Appointments to be made for cooling assistance

URBANA – Darlene Kloeppel hopes a new strategy will help avert a repetition of the long, daily lines of people who tried to sign up for cooling assistance last summer.

"We're using a different strategy this year," said Kloeppel, social service director for the Champaign County Regional Planning Commission.

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