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The University Daily Kansan
Monday, October 5,1998
Part of bike path will be closed for construction on sewer main
Cyclists who use the city bike path near West 31st Street and Kasold Avenue may need to consider an alternate route during October.
The city is closing a quarter-mile section of a bike path that extends from near Clinton Lake to the South Lawrence Trafficway. The path will be closed and barricades installed as soon as the rain subsides and the ground is dry enough for construction to begin on a sanitary sewer main that is being installed near 31st and Kasold streets. The bike path will remain closed throughout the construction, which will be completed as the weather permits.
The path will be barricaded on the north near a bridge and on the south near a gravel road. No detours have been planned, so
cyclists are advised to turn around at the barricades.
Gayle Martin, city communications director, said that cyclists and pedestrians should not use Kasold Avenue as a detour.
"Our concern is people will attempt to go out on Kasold, which is very dangerous," she said.
One lane of automobile traffic also will be closed during the construction. This potentially could make Kasold Avenue dangerous for cyclists and walkers.
The main will be connected to the city's new Four Seasons complex, under construction southeast of Sunnyside and Crossgate Drives. The sewage construction project began in June and is scheduled to be completed in early 2000.
Jason Benavides/KANSAN
A grainy picture
A representative for the monks of the Ganden Jangste monastery of Tibet explains the symbolism of the sand-painting mandala they created in the Spencer Museum of Art. The monks have spent the last five days spreading their culture in Lawrence and creating the mandala, which was dumped into the river yesterday afternoon. A mandala is a geometric design that is used as a meditation aid. Photo by Graham K. Johnson/KANSAN
President Clinton shows off the story-teller bracelet given to him by Dominic Ortiz, Lawrence junior. Ortiz gave a speech in August at a Washington, D.C., conference, Building Economic Self-Determination in Indian Communities. Contributed photo
Students master the art of business
Artists' jewelry sold at local shops,casinos
By Steph Brewer
Kansan staff writer
Dominic Ortiz and Kolby Elkins began selling Haskell jewelry while they were students at Haskell Indian Nations University.
In the two and a half years since, Ortiz, Lawrence junior, and Elkins, Haskell graduate student, have moved up in the business world. Through the combined efforts of Ortiz's company, Potawamie Traders, and Elkins' operation, Native Traders, the pair has secured contracts with Prairie Patches, 811 Massachusetts St., and The Ec. Shop, 928 Massachusetts St. in Lawrence.
They also established gift shops a two Topeka-area casinos, the Golden Eagle and Sac and Fox, and have a contract with the French catalog Indian Life. Ortiz even gave one of their bracelets to President Clinton.
Ortiz met Clinton in August when he gave a speech at a Washington D.C. conference called Building Economic Self-Determination in Indian Communities.
owner of Potawamie Traders, Ortiz is also a national representative for American Indian Business Leaders. Through that position, Ortiz entered and won the National Tribal Business Plan Competition, which led the White House to call and invite him to speak at the convention.
Ortiz said that before he gave his speech he met Clinton and gave him a story-teller bracelet. After his speech, he said, Clinton displayed the bracelet to the crowd.
Besides working as president and
"He said, "Today I'm a walking advertisement for Dominic Ortiz," Ortiz said.
Ortiz said that after the speech, many business leaders handed him their cards, including the executive director of the Quirrel Casino in Washington. Ortiz and Elkins are currently working out contracts with Quirrel and Foxwood Casinos in Connecticut to stock their gift shops.
Ortiz said that he and Elkins also wanted to expand in the national collegiate market. Currently they sell Haskell and University of Kansas jewelry.
Ortiz and Elkins started out working at the same business but split when they realized they could accomplish more separately, Ortiz said. He said that Elkins' Native
Traders employs 200 artisans who provide the crafts and Potawamie Traders sells the products.
BIRKS' uncle has a store in New Mexico, where artists turn his designs into jewelry. Other artisans stock the main warehouse in New Mexico.
Otitz said that he would continue working with the company for the next five years, until he completed his master's degree. He said his company had helped him in his studies because he was working in the real business world.
"I can really apply what I've learned," he said.
Still, being the president of a company and a full-time student isn't always easy.
"Sometimes it's tough." Ortiz said.
"I'm either having to give up study time or give up a business deal."
Elkins said he was inspired to become an entrepreneur by his father who made jewelry in New Mexico. He said that he wasn't sure he'd make his business a career, but that he enjoyed working in Lawrence.
"Whenever we have a show, the community participates in everything," he said. "really like that."
Elkins and Ortiz will display their jewelry at a show in Haskell's Stidham Union the weekend of Oct. 9-10.
Un Pasado Orgulloso con un Futuro Brillante
A Proud Past: A Bright Future
MUNICIPAL ACADEMY
Sept
24 Spanish Department Expo
Wescoe 9:30-11:30 A.M.
30 Culture Clash in Hollywood
Alderson Auditorium 7:00 P.M.
Oct
1 Latin American Studies
Merienda Lecture Series
Walnut Room 12:00 P.M.
Culture Clash Paduch
St. Lawrence Center 7:00 P.M.
2 Culture Clash Performance and Information Table
Lied Center 6:00 P.M.
United States Hispanic Leadership Conference
Chicago, IL (2-4)
8 Merienda Lecture Series
Walnut Room 12:00 P.M.
Kick-Off Party
Coco Loco 9:00 P.M.
9 Ballet Folklorico
Kansas Union 12:00 P.M.
13 Love Sees No Color
Experiences in Interracial Dating
MRC 6:50 P.M.
15 Merienda Lecture Series
Walnut Room 12:00 P.M.
16 Los Daucanies de St. John's
Kansas Union 12:00 - 1:00 P.M.
Marathon Literature Reading
Kansas Union 1:00 - 4:00 P.M.
20 Latinas in Power
Alderson Auditorium 4:00 P.M.
22 Merienda Lecture Series
Big 12 Room 12:00 P.M.
23 Calero Group
Kansas Union 12:00 P.M.
24,25,26
SUA Film
Enfo
Woodruff Auditorium
27 Opportunities: Hispanics in the Work Force
MRC 6:30 P.M.
29 Merienda Lecture Series
Big 12 Room 12:00 P.M.
30 Ole Group
Kansas Union 12:00 P.M.
Hispanic Heritage Month THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS OFFICE OF MINORITY AFFAIRS Student Senate LEARNING THROUGH DIVERSITY KU CENTER OF LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES
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