Briefs: IPD retiree honored, Rev educates T-burg students

Retired Ithaca police lieutenant honored for public service

Retired Ithaca Police Department lieutenant and former Ithaca Police Benevolent Association (PBA) Executive Board member Scott Garin was recently honored by the Ithaca Kiwanis Club for outstanding public service on April 11 at noon. Garin, who is well known in the Ithaca community, retired from the Ithaca Police Department on March 26 after completing a distinguished 21-year career. During his time at the Ithaca Police Department, he was a long-standing member of the Ithaca-Tompkins Specialized Response Team, where he assisted in the peaceful resolution of countless critical incidents. He managed the Ithaca Police Recruitment Team and helped to build the future of IPD. Throughout his career, Garin also supported his fellow officers as the head of the IPD Peer’s Program, a program that assists Ithaca police officers with navigating complex issues such as PTSD, cumulative stress disorder, processing critical incidents and any of the other countless issues that can negatively impact a police officer during their career. Most recently, prior to his retirement, Garin volunteered to fill an important vacancy on the Ithaca PBA Executive Board, the sergeant at arms. The Ithaca PBA is the labor organization that represents the sworn police officers, sergeants and lieutenants of the Ithaca Police Department. The awards ceremony and luncheon was held at the Golden Bayou Restaurant at 401 Elmira Rd., Ithaca.

 

T-burg first-graders learn vital lesson from Rev Theatre Co.

The entire Trumansburg first-grade class got a very special lesson just before spring break, and it wasn’t taught by their teachers. It was taught and performed by The Rev Theatre Co. via the classic tale of “The Boy Who Cried Wolf.” Rev performers Jaylynn Mangual, Thomas Costello and Shiloh Boston, all of whom have been with the Auburn-based theater company since September 2021, spent the better part of the school day with the first-graders, both in classroom and on-stage. The trio started out in the classrooms. There, they did a little prep workshop with students to help set the stage for the show. As many of us know, “The Boy Who Cried Wolf” is all about lying. For Mangual, Costello and Boston, their objective was instilling the invaluable lesson to the Trumansburg first-graders that “liars cannot be believed even when they’re telling the truth.” The time spent with the youngsters in the classrooms before their performance ensures the students will follow along, participate and take something away from the show, Mangual said. “We talk to them about fables,” Mangual explained, “about parables and the elements of those types of stories. And then we talk to them about lying, what lying is, what the truth is and why it all matters. We listen to their opinions and thoughts and create a dialogue.” Trumansburg first-graders were very engaged throughout all the Rev performers had to offer, which as Boston noted, is one of his favorite parts of the job. “We have all of this in a big van,” he said. “We take everything out, set it up and teach the lessons to the kids. … So, we’re construction workers, actors, teachers and more, all on the same day.”