University Daily Kansan
Wednesday, August 22, 1979
Recreation centers places to lose fat
By GRIFF DOCKING
Staff Reporter
Summer always brings out the laziness in people, and this fall is the time to get rid of the excess fat that has accumulated around the mid-section.
There are three recreation centers around the city that offer services for physical activity and leisure activity.
The Lawrence Parks and Recreation Department offers several services that can help to get rid of these extra pounds.
The Community Building, located at 14th and 18th St., offers handball and racquetball courts, a gym, a court, and a weight room with a universal building. The building is open from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.
South Park Center, 1141 Massachusetts St., has ping pong tables and two pool tables. The center is open from 8 a.m. to 9 p.m.
East Lawrence Center, 10th and Brooklyn Multi-purpose gym with four basketball goals, ping pong tables and table pools. This building is open from 8 a.m. to 9 p.m.
CLASSES ARE offered at all three of these locations, Ceramics, weaving, and many forms of dance, even belly dancing, are taught.
If swimming is your form of exercise, a 50-meter swimming pool is available.
The pool, located at 8th and Kentucky streets, is open from 1:30 p.m. every day. Admission for KU students is 80 cents. Admission for children under 12, is 40 cents.
Tennis is always a favorite for recreation, as it is for physical exercise. Tennis courts are located south of Robinson Island in the vicinity of Allen Field House on the KU campus.
Tennis courts off the KU campus are located at various parks around the city.
THE PARKS they are in are Deerfield Park, Princeton Boulevard and Arrowhead Street, where there are two lighted tennis courts.
Centennial Park, Ninth and Rockledge streets, has two lighted tennis courts. Hollis Louken Park and Sports Complex, has one lighted court, the 19th and Louisiana streets, has two lighted courts and Edgewood Park, 19th and Maple Lane, has one lighted court.
Two unicled tennis courts are located at Broken Arrow Park, just south of South Junior High School on Louisiana Street.
Baseball fields are found throughout the city. There are four lighted ball fields at Louis Holcom Park and Sports Combo blocks west of 25th and Iowa Street.
OTHER LIGHTED ball fields are at Woody Park, on Maine Street north of Lawrence Memorial Hospital. Lyons Street Park, Seventh and Lyons streets; Hobbs Recreation Area and Municipal Department streets; Broken Arrow streets;
Baseball fields that are unlithed are located at Centennial Park, Edgewood Park and Broken Arrow Park.
To avoid running on Lawrence roads, a jogging course is located in Centennial Park.
The jogging course is one mile long and is grass for cross-country running over relatively easy terrain.
The Parks and Recreation Department offers other recreational activities. Even though these do not require much physical activity, they are a cure for a "pro art of laziness."
Volleyball standards are set up at Holcom Sports Complex, Lyons Street Park, the Municipal Swimming Pool, the University of Utah Street and BrokenArrow Plaza.
Horsehorses has always been a favorite for leisure recreation. South Park, 12th and Massachusetts streets, and Edgewood Park have horsehouses courts.
Both Perry Lake and Lone Star Lake have sailboat rentals, and the KU Sailing Club, located in the Kansas Union, supplies boats to both schools. The club also teaches beginners how to sail.
"Of the 67 people in club the over
took from the 50," Tom Welsh, president of the club. "That's our main function—teaching people to sail and providing them with inexpensive
Welsh said the price of a membership would be about $15 for one year. The membership includes use of the club's boats.
The lessons entail three class sessions and three sessions on the water before a
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are at 7 p.m. Wednesdays in the Kansas Union, would continue through the winter months, and feature sailing films and parties.
"We're active all through the school year," Welsh said. "Just because we can't get the boats on on the water doesn't mean we can't have a good time."
Welsh said that the club enters nine or ten sailing competitions, or regattas, a year, some as far away as Chicago.
Any KU student with a hankering for open water will be able to partially fulfill his desires this fall on the lakes around Lawrence.
Lone Star Lake rents Sunfish for $5.50 an hour, and also rents paddleboats, canoes and fishing boats.
"We'll probably enter four regatta this fall, and hold inter-club competitions," he said. "The schedule for spring will probably be about the same."
Sunfish sailboats can be rented for $15 for three hours. Dolphins, which are 15 foot fibergast sailboats, can be rented for $25 for three hours.
The Flying Juniors used for the competitions hold one skipper and one crew member each. Welsh said, "The club's team will be setting the course for the inter-club regatta."
the sailing club will go out until late November if the weather was decent. Club members begin going out again in April.
He said that the club's meetings which
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"We also take the motorbear out on days when the wind is a little strong, or the water is chilly," Welsh said. "If someone falls in, we can fish him out before he get too cold."
Welsh said that the Sunfish was a flat-board type boat with one sail, which fitted an outboard motor. Junior is a collegiate sailing class boat with two sails, and requires two people to set it up.
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