Archive: Around Town

Friday, May 12 Saturday, May 13
Outside: 8 a.m. - 8 p.m. 8 a.m. - 1 p.m. Inside: 9 a.m - 8 p.m. $1/bag sale

Please join us for the mother of all rummage sales. Donations may be dropped off Sunday, May 7 starting at 3 p.m. through Tuesday, May 9 at 6 p.m.

Please, no furniture, appliances, mattresses, pillows, magazines or encyclopedias.

Lansing United Methodist Church is located on Route 34B at Brickyard Road, next to the Lansing Schools.
The Sale( "treasure hunt") begins at 8 a.m. on Friday, May 12 and concludes with the fabulous and ever popular "Dollar-a-Bag Sale" on Saturday, May 13.

*JOIN IN THE FUN!!!*

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"I am speaking about the German state sponsored period of the greatest mass murder in the entire human history of totally innocent men, women and children, which happened in my life time, all caused by one ugly four letter word -- hate."  So began Holocaust survivor Fred Voss, who miraculously escaped Nazi Germany with his parents and grandmother in four months before the outbreak of World War II in 1939.  Voss came to Lansing High School last week on the first International Holocaust Remembrance Day to tell students what it was like to be a Jewish boy close to their own age under the Nazis.


Personable and passionate, Voss made it "up front and personal" for the student who came to hear him speak of the six years he and his family lived under Nazi rule.  "Hearing about the Holocaust from someone who actually lived through it makes it much more realistic than reading it in a textbook," says student Travis Miller.  He was inclusive of other countries where "ethnic cleansing" and the killing of innocents is taking place today.  "Oh, we see them on television, we read about them in the newspapers," he said.  "What are we doing about them?"  He admonished the students to be tolerant of people who are different from them, and not to hate.

When you understand that only four of 100 Boy Scouts make it to the Eagle rank, it is remarkable that Lansing's Troop 48 inducted two  Eagle Scouts last January.  Last Sunday, only three months later, two more joined their ranks as scouts, families and friends came to Myers Park to honor Mark Bailey and Hunter Preston, both 17 year old seniors at Lansing High School.

Last Monday about a half dozen Lansing residents showed up at Lansing United Methodist Church (LUMC) for a Better Housing workshop.  The not for profit organization's new Executive Director John Spence accompanied Abi Munroe, who conducted the session.  "I would hope when you leave that you will be Affordable Housing advocates," Spence said.

Affordable housing is a buzz word in Lansing recently.  The County wants between 3,000 and 3,500 new houses over the next ten years.  While Lansing is the fastest growing community in the county, growth is nowhere near that dramatic.  About 30 homes are built in Lansing per year.  The County wants that number to go up to 100.   Currently the County is considering contributing money to Lansing's sewer project with the idea that it will jump-start development in the Town.  Meanwhile many residents are concerned about taxes driving them out of their homes, and new home buyers are hard-pressed to find affordable homes in the County.

When kids study other countries in school, they don't usually travel to them.  And when they study science their exploration is usually confined to the classroom.  That's what makes the Floating Classroom such a unique experience.  Kids go out on Cayuga Lake and perform experiments right there.  "To get out in the middle of the lake and spend that time on a boat is a wonderful way to get people to connect with this fabulous resource that we have, the lake," says Cayuga Lake Watershed Inter-Municipal Organization (IO) member and Village of Lansing Trustee Lynn Leopold.


"Everything drains to the lake.  We're trying to give kids a sense of that.  If you just look at the physical nature of our watershed, it's a giant bath tub.  And everything drains down into this bath tub.  It doesn't matter what it is, it's going to get into the lake.  These cruises really give kids a sense of how these things tie together."  The Floating Classroom is in its third year and already has 20 cruises scheduled for this summer.  

Animal Film and its Star Inaugurate Tompkins Trust Company Institute of Humane Education at TC SPCA

"The Witness" Highlights the Dramatic and Inspiring Personal Transformation of a Tough Brooklyn Construction Contractor Whose Heart is Opened by the Love of a Kitten. Pictured is New York construction contractor Eddie Lama, 2001 recipient of the Peace Abbey's Courage of Conscience Award, subject of "The Witness." Photo by Jenny Stein.

Ithaca, NY —The award-winning documentary The Witness, produced by James LaVeck and directed by Jenny Stein of Tribe of Heart, will be shown at the Tompkins Trust Company Institute for Humane Education at the Tompkins County SPCA on Friday, May 12th at 7:30pm. Mr. LaVeck and Ms. Stein will be joined by the film’s subject, animal welfare pioneer Eddie Lama, to introduce the film and field questions after its conclusion. Following the event, a reception will be held at the TC SPCA Pet Adoption Center main lobby.

Hi there I’m Fletcher a coonhound! I was found as a stray. I am very friendly but I still need to learn some manners. I love to go for walks and I get along with other dogs. So please come and meet me at the S.P.C.A.


Visit the SPCA Web Page

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 Lansing's Advice Column


Dear IMO,

I am a waitress at a local restaurant. It seems that people in this area are becoming less patient and more demanding, especially at peak meal times. The restaurant is often filled with very hungry people who want their drinks, appetizers, and meals within seconds of placing their order. Is there any polite way to ask patrons for some patience, kindness, and understanding?

Thanks, KR

May 6th Ithaca will hold its first annual Arthritis Walk.  The event is being organized by a local committee, formed earlier this year, that includes Lansing's Mary Alice Rounds.  "They have Arthritis Walks in Syracuse and Rochester, Utica and Binghamton, among other cities," says Rounds.  "Most of the walks take place in May, which is National Arthritis Awareness Month."

The local organization is based in Rochester with branches in other cities.  The Syracuse group sent out e-mails saying they were organizing a walk in Ithaca and were looking for volunteers.  Rounds signed up.  "It's a disease that you don't notice unless someone is in the really advanced stage where their joints are deformed," she says.  "But there are a lot of people who have it.  A woman on the committee has rheumatoid arthritis and her daughter had it when she was four."  The daughter, now 11, will start the walk.

A crowd lined up for chicken "barbecued Cornell Professor Bob Baker's way" when the Ithaca-Cayuga Rotary (Lansing's branch of the club) teamed with the Lansing Lions and Lansing Faculty Association (LFA) for their annual cooperative fund raiser.  The money raised at the Lansing High School International Night Chicken Barbecue and Fancy Cake Auction is split between the three groups to fund the Rotarian's exchange student and scholarship programs, scholarships the LFA gives to graduating seniors and the many programs the Lions support.


The Rotarians send a student abroad most years, and sponsor foreign students who come to Lansing.  "This is our big fund raiser, says Ithaca-Cayuga Rotary President AnnMarie Hautaniemi.  "It not only aids the exchange program, which of course is huge for us, but it also allows us to give money toward the Haiti project that is done in Lansing by the Youth Mission, the Guatamala project -- they build stoves in Guatamala.  The Haiti project is irrigation and schooling.  It's a true community event."

On April 21, 2006 the Tompkins County Sheriff's Office conducted a traffic enforcement detail resulting in the following traffic summons being issued:

25-Seat Belt Violations

4- Cellular Telephone Violations

On April 17, 2006 Tompkins County Sheriff's Deputies arrested two Lansing women on the following charge:

Petit Larceny, a Class A Misdemeanor

Arrested: Tressa E. Volpicelli age 22 of 868 Lansingville Road, Lansing, New York

Shauna M. Hamilton age 23 of 440 Jerry Smith Road, Lansing, New York.