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Before Syracuse can rehab its vacant and underutilized properties, communities will work to identify areas most in need of attention.

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The former home of Sibley’s Department Store at 400 S. Salina St. is an icon of the vacant build-ing problem plaguing the city. The building, currently for sale, made the news in late 2009 when a Medicare processing company moved its 450 employees out of the old Sibley’s and into the suburbs.

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“‘We know you!’, they

said. ‘You’re Joanie Ma-honey!’ I was quickly deflated, and I said, no, I’m the other one.”

- Mayor Stephanie Miner cracks jokes before talking

business during her second State of the City Address,

Thursday Jan. 27.

SU should save the SSO! Cultural myth or cultural asset? Page 8

Downtown After DarkBest Bets Dinosaur hosts Scott and Hartwell Canadian folk duo make Syracuse debut with Folkus Project Page 8

Drink to save the orchestra

Beginning at 5:30 p.m. Thursday Feb. 3, the 40 Below “It’s All Here” committee will host a happy hour to benefit the Syracuse Symphony Orchestra at Al’s Wine and Whiskey Lounge, 321 S. Clinton St. in Armory Square. A portion of the bar will be donated to the SSO, whose fundraising hit high gear last month with the “Keep the Mu-sic Playing” campaign. To donate directly to the SSO, visit syracuse symphony.org or call 424-8222 ext. 243.

Opera karaokeThink you’ve got the

pipes? The Syracuse Opera will host an opera karaoke begin-ning at 10 p.m. Friday Feb. 4 at Opus Restau-rant and Lounge, 218 Walton St. Bring your ambition and they’ll supply the sheet music and pianist.

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And nobody has to know that you completely forgot, again, even though Valentine’s Day is on the same day every

year and you really should have learned your lesson after the last-minute lunacy you put me through last year, Richard, I mean I only have ONE favorite holiday for crying out loud and I don’t think it’s too much to ask to have a nice dinner away from the kids just one day out of the year and isn’t it enough that you forgot our anniversary?

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If you don’t know exactly what you have to offer, you’re already selling yourself short.

That’s the philosophy behind an initia-tive to create a comprehensive database of the vacant and underutilized commercial properties in the entire city of Syracuse.

As of May, the Division of Code Enforce-ment listed 1,650 vacant buildings in the city. In December, that number had ticked up to 1,863.

“Our goal is to know the story on every piece of commercial property in the city,” said Ben Walsh, the city’s deputy com-missioner of Neighborhood and Business Development. “We want to be the central clearinghouse of information.”

Keeping up to date on that number, plus the number of properties that are used but not to their full potential, will be no small task. Using resources that already exist Walsh is optimistic that the department will be able to compile and maintain an up-to-date record of commercial properties

No small taskThis is a giant undertaking, Walsh recog-

nized, and one that has not been attempted before in Syracuse.

“Previously and for good reason we’ve pr i mar i ly d e -pended on the real estate com-munity” to keep track of available properties, Walsh said.

But knowing the full depth of the problem of empty storefronts and unused com-mercial space will be critical in solv-ing the problem.

“Having the information is the important part because you need to have the infor-mation before you can identify what the challenges are,” Walsh said.

It’s a method that worked for the Downtown Committee, a not-for-profit

that essentially exists to promote living and working in the downtown district of Syracuse.

In 1997, the Downtown Committee released its first economic development report and launched its own database of commercial properties within the district, providing a working model for the city-wide clearinghouse.

The Downtown Committee’s Director of Economic Development Merike Treier said having access to that kind of comprehensive clearinghouse allows the Downtown Com-mittee to act as a matchmaker between interested parties, like potential developers, and private real estate brokers.

She said the entire downtown district stands as evidence of how that tool has helped. The district, bordered on the north by Route 690, the east by I-81, the south by Adams Street and the west by Onondaga Creek, includes a fraction of the city’s com-mercial properties.

“It’s always been lucky that we had that information at our fingertips,” Treier said. “It would be wonderful to have that citywide.”

Ready resourcesA master list of vacant and available

commercial properties throughout the city has never been established, though several

entities maintain records of such properties for their own purposes, Walsh said.

Fire, codes and water departments all keep track of vacant spaces for their own use, but each department uses a different set of criteria for their lists.

Using those existing records, Walsh said the city could overlay what information is already available and fill in the holes with help from the community organizations.

So far the city has already linked to the Eastwood Chamber of Commerce, North-side Urban Partnership, the Near Westside Initiative, Jubilee Homes and other neigh-borhood economic organizations.

The city provides a template of what the final property list should look like, and the community groups use their resources to fill in the information.

In Eastwood, Stephen Skinner of the Eastwood Chamber of Commerce said the project is young but the community is com-mitted to improving the neighborhood.

“The Eastwood community is fed up with vacant and blighted buildings,” Skin-ner said. “The residents that live here are the ones that suffer most. It’s hard to lift up a community and teach a new generation to be responsible when all our young people see are buildings that are falling apart.”

One of the advantages of the citywide clearinghouse would be the ability to identify the worst problem areas in a given neighborhood, pockets of vacancies that could be targeted, Walsh said.

Skinner said the Eastwood community already knows its number one priority: the corner of James Street and Midler Avenue, where the former Steak and Sundae struc-ture sits empty and boarded up, along with a strip of smaller storefronts.

But empty buildings aren’t the only tar-get of the project. Underutilized properties are also a huge problem, Walsh said, most commonly a building with an active com-mercial site on the ground floor with empty, unused residential space on the top floors.

Just the beginningBoth Walsh and Treier recognized cre-

ating a partnership with the private real estate community could pose a challenge at first.

“Real estate is often times a competitive industry where information privacy is an important component,” Walsh said.

Developing a relationship that allows both the real estate community and the city to have the most comprehensive and up to date information can be a win-win, but it will take time, he said.

In December, the Common Coun-cil voted to allow Syracuse Urban Renewal Agency the authorization to seize properties with back taxes and resell them to new owners with a plan to rehabilitate the property.

Walsh said this new power does not just apply to residential structures.

“There’s nothing stopping SURA from acquiring commercial proper-ties,” he said.

“Our goal is to know the story on every piece of commercial property in the city.”

- Ben Walsh, deputy commissioner

of Neighborhood and Business

Development

In May, the Division of Code

Enforcement listed 1,650

vacant buildings in the city.

By December, that number

had ticked up to 1,863.

City takes aim on vacant, underused commercial properties

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Rehabilitating the former Steak and Sundae building at the corner of James Street and Midler Avenue in Eastwood is the top priority for that neighborhood, according to Eastwood resident and commercial real estate agent Stephen Skinner.

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Richard Breland Photograph Exhibition

Photo courtesy Joan Bryant.Richard Breland in front of his 1945 photo of his brothers on the steps of Hopps Memorial Church at last Thursday’s opening reception.

Richard Breland’s grandmother, Minnie Irons, left Bamburg, SC, in the 1920s. After stops in York, PA, and Brooklyn, the family settled on East Adams St. in Syracuse – part of the old 15th Ward – when Richard was two. When he was nine, he started taking pictures. Since last fall, curator Joan Bryant has been working with Breland to sort his photos and record his story for the Black Syracuse and Beyond project. Forty-nine newly restored prints were unveiled last Thursday in the second floor Pan-asci Lounge of Syracuse University’s Schine Student Center. They’ll be on view there until March 3rd. Despite the cold damp, the trudge up the hill, and several other arts events, almost 90 people turned out. Read more about the project and the photographer, along with other arts coverage from Eagle Newspapers, at theeaglecny.com – click A&E.


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On Feb. 3, Central New Yorkers will have a brand new “glossy” to get their hands on.

Syracuse Woman Magazine, a product of the partnership between Rochester Woman Magazine, LLC and Eagle Newspapers, launched its inaugural edition Feb. 3. An electronic version was released to subscrib-ers Jan. 31.

Copies of SWM can be found at local Tops and Wegmans, coffee shops and vari-ous area salons, spas and medical offices. Best of all? It’s free.

SWM is the “younger sister” of the already successful RWM, which was first published 10 years ago. RWM publishers Barbara McSpadden and Kelly Breuer bought the magazine in August 2009. A few months later, they re-launched the publica-tion with a new look and feel.

“Ever since we launched Rochester Woman Magazine last January, we’ve been asked to bring the publication to Syracuse,” McSpadden said. “We just felt that the time was right and the market was ready.”

Contributing a familiar voice to SWM is former Eagle Newspapers editor, Farah

Jadran, who is now the man-aging editor of Syracuse’s newest magazine. Jadran is also a contributor to WCNY’s “Central Issues,” and an ad-junct professor at the School of Communication, Media and the Arts at SUNY Os-wego. She is also an alumna of the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University.

“I have been hearing so much positive feedback from people on the street and on Facebook about how much they want a magazine like this in Syracuse,” Jadran said.

While working on her master’s degree in magazine journalism, Jadran said she always wanted to be a part of a woman’s magazine, one that is different from the majority.

Syracuse Woman Magazine is “different from the ‘typical’ women’s magazines you see at the store,” she said.

“It’s not only local to the Central New

York region, but it also fea-tures real, everyday women who represent what it is to be a ‘Syracuse woman,’” Jadran said. “It contains realistic ideals and positive reinforce-ment through an array of content.”

Each edition of SWM features content about lo-cal women who are inspir-ing one another through education, entrepreneurial achievements, community leadership and governmen-tal pursuits. Other sections exclusive to SWM include “Fashion Forward,” “Platter Chatter,” “The Opposite Sex,” “Fabulous Finds,” “Queen of

Arts,” and “In Her Own Words.”SWM chose to feature Onondaga

County Executive Joanne Mahoney on the cover because of her “down-to-earth” personality, political achievements and community leadership.

Mahoney is a “Syracuse Woman,” Jadran

said.“She is easy to relate to because she is

who she is,” she said. “There are no sur-prises. She is passionate about Onondaga County and keeps an open mind when making important decisions.”

Jadran says SWM readers will learn some new things they didn’t know about their county executive.

SWM will be celebrating the launch of the inaugural edition Friday Feb. 4 at Café 407 in Liverpool.

SWM will be offered bi-monthly as a glossy, full color, printed magazine that will be distributed free in more than 300 local venues including most Wegmans and Tops markets. The magazine will be printed bimonthly until September 2011, when it will start coming out monthly. It will also be produced as an interactive publication and e-mailed directly to subscribers just before it hits the news stands.

Sign up or a free e-mail subscription at syracusewomanmag.com. Readers can also become fans of SWM on Facebook by searching “Syracuse Woman Magazine.”

‘Real women’ are the focus of Syracuse Woman Magazine, launching this week

Former Eagle Newspapers editor Farah Jadran will serve as editor of Syracuse Woman Magazine, launching this week.


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Creating our own City of Syracuse Economic Stimulus I recently bought flowers for a friend to

celebrate a birthday. As I scanned the list-ings for a florist I could only locate one in the immediate downtown area. I thought about the days when there were over a dozen.

As I’ve lived in different parts of the city I consciously tried to shop in close proximity to where a lived. This was before

the much maligned Stimulus Package. In thinking of those days and how we’re all

linked economically I decided to craft a local stimulus plan. Local to your neigh-borhood, your business district, perhaps on your city street.

Now there’s only one florist downtown and within our community neighborhood centers there are a lot of businesses that are barely making it. Your local dry cleaner, convenience store, bookstore and more are

at the base level of our local economy. We can’t wait for a large company to

swoop in and create entry level jobs for our youth and those without skills re-entering the workforce.

Where there’s a local neighborhood diner, stop in and buy something once in a while. Have some coffee or breakfast. If there’s a service you can purchase locally, do so. And not just dry cleaning.

The Eastwood neighborhood center has a variety of goods and services, same goes for Westcott Street, Tipp Hill, South Avenue, Geddes Street and other business corridors in Syracuse.

There are restaurants and insurance agents, gas stations and, especially in the Westcott Nation, several restaurants that employ dozens of neighborhood residents. This is true for Tipp Hill with Rosie’s, Coleman’s, Original Italian Pizza, The Brooklyn Pickle, and the recently renovat-ed Cole/Mavis auto repair shop, along with others. There’s economic energy all over our city, you just have to find it.

Take a look at Armory Square, Little

Italy, and don’t forget the Syracuse Univer-sity area. My point is simple. We need to support our local area businesses.

If you’re downtown, don’t call 1-800-FLOWERS, it adds pennies to a local mer-chants cash register. Venture out of your office or get on the phone -- there’s a florist that can provide service right around the corner. By purchasing locally the money stays here in Syracuse longer, giving others a chance to break off a little piece of profit before it goes out of state or out of the country.

Instead of waiting for our President, Governor, County Executive or Mayor to create economic development scenarios for investors, we the citizens need to get off our collective butts and support our local merchants. I don’t care if it’s flowers, coffee, clothing, lunch or medicine. Stop. The store you save may be your own.

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

Ken JacksonUrban CNY

Mayor Stephanie Miner’s State of the City Address on Jan. 27 was an elegant promise to the residents of Syracuse that the opportunities for reform presented by the ongoing fis-cal crisis would not be ignored.

While she urged Albany to do the same, Miner listed ways the city would make this seemingly bleak situation work for us in the next year.

Making it easier to make prog-ress was a refreshing theme. We’re excited to see how Miner’s proposal to exclude small repair projects, like replacing windows in a home, from the burden of the project site review process will pan out.

But our favorite announcement? Less paper. The Mayor announced that in

the Division of Code Enforcement, a new software system would be implemented to drastically reduce not only the physical paper being shuffled around every day but the metaphorical red tape that came along with it. Piles of paper bogged things down, and for a department that was supposed to help clean up the city, all that paper made an aw-ful mess.

So this year the codes office will, finally, move into the 21st century. Officers will hit the streets with tablet PCs and the entire process, from complaint to follow up, will become electronic. The system will complement the modernization of the City Line hotline, which will allow complaints and inquiries to be made online in addition to a more streamlined over-the-phone option.

Our only complaint is, what took so long? Should we be excited or worried that it took this long to implement e-mail in the codes office?

And don’t let any out-of-town-ers get wind that we’re just getting around to this, or they may not take our self-imposed Emerald City status very seriously.

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Thursday Feb. 3Weekday Snowshoe Jaunt. 1:30

PM. Hour-long outing with a naturalist. Beaver Lake Nature Center. $3/snowshoe rental. 638-2519.

“The Purity of the White Woman: Race, Gender and Religion in Ameri-can Anti-Miscegenation Law.” 4 PM. Lecture by Fay Botham. Reilly Hall, LeM-oyne College. Free. Lemoyne.edu.

Prime Rib Buffet Dinner. 6-8:30 PM. Skyline Lodge, Highland Forest. $14.95/adult, $7.50 ages 5-11; under 5 free. Pre-register. 683-5550.

Harry Crocker and the Sorcerer’s Stone. 6:45 PM. Acme Mystery Company presents interactive mystery dinner the-ater. Spaghetti Warehouse, 689 N. Clinton St. $32.50 plus tax and tip. Acmemystery-theater.com.

The Brew. Doors at 7 PM, show at 8. Indie rock/pop band with The Brethren. Westcott Theater. $10. Thewestcottthe-ater.com.

CNY Autism Society of America. 7-9 PM. Jowonio School. 3049 E. Genesee St, Syracuse. 447-4466.

Palace Poetry Group. 7-8:15 PM. Fea-tured reader Omanii Abdulla shares “life experience poetry,” followed by open mic. Books and Memories, 2600 James St. Free. 479-8157.

Friday Feb. 4Family Fun Sweetheart Dance Party.

6-8 PM. Bring a “play date” and enjoy Valentine’s day themed activities and crafts, facepainting, juice, and popcorn. KidzClub Indoor Play and Party Place. 219 County Route 7, Phoenix. $8/kids 8 and under, adults and non-walking siblings/free. 695-2211.

Eric Krasno and Chapter 2. Doors at 7 PM, show at 8. Funk rock band with Big Sam’s Funky Nation and Sophistafunk. Westcott Theater. $15-$20. Thewestcott-theater.com.

Syracuse Stamp Club. 8 PM. Play Stampo, (bingo with stamps), at monthly meeting. Reformed Church of Syracuse, 1228 Teall Ave. Free. Syracusestampclub.org.

Red House Live. 8 PM. Improv comedy with the Red House troupe. Red House Arts Center, 201 S. West St. $10. Thered-house.org.

Dala. 8 PM. Canadian folk rock duo

make Folkus Project debut in Syracuse. May Memorial Unitarian Society, 3800 E. Genesee St. $. Folkus.org.

Beyond the Score: Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons. 8 PM. Syracuse Symphony Orchestra presents concert designed for newcomers as well as classical music afi-cionados. Crouse Hinds Concert Theater, Mulroy Civic Center. $. Syracusesym-phony.org.

Opera Karaoke. 10 PM. Syracuse Op-era invites inspired and aspiring singers; sheet music and pianist provided. Opus Restaurant, 218 Walton St. Free. Syra-cuseopera.com.

Saturday Feb. 5Bishop Ludden Placement Exam.

8 AM. For students in 6th or 8th grade seeking entry in September 2009. Shad-owing dates available through April. $15. 815 Fay Road, Syracuse. Pre-register. 468-0053.

Home Depot Kids Workshops. 9 AM-noon. Children ages 5-12 ac-companied by an adult learn about tool safety while building from project kits. Each child also receives an apron and pin. Free. Pre-register at your local Home Depot.

Sweets for Your Sweetie Book & Bake Sale. 10 AM-3 PM. Used books, videos, audiotapes, DVDs and CDs along with baked goods for sale. “Books in a Bag Sale” from 2-3 PM. NOPL @ Cicero Library.

699-2032.A World of Puppets. 11 AM. Fam-

ily puppetry performance. Open Hand Puppet Theater. $6/children, $8/adults. Pre-register. 476-0466.

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

“A cappella for the Fellas 2011.” 7 PM. Award-winning a capella groups perform to raise money for Syracuse Rescue Mis-sion. Storer Auditorium, OCC. $.

Donna The Buffalo. Doors at 7 PM, show at 8. Roots-blues band with Roy Jay Band. Westcott Theater. $20-$23. Valentine’s in the Forest. 7-11 AM. Dinner, horse-drawn sleigh ride, and dancing. Benefits Nordic Ski Patrol. High-

land Forest. $80 per couple. Pre-register. 683-5550.

Syracuse Crunch Hockey. 7:30 PM. War Memorial at Oncenter. $. 473-4444.

Beyond the Score: Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons. 8 PM. Syracuse Symphony Orchestra presents concert designed for newcomers as well as classical music afi-cionados. Crouse Hinds Concert Theater, Mulroy Civic Center. $. Syracusesym-phony.org.

Folkstrings. 8 PM. Mix of bluegrass, roots, gospel and folk. Red House Arts Center, 201 S. West St. $15; $12 for se-niors and students. Redhouseartscenter.com.

Sunday Feb. 6Mid-winter Blues Run at Beaver Lake.

9:45 AM. 5K run with proceeds to benefit Beaver Lake Nature Center. $20 entry fee. 638-2519.

Creature Feature. 10 AM-3 PM. Learn about different animals in the zoo. Rosa-mond Gifford Zoo. 435-8511.

Free Sunday at the Sciencenter. Noon-5 PM. Free admission. Sciencenter, Ithaca. 607-272-0600.

Society for New Music. 2 PM. Arts Alive in Liverpool presents concert. Liverpool Public Library, 310 Tulip St., Liverpool. Free. Lpl.org.

Sunday Musicale: Luba Lesser. 2 PM. Mezzo-soprano accompanied by pianist Mazhukhova-Dubaniewicz. Fayetteville Free Library, 300 Orchard St., Fayetteville. Free. Fayettevillefreelibrary.org.

Bluegrass Showcase. 3 PM. Featur-ing Harvey Nusbaum and Salt Potatoes, presented by Central New York Bluegrass Association. Marcellus American Legion Hall, 13 E. Main St., Marcellus. $8-$10. Cnyba.com.

Monday Feb. 7Justifying Evil: Being Jewish in a non-

Jewish World. 6 PM. Lecture for Profes-sor Laurence Thomas. Temple Society of Concord. 910 Madison St, Syracuse. Free. 475-9952.

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.Boston Valley Terra Cotta is an industry leader; catch a

lecture by the people who made it great on Tuesday Feb. 8 at SU. See The Guide, page 10

Roots legend Donna the Buffalo rocks the Westcott Saturday Feb. 5.


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Male Athlete of the WeekNick Holzhauer, West Genesee ice hockeyIn three games against Watertown IHC, Corcoran and Fayetteville-Manlius, which the Wildcats won by a combined 26-0 margin, Holzhauer, a senior captain, amassed seven goals and four assists, highlighted by a three-goal hat trick against Corcoran.

Female Athlete of the WeekElizabeth Lane, Skaneateles girls basketballLane, just an eighth-grader, has emerged as one of the Lakers’ top offensive threats. Lane had 15 points in her team’s 41-39 upset of state-ranked Jordan-Elbridge 41-39, then added 23 points as Skaneateles edged Bishop Ludden 53-52.

SU should save SSO!Last year the deepening re-

cession shook the world of clas-sical music as regional orchestras found themselves drowning in a flood of red ink. Many, including our own Syracuse Symphony Orchestra, cancelled concerts.

The Charleston Symphony Orchestra gave up the ghost after 75 seasons. The Honolulu Symphony went bankrupt. A contentious mu-sicians’ strike idled the Detroit Symphony, and the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra was demoralized by its shortened season and 13.5 percent pay cuts.

Now the Syracuse Symphony also appears to be teetering on its last legs.

Cultural myth vs. cultural assetOne of the more forward-thinking ideas

about how to save the financially strapped Syracuse Symphony Orchestra comes from Alan Isserlis of DeWitt.

A longtime observer of the ups and downs of downtown Syracuse, Isserlis suggests, “Divert public funds allocated to the Connective Cor-ridor (a cultural myth) to a real cultural asset of socio-economic importance, the Syracuse Symphony Orchestra. The ‘corridor’ will not be missed; the orchestra would be.”

Desperate fund-raisingLike a lot of locals, Isserlis expresses a healthy

pessimism about Syracuse University’s so-called Connective Corridor, but he wisely applauds the university’s efforts to interact with the city. Nothing is more important to Syracuse’s cul-tural status than the continuation of the SSO, which requested $200,000 from the Onondaga County Legislature’s Ways & Means Commit-tee on Jan. 25. Unless that money is raised by Feb. 4, SSO executives said, the symphony will cancel the balance of its 50th anniversary concert

season.But the county, which

is itself financially overbur-dened, already gave the SSO $404,465 for 2011. So a des-perate public fund-raising effort is underway to save

the symphony.But the county, which is itself financially

overburdened, already gave the SSO $404,465 for 2011. So a desperate public fund-raising effort is underway to save the symphony by collecting $1.7 million in donations. Good luck…

Here’s another idea:

Syracuse University should take over the Syra-cuse Symphony Orchestra.

Last May, SU and the SSO entered into an ex-panded partnership which included the appointment of SSO Music Director Daniel Hege as a professor of practice in SU’s College of Visual and Performing Arts; an increase in the number of SU-SSO co-presented concerts and increased opportunities for the university community to collaborate with SSO musicians and guest artists.

So the foundation has been laid for SU to take the next step and fully absorb the SSO’s operations.

After all, SU is Syracuse’s wealthiest and most culturally concerned institution. SU has endow-ment assets worth $1,031.6 million, according to Bloomberg Businessweek.

That’s $1 billion plus $31 million!

The SSO’s annual budget is about $7 million, a mere drop in SU’s golden bucket.

Cantor: ‘SSO an absolute gem’An SU-SSO merger would provide oppor-

tunities for students enrolled in the prestigious Setnor School of Music to perform with the SSO, as well as forge interaction between the

SSO and students and faculty in VPA, the School of Education and the Ne-whouse School of Public Communications.

Last May, SU Chancel-lor Nancy Cantor praised the SSO as “an absolute gem, one of the key cultural anchors of Syracuse and Central New York.”

Now Cantor has a chance to back up her words with action.

“Expanding our rela-tionship just makes sense in so many ways, opening up new creative avenues for both the symphony’s profoundly talented pro-fessionals and SU’s bright, entrepreneurial students

from a range of academic programs,” she said eight months ago.

Dan Hege, who has helmed the SSO for 12 years now, agreed.

“The increased collaboration between the Syracuse Symphony Orchestra and Syracuse University seems natural,” he said in May.

‘Makes sense’Now that the bills are due, who should save

the SSO? To use Cantor’s and Hege’s own words, SU sure makes sense. SU sure seems natural.

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Best Bets: MusicScott & Hartwell jam at the Dino

Yonrico Scott, the drummer for the Derek Trucks Band, appears with guitarist Geoff Hartwell at 10 p.m., Thursday, Feb. 3, at the Dinosaur Bar-B-Que, 246 W. Willow St. at the corner of South Franklin, downtown; 476-4937. Admission is free.

Scott is the son of Detroit gospel singer Ruth Scott, who has accompanied everyone from Aretha Franklin to Outkast. Hartwell is a New York-bred slide guitarist who has worked with Greg Allman, Sonny Landreth and Cindy Cashdollar.

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Selected as Vocal Group of the Year at the 2010 Canadian Folk Music Awards, Dala makes its Syracuse debut at 8 p.m. Friday Feb. 4, at May Memorial Unitarian Universalist Church, 3800 East Genesee St. Admission costs $15.

The duo’s latest album, “Everyone is Some-one,” earned a Canadian Folk Music Award nomination, a Toronto Independent Music Award for Best Folk Group, and was touted by The Irish Post as the Album of the Year.

Amanda Walther and Sheila Carabine are Dala, whose music combines beautiful har-monies, compelling stories and memorable melodies. Walther’s ethereal soprano blends seamlessly with Carabine’s velvety alto as they draw upon influences such as The Beatles, Joni Mitchell, Neil Young and Bob Dylan.

Friday’s concert is hosted by The Folkus Proj-ect. For reservations, call 440-7444.

Canadian folk duo Dala consists of Amanda Walther and Sheila Carabine. They perform here Friday.

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A cappella for the fellasSix vocal groups will perform a benefit

concert for the Syracuse Rescue Mission at 7 p.m. Saturday, Feb.5, at Storer Auditorium at Onondaga Community College.

Four award-winning collegiate groups -- Closer Still from SUNY Oswego, The Crosbys from SUNY Binghamton, and Ithacappella and Premium Blend both from Ithaca College -- will perform along with special guests The Geneva Convention and No Xcuse.

The concert be staged in Storer Auditorium

of Ferrante Hall on the OCC campus at 4585 W.Seneca Tpk., on Onondaga Hill. Parking is available in Lot 4. Tickets cost $20 at the door, $15 in advance and for senior citizens and $10 for students; 478-9710; rmsyr.org.

The Syracuse Rescue Mission serves CNY’s homeless population at 155 Gifford St

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Swingin’ Sweet Cabaret SaturdayThis year marks the tenth anniversary of the

Swingin’ Sweet Cabaret, will be staged from 7:30 to 11:30 p.m. Saturday Feb. 5, at the Oncenter complex, 800 S. State St., downtown.

The dining-and-dancing event, which fea-

tures the Mario DeSantis Orchestra, was started in 2001 by the Rev. Joseph Champlin to raise money for the Guardian Angel Society. Msgr. Champlin died in 2008.

Singing with the DeSantis Orchestra will be Keith Condon, Maria DeSantis, Isreal Hagan, Doug Moncrief and Joe Whiting.

Sweet Cabaret’s food features a made-to-or-der pasta extravaganza, an antipasto bar and a mouth-watering chocolate fountain with fruits and sweet treats.

Tickets cost $75 per person or $125 for two. For information, call 422-7218.

Luba Lesser sings SundayRussian-born vocalis, Luba Lesser will

perform a recital of love songs and arias by composers such as, Mozart, Schumann, Brahms, Rossini and Rachmaninov on Sun-day at 2 p.m., at the Fayetteville Free Library, 300 Orchard St., in Fayetteville.

The talented mezzo-soprano will be aco-manied by pianist Maryna Mazhukhova. The performance is sponsored by The Fayetteville Free Library Motto Sheet Music Collection and the Friends of the FFL. Admission is free; 637-6374.

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and related science activity for toddlers and preschoolers. Included with admis-sion. Kids under three receive free admis-sion. Sciencenter, Ithaca. 607-272-0600.

Visiting Artist Lecture Series. 6:30 PM. President and general manager of Boston Valley Terra Cotta will speak. Shemin Auditorium, Shaffer Art Building, SU. Free, discounted parking at Booth Garage.

SU Women’s Basketball Game. 7 PM.

Syracuse University. $. 443-2121. A Tribute to Duke Ellington. 7:30 PM.

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Excision. 8 PM. Electronic; with Down-link, Anti Serum and Mikey Parkay. West-cott Theater. $. Thewestcotttheater.com.

Wednesday Feb. 9MOMS Club East. 9:30-11:30 AM.

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

HOPE.network. Noon-2 PM. Faith-

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A February Valentine Concert of Love. 12:30 PM. Civic Morning Musicals concert featuring Syracuse Chorale Chamber Sing-ers and conductor Warren Ottey. Hosmer Auditorium, Everson Museum of Art. Free.

Cross Country Ski Basics. 1:30-3:30 PM. Participants must bring their own skis. Beaver Lake Nature Center. $10. 638-2510.

SU Men’s Basketball Game. 7 PM. Car-rier Dome. $. 443-2121.

Tea Leaf Green. Doors at 7 PM, show at 8. Psychedelic jam band, with The Bridge. Westcott Theater. $15-$22. Thewestcott-theater.com.

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Selected residential and business-owned buildings in Syracuse may be getting a face-lift when the Connective Corridor Façade Improvement Program launches this month.

The Façade Improvement Program pro-vides funding assistance to properties lo-cated along the Connective Corridor route. The Empire State Development Corporation will provide the funding for the program.

Last June, the Syracuse Common Coun-cil voted to start the Façade Improvement Program along with installing a bike bodega and streetscape work of the West Fayette Street/West Street intersection.

Qualified applicants are those establish-ments located along the Connective Corri-dor route and those with at least one façade of the property facing the Connector and Civic Strip routes.

Once the application process for the Fa-çade Improvement Program starts later this month Connective Corridor bus riders will

have new sites to see.Tenants and property owners are both

welcome to apply, but tenants must have a current lease agreement and statement from the property owner allowing them to do

construction on the building.There program will inject up to $625,000

into the streetscape, with a maximum of $25,000 will available per qualifying prop-erty. The program will continue until all the

funds are gone.As a part of the application process all ap-

plicants have to submit a design component incorporating the Connective Corridor’s distinct identity. There is a set of rules on how Connective Corridor colors, typogra-phy, and logos can be used.

Eligible property owners will be notified once applications are available at the end of this month.

The Connective Corridor was created to connect the Syracuse University community with the arts scene in downtown Syracuse and features a free bus provided by Centro that brings people from SU campus into the downtown arts area. For a list of Connec-tive Corridor venues and a route map, visit theeaglecny.com.

- Gina ColonetteThe Eagle intern

A fresh fleet of three new Centro buses will soon be rolling on the Connec-tive Corridor route.

The “museum bus,” above, is one of the three newly designed buses set to debut this month.

“When I showed the designs to people, the general response was, ‘Centro’s never going to let you do this.’ Actually, they’ve been amazing!” said Connec-tive Corridor Director Robbi Farschman.

For the full story and a map of the Connective Corridor route, visit theeaglecny.com.

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Politics for your playlistThe campaign fervor has died down (for

now), but you can still keep your political prongs sharp.

Both the Young Democrats and Young Republicans of NY both offer free podcasts on iTunes. The Young Dems launched their own monthly podcast channel just this month, hosted by NYSYD President Kevin Lawrie, and debuted with a 30-minute con-

versation with state Democratic Party Chair Jay Jacobs.

Their blue counterparts boast an archive of weekly installments dating back to Octo-ber 2009. Hosted by a crew of self-described right-wingers, the Republican shows are

slightly more of a time commitment and range from in-depth conversations with elected officials and campaign managers to chats with scholars focusing on timely topics.

Find the NYS Young Democrats by searching “NYSYD” on iTunes; the Young Republicans can be found at The Right Hook Radio podcast station.

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Jordan reptile rescuer faces 59 charges from CNY SPCA

Diana Sleiertin, owner of MaxMan Reptile Rescue in Jordan, has been in and out of court since the Central New York SPCA seized more than 40 reptiles from her home in Jordan in late October.

Sleiertin currently faces 45 charges of im-proper confinement (a misdemeanor) and 14 additional charges for failure to provide medi-cal care. The case is being reviewed by a town of Elbridge judge, and Sleiertin could receive up to $1,000 per charge and up to two years of prison.

Central New York SPCA Director Paul Morgan said he obtained a warrant to go into Sleiertin’s house after receiving statements from former MaxMan volunteers claiming the condi-tions inside her home were deplorable and the animals were not being given proper care.

Morgan, who has turned to MaxMan for help with reptiles in the past, said Sleiertin is a valuable resource, but feels she got in over her head.

“I think her intentions were good in the be-ginning, but I think unfortunately she became a hoarder,” he said. “She just got too many to care for.”

Morgan said the SPCA found close to 70 reptiles in Sleiertin’s home, and that they were “all over the place, in her kitchen and living room.”

Sleiertin has declined comment at the ad-vice of her attorney, but MaxMan volunteers and others, including veterinarians who have worked closely with Sleiertin, contest the notion that Sleiertin got in over her head.

Linda Fay, a MaxMan volunteer who has known Sleiertin for about five years, said most of Sleiertin’s reptiles are kept in the “reptile room,” and all reptiles are kept in proper enclosures with appropriate heat and lighting. Some rep-tiles are kept throughout the house, but always in cages or tanks, Fay said.

“Sometimes it’s messier than other times, but it’s not like something you’d see on hoarders,” she said. Fay added that Sleiertin is more than equipped to take care of the reptiles she has, and can turn to her crew of volunteers for assistance. MaxMan is staffed with around 45 volunteers and offers a junior volunteer program for kids ages 8 to 18.

Fay and other supporters of Sleiertin feel the SPCA should have conducted a more thorough investigation before entering Sleiertin’s home unannounced and seizing the reptiles. Among those supporters is Laura Cook, a practicing small animal veterinarian with more than 21 years of experience.

“I have gotten to know Diana and her ani-

mals fairly well as they have presented for the New York State Veterinary Medical Society at our DVM exhibit at the New York State Fair for the last several years,” Cook said. “Diana and her animals have been a welcome addition at our exhibit … Her knowledge of the animals she keeps is outstanding.”

Cook was a humane officer in Tompkins County for three years.

“I find it from a humane officer’s point of view a serious breach of conduct that no effort was made to investigate conditions personally or interview Diana prior to seizing the animals,” she said. “Education should come first in my opinion, and seizure of animals, stressing them severely and putting them into an already strained shelter and adoption system, should be a last resort.”

Morgan insists that conditions inside Sleiertin’s home were unsatisfactory and that the SPCA was justified in seizing the animals. He said he hopes to help Sleiertin come to a compromise with how many animals she has under her care.

“One of the things we need to establish through this process is how many animals is too much,” Morgan said. “We’re not here to destroy Diana’s life … she’s a very resourceful person in the reptile world.”

While the case awaits a decision, the rep-tiles remain in the possession of the SPCA. An iguana was returned to Diana by the judge’s order after Sleiertin’s attorney brought it to the court’s attention that the reptile was the personal pet of Sleiertin’s son.

Fay said the iguana was returned in poorer shape than it was in when first confiscated. “It came back dehydrated, underweight, it lost quite a bit of weight,” she said. She feels the SPCA is not equipped to care for reptiles.

“The SPCA is used to taking care of cats and dogs and the occasional bunny,” she said.

Morgan said the SPCA is equipped to take care of reptiles and that the seized animals are being given proper care. The animals will re-main with the SPCA until the judge comes to a decision, Morgan said.

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Town of Geddes looks to abolish receiver of taxes office

The town of Geddes will hold a referendum vote from noon to 8 p.m. Feb. 22 at Geddes Town Hall to decide whether to abolish the town receiver of taxes and assessment office — a move that would save taxpayers about $100,000 annually.

According to Town Supervisor Manny Falcone, the time is right to hand the duties of the tax receiver over to the town clerk, a posi-tion currently held by Joe Ranieri. The clerk’s office is also equipped with a full-time deputy clerk, Linda Casertano. The town board held the first of three informational meetings on the subject Jan. 25 a Robinson Memorial Church in Geddes.

“Where we are right now is we’re in tax season, and tax season runs until mid April,” Falcone said prior to the meeting. “The current receiver of taxes, Carol Mecca, has already made it known to us that she’s going to retire as of April 31, and at that point, if the referendum passes, it will automatically, as of May 1, move to the town clerk’s responsibility.”

The board voted unanimously in December to consolidate the two offices as a result of in-creasingly tight budget restrictions. The county’s 2010 decision to eliminate sales tax revenue shared with towns over the next three years in-spired the town board to look at all departments and consolidate wherever possible. The town of

Geddes used to receive $2.9 million in sales tax revenue from the county annually.

The board will present again at 7 p.m. Feb. 3 at the John Carno Recreation Center, 823 State Fair Blvd. Absentee ballots for the Feb. 22 referendum vote can be obtained through the town clerk’s office.


Community shuts down damaging Facebook page

Free speech is one thing, but the Facebook profile page called “Listof West Genesee Fagz (Andsome Hoezz)” is another, says West Gen-esee Superintendent Chris Brown.

Brown began efforts to have the page re-moved when students notified him of the it about three weeks ago, and gained assistance from the the District Attorney and the Camillus Police Department.

The page had been down, but was up again the morning of Friday Jan. 28. The Camillus Police Department asked the public to help shut down the page by finding it and clicking “report/block this person.” By Friday afternoon, the page was down for good.

Brown was shown screen shots and print-ups from the profile page, which could only be accessed after being accepted as a “friend.” Brown said the page displayed derogatory com-ments about both female and male students.

“It [contained] pictures and comments from people not only from West Genesee, but other schools as well,” he said.

Brown was frustrated with Facebook’s pace in removing the page. As a superintendent, Brown’s only means of contacting Facebook involves listening to an automated message and leaving a voicemail.

“I understand we’re a very small player in this,” Brown said, “but this is happening all over the world.”

One of the superintendent’s biggest con-cerns was that students posting on the public site could have had their names broadcasted in the news.

West Genesee faced a similar situation about four months ago when students brought to Brown’s attention a Facebook page called “WG Hoes,” also containing pictures of students and derogatory comments. The district’s school resource officer found the creator of that page within eight hours and arrested him on eight charges of aggravated harassment.


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Diana Sleiertin holds Dante, a Burmese python, in May 2008. Dante had escaped from his enclosure the week prior to this photo, when Sleiertin said someone came onto her property and open animal enclosures to release them. She faces 45 charges of improper confinement and 14 charges of failure to provide medical care.


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By Russ Tarby

The Adirondack Phantoms are the losing-est team in the entire 30-team American Hockey League. The Glens Fall-based skaters have lost 29 games so far this season while winning just 15.

So why can’t the Syracuse Crunch beat these losers?

The Phantoms, the top farm team of the NHL’s Philadelphia Flyers, have beaten the Crunch all five times the two clubs have met this year. And the last time was a heartbreaker.

Adirondack took a quick 2-0 lead in the first period Saturday, Jan. 29, at the Onondaga County War Memorial, but the Crunch battled back boldly to tie the game at 4-4 in the second, only to lose by a final score of 6-4.

“This is definitely a team we’ve struggled against this year,” said Crunch winger David Laliberte, who played for Adirondack at the beginning of the season.

During the game’s first intermission, Crunch

Coach Mark Holick gave his players a piece of his mind, and he wasn’t thinking happy thoughts. Holick hollered loudly and profanely, and even threw a few things around the locker room, Lalliberte said. “So we came out fired up in the second.”

Hard-fought goals were scored by Crunch forward Nicolas Deschamps, MacGregor Sharp and Dan Sexton in the second period, on top of a spectacular first-period slap shot by Nick Bonino which actually sent the puck through the twine of the Adirondack goal.

In the third frame, Phantoms left winger Michael Ryan scored his thirteenth goal of the campaign to lift his team to victory before hammering a nail in the Crunch coffin with an empty-netter with ten seconds left to play. Since he’d also scored in the second, Ryan finished the night with a hat trick.

The bad blood between these two East Division cellar-dwelling teams was evident throughout the game as more than ten penalties were levied including two for fighting and one

for unsportsmanlike conduct (Patrick Maroon of the Crunch).

Most Crunch players have this week off because the AHL All-Star game was scheduled for Jan. 31 in Hershey, Pa. Syracuse right winger Kyle Palmieri is the team’s lone all-star, set to play on the Eastern Conference squad.

Palmieri, 19, has appeared in 32 games with the Crunch this season, notching 11 goals and eight assists. On Nov. 3, the Anaheim Ducks called up the Long Island native to make his

NHL debut, and he promptly netted a goal in a 4-3 overtime win against Tampa Bay.

When the Crunch regroup next Friday, guess who they play first? Yep, they’ll face off against the Adirondack Phantoms in Glens Falls.

Syracuse’s next home game is set for 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 5, as they take on the Scran-ton/Wilkes Barre Penguins at the War Memo-rial. Ticket prices range between $13 and $22; 473-4444; syracusecrunch.com.

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He’s not exactly Lady Liberty, but Norberto said the gimmick “works pretty good.”

Upstate Snowdown puts the white stuff to good use

Celebrate winter with the Stewards of Lipe Art Park, 40 Below’s Public Arts Task Force and the Near Westside Initiative during Upstate Snowdown, a fundraising party and snow cel-ebration from 1 to 4 p.m. Saturday Feb. 5 at Lipe Art Park, 900 W. Fayette St., Syracuse.

Community members are invited to partici-pate in (or just enjoy) a no-rules snow sculpture competition, try their aim at the snowball target range and peruse the ice gallery wall. All types of snow gear, including cross-country skis and snowshoes, are encouraged.

Creative homemade cupcakes and hot bev-erages will also be available. The NWSI is donat-ing hot chocolate and coffee for the event. All proceeds raised will be pumped into public art projects and singular events around Syracuse.

Those interested in participating in the snow sculpture competition should e-mail [email protected] to reserve a spot and get more information about the contest. Snow in 12- by 12-foot parcels will be allotted at $10 a plot. Prizes will be awarded for sculptures.

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Guitarist Mark Hoffmann hosts one of his regular R&B jams at the old ski barn from 8 p.m. to midnight, Saturday, Feb. 5, at Syracuse University’s South Campus on Skytop Road, off East Colvin Street. Among the musicians will be Syracuse’s own Chris Jones, son of Philly Joe Jones, on drums, and bassist Bob Purdy, formerly of Mossback Mule Band and the Roosevelt Dean Band. Admission costs $5. For info, call 558-1335.

An acoustic jam takes place every Sunday at 1 p.m., at Kellish Hill Farm, 3192 Pompey Center Road, just outside Manlius. The sug-gested donation is $2, “or whatever you can give to keep the music flowing,” said Kathy Kellish. “Come listen or bring an instrument to play.” The session is followed by a pot luck dinner at 5 p.m.; rhbamericana.com.

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