Friday, October 23, 1998
The University Daily Kansan
Section A·Page 7
Student groups organize weekend canned-food drive
By Pallavi Agarwal
Kansan staff writer
Football fans who plan to attend the University of Kansas vs. University of Colorado homecoming game tomorrow can do a bit of community service with a can of food.
A KU student group has organized a canned-food drive outside Memorial Stadium.
Volunteers from the Center for Community Outreach will be stationed from 4 to 6 p.m. outside the parking lot entrance at 11th and Mississippi streets and at the southeast gate entrance that leads to the stadium.
The second KU canned food drive will let individuals drop off their food cans at the entrance of Checkers Foods, 2300 Louisiana St. Members of Social Work Students Concerned About Retaining Ethics organized the drive from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., said Melinda Garden, club president.
"While we are looking for any kind of non-perishable food," said Carden, Lenexa senior. "It would be nice if people could give us cans of creamy peanut butter, canned soup and
canned meat."
The drive was organized as part of Make A Difference Day, a national day of community service organized by USA Weekend, the weekend edition of USA Today.
The service day culminates with a national competition. The Center for Community Outreach was recognized in the paper as one of 200 participants last year, said Chris Hess, codirector of the center.
"KU students usually don't realize that there are many hungry people in Lawrence," said Hess, Wichita junior. "They think of hunger as something found in other countries around the world."
The food is to be distributed to five food pantries in Lawrence, said David Cade, director of Pelathe Community Resource Center, 1423 Haskell Ave.
The center will collect food cans from the volunteer groups and distribute them to the five locations. Cade said.
Last year, about 2,000 food cans were collected from several on-campus and off-campus volunteer groups, he said.
The center also is looking for
What: Canned food drive
When: Tomorrow
FOOD DRIVE
Who: Center for Community Outreach and Social Work Students Concerned About Retaining Ethics.
Where: Outside Memorial Stadium parking lot at 11th and Mississippi streets, the southeast entrance to the stadium from 4 to 6 p.m. and Checkers Foods, 2300 Louisiana St., from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
student volunteers to stock sort and deliver the food cans within the next month.
interested students should call David Gade at 841-7202.
The second half of the Center for Community Outreach's food drive is a benefit concert at Liberty Hall, 642 Massachusetts St., on Oct. 30.
Groups such as the Band that Saved the World, Arthur Dodge, Fear and Whiskey and Four Miles are scheduled to play at the concert, which also doubles as a Halloween costume party.
Admission is $3 with two cans of non-perishable food. Various prizes will be given away, Hess said.
Paninis for pleasing the palate
Couple stakes their future on 10-inch serving of bread
By Chris Fickett Kansan staff writer
A new delivery and carry-out restaurant north of the Kansas River wants to feed the hunger for Italian food felt by University of Kansas students and North Lawrence residents.
Richard and Janice Weneca last week opened Panini Grille at 317 N. Second St. The couple ran the deli at an Apple Market in Kansas City for 30 years. Three years ago, they started making panini sandwiches there.
"We thought it was the best sandwich we ever had." Richard Weneck said.
Weneck said he and his wife decided to open Panini Grille because they enjoyed living in Lawrence, and they wanted to open a smaller business.
Although a recent survey in Restaurant Business, a bi-weekly trade publication, ranked Lawrence as a poor place to open a restaurant, Weneck said Panini Grille was attracting business both from KU students and from North Lawrence residents.
In the week the delivery and carry-out restaurant has been open, Weneck said, he has seen the same customers come in three or four times.
ranini Grille offers 11 kinds of panini sandwiches, which consist of 10-inch slices of a bread called pane turbano plus olive oil, meats, cheeses, vegetables and sauces. The sandwich is
Panini Grille, 317 N. Second St., is a week-old addition to Lawrence's restaurant community. It offers many varieties of its specialty names sandwich, plus such choices as the leaning pizza and a turkey club. Photo by Kate Levenson/KANSAN
cooked on a special panini grill.
The menu also includes lasagna with meat or vegetables, sandwiches, bruschetta, salads, fried pound cake and chocolate paninis.
Prices for paninis range from $2.95 for a half-sandwich to $4.95 for a whole one. A lasagna dinner costs $5.95.
Before opening, Weneck consulted his son, Jason Sukut, and Sukut's friend, Hadley Burcham, who is taking this semester off from the University.
Burcham, a cook at Panini Grille, said she thought more students would order from a menu that offered turkey club and reuben sandwiches as well as paninis. She said the prices also should attract students.
Sears brings softer side to Lawrence
By Chris Fickett Kansan staff writer
Sears' grand opening celebration tomorrow will mark the second of four new or newly expanded retail stores along South Iowa Street.
The 84,000 square-foot retail store at 2727 Iowa St. had a soft opening Wednesday, store general manager Jim Mohs said. A soft opening is unannounced and precedes Saturday's 9 a.m. grand opening.
Mohs said that Sears was expecting larger crowds this weekend and that the soft opening allowed the store's 140 associates to acquaint themselves with their store duties.
The Lawrence Sears store is one of 23 full-line units opening nationwide as part of Sears' $4-billion building and remodeling program. Sears has several stores in the Kansas City area and will be opening a store in Garden City this weekend.
Sears offers apparel, fine jewelry, fragrances, hardware, appliances and electronics.
"We're pleased to bring our loyal Lawrence-area customers a new store filled with more merchandise than before," Mohs said. "Our store offers a broad selection of the merchandise they need with the values they expect from Sears."
At 9 a.m. tomorrow, the grand opening will begin with a ribboncutting ceremony. Mayor Marty Kennedy and Lawrence Chamber of Commerce president Gary Toebbent will speak at the event.
Sears operated a catalog store in Lawrence, which closed in the late 1980s. Lawrence also was home for four years to a Sears authorized dealer, which sold hardware and appliances, before closing Oct. 13.
"Sears has never had a full-line department store in Lawrence, and it's very exciting." Toebben said.
After the ribbon-cutting ceremony, the first 500 customers who enter Sears will receive a $10 Sears gift card. Prizes totaling $14,000, including a trip to the Caribbean, will be given away.
Fashion shows and power-tool demonstrations also will highlight the festivities.
Kansas City Chiefs running back Donnell Bennett will sign autographs from 10 a.m. to noon, and Austin Peech from Days of Our Lives will sign autographs from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Sears' grand opening tomorrow will precede two more retail store openings in November.
JC Penney will relocate from 23rd Street to a new store on South Iowa Street Nov. 5, and a remodeled and expanded Kmart at 31st and Iowa streets will open Nov. 20
Kohl's department store, 3434 Iowa St., had its grand opening Oct.9.
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