For information about services available to older adults, contact Pam Jacobsen, director of the Retired and Senior Volunteer Program and Helen Mary Stevick Senior Citizens Center, 2102 Windsor Place, C, at 217-359-6500. RSVP and the Stevick Center are administered by Family Service of Champa…
“I do believe that, from the time they leave home, when they get here is the first time they can take a breath,” says Cunningham Children's Home CEO and president Marlin Livingston.
For information about services available to older adults, contact Pam Jacobsen, director of the Retired and Senior Volunteer Program and Helen Mary Stevick Senior Citizens Center, 2102 Windsor Place, C, at 217-359-6500. RSVP and the Stevick Center are administered by Family Service of Champa…
For a second time, John Thies is thrilled to be following in his late, great father’s footsteps.
A group of local organizations serving the homeless in Champaign County is seeking proposals to provide “year-round and low-barrier” emergency shelter in the local community.
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For information about services available to older adults, contact Pam Jacobsen, director of the Retired and Senior Volunteer Program and Helen Mary Stevick Senior Citizens Center, 2102 Windsor Place, C, at 217-359-6500. RSVP and the Stevick Center are administered by Family Service of Champa…
Every day leading up to the 40th anniversary celebration at Savoy-based Spherion Staffing Services, Cindy Somers and the staff at Spherion Staffing Servicesexcitedly checked the poll they put up on social media to see which organization was leading in the race to win a $4,000 donation.
The occasion was the 50th birthday celebration of Community Service Center of Northern Champaign County.
'He was very interested in youth and keeping them out of trouble and having them see their value in society,' said his wife of 53 years. 'Bob had a servant’s heart. He loved helping people.'
Urbana is about to launch a new crisis co-responder team with a police officer and Rosecrance social worker to follow up on calls related to mental and behavioral health crises.
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CHAMPAIGN — Sam Banks hurried to the Don Moyer Boys & Girls Club on Thursday afternoon for “what I thought was a meeting.” Instead, it was a surprise party to celebrate the longtime executive director’s last shift at work.
Linda Weiner and Susan Garner got together in 2007 to organize the first C-U Empty Bowls event with local potters, and have been involved in these events ever since.
Last held in spring 2019, the Champaign-Urbana Empty Bowls annual benefit and raffle to benefit Daily Bread Soup Kitchen is back on for this year.
For information about services available to older adults, contact Pam Jacobsen, director of the Retired and Senior Volunteer Program and Helen Mary Stevick Senior Citizens Center, 2102 Windsor Place, C, at 217-359-6500. RSVP and the Stevick Center are administered by Family Service of Champa…
Congratulations to the Danville Rotary Club for making its largest donation — $8,500 — to the Vermilion County War Museum to continue one of our area’s most impactful displays.
Rental assistance for those impacted by COVID-19 is being made available through the nonprofit Bridgewater-Sullivan Community Life Center and the state Department of Human Services.
The Champaign County Humane Society has converted its major fundraiser of the year, the Fur Ball, to a virtual event due to the state of the COVID-19 pandemic.
For information about services available to older adults, contact Kellie Anderson, director of the Retired and Senior Volunteer Program and Helen Mary Stevick Senior Citizens Center, 2102 Windsor Place, C, at 217-359-6500. RSVP and the Stevick Center are administered by Family Service of Cha…
Wrapping up a five-part N-G series: For her work at the New American Welcome Center, helping locals navigate the legal work of the immigration process, Daniella Di Stefano will be honored with the Student Leadership Award from the C-U Immigration Forum on Saturday.
“What I was afraid of was the streets. I had friends who stayed in the streets and I think right now, the biggest thing you can take away from this is to not be afraid of saying no,” Trent Frazier told his audience. “It’s about decisions, one bad decision could turn your whole life around.”
The Immigration Justice Task Force of the Unitarian Universalist Church of Urbana-Champaign will be honored Saturday with the Champaign-Urbana Immigration Forum's community impact award.
Greg Springer will be honored the Distinguished Service to Immigrants Award from the Champaign-Urbana Immigration Forum on Saturday after becoming a point person for local Guatemalan immigrants over the last seven years.
“I think Champaign-Urbana is probably a little unique in its acceptance” of immigrants. “We have found the community on the large part very welcoming, and I think that’s one of the reasons we’ve been able to exist and serve so many people over the years."
For information about services available to older adults, contact Kellie Anderson, director of the Retired and Senior Volunteer Program and Helen Mary Stevick Senior Citizens Center, 2102 Windsor Place, C, at 217-359-6500. RSVP and the Stevick Center are administered by Family Service of Cha…
It made Champaign West Rotary President Nestor Ramirez’s day to deliver the giant $1,000 check to flood-ravaged Gibson City last Thursday.
The American Cancer Society’s Walk and Roll of Central Illinois event will be held from 1-6 p.m. Sept. 26 at Parkland College, 2400 W. Bradley Ave., C.
For information about services available to older adults, contact Kellie Anderson, director of the Retired and Senior Volunteer Program and Helen Mary Stevick Senior Citizens Center, 2102 Windsor Place, C, at 217-359-6500. RSVP and the Stevick Center are both administered by Family Service o…
The event was held virtually last year but organizers had hoped to return to an in-person event this year.
Cunningham Township's emergency-housing pilot program is now permanent, housed in two downtown Urbana apartment buildings it bought this summer.
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