The Chambana Volunteer, Feb 2-9
Spotlight on a Cause:
AARP Tax Aide Program
Since 1968 the AARP Tax Aide program has served about 50 million low to middle-income individuals. This program is available to any individual living with a lower-income, although it originally began with a focus on aiding senior citizens. This is the nation’s largest free volunteer run tax program, and tax preparation volunteers and greeters are currently needed for the 2011 tax year. Free training will be provided to those individuals interested, and volunteers must have basic computer skills if they are aiding with tax preparation. Volunteers are asked to be at the site one time per week for a 4 hour shift. Hours will be 9 AM-4 PM Monday through Friday and 9 AM-12 PM on Saturday. The local tax preparation location is at the Stevick Center in downtown Champaign, (48 E. Main St.), and will be open to the public starting Monday, February 6, running through the tax season. If you are interested in volunteering, please contact Coni Arseneau at 398-1416 or carsenea@illinois.edu. Additional information is available at: www.aarp.org/taxaide.
Volunteers Needed:
Champaign County Nursing Home
There is an immediate need for a volunteer at the Champaign County Nursing Home to be able to come in on a regular-schedule, weekly basis. This is asked to be a long-term commitment. The volunteer must label resident’s clothes with their name, in an attempt to reduce the number of lost items. Labels are created on-site and a heated press is used to affix them to clothing. This opportunity is available for morning hours on any day but Mondays. Contact Jim Hronek at 384-3784 or at jhronek@co.champaign.il.us to learn more.
Carle Hospice
Carle Hospice volunteers provide a wide variety of important and rewarding services to patients and their families depending on hospice care. Folks can give an hour or two each week by planting flowers, playing cards, writing letters or talking about community events. Upcoming training for volunteers is scheduled on Thursday, Feb. 2 from 9 –11AM in the Carle Home Services Office at 206A West Anthony Drive, Champaign. Individuals interested in volunteering with Carle Hospice should contact Justin Reed at 383-3151 or Justin.Reed@carle.com.
Upcoming Events
Tickets on Sale for EI Foodbank Prom Gala
Tickets are now available for the Eastern Illinois Foodbank Prom Gala on March 11, 2012. This event will be held from 7-11 PM at the Hilton Garden Inn, Champaign. Dress in your fancy prom-like attire and enjoy a night of dancing, prizes, games, appetizers and drinks. Each ticket ensures you will have a seat at a table, access to an open bar, appetizers, and a dessert bar, as well as a free prom night photo. Anyone 21 and older can enjoy this event, and all proceeds go to benefit the Eastern Illinois Foodbank and its’ programs. Tickets may be purchased at http://www.prombenefit.org/.
CU At Home’s One Winter Night
CU at Home's One Winter Night’s purpose is to raise awareness and funds to help support the homeless in our community. This event will take place in downtown Champaign, (near the corner of Neil and Main), and local business officials and public figures will be spending the night outside starting at 5 PM on Friday, Feb. 3. Any donated funds will go towards lengthening the amount of time that each public figure stays outside that night. For more information, go to: http://www.cuathome.us/one-winter-night.
Disclaimer: I gather this information based on local community calendars and from colleagues at local service organizations. Some of the wording is based directly on what I receive and research. Please feel free to email me if you have any comments, questions, or have anything you would like to see posted. Thank you. (MER)
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@Jason: You’re right about that. I get groceries at Schnucks (they carry what I buy, which I can’t say of any other single grocery store in town), and if they have a beer I’m in the market for it’s usually a quarter or two cheaper per 6-…
Best Neighborhood Bar (& Grill) : Urbana - My ‘hood- the ‘Boom! http://www.boomerangbarandgrill.com Go on a Wing Wednesday or Fish Friday, or see a band play some night. Local blue-collar Urbana terroir galore. My only beer snobbish gripe is lack of a pale hopped ale, but you…
The one thing that’s bothered me for a while about the Friar is that, for most commonly purchased adult beverages, you can actually walk down the strip mall to Schnucks and get them cheaper. It makes no sense, but there it is. I suspect it’s because Schnucks…
Maybe I complained enough in person. One time I even explained to the (wholly uninterested) clerk how to navigate the Illinois Statutes web page, and Savoy’s Municipal Code database I wouldn’t know because I only go there when I want to pay 30% more for anything, which is never.
@Rob: You seem to have the weirdest experiences. I’m in Friar Tuck every other week (don’t tell my mom that I’m a lush). They never fail to ask for my birth date but never my age, they never card afterwards, and they often allow me to use…
This column affords me a long-awaited opportunity. I’ve wanted to write my own column called Fuck You Friar Tuck Liquors. but I always thought it’d be too pithy. Here, I can say Fuck You Friar Tuck Liquors and not feel bothered to stretch it out to 750…
Ha! Exactly. You, sir, are welcome at the bar in My House.
Why wait ‘til 3 pm?
I’m excited to go tonight- should be very fun!
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The Alan Partridge lookalike on the right in the first small photo has nothing to condescend to anyone about. AH HA!
Snell and the little Hitlers of the neighborhood association need to chill out. Legitimate businesses should have the freedom to exist without having to endure the slings and arrows of ignorant and misguided opposition.
represent, Matt.
Yeah, I’d agree that Transporter Room 3 is the worst house venue I’ve ever seen.
Food trucks are the start-up, small businesses of the future for those unable to afford real estate. No surprise, that merchants who pay rent, utilities, and maintenance on a property would despise the traveling competition. Or developers who build more empty retail spaces would want to close…
Not so much far-right Tea Party as a balanced, moderate viewpoint between letting businesses succeed and protecting society with reasonable regulations. In spite of what the city reps are saying, the interpretation of policy on this issue certainly has changed. Letting a business start up under one…
I think it’s neat that SP has turned rightward, now espousing a Tea Party-style frustration with government regulations & taxes.
This makes me so sad. (Happy to live in Urbana, though!) Crave Truck has been a GREAT addition to the food choices in C-U, and it’d be a travesty to chase them away. This town should be supporting small businesses. I’m glad to hear that they’ll still…
*slow. clap.* Still offering no threat of intelligence…. I know I said I thought you should just write this whole column yourself next year, Isaac, but now that you’ve gone and taken a “part deux” run at it, I’d like to modify my request: Best Music 2013,…
Actually, it’s kind of nice, the quiet. John Heoffleur’s engaging commentary/dialogue is sorely missed, however. In lieu of someone intelligent saying something, I’ve compiled a list of Honourable Mentions: BEST ROCK BAND: Take Care ::these gentlemen have four completely different sets at their disposal right now (which…
What? Echo! (Echo!) Where’s the dischord and dissent?
This weekend will mark the first appearance of Kayla Brown’s Fire Doll Candle booth at the Market. Check it: http://www.facebook.com/firedollcandles
And without bloodshed. Sounds like the Savoy trustees aren’t as narrow-minded as some of their whiny pants constituents. Do you think quack Snell is already planning an asinine counterattack or is he still laying low after those “threats” against his person?
hey, if hair ain’t gon’ be over your head, my jokes may as well be.
Okay, almost 24 hours later and I finally got Issac’s Summer joke. I’m an idiot.
Excellent. I am glad sometimes American dreams are encouraged, rather than stifled.
Swap the dog for a fire pit and it sounds like you’re writing about my back yard. Very nice.
funny, as your summer begins, another Summer ends.
@Dan - Wow. Unfortunately, I have to refrain from further comment due to a previous employment relationship. But with that brief context you might be able to imagine possible comments or responses I could have.
Oh, by the way, the “Champaign County YMCA” no longer exists. The official name is now the “Stephens Family YMCA” (the website has not been updated, but check out the latest program guide). And no, it’s not just the name of the building. It’s the name of the organization.
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The Alan Partridge lookalike on the right in the first small photo has nothing to condescend to anyone about. AH HA!