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ROC ester mm TUESDAY, APRIL 28, 2009 DemocratandChronicle.com 75 CENTS NEWSSTAND INSIDE TODAY Duffy: Rochester on the rise Mayor calls on residents to fuel growth in his State of City speech. ments. Instead, he used the 45-minute address to about 300 on the University of Rochester campus to connect the dots of his first term. He highlighted change people can see: new developments at Brooks Landing and High Falls, the new ESL Federal Credit Robert Duffy Mayor stressed optimism for city future he envisions. Jv LK.

A Duffy began his address recalling city forefather Nathanial Rochester, whose epitaph at Mt. cluding that this city is "on the rise." But he also issued a challenge. "Let's look around, see what needs to be done," he said, "and get to work." The city celebrates its 175th birthday today, and BRIAN SHARP STAFF WRITER In a State of the City address that was heavy on optimism and retrospection, Mayor Robert Duffy invoked images of Rochester past, present and future on Monday con WDWfS SfflCC one uea to 1 i Hope Cemetery reads (in Latin): "If you seek his monument, look around you." Duffy, who is seeking re-election this fall, touched on the massive $35 million gap in the 2009-10 budget, stayed clear of the controversial Renaissance Square and, unlike past addresses, made no new announce- you knew she was going to be innovative and keep MCC going in the right direction and maintain the high standard we've achieved," said trustee John Bartolotta, who was elected vice chairman of the board at the Monday meeting. Trustee John Parrinello said that during interviews, Kress "blew us away." And Terri Tugel, who is MCC, PAGE 6A Statewide No cases in Rochester area, but N.Y.C. sees increase, IB, 3A while 40 cases none fatal were confirmed in the United States and six in Canada, the WHO said, adding that the number of confirmed cases worldwide was 73.

President Barack Obama said the threat of spreading infections is cause for concern but "not a cause for alarm." WHO spokesman Peter Cordingley singled out air travel as an easy way the virus could spread. learn) "'I sr 1 i KIDS AT PLAY YOUNG KAYAKERS TRAIN FOR WILD WATER DERBY TURN TO PAGE 40 LIVING CAKE OF THE MONTH COCONUT CAKE WITH MASCARPONE FROSTING TURN TO PAGE 1C BUSINESS AREA COLLEGES TARGETING WOULD-BE ENTREPRENEURS WITH COURSES, PROGRAMS TURN TO PAGE 5B COMMENTARY MARK HARE TRACY SPRINGER FIGHTS HER CANCER, AND HELPS OTHERS TURN TO PAGE IB BUSINESS GM TO RESTRUCTURE; PLANS TO END PONTIAC LINE TURN TO PAGE 5B SHOWERS DEVELOPING 72 42 Expanded Weather 8D also inside CROSSWORD 2A, 4C EDITORIALS 5A DEATHS 2B TELEVISION 2C CLASSIFIED 1 12C COMICS 4C, 5C 1 Local weather on your cellphone Text ROCWEATHER to 44636 mobile.notIinagIe.com Copyright 2009 Gannett Rochester Newspapers Four Sections "40901 "07002' CITY, PAGE 6A Brittanee Drexel Last seen walking from Myrtle Beach motel Saturday. i. 'IV. Gates Chili junior missing in S.C.

Family travels to Myrtle Beach in search of 17-year-old girl. VICTORIA E. FREILE AND CLAUDIA VARGAS STAFF WRITERS After Brittanee Marie Drexel's mother told her she didn't have permission to go to Myrtle Beach for spring break, Drexel, 17, asked if she could sleep over at a friend's house on Wednesday. Saturday evening Dawn Drexel said she received a phone call that her daughter had gone to Myrtle Beach, S.C, with friends but was missing. "She played it off like she was in Rochester," Dawn Drexel said.

A junior at Gates Chili High School, Drexel went for a walk on the beach Saturday night and never returned, said Capt. David Knipes of the Myrtle Beach Police Department. She was last seen about 8 p.m. Her friends moved to a different hotel in the area MISSING, PAGE 6A Sibling quartet says goodbye to first violinist The all-sibling Ying Quartet is bidding adieu to its first violinist and brother, Timothy Ying, 43. Replacing him will be Frank Huang, 30, a Chinese-born American violinist with a breadth of performance and competition experience.

STORY: 1C Ying Huang JAY CAPERS staff photographer Anne Kress, right, greets student government association president Sarah Robinson of Lima after Kress was announced as the new Monroe Community College president by the board of trustees on Monday. Rocky process ends with first female president 1. whole lot of talking in the first six months. I need to listen. I need to absorb.

I need to take notes. I need to get a sense of where people see the issues and move forward based on that," said Kress, who is currently provost and vice president for academic affairs at Santa Fe College in Gainesville, Fla. Board chairman Kenneth Goode noted that every constituency group at the school that met with Kress and two other final peans to postpone nonessential travel to parts of the United States and Mexico because of the virus. Mexico health department spokesman Carlos Olmos confirmed the move by the WHO to raise the alert level from Phase 3 to Phase 4. Putting an alert at Phases 4 or 5 signals that the swine flu virus is becoming increasingly adept at spreading among humans.

That move could O7 mSL 1 i At' Jyt BENNETT J. LOUDON STAFF WRITER Anne M. Kress, the new president of Monroe Community College, plans to spend several months getting to know the school and the community. "I would say my first order of business is literally sitting down and listening to people," said Kress, who was appointed unanimously Monday by the MCC board of trustees. "I don't plan to do a Swine flu outbreak is spreading ists favored her for the job.

The campus community's support was demonstrated again when a crowd of more than 200 reacted with a standing ovation when Goode began to read the resolution to appoint her. And after the vote was complete, Kress entered the meeting room with her family and was greeted by more cheers. "She connected. She had some great ideas and lead governments to set trade, travel and other restrictions aimed at limiting the disease's spread. The WHO's Phase 6 is the pandemic phase, characterized by outbreaks in at least two regions of the world.

U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said the United States is preparing as if the swine flu outbreak already is a full pandemic. The virus was suspected in up to 149 deaths in Mexico, the epicenter of the outbreak with more than 1,600 cases suspected, World Health Organization raises alert level to Phase 4. E. EDUARDO CASTILLO THE ASSOCIATED PRESS MEXICO CITY The World Health Organization raised its global alert level Monday, signaling that the swine flu virus was spreading from human to human in community outbreaks, but it stopped short of declaring a full-blown pandemic.

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