CAMPUS AND AREA
University Daily Kansan, March 22, 1985
Page 6
New grocery store bags regulars
By PATRICIA SKALLA Staff Reporter
You can't buy candy for a penny and you won't find bolts of gingham check material. But at the Eastside Community Grocery, 1200 New York St., you can experience the mom and pop store of the past where friends meet to gossip and children spend time and money.
The grocery, run entirely by volunteers, is designed to serve the needs of East Lawrence residents who can't get to other grocery stores, Barry Shalinsky, one of the store's 25 volunteers, said yesterday.
"The chief benefits are having a place where people can meet their basic food needs." Shalimsky said. "We need to help foster a sense of community."
The customers are usually either older than 60 or younger than 35, Shalinsky said. Most have low incomes, don't have a car and can't afford a $5 cab fee to get to a regular grocery store.
"PEOPLE ARE CAPABLE of walking to Dillons, but they aren't capable of carrying two bags of groceries with them." Shalinsky
The grocery also offers a $1 delivery service for customers who can't get to a grocery store at all.
Larry Hamilton, 839 E. 13th St., who shops at the store every day, said. "It's the most convenient thing that's happened to us around here. If it closed down, the neighborhood would be out of luck. We would be right back where we started from."
Shalinsky said many customers were regulars. Some buy a few things occasionally, some do their entire monthly shopping at the store. And some buy who drop by after school to buy three cent bubble gum or a Hershey bar.
Susie Ashline, a store volunteer,
said, "The kids are really funny.
They'll come in with 80 cents and just
keep buying until it is gone."
CUSTOMERS CAN FIND all of their basic food needs at the store, plus some house and beauty aids and some specialty products, such as Slenderella jelly for those who watch their waistlines Shalins said. Another store's prices were comparable to those of other grocery stores.
When the store opened, the cooperative stocked what it thought were necessary food items, Shalinsky said. But as the number of customers and the profits increased, so has the number of products available.
Bob Leffler, 839 New York St.,
shopping at the grocery for the first
time.
As he bought egg noodles and mushroom soup, he looked around and said, "I like it. I'd like to see it expanded. When I have some free time, I'm going to volunteer. This really fills a need."
FIVE VOLUNTEER managers operate the grocery and direct 20 workers, Shalinsky said. None of the workers is paid, but the time they volunteer can be used as a discount on purchases from the store.
"Money isn't really the issue," Shalinsky said. "People are getting paid in a couple of different ways."
For each hour they work in a month, the volunteers receive a 1 percent discount on purchases. The discount cannot exceed 15 percent. He said the workers also benefited by learning how to run a store.
"They'll end up having a marketable skill." Shalinsky said. "They can go out in the real world and get a real paying job."
Ashline, who started working at the store about six weeks ago, said she worked there because she wanted it to be successful.
THE STORE OPENED in October after three years of planning, Shalinsky said. It was financed through a $28,000 grant from the community
development program in Lawrence,
private donations and a loan.
Some community members were asked to give a $12 donation that would be used as their first year membership. Shares in the grocery are given a 3 percent discount on all items purchased.
The grocery now makes a profit, which is reinvested in the business, he said.
"Without the support and efforts of the neighborhood association, this store would not have come about," Shalinsky said.
When the store opened, it was only open for two or three hours Mondays through Thursdays, had a limited supply of products and a small number of customers.
now it is open from 2 to 7 p.m. on Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Fridays; noon to 7 p.m. on Thursday; and 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Saturdays.
As people began to volunteer to work, store was able to lengthen it hours, increase its profits and expand its product stock. Shalinsky said the store's stock now was about twice as large as when the store opened.
"It's growing, and as long as it continues to grow, I think we are going to be in pretty good shape," he said. "What the numbers indicate is that people are being served, and that is the point of this."
This month's projected sales are abound $2,500 — five times more than the sales in the first month of business, he said.
Veda Owens/KANSAN
Students are silhouetted against the light at the end of the tunnel between Learned and Lindley halls. The students used the tunnel yesterday as a short cut to their classes.
Vista fire causes $85,000 damage
A fire Tuesday damaged $85,000 worth of property at the Vista Drive-In Restaurant, 1527 W. Sixth St., the Lawrence fire chief said yesterday.
McSwain said the fire did no structural damage to the building.
"We determined the damage estimate by talking with the adjustor from Vista's insurance company." said Jim McSain, the fire chief. "But it's just a ballpark figure — all our figures are estimates. The Vista people haven't itemized everything yet."
The damage estimate was made yesterday at the restaurant. At the same time, local and state fire officials investigated the cause of the fire.
The officials were: McSwain; Russell Brickell, Lawrence fire inspector; Paul Markley, of the state fire marshal's office; and represent the company, the company that maintained the rental lounge system at the restaurant.
Mike Gasper, Vista owner, and other Vista representatives toured the restaurant with the officials.
Gasper said he probably would not have a specific damage estimate until later next week. He said he would work with his insurance company and use invoices in making an estimate.
The ventilation hood malfunctioned during the fire, and Markley said officials took it apart yesterday to find out why it didn't work.
Local man faces trial in vehicular homicide
A trial date is scheduled to be set April 5 for a 21-year-old man charged with vehicular homicide in the death last summer of a 34-year-old KU student.
Bradley D. Byrne, charged in the death of Benjamin Haines, appeared in Douglas County District Court yesterday with John Emerson, his attorney. He entered a plea of not guilty to charges against him. Jean Shepherd, Douglas County district court judge, is scheduled to hear the case.
The vehicular homicide charge is a Class A misdeanor, Frank Diehl, Douglas County assistant district attorney, said Class A misdeanors carried a penalty of a jail term of not more than one year or a fine not more than $2,300, or both.
Byrne also was arrested on charges of operating a vehicle under the influence and following another vehicle too closely.
Haines was driving a van east on Kansas Highway 10 east of Lawrence about 11 p.m. Aug. 21 when Bynyme drove a truck into the rear of Haines' van, run into the rear of Haines' van,
The van flipped over, throwing Haines out and into the middle of the raid. He was landed on Haines, causing internal injuries that resulted in his death.
The affidavit filed in Douglas County district court said a blood test taken after the accident showed the alcohol content in Byrnes' blood to be 0.21 percent. In Kansas, the blood alcohol content at which a person is considered legally drunk is 0.1 percent.
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