Public Input Session for Market at the Square Set for Tomorrow

The City of Urbana will host the first of three public input meetings from 6 to 8 p.m. tomorrow, Feb. 23 at the Urbana Civic Center, 108 E. Water Street, to gather input for a strategic planning effort for the Market at the Square, which will help determine what its future will look like.

In Our Own Backyard: Help the YMCA Build Strong Kids, Families

When it comes to helping other families, we often focus on basic needs – food, clothing, and housing. But as all moms know, children need room to play, to exercise and to learn social skills in order to thrive.

Mom to Mom: First And Lasting Love

Nine years later I can say that the love that I have for Ben, my husband, is quite different from the love I felt so many years ago. I think that the loss of anyone’s first love is heartbreaking, but the more I mourned it, I realized that I was grieving the loss of my innocence and the romantic ideas that I had about life.

Preparing for Preschool: Expert Advice from Author Brenda Nixon

During the month of February, chambanamoms.com will be posting an occasional series of articles designed to help parents navigate the sometimes choppy waters of choosing their child’s first school. To start us off, we asked parenting expert Brenda Nixon to give us some basic pointers about preschool.

In Our Own Backyard: Fighting Hunger

Last week, we issued a comment challenge to raise money to help the victims of the Haitian earthquake. But there are plenty of people in need in our own backyard. Our first feature in an occasional series about what we can do to help Champaign County families in need focuses on hunger.

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