University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, July 27. 1988
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Gallery features local artists
Womenshow portrays art from the ordinary to the unusual
By Monica Hayde Kansan staff writer
In addition to abstract oil paintings, mixed-media sculptures and watercolors, there are a great deal of fish at the Womenshow at the Kellas Gallerv. 7 E. Seventh St
The gallery is displaying the sculptures and paintings of five Kansas women, including Linda Blasdel, Leawood artist, whose shoes were painted and used shoes painted to look like fish and a sculpture called "Fish Gold."
Four other artists are part of the Womenshow, and not all of them use a fish motif, but Blasdel has the largest number of sculptures and paintings in this show, which will be running through August.
Blasdel said that she liked to portray fish in her art because she was fascinated with them.
"I like the other-worldliness of them," she said. "They live in the water, an environment completely different from ours. Also, I think their movement is like flight. They are fascinating."
Vinland artist Jan Morris is showing three watercolors that
also portrav fish.
Morris said that her paintings were a comment on the dramatic landscape of the West. The paintings were the inspiration of a trout-fishing trip she took a couple of summers ago.
Lisa-Marie Rousseau is an assistant professor of painting and drawing at the University of Kansas. The Womenshow is her first show at the Kellas Gallery. Her oil painting "Pomegranate Dream" was sold before the show opened. She said that "Pomegranate Dream" and another of her paintings, "Phase Three," were filled with sexual references.
She uses rich colors, such as dark reds, which add to the sensual aspect of her paintings. "Pomegranate Dream" was done on an almost completely black background. Rousseau creates a feeling of space, perhaps outer space, with this background and scattering of pomegranate seeds that look like stars.
Susan Ashline, Lawrence artist, has abstract oils and gouache paintings in the show. Gouache is a
medium much like watercolor, but it is more opaque, and the artist can correct mistakes on the paper fairly easily.
Ashline said that the inspirations for some of her paintings came from common household items. In an untitled painting, she portrays a wooden snake from Mexico, a table and bones.
Lawrence artist Margie Kuhn's paintings include one called "SHOUT." Kuhn said that she took the title from an old rock song. In this painting, the colors move from left to right and end in a kind of explosion at the bottom of the canvas.
Gallery owner Mary Lisa Pike said that the Kellas Gallery was a commercial art gallery representing about 45 artists. She said Kellas' largest market was the Kansas City area.
Kellas has about eight large shows a year. Pike said.
"We have a very large clientele of buyers," she said. "I think what is being shown in this gallery represents what is going on across the country."
County fair hopes to attract more people with new shows
Kansan staff writer
By Linda Gaumnitz
This year's Douglas County Free Fair will feature more shows and attract a wider range of people than in previous years, fair officials said.
David Bunker, superintendent for the fair's pedal tractor pull, said, "We'd like to think that every year the fair gets bigger and better."
The fair will run from Aug. 2 to 6 at the Douglas County Fairgrounds, 2110 Harper St.
Pat Ross, president of the fair officers, said about 40,000 to 50,000 people attended the fair last year. He said he expected this year's attendance to match or exceed that.
The fair traditionally features a carnival, a livestock auction, 4-H horticulture, and livestock and crafts shows.
One addition to the fair is a Tuesday night concert. The Clyde Foley Cummins country and western band will play at 8 p.m. in the rodea arena. Tickets are $4 for adults and $1 for children under 12.
The textiles and clothing division also has added a hand-made lace division, which includes tatting, bobbin lacing, knitting and needle lace.
"We'll draw in a new audience; people that haven't entered things in the fair before," said Glena Felts, a special effects artist.
The food and nutrition division has added a new program called the Heart Healthy Food Festival, in which participants can enter recipes. The categories are hors d'oeuvres and appetizers, main dishes and desserts.
Local doctors will judge entries based on nutritional content.
The Republican and Democratic parties will sponsor
others this year from which local candidates and
politicians may choose.
The derby will kick off Friday night in the rodeo arena.
Fair officials hope to attract more participants with Family Night on Thursday night. Parents and kids get free entertainment, cheaper ticket prices for carnival rides and a petting zoo.
But even with those additions, Ross said he expected the fair's traditional demolition derby and pedal tractor pull to draw the largest crowds.
"The bleachers are usually full by 8, when it starts," said Bill Hundley, Douglas County Extension agent. "People must love the noise and thrill of watching the demolition derby."
The pedal tractor pull is a smaller version of the tractor pull, Ross said, in which participants pull weights on a small tractor. Participants must be under the age of 12 and weigh less than 90 pounds.
Although the pedal tractor pull is for children, there will be turtle and frog races open to all ages.
KU grad seeks GOP nomination
"We try to offer something for everyone," Bunker said. "It's a real family affair."
He said the fair gave urban dwellers, many of whom have an agricultural background, a chance to show their kids how they grew up.
"The fair brings the community together. It's a nice focal point for the summer," Bunker said.
By Paula Messbarger
Kansan staff writer
Although Stanley Eckert has lost the Republican House of Representatives nomination in the last two primary elections, the University of Kansas graduate hopes to change his luck in 1988.
"There's a point in time when you decide if you're credible or not," Eckert said. "I think I am credible, and I think I will win."
Eckert is running against Phil Meinhardt for the 2nd district's GOP nomination. The primary election is against Rep. Jim Slattery, D-Kansas.
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Eckert said his two main campaign issues were agriculture and the eco-
Eckert has lived in Lawrence for more than 10 years and in Kansas all his life. In 1882 he received a bachacademy degree in mathematical science and economics from KU.
"I think because I had a continuing Kansas experience, I know people's concerns and what the issues are," Eckert said.
We need to get the federal government out of agriculture. The farmers would be better off if they could control their own destiny.'
Stanley Eckert
Stanley Eckert Candidate for U.S. Congress
"We need to get the federal government out of agriculture," he said.
Eckert said he had a plan that would phase out government involvement during a five-year period.
"Unless Americans come together and make sacrifices soon to fight the national debt, we are mortgaging our assets to foreign countries." Eckert said.
He said the government must cut spending and raise new revenue.
received an associate of arts degree from Colby Community College in 1975.
The candidate said he had worked for the federal government. He researched and analyzed the U.S.-Soviet grain situation, the Panama Canal and the U.S. withdrawal from Vietnam, he said.
"It's a monster, and unless we deal with it soon, we could be facing an economic disaster down the road," he said.
In 1987, Eckert worked for the U.S. Department of Labor, collecting salary and benefit information from business and industry for publication in government wage and industry surveys. He now works for a Lawrence office doing auditing work.
Eckert is from Goodland. He
"We need to put younger blood in Congress," he said. "It gives younger ideas and new approaches to problems. We need to put new faces in government regularly so people won't get entrenched with power. It might make government more 'we the people' like the Constitution directed."
Eckert said he was uncertain whether he would run again in the next election if he was not successful this time.
Among the common complaints of LIFEline clients are marriage crises, substance abuse by the client or relatives, eating disorders and depression. Diggs said that a few clients had been treated for serious psychological disorders and that there had been one emergency involving short-term hospitalization.
The first visit to the center is free, and all contact between the client and the center is confidential If subsequent treatment is undertaken, fees are paid by the employee's health insurance, which is part of the state benefit package. All in-patient treatment is strictly voluntary, in consultation with the employee's own physician. The LIFEline free information number is 1-800-284-7575. The telephone number at the Bert Nash center is 843-9192.
New mental health service LIFEline offers both phone line and treatment
Since coming on line in May, a mental health information and counseling service available to KU full-time employees and their families has averaged almost three new clients a week.
The service, called LIFEline, is the employee assistance program provided as part of the benefits package available to state employees. Several health corporations bid for the contract, which was signed in March.
want to become mentally ill, who want to continue to lead a healthy life and head off what may become real problems if they don't take action.
The service is provided under a recent agreement between the state of Kansas and the Kansas Mental Health Consortium. The consortium is a private, non-profit corporation representing several mental health centers throughout the state.
Lequetta Diggs, coordinator for employee assistance programs at the center, said that the first LIFELine event was referred to the center May 31.
Diggs stressed that the aim of the program and the center was the maintenance of mental health and a healthy lifestyle. "People don't have to have a 'mental problem' to come for help," she said. "Most of our clients are concerned about stress reduction, problems in relationships with others, or what they believe is becoming an unhealthy lifestyle. Most of them are people who don't
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Each mental health center in the consortium serves a part of the state. The Bert Nash Community Mental Health Center, 336 Missouri St., serves the Lawrence-Douglas County area.
Special to the Kansan
LIFEline has two parts: a toll-free information line and a full-service mental health treatment program. The information line is voluntary and confidential, with professional counselors on duty 24 hours a day.
The counselor will listen to the problem and suggest a course of action or refer the employee to a local community mental health center for further assistance.
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