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VOLUME 121 ISSUE 41
Fundraiser seeks a push up Breast cancer awareness donations and purchases dropped from last year's numbers
BY ANNA ARCHIBALD aarchibald@kansan.com
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Emily Willis, owner of Salon Hawk, said one place she hadn't expected to see the economy take a toll was at her annual breast cancer fundraiser. But the fundraiser, which is collecting bras for the annual "Bras Across the Kaw" and is selling hair extensions and T-shirts, has only raised a small fraction of its $10,000 goal.
"It's been a lot slower this year," Willis said. "The economy has played a big role in that since
Last year, Salon Hawk's fundraising made up roughly a fifth of the total money Lawrence Memorial Hospital raised last year for breast cancer awareness month.
money is tight and people are so strapped for cash."
Willis also said the fundraiser didn't have as many bras to hang across the Kansas River as part of the "Bras across the Kaw" fundraiser as it had in the past two years. The bras, which were hung October 15, will later be donated to Lawrence women's shelters.
However, Willis said she didn't think the economy was the only factor slowing fundraising this year.
She said that there hadn't been as much publicity this year and that not all of the publicity had been positive.
"If you turn this into a negative thing, it slows down the good we do," Willis said, referring to the letter to the editor published in The University Daily Kansan earlier this month.
The letter said Willis' attempts to raise breast cancer awareness were hypocritical because the Sun of a Beach tanning salon, which Willis also owns, co-sponsored the fundraiser. In actuality, the hair salon, which is solely sponsoring the event, is a separate business
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bra stretches across the Kaw River in Lawrence. The "Bras on the Kaw" fundraiser offered bra to breast cancer awareness. The bra will be donated to Lawrence women's shelter.
LAWRENCE
Homeless face scarcity of space in shelters
BY RAY SEGEBRECHT
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Raleigh Worthington was 50 years old when he first stayed at the Salvation Army Homeless Shelter. He remembers because it was age that put him there.
Worthington needed work and had solicited jobs throughout Lawrence with little luck. The situation deteriorated into homelessness when his only job offer
Diane Eider, a case manager at the Lawrence Community Shelter, draws numbers for the nightly lottery that determines who will be allowed to sleep in the shelter overnight. The shelter can house 76 people and has already reached a high of 66 guests this fall.
After the Salvation Army shelter closed last spring, Lawrence's homeless will have 44 fewer sleeping spaces to share this winter when the temperature falls below freezing, said Loring Henderson, director of the Lawrence Community Shelter.
Worthington still struggles to find a permanent job and home, but he now grapples with a new concern.
- loading oversize garage doors onto storage lockers - turned out to be impossibly heavy for his middle-aged body.
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"If they're outside all night, and they have no protection from the weather, there's a good chance, if its cold enough, they're going to freeze to death," Worthington said.
For the first time in his six years at the shelters, Worthington worries that he and other homeless Lawrence residents might not have a place to stay when winter arrives.
FIRE REGULATIONS FOR SAFE SHELTERS
Lawrence Fire Marshal Rich Bar said that the city required homeless shelters to meet the same regulations of any other residence facility. It must have a door and at least one other exit with 5.7 squarefoot opening that opens directly outside, he said. He also said the building must have at least 25 square feet per person in the sleeping rooms and sprinkler per 225 square feet in each room.
Henderson said the Salvation Army Shelter usually housed 42 guests last year but would expand to 89 guests on freezing nights, boosting the combined limit of the two Lawrence shelters to 120 spaces.
He said the LCS tried to minimize the effect of the closed
SHORT ON SPACE
But as winter approaches, Henderson said, the occupancy at the LCS last week has already reached 66, only 10 guests from
Salvation Army shelter with a renovation that expanded the LCS's winter occupancy from 31 to 76 spaces.
having to turn people away.
Worthington said he remembered frigid nights, as recent as last winter, when both shelters filled to their combined limit of 120 guests. He said he worried it was only a matter of time before those guests would seek refuge in
the 76 LCS spaces this winter and instead find themselves outside fighting the cold alone.
"There are going to be nights where they probably won't be able to hold everyone." Worthington
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CRIME
Bicyclist dies in apparent hit-run accident
BY RAY SEGEBRECHT
rsegebrecht@kansan.com
"It's still ongoing," said Tracy Russell, Lawrence Police Department officer, Sunday on the progress of the investigation. "There's not going to be any more releases until probably tomorrow morning."
Leek died Friday from injuries caused by the collision.
At 2:20 a.m. on Friday, torner KU student Rachel Leek was struck by a car as she rode her bicycle along the 1000 block of Tennessee street. The driver who allegedly hit Leck left her lying on the roadside. After the 20-year-old was found, she was flown to Stormont-Vail Hospital in Topeka.
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FIRE
The Lawrence Police Department, which is investigating the incident, has yet to identify the driver or vehicle that struck Leek. Lawrence police have released few details about the event.
Building damaged by flames
BY JESSE BROWN jbrown@kansan.com
A fire was reported at 4:06 p.m. Sunday on the corner of Fifth and Wisconsin streets.
The fire broke out at a four- unit, two-story apartment building.
According to Capt. Pat Karlin, the structural fire heavily damaged two of the units. The building has been blocked off by yellow tape and Karlin said the cause of the fire was still under investigation. He said investigators had deemed the building uninhabitable.
No one was reported injured.
Edited by Brenna M.T. Daldorph
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