URBANA – Lynn Reedy wanted to change the world and some people would say the senior vice president for product development and architecture at eBay has done just that.

Reedy says helping build the world's largest online auction site, not to mention a cultural icon, has had her waking up each morning excited to go to work.

TUSCOLA – Jim Nayonis is back in town this week, hoping to "relearn how to relax."

Fourteen months in Baghdad was "enough," he understates.

Candace Hatchett had just graduated from Olivet Nazarene University in Bourbonnais and was looking for her first step into the teaching field. The Champaign school district could have lost her to Florida or Kentucky, but she chose to stay closer to her hometown of Gary, Ind. Hachett, 22, said she brings energy and enthusiasm to the position and is proud to add her diversity to the list.

"When I look at my classroom, it is very mixed," said the second-grade teacher at Bottenfield Elementary, who was recommended for the job by the school's principal. "If the class is made up of different people, they need to see staff that look different. The more they see it in school, the more it will broaden their horizons when they are older. Hopefully as I teach, they will begin to appreciate the differences and value it."

CHAMPAIGN – Christie Clinic, which has been without psychiatrists on its medical staff for more than a year, says it will once again be offering psychiatric care through a new arrangement with Provena Behavioral Health.

Effective Saturday, Provena Behavioral Health will be moving psychiatrists to Christie's downtown Champaign clinic, and the clinic's three remaining mental health providers – one a psychologist and two licensed clinical social workers – will be joining the staff of Provena Behavioral Health, officials of both organizations said.