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About The daily Nebraskan. ([Lincoln, Neb.) 1901-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 21, 2000)
www.dailyneb.com Fire kills eccentric businessman c/£T Tfibmas Jewelers -^- OMlMMiP 6420 “O” Sf 467-5402 Layaway • Financing • Student Accounts Available ■Flames consumed the man's home in south Lincoln on Thursday. BY JOSH FUNK A Lincoln man known for his collections, businesses and eccentricities died early Thursday morning when fire consumed his home. Firefighters battled 50-foot flames and intense heat as the blaze engulfed the south Lincoln home. A paperboy on his way to get newspapers sounded an alarm and woke neighbors on Cooper Place at 4:26 a.m. The intense heat kept fire fighters from entering the home Now Open! Come visit us!!! “Where you don’t stand in line for BIG DISCOUNTS!!!” ^B b_ ■ m VBHBHHHMy^BTjH^H : B I Bk PH B ■ I HHHHHHH wr www.nebraskabookstore.com Nebraska Bookstore Stuff for college. Just a click away. It’s still your bookstore, it’s just online now. So shop whenever. Choose from all kinds of cool stuff. Even books. What are you waiting for? Give us the finger* NOW A VAILABLE: STUDENT CHARGES OPEN YOUR ACCOUNT TODAY! FAST —SIMPLY—SPEEDS YOU THROUGH THE CHECKOUT! BUY WEB BOOMAND1AYE! WEB BOOM *AYE YOU Z5%. WE ILWATS CUM 1 LUCE SUPPLE OT USED BOOKS. WE CU SPECIAL OBBEB BOOKS APTD GIT TEEM QUICKLY! 1300 Q STREET r---- OPEN: Mon-Thurs. 8-8 YOUR SOURCE FOR SUPPLIES, SOFTWARE, BOOKS, ART AND ENGINEERING FridflV g 6 c at 9* SUPPLIES AND A HUGE HUSKER GIFT AND CLOTHING SHOP. ™ * ' POST OFFICE OPEN 9-5 MON-FRIDAY bunaays l ZO (yfcbraska Rewards™ MERCHANT to check for people until later in the morning, though they were able to keep the fire from spreading to neighboring homes. “There were huge flames, and we could hear the windows popping,” next-door neighbor Samuel Achord said. The home’s owner Rick Saduikis, 50, was found later that morning in a second-floor bedroom. One neighbor said the fire department had been to the house several times before, but fire officials would not confirm that claim. The $239,000 home and $170,000 in contents were destroyed by the fire, Fire Investigator Don Gross said. At Saduikis’ latest business venture, Wild Birds Nature Center in Van Dorn Plaza, employees announced a clear ance sale after learning of the fire. His businesses’ future will remain uncertain until Saduikis’ estate is settled. The bird store has been open only three months, but Mends said it was only one of a number of businesses that Saduikis owned in Lincoln. Friends said Saduikis told them he brought the first General Nutrition Center stores to Lincoln. Saduikis built his house almost 20 years ago at 3721 Cooper Place in the neighbor hood that borders Holmes Lake Park. Those who knew Saduikis said he pursued businesses that matched his latest interests impetuously. Wild Bird Habitat Store employee Doug Smith said he used to sell Saduikis bird seed at his store, located at 56th Street and Highway 2, before Saduikis started his own store. Smith said Saduikis seemed to be an avid bird feeder but did not have a depth of knowledge about birds. "He spent a lot on that store, but he didn’t have the right inventory,” Smith said. Wild Birds Nature Center store manager Leslie Siegrist said Saduikis was "always into something new.” "He enjoyed having his busi nesses,” Siegrist said. "He was pretty much game for anything new.” Both Smith and Siegrist said they knew Saduikis from other jobs that they held. When Smith had a job at Westlake Hardware, he said Saduikis would always seek out the same clerks to help him when he found someone he felt comfortable with. Siegrist said Saduikis, a night owl, was always a 4 a.m. shopper at the Hinlcy Dinky where she worked. II--_1__»- Wfcf Man iiMivuviidi vOv snopni iiijj puls gun on Kmart employee A man confronted for shoplifting outside Super Kmart pulled a gun on a store employ ee early Wednesday morning. One of three men shopping at the 3300 N. 27th St store was spotted concealing a roll of film around 2:45 am, Lincoln Police Ofc. Katherine Finnell said. When an employee con fronted the man outside the store, the man pulled a gun, and the employee let the men leave. The three men left in a small, white two-door car. Compiled by Josh Funk * :;i A •1
