10
Friday,October 23.1992
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
HILLEL SKATING PARTY
WHERE Fantasyland 3210 Iowa
WHEN
Saturday, Oct. 24
3:30-5:30
$4 admission includes skate rental in-line skates allowed
Federal money to help homeless
By Kristy Dorsey
Kansan staff writer
A planning project financed by leftover federal money will assist homeless school-age children in Lawrence.
Pat Kells, state executive director of the Kansas Office for Community Services and administrator of community development block grant money, said Lawrence would receive $5,000 of the $100,000 leftover funds to develop an action plan for dealing with homeless issues. Hutchinson and Salina will get the remainder of the money for similar projects.
Kells said the funds would not be used for direct assistance because there were too many homeless needs in Lawrence for $5,000 to handle. Rather, the money would be used for planning.
"Our intent is to establish a process in the community to deal with all the issues of homelessness," she said. "It is our hope that the three communities will have an action plan to not only identify the problems but also to figure out how to deal with those problems."
Kells said that because assisting homeless school children was the project's primary goal, state officials emphasized involvement of young people. University of Kansas student Adrian Selid, Topeka freshman, was hired Saturday to aid local program coordinators in developing a plan.
"We're really proud to say we have hired an 18-year-old to work on this project," she said. "We're really trying to get the youth involved in the planning."
himself with the issues facing the Lawrence homeless.
"Mainly we'll just be deciding what we want to do, since something like this has never been done before," he said. "At the moment, I really have nothing to do accept learn."
Self said his primary goal during the next few months was to familiarize
Self said he would do most of his learning while working with various groups involved in the state and local collaborative effort. He will work primarily with the Douglas County United Way, the Lawrence-Douglas County Homeless Coalition, the Lawrence Planning Council and the local branch of the Corporation for Change's Blueprint for Kansas Children and Families.
The Kansas Department of Commerce and Housing, the Kansas State Board of Education and Kansas State University's Community Service Program are running the program at the state level with the Kansas Office for Community Services. Self will go to KState for one week during January to receive training for his work in Lawrence.
"As to the specifics, it's really up to Lawrence" she said. "We're trying to stay out of it as a state and just provide a little incentive and direction and some ideas."
Kells said that although several state-level organizations were involved in the program, individual communities would primarily be responsible for what direction the program took in those towns.
State officials will meet with Lawrence program representatives on November 23, Kells said. At that time, more specific plans on the program's goals and objectives will be made.
KU student receives burns after igniting gunpowder
Kin Chin / KANSAN
Kansan staff renort
Police reported that Myers had a gallon can full of gunpowder and was lighting small amounts of the powder in the glass to make a flash.
gunpowder in the glass once, but when he tried it again, the hot glass ignited the powder before he was ready. He jumped back, spilling the gunpowder from the can on his clothes, which caught on fire.
A KU student is listed in serious condition at the University of Kansas Medical Center's after being burned yesterday evening in his room in the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity.
Doug Myers, Bartlesville, Okla. junior, suffered second-degree burns over 60 percent of his body after lightning gunpowder in a drinking glass, Lawrence police reported.
Myers roommate, Joe Dineen, Omaha, Neb. sophomore, was with Myers when the accident occurred about 6:15 p.m. Dineen wrapped Myers in a blanket and rolled him around on the floor to put out the fire. He then took down the bathe the shower to cool the burns, Abuckle said.
Alice Arbuckle, the fraternity house director, said that Myers had lit the
Poll said Myers' burns were primarily on his head, arms and legs.
Ed Griffin, left, Kansas City, Mo., mourn instructor for the KU Judo Club, practices techniques with Chris Brady, KU alumnus, in Robinson Center. About 20 club members meet for practice at Robinson every Tuesday and Thursday from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m.
Fire department to sound sirens tomorrow
Kansanstaff report
Firefighters in Lawrence will sound sirens at noon tomorrow as a reminder to residents to check their smoke detectors.
The sirens will coincide with change from daylight saving to standard time.
As part of "Operation Check and Change," a national program sponsored by the International Association of Fire Chiefs and the Energizer Battery Co., all Lawrence fire trucks will sound sirens for one minute at noon, said Rich Barr, Lawrence fire marshal.
the habit of testing their smoke detectors and changing the batteries every time they change from daylight-saving time to saving time. Barr said.
The organizers hope to put people in
Barr said about one-third of all smoke detectors do not work when needed because the batteries were not working, the detectors did not have batteries or the smoke detectors were not tested.
Paula Phillips, head of the Douglas County Office of Emergency Preparedness, said some cities were sounding severe weather sirens tomorrow, her office would not sound them to prevent people from becoming alarmed.
The KU Athletics Department Presents The Official 1992 Late Night with Roy Williams T-shirt
Accept No Substitutes!
Black T-shirt with 5 color front and back Only $12.00 (XXL $14.00)
Full-color left chest.
..Large full-color back design
Available in the Allen Fieldhouse Lobby Monday through Friday, October 26-30,8:00 a.m.-5:30 p.m. And Late Night, of Course