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Mentors ARE Needed for URBANA Students!

Submitted by BridgetB on September 26, 2022 - 4:46pm
Date: 
October 7, 2022 - 11:00am to 1:00pm

CU One-to-One Mentoring Program

Visit the City of Urbana CU One-to-One Mentoring Sign-Up Event at the City Building

Are you interested in mentoring?  Do you have one hour each week to meet with one student in one of our Urbana schools? Come and see us at the City Building, located at 400 South Vince Street, Urbana, on October 7! 

The process to become a mentor is simple:

  • Complete an application online
  • Complete a background check
  • Schedule a brief interview
  • Attend one two-hour training (dates below)

Please Contact Angie Armstrong, District Mentor & Community Involvement Coordinator for Urbana schools at: (217)-337-0853 or via email aarmstrong@usd116.org.

You can choose which Training Date works best for you:

UFD Family Night

Submitted by BridgetB on September 26, 2022 - 11:27am
Date: 
October 9, 2022 - 4:00pm to 6:00pm

 Family Night UFD

We are delighted to invite you to our family night for the kick off of Fire Prevention Week! Join us and our local first responders to sign-up for a free smoke detector, Touch-A-Truck, live burn demonstration and more!

Florida Avenue Corridor Study

Submitted by BridgetB on September 19, 2022 - 11:00am
Date: 
September 19, 2022 - 9:30am to October 3, 2022 - 11:59pm

The Champaign Urbana Urbanized Area Transportation Study (CUUATS) has completed a draft of the Florida Avenue Corridor study in Urbana. This study seeks to address the needs of the many users of this corridor, from Lincoln Avenue to Vine Street, as well as the extensive public feedback that has been received during this process.

CUUATS wants to provide community members with a chance to view and comment on this completed study draft. Interested individuals can visit ccrpc.org/florida, where they will see detailed explanations of each study recommendation, a Frequently Asked Questions section, and an open-ended survey to provide additional input, as well as all of the previous content from throughout the study process. CUUATS anticipates leaving the survey portion of the website open for two weeks, until Monday, October 3, 2022. 

Meet and Greet: Marie-Ange Andrieux of Sister City Thionville, France

Submitted by BridgetB on September 7, 2022 - 5:52pm
Date: 
September 19, 2022 - 5:00pm

Urbana's citizens are invited to "Meet and Greet" a visiting language instructor Marie-Ange Andrieux, and her family, from Thionville, France—Urbana's Sister City—to Urbana, September 19 and 20 2022. This "Meet-and-Greet" event will take place Monday, September 19, 2022 between 5 and 6 p.m. in The Urbana Free Library's McFarlane-Hood Reading Room. Light refreshments will be served.

This visit celebrates the foreign language exchange conducted between the advanced French class of Ms. Lynda Lopez at Uni High School in Urbana and the English language classes of Mme. Marie-Ange Andrieux at Lycée Charlemagne in Thionville, France. This project has been selected to receive the Champion of Youth Award for 2022 by the Illinois Sister Cities Association during the annual meeting of the Illinois Municipal League, in Chicago, Illinois.