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NEWS WEDNESDAY, JULY 28, 2010 THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN / KANSAN.COM
What's going on today?
WEDNESDAY
July 28
The Lawrence City Band will perform its free weekly outdoor concert in the South Park Gazebo at 8 p.m. If it rains, the event will be moved to Room 130 in Murphy Hall.
Royal Crest Lanes will host dollar bowling from 9 p.m. until 1 a.m. Games cost $1 and shoe rentals are $3.
KU Libraries Instructional Services will host a workshop in the Budig PC Lab focusing on intermediate PhotoShop.The workshop will run from 1 to 5 p.m.
if you would like to submit an event to be included on our weekly calendar, send us an e-mail to news@kansan.com with the subject "Calendar."
THURSDAY
July 29
Jaybowl in the Kansas Union will offer free cosmic bowling from 8 p.m. to 10 p.m.
The Summer Undergraduate Research Poster session will be held in the Kansas Union Ballroom from 1 to 4 p.m. where more than 65 students will present their summer research findings. The students are involved in chemistry, chemical and petroleum engineering, medicinal chemistry, molecular biosciences and pharmaceutical chemistry.
Aug.1
SUNDAY
Scary Larry Bike Polo is open to anyone with a bike from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Veterans Park. Mallets and balls provided.
FRIDAY
The Bottleneck will host the Smackdown! trivia contest beginning at 8 p.m. A $5 cover goes into a winner-take-all pot.
July 30
Enjoy the last day of summer classes!
The Summer Youth Theatre will present 'Hair: The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical' from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. through Sunday night at the Lawrence Arts Center.
MONDAY
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The Junkeo Takeo Koto Concert will be held from 6:30 to 9 p.m. in Woodruff Auditorium at the Kansas Union. The performance will consist of traditional Japanese music followed by a chance for audience members to try on traditional Japanese garments and play the koto.
SATURDAY
July 31
The Downtown Lawrence Farmer's Market runs from 7 to 11 in the morning at 8th and New Hampshire streets.
Enjoy live music, carnival games, 4-H exhibits, a demolition derby and an antique tractor pull at the Douglas County Fair, which will be held July 1 to Aug. 7. The fair is held at the fairgrounds located at 21st and Harper Streets. Entry is free.
TUESDAY
Aug. 3
Tuesday Night Swing will meet from 8 to 11 p.m. on the sixth floor of the Kansas Union.
Blues Tuesday with Bryan Neuberry begins at 7 p.m. at the Gaslight Tavern. The event is free and open to anyone 18 or older.
Mud, dead fish replace lake after Iowa dam break
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BY MICHAEL J. CRUMB
Associated Press
DES MOINES, Iowa - Acres of mud strewn with dead fish greeted hundreds of eastern Iowa residents Monday after a weekend dam break left their lakefront properties overlooking little more than a small stream.
The Lake Delhi dam in Delaware County gave way under the rapidly rising Maquoketa River on Saturday.
decimating the nine-mile-long lake and adjacent property values.
"The water's gone, dead fish are laying there on the bottom — it's a pretty nasty looking scene," said Irv Janey of Marion, who owns a condominium on Lake Delhi. "It was a beautiful recreation area and to see it drained, it just makes you sick."
Heavy rains last week forced the river to unprecedented levels, causing earthen portions of the dam to collapse and sending a torrent
of water rushing downstream. The concrete section of the dam remained intact, but the swollen river damaged about half the 1,000 homes and cabins above it. The lake quickly emptied.
"We have over $100 million in homes on the lake and none of them are worth what they were when they had water in front of them," said Jim Willey, director of the Lake Delhi Recreation Association. "You have a home with a lake or a home with
"What might have been a $500,000 house is probably worth only a quarter of what it once was."
a mud flat.
Property owners clearly hope the lake will be restored. But it is up to the association to decide whether to rebuild the dam, built in 1927 to produce hydroelectricity. The lake is now used solely for recreation and the association members pay dues to maintain it.
Spooner Hall is getting a facelift. Built in 1894, Spooner was KU's sixth building and served as KU's first free-standing library. Spooner is now considered KU's oldest continually used academic structure.
COVER PHOTO
Matt Araiza, a sophomore from Plano, Texas, chalks the words "Pride Week" on the sidewalk in front of Stauffer-Flint.
"Pride Week is geared toward educating people in a fun and diverse way about LGBT issues," Araiza said. "It's a great way to show our pirde and connect with the rest of the student body."
Photo by Jerry Wang/KANSAN
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