THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
MONDAY, OCTOBER 12, 2009
8A NEWS HOMECOMING (CONTINUED FROM 1A)
dren out to eat or shop for clothes — it's a good thing for the city." Steve Brunkan, economist of the Office of Policy and Research
at the Topeka Department of Revenue, Hotels and motels in Lawrence collected $76,095 in sales tax in 2007 for October. After the football team's successful 2007 season with its Orange
NANCY LONGHURST
Eldridge Hotel Manager
"It helps us tremendously to have that sales tax incoming ... It's a good thing for the city."
Bowl Championship, the sales-tax collections last October went up to $89,637. The sales-tax collections for restaurants and drinking places increased about $50,000, from $611,480 in October of 2007
to $661,365 in October of 2008.
Longhurst said the hotel already had people looking to book suites for next year.
Brunkan said it was hard to determine exactly how much money came through
St., said for weekends such as homecoming, the bar ordered extra inventory. Debbie Fey, manager at Free State Brewing Company, 636
during Homecoming Weekend because the numbers were determined monthly. However, according to the sales-tax collections for hotels, motels, restaurants and drinking establishments, the numbers generally peaked in October and May because of homecoming and graduation.
Greg Mann, manager at Quinton's Bar and Deli, 615 Massachusetts
Massachusetts St., said the homecoming football game was one of the restaurant's busiest days of the year.
Henderson said the Lawrence Convention and Visitor Bureau advertised to encourage people to shop and dine in Lawrence to continue the success of the "million dollar weekend."
“... [T]h his happens to be the one that [my dad] was able to see because it was homecoming.”
JAMIE PADZENSKY Andover senior
Andover senior Jamie Padzensky's father visited Lawrence this weekend to enjoy the game
and the weekend with his children.
"He loves to come see the football games and this happens to be one that he was able to see because it was homecoming," Padzensky said.
Padzensky lives close to the stadium, and tailgated with her
father and brother. Les Padzensky, her father, said the weekend involved shopping for tailgating food as well as eating out several times.
Les said this weekend would probably be the only game he would attend this year.
— Edited by Abbey Strusz
A float featuring members of the KU Football team entertains the crowd at the 2009 Homecoming Parade Saturday morning. The parade traveled down a section of Jayhawk Boulevard before the kickoff of the football game at 11:30 a.m.
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