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Join the Summer Wellbeing
Adventure and Photo Contest
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Cornell staff, faculty, students, and retirees are all invited to join the Cornell Summer Wellbeing Adventure & Photo Contest, which runs from July 15 through August 4, 2024!
Enjoy all that summer has to offer and enter the health-promoting campus photo contest that celebrates the themes of people, places, and planet!
Overview
Participants will receive a weekly email with on and off-campus activities, events, ideas, recipes, and more, for you to explore. Design an adventure that works for you, regardless of your work/home location or your availability. Explore on your own or consider recruiting fellow retirees to join you! Submit photos every week to be entered into weekly participation prize drawings.
Photo Contest
Photo entries that represent the health-promoting campus themes of people, places, and planet will be reviewed by a committee. A diverse array of winning photos will be turned into banners that hang from select Ithaca campus light posts across campus this Fall. Photo specifications, criteria, and instructions on how to submit will be posted soon.
Sign me up!
Check out the Cornell Chronicle article about the adventure!
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Around the World in Eight Plants
Tuesday, July 16; 6:00 – 7:30 PM
Brian C. Nevin Welcome Center
Register
Take a stroll around the Cornell Botanic Gardens and take a trip around the world with Mary Squyres, Garden Guide and Master Gardener Volunteer! On this walking tour encounter eight plants from five continents. Each plant - tree, shrub, or perennial - has significant cultural importance to the societies that grow and utilize them. Some are highly cultivated, and others are harvested from the forest with thoughtful ceremony. From simple sustenance to a striving for beauty, to connecting to one’s place in the divine, come learn how these plants have played a role in human civilization.
Cost: $12 general admission; free for Botanic Gardens members
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Route 90 - 50 Mile Garage Sale
July 26-28, 2024, 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
The annual 50-mile Route 90 Garage Sale takes on a festival atmosphere each year as folks go searching for surprises. Stretching along the roadside of Route 90, a New York State Scenic Byway, the sale runs from Montezuma in the north to the Village of Homer at the southern end.
Along the way, you will find everything imaginable from antique andirons to zebra prints and loads of other unexpected delights. If you get hungry during your search for that collectible or unique item, there are plenty of creative food options. Local clubs, fire departments, and organizations put on breakfasts, bake sales, and BBQ's all along the way.
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Free Art and Wellness Workshop
Saturday, July 27 from 11:00 AM - 2:00 PM
Register
Join the Community School of Music and Arts (CSMA) for a day of creativity, relaxation, and rejuvenation instructed by Dr. Rochelle A. Royster. Leave feeling inspired, balanced, and empowered.
This workshop is open to anyone interested in enhancing their health and wellness through creative and mindful practices. Whether you are new to art and wellness or a seasoned practitioner, there is something for everyone.
CSMA is located at 330 East State Street in Ithaca, NY. For any questions, call them at 607-272-1474 or email info@csma-ithaca.org.
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Discover the Hidden Rooms of the Zucker Shrub Garden
Saturday, July 27, 2024 at 2:00 - 3:30 PM
Cornell Botanic Gardens
Named for Isabel Schnapps Zucker, Cornell Class of ’23, the Zucker Shrub Garden, located in the Botanic Gardens’ F.R. Newman Arboretum, is a remarkable place to view perennials, shrubs, and ornamental grasses. Its “garden rooms” show how such plants can be used in inspiring ways. The shrubs featured in each room are selected for their flowers, fruit, fall color, and winter interest.
Join horticulturist Nick Polato to explore how ecological traits and cultural history relate to the stories of how these plants from around the globe found their place in our home gardens. Walk will be held rain or shine; please dress appropriately for the weather.
$12 general admission; free for Botanic Gardens members. Meet by the Zucker Shrub Collection, just inside the Forest Home Drive entrance to the Arboretum. For more information, please visit the event web page.
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Silent Movie Under the Stars
Saturday, August 24, 2024, 8:00 - 11:00 PM
Robert H. Treman State Park, Upper Entrance
Join Wharton Studio Museum and its producing partner, the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation, for what has become one of the region's most popular summer events!
This year's Silent Movie Under the Stars will feature The Mark of Zorro (1920).
Come have fun under the night sky with live musical accompaniment by Cloud Chamber Orchestra! The event is free but there is a parking fee in the park.
Please note a new location for the outdoor screening — Robert H. Treman State Park, Upper Entrance.
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Bingocize at Lifelong
Bingosize a new free class to keep you healthy and having fun. Taught by certified instructor Maria Vargas, Bingocize combines easy exercises with Bingo, laughs, and prizes! Bingosize benefits include improved strength, balance, cognition, & more.
Bingosize! is FREE & open to all, thanks to Tompkins County Office for the Aging. Join us on Tuesdays from 10:30 - 11:30 a.m., at Lifelong Sign up here or drop by Lifelong's office to find out more.
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Dump and Run
Cornell's Dump & Run program collects items from students leaving campus in May and resells them to the community each August. In addition to diverting tons of reusable items from the waste stream, the annual Dump & Run sale raises more than $60,000 annually for local charitable organizations.
Dates and Times for Dump and Run 2024:
- August 23rd 10:00 AM-6:00 PM
- August 24th 10:00 AM-5:00 PM
- August 25th 10:00 AM-4:00 PM
The Dump and Run Ithaca Sale will be held at the Shops at Ithaca Mall. They are located in the two store fronts across from SHI Cosmetics, best accessed by the mall entrance that is to the left of Michael's. Follow the walk way straight and turn right, as if to head to Target and you will see us on the left. There will be a third store front, for select items, across from the restaurant Zocalo.
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Care.com Care Talks
With virtual Care Talks, you’ll access free, exclusive events from expert speakers offering advice and guidance to help you better care for yourself and your family.
Check out this upcoming event:
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Get Smart About Brain Health - Thursday, August 22, 2024, 1:00 PM. Maintaining good brain health and memory fitness can make a big difference as we try to remember names and faces, recall important information or retain facts. Learn to maintain a healthy brain and boost brain power in this webinar.
For additional Care.com webinars and past recordings, please visit their web page.
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Farmer's Market Coupons Available
The Office for the Aging still has Farmer’s Market Coupons! Clients who are 60+, within the income guidelines listed below, and have not received Farmers Market coupons this year, can receive a $25 coupon booklet that they can use on fresh, unprocessed, local fruits and vegetables at participating Farmer’s Markets. Some of the food that is available in August/September includes- apples, blueberries, peaches, beans, beets, sweet corn, potatoes and so much more! The Office will have these coupons available until September 30th and they can be used until November 30th.
- 1-Person Household: $2,322/month
- 2-Person Household: $3,152/month
- 3-Person Household: $3,981/month
Please call the office at 607-274-5482 for more information or stop in!
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Volunteers Needed for Women Swimmin'
Volunteers are needed for the Annual Women Swimmin' for Hospicare. Help is needed at Cass Park or at the Ithaca Yacht Club on Saturday, August 10. Hospicare relies on 200+ volunteers to ensure the safety of 300+ swimmers.
On Swim Day, buses will transport swimmers from Cass Park to Bolton Point, where they will get in the water and swim across the lake to the Ithaca Yacht Club (IYC). Volunteers needed to support swimmers – assemble packets, kayak/canoe alongside participants, sherpa boats, welcome swimmers out of the water, and more.
All money raised by Women Swimmin’ goes directly toward patient services at Hospicare, including subsidies for patients without means to cover the cost of their care, and bereavement services for those in our community dealing with loss (regardless of whether their loved one died in hospice services or not).
For more information, please visit the event web page.
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Cornell Elves Backpack Program
The Cornell Elves Backpack Program is back for its eighteenth year and will be supporting 33 schools!
The program donates new, filled backpacks to the neediest children in grades kindergarten to sixth grade. The items that complete the backpacks are standard and can be found on the Elves web page. Typically, a newly filled backpack can cost between $20-$25.
You also have the option of donating a backpack to a particular school or making a general donation that will be given to one of the schools on our list that is most in need. If you want to donate to a particular school, please contact the leader for that school, found on the website.
Drop donations off at East Hill Office Building, 395 Pine Tree Road, Ithaca from August 12-28, Monday-Friday, 11:00 AM - 4:00 PM.
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