I met and wrote about Eastwood neighbor Rebecca Fuentes some time ago, but it wasn’t until we took the Community Foundation’s “The Leadership Classroom” course together that I got to know what a quiet powerhouse she is. Taking the course meant showing up for most of a Saturday, once a month for nine months. Plus there . . . → Read More: Eastwood powerhouse Rebecca Fuentes
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One of the most riveting speeches I have ever heard, and only 6 minutes long. Given by a 12-year-old at the 1992 UN Earth Summit in Brazil. Please watch this: Now please put a 1-hour break from life on your calendar: Tuesday, March 22, 5:30 – 6:15 pm Radioactivity in the air or in the water is something neither we nor the Japanese ever thought we’d have to face. Nuclear reactors in earthquake zones suddenly don’t make sense. Did hydro-fracking ever make sense? Your presence at Tuesday’s rally will make a difference (see below). Please read the following (bolding mine): Lifton Calls For Public . . . → Read More: Lifton Calls For Public Hearing on Hydrofracking The following is excerpted from an essay, circa 1941, by Nelson Algren, a writer from the Chicago office of the Illinois Writers’ Project (Federal Writers’ Project), entitled A Short History of the American Diet. When you consider the wholesale destruction of the largest herd the planet has even known, the plains bison, in light of our . . . → Read More: Destroying the food of one’s own sons It’s happening to them, not me. They are far away. Not my concern. It’s too big an issue to wrap my mind around it. It’s so bad, it can’t actually be happening. It’s someone else’s job to make sure this doesn’t happen here. Our state government will protect us from it. Yeah, right. On Tuesday, March 22, at . . . → Read More: Is Horseheads too far away for us to care? Following is all the text from an email I got today. I have no need to add to it: Rally to Protect NYS from Radioactive Fracking Waste Tuesday, March 22nd Thornden Park, off of Beech St. and Ostrom, near SU Call for clean, safe water, air and food No to Hydro-Fracking New York State dodged a bullet, rather easily, as it turns out. When Andrew Cuomo won the race for governor by a landslide, we were spared more of Carl Paladino, the charming fellow who tore down our historic bowling alley and then left the property to rot. Seems he has a history of allowing buildings to . . . → Read More: The men who would be king A good number of us have family living in the small towns across New York State where jobs are hard to come by and the views are some of the best in the world – literally. Where the water is still clean and abundant and so is the air. We take these things for granted when . . . → Read More: Where are your relatives? The environmental disaster created by hydrofracking has finally hit the front page of the New York Times. It’s a lot worse than we’ve been led to believe. “We’re burning the furniture to heat the house,” said John H. Quigley, who left last month as secretary of Pennsylvania’s Department of Conservation and Natural Resources. The NY Times has done . . . → Read More: Burning the furniture to heat the house It’s funny, when you’re out searching for cars to ticket in Eastwood, it’s really hard to tell which cars belong to writers and bloggers and which belong to people who will put up and shut up. Well, this is the second time the parking folks have goofed and issued tickets affecting those of us who won’t . . . → Read More: “Pickpockets” in Eastwood There’s nothing that gets an Eastwood person more hoppin’ mad than a threat to the always-on-the-brink James Street business district. Similarly, there’s always much rejoicing when something – anything – goes right there. We’ve fought to keep gas stations from popping up all over the place. We’ve lived through the years of the Walgreens battles, which . . . → Read More: Those Eastwood people are at it again UPDATE – The date of this event has changed, and Puente Flamenco unfortunately could not play on the new date, so they won’t be there. We apologize for the confusion. See revised date below: Featuring Grupo Pagán with performances by: What’s wrong with this first picture? Google maps has a nifty function now by which you can easily see the locations of dedicated bike paths, such as canal or rail trails (dark green), bike lanes in streets (light green), and recommended streets for bike travel (dotted green). In searching out bike paths in the Central New . . . → Read More: Biking near Syracuse… or Rochester I’ve been reading The Checklist Manifesto by Atul Gawande and am taking away two key ideas, neatly expressed by reviewer Davis Liu: Dr. Gawande makes two points, checklists and clear communications among teams, are absolutely required to decrease errors and problems and increase the chances of absolutely the best outcome, whether in constructing buildings, flying airplanes, and . . . → Read More: Eastwood is a team member Over a month has gone by since my last post! How can that be? Well, after moving a few tons of snow, like we all did in December, hubby and I escaped to sunny New York City for a week. It was gorgeous… we got to walk across the Brooklyn Bridge on a stunning day. Then… the . . . → Read More: Winter in Eastwood I woke up this morning feeling profoundly grateful that we live in Syracuse, and of course that we live in Eastwood in particular. We’re in the middle of one of those big Syracuse snowstorms, the kind that get us talking to one another as if it’s never happened before. “Get a load of all that snow!” . . . → Read More: My heroes Gia Palermo of the Eastwood Chamber of Commerce has let us know about the Chamber’s fourth annual Tree Lighting Ceremony: “A holiday reception will follow at the Palace Theatre featuring the Huntington School Third Grade Chorus and a visit by Santa Claus. A holiday favorite . . . → Read More: Tree Lighting Monday, Dec 6 at 6:00 The following in its entirety is a statement written by Brewery Ommegang. Otsego County’s pure water threatened by water pollution and other environmental risks. (COOPERSTOWN, NEW YORK) Brewery Ommegang has completed a close examination of the development of hydrofracking for natural gas in Otsego County. We reviewed detailed and extensive information provided by gas industry professionals, publications . . . → Read More: Brewery Ommegang Statement on Hydrofracking for Shale Gas While we conveniently forget about the dangers of hydro-fracking, those who would destroy New York State’s greatest asset – its natural environment – for money that will leave the state are still busy getting set to pump our ground, our water and our air full of chemicals they won’t disclose. Please sign this petition: Continue reading Please sign anti-fracking petition When my husband and I went looking for a neighborhood in the city in which to live, we went all over the place. And chose Eastwood. That was the beginning of a love affair with this neighborhood that started because of how walkable it is. That’s why this blog started (back when it was a website) . . . → Read More: Walkable nature of Eastwood part of real estate charm |
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