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4A CityRegionalContinued Stories The Ithaca Journal Friday, April 27, 1990 Mentor- 700 are involved in programs From Journal Staff Rcfxsts About 700 Tompkins County youths take part in the mentoring programs listed below, an all the services welcome calls from interested participants and potential mentors: Big brothers and sisters: "One-to-One" is an Ithaca City Youth Bureau program that matches elementary and middle school youth with college students or community members who serve as "siblings." The big brother or sister spends time with the child weekly, doing things like watching movies, playing at a park or just eating ice cream together. Call 273-8364 for more information. Tutoring: The Reach program of the Greater Ithaca Activities Center and the Paul Schreurs Memorial program of the Ithaca Youth Bureau match 12- to 15-year-olds who show motivation to achieve with academic tutors and community mentors. Call the youth bureau or GIAC, 272-3622. for more information.

Apprenticeships: The Learning Web is an apprenticeship project of the Center for Religion, Ethics and Social Policj at Cornell University. It matches young people who want to leant a skill or explore a career option with adults willing to teach them. Call CRESP 255-5026, for more information. Alternative Community School students can get a similar "hands on" learning experience through a program at that school. And a Learning Web-sponsored business.

Youth Scoops, operates the Ben Jerry's ice cream shop franchise on Cayuga Street, offering employment and practical experience with small business management. In-school options around Tompkins County: The Access to College Education program matches elementary students identified as "at risk" with teacher-mentors and academic tutors. Youth-to-youth mentoring programs ease students transition from elementary school to junior high in Newfield and Groton. Programs in Newfield and Ithaca pair high school "friends" with elementary-age children. Students at the Alternative Community School and Trumansburg Middle School meet regularly in small groups with faculty members to talk about school and personal issues, get support for social and academic problems and plan community projects and out-of-school social activities.

Young, whose legs were burned. Young was treated and released Taylor Brown Memorial Hospital in Waterloo, deputies said. Young Jr. was transferred from Taylor Brown to Strong Memorial Hospital's burn unit in Rochester where he was in satisfactory condition this morning, a spokeswoman there said. Deputies are blaming the fire on an electrical short which occurred while the boat was docked near Lower Creek Road.

Damage is estimated at $5,000, deputies said. Woman charged with illegal dumping ENFIELD Tompkins County sheriff's deputies charged a 31-year-old woman with illegal dumping Thursday. Lisa Griffen, 31, of 146 Sheffield Road, Lot 3 allegedly dumped about five bags of trash by Van Dorn Road the last week of March, deputies said. Griffen was charged with illegal dumping of solid waste, a misdemeanor, and was issued a ticket to appear May 3 in Enfield court, deputies said. Couple to fight chicken ruling WATERLOO (AP) A Seneca Falls couple that's already served jail time for raising chickens as pets is unflappable even after losing another round in its legal battle.

State Supreme Court Justice Andrew Siracuse on Thursday gave David and Lynda Ashley 10 days to get rid of their 24 pet chickens and granted police permission to seize the poultry if the couple fails to comply. "Gee," Lynda Ashley said after the order. "I guess it goes to federal court. That's the only place we have left. We'll appeal this." The ruling came after a 15-min-' ute hearing in Seneca County Court, where the village of Seneca Falls had filed a civil suit asking the judge to forbid the Ashleys from raising fowl.

Several times during the hearing, the Ashleys told the judge their chickens are pets, not poultry, and therefore the village ordinance against harboring poultry does not apply. Siracuse said it was too late to argue that point, since the 30-day-deadline for filing for an Article 78 hearing had passed. The Article 78 hearing could' have legally classified the chickens as pets, Siracuse said. "If you want the court to assist you, you must work within the framework," Siracuse told the cou-' pie. "No one is above the law." Woman accused of check forgery Ithaca woman Adrianne 33, of 412 Hector was charged with three counts of check forgery for allegedly cashing checks from the stolen purse of a New York City woman, city police said.

The checks Scott is said to have cashed came to $275, police said. Scott was released from jail on $500 bail and was ordered to reappear at a future date, police said. Man charged with robbery Ithaca man Mike Robinson, 22 of 506, South Cayuga was charged with third-degree robbery for allegedly beating a man and taking $8 dollars April 15, city police said. Robinson was charged Thursday and taken to Tompkins County jail where he was waiting further arraignment this morning while being held on $5,000 bail, police said. NCR- (Continued from Page 3A) nator and carry out their plans.

The network plans to bring together leaders in education, youth services, business, industry and local government, as well as young people and their parents, at a workshop a week from today at the Sheraton Inn and Conference Center off North Triphammer Road. One of the scheduled conference speakers pointed out recently that mentoring programs are widespread and influential in West Germany. Stephen Hamilton, a Cornell University associate professor of human development and family studies, has researched how children grow up and how that's influenced by things such as school. In his book "Apprenticeship for Adulthood: Preparing Youth for the Future," Hamilton contrasts how youth grow up in West Germany and the United States. There, teenagers from the age of 15 or 16 spend 80 percent of their school week at an adult workplace, a program that lasts about three years.

The apprenticeship programs help German youth move successfully into the working world, while American youth often lack strong adult role models and opportunities to explore careers, Hamilton says. "What I'm interested in is working and taking business courses," says Cornell apprentice Wilkins, adding that the best part about her apprenticeship is "being around different people and also learning as you go along." Hamilton's research on Cornell students found that those who had someone in their life including parents in the role of a mentor, performed better on tests. Mentors offer youth their time, support and exposure to new ideas and skills. The adults also serve as role models, Hamilton says. The relationship helps the adult mentor fulfill a basic human need to pass along wisdom and help the next generation.

"Mentoring is a way of sharing what you have learned," he says. The best mentors are "ordinary effective adults who care the 'ordinary meaning you don't have to be a superstar to be a mentor," he adds. For instance, an adult who dropped out of school may best be able to tell a potential dropout the pitfalls of lacking a diploma. Local mentoring programs include the Learning Web, Linking Up, Reach, Paul Schreurs Memorial Program and One-to-One. Their volunteer mentors include teachers and students, business people and other community residents.

Horst Simon, general manager of NCR Corp. in Ithaca, will speak at the conference next week about how businesses can offer appren- Obituaries EUGENE D. KING Eugene D. King. 37.

of 1837 Mecklenburg died Thursday morning, April 26, 1990 at home. He was born in Ithaca son of Margaret Corey-King the late Robert King. For the past 15 years he was the owner and operator of Gene's Auto Sales. In addition to his mother living in Ithaca, he is survived by his wife Donna Hall King of Ithaca; his sons. Eugene King.

Jr. of Ithaca Chad Grover of Alpine; his stepdaughter Amy Lupo of Ithaca. He is also survived by 7 sisters Doris Hendrickson, Nancy Hendrickson. Beverly Keane. Janet Fenton.

Kendra Utter Brenda Hill, all of Ithaca Donna Steven of Endwell: several nieces, nephews, aunts uncles. He was predeceased by his brothers: Robert O. King. Jr. Kenneth E.

Perry. Jr. Funeral Services will be held Monday at 10a.m. at Bangs Funeral Home with Man burned in boat fire SENECA FALLS William Young 30, of 2723 Lower Lake Road sustained second-degree burns to 45 percent of his body when his boat caught on fire Thursday, Seneca County sheriffs deputies said. Also injured in the 5:40 p.m.

blaze was his father William AREA BRIEFS Boat show weekend oners chance to get wet The Fifth Annual Finger Lakes On-The-Water Boat show will be held May 4, 5 and 6 at Allan H. Treman State Marine Park. Displays will be in water as well as on land. For would-be boat buyers, several savings and financial services will be offering on-site boat financing and insurance. The show, sponsored by the Tompkins County Chamber of Commerce and Finger Lakes Region State Parks, will be open Friday, May 5, from noon-8 p.m., and Saturday and Sunday from 10-6 p.m.

For more information, call the Tompkins County Chamber of Commerce: 273-7080 or 1-800-284-8422. The Mentors Unlimited seminar will focus on expanding and continuing a network that was established in 1989 to link all of the mentoring programs in Tompkins County. Simon says he favors the concept of having a community-schools-business partnership that supports mentor programs. "It's important that all the elements that can impact on that process work together closely." He also believes it makes sense for business to be involved even though taking on young apprentices takes time and planning. "I think it saves money because we have already pre-identified potential employees," he said.

His own experience as an apprentice engineer in West Germany took him to eight different companies during two years, a program arranged through the national Chamber of Commerce there. "It gave me a very good overview of what life after engineering school would be like," he says. He also discovered where his interests lay, eventually leading him to choose electronics over designing nuclear power plants. Mary Hitchcock. Memorial Hospital in Hanover.

New Hampshire. Mrs. Keast is survived by her husband. William R. Keast of Lebanon.

NH; a son, Stephen C. Keast of Ithaca, NY; two daughters, Sara K. Fisher of Brattleboro. VT. and Emily Donahue of Norwich.

VT; a sister. Elnora Schell of Newark. NJ: and four grandchildren. Memorial contributions may be made to Upper Valley Youth Services. Whipple Place, Lebanon.

NH 03766. Services will be held at the convenience of the family. OBITUARY POLICY The obituaries printed here are paid notices, phrased in accordance with the wishes of families and funeral directors. The Ithaca Journal lists deaths in its local section. Route 13, Ithaca Across from NYSEG FriL Sat.

nounced by Herson Funeral Home. MARY ALICE KEAST LEBANON, N.H. Mary Alice Keast, formerly of Ithaca, died Tuesday, April 24, 1990, at her' home in Lebanon, N.H., after a long illness. Services will be at the convenience of the family. FLORENCE EMERY APOPKA, Fla.

Florence Em-, ery, formerly of Willseyville, died April 24, 1990. A memorial will be at 1 p.m. Saturday, April 28, at the Willseyville Church with the Rev. Lee Mead of-: ficiating. DEATH NOTICES EUGENE D.KING Eugene D.

King, 37, of 1837 Mecklenburg Road, died Thursday, April 26, 1990, at home. A funeral will be at 10 a.m. Monday at Bangs Funeral Home with the Rev. Sheldon Stephenson offi-' ciating. Burial will be in Frear Memorial Park.

Calling hours will be from 3 to 5 p.m. and 7 to 9 p.m. Sunday at the funeral home. NORA J. DODD Nora J.

Dodd, 95, of 193 Enfield Main Road, died Thursday, April 26, 1990, at Tompkins Community Hospital. Arrangements will be an MAY 1 (Continued from Page 3A) ucated professional, and he's applying to Cornell University. "We clearly have a need to get highly talented people in our organizations," Simon says. "The fact that it also is something that sounds like it's the right thing to do in terms of society is an extra benefit." NCR, which employs 425 employees at its 950 Danby Road plant, faces a shrinking labor pool because fewer students are pursuing technical fields. One solution to that is attracting teenagers toward technical fields early, Simon says.

Apprenticeships which are arranged formally through such programs as the Learning Web in Ithaca allow teens to learn and experience a career. "If you not only get them inter-" ested but also provide the role models of successful people in the field, we encourage them to stick with it," he says. Simon, who attended a Frankfurt, West Germany, school system that puts youth through a formal program of apprenticeships, will speak a week from today at a conference titled Mentors Unlimited. her home in Lebanon, N.H.. formerly of Ithaca, after a long illness.

Mrs. Keast. the daughter of Paul W. and Elnora Gleeson Hart, was born in Springfield, Illinois, on June 1 1, 1916. After graduation from Springfield High School, she attended Springfield Junior College and the University of Chicago.

In Chicago she was employed as an editor at Public Administration Service, and she served as administrative assistant to the dean of the College of Engineering at Cornell University. Mrs. Keast was an active volunteer for many years. She served in various volunteer capacities at Wayne State University and the Detroit General Hospital: at the 1886 Room of the Heritage Society and Recording for the Blind in Austin. Texas; and at Christmas in October and the ticeships and encourage employees to become mentors to area youth.

It's a decision that pays off in the form of more well-trained future employees, Simon says. Mentors are helpful not only to-youths but to adults as well, says Ithaca schools Superintendent James Lorthridge, who also is scheduled to talk at the seminar. "I see myself as a mentor, but I also see myself being mentored by someone else," the superintendent says. Adults throughout his life helped Lorthridge see his potential and help him achieve it, he says. The mentoring side of it is rewarding as well, Lorthridge says, comparing mentoring with the feeling of seeing students walk across the school stage to receive their diplomas.

"It's a feeling that you can't realize unless you've been there seeing somebody succeed and feeling you've had a hand in getting them there," Lorthridge says. The Mentors Unlimited conference runs from 8:45 a.m. unfjV 2 p.m. on May 4 at the Sheraton Inn. The fee is $25, which includes lunch, and scholarships are available.

Advance registration is required. For more information, call Cornell Conference Services, 255-6290. Rev. Sheldon Stephenson officiating. Burial will be in Frear Memorial Park.

Friends may call at the funeral home on Sunday afternoon from 3-5 and 7 Memorial donations may be made to the charity of one's choice. FLORENCE EMERY APOPKA, Fla. Florence Emery, formerly of Willseyville, died April 24, 1990. She was born in Etna March 7, 1922 to Lou and Jay Dart. Survivors include 2 daughters.

Daisy Bell of Willseyville. Lorena Potter of Apop-ka, 1 son, Arthur Emery of Etna; 1 brother. Bill Dart of 6 grandchildren several nieces nephews. A memorial service will be held April 28 at 1p.m. at the Willseyville Church with the Rev.

Lee Mead officiating. MART ALICE KEAST LEBANON, N.H.- Mary Alice Keast. Mrs. William died on Tuesday. April 24.

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