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LIBBY, Mont. - With Lincoln County being among the highest with wildfire risks in Montana, work is underway to reduce that risk and support the local community.

According to the Montana Department of Natural Resources and Conservation, state, federal, local and private partners are working to leverage common resources and integrate multiple projects.

Projects include reducing fuels across land ownerships, updating the Community Wildfire Protection Plan (CWPP), and investments in long-term programs that will help reduce wildfire risk, improve forest health, and support economic benefits for communities in Lincoln County.

The DNRC says land managers and their partners are welcoming citizen engagement on current or future projects.

The following is more information on ongoing projects:

2021 MOU for Cross-boundary Management

A 2021 Memoranda of Understanding (MOU) between the Montana Department of Natural Resources and Conservation (DNRC), the U.S. Forest Service (USFS), the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS), and Lincoln County formalized the intent of the agencies to work together to treat priority areas of high wildfire risk to communities as well as invest in manufacturing and local economic opportunities.

Lincoln County has pursued an intentional, coordinated cross boundary fuel treatment plan in the County for several years, says Commissioner Jerry Bennett, Lincoln County. It is encouraging to see the County and its partners, USFS, DNRC, and NRCS, finalizing a long-term agreement that benefits both private and public lands into the next decade.

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Lincoln County WUI Shared Stewardship Initiative

The Lincoln County Wildland Urban Interface (WUI) Shared Stewardship Initiative is intended to coordinate efforts across ownership boundaries to increase the pace and scale of active management in the Kootenai National Forest and surrounding areas by expanding an already-existing Good Neighbor Authority (GNA) agreement. The expanded GNA agreement establishes a goal to treat up to 10,000 acres a year in the Kootenai National Forest. The initiative also draws funding from NRCS and USFS State and Private Forestry programs to support treatments on private lands in the WUI.

Prioritizing fuels treatments on private lands that are in proximity to public lands projects is a major emphasis for the NRCS Eureka Field Office, says Brian Ressel, District Conservationist for NRCS. With the vast amount of timber lands that we have in the county, this approach ensures we are targeting the landscapes and communities with the highest fire risk and the greatest need. Working across fence lines is the only way to make a real impact and it takes strong partnerships across a range of property ownerships to make that happen.

Cross-boundary work through shared stewardship to reduce wildfire risk and improve forest health on public and private lands is critical to our local communities, says Gary Kedish, Partnership Coordinator for the Kootenai National Forest. Our strong partnerships and future coordination will build on current agency programs and help focus work in priority areas with high wildfire risk.

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Community Wildfire Protection Plan Update

Lincoln County and Lincoln County FireSafe Council are working to update the 2013 Community Wildfire Protection Plan (CWPP) to align with the most recent information on wildfire risk and the most effective strategies to reduce wildfire risk. The Lincoln County CWPP revision draft, which includes WUI mapping and priority areas for wildfire mitigation work, is entering a public comment period.

Community Wildfire Protection Plans provide counties with a mechanism to identify areas of local concern regarding wildfire threat to their communities and infrastructure, says Jennifer Nelson, Lincoln County Forester. They also allow the county a voice in the treatment of those areas across ownerships. This voice has been made stronger by the 2021 MOU for Cross-Boundary Management.

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WUI Strategic Roadmap

DNRC, in partnership with Kootenai National Forest (KNF), NRCS, and Lincoln County, is working to execute a five-year strategic roadmap to display how projects of agencies and landowners work together to increase the pace and the amount of acreage treated in the Lincoln County WUI to protect homes, infrastructure, and communities. Additionally, the roadmap shows how this collective work will support manufacturing and investment in the forest products industry in Lincoln County.

Our goal is to help Lincoln County and partner agencies understand wildfire risk to communities and plan actions to reduce that risk, says Steve Kimball, Local Government Forest Advisor

for the Montana Department of Natural Resources and Conservation. The interactive map tool weve created shows fuels reduction projects that are both in-progress and completed on all lands in the Wildland Urban Interface. This tool will help land managers track progressive completion of treatments and identify gaps where future treatments can be planned.

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Libby Surround Stewardship, 2022 Joint Chiefs Landscape Restoration Project

The Libby Surround Stewardship Project will treat hazardous fuels on 4,605 acres of land surrounding Libby, Montana. This project is part of an ongoing cross-boundary effort to connect past, present, and future activities in a large project area of 263,026 acres. Partners include Lincoln County, DNRC, American Forest Foundation (AFF), Kootenai Forests to Rivers Initiative (KFRI), Stimson Lumber Company, Lincoln County Firesafe Council, and Kootenai Forest Stakeholders Coalition (KFSC).

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Kootenai Forests to Rivers Initiative

KFRI is providing Lincoln County with $430,000 for cost-share grants to help private landowners create defensible space around their homes and reduce fuels on their properties through grant funding awarded through DNRC. Over the past two years, approximately 350 acres of private land have been treated to make homes and neighborhoods in Lincoln County more defensible during wildfire and provide safer escape routes.

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Kootenai Complex Project

The Kootenai Complex Project targets priority areas surrounding Libby, Troy, Eureka, Stryker, Fortine and Trego in Lincoln County. The project is one of 10 identified under the federal Initial Landscape Investments plan to address wildfire risk in the western United States. Active management on approximately 7,200 acres is expected to be completed over the next few years. Approximately $19 million is earmarked for the Kootenai project, with $3 million set to be dispersed this year.

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Rabbit Tracts Project

The Rabbit Tracts project, located on federal, state, and private lands in the WUI near Troy, Montana, will help protect the community from wildfire and create lines of defense while also improving forest resilience to fire, insects, and disease; reduce fuels; improve water quality; provide forage and security for wildlife; and support the wood products industry. This project is one of the 14 initial investments from Montana Forest Action Plan funding. Restoration activities will include fuels treatments; pre-commercial and commercial timber harvest; prescribed burning; tree and native shrub, grass, and forb planting; and weed treatments.

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Local Investment in Forest Products industry

In addition to the federal, state, and local projects, Lincoln County is working to support the forest products industry by investing in manufacturing facilities to support forest restoration goals and the local economy.

Weve got a real opportunity in Lincoln County to bring infrastructure to our community that will help accomplish forest restoration goals, bring economic stability, and also support our milling and forest products industry, says Mark Peck, Lincoln County Shared Stewardship Coordinator. Healthy forests mean healthy communities and if we can help contribute to a healthy forest through active management while also supporting industry and good jobs, we will take that opportunity.

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What? Its become a trend? a colleague laughed in disbelief when I told her people are going on foraging walks worldwide, top chefs are cooking with moss and nettles picked from pavements and thickets, and apps are guiding people to free ingredients near them.

She was familiar with foraging, the practice of collecting food in the wild, which our ancestors depended on before farming arrived and urbanisation flattened natural spaces. Growing up in the 90s, she would see her grandmum run to the backyard of her house in Shivamogga, Karnataka, and return with unfamiliar leaves in the pallu of her saree to make curd-based dishes.

The growing interest in local food and surroundings has inspired foraging among urban dwellers, more so since the pandemic, says Kerala-based Shruti Tharayil, who organises wild food walks. But many people who migrate from villages and small towns continue to forage in cities, she adds.

Treasure hunt

I arrived at a farm in B Hosahalli, a village in Sarjapur hobli in Bengaluru, 5 km short of Tamil Nadu, where mostly Telugu is spoken. I was meeting Suresh Kumar G, an artist-cum-farmer.

He is trying to revive kitchen gardens and local food, which also made use of weeds plants we toss away from farms, sidewalks, and building cracks because they grow unwanted, uncultivated, when, in fact, many varieties are edible. His project is called Sarjapura Curries.

Weeds love a good soak and the June rains had brought them to life. Perfect season! he had exclaimed when I called him to ask if he would teach me how to forage. And so it began.

Suresh walked to an abandoned plot behind his farm. It was overgrown with parthenium. A blue tanker, Mahogany trees and lantanas stood out in the chaos. Suresh stepped in, hands behind his back, shoulder forward, and eyes searching furtively.

This is aane soppu (celosia), he tapped on a plant to his right. On the left, he spotted kashakku (black nightshade) sprouting at the base of a mound. He hopped over to show its white flowers and green berries that ripen to purple-black. Packaging foil and broken bottles lay half-buried. My feet sank as I lunged forward to see daglakku (wild amaranthus), senchalakku (false amaranthus), kanyakku (Bengal dayflower) and attika mamidakku (horse purslane). They grew under, behind, next to each other. We had barely scanned 10 metres of the two acre-plot.

A dispute broke out. The leaves of kashakku and amaranthus look the same without flowers, Seema, Sureshs friend accompanying us, said. The leaves on these two kashakku plants look so different, I pointed out. Suresh, can we make out the difference by sniffing? Can we tell the poisonous weeds from the edible ones? I asked.

Sorry, there are no shortcuts in foraging, Suresh said curtly. You must observe keenly. Practise with people who have done it. Develop a visual memory as plants look different at each stage (sprouting, before flowering, and after flowering/growing thorns) and every plant has different variants in the wild. I have spotted seven types of wild amaranthus in the village.

Consumption also differs. People prefer the lakebed variety of hongane (joyweed) as it is more tender and nutritious. It is so tasty that people cook it exclusively. As opposed to pulsakku (oxalis) that is used moderately in mixed curry. It is a ground cover weed instantly recognisable by its heart-shaped leaves.

Suresh is not a botanist but has learnt foraging from his aunts and women who graze cattle in the village, who learnt it from an earlier generation. Even within joint families, women who stay at home and cook cant identify weeds while women who go foraging can, he explained.

After surviving ant bites, catching ladybugs, discovering that tender shoots and flowers of touch me not are edible, I asked Suresh if his family foraged because it put free greens on the table. My aunts would forage weeds because they gave nutrition and immunity to the family season after season, he replied.

Taste was secondary as most greens are cooked as one-pot, mixed curries, he said as he pulled budaaku (balloon vine) out of a thicket. He burst a dried fruit to reveal the beautiful white seed with a black heart motif. Balloon vine is good for joint pain, he said. Our eyes fell on uttarani (rough chaff) with holey leaves. If insects are eating, its not poisonous, Suresh said.

As we trudged back, he spotted two varieties of pal mullangakku (similar to Dandelion) and quipped different communities eat different varieties. But the rules of foraging were consistent harvest baby leaves from the top, and tender stems.

He located 15 edible weeds at the plot and at his wild farm. There, Seema ate the yellow bud of vanmugali and her mouth went numb. Say hello to the toothache reliever, we teased.

I have identified some 25 edible weeds around the village. There used to be more but modern farming practices like removing the weeds and cultivating all year and change in land use have affected their growth cycle, he rued. Weeds were indestructible, I had thought! Weeds thrive in sites that have a natural flow of water, air, soil and seed dispersal, he said. So where do you find such sites in a city?

Lets practise

I arrived at Jakkur Lake at 6.50 am. I inspected the grass cover and shrubs flanking the walkway leisurely as I waited for Suresh. Both my gait and gaze were different from those of the walkers huffing and puffing to get in shape. They looked at me suspiciously. I decided to chill. I clicked selfies and trashed emails.

Suresh arrived. The lake was to our right and we were walking to the left. We crossed flowers, trees, fallen leaves, lawn grass, but found no weeds. Blame it on the beautification of lakes, he commented.

Suddenly, he crouched down near a manhole cover. I opened my phone camera. Walkers did a double take at us. See, joyweed, amaranthus, and spinach have sprouted around it. They must have desilted the drain. Such soil carries seeds, he surmised. We would pass more manhole covers dotted with weeds!

A little ahead, he forayed into a tree cover and plucked some pulsakku for us. We rubbed it clean and bit into its tanginess. Our breakfast for the day, I joked. But Suresh, can we pick weeds from lakesides? I lowered my voice to ask because Americas-go-to-forager Steve Brill was arrested for allegedly eating a dandelion he had plucked in New Yorks Central Park, I had read.

A little is fine, Suresh thinks. To my relief, an old man appeared, holding big bunches of balloon vine. We grind it in dosa batter. It is good for joint pain, he said. Sir, next time, dontuproot the plant. Take the tendrils, Suresh told him gently.

Balloon vine was in abundance so was the shrub bearing wild passion fruit. Suresh plucked the tiny, sweet, orange fruits for a couple to try. I saw another orange fruit here. But Google Lens flagged it as poisonous, the woman said. Dont try until community people call it safe, Suresh cautioned them.

We were late for Destination 2. As we waited for our cab, Suresh spotted some punarnava (spreading hogweed) on the roadside and then jumped behind concrete debris to admire kar kodullu (cape dates).

The cab pulled over at the National Centre For Biological Sciences (NCBS) in Kodigehalli. This campus, as also that of the adjoining GKVK (Gandhi Krishi Vigyana Kendra), are lush and wooded. Surely, they must be rich in weeds? We spotted pulsakku on the manicured lawns of NCBS and that was that.

GKVK is full of tall trees, growing densely. You dont find many weeds under tree cover because they hog the sunlight, he explained. We did spot a few along the sidewalks but Suresh felt it was not diverse enough for an agricultural studies centre.

Our last stopover at Cubbon Park, the green lung of Bengaluru, was short because it had started pouring. We could trace colocasia, pulsakku, joyweed and kashakku near the water treatment plant. The park was too tamed for any wild growth, Suresh moaned as we concluded our 13 km-foraging walk.

Doing it solo

Three weeks later, I was back at the abandoned plot behind Sureshs farm to forage alone.

For two days, I had zoomed the weed photos in and out several times to study veins, margins, gloss and texture of the leaves, the colour and shape of the stalks, and the position of the flowers. I had also mugged up names senchalakku reminded me of the song Chinchinakki babla boo from the '90s sitcom 'Just Mohabbat'.

The test began and Neelima Ramesh, a permaculturist volunteering on Sureshs farm, was my invigilator. Seven minutes up nothing. Pulsakku was my breakout moment. Kashakku gave me a hard time. An orange mushroom was a surprise. At the end of the viva, I had identified 12 of the 15 edible weeds I had harvested, Suresh confirmed. But I hadnt picked the tender parts, he cut my celebration short.

Time for a treat

Suresh had invited his auntSunandamma and her daughter-in-law Lakshmi to prepare a lunch spread with local weeds. We needed a substantial amount for cooking, so Suresh, Neelima, my photographer colleague, and I scooted to a wild patch a kilometre away only to find it had been ploughed! Thank god, we had Suresh, the experienced forager, on our side.

If local weeds have become fewer, the number of dishes made from them must have fallen or their taste. Not much. Because we make mixed curries, no? the daughter-in-law said.

A rat snake zipped by as we sat down to eat. We could not care. We were hungry. Everything from the bassaru (stock of the cooked greens) to palya (stir fry) tasted heavenly with red rice. Thats more than 20 weeds on your plate, Suresh said.

This is so tasty, so why dont locals forage as often as they used to 20 years ago, I wondered. Do you realise it took us one-and-a-half hours to forage for one meal? Suresh said.

Been there, done that

A colleague grew up in Manila, a village near Mangaluru. After school, she would take a detour with her friends through a hilly patch to feast on wild fruits. Since jamun would stain our teeth purple, we would immediately eat a fruit we locally call kepula hannu. It would remove the stain, she said, explaining how she hid her escapades from her parents.

Foraging isnt always like instant grocery delivery. It requires patience. Monsoon is half over and my friend Kavita Chatar, from the Ho tribe in Jharkhand, hasnt yet found potke. These are pebble-like mushrooms that grow underground, mostly near the roots of sal. You scrape the soil randomly to find potke (also called rugda). Some women, Im told, know the secret but they keep it within the family, says the web developer. We make a chicken gravy-like dish with it. Its the tastiest mushroom.

Imran loves to forage and cook when he is leading treks He is currently enjoying lingde (fiddlehead ferns), bichu saag (stinging nettle) and chenu (mushrooms) that show up near streams, on roadsides, and inside the woods when it rains in Uttarakhand, where he is from. They go in salads, sauteed dishes and curries. I have learnt foraging from fellow villagers. See, there are two varieties of bichu saag. If you eat the one with bigger leaves, its a direct ticket to god, he says, guffawing.

Our ancestors would try the jungle food on cats in the house first to determine if it was safe, said Dawa Lhendup lepcha from Dzongu valley in Sikkim, reserved for its oldest tribe, Lepcha. An awkward silence followed but Dawa moved on to a foraging ritual. In my grandparents time, people would make up riddles to bring attention to 'pukzik', a fern they would strip the stalk of, dry, grind to make rotis during famines. Calling it by name could rot the fern, they believed.

My questions drew blank responses from Bengalureans, young and old. Where is the wilderness? most rolled their eyes. That was until a colleague said, I forage in abandoned plots around my house in BTM Layout on Sundays. My daughter comes along."

Beginners guide

Books: Edible Weeds and Naturally Growing Plants in Auroville by Nina Sengupta, and Weeds as Food and Medicine by Hector Andrade and Lancelot DCruz.

Instagram pages: sarjapura_curries, forgottengreens, geeta_4u, odiafoodstories, paticheri, plantswalksgoa.official, chef_anumitra, harame.co,thesaagarchive, greensofkanakapura.

Dont forage near sewage drains or polluted roads or on private premises. Dont uproot plants (take a little at a time as animals and insects need food too). Dont eat anything unless elders or experts say it is safe.

(Recommended by Shruti Tharayil, who educates people about foraging)

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There are a lot of reasons why you might need to hire siding contractors. Maybe your old siding is damaged and needs to be replaced, or maybe youre looking to upgrade your homes appearance with new siding. No matter what the reason, its important to find the right contractor for the job. In this blog post, we will discuss the main reasons why people hire siding contractors and provide some tips on how to find the best one for your needs!

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Call For BidsTown of Fall Lake

The Town of Fall Lake is calling for bids for the revitalization of the town hall building located at 393 Kawishiwi Trail, Ely, Minnesota.

Project Scope1) Frame, insulate, and cover abandoned doorway.2) Finish entry door on north end of building, paint, and maintenance free trim3) Replace overhead door moulding and door jamb trim (3 various sized doors). Final moulding finish to be maintenance free.4) Refurbish soffit and fascia with maintenance free cover around entire building. Ex. Metal fascia and metal soffit panels.5) Replace steel siding on the outside of the east wall. Siding to be matching color brown, standard rib style steel panels.6) Update flagpole light.

All colors not specified are to be determined by availability.

Bid will be descriptive and clearly itemized.

Bids shall include project start and completion dates.

Coordination of any utility work (ex. Electrical, gas or etc.) will be the responsibility of the bid winner and shall be clearly stated in the winning bid.

All bids to be sealed, mailed to Fall Lake Township, P.O. Box 599, Ely, MN 55731, and received by September 1, 2022, for opening and awarding at the Fall Lake Township monthly board meeting on September 6, 2022.

To schedule a walkthrough of this project call Rod at 218-365-3080.

The Town of Fall Lake reserves the right to reject any part of/all bids.

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Rendering of the Project Available Here

Governor Kathy Hochul today announced a $75 million project to upgrade and preserve two outdated Ithaca Housing Authority properties with a total of 36 apartments and to replace another obsolete Authority property with 82 new affordable apartments. The 118-unit Ithaca Housing Authority Redevelopment is designed to be all-electric and was awarded funding through the Clean Energy Initiative program for multifamily buildings. A renderingof the projectcan be accessed here.

"My administration is steadfast in our commitment to preserving and creating affordable housing that is sustainable, high-quality, and comfortable," Governor Hochul said. "Today's $75 million investmentwill help strengthen communities and provide new opportunities for Ithaca residents.We will continue to upgrade and modernize New York's supply of public housing in the Southern Tier to provide a more stable and equitable future for the next generation."

The Ithaca Housing Authority Redevelopment complements Governor Hochul's sweeping plans to make housing more affordable, equitable, and stable. In the 2022-23 State Budget, the Governor introduced and successfully secured a new $25 billion, five-year, comprehensive housing plan that will increase housing supply by creating or preserving 100,000 affordable homes across New York including 10,000 with support services for vulnerable populations, plus the electrification of an additional 50,000 homes.

As part of this redevelopment project, two of the buildings, Overlook Terrace and Southview Garden, will be substantially renovated. Overlook Terrace has five residential buildings with ten apartments. Southview Gardens has four residential buildings with 36 apartments, a community building, and a building for laundry and mechanical equipment.

The rehabilitation work will include individual apartment renovations such as the replacement and upgrade of doors, flooring, bathrooms, kitchens, and appliances. Major capital improvements will include mechanical and electrical upgrades; the replacement of water heaters and furnaces to an all-electric option; upgraded laundry facilities; and the replacement of entry doors, vinyl and aluminum siding, soffits and trim, windows, and roofs. The buildings have asbestos containing material that will be remediated and/or encapsulated for a healthier living environment. Site work will include the replacement of existing concrete walks, fencing, and landscaping.

Northside Apartments, with 70 apartments currently, is considered obsolete and will be demolished to make way for a new affordable development that will have 17 residential buildings with a total of 82 apartments - 12 more than the original thanks to a reconfiguration that adds much-needed one-bedroom apartments. The new development will include a one-story community building with a kitchen, office spaces, and a laundry room.

All three properties will be highly energy-efficient and have an all-electric building design pursuant to the New York's nation-leading Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act to curb building emissions. Additional energy efficiency measures will include heat-reflective roofing systems with tapered insulation, ENERGY STAR rated appliances, energy-efficient lighting and low-flow plumbing fixtures for a projected 15 percent in total energy savings.

In total, there will be 20 one-bedroom units, 34 two-bedroom units, 40 three-bedroom units, 22 four-bedroom units, and two five-bedroom units. All of the apartments will be for households earning at or below 80 percent of the Area Median Income.

Tenants at Southview Gardens and Overlook Terrace will be temporarily relocated and have the right to return to their original apartments.

All 118 apartments will be covered by new Project-Based Section 8 Housing Assistance Payment contracts issued under HUD guidelines for Public Housing Authorities.

The developer is a joint venture between 3d Development Group and Cayuga Housing Development Corporation, the nonprofit affiliate of the Ithaca Housing Authority.

State funding for the $75 million Ithaca Housing Authority Redevelopment includes $10.6 million in permanent tax-exempt bonds, Federal Low Income Housing Tax Credits that will generate $29.7 million in equity, and $18.8 million in subsidy from New York State Homes and Community Renewal. The development was awarded $1.4 million from the Clean Energy Initiative. Other funding sources include $9.3 million from the Ithaca Housing Authority, $300,000 from Tompkins County Community Housing Fund, and nearly $91,000 from Ithaca Urban Renewal.

The Clean Energy Initiative developed by New York State Homes and Community Renewal and the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority to create more than 1,500 energy-efficient, all-electric or electric-ready, climate-friendly affordable homes in existing multifamily buildings across the state.

Homes and Community RenewalCommissioner RuthAnne Visnauskas said,"This $75 million investment in the Ithaca Housing Authority speaks to our commitment to upgrading and protecting our existing affordable housing assets. The redesign of these apartments will yield modern and highly energy-efficient homes for 118 households and will preserve affordability and extend the useful life of these buildings for decades to come. Governor Hochul's bold and forward-looking housing agenda is ensuring a brighter and more secure future for public housing residents in Ithaca and across the entire state."

New York State Energy Research and Development AuthorityPresident and CEO Doreen M. Harris said, "NYSERDA is pleased to see construction commence on the Ithaca Housing Authority redevelopment project, which demonstrates that clean, resilient and affordable housing can be accessible to all New Yorkers. Through the Clean Energy Initiative, we are working with our sister agency, New York State Homes and Community Renewal, to make strategic investments in multifamily buildings like those being developed through this project, that reduce greenhouse-gas emissions and provide healthier, comfortable and resilient living spaces."

Senator Chuck Schumer said, "Every New Yorker deserves access to safe affordable housing, but historic underinvestment has created a housing crisis in places like Ithaca. I am proud that the federal Low-Income Housing Tax Credit that I have fought hard to protect and expand has supplied the millions needed to make these new affordable homes a reality. Housing is a human right and I will keep fighting to get every dollar of federal support needed to help lay the foundation in Ithaca for a brighter, 'gorges', and more equitable future for all residents."

State Senator Tom O'Mara said, "State investments in safe and affordable housing continue to strengthen the fabric of neighborhoods and the quality of life for tenants and residents in the city of Ithaca and communities across this region and state. It's an important commitment that will deliver critical short- and long-term benefits."

Assemblymember Anna Kelles said,"I am encouraged to see this project move forward at a moment when rising rents, increased home prices, and lack of supply have exacerbated the housing and affordability crisis. We must continue to create affordable and safe housing for low- and middle-income families. This project addresses this need by rehabilitating 36 units, and fully replacing 70 units that were outdated and potentially unsafe with 82 new, safe, and sustainable units. This 118 unit project will add 12 new units, including one and two bedroom units which are currently in acute deficit in Ithaca and all units will be rented at 80% area median income (AMI). Hopefully this is just one more step in a long needed road of adding to our affordable housing stock. I also applaud the project's sustainability goals with all of the units in this housing project constructed all-electric with air source heat pumps providing heating and cooling, in line with the city of Ithaca and Tompkins County aggressive climate goals."

Acting Ithaca Mayor Laura Lewis said,"The city of Ithaca is pleased to have the support of so many partner agencies in the redevelopment of critically needed low-income housing. Substantial renovations of Overlook Terrace and Southview Garden and, at Northside Apartments the complete replacement of outdated buildings that were first constructed decades ago, will provide families with high quality and environmentally efficient homes. This investment in our community will benefit generations of Ithacans."

Tompkins County Legislature Chairwoman Shawna M. Black said, "This project is an excellent example of re-invigorating our affordable housing options in Tompkins County. We're proud of whatIthacaHousing Authority offers to our community and that these projects will be energy efficient and align with New York State's Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act. Thank you to New York State,IthacaHousing Authority, and our Tompkins County Community Housing Fund forcontributing to these developments. I can't wait to see construction begin and to get people back into their homes."

3d Development GroupPresident Bruce Levinesaid, "Our focus was on the needs of the existing tenants, future tenants, the community at large, and the global need for improved energy sustainability and reducing fossil fuel emissions. This project was made possible by the support received from the state, federal and local government agencies. Because everyone got on board and believed in the goals and initiative, the final result will transform the Ithaca Northside neighborhood for decades to come."

Ithaca Housing Authority Executive Director Brenda Westfallsaid, "Our vision and end goal is to provide quality affordable housing for our current and future tenants while ensuring that the properties are energy efficient and meet energy sustainability goals for decades to come. As a lifelong resident of the city of Ithaca, it is extremely rewarding to witness the commitment and support that many different agencies brought forth in bringing our vision to life. This project will both improve and preserve the quantity and quality of affordable housing we are able to provide while complimenting the landscape of the neighborhoods in which the properties are located."

Accelerating Southern Tier Soaring

Today's announcement complements "Southern Tier Soaring," the region's comprehensive blueprint to generate robust economic growth and community development. The regionally designed plan focuses on attracting a talented workforce, growing business and driving innovation. Now, the region is accelerating Southern Tier Soaring with a $500 million State investment through the Upstate Revitalization Initiative. The State's $500 million investment will incentivize private business to invest well over $2.5 billion - and the region's plan, as submitted, projects up to 10,200 new jobs. More information is available here.

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Manitoba has awarded over $625,000 in funding to help preserve and enhance heritage across the province, it was announced Monday.

A total of$627,070 in Heritage Resources Conservation Grant funding will support 51 projects, Sport, Culture and Heritage Minister Andrew Smith announced.

Our government is committed to preserving Manitobas rich historical legacy for future generations, said Smith in a press release. This investment supports the conservation of heritage buildings, which are powerful, tangible connections to our provinces past with significant educational and cultural value that must be maintained.

Among the projects to get a boost were the Seven Oaks House Museum ($5,905 for log wall, foundation and window repairs), Sir Hugh John MacDonald House (Dalnavert Museum) ($9,150 for window restoration) and the Walker Theatre ($25,000 for roofing replacement) in Winnipeg.

The Heritage Resources Conservation Grant provides funding to support projects that demonstrate a commitment to the conservation and long-term sustainability of legally protected heritage sites, the province said.

Owners or long-term lessees of heritage sites as well as municipal governments, professional associations or non-profit organizations that manage heritage sites can apply for funding for eligible projects related to research, conservation planning, capital projects, endowments and long-term maintenance or education and training.

Applications are assessed based on a number of factors including theimportance of the project to the overall heritage conservation goals and the community benefit of the project.

The minister noted all applications received were approved for funding.

Heritage Resources Conservation Grant project funding list

Albert St. Autonomous Zone Marketing Co-op Ltd., Winnipeg $9,670 for masonry repairs and cornice restoration; $5,000 for conservation planning. Agricultural Society Display Building, Carberry $20,465 for foundation installation and floor joist replacement. Augustine United Church, Winnipeg $25,000 for window restoration and upgrading. Barber House, Winnipeg $19,580 for floor and millwork restoration; $445 for conservation planning. Bergthaler Waisenamt, Altona $9,455 for roofing replacement. Bradburn Block, Winnipeg $25,000 for roofing replacement; $5,000 for conservation planning. Brookdale Grain Warehouse (Manitoba Agricultural Museum), Austin $21,645 for new metal cladding. CNR Station (Flin Flon Museum), Flin Flon $6,000 for exterior painting and window repairs; $2,500 for conservation planning. Dominion Post Office (Boyne Regional Library), Carman $17,340 for masonry work. Erickson Cabin, Lac du Bonnet $1,375 for log repairs and exterior painting. Former Canadian Northern Railway Station, McCreary $18,935 for exterior upgrades and site drainage improvements. Former St. Johns Anglican Church, Lac du Bonnet $12,150 for foundation repairs; $3,225 for conservation planning. Former Town Hall (Watson Arts Centre), Dauphin $25,000 for window repairs and upgrades. Frelsis (Liberty) Lutheran Church, Baldur $6,865 for fire exit window replacement and accessibility upgrades. Grain Elevator (Manitoba Agricultural Museum), Austin $2,780 for metal cladding repairs. Gregg Building, Winnipeg $25,000 for window repairs and upgrades. Holland Emmanuel Historical Church, Holland $8,925 for window repairs and restoration. Kingsley School, La Riviere $21,085 for masonry repairs, window restoration and painting. Knox United Church, Winnipeg $25,000 for foundation stabilization and roof repairs; $5,000 for conservation planning. La Rivire Manitou Station, Manitou $25,000 for new foundation, structural repairs and new station platform; $5,000 for conservation planning. Little Britain United Church, Lockport $13,250 for roof edge repairs. Midwinter School, East Braintree $2,110 for wood window installation. Oke House, Morden $19,120 for roof, siding and structural floor repairs. Old English Church, Hartney $4,385 for masonry repairs. Prairie Skills Centre (former Presbyterian Church), Deloraine $16,600 for wall, window and floor repairs and painting. Ralph Connor House, Winnipeg $8,350 for foundation repairs and drainage upgrades. Seven Oaks House Museum, Winnipeg $5,905 for log wall, foundation and window repairs. Sir Hugh John MacDonald House (Dalnavert Museum), Winnipeg $9,150 for window restoration. South Bay School, Winnipegosis $3,530 for exterior painting. St. Annes Anglican Church, Poplar Point $6,830 for window and siding repairs and exterior painting. St. Helens Anglican Church, Fairford $12,000 for window repairs and exterior painting. St. John the Baptist Anglican Church, Manitou $22,500 for tower structural repairs and masonry repointing. St. Judes Anglican Church, Grand Marais $20,500 for replication of original porch, accessibility upgrades and exterior painting; $1,270 for conservation planning. St. Lukes Anglican Church, Winnipeg $17,000 for window restoration. St. Michaels Ukrainian Catholic Church, Gimli $5,400 for exterior painting of church and bell tower. Ste. Thrse Roman Catholic Church, Cardinal $8,765 for window, siding and entrance repairs and exterior painting. Stonewall Limestone Quarry, Stonewall $25,000 for masonry repairs and stabilization; $5,000 for conservation planning. Sts. Peter & Paul Ukrainian Orthodox Church, Tyndall $9,000 for woodwork repairs and exterior painting. Trappist Monastery Guest House, St. Norbert $20,250 for window and floor repairs. Union Bank Building (Heritage Arts Centre), Hamiota $3,715 for window restoration and masonry repairs. Walker Theatre, Winnipeg $25,000 for roofing replacement. Yerex House, Franklin $10,000 for roof and wall repairs and painting.

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By: Jo Ingles | Statehouse News BureauPosted on: Monday, August 8, 2022

COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) The races for three seats on the Ohio Supreme Court this November are gaining national attention for the stakes involved with future decisions related to abortion, redistricting, and other high-profile issues.

The Ohio Supreme Court building in Columbus. [Daniel Konik | Statehouse News Bureau]Ohio Supreme Court races rarely get as much attention as other statewide races. Vote totals from past elections show some voters who cast ballots dont make choices in supreme court races. Some just skip those races altogether. But Republicans and Democrats are hoping that will change.

Advocates for parties and issues say they will be pumping money and putting a lot of attention on those races. Sabatos Crystal Ball, the national political forecasting newsletter, has included Ohios supreme court races on its short list of those to watch this November.

Among the advocates keeping a close eye on the supreme court races are those involved with the issue of abortion.

Pro-Choice Ohio Executive Director Kellie Copeland said shes stressing the importance of getting Democratic justices elected for the states high court in November.

The fastest and first way that we can re-establish full abortion access in Ohio is through the state supreme court, Copeland said.

Likewise, Ohio Right to Life President Mike Gonidakis said his group will also be emphasizing the importance of Supreme Court races. And he said he expects Republican judicial candidates to have the advantage because it is a statewide election.

9.9 times out of ten, the pro-life candidate wins statewide elections in Ohio, Gonidakis said.

Current Republican Chief Justice Maureen OConnor is retiring due to age limits and a sitting Republican or Democratic justice will be chosen to replace her. Democratic Justice Jennifer Brunner and Republican Justice Sharon Kennedy are vying for OConnors post.

Two other Republican Justices are up for re-election. Republican Justice Pat Fischer is being challenged by Democratic Court of Appeals Judge Terri Jamison. The other Republican up for re-election is Justice Pat DeWine who is running against Democratic District Court of Appeals Judge Marilyn Zayas.

Justice Pat DeWine was criticized for not recusing himself from cases involving the Ohio Redistricting Commission, of which his father Gov. Mike DeWine is a member.

The redistricting saga played out with the majority of the court ruling the states legislative and congressional redistricting maps unconstitutional. OConnor became the key swing vote in those cases by siding with the three Democratic justices in those majority opinions. If two of the three Democrats running for those seats are elected, it could flip the ideological balance of the states high court.

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Edited By Jan Cigliano Hartman | The Women Who Changed Architecture | Princeton Architectural Press | $50.00

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At the time of this writing, the future for women in the United States looks grim. The U.S. Supreme Courts overturning of Roe v. Wade doesnt just mean that women in at least 20 and up to 30 states wont be able to choose when and if they endure pregnancy and childbirth. It also means that some of them wont be able to, for example, leave a bad job because they need the money to raise the child they didnt want to have. It means they wont be able to leave a relationship they dont want to be in anymore because they need to split child-care duties. It means they might die if their pregnancy ends in a miscarriage, the treatment for which is dilation and curettage, the same as a late-term abortion. It means that, in approximately half of this country, women dont have full control over their own fates.

Contemporary politics is a deeply unfair frame through which to review two recently published books about women in architectureThe Women Who Changed Architecture and Expanding Field of Architecturebut doing so offers an opportunity to remark about how to best understand and support womens struggles today.

The first volume (The Women) is a collection of short profiles of more than 144 architects who are women. It takes a consciously revisionist stance; editor Jan Cigliano Hartman claims in her preface that it will change the history of architecture, bringing female architects into the central narrative.

The second (Expanded Field) is not a collection of people but of projects; the editors state up front that they envisioned that this book would be a collection of 40 projects that happen to be designed by women. The desire for this shared trait to appear as a coincidence when it was in fact a deliberate choice reflects a discomfort with the category of woman architect, a clue that there is something not quite right with establishing this category and holding it up as relevant. This discomfort is present in both volumes; in The Women, it appears as a repeated conjuring of Dorte Mandrups proclamation that she is not a female architect but rather, simply, an architect. Instead of interrogating this discomfort, both volumes barrel right through it.

The results are, in the case of The Women, an unfortunately tone-deaf and reductive near-fairytale about the accomplishments of women architects and their contributions to the field of architecture. For its part, Expanding Field is a bland collection of nicely photographed projects from around the world; its only uniting thread is the fact that they were all designed by womenhardly an elucidating metric.

The Women divides its subjects into six chapters, each corresponding to a different generation and featuring an introduction that glosses over the material context in which these women practiced. Some of the essays provide salient historical tidbitsa profile of Joan Forrester Sprague, for example, mentions the economic and housing crisis that influenced her practicebut, relegated to short biographies barely a thousand words long, they hardly constitute enough of a picture for readers to get a real sense of the worlds in which these women worked. Even if a particularly smart reader could piece things together, its hard to believe Hartmans claim that The Women could change the history of architecture when the book dedicates at most two spreads to the full careers of architects with enormous bodies of work. I learned about women architects from The Women, but I also came away with the dreadful feelingwhich increased each time I turned the page and saw a new black-and-white portrait of a woman cropped into a circlethat these women were being tokenized to prove a point.

Expanding Field takes up a similar charge, claiming to contribute to the global effort of normalizing women in leadership roles in the expanding field of architecture. The book focuses more built work than on biography; its objects of study are buildings instead of architects themselves.

Seeing both books together made me ask two questions: First, what points are these books trying to prove? That women have been architects all along? Any fairly smart reader of architectural history (and of history in general, for that matter) already knows this. Or was it their goal to properly recognize womens contributions to the field of architecture? It would take a lot more than a few hundred pages to do that. It will take, namely, changing the collective imaginary and shared references of people in the field, something which can only happen slowly, over time. And second: Who is the intended audience for this? I find it hard to imagine a woman architect whose primary struggle is not seeing enough women in the field. Shed likely be better served by exchanging tips on how to deal with sexism at work.

Mandrup is right that the women featured in these books are architects. The reason they made buildingsthe reason they contributed to the fieldis that theyre architects. The fact of their gender is incidental. If I were them (and any of them are welcome to disagree with me), Id want my work to be recognized for its own merits, held up next to the work of anyone else, not set aside into its own volume, crammed together into a rapid revisionist history or a global survey.

In terms of understanding the impact of women on architecture, Id be more interested in, for example, a history of womens organizations in architecture and design (Why did they get together and how did they do it? What problems did they cite and have any of them improved?) or a survey of the design of spaces used predominantly by women (nurseries, domestic violence shelters, single-sex schools, and gyms, to name a few). The majority of women who interact with buildings are not architects; there is more to be gleaned about the role of architecture in womens livesand about the impact of women on architectureby looking at their experience.

While the books offer interesting historic information and nice images, I dont think we need either to improve the cause of women as an oppressed class in our society. What is the point of making more room for women at the top when really what we need is more roomand more freedomfor women at the bottom? What is the point of celebrating women in positions of leadership as an accomplishment for our gender when our rights are being stripped away?

I am, of course, not saying that people featured in these volumes should not be celebrated as individuals. Many of them overcame personal adversity and societal sexism to achieve professional success. That is laudable. But we should not fall into the trap of believing that individual women gaining power under a deeply unjust system is good for all women. To conflate personal achievement with collective progress is naive at best, cynical at worst, and harmful in all cases.

After reading both books, I detect in each a hope that women will see themselves represented and know it is possible for them to achieve what the women in their pages have done. I find it hard to imagine such a woman. Women dont need books about women architects to understand that they can be anything they want, that they can do anything they want. On that playing field, feminism has already succeeded. Women know that they are capable. We just need basic human rights.

Marianela DAprile is a writer in Brooklyn.

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