Archive: Around Town

If you are an unemployed professional looking for work, you are not alone. You will find yourself among a fast growing group of American professionals like engineers, sales and marketing executives, scientists and educators spending endless hours day and night scanning online job boards like Monster.com and Careerbuilder.com and mailing out hundreds of resumes in what seems like a vain search for that job or career lost.

After a few weeks, with no offers, not even a single interview scheduled, the process begins to wear you down. Depression, fear and anger sets in and the idea of falling behind in bills and mortgage payments only adds to the anxiety. You begin to lose hope and your relationship with your family and friends becomes affected.

 

The Lansing High School Class of 1994 has always been close-knit and independent.  When Jeff Howell and Matt Combs realized how many of their classmates were on Facebook they decided to take the lead in organizing a reunion.  "A lot of our classmates found each other on Facebookover the last year or so," Howell says.  "One made a passing comment last Fall about how cool it would be if we were to get together this summer."

As it turned out two thirds of the class have a presence on Facebook.  So Howell, a Web developer who now lives in Zimmerman, Minnesota set up a Reunion page on the service.  The page provides a place for classmates to congregate and talk about what they want to do when they come home to Lansing for a three-day event starting on August 14.

When you turn on your tap water comes out.  It's a given.  But do you know what it takes to get it to do that?  Next Friday (May 8th) from noon to 6pm you'll get a chance to find out when the Bolton Point Municipal Water System hosts an open house to celebrate National Drinking Water Week (May 3-9).

"We're having an open house to promote public awareness," says Bolton Point General Manager Paul Tunison.  "I think if people get involved, and see what's actually going on and hear some of the issue facing water systems in the United States they'll get an idea of why they pay their water bill, and what that goes to."

Hey there my name is Dale and I am a black domestic shorthair mix. I am a great boy who needs a home with loving people to take good care of me. So come down to the SPCA to see if I'm the right cat for you.

Visit the SPCA Web Page

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ITHACA, NY — In coordination with Women’s Expo 2009, Cayuga Radio Group is honoring “20 Outstanding Women You Should Know.”   The 20 women, representing a wide range of backgrounds and careers, will be honored during a ceremony at Women’s Expo 2009 on May 7th at the TC3 Borg Warner Morse Tec Field House.
A call for nominations promoted in January, February, and March on NewsTalk 870 WHCU, Lite Rock 97.3, Q-Country 103.7, Classic Rock I-100, HITS 103.3, and Progressive Talk 1470 WNYY, in Ithaca yielded hundreds of nominations, according to Susan Johnston, General Manager of the six Cayuga Radio Group stations.

Every year High School English Teacher June Martin invites Fred Voss to tell Lansing sophomores about his experience surviving the Holocaust.  Voss was about the same age as the Lansing students when his world was torn from him by the Nazis.  His home was destroyed, much of his family was killed, and he lost his country.  But he was one of the lucky ones -- he survived.  Last week Voss returned to Lansing to share his experiences again, in honor of the Shoa (the Hebrew word for Holocaust).

"You have two choices in life," Voss says.  "Either get yourself sick about it and you end up in a mental institution, or you say 'Let me go out and talk to other people and prevent this from happening again.'  And that's what I'm doing."

On Saturday, April 25th, the Downtown Ithaca Alliance will host Art For A Just & Sustainable Community, the theme for Art in the Heart of the City 2009 and the DIA’s contribution to Ithaca’s Earth Day ’09 celebration.

The event opens with a 12:00 Noon Parade for the Earth on the Ithaca Commons, followed at 1 pm by a Forum on Exploring Directions for the Arts in Downtown Ithaca in the Tompkins County Library Borg- Warner Room.

Hey there my name is Abby! I am four years and seven months old and I am looking for a great home with good people who will take care of me. I am a great cat who wants to come home with you! So please come and visit me at the SPCA to see if I'm right for you!

Visit the SPCA Web Page

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Each year the Lansing-based company 'the ADminders' invites clients to look at promotional products they sell to businesses and organizations.  This year ADminders owner Janet Keefe decided to feature eco-friendly products on Earth Day, and she took over the Museum of the Earth for the day to do so.

"The first thing we decided was to feature earth products," she says.  "Then we decided to do it on Earth Day.  We searched all ofver the county for a place to do it, and we thought of the Museum of the Earth.  They were available, so we rented it exclusively for the day.  It couldn't have been a better match."

(Ithaca, NY) May is National Skin Cancer Awareness Month and the Ithaca Dermatology Pllc Mobile Mole Patrol will be offering free skin cancer screenings in Ithaca and Horseheads, in an effort to reduce the number of cases of skin cancer and educate the public about its prevention.

The Mobile Mole Patrol will be offering the free screenings in Ithaca on Saturday, May 2, 2009 from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. at the Shops at Ithaca Mall, 20 Catherwood Road in Ithaca. It will be at the Shops at the Arnot Mall, 3300 Chambers Road in Horseheads on Monday, May 4, 2009 from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. The Horseheads screenings on Monday, May 4 coincide with Melanoma Monday, which is part of National Skin Cancer Awareness Month. Both are sponsored by the American Academy of Dermatology .

I have submitted a written request to the school for my child to be evaluated for special education services.  What will happen next?

Requesting an evaluation for special education services is the first step in getting answers to why your child is struggling in school. It is an important part of making a plan to get him the services needed to thrive in school. Before the school can conduct an evaluation to determine whether your child is eligible to receive special education and related services under the Individuals with Disabilities Improvement Act of 2004 (IDEA 2004), the school must provide parents with prior written notice of the intention to evaluate and must obtain written parental consent.  If someone from the school, such as a teacher or a school counselor, requests an evaluation, then it is up to the school to provide prior written notice to parents of the proposed action and obtain written consent from them. Once written consent has been obtained, then a child may be evaluated at no cost to parents.

When myths become so embedded into society, science has an almost insurmountable obstacle to overcome.  The biggest exercise myth is that you have to do “cardio” to lose weight.  Cardio is low-intensity continuous movement that involves the bigger muscles of the body.  Practically, this is walking on the treadmill, ellipticall-ing on the elliptical, or spinning on the stationary bike for long periods of time.  You do not have to do hours of low-intensity cardio to lose weight.

Cardio is the popular exercise choice for weightloss because it is easy to do. All you have to do is what you already know how to do—walk, jog, or spin pedals. It also involves an easy intensity. Look across any gym floor and hardly any work is really being done. Gym members are cruising away at no-effort paces.  The irony is that people may want to exercise, but not really work. But we all know that “success (weightloss) only comes before work in the dictionary”—Vince Lombardi.