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Community meets, reacts to superintendent !nalistsThe Syracuse City School District introduced the "nal two candidates for the district’s top spot

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A brand new community is forming in rented o!ce space on the second "oor of Syracuse’s oldest downtown buildings.

Syracuse Innovators Guild, a hackerspace headquartered in the Syracuse Building at 224 Harrison St., already counts around 20 mem-bers who are hoping to grow the group.

#is calls for a brief vocabulary lesson. #e term “hackerspace” technically refers to a com-munity workspace where skills are shared and projects completed, though it o$en implies a stereotypically nerdy subset; a variety of tal-ents, skills and interests are cultivated through hackerspaces.

“It’s up to people to come, make the most of its space and work on things they think are interesting,” said SIG Vice President Mo Morsi, a so$ware engineer.

#ink of what would happen if you took the old basement workshop, transplanted it into a public space or storefront and threw open the

door to anyone willing to share skills, ideas and materials for the sake of learning and creating. #at’s hackerspace.

#ough it’s just gaining ground in Syra-cuse, hackerspaces are already thriving in cities around the world, and closer to home in

Rochester, Bu%alo and Pittsburgh.#e Syracuse hackerspace began with an ad

on Craigslist placed by now-President Clayton Stetz, looking for people interested in starting such a group locally.

Stetz, Morsi and Pete Dowell comprised the

&rst informal meeting of what would become SIG, and the group quickly grew.

For nearly its &rst year, SIG was a group of people with similar interests meeting regularly in some of Syracuse’s best bars to share ideas and update each other on their own ongoing projects.

Last November, the group became a regis-tered non-pro&t in New York thanks to trea-surer Chris Pilkingtong, (federal 501c-3 status is in the works), and in January established a home base in the Syracuse Building.

#e non-pro&t status speaks to the “for the community” philosophy behind SIG, said Morsi, and will make more grants and dona-tions available to the group.

#at’s important for an organization that is fueled by donations of scrap and spare parts.

“Everything here is donated by members, it’s a completely member-driven organization,” Morsi said.

And “everything” includes everything from furniture, a collection of computer towers to a box labeled “robot guts.”

‘Hackerspace’ settles into Syracuse Building, seeks new membersJe$ Mahon, an electrical engineer and secretary of the Syracuse Innova-tors Guild, explains his latest project: replacing a circuit board on a donated LED screen so it can be reprogrammed. Another member, Pete Dowell, is working on a wireless communication circuit to operate the sign wireles-sely.

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“Nerds are packrats,” added Je% Mahon, an electrical engineer and secretary of SIG.

#e existing membership may be heavy on the engineering side (“I can’t lie, there are quite a few techies,” Morsi said), but SIG is really open to all backgrounds and skill sets.

Artists, entrepreneurs and library sta%ers have also attended open houses and other events at SIG, Morsi said.

#e broader the range of backgrounds, in-terests and skills that make up the membership the more opportunities members will have to

learn from one another, and that’s what SIG is all about.

“Community and collaboration,” Morsi said.

#e group is especially interested in tapping into the student community in Syracuse. #e monthly dues of $50 are reduced to $25 for students.

“We’d love to have more artists and musi-cians, too,” Morsi said.

One of the biggest appeals of hackerspaces, SIG included, is how they tie into the growing DIY movement. Sites like Instructables.com

and Hackaday.com o%er step-by-step instruc-tions on using deconstructed objects or simple materials to create functional things.

Learning skills from another human being – instead of the Internet – has its advantages.

“Google is great, but at some point it’s awe-some just to go to a person and be like, ‘I don’t know anything about web programming, can you just help me out?’” Mahon said.

Mahon pointed to “the beginnings of a movement” of people knowing how to &x things, in contrast with the disposable society of the last 20 to 30 years as another driver to the hackerspace popularity.

Adding a social aspect to a project can help keep the momentum and energy going to see a project through to completion, Mahon and Morsi agreed.

But that can also be intimidating, Mahon recognized.

“If you come in and work with someone, a lot of the time, although it looks complicated, it isn’t really that complicated,” he said. “No one wants to fail, but there’s a lot to be said for just rolling up your sleeves and screwing up, learning from it and trying again.”

Syracuse Innovators Guild holds a weekly open house at 7 p.m. every Tuesday, open to everyone. SIG members plan to o%er workshops for basic skills like soldering in the near future.

#e group is, as you might expect, all over the Internet. Check out sig315.org for more on the group or meetup.com/Syracuse-Hack erspace for event information, or &nd them on Facebook, Twitter and LinkeIn.

Syracuse squeaks onto top 10 list for retiring military#e February issue of USAA Magazine

named Syracuse as one of the top 10 best places for military retirement in the United States.

#e publication for career military mem-bers cited Syracuse’s proximity to Fort Drum and the VA Hospital and eight four-year col-leges as the main attractions for retiring to ‘Cuse.

“Residents of Syracuse enjoy a low cost of living, with a stable economy and a%ordable

housing. Syracuse University o%ers a wealth of educational and cultural opportunities,” the article says.

Syracuse was named number 10 on the list. Topping the list as the best American city for retired military professionals: Waco, Texas. Syracuse was one of only four cities on the list in the northern part of the country.

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Last #ursday, Syracuse Department of Public Works crews took advantage of the break in the weather to clear what was le$ of the snow from the curbs of James Street in Eastwood.

#at just happened to be the same day the issue featuring an e%ort to remove the park-ing pay stations in Eastwood hit newsstands, and just three days following a TNT meeting in the neighborhood where the parking issue was a hot topic.

We wondered if there was a connection, and asked DPW Deputy Commissioner Tom Simone if the snow removal was in response to complaints about parking in Eastwood.

Simone said the snow removal e%ort was

“trying to reestablish parking in that area.” He was not aware of the overall movement in Eastwood to remove the pay stations, or the claim that metered parking was hurting businesses and forcing people to avoid park-ing on James Street.

Clearing curbs of the salty, gritty snow would help make parking easier and more navigable, Simone said. He said that type of removal was sometimes complaint-driven, but that he wasn’t aware whether snow removal in Eastwood was the result of a complaint.

So maybe the curb clean-up was a sign of impending Spring?

“I would love to be Syracuse’s groundhog,” Simone laughed. “I’d like to say it is Spring. But as I know, from living in Syracuse for years, that is not the case.”

Looks like he was right.

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Monday morning, the snow created a dri$ merging my car with the road below and it was just what the Weather Channel and others stated when they talked about the potential of up to a foot of snow falling in Syracuse by Monday morning.

A neighbor who happens to live at the corner attempted to navigate the full block, complete with snow dri$s, instead of back-ing up the 10 feet that would have placed her at the corner with full access to a main street. So, she drove and shoveled almost an entire block until the City of Syracuse plow came. With a tiny car now stranded in front of my house, visions of being stuck in the snow were dancing in my head.

Resigned to being a shut-in for the day, I returned a few minutes later to the front door and found not only the city of Syracuse plow still in the street, but the plow driver attempting to assist the woman

who’d made a decision that clogged the entire street.

He could have le$ the street blocked, called a tow truck and went on his way. Not this driver.

Instead of leaving the job half-done, (which he had

every right to do), he quickly got out of his truck, grabbed the shovel and assisted the women until she was able to drive her-self out. #is action only took a couple of minutes but it’s these little things that public employees do that aren’t in the job descrip-tion.

I’ve seen police o!cers help people in broken-down trucks that TV’s “junkster” Fred Sanford would have le$ on the lot. We’ve all witnessed Department of Public Works sta%ers picking up trash that an ir-responsible person le$ in a public area.

And people fed up with taxes want to cut even further, while expecting the same level

of service the city enjoyed when we were "ush with cash. To destroy a paraphrase, “ask not what your city can do for you, but where’s that plow?”

Police, Fire and Public Works: these are just some of the departments that take the worst personnel hits while they engage in activities we don’t see but for a few seconds as we whiz by.

When public employee pensions, city services and general operating costs increase annually, prudent leaders strive to keep taxes low. #en we get hammered with snow like we did last Sunday evening into Monday, and city residents are feeling the impact of reduced overtime, increased costs and typical Syracuse weather meeting in a perfect storm.

Ken is the editor of Urban CNY and a weekly columnist for #e Eagle. Reach him at [email protected].

Ask not what your city can do for you, but where’s that plow?

Since we have Say Yes to Education to o%er up on a plat-ter to whomever takes over as superintendent of the Syracuse City School District, it should be no surprise that both &nal-ists for the job tout impressive resumes, including extensive work in urban districts.

I watched both candidates (who were introduced to the public last week) deliver 30-minute speeches to, then interact with, crowds of about 150 parents, community leaders, district employees and students. It would be fair to say that Say Yes and the out-side consultation &rm Cascade Consulting, which conducted the superintendent search, did their homework. Both candidates were well-spoken, well-read, very bright, realistic and optimistic.

But of all the people I spoke and listened to last week, superintendent candidates included, I was most impressed by Quanasia Eiland, the Corcoran junior I chatted with brie"y a$er Sharon Contreras’ address.

Myself an eternal optimist, I was shocked to see middle- or high-school aged students at the receptions. Elementary school-aged kids can’t do anything but be dragged to gatherings by their parents, but I know bet-

ter about the pre-teen and teenaged set. #e fact that there were students listening attentively to the two candi-dates was a pleasant surprise, especially considering of the entire student body of 20,000

students, the turnout of parents was paltry.Still, when I sat down to talk with Quana-

sia, I was blown away. She said she’d attended the receptions both Tuesday and Wednesday nights with her grandfather.

A$er Tuesday’s reception, she discussed Bernard Taylor Jr., the other candidate for the top district spot, with her grandfather. She planned to do the same a$er Wednes-day’s event.

Had her grandfather required that she come listen to the candidates? No, she said, she was interested in hearing what they had to say and it was something that she o$en talks about with her grandfather.

She felt Contreras’ talk o%ered speci&c ex-amples of what could be improved in the Syr-acuse district, and how she’d accomplished her goals at other districts. Quanasia saw that as a sign that she was “serious” about her intentions and that she had the plans to back up what she said she would do here.

Taylor, on the other hand, was all talk,

Quanasia felt. Sure, he made the crowd chuckle, but that isn’t what Syracuse needs, she said.

What does it need? Teachers that keep students’ interest, Quanasia said. For the community to support the district consis-tently, not just on special occasions. And for all schools in the district to enforce the same policies when students leave school early or are absent.

When the superintendent candidates stepped up to the podium, I didn’t expect either of them to o%er speci&c, step-by-step instructions for how to get Syracuse city schools back on track. #e whole thing struck me as a little too similar to a campaign race to expect hard facts and plans.

Of course, when I sat down to talk to Quanasia, I didn’t know what to expect, either. What I got was a reminder of how important it is to select the next leader of our school district wisely. #e children in those schools are not just walking numbers and test scores. And they are aware of far more than we give them credit for. Maybe we should ask for their input, too.

Ami is the editor of #e Eagle. Reach her at [email protected].

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#e second self-imposed fundraising deadline for the Syracuse Symphony Or-chestra came and went last weekend, but the SSO didn’t enjoy the same outcome this month as its February e%ort.

#e orchestra fell nearly $145,000 short of its $445,000 goal, the SSO an-nounced Friday. #e non-pro&t has been campaigning heavily since January to stay a"oat, pleading the community for dona-tions to help reach an ultimate $1.7 mil-lion goal by August through installments along the way. (See Russ Tarby’s column on page 10 for more.)

When the SSO announced Friday that it had failed to reach its goal, we couldn’t help but wonder what that said about the community.

Because it seems pretty straightfor-ward: apparently, we don’t think the SSO is worth it. It’s not worth not eating, for some of us; it’s not worth sacri&cing a new out&t, for others.

We’re not judging – just observing. #e SSO will, as it ought to, keep asking for donations from individuals in the area. But if this is any indication of the next six months of fundraising, somebody better sketch out some very realistic alternatives.

Here are some suggestions:Reduce the concert schedule. Don’t pay to play. Why is the SSO pay-

ing to rent spaces in which to play? Are the donations being mapped as

they come in? Are entire geographic areas served by the SSO not stepping up to the plate? #e solution seems easy here – stop serving those areas, at least until the tides turn.

Raise membership and ticket prices slightly. It doesn’t have to be outrageous, but these are costs that a population in the community are already willing to pay.

#e SSO employs 80 musicians. If they lose their jobs, it’s unlikely they’ll stay in this community – they’ll take their skills where they are needed, not adjust their skill set to the local economy. Maybe 80 families up and leaving Onondaga County won’t make or break us, but adopting an attitude that a handful of people steadily leaving the area is a dangerous road to head down.

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We asked readers: What is the !rst thing you plan to do when the snow !nally melts?

I’m going to pull the parsnips that I planted a year ago in my urban vegetable garden. #ey’ll be nice and sweet now. I’ll roast them tossed with garlic and rosemary that I still have from last fall’s harvest.

- Lonnie Chu, Syracuse

I leave my grill right outside my back door all year long, so if we get any thaws in January or February, I can &re it up. #is winter, there haven’t been too many opportunities. De&nitely grilling outdoors is one of the things I most look forward to during the winter months. #at, and taking the kids for walks around the neighbor-hood. We might go months without seeing some of our neighbors during the winter, so it’s nice to catch up with folks as we march around Eastwood.

- David Tyler, Syracuse

Shovel all of the rottweiler ‘landmines’ in my back yard.

- Steve Brock, Herkimer

As for me, I’ll be getting my hands dirty, making room for a vegetable garden! And maybe taking some pictures of

all the pretty colors that have been hiding under the snow.

- Amanda Gormely, Syracuse

And three of you (Ann Ferro, Mike De Luca and Adelle Starr), said you’ll put the boots away for the season and slip into some sandals.

Here is next week’s question: How much will you pay for gas before you cut back on driving?

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In two separate receptions, the Syracuse community was introduced this week to the two !nalists for the top spot at the Syracuse City School District.

"e !rst candidate for the superintendent position, Bernard Taylor Jr., met with the com-munity Tuesday March 1. Taylor is the current

superintendent for the Grand Rapids public school system in Michigan, a district with about 19,000 students, 52 percent of whom graduate each year, and an annual operating budget of $210 million.

He has served as superintendent at Grand Rapids for !ve years. Prior to that position, Tay-lor held superintendent positions at Kansas City School District in Missouri and teaching and administrative positions in the Pittsburgh pub-

lic school system."e second can-

didate, introduced Wednesday March 2, was Sharon Con-treras, the chief academic o#cer of Providence Public Schools in Rhode Island.

The Providence district student body is about 23,500, the graduation rate is 68 percent and it’s annual operating budget is more than $395 million.

By comparison, the Syracuse City School District maintains a student population of about 20,000, an annual operating budget of $354 million, and a graduation rate of around 50 percent.

Community reactionsA$er attending both receptions, Freddie and

Lisa Wade were impressed with both candidates but felt Contreras o%ered more speci!c plans for Syracuse’s future.

“"ey were two very good candidates,” said Freddie Wade, a technology teacher at Clary Middle School. “But there was more meat to what she [Contreras] said.”

Both Freddie and Lisa work for the district and their son is a seventh-grader at Roberts K-8.

“His [Taylor’s] love for the students was clear,” said Lisa Wade. She works in the central administrative o#ces for the SCSD. “He under-stands the value Say Yes has in the community,” she added.

As for Contreras’ emphasis on community involvement, “that’s key,” the Wades agreed.

Quanasia Eiland, a junior at Corcoran High School, also appreciated Contreras’ focus on the community’s responsibility to nurture students.

She said she preferred Contreras over Taylor.

“He was all about games to me,” she said. “She’s more serious about what she’s going to do.”

While the superintendent will not be chosen by popular vote -- the decision is up to the board of education -- public opinion seemed to be leaning toward Contreras Wednesday night.

Her speech did not receive as many chuckles as Taylor’s passionate but humorous address,

but about 20 members of the crowd responded to Contreras with a standing ovation.

Community group Alliance Network an-nounced on Saturday its endorsement for Con-treras. Walt Dixie, a local community leader and executive director of Jubilee Homes of Syracuse, made the announcement.

According to 24 Hour News 8, a TV news chan-nel in Michigan, the Syracuse board of education expects to make a decision within two weeks.

"e Syracuse City School District Board of Education’s next meeting at press time was 5:30 p.m. Wednesday March 9. Check theeaglecny.com to see if the board selected a candidate to !ll the superintendent position.

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Russo plays ‘Rhapsody’Pianist Andrew Russo will be featured

this weekend with the Syracuse Symphony Orchestra performing a pops program called Broadway Giants: #e Music of Gershwin, Ellington, and Porter. Michael Butterman will conduct the SSO at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, March 11-12 at the Crouse Hinds Concert #eater at the Mul-roy Civic Center, 411 Montgomery St.

Russo will perform “Rhapsody in Blue” and other works by George Gershwin, Duke Ellington and Cole Porter.

Ticket prices range from $16 to $41; call 424-8200, or visit syracusesymphony.org.

Emma’s revolution SaturdayPerforming music calling for social

change, the Maryland-based combo named emma’s revolution headlines a bene&t con-cert at 8 p.m., Saturday March 12, at May

Memorial Unitarian Universalist Church, 3800 East Genesee St., in Syracuse. The distaff duo – Pat Humphries and Sandy O. – will play tunes such as “Silence and Lies” from the CD “roots, rock & revolu-tion.”

Central New York songwriter Col-leen Kattau will open the show perform-ing songs in both English and Spanish. A 7 p.m. community reception precedes Saturday’s concert.

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Banjo master’s homecoming#ree-time International Bluegrass

Music Association winner and Grammy nominee from Syracuse, banjoist Tony Trischka, returns to his roots at 8 p.m. Saturday March 12, at the Westcott Com-munity Center, 826 Euclid Ave., on the East Side. Admission costs $15, or $12 for WCC members; 478-8634.

Trischka’s most recent disc is “Territory” issued by Smithsonian Folkways and deliv-ering 12 solo tracks exploring a panorama of tunings, banjo sounds and traditions plus nine more cuts of banjo duets with musi-cians such as Pete Seeger and Bill Keith.

Presently living in New Jersey, Trischka will be accompanied here by Michael Daves, a Georgia-born guitarist-singer now mak-ing a splash on the NYC neo-folk scene.

Saturday’s concert is a presentation of the Folkus Project; folkus.org.

- Russ Tarby

‘Reynolds Unwrapped’ opens Friday at the Everson

A native of Brewerton, cartoonist Dan Reynolds &nds inspiration in CNY where snow is preponderant and cows plentiful. Since 1989, Reynolds’ humorous drawings of cows, pigs and chickens have appeared in Reader’s Digest and countless greeting

cards.With a reception set for 5:30 to 8:30 p.m.

Friday March 11, the Everson Museum of Art opens an exhibit called “Reynolds Unwrapped” which hangs in the museum’s Robineau Gallery through July 10. Recep-tion guests will enjoy hors d’oeuvres catered by Phoebe’s and live entertainment. Admis-sion costs $10, or free for Everson members; 474-6064; everson.org.

- Russ Tarby

Artists come ‘Full Circle’ at Szozda#ree women artists are bringing their

interconnected art together at Szozda Gal-lery starting today March 9 for the new exhibit “Full Circle.”

Fiber artist Elizabeth Moldenhauer was inspired to continue working on her cra$ a$er visiting the former Delevan Art Gallery’s Fiber Art Show in 2009. Felt wall hangings produced by fellow artist and friend, Linda Esterley, drew her in.

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Down but not out, St. Pat’s Parade marches onAs the recession worsens,

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St. Patrick’s Parade is scraping for cash. #e annual event, which will draw thousands of revelers downtown at noon Saturday March 12, costs up to $35,000.

A few local taverns – such as Kitty Hoyne’s Irish Pub and Restaurant and Coleman’s Au-thentic Irish Pub in Tipp Hill – coordinated fundraisers for the parade, and Guinness beer distributor T.J. Sheehan donated $5,000 this year. But as of last weekend, organizers had raised just $25,000, leaving an estimated $10,000 shortfall.

Nevertheless, the parade marches on.#e theme of the 29th annual procession is

“#e Blessings of Irish Wit and Wisdom.”“#e purpose of the parade,” says its presi-

dent, Janet Higgins, “is to pay homage to our community and celebrate the culture and tradi-tions of the Irish.”

Capt. Walsh is grand marshalSyracuse Police Capt. Richard Patrick Walsh

has been chosen as grand marshal of the 2011 parade. As a bagpiper in the Syracuse Kiltie Pipe Band, Walsh has participated in every St. Patrick’s Parade here since its inception in 1983. He has worked with the police department for

four decades. Coincidentally, on parade

day Walsh will retire as the SPD’s captain of detectives, a position he has &lled for the past 23 years.

Bugles and banjos#e parade has traditionally presented some

150 units including gaily-bedecked, banjo-playing Philadelphia Mummers, the Syracuse Brigadiers Drum and Bugle Corps, and bal-loon characters including the Geico gecko and the Limp Lizard. In 2007, a “Trailblazers” "oat by the CNY Labor Federation, AFL-CIO, depicted the Tipperary Hill stone-throwers who convinced the powers-that-be to install a green-over-red tra!c light in the city’s Irish West End neighborhood.

#e parade committee is also conducting its sixth annual Hunger Project food drive collecting non-perishable food items for the Food Bank of CNY and the Interreligious Food Consortium. Barrels for donations will be placed throughout downtown Syracuse on parade day.

Hooley moves to FairmountSince 1976, Hotel Syracuse has hosted a St.

Patrick’s Day hooley. Since 1983, when Nancy Du%y established the parade, the hotel aug-

mented that event with music, food and dancing in the Persian Terrance and Imperial Ballroom, and it continued the tradition even a$er the hotel o!cially closed in 2004. But this Saturday, the hotel’s doors will be closed.

So the Flyin’ Column – the venerable Syra-cuse band that entertained for 34 years straight at the hotel hooley – will appear instead at Asil’s Pub, 220 Chapel Drive in Fairmount. Admis-sion is free; 488-4680.

“We’ve been doing a party on parade day for so long now we’d hate to call a halt to the hooley,” said the Column’s banjo man, Don Meixner.

Also performing at Asil’s from 3 to 7 p.m. Saturday will be the Tom Dooley Choraliers, who you’ve probably seen on a recent Dunk & Bright TV commercial.

SSO still strugglingAnother victim of the ongoing economic

crisis is the Syracuse Symphony Orchestra.Last week, SSO executives announced that

the orchestra fell $145,000 short of its March 4 fundraising goal. Nevertheless, its classics series continued that night and March 5, and a pops concert is scheduled for March 11 And 12.

#e orchestra must raise $1.75 million by Aug. 1. #e SSO operates on an annual bud-get of $7 million which supports a sta% of 63 musicians, 14 contract musicians, 13 full-time

employees and seven part-timers.On Jan. 25, in the midst of its 34-week golden

anniversary season, SSO management found it-self on the brink of a shutdown due to low ticket sales and depleted corporate and government funding. Since then, nearly 2,000 people, 38 cor-porate sponsors and 11 fund-raisers responded to the “Keep the Music Playing” campaign by donating more than $675,000.

Many of those donors are &rst-time con-tributors, said SSO Interim Executive Director Paul Brooks.

Meanwhile, SSO musicians have returned more than $700,000 in salaries and bene&ts to the organization and have proposed a two-year wage freeze.

In phase two of the KTMP campaign, the SSO has set monthly goals of $400,000 in both April and May, money which will go toward the overall $1.75 million goal. Once those two monthly goals are reached, the SSO will need an additional $130,000 to complete the campaign.

“Please continue to give generously to pre-serve the SSO as the cultural cornerstone of our arts community,” implored orchestra board Chairman Rocco Mangano. To donate, call 424-8222 or visit syracusesymphony.org.

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#ree diverse local projects were awarded Community Arts Grants funding by the Cul-tural Resources Council. #e grant program awarded 59 not-for-pro&ts and 11 artists in Onondaga, Cortland and Oswego Counties.

Among them: #e annual one-day West-cott Street Culture Fair, organized by the Westcott Area Cultural Coalition, received $1,500. #e “Fiesta de las Aves,” a celebra-tion of both Latin American culture and the annual "ight of migratory birds held by the Friends of the Rosamond Gi%ord Zoo, was awarded $1,000. Aurora of Central New York’s “Aurora Co%ee House” received $2,000 toward its unique performance space for the visually and hearing impaired community.

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“I can’t resist getting my hands into a pile of warm &ber and creating something beautiful out of it. #e wool is my partner as I work; it seems to communicate with me as we both open ourselves to the creative process,” Moldenhauer said.

Esterley’s art is also a part of the exhibit. Her praised &ber art isn’t the focus for this exhibit. She unexpectedly ended up in a col-lage making class—her new addiction.

Her collages are visual interpretations of the words of ancient Persian philosopher

and poet, Rumi. #ey consist of vintage papers, plaster and mixed media.

#e last exhibitor is Lynette Blake, who uses a technique called layering. Her piece will begin with a detailed drawing. She then starts to dissolve the drawing gradually by using thin paint and glaze.

She increases the vibrancy of color to create a transparency and infusion of light. #en paint is thrown on the painting to add texture and give a sense of spontaneity.

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Tour old Central High If you went to Central High, the vener-

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Designed in 1899 by architect Archime-des Russell, the Central High building was erected in 1903 at a cost of $428,076. #e high school, which accommodated 1,500

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Little Feat guitarists in CazPaul Barrere and Fred Tackett, the two

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#e double-bill debuts the theater’s Songstage series which continues March 18 with England Dan and John Ford Coley. For info, visit livespaceentertainment.com.

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From 10 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. Jasper Makai is a 26-year-old janitor, cleaning dorms at Le Moyne College while his wife, Kim Middleton, 23, works the circulation desk at the Galleries.

If the young couple seems ordinary, they are anything but: Jasper and Kim started their own music and fashion business right here in their hometown of Syracuse.

At night the two turn their tiny downtown apartment into a factory and studio. Jasper is a rapper and a designer; Kim calls herself the “manager.”

On a Wednesday night you can &nd Jasper at Funk ‘n Wa'es open mic night with his thick black framed glasses and black ostrich leather knapsack, which he designed. Kim is right by his side.

He’s following his dreams and they involve much more than just him.

The music gameDarryl Middleton. #at’s what his mom,

Denise Brown, calls him. She has in"uenced his music since he was a child.

When Denise was saved in the church a new rule was put in place for the Middleton family: No hardcore rap allowed in this house. Jasper said he found this confusing, since he had already recorded his &rst rap CD at nine. But he found a way around it, combining Christian and rap music.

By the time Jasper turned 16 he had changed his topic of interest from hardcore rap to something that required deep thought.

He wanted to be “the WEB DuBois of rap,” he said.

#is is the kind of music Denise can and does support.

“He sees the di%erence now that you can still rap, but your language and your lyrics are di%erent,” she said. “It’s upli$ing, it’s not degrading.”

Jasper encourages kids to follow their dreams and &nd themselves, just like he is working to do.

#e message is particularly strong in his song “Un Main L’ava”:

“!ey say the sky is the limit, I say, why limit yourself?”

Jasper admits, people don’t always get his message, but there always is one.

He seeks to bring out the reality and posi-tivity in rap. He works on his projects to show people he is doing something di%erent.

Jasper Makai performs at Funk n’ Wa!es open mic, above. His album, “The Art Gallery,” was released digitally Feb. 22. Jasper hopes his ostrich knapsack, below, will soon be for sale in downtown stores.

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“If you have all of this hardcore rap, where is the reality?” Jasper said. “You have to have something that people can understand and relate to.” Not your average ‘Yard Sale’

Like his music, Jasper’s designs go beyond the usual.

Far from what one would &nd at a typical yard sale, his fashion line “A Yard Sale,” o%ers luxury goods and accessories. Two years a$er the &rst sketch was drawn, Jasper’s line includes T-shirts, knapsacks, coin purses, card wallets and small purses.

#e designs aren’t made in a factory. Kim sews them at home by hand and with a sewing machine. She does it because she said she is his greatest supporter.

“It seems like everything he has set out to do he’s able to do,” Kim said. “If he tells me that he wants to go "y to the moon, we’re going to the moon.”

Sewing for “A Yard Sale” didn’t come easy for Kim. She learned the cra$ through trial and error, until the quality of her work matched the philosophy of the line.

Kim and Jasper work on “A Yard Sale” at night. A single knapsack can take up to four hours to sew.

“I like it when we work together, I don’t like to sew alone,” Kim said. “He keeps my energy up and I can keep going.”

Designing and sewing isn’t easy and it certainly isn’t cheap. Each of Jasper’s knapsacks requires two yards of ostrich, which cost about $50 each.

Jasper’s friend Seve Robinson, 22, Fashion Institute of Technology student, is helping him get his designs into FIT’s Style Shop.

“He’s so driven to get his product out there,” Seve said. “If I can help him spread his message and what he’s trying to do, I can also spread what I believe in as well.”

Jasper is working on releasing two collec-tions this year: a denim collection, “Malachi Denim,” and an ostrich leather collection, “Black Tie,” based on the “classic elegance” of the 1950s and 60s.

‘Oh God, not another rapper’Jasper and Kim are both Syracuse natives

and were raised in the same church district. When they met, she didn’t know anything about his musical endeavors -- she was a bit skeptical.

“When he told me I was like “Oh God not another rapper,” Kim said. “But then I heard his music and I loved it.”

#e pair maintained a long-distance rela-tionship when Jasper moved to Baltimore in 2005 for personal reasons. When he returned two years later, he knew he wanted to change the music scene.

“I had a real goal, this is what I want to do,” Jasper said. “#e music I wanted to make was very clear.”

He wanted to upli$ his hometown, not put it down. He stays in Syracuse, he said, because there are a lot of people here doing the same thing as him in terms of music, art and fashion. He wants artists and designers in Syra-cuse to be able to work together, network and help each other out. Another reason he stays is because most of his family is here. The Struggle

Kim said she supports the Christian aspect of his music and because it keeps Jasper humble and talking about what he’s really been through.

And they’ve both been through a lot.In August 2009, the couple’s son, Shaun

Malachi Middleton, passed away at just four months old.

Dealing with the death of Shaun brought Jasper close to quitting. He was grieving, his computer and car died, he was looking for full-time work, Kim lost her job and they are still trying to have another baby.

Denise comes from a family of 10 broth-ers and sisters but this was the &rst time they had lost someone in the immediate family—it a%ected everyone—and everyone grieved di%erently. She’s a “doer,” she said, she stays busy—but Jasper, he may not do.

“I think that was the biggest thing— learn-ing each other’s way of grieving,” Denise said.

Kim got him motivated. #ey began working on his projects more and Denise gave him consistent encouragement. With the support of his family he couldn’t stay away for too long. He &nally released his CD, “#e Art Gallery,” online Feb. 22, and is continuing to move forward with his fashion projects.

“If you can go through something that tragic and you can triumph-- you can do any-thing,” Jasper said.

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Erik Saroney’s theory of how the Henninger boys basketball team he coaches pulled o% its 73-69 overtime victory over Utica Proctor to earn the Section III Class AA championship was quite simple.

Two previous times this season, the Black Knights had lost to the Raiders. Saroney said the Dec. 23 defeat was a direct result of a young squad still &nding its way, while the Jan. 21 setback at Proctor (a 66-48 loss) was just an out-of-character bad performance.

On this night, said Saroney, “they got Henninger.”Indeed they did. In front of a large, pro-Proctor crowd

at Utica Memorial Auditorium, Henninger somehow survived three starters fouling out and won its &rst sec-tional title since 2008 by getting an unexpected boost from reserve Terrell Nelson, who led the Black Knights with 19 points, most of them in the late stages.

It wasn’t locked up until another reserve, Charles Manning, sank a free throw with 5.1 seconds le$ to in-crease Henninger’s 72-69 margin by one, &nally putting it out of the top-seeded Raiders’ reach.

#e foul line told a large part of this story. Henninger, not known for good work at the line, went 10-for-12 in the fourth quarter and OT and, overall, went 26-for-33 from the line.

“We had to believe we could do it (at the line), and we did,” said Saroney.

Meanwhile, Proctor also took 33 foul shots, but only made 17 – no misses bigger than Maurice Mills’ pair of misses with 21.5 seconds le$ in the extra period and Proctor down by two.

All this was part of a frantic, energetic and emotional game where Henninger, despite all of its foul woes, closed the &rst half strong and led 35-27 at the break, only to have Proctor catch up in the third quarter, Keenan Brown’s 3-pointer tying it 44-44 with one quarter le$.

Again, the Black Knights led most of the &nal period. Again, the Raiders rallied, getting a pair of clutch 3-point-ers from Jayson Jackson, the latter coming with a minute le$ to put Proctor ahead 60-59, to the deafening roar of the home fans.

While all this was going on, Nelson, who never played

varsity basketball until his senior season, was notching 10 points in the fourth quarter, everything from a 3-pointer to a rebound basket that, with 32 seconds to play, put Henninger back in front 61-60.

Fouled with 15.9 seconds le$ in regulation, Walkery Mills missed the &rst free throw, but made the second to tie it 61-61. #e Black Knights had the last shot, and Nelson took it from 25 feet out – but it caromed o% the rim. So it went to overtime, just like the 2009 &nal where Henninger, led by the late Kihary Blue, lost to CBA.

Two starters, Marquies Young and Kavon Delee, had fouled out, so it wasn’t surprising that Proctor took leads of 67-63 and 69-67 in the OT. Still, Henninger fought back and held the Raiders without a &eld goal in the last 2:45 of the game.

Markell Stith, before he fouled out, made the go-ahead free throws with 27.4 seconds le$, breaking a 69-69 tie, and Tommie Gainey made it 72-69 with 10.5 seconds le$ before Manning &nally put it away.

Tevin Chisholm, the point guard who chose to wear no. 4 in Blue’s honor, had 18 points, six of them in the overtime, while Delee had 12 points and Stith got eight points.

Henninger had to pass quite a test just to get back to the &nal, surviving a dramatic Class AA semi&nal last Tuesday at LeMoyne College to knock out no. 2 seed and defending champion Cicero-North Syracuse 60-56.

With a size advantage across the board, Henninger quickly went out in front and, all game long, used its ac-tive match-up zone to bottle up CNS star Zach Coleman, holding him to just 11 points.

Steadily, the Black Knights’ lead grew, from 31-24 at hal$ime until it had a double-digit edge, 40-30, late in the third quarter. #en the lead vanished as the North-stars closed the period on a 12-0 run, suddenly moving ahead 42-40.

Just as quickly, Henninger opened the fourth quarter with a 12-0 spurt of its own, highlighted by Young’s dunk and consecutive 3-pointers from Kavon Delee.

Again, though, just as the Black Knights looked safe CNS fought back, the margin cut in half before a free throw, steal and basket from Josh Williams with 23.2 seconds le$ made it 58-56. Worse yet, Henninger missed the front end of a one-and-one, giving the Northstars a chance to tie or go in front.

CNS threw away that opportunity, though, turning it over for the 19th time with 10.1 seconds to play. Moments later, Tommie Spinner was fouled and, foreshadowing what would happen four nights later in Utica, he made both free throws to seal Henninger’s trip to the &nals.

Overall, Spinner had 14 points, just behind Delee (18 points) and Young (15 points) as they accounted for most of Henninger’s o%ense. For CNS, Elliott Boyce led with 18 points, most of it from four 3-pointers, as Riley Moonan added 13 points and Dave Jackowski 12 points.

Ironically enough, by winning the sectional title Hen-ninger will play at CNS’s gymnasium Saturday in the Class AA regional &nal against the Section II champions. #e winner gets a trip to Glens Falls for next weekend’s state &nal four, where the Black Knights won it all in 2002.

SAS, ITC earn historic sectional titles

Henninger claims AA championship in OT battle

By Phil Blackwell [email protected]

By Phil Blackwell [email protected]

Five short years ago, Syracuse Academy of Science was just opening, and Institute of Technology Central was still in the planning stages, a year from opening its doors.

Now these schools are the proud owners of Section III boys basketball championships a$er last Saturday’s Class C &nals at Utica Memorial Audi-torium.

First, it was SAS claiming the Class C-2 title, holding o% Onondaga 51-48 as the Atoms rallied in the fourth quarter and got two clutch free throws from Dakeem McLain with 5.7 seconds le$ to help put the Tigers away.

#en ITC, 4-14 a year ago, completed a remarkable one-year turnaround when it toppled top seed Cooperstown 69-52, the Eagles pushed there by the combined e%orts of guard Jahcin Ingram and forward Jebron #omas.

Having lost last year’s Class D &nal to New York Mills, SAS was a bit more used to this stage. Still, it had to break from its usual fast tempo to avenge a Jan. 14 defeat to Onondaga, who rode a 12-game win streak into the &nals.

#e Atoms trailed through much of the game, yet never let OCS get clear, thanks to the work of 6-7 forward Ahmet Tunali, who made 10 of the 11 shots he attempted and &nished with 21 points to snag tournament MVP honors.

With the score tied at 47-47, Kaleel Johnson’s steal and lay-up pushed SAS ahead by two with 1:40 le$. Taylor Bassett’s free throw with 45.2 seconds cut the margin to one, but the Tigers entered the closing moments with just three team fouls.

#us, OCS had to use up precious seconds accumulating four fouls to send the Atoms to the line. Finally, McLain got his one-and-one chance and, a$er the Tigers took time-out to try and freeze him, calmly made both shots to stretch the margin to three. When Ryan Gavin’s 3-point attempt to tie it went o% the rim as the buzzer sounded, SAS had a sectional title.

ITC’s chances to join the Atoms with a sectional banner got a boost before tip-o% when Cooperstown forward Michael Moakler, who had 24 points in a semi&nal win over Watertown IHC, could not play due to a knee injury su%ered late in that game.

Still, the Redskins hung close, even a$er the Eagles seized the lead for good midway through the &rst half, boosted by Ingram’s 13 points. #at pattern lingered through the third quarter, as ITC could not get clear and Harrison Clinton’s 3-pointer at the end of the period cut the Eagles’ lead to 44-41 with one quarter le$.

Just then, the Eagles, showing tremendous poise and con&dence in its &rst-ever &nals appearance, increased full-court pressure, which forced Cooperstown into all kinds of turnovers in the fourth quarter. ITC closed strong with a 25-11 run to reach championship glory.

Running the show from the point, Ingram, an obvious choice for C-1 tour-nament MVP, &nished with 23 points, adding eight rebounds and eight steals. Inside, #omas "ourished as he amassed 18 points and 17 rebounds.

SAS and ITC reached their respective title games in dramatically di%er-ent ways last Wednesday night. #e Atoms, pulled away from Beaver River

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70-45 at Sandy Creek in its semi&nal, while at Onondaga Community College the Eagles held o% defending sectional champion Tully 55-54 in a C-1 semi&nal game not decided until the &nal possession.

Leading by one, ITC saw Ingram miss the front end of a one-and-one free-throw attempt with 10.2 seconds le$. Tully rebounded and had a chance to win it, but just when it looked like it had an open shot underneath, Ingram raced back to steal the ball, and time ran out.

#at it was so close was no surprise, since in their last meeting Jan. 28 Tully prevailed 61-58 when Dan Morse hit a shot near half-court at the buzzer.

Determined to avenge that loss, ITC moved out in front during the second quarter, where a pattern developed. Every time the Eagles tried to get away, the Black Knights would claw back.

#is happened three separate times, with ITC nearly throwing away a 41-30 edge in the third quarter and a 54-47 lead with three minutes le$, Tully battling back within striking distance despite Ingram getting 19 points and

Clemons adding 13 points.Ingram’s free throw with 1:14 to play made

it 55-50. A$er Tully cut it to three, Clemons missed his own front end of a one-and-one with 32.5 seconds le$, and the Black Knights raced down the court, converting on Tom Twentyman’s basket to slice the margin to one, setting up the last sequence.

None of this took place at Sandy Creek, where SAS put up for a half with Beaver River trying to slow them down in the &rst half, still seizing a 29-18 lead because its own defense shut down the Beavers for long stretches of time.

#en the Atoms got away, outscoring Bea-ver River 22-12 in the third quarter to double its margin. Johnson led with 18 points, while DeOndray Tape added 15 points. McLain (12 points) and Tunali (10 points) reached double &gures, too.

#ree days later, SAS and ITC were on top, bound for a head-to-head meeting Tuesday night at Cicero-North Syracuse to see who would take the overall sectional title and ad-vance to face Section IV champion Moravia in Saturday’s regional &nal.

Texas stando#Crunch split over the weekend in Lone Star State

By Russ Tarby

Fueled by hot Texas chili and spicy quesa-dillas, the Syracuse Crunch pulled itself out of last place in the American Hockey League’s Eastern Division with a Saturday night road win in San Antonio following a Friday loss to the Houston Aeros.

#e Crunch took an early one-goal lead Friday March 4 at Houston’s Toyota Center, af-ter Josh Green tipped in a power-play marker at 2:45 of the &rst period. Syracuse allowed the Aeros back into the game following Crunch penalties which gave Houston 5-on-4 and a 5-on-3 advantages. #e Aeros scored one goal in each period to win the game 3-1.

On Saturday against the San Antonio Rampage at the AT&T Center, Crunch net-minder Ray Emery, an NHL veteran, turned in a sparkling 40-save performance a$er being assigned by Anaheim earlier in the day in a transaction that sent 24-year-old goalie J.P. Levassuer to California.

Syracuse got goals from four di%erent players en route to a 4-1 win which mercifully snapped the team’s four-game winless streak and &ve-game road winless skid.

Scoring for Syracuse Saturday were forwards John Mitchell, John Kurtz, Maxime Macenaur and newly acquired forward Brian McGrattan, a 29-year-old veteran of 182 career NHL games with Ottawa, Phoenix and Calgary.

#e Anaheim Ducks acquired McGrattan and defenseman Sean Zimmerman Feb. 28 from Boston in exchange for center Stefan Chaput and right wing David Laliberte. Both McGrattan and Zimmerman have been as-signed to the Crunch.

At 6-foot-4 and 235 pounds, McGrattan is expected to knock heads rather than score goals. He should soon take over as the team’s enforcer now that Jon “Nasty” Mirasty has been banished to Fort Wayne of the Central Hockey League.

McGrattan led the AHL in penalty minutes in 2004-05 with 551 in 71 contests with Bing-hamton. In 236 career AHL games, McGrat-tan has scored 30 goals and made 23 assists while logging 1,150 minutes in the sin bin. Former Crunch tough guy Brandon Sugden, who battled McGrattan several times here, called him “the toughest guy in the league.”

On Friday and Saturday, however, McGrat-

tan le$ the &sticu%s to teammates Leigh Salt-ers, Patrick Maroon and John Kurtz who drew &ghting penalties. McGrattan took two min-utes for roughing in San Antonio Saturday.

#at same night the Crunch penalty-kill stopped the Rampage &ve times in &ve tries, Emery made several clutch saves down the stretch and Macenauer &nished o% the game with an empty-netter at the 19:15 mark.

A$er the team’s visit to the Lone Star State, which concludes March 7 against the Texas Stars in Austin, the Crunch will return to the War Memorial this weekend. Syracuse faces o% against those same Texas Stars at 7:30 p.m. Friday March 11, before taking on the Roch-ester Amerks at 7:30 p.m. Saturday March 12. Ticket prices range between $13 and $22; 473-4444 or syracusecrunch.com.

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Henninger High School bowler Bobby Moro nearly had the top individual perfor-mance at Sunday’s New York State Public High School Athletic Association tournament at Strike-N-Spare Lanes in Mattydale.

Moro, a member of the Section III All-Star team, &nished second in the 60-bowler &eld with a six-game pinfall of 1,346, a total beaten only by Sachem East’s Jeremy Miltio, as the Long Island native &nished at 1,377, 31 pins ahead of Moro.

As the day wore on, Moro only seemed to get better. He went from 198 to 204 and 218 in the morning session, then took o% in the a$ernoon with a 237 and peaked with 265, just one pin o% the best individual game total, a 266 by Victor’s Jordan Benzing. Moro &nished with a 224.

In the team competition, the Section III group of Moro, Dan Wahl (Fulton), Rich Viti (Utica-Notre Dame), Bob Jones (Whitesboro), Brett Risi (Ilion) and Ben Derrane (New Hartford) to post 6,024, a close second to Section XI (Su%olk County, Long Island), who built a big early lead, then held on to win with 6,099.

Two other state tournaments took place last weekend, with Nottingham athletes each standing out in their own way.

In the state boys swimming championships at Nassau Aquatic Center on Long Island, Kalonji Cole represented the Bulldogs and worked his way to 10th place in the diving competition with 434.10 points. Of Section III divers, only Mexico’s Nick Rodriguez (ninth, 456.35 points) fared better.

Down at Cornell University’s Barton Hall, Nottingham’s Robert Howard had a best throw of 49 feet ( inch in the shot put, settling into 10th place in a 28-man &eld. Chuk-wuebuk Enekwechi (Francis Lewis) won with a toss of 62 feet 4 ( inches.

- Phil [email protected]

• Kennedy’s penalty shot goal was the !rst in the AHL since Brett MacLean’s penalty shot tally on Ray Emery against the Crunch back on February 28.

• The penalty shot attempt was the Crunch’s !rst since Nikita Filatov was denied by Marc Denis at Hamilton on February 22, 2009.

• The Crunch have scored the !rst goal in six of the last eight games.

• Josh Green saw his eight-game point streak (4g, 7a) snapped.

• John Mitchell has six points (3g, 3a) in his last eight games after tallying six points (4g, 2a) in his !rst 39 contests.

• Mat Clark and Nicolas Deschamps are the only two Crunch players to ap-pear in all 60 games this season

• Defenseman Jake Newton made his return to the lineup after missing 24 games with a knee injury.

• John Kurtz’s goal against the Ram-page was his !rst this season and !rst AHL tally since his second AHL game on April 2, 2010 at Adirondack.

• Brian McGrattan and Sean Zimmer-man made their Crunch debuts after Anaheim acquired them in a trade with Boston on February 28.


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Mahoney addresses consolidation, green initiatives and long-term spending reformBy Ami Olson Ami Olson [email protected]

In delivering her 2011 State of the County address Tuesday March 1, Onondaga County Executive Joanne Mahoney proclaimed, “we are coming out of this recession stronger than we went in.”

Mahoney cited a list of consolidation ef-forts among county, city, village and town governments, including a shared municipal purchasing department that 23 municipalities are interested in joining.

From the stage at West Genesee High School in Camillus, Mahoney commended the West Genesee Central School District employees for their cooperation in volun-tarily accepting a pay freeze to avoid teacher layo%s.

She also pointed to the towns of Geddes, Salina and Skaneateles, as well as the village of Elbridge, for their e%orts to reduce govern-

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“#is is exactly what we hoped the new sales tax agreement would accomplish,” Ma-honey said.

Mahoney also announced the county will enter into negotiations with SUNY Upstate to take over Van Duyn Home and Hospital. #e county-owned nursing facility has con-sistently lost millions of dollars annually and has become a drain on the county’s &nances.

Finding a way to provide quality care for elderly residents will become even more criti-cal in the next few years, Mahoney said.

“Between now and 2015, we will have an increase of over 65 percent in the number of county residents age 85 and older,” Mahoney said.

#e County Executive also announced Save the Rain’s “Project 50,” an initiative to implement 50 distinct public works projects to harvest rainwater and send it back into the ground, not the sewer system. A green roof installed on the War Memorial will harvest rainfall which will be used to make ice for the Syracuse Crunch home rink.

“#e Green solutions will take hard work and patience,” Mahoney said. “We won’t get

the instant grati&cation but the end result will be in&nitely better.”

Like City of Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner’s State of the City address in February, Mahoney’s address focused heavily on the responsibility of New York State government to reduce the cost of mandated programs.

“County property tax dollars are not fund-ing county programs, they are funding state programs,” Mahoney said.

#e county will pass more than $160 mil-lion, raised by taxes, onto the state to pay for mandated programs, she added.

Short-term &xes for one budget cycle or term are not going to solve the problem, Mahoney said.

Among the long-term solutions Mahoney supports is multi-year budgeting cycle.

“Legislator John Dougherty has called for multi-year budgeting, and I support him wholeheartedly,” Mahoney said. “When my team presents the budget later this year, we will do so with a look toward the future.”

“This is exactly what we hoped the new sales tax agreement would accomplish.”

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Thursday March 10ComedyHarry Crocker and the Saucerer’s Stove.

6:45 PM. Interactive mystery/comedy dinner theater. Spaghetti Warehouse, 689 N. Clinton St. $32.50 plus tax and tip. Acmemysterytheater.com.

FamilyMOMS Club East. 10-11:30 AM. Monthly

gathering for kids and moms who choose to stay home full or part time. Manlius United Methodist Church. 111 Wesley St, Manlius. Free. 406-5294.

FilmWine, Women and Film: ‘Vinyl and Red

Lips.’ 7 PM. Screening of experimental short, followed by discussion. Red House Arts Center, 201 S. West St. $8. Thered-house.org.

MusicThe Glengarry Bhoys. 7 PM. Canadian Celtic

band; with Causeway Giants, Johnston School of Irish Dance, Syracuse Kiltie Pipe Band. Johnston’s Ballybay, 550 Richmond Ave. $20.

Friday March 11FamilyFamily Fun Night. 6-8 PM. Live entertain-

ment, crafts, glassmaking and more. Corn-ing Museum of Glass. Free. (607)974-3306.

LectureReading: Mike Raicht. 7 PM. Graphic novel-

ist, former Marvel Comics editor and Le Moyne College instructor reads. Down-town Writer’s Center, YMCA, 340 Mont-gomery St. Free.

MusicCelebration of Songs. 7 PM. Syracuse

Opera Company resident artists perform “showstoppers” from operas and musicals. Refreshmens. Plymouth Church, 232 E. Onondaga St. 474-4836.

SSO Pops Series: Broadway Giants. 8 PM. Syracuse Symphony Orchestra perform music of Gershwin, Ellington and Porter. Crouse Hinds Concert Theater, Mulroy Civic Center. $. Syracusesymphony.org.

SportsSyracuse Crunch Hockey. 7:30 PM. Vs. Texas

Stars. War Memorial at Oncenter. $. 473-4444 or syracusecunch.com.

Saturday March 12FamilyIt’s Instrumental! 10:30 AM. Learn about

orchestra instruments and make your own before the performance. Mulroy Civic Cen-ter. $5/children, $10/adults. 424-8222.

Mix It Up! Art Class. 10:30 AM-noon. Young artists age 4-12 can explore a variety of media and use the galleries for inspiration. Everson Museum. $70/four class session. 474-0064.

Pancake Breakfast. 9 AM-noon. Beaver Lake Nature Center. $2.50-$4.50. Reserva-tions for groups of 10 or more. 638-2519.

Literature Live: Peter Rabbit! 10 AM-8 PM. Meet Peter Rabbit and enjoy literature-related activities for the whole family. Included with admission. Strong Museum of Play, Rochester. 585-410-6359.

A World of Puppets. 11 AM. Family pup-petry performance. Open Hand Puppet Theater. $6/children, $8/adults. Pre-regis-ter. 476-0466.

St. Patrick’s Day Parade. Noon. Runs down S Salina St in downtown Syracuse.

Magic Circle Children’s Theater. 12:30 PM. Interactive children’s theater featuring Sleeping Beauty. Spaghetti Warehouse, Syracuse. $5/person. Pre-register. 449-3823.

Hot Cocoa and Snow Series. 1-2:30 PM. Hands-on nature learning and hot chocolate. Montezuma Audubon Center. 2295 State Route 89, Savannah. $5/adult, $3/child, $15/family, includes snowshoe rental. Pre-register. 365-3588.

Princess for a Day. 5:30-7:30 PM. Snacks,

games, and hair baubles. Princess attire is encouraged. Rosamond Gi"ord Zoo. $20/child. Pre-register. 435-8511.

Monster Jam. 7 PM. Admission includes free pit party access from 3-6 PM. Carrier Dome. $10-$50. (800) 745-3000.

Lecture‘A Country Bumpkin’s Pottery Life.’ 1 PM.

World-renown ceramicist Ah Leon delivers artist talk. Everson Museum of Art. Free. Everson.org.

MusicJoanne Perry and the Unstoppables. 7:30-

10 PM. Steeple Co"ehouse, desserts and beverage. United Church of Fayetteville, 310 E. Genesee St. $10 donation.

Women Rockin’ the World Bene!t Concert. 7-10 PM. ArtRage celebrates the 100th Anniversary of International Women’s Day with concert to bene!t gallery. Reception at 7, concert starts at 8. May Memorial Unitarian Society, 3800 E. Genesee St. $15-$20. Artragegallery.org.

Ames Piano Quartet. 8 PM. One of the few piano quartets in the world presented by Syracuse Friends of Chamber Music. Lincoln Middle School, 1613 James St. $10-$20; under 13, free. Syracusefriendsof-chambermusic.org.

Closer Still. 8 PM. Catchy pop band from Mexico, NY. Red House Arts Center, 201 S. West St. $5. Theredhouse.org.

The Everson’s exhibit “Ah Leon: Memories of Elementary School” is supplemented with an artist talk Saturday March 12 by ceramicist Ah Leon.


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Tony Trischka. 8 PM. In#uential banjo player returns to his roots. Westcott Community Center. $5-$10. Westcottcc.org.

SSO Pops Series: Broadway Giants. 8 PM. Syracuse Symphony Orchestra perform music of Gershwin, Ellington and Porter. Crouse Hinds Concert Theater, Mulroy Civic Center. $. Syracusesymphony.org.

OutdoorsMaple Syrup Weekends. 10 AM-2 PM. Tours

of the demonstration sugarbush. Beaver Lake Nature Center. Free w/admission. 638-2519.

Keep It Natural. 10:30-11:30 AM. Nature walk and outdoor education program. Baltimore Woods. $8. 673-1350.

SportsSyracuse Crunch Hockey. 7:30 PM. Vs. Roch-

ester Americans. War Memorial at Oncen-ter. $. 473-4444 or syracusecunch.com.

Sunday March 13FamilyLiterature Live: Peter Rabbit! Noon-5 PM.

Meet Peter Rabbit and enjoy literature-related activities for the whole family. Included with admission. Strong Museum of Play, Rochester. 585-410-6359.

Maple Syrup Weekends. 1-4 PM. Tours of the demonstration sugarbush. Beaver Lake Nature Center. Free w/admission. 638-2519.

FundraiserMovie and a Cookie. 2 PM. “Monsters Inc.”

screens at family-friendly event, visit with Cli"ord the Big Red Dog, win prizes and

cookies. Palace Theater, 2384 James St. $6-$12; ages 5 and under, free. Wcny.org.

GatheringsSyracuse Central High School Tour. 2-4 PM.

Meet on the steps at the main entrance and tour the old school with the Preserva-tion Association of Central New York. 701 S. Warren St. $15; PACNY members, $10. Pacny.net.

MusicCeili Rain. 2 PM. Gaelic and Celtic Christian

rock, corned beef dinner follows. Rob-inson Memorial Church, 126 Terry Road. $12-$14; extra $8 for dinner. 468-2509.

John Kamfonas Piano Recital. 3 PM. Classic works and improvisation. United Church of Fayetteville, 310 E. Genesee St., Fayette-ville. Non-perishable food donation or freewill o"ering. 635-9964.

CNY Flute Choir Sunday Showcase. 4 PM. Solo and smaller chamber pieces. Erwin First United Methodist Church, 920 Euclid Ave. Free. 682-8317.

Monday March 14FamilyMaxwell Movie Night. 6 PM. Family friendly

!lms. Maxwell Memorial Library. Free. 672-3661.

Learn to Sew. 6:30-8 PM. Hand and machine sewing lessons for ages 8-19. Oswego County Cooperative Extension, Mexico. $30/4 classes. Pre-register. 963-7286.

Childbirth Prep Class for Couples. 6:30-8:45 PM. Sponsored by Doulas of CNY. Ophelias Cafe. 407 Tulip St, Liverpool. $80. Pre-register. 455-6MOM.

Tuesday March 15FamilyMom’s Morning Out. 9:30-11 AM. Co"ee

and discussion group for moms. Com-munity Wesleyan Church. 112 Downer St, Baldwinsville. Free. Childcare: $2/session. 638-2222.

Sciencenter Animal Time. 10:30 AM. Ani-mal-related story and craft for toddlers and preschoolers. Sciencenter, Ithaca. Included with admission. 607-272-0600.

LectureThe Rural Horrors of Contemporary Irish

Cinema. 4 PM. Ithaca College professor Matthew Fee investigates techniques of Irish horror !lms. Reilly Room, Reilly Hall, Le Moyne College. Free.

Rick Steves. 7:30 PM. Television host and author speaks, Rosamond Gi"ord Lecture Series. Crouse Hinds Concert Theater, Mul-roy Civic Center. $. Gi"ordlectureseries.org or ticketmaster.com.

MusicMusic Journeys: Composer Patrick Grant.

7:30 PM. Modern electronic composer performs with live video projections. Coyne Center for the Performing Arts, Le Moyne College. $10-$15; free for Le Moyne employees and students.

SportsSU Mens Lacrosse. 7 PM. Vs. Albany. Carrier

Dome. $5-$10. Suathletics.com.

Wednesday March 16FamilyPurim Storytime. 10:30 AM. Dress up in

your favorite costume and enjoy stories, songs, and crafts. Dewitt Community Library. 446-3578.

Library Instruction for Home Schooled Students. 2 PM. Learn about the Dewey Decimal System, library databases, and internet searches. Manlius Library. Free. Pre-register. 682-6400.

MusicCivic Morning Musicals. 12:30 PM. Fea-

turing John Spradling, piano. Hosmer Auditorium, Everson Museum of Art. Free. Civicmorningmusicals.org.

Bells & Motley Celtic Consort’s Medieval Muse and Minstrelsy. 7 PM. Sondra and John Bromka’s European historic music. James Commons, Le Moyne College. Free.

SportsSyracuse Crunch Hockey. 7 PM. Vs. Albany

Devils. War Memorial at Oncenter. $. 473-4444 or syracusecrunch.com.

Monster Jam rolls into the Carrier Dome for the "rst time at 7 p.m. Saturday March 12, preceeded by a Pit Party from 2:30 to 5:30 p.m.


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