Saturday July 16 marked the second of three Lansing Community Library Center Summer Reading Program events.  This one featured Tom and Cindy Rasely in "The Travelling Vaudeville Show."  The Summer Reading Program seeks to encourage kids to read throughout the summer, and keep a log of what they read.

Orgainizer Susan Rosenkoetter started by announcing that 110 children are signed up to read this summer.  This number is remarkable when you consider that is approximately the size of an entire grade level in the Lansing schools.  The program is sponsored by the Community Arts Partnership of Tompkins County/NYS Council on the Arts Decentralization Program and an anonymous Lansing donor.

Some people, myself included, have been counting the Months... days, and Hours until the release of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, But the waiting is over. As of July 16th the long wait for the sixth installment of J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series was over. The book was greeted all over the United States with grinning faces and loud applause.

THE HANDEL PROJECT:
Open air music and dance at the CRS Barn Studio

Ah, the joys of summer in Ithaca! To sit outdoors on a balmy evening, watching the sun set over Cayuga Lake, sipping a cool drink, and all the while listening to beautiful music with lyrical dancing on a grass-carpeted, tree-bordered stage. If it's not heaven, it must be The Handel Project--the newest summer offering at the CRS Barn Studio.

SMART TALK

By Dr. Will S. Sert

GENERAL CONSENSUS:  In the Fowler Lounge one evening, some of the Institute for the Linguistically Impaired staff thought of a use for general redundancies: as unknown Civil War officers.  "General Public and General Consensus were no doubt poor leaders," nurse Saber S. Poder mused, "so they weren't mentioned in the PBS series."  She'd had a hard day with patients who didn't know a consensus is the opinion of all or most of the people, so it's intrinsically general.

About the Institute for the Linguistically Impaired

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2005 Fire Department Carnival off to a Great Start

Last night kicked off the 2005 Lansing Fire Department Carnival at the Central station on 80 Ridge Road.  The field next to the Ridge Road fire station was hopping!, with rides, cotton candy, plenty of kids winning prizes, karaoke that was (mostly) surprisingly good and plenty of good times!  The carnival continues tonight (Friday, May 27) from 6PM to 10PM with fireworks topping the evening.  Tomorrow (Saturday, May 28) the carnival is open from 2PM to 11PM with "Pay Once" rides from 2-5.  The Lansing Star (a Lansing owned business) has a table at the carnival - visit us and get free mouse pads, refrigerator magnets and other fun stuff.

Sunset over the carnival

Part of the Lansing Star family

 

It is remarkable the results the Lansing music teachers get from their students.  And it's not easy to make a strings concert sound good, especially with young musicians.   The March 22 All-District Orchestra Concert was a triumph for teachers and students alike.