Page 12 University Daily Kansan, August 27, 1980
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Holiday activities open to students
By STEVE BASKA
Staff Manager
Staff Reporter
Classes have met only a few times and textbooks have barely been opened, but KU students will get a long weekend to do all their work.
Many students may head for lakes and parks near Lawrence, Clinton, Lone Star and Perry lakes offer a variety of activities within 16 miles of town, and 27 parks are available in the city.
Victor Counts, project manager of the lake for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, said that five of six "public use areas" at Clinton were finished, and that bald eagles and great blue herons had been seen at the lake.
CLINTON LAKE, opened this summer, has 72 miles of shoreline. Basking, water skiing, camping, fishing, hunting.
Clinton is four miles west of Lawrence and can be reached by taking 21st Street west until it meets the north abutment
Perry Lake, 16 miles northwest of Lawrence off U.S. 24, offers boat rentals, water skiing, fishing, camping, picnicining and hiking. A $3 fee is charged for overnight camping, and 11 public use areas are available.
A SMALLER LAKE, Lone Star, is maintained by Douglas County. The dam recently has been repaired, so camping, boating, fishing, swimming and picnicking now are permitted.
Lone Star is 12 miles southwest of Lawrence and can be reached by taking U.S. 59 south to the Wakarua River bridge. Just south of the bridge, turn right on County Road 484 and follow it west to the lake.
Neither the KU Student Union activities nor the Lawrence Parks and Recreation Department have any outdoor activities scheduled this weekend.
THE LAWRENCE MUNICIPAL Pool, Eighth and Kentucky streets, will be open from 1:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday, Sunday and Monday.
Jack Haynes, Bonner Springs, enjoys afternoon fishing at the northern end of Clinton Lake The lake, west of Lawrence, offers people numerous recreational possibilities.
90-space parking plaza to displace toy factory
Lawrence gained a new City Hall last week, while across the street, one Lawrence resident lost his long-time fight to save a 55-year-old Massachusetts St. from becoming a city parking lot.
By VANESSAHERRON
Staff Reporter
The resident, Bryan Anderson, owned the structure, the Fat City Toy Co. building, before the city condemned it and bought it against his will.
Anderson fought the condemnation in City Commission meetings, the Douglas County Court and the Topeka Court of Appeals. Despite his fight, the building was ordered demolished last spring.
THE FINAL blow came last week while Anderson was waiting for his case to be heard. He was denied an injunction by the appellate court to stop the city from destroying the building.
"I can't argue; there's nothing I can do," Anderson said yesterday.
Mike Wilden, assistant city manager, said the building would be leveled by December at the
Anderson's doll house factory and three other businesses that rent space in the building will be required.
The renters will be given at least one month to leave.
THE CITY left $120,000 as payment for the office, but Anderson said he had not picked up his phone.
"That amount of money wouldn't buy me a pole barn," he said.
The parties' lawyers are to meet this week to negotiate the building's price, but only a court
"The court set the price. The city paid it, and now we own the building." Wildgen said.
action can change the amount of money to be paid to Anderson.
THE CITY had planned to demolish the building to make room for parking spaces three years ago when the new city hall was still on the drawing board. Wilden said.
He also said Anderson knew that when he bought the native limestone structure in 1977.
Anderson said that even then he thought the building was worth saving.
"It's probably the stoutest building in the downtown area," he said. "It's probably better built, but it's not."
WILDGEN AGREED the building was sound and said the city had never questioned that.
"It wasn't condemned because of the condition it was in," he said. "It was condemned because we were too young."
Anderson said he was not sure the city needed the land. He said he favored a plan to add another level to the city's existing parking lot at a cost of $4,000 a space.
"THIS BUILDING is a classic example of the kind of buildings that made Lawrence what it is." Anderson said. "There won't be anything left the way we're going."
Wildden said the building, which was built in 1925, was not a historical landmark.
"We've got jillions of old buildings in Lawrence," he said, "but they're not all ones that you would want to save for future generations."
THE ONLY THING Anderson and the city seem to agree about is that it's probably too late for them to really change.
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