Thursday, November 12, 2009
With the harshness of winter approaching, the Lawrence Community Shelter is preparing to harbor the homeless. The Bachelor of Social Welfare Club, a service-oriented group of students, has committed to help through a silent auction.
With the lack of resources and space available to the Lawrence Community Shelter this winter, the club is now focusing on helping the shelter in any way it can. The group will donate proceeds from its annual auction tonight exclusively to the shelter.
BACHELOR OF SOCIAL WELFARE GROUP SILENT AUCTION
Benefiting the Lawrence Community Shelter
When: 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. tonight
Where: Abe and Jakes, 8 E. Sixth St.
Cost: $3 for students with ID, $5 for non-students
Anna Bailey, Wamego senior and president of the Bachelor of Social Welfare Club said there would be two live bands. She also said many items would be auctioned off, such as a portable grill, beauty products, gift certificates from local veterinarians and KU sports memorabilia, including a basketball signed by the men’s basketball team.
Ali Finkelshtyne, Dallas senior and vice president of the club, said the club chose to sponsor the LCS this year because its need became so great after the Salvation Army shelter, at 946 New Hampshire St., closed during the summer. She said the state of the economy had increased the homeless population not just nationally, but in Lawrence as well.
“It’s a big, big need and we see that,” Finkelshtyne said. “We thought this would be a great time to do it. This is our big project for the Fall.”
Loring Henderson, director of the LCS, said the shelter must raise 80 percent of its funds through individual and group donations.
“That’s why we appreciate so much what they’re doing,” Henderson said.
Henderson said the LCS was speaking with other agencies to figure out how it is going to deal with the challenge of being the only shelter in town this winter.
Finkelshtyne said that the group raised about $2,000 last year for the East Central Kansas Economic Opportunity Corporation, but that the need would clearly be greater this year.
“That was mostly turnout from the School of Social Welfare, people affiliated with it,” she said. “We just think it could be so much bigger than that.”
Bailey said the money would go to the shelter’s immediate need this season.
“Obviously in the winter, I would assume they would have higher demands,” Bailey said. “We felt that the Lawrence Community Shelter and some recognition in the community, and we have not recently done something to specifically support them.”
The auction will be held from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. at Abe & Jake’s Landing, 8 E. Sixth St.
— Edited by Jacob Muselmann
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