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Calendar
Monday, Sept. 15
What: Study Abroad financial aid info session
When: 11 a.m.
Where: Wescoe Hall,4033
About: Learn about study abroad scholarships and financial aid options.
Tuesday, Sept. 16
What: Random Acts of Kindness
When: All day
Where: All campus
About: Student Health Services and Peer Health Educators will be in lot 90 handing out teal ribbons and facts about sexual assault.
What: Truman Scholarship info session
When: 3-4 p.m.
Where: Nunemaker Center
About: Students interested in careers in public service can learn about the Truman Scholarship opportunity.
What: Lawrence Creates Makerspace weekly meeting When: 7:30 p.m.
When: 7:30 p.m.
Where: 9th and New Jersey streets About: Get plugged in at the meeting and learn about membership and ongoing projects. Open to members and non-members.
Wednesday, Sept. 17
What: Office of Fellowships & Scholarships Office Hours
When: 10 a.m. to noon
Where: Anschutz Library, 320-A
About: Ask questions about the University and Global scholars programs and available scholarships.
What: Open Mic Night
When: 7-9 p.m.
Where: Kansas Union Plaza
About: Students are invited to show off their talents and compete for a cash prize.
Thursday, Sept. 18
What: Veggie Lunch
When: 11:30 a.m.
Where: Ecumenical Campus
Ministries
About: Dish up a free vegetarian
lunch.
What: Dominique Christina
When: 7 p.m.
Where: TBD
About: The slam poet will hold a sexual assault workshop.
TORAH FROM PAGE 1
to serve as an educational opportunity where all people can learn more about the Jewish heritage and its rich meaning."
Junior Alex Beer from Dallas said he feels the Torah scroll will provide a sense of belonging for the Jewish community.
from Northbrook, Ill., said he agreed.
Sophomore Daniel Gewirtz
"We as Jews are always afraid of settling down too deeply in a community because we're afraid of getting kicked out," Beer said. "By us writing this Torah here today in Lawrence, this is going to be our home for a while because we get to put down roots here."
"This is a tangible piece of evidence proving the strength the Jewish community really has," Gewirtz said. "This is a big stepping stone and achievable for any other Jewish campus community."
Tiechtel credits a large group of supporters for making the Torah scroll a successful project.
"A special thanks goes to our main sponsor of the Torah, Mr. Elliot Tamir of Hawks Pointe Apartments," Tiechtel said. "We also have a vibrant group of student leadership who have put this event together."
Calif. wildfires force evacuations
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Edited by Yu Kyung Lee
"We have a lot of full-time residents as well as renters and people with vacation homes here," Stuart said.
Further north, a wildfire about 60 miles east of Sacramento forced the evacuation of 133 homes. El Dorado County
OAKHURST, Calif.— Two out-of-control wildfires in California forced hundreds of residents to flee from their homes on Sunday, including one near a lakeside resort town that has destroyed several structures, authorities said.
The blaze, sparked shortly after 1:30 p.m. near Bass Lake in Central California, prompted authorities to evacuate about 1,000 residents out of 400 homes, Madera County Sheriff's spokeswoman Erica Stuart said.
"I know 10 structures have been destroyed already," Stuart said.
"We have a lot of full-time residents as well as renters and people with vacation homes out here."
ERICA STUART
Madera County, Calif.
Sheriff's spokeswoman
The fire started off a road between Oakhurst, a foothill community south of the entrance to Yosemite National Park, and made a run toward Bass Lake. Stoked by winds, it quickly charred at least 320 acres, California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection spokesman Daniel Berlant said. The area is a popular destination throughout the year.
Berlant said the blaze started in a remote area Saturday, but exploded on Sunday when it reached a canyon full of thick, dry brush. It has burned 4 square miles, and was 10 percent contained.
Sheriff's officials said residents of another 406 homes were being told to prepare to flee.
Meanwhile in Southern California, evacuation orders for 200 homes in Orange County's Silverado Canyon were lifted late Sunday as firefighters contained 50 percent of a wildfire.
Six firefighters have suffered minor injuries, many of them heat-related as the region baked under triple-digit temperatures.
The residents were evacuated after the fire broke out Friday. The U.S. Forest Service downgraded the fire's size from 2 $ _{1/2} $ square miles to 1 $ _{1/2} $ square miles due to better mapping of the blaze.
A heat wave was expected to last through Tuesday in Southern California, and a smoke advisory was in effect for parts of Riverside and Orange counties.
A 417-acre blaze in Mendocino County destroyed five structures and five outbuildings, according to CalFire. It was 50 percent contained.
A wildfire in the Sierra Nevada foothills about halfway between Sacramento and Reno burned 250 acres, destroyed two homes and three outbuildings. The burned homes were in Alta Sierra, a community of some 6,000 people about five miles south of Grass Valley.
Berlant said crews were making progress on two wildfires that broke out Saturday in Northern California.
BEN LIPOWITZ/KANSAN
Downtown Lawrence, Inc. kicks off Restaurant Week
A pizza simmers in the oven at Genovese. Genovese is one of 19 downtown restaurants participating in the city's first Restaurant Week.
LIZ KUHLMANN
@LizKuhlmannUDK
Downtown Lawrence is notorious for hosting a wide variety of retail oriented events and promotions. The lack of representation of the food and entertainment business is what led the executive director of Downtown Lawrence, Inc., Sally Zogry, to start a new event called Lawrence Restaurant Week. The event will take place this week during breakfast, lunch and dinner, and has 19 participating restaurants whose only requirement in participating is to bring a new item to their menu for the week.
Many familiar venues will be featured during the event: 715, Ladybird Diner, Global Café, Ramen Bowls, The Roost, Merchants, Free State Beer, Limestone Pizza & Grill, The Mad Greek, TEN. The Jayhawker, Minsky's Pizza Cafe & Bar, Pickleman's Gourmet Café, Ingredient, Pachamamas, Terrebonne Po' Boys, La Parrilla, Genovese and Milton's.
"You might think, 'Oh,
Restaurant Week, I go [to
a certain restaurant] all the
time, why should I go?' " Zogry said. "This is a great chance to maybe
try some new places ... we're pretty fortunate here
[in Lawrence]. There are a lot of Midwestern college towns that don't have a
fiftieth of the restaurants we do, much less the choice and the quality."
Zogry said the goal of the week was to bring business to downtown Lawrence dining, and this could only be accomplished by making the week accessible for all involved. As such, Downtown Lawrence, Inc. was sure to include a wide variety of types of food and price ranges.
--restaurants throughout the week to see how business is going, Zogry said the team will rely heavily on consumer feedback. She has encouraged those participating in the week to express their experience through social media outlets, using the hashtag #EatLawrence.
"This is a great chance to maybe try some new places. ... We're pretty fortunate here [in Lawrence]."
SALLY ZOGRY Executive director of Downtown Lawrence, Inc.
Nick Wysong, general manager of Ingredient, said the restaurant agreed to participate in the event because he said he believed it was a good thing to be a part of, and also has the potential to bring business to the restaurant.
"Our only requirement was providing a menu specifically for the week," Wysong said. "People should always come to Ingredient, but they should especially come this week because there will be some tasty food."
While the committee board of the event will be checking in with the
"Anytime I do an event, I look forward to when it's all come together and you see how much people enjoy it," Zogry said.
As this is only the first year the event has been in Lawrence, Zogry said the company made the decision to keep the event strictly limited to restaurants downtown. However, should the week go well, Zogry said she would be interested in expanding it beyond downtown Lawrence in following years.
"It's exciting," Zogry said. "It's a little nerve-wracking because you don't know a lot. It's inspiring, it keeps us on our toes and it's fun to do something new. You see how it goes the first year and then you can just make improvements on what works and what doesn't."
Any individual interested in discovering what is on the menu need only visit the event's webpage at www. LawrenceRestaurantWeek. com.
Edited by Ben Carroll
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