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KANSAS UNIVERSITY STUDENTS in a field ecology class take to the water Thursday at Potter Lake on the KU campus. The students were testing water clarity and quality and quantifying vegetation for later lab research.
Yom Kippur celebrations begin today By Giles Bruce gbruce@ljworld.com
Kansas University students away from their families will still have a place to celebrate the holiest day on the Jewish calendar this year. The Chabad Center for Jewish Life at KU will host a day of fasting, prayer and reflection at its Yom Kippur celebration that begins Friday night in Lawrence. The day of atonement lasts until nightfall on Saturday. “Everyone is welcome,� said Chabad Rabbi Zalman Tiechtel. “All people, regardless of their faith, can look at
it as a fresh start, a new beginning.� The free event begins at 7 p.m. Friday, with evening services and a holiday Tiechtel opening. Saturday’s schedule includes morning services at 10 a.m., a remembrance of the departed at noon, and a closing service and buffet breakfast at 6 p.m. All services will be held on the second floor of the Burge Union on the KU campus and will include song, commentary and Eng-
lish-Hebrew prayer books so anyone can follow along. To reserve a space, visit www.JewishKU.com, Rieber call 785832-TORA (8672), or email office@jewishku.com. In addition, the Lawrence Jewish Community Congregation, 917 Highland Drive, will be hosting Kol Nidre services at 7:30 p.m. Friday and, on Saturday, Yom Kippur services at 9:30 a.m., a memorial service at 11:30
a.m., and afternoon services and Neilah at 5:30 p.m. The services will be led by Rabbi Moti Rieber and cantorial soloist Rachel Black. All are welcome. Also, KU Hillel, 727 New Hampshire St., will be having Kol Nidre services at 7 p.m. Friday. Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, began Wednesday of last week. “In the Jewish tradition the way we celebrate the new year, instead of partying first and then deciding what’s going to be, we have 10 days of reflection, of community, of prayer,� Tiechtel said. “Then we have a party.�
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A $50,000 grant from the state will boost the second phase of fundraising for Theatre Lawrence’s new building, helping to fill it with updated equipment and tools. The Kansas Creative Arts Industries Commission on Thursday announced a total of
$350,000 in grants to nine organizations statewide, one of which was Theatre Lawrence. The new Theatre Lawrence opened in June at 4660 Bauer Farm Drive. Executive director Mary Doveton said the $6.6 million raised enabled construction of the facility but fell short of outfitting the building with
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It’s just such an important validation on a state level for what we’re doing here. To have a vote of confidence in our organization from the state is wonderful for the entire city of Lawrence.�
Theatre Lawrence executive director Mary Doveton
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There’s nothing quite like settling in for a ballgame with a healthy heap of concession stand carrot sticks. Really, there’s nothing quite like it now in Lawrence, and the city’s Parks and Recreation Department is looking to change that. Leaders are crafting a policy for city-owned concession stands at ball fields and recreation centers that will require at least half of We want to the offerings to try to make meet nutritional guidelines. people healthErnie Shaw, ier. We run who leads the programs for city’s Parks and Recreation Dethat, but what partment, said we haven’t done his staff decided for a while is it was time to educate people make a bolder statement about about nutrition.� the importance of healthy eating. — Ernie Shaw, director “That’s really the business of Lawrence Parks and we’re in,� Shaw recreation said. “We want to try to make people healthier. We run programs for I think people that, but what thought it was we haven’t done for a while is a good idea, but educate people when it boiled about nutrition.� down to it, they Concession vendors still still would get will be able to the nachos or sell big, greasy the hotdogs.� cheeseburgers, said Tim Laurent, recreation — Lori Howell, catering operations manmanager for Hy-Vee ager. “But they’re also going to have to offer a turkey sandwich or something like that.� The city has concession stands at the Youth Sports Complex, the Clinton Lake Softball Complex, the indoor and outdoor aquatic centers, and will have a significant concessions operation at the new Rock Chalk Park recreation center. The change is not likely to occur until next year, when menus will start to feature items Lawrence residents don’t expect to see at a
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