THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
MONDAY, AUGUST 17, 2009
NEWS
7A
LAWRENCE
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Sam catnags on a stack of old vinyls at the Love Garden Sound music store. Love Garden Sound is in the process of moving to 822 Massachusetts.
Sr. A few downtown icons moved over the summer, but others have closed their doors for good.
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Khara Loeppke, manager of Maurices clothing store, arranges display items at its new location, 3226 S. Iowa St. Maurices moved from its downtown location to be with similar businesses that were open later in order to increase business.
Downtown Lawrence stores close, move to new locations
BY MEGAN HEACOCK
mheacock@kansan.com
While students were gone for the summer, downtown Lawrence was in the midst of transformation.
There might be confusion when returning students go downtown to check out their favorite shops only to find them gone.
Stores including Love Garden Sound,BoMo (Bohemian Modern), and Maurices are not the latest victims of a bad economy, but rather have changed locations.
People won't have to look far to find Love Garden's new site. Only a block from its original setting, 936 1/2 Massachusetts St., on the second floor of the Toy Store, Love Garden will take the place of Old World Pottery at 822 Massachusetts St.
Co-owner of Love Garden Kelly Corcoran said he planned to leave both locations open for a year to help with the transition. He said the goal would be to open the new store in early September. Corcoran said this change would be a step up for business.
"The new place is on a ground floor, so it will be a lot more visible to people walking by, and there will be parking in front and back," he said. "I think it'll be a lot more convenient for people."
BoMo, the "Bohemian Modern" clothing store, moved from 725 Massachusetts St. to 500 Locus St. Maurices used to the shopping center at 3226 S. Iowa St. from
739 Massachusetts St. on June 7. Like Corcoran, Khara Loeppe, Maurice manager, said the change was beneficial for the business.
"This location is definitely better for us since we're around more like
businesses," she said. "Downtown had a lot of specialty shops. This is more our style."
Major closings included Palace Cards & Gifts, 8 W Eighth St.; Round Corner Drug Store, 801 Massachusetts St.; Blue Heron Home Furnishings, 921 Massachusetts St.; and Old
however. For some downtown stores, this summer marked the end of the road.
"A lot of people who own stores downtown don't want more restaurants or bars."
Not all changes were positive,
KELLY CORCORAN Co-owner, Love Garden
World Pottery, 822 Massachusetts St.
For most of these locations, replacements are still in question. However, Noodles & Company, a national food chain with three restaurants in the Kansas City area, will replace Palace
Cards & Gifts, Corcoran said this was a sign of changing times for downtown Lawrence.
Alyce Reneberg, Kensington junior, spent two years at Kansas State University. She said the differences between downtown Lawrence and Aggieville, or downtown Manhattan, were significant.
downtown don't want more restaurants or bars," he said. "It's about keeping downtown Lawrence from becoming Aggieville."
"A lot of people who own stores
"It was mainly bars and restaurants," she said of Aggieville. "You didn't go there to shop, really."
Heidi Pierson, Clay Center senior, said this sort of transformation of downtown Lawrence would be a loss.
"I just really hope it doesn't all go to chain stores," she said. "That'd be really sad for the small, local spots in town."
HEALTH
— Edited by Lauren Cunningham
Florida health director forced to resign Crusade against doughnuts provoked employees, doughnut shop owners
BY MELISSA NELSON
Associated Press
PENSACOLA, Fla. — Dr. Jason Newcoms railed against burgers, french fries, fried chicken and sweet tea in his campaign to promote better eating in a part of the country known as the Redneck Riviera. He might still be leading the charge if he had only left the doughnuts alone.
A 38-year-old former Army doctor who served in Iraq, Newsom returned home to Panama City a few years ago to run the Bay County Health Department and launched a one-man war on obesity by posting sardonic warnings on an electronic sign outside.
Then he parodied "America Runs on Dunkin," the doughnut chain's slogan, with: "America Dies on Dunkin"
Some power players in the Gulf Coast tourist town decided they had their fill.
A county commissioner who owns a doughnut shop and two lawyers who own a new Dunkin' Donuts on Panama City Beach turned against him, along with some of his own employees. Newsm said.
After the lawyers threatened to sue, his bosses at the Florida Health Department made him remove the anti-fried dough rants and eventually forced him to resign, he said.
"I picked on doughnuts because those things are ubiquitous in this county. Everywhere I went, there were two dozen doughnuts on the back table. At church, there were always doughnuts on the back table at Sunday school. It is social expectation thing," said Newsm,
a lean 6-foot, 167-pounder in a county where 39 percent of all adults were overweight in 2007 and one in four was considered obese.
Newson was hired by the state Health Department to direct the county agency. His $140,000-a-year salary is paid jointly by the state and the county. His job primarily involves educating the public about health issues — swine flu, AIDS and the like — but he also decided to address the dangers of glazed, sprinkled and jelly-filled treats.
He angered staff members by barring doughnuts from department meetings and announcing he would throw the fat-laden sweets away if he saw them in the break room. He also banned candy bars in the vending machines, putting in peanuts instead.
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