By Ken Sturtz Photos by Alice G. Patterson Jen Liddy was once a high school English teacher, more concerned with grading papers than entrepreneurship. She and her students killed off Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar each year on the Ides of...
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Lisa Wiles: Twice a lifesaver
By Ken Sturtz When Lisa Wiles replays the events of April 9, 2020, as she has many times, she’s reminded that things easily could’ve ended differently. She worked a half day, napped, ran errands and then showered. It was...
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An Issue Near and Dear to Her Heart
By Ken Sturtz Two years ago, the fashion design firm Jackie Ferrari built from scratch was on life support after having been battered in the pandemic. Millions of dollars in orders vanished overnight. She was forced to furlough most...
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‘Be the change’: Zonta Club of Syracuse Forges a Path of Community Service
By Ken Sturtz Compile even a partial list of the Zonta Club of Syracuse’s charitable activities and the mind conjures up an image of an army of volunteers, not unlike the legions of elves Santa relies on. But Siobhan...
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For Carolyn Hendrickson, Philanthropy is a Lifestyle
By Ken Sturtz A stillness swept over the church as the congregation sat enthralled by a visitor’s story of how he’d been called upon to make a life-changing decision to leave a career in business and devote himself to...
