Wednesday, April 15, 1998
The University Daily Kansan
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Tax party to make return
By Jennifer Roush Special to the Kansan
Some Lawrence residents are planning to celebrate one of the least joyous occasions of the year tonight—the deadline for filing federal income taxes.
For 12 years, the post office in downtown Lawrence has been the site of the annual April 15 Tax Party. The festivities will be from 9:00 to 11:1
The Alfard Packer Memorial String Band assembles every year inside the lobby of post office, 845 Vermont St.,
For the final hour, the band will open the stage to anyone who wants to perform acoustic music. At 11:55 p.m., members of the audience form gauntlets at each entrance to the post office. The band then launches into the "William Tell Overture", and the audience chants "Go, go, go!" to taxpayers racing to beat the midnight deadline.
to help procrastinating tax-form filers forget about their financial troubles.
Bill Lawrence, post office manager of customer services, said the atmosphere was festive.
"We usually get around 3,000 people on that last night. It's a real blockparty atmosphere," he said
Steve Mason, band member, saia that tax-filers would hear anything from banjos to washboards.
Mason said that since the band had been playing the "tax gig," it had gained national recognition. The band has been featured in such publications as The Wall Street Journal and Reader's Digest. A few years ago, Mason spoke live to Bob Edwards for National Public Radio's "Morning Edition."
City commission addresses issue of needed gymnasium
By Jeremy M. Doherty jdoherty@kansan.com Kansan staff writer
The Lawrence City Commission took a break from bike lanes at last night's meeting and considered the city's need for gym space
Commissioner John Nalbandian, University of Kansas professor of public administration, presented a memo urging the construction of gym space for organized indoor sports. The building he recommended in the memo would be located along a commercial corridor such as 6th Street.
The memo also suggested that future recreational sites be constructed in places where neighborhoods might exist.
Nalbandian said he developed the memo after citizens protested a plan to construct a church at Corpus Christi Catholic Church, 1100 Kasold Drive. Citizens complained in February that such a center would increase traffic congestion inside residential neighborhoods.
"I'm surprised time and time again that people do not present positive feelings to these recreational centers if they're proposed near where they live," Nalbandian said.
As the commission discussed the memo, Mayor Marty Kennedy said that no specific actions would be made until the Parks and Recreation Advisory Board met in May.
sioner Nalbandian's memo to the other commissioners and then enlighten the public," Kennedy said.
Two commissioners offered reservations about the memo.
"We just want to take Commis-
Commissioner Bob Moody said that Nalbandian's ideas did not succeed in outlining the lack of gym space.
"That's not meeting our immediate need," Moody said.
Erv Hodges, vice-mayor, agreed with Moody and suggested a potential site northwest of the University at Monterey and Harvard streets.
"We need gym space," he said. "There's a place in this city for the recreation center, and I'm standing behind Dad Perry Park."
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