Service links area families with members in Iraq

CHAMPAIGN – Families with members in Iraq can schedule free video conferences with them in December at Parkland College.

And University of Illinois Extension offices have scheduled similar conferences in January. Both team up with the Freedom Calls Foundation to arrange the 30-minute conferences with military personnel stationed at five bases during the week of Dec. 17-21.

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• Obituaries

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