Archive: Around Town

I am a neutered male husky who was found as a stray back in January. You might remember me because when I was found it was discoverd that I needed knee surgery on my back legs. Well, I have had the surgery I needed and have spent time recouperating in a wonderful foster home. I am now ready to start the search for my forever family. I still have some physical restrictions but otherwise I am a happy, healthy boy who is very sweet and loving. If you think you can make the commitment to keeping me fit and healthy come say "hi".

Lansing United Methodist Church (LUMC) and All Saints Catholic Church conducted a joint Vacation Bible School last week.  Monday and Tuesday it was conducted at LUMC, Wednesday and Thursday took place at All Saints.  The final session was conducted Friday in Myers Park.

Can't come to the shelter?  Let the shelter come to you!! Dogs and cats from the Tompkins County SPCA will be at the Ithaca Farmers' Market on Sunday, July 24th from 11am to 3pm, looking to find their forever home. 
 
All animals will be spayed/neutered before adoption, are current on their vaccinations and have received a general health and behavior screening.

 It's not raining cats and dogs, just cats and kittens at the Tompkins County SPCA.  They have plenty of playful, friendly cats and kittens of all shapes, sizes, ages, and colors, all available for adoption - and priced to move.
 
The SPCA is offering two cats or kittens for the price of one. That's twice the fun and twice the love, but not twice the cost.

Independence Day isn't complete in Lansing without the Lansing Lions Club's annual 4th of July barbecue.  This year the weather cooperated, and hordes of people descended on Myers Park to celebrate.

Most people know the Lions as the folks who flip pancakes, or collect used eyeglasses for the needy.  The 51 members host events and initiatives to raise money to help many aspects of the community.  About 90% of the membership were helping with the barbecue.

Every year Janet and Bob Keefe host a community Independence Day parade and picnic.  This year 70 people showed up.  The day was complete with a whipped cream & marshmallow pie eating contest.

 

A mid-way entertainment program for the 2005 LCLC Summer Reading will be held on Saturday, July 16^th at 10 a.m. in the new Town Hall. Tom & Cindy will relive the days of vaudeville in a program designed to entertain the entire family.  Songs, routines, magic, ventriloquism... all the glitter and hoopla of a real vaudeville stage show.

SPCA Seeks Information on Abandoned Kittens
Three-Week Old Kittens Left to Die in Caroline

The Tompkins County Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals is seeking information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person responsible for abandoning a litter of three-week old kittens in a tightly sealed cardboard box on Thursday June 30 along Shindagin Hollow Road in the Town of Caroline.  The kittens were discovered around noon in the 90 degree heat by a Caroline highway department worker who immediately rushed them to the SPCA.

Lansing is divided on what programs are appropriate when teaching students about sex and avoiding communicable disease.  The Health Advisory committee has met for a total of eight hours to consider how to fit state mandates into the picture of what is appropriate for Lansing.

Elementary school health teacher Lisa LeVigne outlined the current health curriculum and how AIDs transmission is currently handled.  She pointed out that it is a very small part of the curriculum.

On June 21 the "Yellow" Lansing Recreation Department Girl's Softball team not only attended the Auburn Doubledays home game, but got to sit in the dugout and go onto the field with the Minor League team. Auburn was challenged by the Batavia Muckdogs in the Tuesday night game at Falcon Park.

Lansing Coach Rick Prybyl and assistant coaches Tom Houser and Keith Armstrong brought their team to Falcon Park where they actively participated with the Doubledays.

What would happen if Lansing 4^th graders could go back in time to prevent the assination of President Lincoln?  That was the subject of Mrs. Bevington's class play last Wednesday.  The play was made up of skits the children wrote themselves. 

The weather was determined to cooperate with the graduating class of 2005. As family and friends gathered at the upper ball field, the sky was clear and the sun was shining.

As the graduates marched onto the field through the traditional flowered arches, the Lansing Central School Symphony Orchestra, led by Gail Hughes, played "Pomp and Circumstance."