Champaign woman's program earns national award
By Tim Mitchell
Tuesday September 9, 2008
Darrell Hoemann
Brenda Eheart, shown in her office last week at Generations of Hope in Champaign with a monitor displaying the group's activities and the bear given to each child, won a national award for her program, which brings adopted children and seniors together.
RANTOUL – The woman who founded a pioneering program that brings together adoptive children and senior citizens in a single community on the former Chanute Air Force Base will be recognized with a national award today.
Teresa Heinz Kerry, wife of former presidential candidate Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., announced that Brenda Kraus Eheart of Champaign is the 2008 recipient of the Heinz Award for the Human Condition, presented by the Heinz Family Foundation.
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