photo by: Mike Yoder

Roses are the Valentine's Day flowers of choice. Other options include tulips, which also represent love.

Remember the days when the student council raised money with your heart’s fickle desires — delivering Valentine’s Day roses for a $1 a pop to the boy or girl of your teenage dream(s)?

Wasn’t that grand? (And embarrassing, and awesome, and insulting and totally romantic?)

These days you can do similar romantic/sweeping/mortifying gestures, whether you’ve graduated or not.

Both Lawrence High and KJHK have Valentine’s Day expression doosies for those of you who want to send more than flowers:

– Lawrence High’s orchestra is raising
funds with its annual “Serenade Your
Sweetheart” drive. For $25, you can
have your own personal string
ensemble play a love song at home or
work on Feb. 14. Your lucky valentine
also gets a rose with the song. For
more information, contact Rachel
Dirks, LHS orchestra director at
330-1890.
– KJHK will share personal Valentine’s
Day messages all day Feb. 14 on air. For
$5 your message will be read, twice for $9 or three times for
$12. Bonus: All you have to do is
fill out a form and pay by noon Feb. 13 and that’s that.