Briefs: Cayuga Lake National Bank Lansing branch, new Eagle Scouts

Cayuga Lake National Bank celebrates opening of Lansing branch

Cayuga Lake National Bank (CLNB) hosted an open house and ribbon cutting ceremony with the Tompkins County Chamber of Commerce at CLNB’s new Lansing branch, located at 3077 N. Triphammer Rd., on July 29. Kelly Wade, president and CEO of CLNB, shared, “We are incredibly excited to finally open our Lansing branch and begin a new chapter of Cayuga Lake National Bank’s story. We are very happy to join the Lansing community and welcome new and current customers to our beautiful new branch.” The open house ran from 9 to 5 p.m. and included tours of the new location. The ribbon cutting, held at 1 p.m., was attended by Lansing Town Supervisor Ed LaVigne, Tompkins Chamber President Jennifer Tavares and CLNB’s leadership team and Board of Directors. “The Tompkins Chamber is grateful to Cayuga Lake National Bank for selecting Lansing as their next location. Their immediate connection to and investment in our community, in an area of Lansing that is growing as a town center, is noteworthy and to be commended,” Tavares said. Wade thanked “everyone who has been a part of this project for all of their time, energy and support.” To learn more about Cayuga Lake National Bank, please visit cayugalakenationalbank.com. In this photo (from left to right): CLNB Board of Directors members Peter Adams and Janet Hinman, CLNB Chair of the Board Steve Zabriskie, Wade, LaVigne, Tavares and CLNB Board of Directors member Allen Mosher.

 

Boy Scout Troop 55 celebrates three new Eagle Scouts

Ithaca Boy Scout Troop 55 held a celebration July 31 for scouts Max Haney, Peter Jesch and Srinivas Pontula receiving the Eagle Scout rank. The ceremony was held at Camp Barton in Trumansburg at 7 p.m. Haney (left) was the troop’s senior patrol leader at the start of the pandemic and helped get everyone comfortable with meetings on Zoom and, later, meetings outdoors in the deepest winter. For his Eagle Project, Haney partnered with the Newark Valley Fire Company to enclose its outdoor kitchen space to allow the Company to continue to provide a community space. Haney worked with the Company to design the space. Haney organized a campout with scouts and scouters camping in single, socially distanced tents and then organized masked teams to help with the build. Jesch (center) worked with the Tompkins County Health Department to make masks to the department’s specifications so it could distribute them to its clients (see tinyurl.com/yghk5je7 for more information). Pontula (right) worked with the YMCA of Ithaca and Tompkins County to find a way to support its physical education program through the pandemic. Partnering with them, he helped design heavy-duty archery targets for the Y to add to its outdoor facilities, adding a permanent and socially distanced outdoor physical activity to the Y’s program. Pontula then raised funds to build the targets and ran a series of socially distanced build sessions with scouts and adults from the trip to finish six full-size targets. The ceremony was well attended with about 100 people sharing the campfire on the shore of Cayuga Lake at Camp Barton. The ceremony featured a Roman Catholic invocation by Fr. Joesph Marcoux of St. Catherine of Sienna parish and a Hindu benediction ceremony along with the presentation of flags flown over the Capitol in their honor by Rep. Thomas Reed and well wishes from many including Pope Francis, Frank Kruppa of the Tompkins County Health Department and the Cornell Hindu Students Association.