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BACK TO SCHOOL / MONDAY, AUGUST 16, 2010 / THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN / KANSAN.COM
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2023.04.17
LAWRENCE
Businesses offer birthday freebies, discounts
BY JANENE GIER
jgier@kansan.com
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At several businesses around Lawrence, your birthday could score you more than just celebration of your latest trip around the sun. Many restaurants, coffeeshops, retail stores
— and even a movie theater — honor birth anniversaries with free perks or reduced prices. Enjoying getting older with some of these deals.
Address: 715 Massachusetts St.
Deal:"its up to the server to decide on what someone will get on their birthday," said bartender Aaron Mersmann.
Server Lauren Stromberg said she would offer a free dessert.
A B'S COFFEE AND CREPES
A B'S COFFEE AND CREPES Address: 17 West Ninth St. Deal: Bring a paying friend for a meal and get your birthday meal free.
AIMEE'S COFFEE HOUSE
Address: 1025 Massachusetts St.
Deal: Free drink
ALADDIN'S CAFÉ
AMERICAN EAGLE OUTFITTERS
**Address:** 1021 Massachusetts St.
**Deal:** Free baklava, rice pudding or halva
Address: 619 Massachusetts St.
Deal: With an American Eagle
Outfitters credit account, get
20 percent off on your birthday,
and a week before and after your
birthday.
BEN & JERRY'S
Address: 818 Massachusetts St.
Deal: Sign up online and to receive a coupon to print for a free scoop.
BUFFALO WILD WINGS
Address: 1012 Massachusetts St.
Deal: Free dessert
COLD STONE CREAMERY
Address: 647 Massachusetts St.
Deal: Sign up online for the birthday club and get a coupon e-mailed to you. Print it and take it into the store for a free mini ice cream with one mix-in.
FIX SALON
Address: 845 New Hampshire St.
Deal: Birthday discounts are different every time. A birthday card might offer a percentage off a service or retail item.
Address: 636 Massachusetts St.
Deal: Free scoop of ice cream
"We like to change it up so you're not getting the same thing over and over again"; stylist Corianne Wayland said.
FREE STATE BREWING COMPANY
COMPANY
THE GAP
**Address:** 643 Massachusetts St.
**Deal:** With a credit a Gap credit account, card members will get a coupon in the mail for 15-25 percent off a purchase for their birthday.
GLOBAL CAFE
Address: 820 Massachusetts St.
Deal: Free dessert
INDIA PALACE
Address: 129 East 10th St.
Deal: Free mango melba dessert
LA PRIMA TAZZA
**Address:** 638 Massachusetts St.
**Deal:** Free drink
LIBERTY HALL VIDEO AND DVD
**Address:** 644 Massachusetts St.
**Deal:** Complete amnesty from overdue rental fees OR free movie rental
Free cinema ticket
MIRTH CAFE
Address: 745 New Hampshire St.
Deal: Free dessert
MISS FORTUNE'S CREATION STATION
**Address:** 726 Massachusetts St.
**Deal:** Mention your birthday and "expect something free," said Jenn Fortune, the store's owner.
NOODLES & COMPANY
Deal: Sign up on the website and get a Noodlegram via e-mail for a free small noodle bowl or trio, said employee, Shauna Belles.
REJUVENE SALON AND SPA
Address: 13 East 8th St.
Deal: Schedule an appointment for your birthday and get a 20 percent discount on services, owner Marcia Butell said.
SALON DI MARCO AND DAY SPA
Address: 733 Massachusetts St.
Deal: Regular customers will sometimes get discounts, but the discounts vary by stylist and aesthetician, said Sara Erb, a 2009 graduate.
Address: 647 Massachusetts St.
Deal: Register a Starbucks card online to receive a coupon for a free drink on your birthday.
STARBUCKS
TALBOTS
Address: 646 Vermont St.
Deal: 10-15 percent discount during the month of your birthday with a Talbot's Red Reward Card.
TELLER'S RESTAURANT
Address: 746 Massachusetts St.
Deal: Free dessert
TEN RESTAURANT AT THE ELDRIDGE HOTEL
Address: 701 Massachusetts St.
Address: 701 Massachusetts St.
Deal: Free dessert
THIRD PLANET IMPORTS
Address: 846 Massachusetts St.
Deal: "Every now and then we'll give someone a discount, depending on the item, on their birthday," office manager Brett Grady said.
WA RESTAURANT
Address: 740 Massachusetts St.
Deal: Free ice cream, complete
with a candle.
WILD MAN VINTAGE
WILD M INTAGE Address: 939 Massachusetts Street Deal:"The owner would like to offer a free pack of rock cards. They're 1980s trading cards.They're from the'80s and the hairstyles on them are hilarious",employee Lacy Myers said.
SAFETY
University offers free self-defense classes every semester
rbuser@kansan.com
BY RICHELLE BUSER
Three times a semester and once in the summer, the Emily Taylor Women's Resource Center provides free self-defense workshops for students at the Ambler Student
But she wanted to know some basic moves to protect herself.
Freshman Amelia Wilson wasn't nervous about moving to Lawrence in the fall.
So Wilson and her mother Virginia traveled from their home in Baldwin City on July 8 to attend a self-defense workshop to learn important safety information that could ward off a potential attacker.
Recreation Fitness Center. The program is also open to non-students for a $5 fee, Kathy Rose-Mockry, director of the resource center, spoke at the workshop. She warned that seemingly normal decisions can give attackers useful information.
Rose-Mockry also said being
Rose-Mockry said Facebook accounts, mailboxes with names on them and public cell phone conversations can all give attackers clues to manipulate their victims.
"Personalized license plates are my pet peeve," Rose-Mockry said. "If your license plate says 'Susie,' an attacker immediately knows a woman is driving this car and can follow her."
aware and assertive can help ward off a potential attacker. She said that as children, we trust our natural instincts, but as we grow older we are conditioned out of them and told to not jump to conclusions.
Participants spent the majority of the workshop learning basic self-defense moves from Don Booth of Premier Martial Arts, 3201 Clinton Pkwy. He told the class to make as much noise possible.
Rose-Mockry said it's important
"You learn to turn off those feelings of discomfort, your gut feelings," Rose-Mockry said. "I'm challenging you to turn them back on."
"Bad guys don't like noise." Booth said.
SAFETY TIPS
- Don't let strangers know your schedule.
- Ask service workers to show identification upon arrival.
- Install and use peepholes at home.
- Walk with confidence and self-assurance.
- Have keys in your hand before you walk to your car.
- Keep your car maintained and with a full tank of gas.
- If you suspect someone is following you, don't drive home.
- Never leave drinks unattended.
Source: The Emily Taylor Women's Resource Center
for people to realize that anyone could be a target, but that basic precautions can lower a person's attack risk.
"It's all about access and opportunity," she siad. "That's what they're looking for."
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