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Urbana Elementary Students to Participate in Annual Arts Festival

Date: 
April 9, 2011 - 12:00am

Presented annually by 40 North | 88 West, the Boneyard Arts Festival showcases a wide range of artists from the Champaign County area. This year the Urbana Elementary Fine Arts Program, in conjunction with The Urbana Free Library, is exhibiting student work through a variety of displays and performances.

Money Smart Week - Illinois

Date: 
April 2, 2011 - 12:00am to April 9, 2011 - 12:00am


Are you Money Smart? Money doesn’t come with instructions, and that’s why banks, businesses, schools, libraries and lots of others are joining together to help support financial education during Illinois’s fifth annual Money Smart Week – April 2nd through the 9th.

Consolidated Social Service Fund Application Training

Date: 
March 10, 2011 - 12:00pm to 5:30pm

All applicants for Consolidated Social Service Funding must attend one of the Technical Assistance Training sessions:



  • Noon, Thursday, March 10, 2011 (Urbana Civic Center)

  • 5:30 PM, Thursday March 10, 2011 (Council Chambers)

The training location for the Noon meeting has been changed to the Urbana Civic Center, 108 East Water Street, Urbana. The location for the 5:30pm training is still in the Council Chambers.

Stormwater Advisory Committee Meeting

Date: 
May 4, 2011 - 11:30am to 1:00pm

7th Meeting of the Stormwater Advisory Committee (SWAC) to be held at the Urbana Civic Center.


The SWAC will provide input on various program priorities and on issues such as selection of a rate base. This group will meet and will discuss specific issues, in many cases talking through a policy issue and making a recommendation as to a preferred approach on the issue. Policy issue papers will record these recommendations to the City.

Read Across America shares Recipe for Success!

Date: 
March 5, 2011 - 10:00am to 1:00pm

Children in Champaign County are invited to join millions of their peers across the country in celebration of the area’s 11th annual National Education Association (NEA) Read Across America Day. The theme of the local celebration this year is “Recipe for Success: Crack Open a Good Book!”


The event is from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Saturday, March 5 at Lincoln Square in Urbana, featuring more than 30 hands-on literacy related activities. Rotary volunteers will host “Rock and Read” stations, plus there are celebrity greeters and storytellers, parent and toddler areas, and readings in many other languages, including French, Spanish, Vietnamese, Chinese, German Korean, Japanese and Hebrew.


The first 1,000 children will receive a free sports tote bag and a new book, paid for by participating sponsors.