URBANA â With the coldest months of winter on the way, Unitarian Universalist Church of Urbana-Champaign will be giving away half its Christmas Eve offering to help ease the misery of utility shut-offs.
âIn this winter of sickness and desperation, it just seems like the right thing for us to do, to help our neighbors on Christmas Eve in this direct way,â said the churchâs lead pastor, the Rev. Florence Caplow.
She invites the rest of the community to join her church in donating to a new utility bill assistance fund to be administered by Cunningham Township.
The fund is intended to help pay utility bills for people when no other options are available.
Questions this week about more mysterious lights in the sky, notorious heists from the University of Illinois Library, how the $24.3 million project at Champaign s International Prep Academy could be financed, whether the stuff in our recycling bins gets recycled and what s going on at an old grocery store near downtown Urbana.
Also, voter turnouts on Nov. 3, right of way clearance along U.S. 45 in northern Champaign County, an apartment building under construction in Champaign, mask-wearing college athletes and what happened to the snow?
Neighborhood shop in Urbana Can you tell me information about the small shop located at 304 E. California, just off South Vine Street in Urbana? Lumen was initially announced as a local coffee shop and cafe. I and a friend walked over there several times in the morning just after it opened, but no one was ever there and I never saw it open to the public. The building looks like it had been a neighborhood store at one time â it has an old