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People participate in CROP Walk to help fight hunger
Eric Braem/Kansan
By Meghan Brune mbrune@kansan.com Kansan staff writer
About 150 people walked four or five miles, beginning at West Side Presbyterian Church, 1024 Kasold Drive, to raise money for local hunger-fighting agencies. Organizers of the tenth annual fundraiser hoped to raise $12,000 yesterday.
Youth groups, KU students, Boy Scouts, families and even a pet goat walked across Lawrence yesterday to raise money for hungry people.
A group of about 120 walkers gathered at West Side Presbyterian Church, 1024 Kasold Drive, to participate in CROP Walk.
Wes Buller and Gary Freeman, members of the West Side Presbyterian Church, became co-chairs for the Lawrence walk two years go after walking for 10 years.
CROP Walk, a national fundraiser that benefits hungerfighting agencies locally and globally, takes place in Lawrence every year on the first Sunday of October. Walkers collected pledges to walk four or five miles starting at 10th and Kasold streets.
Freeman said that last year it raised $11,800, a Lawrence record. This year the goal is $12,000.
"This shows that people are interested in helping with a worthwhile community activity," Freeman said. "I can't think of a better cause."
Delisa Drewes, youth coordinator of the Immanuel Lutheran Church, 2104 W.15th St., has been involved in the Lawrence CROP Walk for 18 years. She said some families donated thousands of dollars while some collected pennies.
Twenty-five percent of the money raised stays in the location of the walk. The rest of the money goes to international agencies.
In Lawrence, the money raised will benefit Jubilee Cafe, LINK and the Salvation Army.
Jubilee Cafe, a program at 946 Vermont St. that serves breakfast to community members in need, is a new recipient of the CROP Walk donations. Rev. Joe Alford, director of the Jubilee Café, said that all the money from the walk would go toward food.
The idea to add Jubilee Café
came in part from Rev. Thad Holcombe, director of Ecumenical Christian Ministries.
The ECM, 1204 Oread Ave., has raised donations for the past three years, Holcombe said. This year the ECM brought a group of 10 walkers.
Abby Koch, Wichita senior,
was one of the ECM's organizers.
She said last year the group had
raised $1,100 for the walk.
"The money from this fundraiser stays in town." Koch said. "It makes a big difference to people who can't buy groceries."
The walk was started by Church World Service, a relief ministry of 36 Protestant, Orthodox and Anglican denominations in the United States, Linda Kemp, regional director, said. Americans started the fundraiser after World War II in an effort to share crops with European war victims.
"Most area walks raise around $3,000 to $7,000," she said.
ATTACK: KU Public Safety Office asks for help identifying attacker
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- Edited by Abby Sidesinger
other parking lots on campus." Keary said. "We're looking for people who may have been in the area that saw something suspicious during this time."
The suspect was wearing a dark sweater, blue jeans and a ski mask. A description of the knife was not available.
The KU Public Safety Office is asking anyone who was around the Lied Center parking lot Friday morning and saw
"She never got to her car to drive. The guy got her as she was on her way to her car."
Valerie Thudium
Wichita freshman
anything suspicious to call them at 864-8888 or 864-5900.
Edited by Neeley Spellmeier
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The man was arrested and booked into Douglas County Jail.
According to Lt. Dan Affalter, Investigations Division, the Lawrence Police Department is continuing to investigate the incident.
Greg Thomes, general manager of It's Brothers, said he was confident the shooter was not one of his customers. He stressed that the incident did not happen inside It's Brothers.
He said it was a tragic event and was concerned for the employees and customers.
"It had nothing to do with anything that happened in the bar," he said. "It was almost a serene night before that."
"As far as we can see, it was a random act of violence that happened near Brothers," he said.
year-old arrested "It had nothing to do with anything that happened in the bar. It was almost a serene night before that."
Greg Thomes It's Brothers general manager
Angela Segraves, employee at Glass On Mass, 1103 Massachusetts St., said It's Brothers had recently come under new management, which got along well with the neighborhood.
"We don't have things like that happen in Lawrence," she said. "But you can't control everybody."
Edited by Joey Berlin
Library fundraiser offers cheap books
By Robert Perkins
rperkins@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
A pocketful of change at the Lawrence Public Library will double your book collection.
The Friends of the Lawrence Public Library, 707 Vermont St., are hosting one of its biannual book sales, featuring 100,000 donated books that will go from cheap to free as the week goes on.
The Friends have been holding book sales to help fund the library since its organization in 1972. Its first sale, which was divided into just two categories, raised $1,748.
Since then, the sales have grown in amount and scope. Last year's sales featured books in about a dozen categories and raised about $90,000.
As O'Neil bustled around the library basement and three tents that were packed full of books, she pointed out a swarm of volunteers answering questions, taking money and resupplying depleted shelves as the source of the book sale's success.
This fall's event is also shaping up to be a success. Not that Friends coordinator Leslie O'Neil will take any credit for it.
The book sales, one in the fall and one in the spring, last for a
week and a half each and takes hundreds of people volunteering year round to make them possible.
According to recent estimates, O'Neil said, after this fall's sale the Friends will have raised more than $1 million.
The money that the Friends raise for the library has several uses. Bruce Flanders, the director of the library, said that while the money was mainly used to build up the library's book collection, it would also buy new furnishings and cover some of the library's technological needs.
Abby Tillery/Kansan
"Our collection would not be what it is without the Friends," he said. "Treap the benefits of working with them throughout the year."
Michael Bradley, Concord, Mich., graduate student, and his daughter Eva Bradley attended the book sale at the Lawrence Public Library Saturday. The book sale will continue this week: 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Tuesday, $7 bag night; 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Thursday, $5 bag night; and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday, giveaway day.
In addition to helping Friends with its administrative needs, Flanders also enjoys supporting the book sale in a more conventional way. In his office he proudly displayed a like-new copy of Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code, purchased for $6 from one of the tables in the library's basement.
Robert Murphy, Wichita freshman, drove home from the sale on
Because of its close proximity to the University of Kansas' campus, the book sale draws books, volunteers and customers from the student body.
Friday with a used copy of Thucydides' The Peloponnesian War at a cost of 50 cents.
Like many of the books for sale, The Peloponnesian War had probably been donated to the library after the completion of a course at the University.
Murphy said that he hadn't expected to find anything good, but after seeing how much the Friends were selling he would
definitely go back.
Keeping books in circulation was one of the important parts of the book sale, O'Neil said.
She said that many times people would buy books, then donate them right back — funding the library and giving others the opportunity to read the books at the same time.
—Edited by Abby Sidesinger
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