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Mondav, March 9. 1987 / University Daily Kansan
Children jump rope to raise heart funds
By JENNIFER WYRICK
Staff writer
Staff writer
Jumping rope is a child's game, but Jump Rope for Heart, an event where children jump rope to raise money for the American Heart Association, is serious business.
This year's Jump Rope for Heart took place from 10 a.m. to noon Saturday at the Southern Hills Shopping Center, 1601 W. 23rd St. The annual event was sponsored by the Kansas Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance.
This year, two team members jumped rope for two minutes and then passed the rope to the next two minutes. This continued this procedure for 90 minutes.
The children were responsible for finding sponsors to donate money for each minute their six-man team jumped rope. Last year, participants raised more than $27,000 for the American Heart Association.
"A child raises anywhere from $40 to $50 on the average, so we should
collect $25,000 to $30,000," Mead said. He won't know the exact amount until all pledges are collected.
Mead said the event was the American Heart Association's biggest nationwide promotion.
Danny Haas, 15, a South Junior High School student, has jumped in the event every year since he was in the third grade. He said he probably raised $150 this year. The most he ever raised was $280 when he was in sixth grade.
"I've done it every year because it's a great cause, lots of fun, and it's good."
Haas said he received prizes every year from Jump Rope for Heart. South Junior High officials award certificates to the school's participants in the event.
"I try to stress to the kids that the point of participating in the event is not for the prizes but to develop their own personal physical fitness program and to work for a very good cause." he said.
Participants who raised money would receive a jump rope, Mead said. Participants who raised $30 to $59 will receive shoelaces and a T-shirt bearing the Jump Rope for Heart logo. The grand prize is a Jump Rope for Heart medallion.
College Republicans to have state meeting
By JOHN BUZBEE Staff writer
The state's College Republicans are coming to town to meet, mingle and exchange ideas for the coming year, party officials said yesterday.
The Kansas Federation of College Republicans will hold a convention April 4 in Lawrence. Groups from around the state, including the KU College Republicans, will spend the day in meetings to elect officers, set policies, swap ideas and help new groups become involved, said Lori Jack. Lawrence law student and secretary for the state group.
Chapters at Pittsburg State University, Johnson County Community College and Benedictine College are getting started, she said.
"We thought Lawrence would have a lot of possibilities for getting people
here," she said. The convention should draw at least 50 delegates from all the state's local groups, and anyone else may attend. Jack said.
Bryan Daniel, Jefferson City, Mo., law student and executive director for the state group, said local chapel leaders from each other at the convention.
"The most important thing is the sharing of ideas," he said.
Jack said, "Right now, the really active schools are Washburn, K-State and Baker University in Baldwin."
The convention also gives young people active in the Republican party a chance to meet each other, Daniel said.
"A lot of the College Republicans stay in Kansas, and we're going to be working with them for the rest of our lives," he said.
James Larson/Special to the KANSAN
Damon Force is helped into a helicopter at Lawrence Memorial Hospital, injured yesterday when the motorcycle he was riding struck a van at the 25 Maine. Force, whose driver's license listed a Kansas City, Mo., corner of 23rd Street and Ousdahl Road. Force was listed in critical address, was flown to the University of Kansas Medical Center. He was condition at the Med Center.
Cyclist in critical condition after surgery
Rv PAUL REIDEN
Staff writer
A 19-year-old man is in the intensive care unit at the University of Kansas Medical Center with severe head and abdominal injuries after a motorcycle he was driving hit a van yesterday on 23rd Street.
The man, Damon Marshall Force, has a Kansas City, Mo., address on his driver's license, but police do not think the address is current, a police spokesman said last night.
driven by Russell Kuhn, of Olathe, made a left turn onto Ousdahl Road in front of Force. The east-west stoplight at the intersection was yellow at the time, the spokesman said.
The motorcycle struck the right side of the van, toward the rear, the spokesman said. Force was wearing a helmet at the time of the accident, witnesses said. The helmet was destroyed.
Force was driving east on 23rd Street at about
12:30 p.m. yesterday when the westward van
A witness, Shirley Wilson, Lawrence resident, said she was driving east on 23rd Street when Force passed her, driving between her car and another car. He was carrying a basketball, she said.
“He never slowed at all. He just ran right into it.” she said.
Force was taken to Lawrence Memorial Hospital and flown by helicopter to the Med Center in Kansas City, Kan. A Med Center spokesman said Force had undergone surgery from 5 p.m. to 6:15 p.m. yesterday and was listed in critical condition.
Kuhn also was injured in the collision, but he told police he would see his family doctor, police 106.
The collision destroyed the motorcycle and disabled the van, police said.
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