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Volunteer a boon to C-U in may ways, including as translator

By Mary Schenk
Sunday February 4, 2007

John Dixon

Lucia Scully, right translates Spanish to English between Erika Lopez, left, and nurse practitioner Ronnie Kim at the Frances Nelson Health Center in Champaign.

CHAMPAIGN – For the better part of the 30 years she's lived in Champaign, Lucia Scully has volunteered at her children's school, a local hospital, delivering meals to senior citizens, running a low-cost food distribution program, and as an election judge.

But the native Peruvian seems to have found her real calling working as a volunteer translator for Spanish-speaking clients of the Frances Nelson Health Center in Champaign.

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