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University Daily Kansan, February 28, 1985
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Businesses to show wares at fair
By CINDY McCURRY Staff Reporter
Lawrence consumers can become familiar with the products and services offered in the community at a business fair this weekend sponsored by the Lawrence Chamber of Commerce.
Colleen Greigore, coordinator of Business Fair '85, said yesterday that 75 companies planned to display their products and services at the fair in the Holiday Inn Holidome, 200 McDonald Drive.
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"It will give consumers an opportunity to become more familiar with products and services offered here." Greairedo说.
The fair will be open to the public from 7 to 9 p.m. tomorrow and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday.
Tickets are on sale for $1 at all Rusty's IGA stores and at the Chamber of Commerce, 823 Vermont St. Tickets cost $1.50 at the Holidome.
"Lawrence businesses often support one another," she said. "This will give the businessmen a chance to see what is available in Lawrence."
Bloom Bloom, owner of Jayhawk Siding, Route 6, said he thought it was important for local companies to participate in the fair.
GREGOIRE SAID THE fair also would give local businesses added publicity.
"There are a lot of fine companies within Lawrence and Douglas County," he said. "People should know they don't have to go to Kansas City or Topeka or Wichita to find what they need."
Bill Becker, manager of Sears Roebuck and Co., 939 iowa St., said he hoped the fair would give Sears more exposure to local consumers
"ALOT OF people don't even know there is a Sears in Lawrence," he said.
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Gregoire said she expected about 5,000 people to attend the business fair. Plans call for the fair to consist
of 89 display booths and 30 seminars conducted by local businessmen.
"Companies as big as Sears and Xerox and smaller companies like Jayhawk Siding will be involved," Gregorea said.
len business update seminars will cover such topics as laws that affect the small businessman and hiring tips for employers.
The remaining 20 seminars will cover consumer issues ranging from real estate to health care issues, Gregoire said.
Gregoire said this would be the first business fair of its size in Lawrence. Last year a smaller fair in Pontiac-Caddell Inc. 2140 wares. 701
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Seminars will be conducted every hour between 11 a.m. and 3 p.m.
Saturday and Sunday.
Gregoire said the Small Business Council and the Entrepreneur Business Council of the Chamber of Commerce been organizing the fair since July.
Ed Mills, the manager of the center at 833 Ohio St., said the exodus of students from Lawrence during December, combined with layoffs in construction during the cold weather, caused the increase in the unemployment rate.
Lawrence's unemployment rate up 0.5%
The semester break and freezing temperatures caused Lawrence's unemployment rate to increase from 4.2 percent in December to 4.7 percent in January, the manager of the Job Service Center said yesterday.
Employment rate
When the semester ends, students
"When students leave for the semester break, it causes hills and valleys in labor forces," he said, "and its consequences are increased unemployment rates."
drop out of the labor market. Mills said, which causes a decrease in Lawrence's labor force and an increase in unemployment figures.
"This normally happens," he said. "We get a buildup of workers at Christmas. Then after that period, it goes on." January and holds into February.
Mills said the unemployment increase was not as serious as it appeared. The smaller work force after students left the school would be higher because it would be calculated for fewer people.
But Mills predicted that the unemployment rate would decrease in March because milder weather would allow more outdoor work.
Mills said that the labor force in Lawrence was about 34,000, but that it had dropped to about 32,000 when students left for the semester break.
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