University Daily Kansan / Monday, October 10, 1988
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A fine time for a ride OCTOGINTA '88
OCTOGINTA '88
RIGHT: Bicyclists begin the tour with a mass start near Coffin Sports Complex on the Haskell Indian Junior College campus, and continued through Lawrence to Clinton and Lone St lakes.
BOTTOM RIGHT: Derrick Fogle, Kansas City, Mo., stops during the Octopoca bicycle tour and fixes his two flat tires on the bridge across Clinton Lake.
BOTTOM MIDDLE: A rear view mirror attached to the glasses helps the bicyclist watch traffic coming from behind.
BOTTOM LEFT: Along the bicycle route were rest stops called "sags" where bicyclists refilled their water bottles and restored their nutrients by eating bananas, oranges and apples.
BELLOW: About 600 bicyclists participated in Octogintta '88, an 8-mile tour through western Douglas and parts of Shawnee and Osage county, at the beginning of the race for an hour yesterday.
Photos by Sandra J. Watts and Kathy Wismer
Festival of Cultures attracts 2,500
By Mark Pagan
Kansan staff writer
By Mark Fagan
One trip around the gym of Holcom Park
Recreation Center was like a trip around the
park.
The mouth-watering smells of foods from Greece, China and the old west were all within a minute's walk at Saturday's first-ever Celebration of Cultures festival.
The festival's 48 boots featured history, crafts and foods. A man from Scotland sported an authentic kilt, and Indian dancers were their traditional head dress.
Across the gym, Hamed Ghazali, Lawrence graduate student, his wife, Fatma, and their four children tended a family booth displaying Middle Eastern crafts.
The Ghazals came to the United States in 1880, and on Saturday they wanted to share their Middle East experiences.
Harned Ghazali was most proud of his "Nile Papyrus," cultural paintings on wearings of the
papyrus water plant. Even Ghazali's business card is printed on papyrus.
"It stays thousands of years. It is not affected by water, chemicals or anything," he said.
But he Koko Dubrikh, Osteoder, West Germany, junior was only interested in the international world.
That's why I came here — to get some food "he air." The main reason was to chow down.
The City of Lawrence donated the use of gym, local businesses donated materials and about 100 volunteers worked for more than a year to make this happen. The chairman of the Celebration of Cultures
Booths sponsored by 33 groups from the University of Kansas, Haskell Indian Junior College and the community tilled the main gym of the center, 21th Street and Lawrence Avenue.
"The response of people is overwhelming." she said. "It really is heartwarming."
Bob Schumm, Lawrence mayor, was on hand for the ribbon-cutting ceremony and enjoyed the
booths and performances
"We have so much raw talent from the different countries at the University and in the community," he said. "It really will cost them all under our own native coatings and watch them go to work."
"I'm quite sure you'll see this for years to come."
Turnout for the six-hour event exceeded expectations, said Steven Jansen, one of the co-chairmen.
He said officials initially expected 400-700 people to attend the event.
Bjorge estimated actual attendance at 2,500 people for Lawrence's first festival.
"We didn't know what to expect, she said. "so seems like it worked out. We feel real good about it."
Jansen, a historian, said the festival was good for Lawrence
"It's something the community needed to fit together, to understand itself." be said
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