Cordelia Elizabeth Carter, a well-known Auburn community leader and musician, and former U.S. Rep. Frank Horton, who served Cayuga County for a decade, both are no longer with us. People who knew each this week heaped praises upon them for their commitment to community service and integrity.

We'll certainly miss them.

HIT: To Beverly Hunter, the Auburn resident who has been driving a bus from this area to the fair for 22 years.

Hunter, 74, has not let age slow her down. And her personality is infectious. Many people who take the Centro buses to the fair each year make an effort to board when she is driving.

MISS: To the state Legislature, for the hidden extra cost it buried into the recently passed pension reform law, which did not provide much relief in the first place.

As a way to give municipalities a break on extremely high state pension fund bills, the state pushed the deadline for those payments from Dec. 15 to Feb. 1. With that window dressing - delaying the payments a few weeks is not going to solve the problem - came a catch. The state will no longer be offering a pension payment rebate that had been included under the old deadline.

HIT: To the Auburn Code Enforcement Office, which received high praise from a city family dealing with a housing problem the past few weeks.

Paul Garnett and his family were living in a Barber Street apartment in which a blocked pipe was leaking raw sewage into the basement. He called code enforcement, which immediately came to the property, condemned it and ordered changes to be made.

In the meantime, Garnett moved his family to a new home, but he needed code enforcement to inspect it before taking up permanent residence.

And once again, code enforcement swiftly did the work.