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Is there a teacher, principle, or professor from your community who has touched your life or your child’s life? Now is your last chance to send in your nomination for the General Motors Our Town, Our Heroes program – a grassroots initiative designed to reward people doing great things in their communities.
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Recent events, such as the issue of whether or not to begin a new tax, has had people comparing the cities of Champaign and Urbana and newcomers ask why we are separate towns. As someone who has lived most of my life in Champaign, I have strong feelilngs about not living in Urbana. Friends who live in Urbana have similar feelings about moving across Wright Street to the west. This is a short article to allow you to voice your opinion on the topic.
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Congratuations 40 Under 40 winners!
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There is a good chance between now and the end of the year if you haven’t already been asked to give to a charitable organization, you will hopefully be asked by someone you know. I truly believe people in Champaign County do step up to the plate and help take care of others who can’t otherwise support themselves or their families without some extra assistance. Something that I find particularly interesting however is that for those of us who are not necessarily in a good position to give a large sum of money to an organization(s) is that donating in-kind items goes completely unnoticed.
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In a sensationalized piece of reporting the News-Gazette splashed a photograph of the former TV and Radio personality, Mike Sola on its front page on Wednesday. The picture showed a portion of the bruised and battered meteorologist’s face. Sola had been the victim of an apparently random attack by at least two assailants on the previous Friday evening while walking on Crescent Drive following a Champaign Central football game. The article described the assailants as Black teenagers and linked the Friday attack with a spate of similar attacks by groups of Black young men on isolated White male victims across the city and in the U of I campus area. The reporter called the attacks, “Polar Bear Hunting” as the article focused on the racial aspect of the attacks; that they were Black on White crimes without any apparent motive other than the race of the victims.
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We all live in a busy world and how could any of us possibly have a few extra hours to volunteer these days? I speak from first-hand experience, as I come home every night from my job, focus on taking care of my family, but I still have a hard time saying ‘no’ to people because when it’s all said and done, I feel at my best when I can volunteer time in the community. That’s what makes volunteering so priceless. If you haven’t tried volunteering, there is no time like the present.
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