The Champaign County Museum Network is an organization of 11 museums, archives and nature centers working together for the benefit of all.
In Birdland we are prepping for winter.
For information about services available to older adults, contact Karen Kraemer, director of the Retired and Senior Volunteer Program (RSVP) and Helen Mary Stevick Senior Citizens Center, 2102 Windsor Place, Champaign, IL 61820, 217-359-6500.
The leaves have turned, the temperature has dropped and squirrels are frantically collecting food from our yards. All signs that the fall season is now in full swing.
For information about services available to older adults, contact Karen Kraemer, director of the Retired and Senior Volunteer Program (RSVP) and Helen Mary Stevick Senior Citizens Center, 2102 Windsor Place, Champaign, IL 61820, 217-359-6500.
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I’ve always told you that I’m riding until the wheels fall of and I mean it.
It was a week of little round things.
For information about services available to older adults, contact Karen Kraemer, director of the Retired and Senior Volunteer Program (RSVP) and Helen Mary Stevick Senior Citizens Center, 2102 Windsor Place, Champaign, IL 61820, 217-359-6500.
I always like to describe Krannert Art Museum as lab, sanctuary and civic center in equal measure.
For information about services available to older adults, contact Karen Kraemer, director of the Retired and Senior Volunteer Program (RSVP) and Helen Mary Stevick Senior Citizens Center, 2102 Windsor Place, Champaign, IL 61820, 217-359-6500.
”Finally, brethren, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may have free course, and be glorified from unreasonable and wicked men: for all men have not faith. But the Lord is faithful, who shall stablish you, and keep you from evil. And we have confidence in the Lord touching you and will d…
Just like that, the tawny wall of corn is gone. And just like that, our view to the woods is unobstructed. We can see the trees at the fence line behind our house. We can see Uncle David’s big rock to the west. The grass waterways on the morning and evening side of our house are visible agai…
This year’s pandemic has radically altered every aspect of people’s lives and the way we listen to and create music.
For information about services available to older adults, contact Karen Kraemer, director of the Retired and Senior Volunteer Program (RSVP) and Helen Mary Stevick Senior Citizens Center, 2102 Windsor Place, Champaign, IL 61820, 217-359-6500.
“Wherefore the Lord said, ‘For as much as this people draw near me with their mouth, and with their lips do honor me, but have removed their heart far from me, and their fear toward me, is taught by the precept of men.’” Isaiah 29:13
It is election season, and few things make this more apparent than the litany of campaign placards dotting homeowners’ yards across Champaign County and the country.
“Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended, but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press to the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. Let us therefore, as many as be perfect, …
In Birdland, we had our first frost. I knew it was coming and had a harvest of herbs and squash on my to-do list for the day but lost track of time. In the wee hours, I remembered the plants from the front porch, so I carried in my Norfolk Island pine and the big dish of succulents I planted…
The Anita Purves Nature Center has been closed to the public since March 14 as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
“Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, thou shalt not commit adultery; but I say unto you, that whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart. And if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee; for it is…
CHAMPAIGN — More than a year after her heart transplant, 8-year-old Macie Maier of Champaign could probably teach her fellow humans something about being happy.
People come to the William M. Staerkel Planetarium at Parkland College to see the wonders of the universe.
Bet you didn’t know that Illinois law has long allowed step-parents possible rights to parental decision-making and custody.
For information about services available to older adults, contact Karen Kraemer, director of the Retired and Senior Volunteer Program (RSVP) and Helen Mary Stevick Senior Citizens Center, 2102 Windsor Place, Champaign, IL 61820, 217-359-6500.
“Blessed are the undefiled in the way, who walk in the law of the Lord. Blessed are they that keep his testimonies, and that seek him with the whole heart. They also do not iniquity: they walk in his ways. Thou hast commanded us to keep thy precepts diligently. O that my ways were directed t…
Almost 12 years ago, a black Lab puppy came to live with us. With her short puppy snout and silky black pelt, she looked so much like a bear with a long tail that Dylan, our middle boy, named her Ursa Minor, Ursula for short.
Take a drive outside the cozy environs of Champaign-Urbana in the next few weeks, and you’ll see corn husks flying in the air, hundreds of starlings descending on the fields and huge combines rolling late into night.
This month’s article is a feature from my intern, Cailey Cranny, a University of Illinois student majoring in interdisciplinary health sciences. She is thinking about becoming a genetic counselor; I challenged her to share with the public a little bit about the roles of and reasons for the job.
“Keep not thou silence, O God: hold not thy peace, and be not still, O God. For lo, thine enemies make a tumult: and they that hate thee have lifted up the head. They have taken crafty counsel against thy hidden ones. They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that th…
I’m literally unable to answer a question without giving an in-detail backstory, which is why doctor appointments take twice as long as needed.
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