University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, March 20, 1991
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Marcy Simon, Lenexa sophomore, sells daffodils to Eli Richardson, Augusta sophomore.
Flower sale to help cancer society
Student awareness group sells daffodils to promote education
By Amy Francis
Kansan staff writer
Selling daffodils is how the campus group Forming Awareness of Cancer Through Students is participating in cancer awareness month's contest for the American Cancer Society.
The daffodil sale started yesterday and will continue from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. today on the fourth floor of the Kansas Union.
The flowers will be sold tomorrow at Watkins Memorial Health Center, where information about cancer also will be handed out, said Candyce Waitle, health educator at Watkins and adviser for FACTS.
The flowers cost 50 cents each or can be bought in a bunch of 10 for $5.
'I think for cancer patients, they look for a lot of hope.'
— Kristi Strain chairperson of the fund-raiser
grams and patient services
Kristi Strain, chairperson of the fund-raiser, said the daffodil was being used because it was the first flower of spring and a sign of hope.
"I think for cancer patients, they look for a lot of hope," she said.
This is the first year FACTS has sponsored the fund-raising event, Strain said. But this is also the first time she's existed at the University of Kansas.
American Cancer Society, said the society had sponsored similar fundraisers for more than three decades.
"It originated in Canada 31 years ago," she said.
Pam Harris, special events coordinator for the Mission chapter of the
The dafidofis have been sold for seven years in the Kansas City area, she said. The fund-raiser occurs nationwide in March and April.
Strain said that because this was the first time FACTS had sponsored the fund-raiser, the group did not have a specific goal.
"We have a lot of hopes but no expectations," she said. "We didn't want to set too much of a goal because we just didn't know."
FACTS hopes to sell the 500 daffids the American Cancer Society provided. The money raised from the sale will be given to the society and will be used mostly in the Lawrence area, Strain said.
The money also will be used for such things as grants to the KU Medical Center and motel rooms for
cancer patients who must travel to receive cancer treatment but cannot afford a room, she said.
Strain said FACTS started fundraising activities earlier than yesterday. They sent letters to greek houses and KU faculty members asking them to buy daffodils for local hospitals and nursing homes.
There was no response from the faculty, she said, but the response from the Greek houses was good.
"We were really surprised by how much support we got," Strain said.
Lawrence Memorial Hospital received some of the flowers that were donated.
Allyson Leland, director of volunteer services at the hospital, said the hospital received about 800 dakafilids yesterday from the various people who donated to FACTS. The flowers were in rooms 'rooms and at nurses' stations.
Food Barn accuses strikers of slander
The Associated Press
the company mismanaged finances.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Food Earn Inc. said affairs by striking employees to slash the grocery chain's business amounted to slander.
Food Barn representative P.A. Rawalatt attacked union claims made during a recent rally in Topeka that
"Their allegations are getting way out of line." Rawalt said. "It's a tactic used to put fear into the consumer, but the first with the consumer, . . . the battle should be between the union and the company."
Jerry Helmick of the United Food and Commercial Workers Local 576 said the strike that began March 3 had reduced business by 75 percent. Rawalt placed that figure about 19 percent.
Food Barn, with stores in Kansas and Missouri, dispatched less than
one-fourth of its normal stock to stores last week, Helmck claimed. He said the drop cost about 30 Kansas City warehouse employees their jobs.
Rawalt said Monday that food Barn would conduct a news conference tomorrow to respond to the union's allegations.
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