Postal Service delivers
exhibition to Lincoln
Friday event included proclamation by Mayor Wesely
By Jill Zeman
Staff writer
One hundred years of postal his
tory rolled into Lincoln’s Amtrak
train station Friday.
The U.S. Postal Service’s
Celebrate the Century Express travel
ing train exhibition arrived in Lincoln
to commemorate the colorful history
of the agency.
The Celebrate the Century
Express was officially welcomed at
Iron Horse Park in the Haymarket on
Friday by several honored guests,
including Mayor Don Wesely and Lt.
Gov. Dave Maurstad.
Elementary school students were
the primary guests at the ceremony.
Theresa Cassaday of Fox 42 Kids
Club was on hand to encourage the
audience to appreciate and also learn
more about the U.S. Postal Service.
“The United States Postal Service
has done many things to make our
country great on a community-by
community basis,” Maurstad said in
his speech.
Wesely also acknowledged the
importance of the agency in the
United States, as well as in Lincoln.
Wesely declared Friday as U.S. Postal
Service Celebrate the Century day.
The Celebrate the Century
Express is touring communities
throughout the United States. The
exhibit has been visited by more than
100,000 people since March, when it
began its 18-month, 100-city tour.
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The United States Postal Service has done
many things to make our country great on a
community-to-community basis.”
Dave Maurstad
Nebraska lieutenant governor
Lincoln is the only stop in
Nebraska for the Express, said Mike
Matuzek, USPS manager for the
Central Plains district.
Lincoln residents had the chance
to learn more about the agency
through the exhibits. The display
commemorates the service’s events
during the 20111 century.
The exhibit is a specially
designed, four-car Amtrak train. It
consists of a restored Railway Post
Office car, a Celebrate the Century
Express stamp-exhibit car, a classic
business car and a baggage car.
The stamp-exhibit car features
displays of noted stamps from the
past century. Stamps are categorized
as people and events, arts and enter
tainment, lifestyles, sports and sci
ence and technology.
The 70-foot stamp-exhibit car
featured educational multimedia dis
plays as well as oversized memorable
stamps of the 20th century.
“Our stamps have focused on
events and people who have made
this century great,” said Lincoln
Postmaster Doug Emery.
Stamps on display included trib
utes to personalities such as Martin
Luther King Jr., Charlie Chaplin and
Jackie Robinson.
The agency's more playful side
was revealed in stamps honoring
Daffy Duck, Superman and the
Slinky.
Another feature of the Express
exhibit was a vintage restored railway
post office car, which showed visitors
how mail was delivered when trains
were the primary mode of transporta
tion.
The restored car, complete with
mailbags and mailboxes, featured
multimedia displays explaining the
process of delivering mail in the early
20th century.
The Express was open this week
end for tours. The next scheduled
stop is Sept. 24 through 26 in
Galesburg, 111., followed by visits to
Maryland, Pennsylvania and
Virginia.
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Massage offers
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■ Students, faculty and
staff can receive up to
an hour of therapy every
Monday through Friday.
By Christina Fechner
Staff writer
It’s been one of those days.
After failing a biology test, work
ing at a stressful job and, on top of it
all, having a family visit a messy
apartment or residence hall room,
some students may think salvation
will never be found.
Yes, there is still hope - but not in
the form of Merry Maids or answers
to the next biology test.
It’s massage therapy, available at
Campus Recreation Center at the
University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
People who use the service - as
well as those who give massages -
said massage therapy is a great way to
relieve stress and relax from a tough
day.
It also helps relieve aches and
pains from working out or participat
ing in sports, said John Creswell,
UNL professor of educational psy
chology.
“I get massages once a week. It’s
an additional way to enhance sports
potential and flexibility,” Creswell
said.
Massage therapy has been in exis
tence at campus rec for three years.
Massage therapy can help anyone,
said Brad Decker, a licensed massage
therapist at the center.
“It can benefit people in different
ways,” he said. “Some people come in
for relaxation and others for chronic
problems,” Decker said.
Sea clay body masques, which
moisturize and clear pores, also are
available. The center also offers paraf
fin deep-heat treatments, during;
which the massage therapist applies
hot paraffin wax to small areas of the
feet and hands.
An average of six to eight people
use massage services every day.
Decker said, and he has watched the
program grow over the Iasi couple of
years.
“A lot more people are becoming
aware (that) massage therapy is avail
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Amy Lohrberg-Patt, coordinator
of the massage program, said the days
of only the rich and famous having
access to massages are gone.
“Massage therapy isn’t a luxury -
it’s for everyone,” she said.
The massage therapy center
serves the Athletic Department, the
public, students and faculty. Massages
are also offered on East Campus, and
classes can teach how to give mas
sages.
The center offers massages
Monday through Friday, varying in
length from 15 minutes to an hour.
The services are open to members
of campus rec and the public. Prices
vary from $ 10 to $35 for members and
$ 15 to $45 for non-members, depend
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Creswell, who exercises on a regu
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