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Monday, April 18, 1994
EARTH WEEK
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Dog competition headlines opening of Earth Week
By Ashley Schultz Kansan staff writer
Later in the day, five dogs competed against each other and against blustery winds in one of the Respecting All Species Day events.
About 25 people gathered at dawn yesterday at the Lawrence Riverfront Plaza by the Kansas River to bless Earth and this week's Kaw Vallew Earth Week events.
Amy Coplan, McPherson junior, said that Clyde, her 90-bound black Labrador, was feeling quite confident before the competitions began in South Park. The dogs were judged in three competitions: distance flying disk catch, height flying disk catch, and original dog tricks.
Coplan said that the competition was kind of like the Olympics for Clyde and that Clyde was happy just to be there.
"He feels that he's at a disadvantage because of his great size," Coplan said. "He thinks that he has a better chance at the trick competition. We've got something up our aleswe."
Before his name was called, Clyde christened some of the press behind the prize table.
"He's trying to get the drugs out of his system before the post-competition test," said Chris Dove, Topeka senior, who threw for Clyde in the distance competition. A female dog named Dinty Dio took into that competition, going deep to catch a 223-foot Aerobie throw.
Clyde, who came in third with a 123-foot catch, retired to the shade under the prize table after the competition.
Clyde, who came in third with a 123-foot catch, retired to the shade under the prize table after the competition. He won two bags of premium dog food, which he sampled from his pink practice flyer disk. Clyde's first place dramatic interpretation in the tricks contest won Coplan a wristwatch. He pretended to get shot repeatedly by Coplan's imaginary gun.
The winner in the height flying disk catch competition was a whippet named Mattie. She was spooked by the wind and a passing air balloon during her first attempts, said owner Robin Breit. The 8-year-old dog managed a jump estimated at four feet. She won three bags of dog food, one of which was awarded as a consolation prize because the indges were impressed with her warm-up tricks.
Briet said that Mattie has been featured in Sports Illustrated and that she was second-runner-up at the world finals in 1990.
Several hours earlier, as the sun climbed above a stand of trees across the river from the Buford M. Watson Jr. Riverfront Promenade, Father Vince Krische, director of the St. Lawrence Catholic Campus Center, 1631 Crescent Road, read a candle by St. Francis, "Brother Sun and Sister Moon."
Scott Schulte, a member of the committee and waste recycling specialist at the City of Lawrence Recycling Office, asked everyone to pray, in their own fashion, that the work and events of Earth Week would be blessed.
"I'd just like to ask everyone to pray that the people work to steward the earth and to protect what we have and to heal the damage that has already been done," Schulte said. "To change people's hearts and minds for the future so that sometime in the future, we may not have to have events like this, and everything will just come naturally to people."
Doug Hesse / KANSAN
Millie, a whippet, catches a flying disk after jumping off Lawrence resident Robin Breit's knee. Breit was demonstrating the ability of her dogs, Millie and Mattie, to do tricks during the first Respecting All Species Day, sponsored by the group KU Environals.
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Herb Tuttle, Lawrence resident, and his sons Victor, 10, and Peter, 6, stroll across the catwalk built on Baker Wetlands, 31st and Haskell streets. The catwalk was built by Baldwin City Boy Scout Troop 65 in the summer of 1992. It opened after Spring Break and was officially inaugurated yesterday afternoon.
Heather Lofflin / KANSAN
Liz Roth, Lawrence, walks Dinty Di (left) and Maggie back to their blanket after the dog tricks portion of the contest at KU Environ's Respecting All Species Day.
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