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Live Painting with Science Illustrator Liz Clayton Fuller
Monday, April 25, 2022, 12:00 –1:00 PM
Join a virtual visit to the studio of Liz Clayton Fuller, a friend of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and a scientific illustrator. Liz is known for her ornithological illustrations along with her sketchbook-style studies of bird species. Spend an hour with Liz as she works in her sketchbook and talks about her process–from concept, to sketch, and finally to painted work.
This free webinar features audience Q&A; come with your questions about scientific illustration and ornithological artwork. Whether you’re simply curious about the artistic process, a fan of Liz’s work, or an artist yourself, grab your online device and enjoy watching how Liz works.
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Veggie Gardening 101
Tuesday, April 26, 2022, 6:00 - 7:30 PM
Join Cornell Cooperative Extension's Horticulture Program Leader, Mila Fournier for this fun and informative class. This class will help the beginning vegetable gardener learn how to choose a site for their vegetable garden, prepare the soil, decide on starting with seeds or plants, start and transplant seeds, how to choose and use compost and mulch, how to care for your plants throughout the season, and when to harvest.
Mila Fournier is a garden designer and educator with two decades of design experience that started with guerilla gardening in Brooklyn and has moved her through designing some of the most sophisticated gardens in NYC. Once in Ithaca, Mila has worked as an educator, designer, and horticultural consultant, including managing Ithaca Children's Garden and helping large developers create beautiful landscapes and habitats to offset new construction.
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Climate Disruption and Food Security
Wednesday, April 27, 2022, 12:00 PM
Sustainable Tompkins, a community-based organization located in Tompkins County, recently announced their new webinar series, Finger Lakes Forecast, which focuses on how climate change will impact life in the Finger Lakes Region and what people can do for themselves and their communities to prepare.
The first of these webinars, Climate Disruption and Food Security, will include a screening of Uplifted Ithaca's short documentary, Our Farmers in Flux: Adapting to Climate Change, followed by a panel discussion with Graham Savio, Cornell Cooperative Extension Tompkins County; Katie Hallas, Tompkins Food Future; Klaas Martens, Lakeview Organic Grain; and Chaw Chang, Stick and Stone Farm.
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Cornell Cinema Spring Season Winding Down
Cornell Cinema’s Spring season will be coming to a close with several films of note. Screenings of Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s adaptation of a Haruki Murakami short story, Drive My Car, which was just awarded Best International Feature Oscar, have recently been added. Drive My Car, a haunting road movie traveling a path of love, loss, acceptance, and peace, will be shown on Friday, April 29, and Monday, May 2 at 7:15 PM.
Acclaimed Chinese filmmaker Jia Zhang-ke’s Still Life, which won the Golden Lion at the 2006 Venice Film Festival, will be shown on Wednesday, April 27 at 7:00 PM.
Jane Campion’s The Piano (1993), for which Campion became the first woman to win the Palme d’Or, the Cannes Film Festival’s top award, will be shown on Thursday, April 28 at 7:00 PM.
The season will wrap up with Billy Wilder’s classic film noir, Double Indemnity (1944), starring Barbara Stanwyck and Fred MacMurray, on Thursday, May 5 at 7:00 PM. Local author & poet David Lehman will introduce the film, which is featured in his forthcoming book, The Mysterious Romance of Murder: Crime, Detection, and the Spirit of Noir, published by Cornell University Press. Copies of the book will be available for sale at the screening.
For more information, visit the cinema's web page.
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Bird Walk in the Ithaca City Cemetery
Saturday, April 30, 2022, 9:30 AM
Join Jody Enck from the Cayuga Bird Club and explore the Ithaca City Cemetery to observe and learn about birds. Jody will introduce the group to a few handy phone apps like eBird and Merlin. Participants should dress for the weather, wear sturdy walking shoes, and bring binoculars if they like.
Please meet at the University Avenue main entrance to the Ithaca City Cemetery. Street parking is available on University Avenue and Linn Street.
The fee is $5 on the day of the event (proceeds support conservation work in the Ithaca City Cemetery). Space is limited.
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Friends of Tompkins County Public Library Book Sale
The Friends of Tompkins County Public Library will hold its annual Spring Book Sale over three long weekends in May, beginning Saturday, May 7. Over 220,000 gently used books, comics, graphic novels, DVDs, CDs, puzzles, games, and other items donated by community members, are organized into 70+ subject categories. The Collector's Corner offers rare and antiquarian books, first editions, collectible vinyl records, artwork, vintage toys and games, and more.
Dates & Hours: Open 10:00 AM-8:00 PM, Saturday-Monday, May 7-9 and 14-16; Saturday-Tuesday, May 21-24.
Location: 509 Esty St, Ithaca. Free parking lot across the street.
Special shopping days:
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Senior Day (age 60+ and anyone with a disability): Wednesday, May 18, 10:00 AM-4:00 PM
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Dime Day (every item on the main floor is just 10 cents!): Monday, May 23
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Bag Day (BYO standard reusable bag and fill it for just $1 total!): Tuesday, May 24
More details are available online including updates about current COVID safety requirements.
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Spring Garden Fair & Plant Sale
Friday, May 13, 2022, Ithaca Farmers' Market
12:00-12:30 pm for seniors/compromised (and their helpers); 12:30-6:00 pm open to the public
One of the Finger Lakes' most highly anticipated gardening events is the annual Spring Garden Fair and Plant Sale, organized since 1982 by Master Gardener volunteers from Cornell Cooperative Extension of Tompkins County.
The Garden Fair & Plant Sale features a wide variety of vendors who offer specialty plants and gardening advice on topics ranging from growing rock garden plants to selecting native species for the garden. Plants for sale include organically grown and heirloom vegetable transplants, colorful annuals, fragrant herbs, hanging baskets, small flowering shrubs, hardy roses, fruit crops, trees, evergreens, and specialty perennials.
Visitors are encouraged to bring carts or wagons to aid in transporting their plant purchases to their cars.
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May Mental Health Awareness Challenge
Join NAMI Finger Lakes and the Cornell Student Athletic Advisory Committee for the May Mental Health Awareness Challenge! NAMI is starting a conversation about Mental Health for Mental Health Awareness Month and you can too. Choose a personal challenge to meet during the first week of May and share with friends and family to raise awareness for Mental Health.
Registration is now open for the free Challenge event at NAMI Finger Lakes is your local affiliate of the National Alliance on Mental Illness.
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Living On Purpose With David Gandelman
Thursday, April 28, 12:00-1:00 PM
Cornell Wellness is excited to bring David Gandelman back to campus for this special workshop. We all desire to live a meaningful life that lights us up, brings us joy, and betters the lives of the people around us. We also each experience daily stress, expectations, and anxiety. When our stressors persist or get too loud, we can get confused about the direction of our lives, who we truly are at the deepest level, and what our purpose is.
In this workshop, David will draw from his newly released book, The 7 Energies of The Soul, to teach you powerful meditation tools to support you in living a balanced and meaningful life. Event is being offered in-person and via Zoom.
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Finding Forgiveness: Healing After the Loss of a Parent
Thursday, May 12 & 19, 2022, 7:00 - 8:30 PM
The focus of this virtual two-part workshop is to help adult children heal through forgiveness after the loss of a parent. Forgiveness can be an ongoing process, even after death. Learning to forgive our parents and ourselves opens positive possibilities.
Participants must commit to both sessions. Registration is required by May 9th. For more information contact the Bereavement staff via phone at 607-272-0212.
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HomeFit: A Room By Room Walkthrough To Help You Assess Home Safety
Thursday, Apr 28, 2022, 3:00 -4:00 PM
AARP's free virtual HomeFit workshop will help you learn how to best navigate through a living space to assess home safety. Participants receive information on how to easily evaluate their own home for “livability” should they themselves or one of their family members become unable to use stairs or must rely on assistive devices. It is designed to help individuals plan for independence, choice, and dignity as they age.
Learn tips and tricks to live safely and comfortably by ensuring where you live is a “lifelong home,” suitable for yourself and others in your household, regardless of age or life stage.
AARP membership is not required.
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What a Good Conversationalist Is…and is Not
Thomas D. Gilovich, Irene Blecker Rosenfeld Professor of Psychology
Thursday, April 28, 2022, 2:00 PM
Talking to others is one of the most social things people do, and of all the social things people do, it’s among the most frequent. Nevertheless, despite how practiced they are at conversation, many people find the prospect of talking to others anxiety-producing, and the “above average effect” observed in so many other areas of life does not apply to people’s assessments of their ability to engage in informal conversation. Why not? What is it that people most fear about conversation and what makes so many people doubt their ability to do it well? And how do those fears help us understand the ways that people known to be good conversationalists differ from the rest of us?
For more information on this webinar please visit the event web page.
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Free Estate Planning Seminar
Sunday, May 1, 2022, 1:00 - 3:00 PM
Cornell Law School is happy to continue its tradition of providing a free estate planning seminar for the Ithaca/Cornell community. The seminar will take place in Room G90, Myron Taylor Hall, Cornell Law School, and via zoom.
The seminar will cover (1) why it is important to have an estate plan, (2) what is included in a will, and (3) what is included in other estate planning documents. There will also be a workshop where you can create your own Living Will and Health Care Proxy and take them home with you!
You may register at the link above, or by emailing estateplanning@cornell.edu. If you are interested but can't attend, please still sign up to receive a recording of the event.
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Funding for Family Caregiver Respite
The Tompkins County Office for the Aging has a limited amount of funding to help family caregivers afford to hire substitute care that enables them to take a break from caregiving, usually a few hours a week. We have some uncommitted funds available if you know a family caregiver who might want to take advantage of this opportunity.
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Title IIIE Respite: This is federal funding that pays for respite service for family caregivers who are caring for an older adult (60 or older) who needs assistance with 2 or more ADL’s (dressing, bathing, incontinence, transferring, toileting, eating) OR needs substantial supervision due to cognitive impairment (e.g., Alzheimer’s or other dementia).
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Alzheimer’s Respite Scholarships: This is New York State funding granted to Tompkins County through the CNY Alzheimer’s Association. This funding pays for respite service (at home or in a licensed care facility) to give a break to family caregivers of persons diagnosed with Alzheimer’s or other dementia.
To apply or inquire, contact Joanne Wilcox or Terry McCann at Tompkins County Adult and Long Term Care Services at 607-274-5278. Due to the overall shortage of aides, or if clients prefer it, they may be able to use this funding to privately hire friends or relatives through the Finger Lakes Independence Center (FLIC) Consumer Directed Personal Assistance Program (CDPAP).
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Volunteer & Employment Opportunities |
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Cornell Cheese Snacks Online Survey
This online survey consists of 3 parts: a) series of questions about consumer current consumption of cheese snacks, b) a choice experiment to gauge the attractiveness of certain cheese snack features, and c) demographic information. The survey is expected to take about 15 minutes to complete. Anyone over 18 years of age can participate.
Participants who choose to leave their email address will be entered into a lottery of twenty-five $20 gift cards after the study concludes.
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Winery Tasting Room Host Needed at Frontenac Point Winery
Guide the guest experience in the tasting room at Frontenac Point Vineyard, an estate winery located 15 minutes from Ithaca on Route 89. People from all over the world visit the Finger Lakes and the winery.
In this position you can also learn about growing grapes, making wine, and running a small estate winery. If desired, additional work is usually available in the winery itself and vineyard. Weekends are necessary but hours are flexible. This is a part-time, seasonal position and ends November 19, 2022.
Additional specific work, if desired, may be available in the vineyard and winery itself.
Frontenac Point specializes in premium, primarily dry wines including Pinot Noir, Riesling, Chardonnay, as well as Brut Méthode Champenoise. Our ‘hybrid’ varieties, including Chambourcin, Maréchal Foch, and Seyval Blanc are important in a sustainable vineyard.
Requirements:
- Willingness to learn about wine and appropriately present it to visitors is necessary.
- Knowledge of wine is helpful but not necessary.
- Ability to work alone as well as with others.
- Ability to lift 40 pounds (a case of wine) and carry it up the stairs from the winery to the tasting room.
- Inventory management.
- Setting up and closing the Tasting room at the end of the day.
- Transportation to and from the winery is necessary but not needed on the job.
Frontenac Point Winery is owned by a Cornell retiree and fellow Cornell retirees are encouraged to apply! Email a letter of interest to the winery - the position opens up in May.
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