Friday, July 12, 1935
The Nebraskan
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Updowntowners make fun in the city
By Michael Hooper
Uf Reporter
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The Updowntowners Just want
have fun.
Fun for the Updowntowners is prom
oting the cultural and social life of
Lincoln, maintaining interest in down
town Lincoln by sponsoring activities
and events, and enjoying the events
themselves, to which everybody is in
vited, according to Updowntowner presi
dent Doug Farrar.
Beginning last year in March, the
Updowntowners have sponsored events
each month cocktail parties, street
dances, fund raisers to get people
together for a good time.
A club of about 200, Lincoln's down
town booster club patterned itself after
a similar club in Syracuse, New York,
Farrar said.
Last month the club sponsored "Party
in the Plaza," the first of three-fundraisers
this' summer to benefit a pro
posed childcare facility at the YWCA.
Members of The Updowntowners in
clude "diverse" types of people, Farrar
said.
"People from all parts of Lincoln
belong people from Gateway, down
town, college; anyone wanting to pro
mote interest in downtown Lincoln,"
Farrar said.
July 25 the Updowntowners will
sponsor the second "Party in the Plaza"
in the National Bank of Commerce's
lobby at 13th and 'O' streets. Bubble
blowing, yo-yo and hula-hoop contests
are scheduled. The $1 fee required to
enter the contests will go towards
development of a YWCA childcare pro
ject to be constructed east of the
YWCA's building in a vacant lot, Farrar
said.
July 27 the Updowntowners will
sponsor an "Ice Cream Freeze Off." On
the south side of '0' Street between
14th and 15th streets, a tent will be
erected and about 12 teams, sponsored
by different charities, will make ice
cream to be judged on best ice cream
over-all, creamiest, best flavor, and for
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best costume. A rag time band will also Updowntowners are currently lobby- we can't do as much, but with the new
play at the Freeze Off. , ing in support of the Lincoln Bond city renovation plan, the Updown-
September 26 the Updowntowners issue for the city's downtown renova- towners will be able to put on larger
will sponsor a scavenger hunt inside tion project, the subject of a July 30 events for more people," said Carol
the Nebraska State museum. election. Jess, executive director of the Lincoln
For the Christmas season for On July 30, the club will ask Lincoln Downtown Association, the "sponsor
December 7, the club is planning a residents to vote that day in favor of the ing body" of the Updowntowners.
downtown parade to include "Macy's bond issue. Farrar has been the Updowntowner's
type balloons," Farrar said. "With the limited space downtown, president since the club began.
He said the Updowntowners encour
age membership, and that there are a
variety of activities in which members
can get Involved.
"After people have been downtown,
we want them to leave with a smile,"
Farrar said.
"We're trying to have fun," he said.
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UNL animal science professor Keith
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Association's annual conference July
10 in Norfolk.
Gilster was the winner of the Distin
guished Service ,Award, presented;
annually to an individual who contrib
utes to the development of vocational
agriculture education and Nebraska's
agricultural industry. He is a professor
and extension livestock evaluation
specialist in the animal science depart
ment at UNL.
Jana Beckman has been named
the recipient of an Orville A. Vogel
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1985-86 academic school year at UNL's
College of Agriculture.
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