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New day spas open in Lawrence offer luxury of retreat in less time
By Amanda Kim Stairrett
astairrett@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
Marcia Butell said she was the first person to bring day spas to Lawrence, and she's continued the business in a new location.
Butell owns Rejuvene Salon and Day Spa, 2108 W. 27th St., one of two day spas opening in Lawrence. The other is Lada Salon & Spa, 4931 W. 6th St.
Days spas offer customers the pampering of a regular spa without the time and commitment. Customers can visit a day spa for an afternoon, while other spas are resorts offering retreats that last for days.
"They have just taken a spa menu and duplicated it," she said. "You can't duplicate knowledge."
She said after she opened eight years ago, area salons realized the day spa industry was growing and simply added to their services.
Butell is a licensed esthetician, or skin-care specialist, and a nationally certified massage
therapist.
Rejuvene added a salon and re-located to the building formerly occupied by Becky's Salon and Day Spa. Rejuvene moved from 1311 Wakarusa Drive to 2108 W.27th St. The grand opening was last Friday.
For more than a year, Butell wanted to expand to a full-service day spa. In June, she partnered with her best friend from junior high school, Judy Hermann, who manages the salon aspect of the business. Butell also wanted to provide her daughter, a cosmetologist, with an opportunity to work.
"We are heads above everybody else," she said.
Reijuene is one of only a handful of spas in the United States that carry a special skin procedure. The Quick Magic Skin treatment was developed by a German plastic surgeon and is available in Lawrence, several spas in Florida and in Europe.
Butell said the process was guaranteed to totally rejuvenate the skin within 120 days. During the Quick Magic treatment she
Day Spas in Lawrence
Fletcher
Lawrence, 809 Vermont St.
Images Salon & Day
Spa, 511 West Ninth St.
Salon Di Marco & Day
Spa, 733 Massachusetts
The Total Look, 708 West
Ninth St.
Rejuvene Day Spa, 2108 West 27th St.
Lada Salon & Spa, 4931 West Sixth St., Suite 116
treats the skin to a collagen hydration facial, then makes a plaster mask of the face, which penetrates moisture into three levels of the skin.
The customers complete the treatment with monthly facials and a daily at-home regimen. It requires a $120 in-office treatment and includes a $495 athome skin care regimen. The treatment lasts four to five months. Butell has 50 clients on the system.
Butell said that her business was about helping people maintain a lifestyle through health
"There are no quick fixes out there," she said.
maintenance.
She said that before entering the day spa business, she spent 10 years in the fitness and nutrition industry.
Lada Salon & Spa is a brand new spa in Lawrence, with a grand opening scheduled for Sept. 26. Lada is owned by Mark and Cherina Chapman. The Chapmans have been in the salon business since 1990. They cut and styled hair at Headmasters of Lawrence until Mark opened Marx, 801 Massachusetts St., five years ago.
Mark Chapman said Lada was the largest Aveda salon in the area. Aveda is an upscale hair and skin care product line.
He also said Lada would be a full service salon offering daily yoga classes.
He said after working for other salons their dream to open up their own business.
"We wanted something bigger and better with employees," he said. "It's the time to do it."
— Edited by Shane Mettlen
Marcia Butell, owner of the newly opened Rejuvene Salon and Day Spa, massaged her daughter as part of a facial Wednesday afternoon. Rejuvene offers a variety of hair and body treatments, ranging from waxing to keratology.
Z. Gordon Straus/Kansan
Greek seminar teaches pledges community's values
By Abby Mills almills@kansan.com Kansan staff writer
A new program oriented about 400 fledgling fraternity and sorority members to greek life Saturday at the Kansas Union.
Greek Orientation, which lasted from noon to about 4 p.m., introduced freshmen, pledges to the community's four fraternal values: leadership, friendship, scholarship and service.
"I think it's really to get them off in the right direction," said
Richard Friesner, Albuquerque, N.M., senior. "So their perception isn't that it's just a social thing."
The idea for Greek Orientation began at an alcohol summit last semester, Friesner said, Interfraternity Council vice president of educational programs and scholarships. Members of the greek community gathered there to brainstorm ideas for promoting alcohol-free activities.
The group decided promoting values was the best way to decrease alcohol use and developed the orientation to teach
those values.
Angie Carr, coordinator for Fraternity and Sorority Life, began the day by addressing new members.
Kristin Conklin, Hutchinson freshman, said Carr gave freshmen tips for integrating life in a sorority or fraternity with college. She said Carr recommended getting involved with people and organizations outside the greek community and suggested study tips.
The rest of the day was spent mostly in group-building activities. Participants met and played games with members outside
their own chapters.
Maggie Bash, Prairie Village junior and orientation facilitator, said it was a good way to get people to feel like more of a part of the greek system, rather than just a chapter.
Elaine Jordan, Overland Park freshman, said life had been so busy since recruitment that she had not had time to meet other members of the greek community. She said she got to catch up with women she had not seen since she met them at recruitment.
For some, the day was less valuable. Dustin Volz, Dodge
City freshman, said because the schedule didn't include a lunch break, he was hungry and not interested in the program.
"It's a little boring," he said. "To tell the truth, I haven't learned much."
Aaron Eckley, Oskaloosa,
Iowa, freshman, disagreed.
"I've learned a lot," he said. "I'd make our freshmen go. It's a good thing."
Facilitator Julie Rogowski, Chicago senior, said she the orientation helped students adjust to the greek community, but had too much down time. She thought the
information could be compacted into a couple hours.
A scavenger hunt to find services on campus had been scheduled for the afternoon, but was canceled because of rain.
Orientation ended with groups making banners for the House that Greeks Built through Habitat for Humanity. One of the banners would be put into the house, scheduled to begin in October, and the rest would be used in other Habitat for Humanity homes.
- Edited by Neeley Spellmeier
The Associated Press
CANCUN, Mexico — Talks designed to change the face of farming around the world collapsed yesterday amid differences between rich and poor nations, the second failure for the World Trade Organization in four years.
"It's over," said George Odon Ong'wen, a Kenyan delegate. "The differences were very wide, and it was impossible to close the gap."
Developing nations saw the talks as a way to end rich countries' agricultural subsidies that make it hard for them to compete in the globally. European nations and Japan were intent on pushing new issues that many poor countries saw as a distraction.
"The blame for the collapse must go to the Western countries, because they insisted on
putting their issues first," said Yasphal Tondon, a delegate from Uganda.
Before the talks collapsed, delegates spent yesterday debating not the key changes to farming policy that they have spent much of the conference negotiating, but instead four proposals about foreign investment and competition from the European Union and Japan.
Delegates said the Europeans insisted they be granted at least one proposal. That was unacceptable to many developing nations.
The failure was a major blow to the WTO. In 1999, talks in Seattle collapsed amid violent street protests and divisions between rich and poor nations.
Delegates had hoped to slash the subsidies rich nations pay their farmers and lower the tariffs many countries charge for importing farm goods.
Community Drop In Center provides shelter for Lawrence's homeless citizens
By Joe Hartigan
jhartigan@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
It was 3:30 in the morning, and Erin Wessling and her roommates were cleaning their house in the Oread neighborhood after an after-hours party. A man walked in wanting to use their bathroom and asked for money.
The man was homeless, and was perhaps looking for a party, a place to sleep or maybe just a way to get off the streets for a minute.
Wessling lives near the Community Drop In Center, 214 W. 10th St. She said sometimes during parties homeless people will wander over and join in.
"Itputs you off-guard a little bit," Wessling, Denver senior, said. "You don't know who these people are."
"I don't feel in harm's way by any'means," Wessling said. "Sometimes you get those
crawlers, though."
The Community Drop In Center gives homeless citizens the opportunity to eat, shower, read, receive mail, use a computer or nap between the hours of 8:30 a.m. and noon Monday through Friday.
Tami Clark, coordinator of the Drop In Center, said that though some believed Oread neighborhood's shelters, like the Drop In Center, Lawrence Interdenominational Nutrition Kitchen and the soon-to-open Lawrence Open Shelter attracted homeless people to the area, it was actually the homeless in the area who attracted the shelters.
"KU and downtown Lawrence are great attractors for the homeless," Clark said. "Whether the shelters are here or not, the homeless are going to be here."
Cindy Nau, Neighborhood Programs Specialist for the city of Lawrence, said the city did
"KU and downtown Lawrence are great attractors for the homeless."
Tami Clark coordinator of the Drop in Center
receive complaints about homeless people, but that most of the time they came from Lawrence residents and not University of Kansas students.
"Oread neighborhood residents tend to complain," Nau said. "They find people in their front yard, using their hose or sleeping on their porch."
Both Clark and Nau said some Lawrence residents had misconceptions about the homeless.
"It's obvious walking down the street," Clark said. "People don't even look at them, they don't say
"Hi.' They'll change to the other side of the street if possible."
Nau said Lawrence residents didn't always understand homeless people.
"In conversations with people who work with them, the general consensus is that they've fallen on hard times," Nau said.
A survey conducted by the Neighborhood Resources Department of Lawrence in Dec. 2001 showed there were 134 homeless people in Lawrence. Nau felt that number was low, and said the surveys did not reach those living near Clinton Lake.
The Neighborhood Resources Department will survey the homeless again this winter to find out, among other things, exactly how many homeless people live in Lawrence. Nau said she expected that number to be between 160 and 175.
Edited by Joey Berlin
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