graduate Syracuse University students from seven states have been selected to travel to Houston this January to participate in a one-of-a-kind program that helps future educators learn how to teach their students about one of history’s darkest times, the Holocaust, and about its relevance to today’s world.

The students – from New York, Illinois, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Washington, Vermont and Maryland – will arrive Jan. 3, 2009 for six days of training as fellows of Holocaust Museum Houston’s third annual Spector/Warren Fellowship for Future Educators, which is designed specifically for Syracuse students.

Now that the business office has moved to its new location in the Lansing elementary school, Business Administrator Mary June King was looking for a way to fill the empty new walls.  She decided to ask the district art teachers to get involved and the first business office art show is the result.  District residents got to see the new offices and the art show in an open house December 8th.

King says she is excited to have student art representing the district as visitors come to the new offices.  She plans to rotate the works, possibly switching out the art every six weeks.  "The work is fantastic," she says.  "People come through and comment at the advanced level of talent we have."

Since habitat For Humanity was founded by Millard and Linda Fuller in 1976, the organization has built more than 300,000 houses in more than 90 countries around the world for more than 1.5 million people.  The houses are built largely by volunteers, one house at a time.  Next year one will be built in North Lansing.

"What we usually do is try and select a family for the house, then build the house for the family, within reason," says Tompkins County Construction Coordinator Ed Siemon.  "We're looking at plans for a three or four bedroom house, depending on how we divide it.  That's the family size we usually get involved with.  We try to make it a simple house in terms of building structure, because it will be built by volunteer labor."

The Tompkins County Public Library’s Youth Services Department will host local resident and retired librarian Richard Tabor’s handmade, Mystery Mansion dollhouse through the month of December.

The ten-room dollhouse features nearly 100 clues to popular children’s stories, nursery rhymes, folk and fairy tales, and patrons are encouraged to enter a contest to see who can properly identify the most titles.