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Friday, September 4, 1987 / University Daily Kansan
President Reagan will be in Topeka on Sunday for former Kansas Gov. Alf Landon's 100th birthday. The University of Kansas Marching Jayhawks are scheduled to perform at the celebration, which will be on the lawn at the Landon home.
The marcning badd will pay Han to the Clerk.
Kansans will be able to see Reagan during a four-block stretch on the route of his motorcade from Forbes Field to Landon's residence. The motorcade will slow to parade speed between 10th Street and Sixth Street as it moves north along Westchester Road. The motorcade is to pass Gage Park about 1:30 p.m.
Labors give way to leisure this weekend
Relax. Kick your shoes off.
Relax. Ruck your shoes.
Labor Day weekend is the first break of the school year and the last before Thanksgiving. So, take time to go wild before the long haul. For those staying in the area, activities — from the Renaissance Festival to River City Reunion — abound. And if the sun shines on area lakes, ride a wave or claim a beach.
The Lone Star Lake marina will be open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. today and from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. this weekend for sailboard, paddle boat, canoe, rowboat and motorboot rentals. Prices vary from $5 to $25 per hour for fishing boats. Reduced equipment rates will be available for organized living groups, said Stuart Doores, the marina's owner. Air mattresses, fishing gear and food also will be on sale.
The Clinton Reservoir marina has boat rentals ranging from $6 per hour for canoes to $30 per hour plus gas and oil costs for pontoon boats. The marina, which is open weekdays from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. and from 7 a.m. to 11 p.m. on weekends, also rents fishing boats, sailboats, and wind surfers, said Mark Retonde, the marina's owner.
Grand Sport, Seventh and Arkansas streets, has canoe rentals for
$14 for one day and $8 for each additional day. The offer includes a canoe, two flotation devices and paddles. Kaw Valley Outfitters of Eudora also offers rental boats.
■ Lewis and Templin Hall residents will take a three-day float trip down the Niangua River near Lebanon, Mo. The trip will cost floaters $15 for tents, canoes and transportation. Owen Evans, Roeland Park junior and trip organizer, said the trip would be open to residence hall residents until the group departed at 6 p.m. today.
■ If you can't go far this weekend, you might travel back to the 16th century at the Renaissance Festival near Bonner Springs. The festival captures an era when minstrels, maidens and jesters wandered Olde English village streets.
The festival, which is next to the Agriculture Hall of Fame, is open weekends beginning tomorrow through Oct. 18. Admission is $6.75 for students with I.D.
A train will depart to Nowhere this weekend. A tourist train runs four miles from the Baldwin City depot to a fictious town of Nowhere.
Nowhere. Tomorrow and Labor Day the train will run at 10:30 a.m., 11:30
a.m., 12:30 p.m., 2 p.m., 3 p.m. and
4 p.m. The schedule is the same
Sunday except that there will be no
10:30 a.m. trip. The 45-minute tours
are $4 for adults and $2 for children
ages 4-12. Children under four ride free.
Country music singer Willie Nelson will join Willie Wildcat at tomorrow's Kansas State University-Austin Peay football season opener in Manhattan. After the 6 p.m. game at KSU Stadium, football fans can stay for a concert by Nelson.
In Lawrence, a week of poetry, prominent speakers, music and films, together called the River City Reunion, starts Monday with a Labor Day Kick-Off Party at 9 p.m. at The Bottleneck, 737 New Hamshire. Before the end of the week, author William S. Burroughes, '60s LSD guirum Timothy Leary and poet Allen Ginsberg will make appearances.
There will be readings at The Bottleneck; Liberty Hall, 642 Massachusetts St.; the Lawrence Arts Center, Ninth and Vermont streets; the Union Upson ample can read at microphone readings at Club Babaloel West, which is in a rear storage room of Hoch Auditorium.
"We'll be on the edge of critical mass in that place. There could be 50 to 75 people," said Mike Mader, Great Bend graduate student and club member. "We encourage anyone to get up and read or perform."
■ This weekend's menu of Labor Day celebrations includes Eskridge: Labor Day Rodeo on Monday; Pittsburg: Little Balkans Days, today through Sunday; Junction City: Family Fun Festival, today and tomorrow; Oakley: Stamped rodeo, tomorrow; Marion: Art in the Park, tomorrow; Arkansas City: Carnival, tomorrow; Troy: Annual Flea Market, tomorrow and Sunday; Hoisington: 91st annual Labor Day Celebration & Parade, tomorrow through Monday; Russell Springs: Old Settler's Day/State Cow Chip Throwing Contest, Sunday; Florence: Labor Day Celebration, Monday.
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