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University Daily Kansas, December 12, 1984
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Party places hard to book at Christmas
Social gatherings at Christmas are as abundant as peanuts in party mix. Families, friends and co-workers spend hours consuming food and alcohol in homes, fraternity houses and private halls.
But looking for a place to have a holiday party in Lawrence can be difficult.
"We've been booked solid since September," said Tracy Mahoney, sales and operations manager for The Eldridge House Restaurant & Club, Seventh and Massachusetts streets.
The Elkridge House has two large party rooms which have been reserved for every Friday and Saturday night in December, Mahoney
During the holiday season the number of parties the Eldridge House caters more than triples, Mahoney said. The majority of these holiday parties are company parties, but the couple also also have Christmas parties, he said.
Having a Christmas party in the Crystal Ballroom, the largest room in The Eldridge House, costs $300 a month, Mahoney said.
However, if the party includes dinner, the room rental is waived. Mahoney said Dinner at The Eldred Room cost between $5.99 and $12.99 a person.
And if all the rooms are reserved, the Eldridge House can make arrangements to cater outside the restaurant, Mahoney said.
Store peddles creativity
By JULI WARREN
Staff Reporter
Dozens of eyes gaze back from various shelves at customers looking for Christmas presents in the Senior Center Crafts Store.
The gazers include Santa Claus Christmas decorations, toy ducks and doll of all colors and sizes, glittering balls that have hair, earrings and mavel.
"You can't find these kind of things anymore," said Mollie Hawkins, 64, who works as a volunteer in the crafts store. "They take a lot of pains in making these things."
THE STORE, 745 Vermont St.,
provides an opportunity for people
over the age of 60 to sell their
handmade items — not only toys
and decorations, but also items
ranging from canes to baby
clothes and from quilts to doormats.
The senior citizens price their items, and a commission is added to cover advertising and personnel costs.
This month, the store will be open from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturdays as well as its regular 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. weekday hours.
Gladys Timmens, 67, owned her own craft store in Hamilton, Mo. Now, she brings her art to the store.
One of her specialties is love mittens, a set of three mittens to keep couples' fingers warm while wearing them. A right mitten, a left mitten and a right mitton, a left mitten and a
middle mitten with two cuffs and two thumbs.
"I THINK THEY'RE so sweet," said Geneva Alexander, former manager of the store when he was manager since 1979, when the store opened.
As the store's only paid worker, she chose which items would be sold from those brought in by senior citizens. She also made the displays, kept track of sales and paint artists who sold pieces.
"It makes me very sad to give the store up, especially at Christmas time." Alexander said.
In the past years, Bessie Leonhard has offered for sale more than 875 items. Leonhard, 76, is also a volunteer in the store.
Among her specialties are quilt pillows, needlepoint items and "cobweb boys," which are yarn sleeves that slip over a broom handle to swipe the cobwebs from ceiling corners.
ABOUT 10 VOLUNTEERS each contribute a total of 80 to 100 hours each month, according to Mary Coral, recreation coordinator for the National Park Service based on Aging. Coral is currently taking over Alexander's duties.
The store is sponsored by the council, which has its offices in the same building. The council also offers other services such as bus transportation, craft classes and a meal site to senior citizens. Many of the stores are building for other reasons drop in at the craft store to browse and chat.
Helen Dibble, who often eats lunch at the center, said,"I'm
always looking to see what new things they have in."
Leonhard said, "I've renewed old acquaintances and made new ones."
LEONHARD SAID that the artists didn't make many of the items from pre-made kits because of the expense involved.
Alexander said that more than 300 artists had contributed at least one item to the store and approx. 100 artists contributed regularly.
"What's the most fun to make is something that makes something out of nothing — or practically nothing," she said.
Leonhard buys kits sometimes to use as patterns that she can use again, which helps defray the price of the kit, she said.
Many people depend on the money they make from the store to continue their hobby, she said.
"There are some of them who have to sell those larger sweaters and afghans to buy more supplies," she said.
Leonhard sees her hobby as not only passing the time, but also as being therapeutic in many ways.
"If I wasn't busy I'd probably be climbing the walls," she said with a smile. "When you're figuring out better, not feeling sorry for yourself."
SHE SAID discovering that people liked the items enough to pay for them was also therapeutic.
"I think it's a morale booster for the people who do the crafts," she said.
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By GARY DUDA Staff Renorter
And the award for most popular Christmas game for the second consecutive year goes to Trivial Pursuit.
Trivial Pursuit, invented by three Canadian trivia buffs and produced for the United States by Selchow & Righter Co., is still the hotest selling board game, according to Lawrence Warnock. The game is no longer the only game in town.
"We came out with a bunch of different games because the Trivial Pursuit questions were not always what people were into," he said.
Besides the increasing number of trivia games, trivia buffs can now find a new species of trivia cards that are added to their Trivial Pursuit game.
AXLON GAMES, based in Sunnyvale, Calif., is one of the companies that has come out with its own brand of trivia. The company has produced five sets of cards that can be played with the original game board.
Jim Simmons, new product development manager for Axlon, said that the five new card sets were a great interest to a wider group of players.
Bernard Sandalow, spokesman for Axlen, said he thought trivia games should be for everyone regardless of their interests.
"I think trivia should be based on fun, not on how much science and history you learned in school." Sandalow said.
The five sets produced by Axon are The Rich & Famous, Politics, Vices, The Women's Game and Love, Sex & Romance.
SIMMONS SAID that a set on business would be available soon.
The trivia questions were written mostly by Stanford University students, Simmons said. Axlon placed an add in a local newspaper offering $1 for each trivia question submitted and used. More than 80,000 questions were turned in, and from those 15,000 were used in the five sets.
"Usually people made $15 to $20 an hour writing trivia questions, and if a duplicate question was turned in we paid both." Simmons said.
Although students didn't write all of the questions, Simmons said they were the most consistent in getting facts straight.
Simmons said his company had not committed itself to producing more books of trivia cards. He said production would have been based on the success of the first five sets.
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