- By Dan Veaner
- Around Town
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Five representatives of Lansing Youth Services (LYS), led by Program Manager Micaela Cook, came to report to the Town Board in its July meeting. In addition to reporting on numerous successes, they asked for $1,300 of additional funding to make up a shortfall caused by the rise in the minimum wage. "The minimum wage rise wasn't in this budget cycle, "she said, "so we are asking the Town for help."
The shortfall accounts for about 200 hours of wages. Town Supervisor Steve Farkas said that he would check with the book keeper to see if funds are available. A public hearing might be necessary before funds could be allotted.
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Ask IMOAsk IMODear IMO,
I recently got into an argument with my wife over something very important, cheese cloth. It sounds really dumb, and I know that I shouldn't have lost my patience, but I did. I was making a special cheese for a holiday treat. I had set out the cheese cloth the night before on the counter where I could easily find it in the morning. The next morning, I placed the ingredients in a pan on the stove and watched with delight as the mixture came to a boil. When I reached for the cheese cloth, I discovered that it wasn't there. I phoned my wife asking where she placed it. Well, I left a snotty message on her cell phone sarcastically wondering why she had an urge to clean the kitchen and hide the cheese cloth.
I found the cloth after a few minutes, but the message really upset my wife. But, I too, felt somehow upset that my wife did not ask whether I had placed the cloth on the counter for a reason. How can I/we avoid such foolish incidents in the future?
Sincerely,
A very good friend
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SMART TALKBy Dr. Les Terse
GENEOLOGY: Can you see the spelling error? My spell check program didn't. Those who clamber the branches of their family trees, hunting for nests of presidents and kings, are engaged in genealogy. We don't do much spelling therapy at the Institute for the Linguistically Impaired. We have enough work with people who say nucular. But last week, Prof. Pompus Fatuous Failem at Bedspring Tech, in nearby Los Bebedors, Texas, made us wish we did. He wrote that minerologists had discovered oil in Lengua Loco County. It's mineralogy and mineralogists. And genealogy.
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The Lansing Recreation Department is accepting sign-ups for the Fall football, soccer, cheerleading, and horses programs and dance camp. Booklets and sign-up sheets are available in the main entrance of the town hall. Call the recreation office with any questions 533-7388. It is critical to register for these programs now!
This year there are two football programs. The Small Fry Football teams will be playing in the Tompkins County Youth Football League. There will be two levels for fourth and fifth graders in the first level, and sixth and seventh graders in the second. Practice begins August 22, and games are played on Sundays beginning September 4, as well as occasional week day games.
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ProfileEileen Stout has owned the Rogue's Harbor Inn for 14 years. "I was running the jewelry store next store, and the person that was here went bankrupt, and I thought, 'what a beautiful building, and it's been treated very badly.' So I bought it, a little bit naively, of course, and started working on it. It took a few years to get it where it is now, and I'm still always fixing little things. I love it."
This year she is celebrating the 175th anniversary of the inn with a year-long celebration. The celebration is running the whole year "since we don't know exactly when they started." Events have included wine tastings from all the Cayuga vineyards, in June there were half priced steamed mussels and clams, and there are specials for each month listed on their web site. The celebration will culminate on New Year's eve with food specials, entertainments and possibly some give-aways.
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One of Lansing's most distinctive landmarks is the Rogue's Harbor Inn on the corner of Routes 34 and 34B. All year the inn is celebrating its 175th anniversary. We though it fitting to help celebrate by taking you on a virtual tour of the inn.
Built in 1830, General Daniel D. Minier spent an unheard of $40,000.00 to build the four story Central Exchange Hotel on land he inherited from his father. Over the years it had other names, like Elm Grove House, and finally Rogue's Harbor Inn after ruffians from the Cayuga Lake barge trade who frequented the bar. It has been a hotel, a country club, boarding house and bed & breakfast.
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Have you ever wondered what the upstairs rooms are line in the Rogues Harbor Inn? The second and third floors were extensively rennovated to transform the inn into a charming bed & breakfast. Hannah Bush took us on a tour, showing us the first, second and part of the third floor.
Originally there was a "widow's walk" atop the inn, and a decorative rail along the roof. Those are gone now, but otherwise the outside of the inn is much as it was. The stairs to the "widow's watch" are still in the fourth floor attic.
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Each Memorial Day, my husband and I plant flowers at his parents' and his brother's graves. We have been doing this for nearly five years. This year, because of a family illness, we postponed the planting and waited until things settled down. In the meantime, our nephew placed artificial geraniums on the graves. They look absolutely awful, and I want to replace them with the live flowers that my husband and I usually plant. How can we go about this without offending my nephew and keep the graves looking nice for the summer?
Carol B.
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Early in July the Star met with Ed Redmond, the Lansing School District's Athletic Director. We talked about the program, the school, the teams and all aspects of the Athletic Program. This is part one of a three part series.
When you enter Ed Redmond's office he is warm and welcoming. There are trophies on display, and it is obvious that he is proud of the students who play on the teams. He is very positive about people, always looking for something encouraging to say. It is clear he knows the district and the program he has managed for nine years.
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Jane Sheldon, Lansing Library volunteer, checks out the first copy of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince to AJ Newman on Saturday morning. He and his mother Lisa Newman had attended the Summer Reading Program Vaudeville Show prior to stopping in the library. All copies of this new book were circulated before noon and a waiting list was started.
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Harriet Larin grew up on a small poultry farm in Lansing, around where the old fire house was on Ridge Road, not far from the intersection of 34 and 34B and within easy walking distance to the Rogue's Harbor Inn.
Ms. Larin is a delightful person with plenty to say, and so interesting it was hard not to sidetrack. As a child in the 1930s she and her cousin would visit the inn and she agreed to share her memories with us.
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Owner Eileen Stout collects pictures that people bring her of the Rogue's Harbor Inn's history. She has kindly allowed us to share some of them with you. You can see others on the walls of the entryway and in a scrap book when you visit the inn.
Was the inn built in 1830, 1820, 1840... sources disagree, but 1830 is generally accepted and used to calculate this year as the 175th anniversary of the inn.