University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, September 4, 1991
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Local peace group plans trip to Moscow, Leningrad
By William Ramsey Kansan staff writer
Members of Meeting for Peace, a local non-profit group, will leave for the Soviet Union in October as part of a Soviet exchange program.
The group will spend about 10 days in the samburging promotion belt of the Soviet Union.
"It it obviously an incredible time to go over with all the changes that are taking place in the Soviet Union," said Baking place in the Russian Meeting for Peace and a KU alumnus.
Last year, the group sponsored more than 300 Soviets who came to Lawrence as part of an exchange program organized by Meeting for Peace and their Soviet counterpart, the Soviet Peace Committee.
Swan said the U.S. group of 15 to 25 people would be in the Soviet Union Oct. 3-13 to look at the challenges that Soviets face.
He said the group also hoped to
communication between the two countries.
Swan said that the organization wanted KU students to take part in the
trip or in two similar trips planned for next year.
From New York, the trip will cost $2,750 for air fare, room and board,
and all transportation and activities in the Soviet Union. The price for students 22 and under is $1,950.
Swan said Meeting for Peace members would try to push for humanitarian aid to the Soviet Union.
"They are battling for a free-enterprise system," he said. "And they need our help."
Russians now have more confidence to join the rest of the world, he said.
Cady, who has traveled several times to the Soviet Union and speaks Russian, said the Meeting for Peace trip was a people-to-people exchange.
John Cady, owner of an import and export company in Kansas City, Mo., planned the itinerary for the group and will go on the October trip.
"They've been isolated for 700 years." he said.
Cady, a KU alumnus, was in the Soviet Union in July, and he said that the people had expected change to happen soon.
The continuation of reforms will increase commercial interest in the Soviet Union, he said.
"There is going to be a landslide right now," Cady said. "Everybody and their grandmother is going to want to get into business with them."
Along with meetings with the Soviet Peace Committee and the Soviet citizens whom the Lawrence group met last year, the trip's itinerary will include visits to cultural attractions.
Swan said that students, educators,
businessmen and others had asked
about the trip and that about 12 were
signed to go.
Spots for the trip are still available, he said.
Bidney Nye, an eight-grader from Larned, said he had been interested in the trip after he came to a Lawrence meeting. However, because of safety reasons, he and his parents decided he would not go.
Nye also said he had not received enough information about trip specifics from the organization to be confident about the trip.
Lawrence firm branches out
Employment agency was started by sisters
By Kerrie Gottschalk
Kansan staff writer
Temporary Health Employment Agency Inc. began as a small family business and now has branched to other cities.
The Lawrence-based business provides nursing staff to hospitals, nursing homes and private individuals. It was started in May 1989 by three sisters with varied educational and professional experiences.
Her sister Elizabeth Bradley, a KU graduate, is the executive director of the agency. The other sister, Roseen Nurse, is the president of the agency.
Barbara Hesse-Weaver is one of the three sisters who started the business. She studied communications at Washburn University in Topeka and is responsible for communications and public relations at the agency.
Hesse-Weaver said Helms had the
idea for the agency and asked her sisters whether they wanted to make a go of it. With money borrowed from the agency, she started the business on a small scale.
The office in Lawrence has grown to eight staff members. A branch in Hutchinson is opened in November 1989. The office City, Mo. office opened in April 1991.
The agency started by providing nursing staff only to area hospitals and nursing homes and has since merged with care services and case management.
Case management coordinates nursing services with other health-
The agency refers nursing staff such as registered nurses, licensed professional nurses and home health workers in a hiring accord according to the client's needs.
"We try to offer a more complete service for our clients." Hesse-Wergel says.
People are hired only after a background check, medical check and an orientation are completed.
"We don't hire just anyone who
comes through the door," she said.
many KU graduates and students studying nursing are hired by the agency, she said.
The business is not the only employment agency in Lawrence that provides nursing staff. Kelly Assisted Living also does. However, Kelly is limited to in-home care and does not provide staff for hospitals, said Renae Bulmer, branch manager of Kelly.
Visiting Nurses Association provides nursing care services but is not an employment agency, said Marcele Krohn, director of the nurses association.
Like Kelly and the nurses association, the Temporary Health Employment Agency employees must have an up-to-date certification and license.
The business also provides an agency newsletter, educational programs, and permanent staff placement in the education department provides legislative information as well.
Last year the agency lobbied to help defeat a state bill that would have put a cap on nurses wages, Hesse-Weaver said.
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