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ဟံၣ်My WebLink ဘၣ်ဃးဒီး1995-12 A Newsletter for Retirees and at Employees R County 0 fTompkins Co t ......... .... Y :::.:,.. ..:.:.:.: .. 7 . . . . \11( .:::.:...:..:.:.: DECEMBER 1995 Volume 8 Number 12 TOMPKINS COUNTY EMPLOYEES /RETIREES SHARE The Editorial Board Roberta Chiesa, Manager, Tompkins Employees Federal Credit Union wishes to thank those who sent articles, ideas, THANK YOU! for helping us show that "Credit Unions Care for Kids!" From pictures, and/or kind October 16 through November 20, 1995, we sold candy to raise money and collected new words our way during and used video tapes and books and new toys, stuffed animals and games for the Pediatric 1995, and looks forward Department at Cayuga Medical Center at Ithaca. to your continued Roberta Chiesa, Manager, and June Updike, Teller, presented a big barrel full of support in the coming items to June VonDerCheck, Head Nurse on Pediatrics and Susan Hassett, Director of new year. Nursing. They also presented a new VCR which was purchased with the money raised from A very special thank candy sales and donations, supplemented with a donation from the Credit Union. Thanks you to Shirley Fritts, to Larry Thayer for his help in the purchase of the VCR. B &G, who readies and We heard from many of you and are very grateful for your help but we want to send sends the Corridors to a special thank you to a retiree in Florida for her wonderful contributions. We appreciate your retirees, on her own time. caring and sharing. We were proud to make our presentation and we are proud of you! Bill Sharon Mil AtAtiku N lretta Scott 01 110 MI all 111° Louise uih 1 Marilyn Judy MAY I '$ `Y INTRODUCE ". "JELLY" "After much .. deliberation, I have • m decided to send you this __ picture and now the . . ' whole world will know ti V- -.-- -� s � pro that I am the proud `mother' of JELLY, a s wonderful 3% year old ` �'�,, pot bellied pig. 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Nick 387 -3583. 1/2 tsp. baking soda 1 tbs. orange peel 1/2 tsp. cinnamon 1 tsp. vanilla A twin mattress and box spring in 1/4 tsp. allspice 3 egg whites reasonably good condition. Call 272 -0294. 1/4 tsp. ground cloves 1 cup buttermilk Coal Stove - 1st choice is Godin, but will Topping entertain anything. Kate 387 -9503. 1 1/4 cups brown sugar I AM A CAT IN SEARCH OF A THRONE 3 cups fresh or frozen cranberries My owner is moving to sunny California and cannot take me with her. I am a neutered 1) Grease 9" round cake pan & line bottom with waxed paper. male white and gray tabby with beautiful green Grease again over paper. eyes and my front paws are declawed. I prefer 2) Prepare topping. Crumble brown sugar into bottom of pan. not to share my throne with a dog and 3) Prepare cake. Combine and sift flour, baking powder, as far as kids are concerned - I'm gentle, with gentle baking soda, cinnamon, allspice, and ground cloves. Set kids that is but, I would make a purr -fect companion for aside. someone who lives alone. I am six years old and can be very loving. Please call 898 -4113 soon, I need a 4 ) Cream butter. Add brown sugar, orange peel & throne before Christmas. vanilla. Gradually add egg whites, one at a time, thoroughly incorporating after each addition. Housing for Developmentally 5) Alternate adding flour mixture & buttermilk to butter mixture, ending with flour. Disabled Adults 6) Pour batter over cranberries. Spread batter evenly. Robert Davies, Assistant Director of the 7) Bake at 350 degrees for 40 minutes. Cool. Remove from Bureau of Housing and Employment Initiatives for pan after 30 minutes. the NYS Office of Mental Retardation and THE FOLKS AT HEALTHY HEART WISH YOU HAPPY & Developmental Disabilities will be a guest speaker HEALTHY HOLIDAYS! for an evening program on Tuesday, January 16, 1996 from 7 -9 p.m. in the 6th floor conference FREE UNCLASSIFIEDS room of the Tompkins County Mental Health Classified ads up to 25 words in length are free to County employees,retirees Building. Mr. Davies will be speaking to the Care and their immediate families. Ads may be for any purpose except no personal ads Provider Support Group of Adults with will be accepted. No County addresses or telephone numbers may be listed in Developmentally Disabilities Services and these ads. Use this coupon to send your ad to Corridors c/o Finance - Purchasing. Tompkins County Office for the Aging. Please type or print legibly) Thanks) Mr. Davies has worked in the field of developmental disabilities for 22 years, starting in direct care and sheltered workshops. He has worked in recreation, case management, vocational rehabilitation, but primarily in program development. He is a national leader in the development of person controlled housing for persons with COUNTY CORRIDORS disabilities and is a member of the Housing Articles and opinion pieces for County Corridors are selected by the Advisory Committee of the President's Committee volunteer editorial board based on their interest to Tompkins County employees and retirees. Material is solicited from current employees, retirees and others. on Mental Retardation. He developed OMRDD's Material for publication is selected by the editorial board which reserves the right Individual Support Services, Home of Your Own, to edit any submissions. The editorial board is made up of: Bill Chapp, Social Horne Sharing, and generic housing initiatives. He Services; Sharon Cooper, Assessment; Iretta Ellis, Data Processing; Scott Heyman, County Administrator; Louise McEwen, Personnel; Ruth Pond, (Editor), is a consultant for several states and a variety of Finance - Purchasing; Marilyn Strassberg, Office for the Aging; and JudyTynyk, governmental and non - governmental agencies, (Chair), Weights and Measures. families and persons with disabilities. He is a Correspondence may be sent through County inter - department mail to: County frequent presenter at state and national Corridors, c/o Finance- Purchasing, 125 East Court St., Ithaca, NY 14850. conferences. This evening will be open to the public. 1 COUNTY TRIPS FOR 1996 January 13 - Basketball Game November - Shopping 1 New Jersey Nets vs. Detroit Pistons We are looking into an outlet mall near Lake St. George This game is scheduled for 7:30 p.m. in New Jersey. (just above Albany). Tickets for this game are $25 each. If you are interested in attending this trip, we will need to hear from you quickly as December - Radio City Music Hall we need to make sure there is enough interest in this game before we order the tickets. We will be going to the Radio City Music Hall Christmas Show, and have a bit of time for site seeing or shopping in February 17 - Shopping Trip the city. We will be going to the Bald Eagle Factory Outlet Mall, If you have questions or would like to make a reservation, the Woolrich Factory Outlet, and the Country Cupboard in please send a pmail to "Public_Heaith /Leighann_Baldwin PA. This will be an all day excursion and will cost $5 ea. or an inter - office note care of the Health Department. March 31 - Hockey This game is being played at 3:05 p.m. in Buffalo. Tickets are $25 each. Please make your reservations early as this bus is already filling up.ccording to Webster's dictionary, a pet is an animal that is domesticated and kept as a companion April - Theatre in Toronto or treated with fondness. This will be an overnight trip, and we are anticipating From the word pet we also get words like teacher's getting tickets for Sunset Boulevard. pet and pet peeve...and from the animal world we use words like dog tired, hog tied, horse play, cowlick, May - Baseball squirelly... etc. You get the idea. We are considering a game in the Toronto Astrodome. Think of all the movie and TV stars that are If you are interested, please let us know, as this trip will be animals. organized if there is enough interest. And, then there are the stories and jokes about pets like the following: June 16 - NASCAR at the Poconos We are working on a day trip to see the Winston Cup If you think dogs can't count, put three treats in race at the Pocono Race Track. Cost will include bus your pocket and give him only two. transportation and entry ticket to the race. Stay tuned for more information. PETS AND THEIR OWNERS July 12 -14 Boston, MA , !1 . :r.' PET'S NAME OWNERS) f Package includes round trip motorcoach transportation, 1. "Cody Dakota" Autumn Bieberich 2 nights accomodations, 2 buffet breakfasts, tour trolley 2. "Nathan, Jesse & Kayla" Laura Cartarius -Macri ticket, all taxes and baggage handling. $125 per person. 3. "Tim" Judy DeGrusso 4. "Bear and Cotton" Nancy Barnett August - Hershey Park 5. "Callie" Alice Cole Package includes round trip motorcoach transportation, 6. "Peanut" Daniele Drake 1 night accomodations at Hershey Lodge and Convention 7. "Dax" Andrea Whitney Center, breakfast, admission to Hershey Park, all taxes Learning to swim with his "surgical glove" Life Preserver and baggage handling. 8. "Hobbes" Alice Cole 9. "Sidney P. Dog" Kelly Nickerson September - Atlantic City 10. "Roi and Sarah" Judy DeGrusso This will be an overnight trip to Atlantic City. We will be 11. "Spud" Lee Spencer staying at the Taj Mahal, and cost includes bus Couid this be the original couch potato? transportation, $10 coin bonus, overnight accomodations 12. "Doodles" Alice Cole and a buffet dinner. Cost will be $100 per person. 13. "Cocoa" Lori & Chris Parker 14. "Oliver, Rascal, & Missy" Judy Tynyk October - Football We will be looking into getting tickets to a Giants Game ma/ny p e c de/i?.et - with the season that they are having this year, it might be possible... if not, we will be getting tickets to a Buffalo Bills h vi e eJ fr a a (Ia to- e . Game. Stay tuned for more information. County Administrator Department Head Meetings �,�/ November 1995 lvb tte 4 %at#7, k/ Jerzoolt 1. Department Heads were reminded about the need to abolish the positions of those who have to- cd • gotuniy •tith ct/nc /wetr%leee6 elected early retirement. 2. PFQ A special greeting to Kathy Franklin and Kathy Irene Stein reported that Department Head West, both now on the mend. representation on the Leadership Council needed to be Emergency closing procedures for County discussed at the next Dept. Head meeting. Jim Hanson government were clarified and explained extensively winter reported that Planning had had its first session on Daily before last (remember why ?), and a new Board policy on Work Management and that it went extremely well. this subject, with implementation procedures attached, are Because of the snowstorm, the visioning session with arriving at a department head office near you. Don't wait Middle Managers had to be cancelled. until the snow is piling up to become familiar with it. If you 3 . There will be a new security system in the Court House some time in 1996, opening up the front have questions write, e or call (5552) me or Anita door to the public with security screening, card Fitzpatrick. access to door facing Old Jail, and screened I said in last month's column that there is much that access to the Office for the Aging through the side is historic in the decision of the County Board to construct door. a new office building to house Social Services, Probation, 4. Scott presented the proposed changes for the Youth Bureau and Central Services. The Board's decision Code of Ethics. One item is that the money limit on December 5 concludes a discussion and debate that for gifts is raised to $50. Gifts may not be accepted really began in the early 1970s. Whether you agree or not for one's personal benefit. The group felt that all the with the specific decision that they made it is heartening to changes were for the better. 5. Safety and Health Update - The policy on driving work for people who are willing to make the difficult choices motorcycles on County business went to the Safety and let the voters hold them accountable for them. All of us Committee today. Scott received statistics which know about other localities and about state and national substantiate this policy. elected "leaders" who solve the problem of conflicting 6. David Squires announced that the deadline to public opinion by not making any choices. enroll in the Flexible Benefits Program is December Division of Engineering staff Jim Kazda and 15, 1995. Due to rebates, an additional month of Jeannie Boodley and Planning Commissioner Jim Hanson health insurance will be funded (December, 1995); provided the support the Board needed to make an CSEA white collar employees will get their January, informed decision. Affected employees were able to 1996 premiums paid for. Departments ending the year with a surplus in their retirement and unemployment participate in the process more than ever before. accounts may keep the surplus. 7. Alice Cole informed the group that additional THANKS FROM WELLNESS, information will be coming from Personnel on PHP. B u? . The sign -up deadline has been extended until mid - December and several more information sessions We appreciate the several suggestions received from will be scheduled. employees and retirees for a Wellness logo, but we ,� .a apologize that our earlier Corridors article may have been (2 3 9 n �� 3/82 - 9/94 confusing. The Wellness Committee has received, and will continue to consider, the logos submitted. However, because Spring Into Shape was specifically mentioned in the article, some logos demonstrated that theme only. If you submitted a Spring Into Shape Logo, please resubmit a logo �':- (if you wish) prior to January 31, 1996, that is a general ,: logo and includes "Tompkins County Employees Wellness Program" as part of the logo. ) ? $ it If you wish to submit a general logo and a specific logo 44, ., for Spring Into Shape, we'll be happy to have all suggestions! As soon as a decision is made in early '' .;,.. February, the $100 prize will be awarded. Again, we apologize if we caused confusion! All current , ; . ' ,, submissions will be reconsidered along with new suggestions in February. According to "Dateline" TV show, there are 64 million // ,, cats and 53 million dogs in the United States! Chris Parker, B &G and Lori Parker, Finance