Retiring director made Crisis Nursery a community fixture

URBANA – The job of a lifetime came along when Ginny Dewar wasn't looking – and with a $5,000 pay cut.

It was 1992, and a friend called Dewar to check references on a candidate for executive director at the Champaign County Crisis Nursery.

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