UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Thursday, January 12, 1995
5A
Lawrence garden to unite community
By Sarah Morrison Kansan staff writer
The community that gardens together stays together, or at least that is what the members of the Lawrence Community Garden Project hope as they plan to turn a once vacant, garbage-filled lot into a community garden.
A lot next to Community Mercantile, 901 Mississippi St., will be transformed into a park this spring with about 20 garden plots measuring 10 feet by 10 feet, said David Loewenstein, founder of the project and president of the garden project board of directors.
"The idea of the garden is to provide the space, tools, instruction and seeds necessary for people to grow their own fruit, flower and vegetable garden," he said. "We will make it possible for people who don't have a place to garden and don't have the resources to start a garden to be able to grow one. Of course that means that we need to have funding from other sources because the gardeners themselves won't be paying for it."
Loewenstein said the garden project, which will have an estimated $1,500 annual overhead, is a nonprofit organization. The supplies and money needed for the garden will be obtained through donations from the community and from grants.
Members of the community can apply to use one of the plots beginning February. The plots will be distributed on a first-come, first-serve basis.
Loewenstein said the gardening will get underway in mid-March.
Gretchen Gwaltney, secretary of the garden project, said she thought the garden would provide a much-needed lift in community spirit. It is an area where many houses are run-down and residents have adopted apathetic attitudes toward neighborhood beautification, she said.
"I hope that this will encourage people to participate in their neighborhood and clean it up and make it a nice place to hang out," she said.
Jimmie Kirkland, Edna junior, said that he thought the garden project was a good idea and that it would bolster the image of the Lawrence community. However, he did not think he actively would participate.
"I would probably be a backseat driver in the deal," he said. "If they needed help getting it started I might pitch in, but I wouldn't want to plant a garden plot."
Gwaltney said anyone interested in donating money, time or tools to the project could come to the board's meetings at 3:30 p.m. every Thursday in the Community Mercantile dell.
Burned T-shirt printing shop had many loyal KU customers
By Ian Ritter
Kansan staff writer
A fire that destroyed a T-shirt printing business has left some campus organizations looking for a new place to get T-shirts printed.
K-2 Graphics, Inc., 710 W. 6th St., was gutted by fire Dec. 26. Fire officials have not determined the cause of the fire but have ruled out arson.
"There's not even any way for me to get to my desk without a buldozer," said Diane White, owner of the business.
White said she was unsure about plans to reopen K-2 Graphics because of competition from other graphics businesses.
Before it burned down, the business made T-shirts and sweatshirts for Student Union Activities, the departments of geology and linguistics and other campus organizations.
The department of linguistics, which had 200 shirts printed last semester by K-2, may have lost an original design that was stored on a computer at the business, said Giulia Oliverio, a member of the Linguistics Graduate Student Association.
The shirts made for the linguistics department show a map of Native American languages from Central America to Alaska and is titled "Native American Language Families."
"Our T-shirt was color-coded, and
we had 16 different colors," Olivier said. "They were really nice."
SUA had several designs made by K-2, said Sue Morrell, program manager of the Kansas Union. The company printed shirts for the Homecoming Parade and Day On the Hill and also printed the SUA employee shirts.
"The stuff they did for us was always really high quality," Morrell said.
Morrell said K-2's prices always beat the competition.
"They always gave us the cheapest prices," she said.
John Luczaj, president of the Sigma Gamma Epsilon Geography Club, said he hoped K-2 Graphics would reopen. Luczaj said the business had printed shirts for the club for at least two years.
"I like what they've done," he said. "If they're around next year, we'll probably have T-shirts made by them."
"I thought it was great," Luczaj said.
"They would do anything we wanted them to do."
Last semester, the Geology Club had 70 shirts printed by the business.
The fire, which started in the back of the business, also destroyed a neighboring business, Pod's Discount Carpet and Tile. T12. 8th St.
"I'm sure it's impacted a whole lot of people, and it really hurts me," White said.
Students celebrate break far from home
By Eduardo A. Molina Kansan staff writer
Zenta Nishida, Japan senior, spent Christmas Eve eating instant noodles at Templin Hall.
Nishida couldn't afford a plane ticket home, so instant noodles was his only "banquet" for the holiday.
Cris Silva, Brazil senior, didn't go home either. She missed her family, she said, but with friends from Uganda, South Africa, France, Russia and Brazil, she celebrated Christmas in a multicultural way.
Nishida wasn't the only international student who stayed in Lawrence during the break, but stories weren't sad for all of them.
"We had food from these five countries," Silva said. "We had a lot of fun. We sang, but mostly, we danced to Latin music until four in the morning."
For New Year's Eve, Silva went to the Kansas City area with friends from France, Cuba and the United States.
"My American friends wanted to celebrate with us because it was too boring to stay at home with their parents," she said.
Hironori Ito, Japan senior, didn't want to go home for the holidays.
Other international students weren't homesick but stayed in Lawrence anyway.
"It wasn't that I didn't have the money to go, but we don't celebrate Christmas in Japan in the same way Christians do," he said. "However, I celebrated Christmas at my girlfriend's home. We had a big dinner there."
Amir Khan, Pakistan senior, stayed at a friend's apartment in Lawrence.
"I didn't go home because the break is too short to buy a plane ticket that costs more than $1,200," he said.
Knan said New Year's Day in Pakistan was a time to go out with friends, so he went to the Kansas City area with a friend.
Silva said it was hard to be away from home during the holidays, but fellow international students could make the time less lonely.
"I called home on Christmas, and I didn't cry," she said. "I wasn't with my real family in Sa Paulo, but these friends are my family in my heart."
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