Paint-A-Thon will provide
homes with a fresh coat
By Matt Woody
iienior Reporter - ■ “
Some Lincoln, residents will see
their homes get a needed face lift this
weekend.
Forty-five houses around town wi 11
get fresh coats of paint Saturday as
part of the fifth annual Lincoln Paint
A-Thon, said Marc Wullschleger, the
program’s corporate liaison.
About 1,300 volunteers from 44
organizations will participate, he said.
Paint will be donated by Diamond
Vogel Paint Center.
Homes selected for painting must
be owned by low-income, elderly or
disabled people, Wullschleger said,
and, of course, they must need a new
coat of paint.
Homeowners must apply in writ
ing, and then a selection team will
review applications, he said. If the
Paint-A-Thon can’t help some
homeowners, it often refers them to
other agencies.
The program has grown both in
number of participants and in homes
being painted. Started in Lincoln in
1991 by FirsTier Bank, the Paint-A
Thon recoated about 20 houses its
first year, Wullschleger said. Four or
five corporate partners are added to
the roll each year, he said.
“We’ve been very fortunate in Lin
coln,” he said. “A lot of the teams
have been in all five years.”
Each team assigned to a house
Saturday will have about 30 mem
bers. With so many people per house,
all the painting should be done by
noon, Wullschleger said. After Sat
urday, 208 homes will have been
painted through the program.
Homeowners usually arc grateful
for the painting, he said, because
most can’t afford to have their houses
professionally painted.
“It’s just a tremendous personal
response we get from the
homeowners,” he said, ranging from
a batch of cookies for workers to
keeping in touch with team captains.
Rob Wohlgemuth, manager of
Diamond Vogel Paint Center at 5900
S. 57th St., said Diamond Vogel had
supplied paint for as many as 15
Paint-A-Thons across the Midwest.
About 1,000 gallons of paint will be
used this weekend, he said.
With about 80 stores in the Mid
west, Diamond Vogel sees Paint-A
Thons as an opportunity to give some
thing back to the communities.
Tlie fan Fair begins
Harold Borman instructs Brady Kappler, right, and Marv Wiens on which direction to
push the tractor in preparation for the Nebraska State Fair, which starts today.
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Festival entertains some change
tiy Angie scnenat
- Staff Reporter
The Nebraska State Fair isn’t
just carnivals, cows, and concerts
anymore.
Changes made in the types of
events at the fair — which started
today — make it a more diverse
festival, said J.P. Palmer, a fair
marketing assistant.
The new special events were a
joint project between some of the
diversity programs at the Univer
sity of Nebraska-Lincoln, Palmer
said.
The first new event is the Cel
ebration of Diversity Festival. It
runs all 11 days of the fair, from 4
p.m. to 9 p.m. The- festival will
include performances from the
Yellow Smoke Drum Group, the
White Buffalo Dancers, and Fili
pino, Vietnamese and Mexican
dance groups. A Malay wedding
ceremony will also take place.
Also running the length of the
fair is the Earth Bound Festival,
which will be in Agriculture Hall.
An interactive display about the
wetlands will be featured.
Another new event added to the
fair this year was the Outlaw Truck
and Tractor Pull. It will take place
at the end of the fair on Sept. 2 at 7
p.m., Sept. 3 at 1 p.m. and Sept. 4
at 3:30 p.m.
There will be a new baby show
during the first three days of the
fair.. The event will be geared to
ward mothers with youngchildren,
with activities for both.
Another different attraction. is
the ticket prices, Palmer said. The
fair will run special deals on cer
tain days. Children 16 and younger
will get in free on Kids Day, the
first Saturday of the fair.
Instead of the normal ticket price
of $5 a person, the price will be $5
a carload from Aug. 28 to Aug. 31
from 6 a.m. to 4 p.m.
“We started selling books because we thought
that the overall lower price per concert would
make people want to buy them, but people
can’t go to every concert. ”
J.P. PALMER
State Fair marketing assistant
“We wanted toencourage people
to spend an afternoon at the fair or
come with more than one person,”
Palmer said.
Tickets for concerts originally
were being sold this year in books
tbaLcame with a ticket to every
concert.
“We started selling books be
cause we thought that the overall
lower price per concert would make
people want to buy them,” Palmer
said, “but people can’t go to every
concert.”
Concert tickets are now being
sold individually, she said.
Another change in the concert
events is the lineup. Only country
western acts are being offered.
Palmer said that was decided
because of the growing popularity
of country-western music. Lincoln
supports country-western concerts
better than other music types, she
said.
An all-country lineup hasn’t
been done for years, she said, and
won’t, necessarily be the way the
state fair concerts are planned in
the future.
Even the fair dates have changed
from years past. The state fair will
run today through Sept. 4, from 6
a.m. to 2 a.m. Labor Day weekend
used to be the first weekend for the
fair, but this year it is the last
weekend.
That change has affected tfie 4
H involvement in the fair. Along
with Future Farmers of America,
4-H moved its youth weekend to
Labor Day weekend.
“It makes it busy, but we don’t***®*
want the kids to miss school,” said
Peggy Jeffries, events coordinator
for 4-H.
Other changes in 4-H ’s involve
ment include banners hung in the
Exhibit Hall instead of booths set
up, Jeffries said.
A new exhibit called the Dis
covery Center will be in the Ex
hibit Hall. It will be offered today
through Sunday from 1 p.m. to 5
p.m. and Sept. 1 through Sept. 4i
from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m.
Extension 4-H Youth Special
ists Sandra Stockall and Vickie
Greve both co-chaired this exhibit.
The hands-on center will be geared
toward younger children, Greve
said.
Each day, the exhibit will have
a different topic and stations deal
ing with each topic.Themes in
clude farm safety, the environment,
cultural awareness and nutrition.
Three to four stations will be of
fered for each topic, Greve said.
Greve said they came up with
the idea because most of the exhib
its at the fair were just for adults
and children to look at.
“We think it is important for
kids to get involved, and this is an
opportunity for them to do some
thing,” she said.
NOW to feature Equality Day workshops
By Cliff Hicks
Staff Reporter
The Nebraska chapter of the;
National Organization for Women,
will commemorate Equality Day '
with a series of free workshops.
Four separate sessions are planned
at Auld Recreation Center in Ante
lope Park from 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m,
said Madeline Popa, coordinator of
NOW’s Lincoln Chapter.
They are: the story of Rhetta Childe
Dorr; “Women In the Marketplace;”
“Making Our Voices Heard;” and
“Not For Members Only.”
Dorr was a reporter for the New
York Evening Post who eventually
became the editor of the Suffragist.
The second session, “Women In
the Marketplace,” will focus on how
women can start and manage their
own businesses.
It will be conducted by Kandra
Hahn, the Lancaster County Clerk,
who is also the co-founder of the
Women’s Enterprize Fund, a private
loan program for helping women in
business.
“Making Our Voices Heard,” the
third session of the day, is about the
power of language and the effect it
has on making women’s voices heard.
This session will be led by Patri&a
Lahr Smith, Susan Hale and Sheryl
Schrepf. Smith is the founder of Ne
braska Republicans for Choice.
Schrepf has been an executive of
several women’s organizations over
the past 20 years, including three
different YWCAs and a battered
women’s shelter. Hale is the lobbyist
for Planned Parenthood of Omaha/
Council Bluffs.
The final session of the day, “Not
For Members Only,” will allow people
to inquire about NOW’s goals and
activities.
Coffee and tea will be served all
day, and lunch will be.provided with
advance reservation for $4.50 or
$6.50.