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Spring Edition, March 20, 1985
Many start spring with clean sweep
By NANCY HANEY Staff Reporter
Not long after winter's snow and ice melt, many people spring into action, trying to clean everything, whether in a home or business or at the University of Kansas.
Facilities operations workers wax and shampoo the floors in the
All buildings on campus get a thorough cleaning job while students are gone for spring break, Steve Brown, Supervisor I in housekeeping for facilities operations, said recently
'Strong Hall is the important building, though. We concentrate on that before all the others.' Steve Brown supervisor facilities operations
buildings and begin any landscaping work that has to be done in the spring. he said.
Sometimes the crew can't get to everything in one week, he said.
"Strong Hall is the important building, though. We concentrate on that before all the others," he said.
Lawrence merchants who offer cleaning services and sell cleaning products said they noticed an increased incidence after the first signs of spring.
SOME BUSINESSES offer special spring cleaning sales. Glenn Bailey, assistant manager at Wal-Mart Discount Cities, 2727 Iowa St., said the store usually put household cleaning supplies, including cleaning mugs during the month of March or when the weather started getting warm.
"As the weather gets better, so does business." Bailey said.
Wal-Mart will stock up on all household cleaning supplies and other home improvement supplies,
Bailey said. A big seller in the spring is paint, both the indoor and outdoor varieties.
Don Becken, owner of Don's Steamaction, route 3, Lawrence, said an increase in his carpet cleaners on Monday depended on having cloudless days.
"Business will usually double when the sun starts shining," he said.
MOST OF BECKEN'S work is done in private homes rather than in businesses, he said. Business may triple during July and August when apartment leases expire and demand the carpet ready for new tenants.
Wallace McPerson also expects his business to increase during the spring. McPerson is co-owner of Sunshine Maids, 800 N.W. Tyler Ave., Topeka. The company does house cleaning work in Lawrence for individual households, he said.
McPerson said a team of four people could do a house cleaning job in two or three hours. The cost for a thorough job is $36 an hour. The job includes washing all the windows, in the outside, and all storm windows.
A job that includes only window washing costs $2.50 a window and $4 a window with storm windows, McPerson said.
McPerson will wash all the walls and paneling, move furniture and vacuum. Sometimes, he said, people who leave a bed take on beds and vacuumed.
Jo Candle, owner of A to Z Services, 823 Kentucky St., said her cleaning company charged by the customer for a type of service the customer wanted.
Danielle's company performs a variety of jobs, including cleaning fraternities and sororites in the summer, where these are only one-time jobs, she said.
Some people are quite particular about their cleaning jobs, she said, and those jobs present a challenge. Candle said that many times she had walked into a house that was spotless and had been asked to clean it.
Craig Sands/Special to the Kansan
Verdie Wilkens, a custodian, starts spring cleaning in the department of French and Italian in Wescoe Hall. Keeping the rooms and halls of KU buildings clean is a year-round battle.
Bird migrations bring visual feast to region
By JULIE MANGAN Staff Reporter
The birds are back in town
Lawrence bird watchers are finding more reason to venture outside as a variety of birds return to the area after a long absence.
During the past few weeks, flocks of geese and waterfowl have been spotted flying over the area. Joyeetey McGrath and Hawk Audubon Society, said recently.
In addition, she said blackbirds, swallows, songbirds and purple martins had journeyed back to the area.
"The species that survive on insected wolves that are coming back," Wolf concludes.
Ruth Faulb, a charter member of the Jayhawk Audubon Society, said she has found bird watching to be training and enjoyable for 60 years.
"IT'S NICE TO get outdoors, and it's interesting," said Fauhl, an assistant librarian in the mathematics library. "You can do it wherever you are. You don't have to have a ticket."
Faulh's devotion to bird watching extends beyond organized club activities. She has four bird feeders in her yard, she said, but the number of
cats in her neighborhood makes it hazardous for birds to feed on The ground.
To avoid possible danger for the birds, Fauhi said, she places the feeders between the two pens for her bird dogs in her yard. The dogs won't hurt the birds, she said, but they will scare away the cats.
Fauhl, 70, has been a serious bird watcher since she was 10 years old. She has been an member of many bird-watching clubs, including the National Audubon Society, which was founded in the early 1970s.
THE JAYHAWK AUDUBON Society, one of 503 chapters of the National Audubon Society, meets on the third Thursday of each month at the South Park Recreation Center, 1141 Massachusetts St.
Members generally schedule field trips for the Saturday after their meeting and then travel to such lakes and ponds and lakes to look for birds.
Occasionally the group takes a special trip, such as the one planned for later this month to see sandhill cranes in Nebraska.
Wolf said successful field trips were a little hard to plan during the winter because birds were scarce.
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