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This week I would like to focus on children and parenting and do so in a twofold way. I would first like to share some protective factors that decrease the likeliness of child abuse in honor of April being Child Abuse Prevention Month and then bring awareness to the Week of the Young Child.

The circus was in town Monday. The Chicken Whisperer is on deck.

Andy Schneider, touted as "the go-to guy for anything chickens," will take your poultry questions April 20 at FS Farmtown in Urbana (reserve seats by calling 217-384-8303). He answered ours over the weekend:

Three things I need to get started before raising backyard chickens?

In 1916, a preliminary statement on the census of Danville showed that manufacturing there had grown, as had the number of people employed in manufacturing. The number of industrial plants in the city grew from 76 to 100 between 1910 and 1914. The number of employees grew from 2,044 to 2,481.

These applications for assumed business names were filed recently with the Champaign County clerk's office:

Beautiful Balance Salon & Spa, 109 N. Main St., St. Joseph, Pamela Wells, 803 E. Douglas St., St. Joseph.

CI Healthy Vending, 1304 Woodland Court, Mahomet, Paulette Sullivan, same address.