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A New UBA Top Ten
Events AND Information all in one!
We have made a slight change to our "Top Ten Events" newsletter. There are not only important events to promote but information as well. We want to make sure that we are making this weekly mailing as efficient and informative as possible. As you scroll down, you will see a little bit of both. If you are wondering, "How do I get my information or event into the Top Ten", the answer is directly below!
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How To Submit Your Event or Information for the UBA Top Ten
We want to ensure that we are promoting you the best and most accurate way we can!
In order for us to ensure that your event or information is included in the Top Ten correctly and according to our layout requirements, please use the following criteria. Please send: - A title for your event or promotion
- A catchy tag line (if not supplied, we will make one up for you)
- One picture
- A 3-5 sentence description
- A contact number, e-mail OR website for the event or informative blurb
- Date of event (if applicable)
- Time of event (if applicable)
- Place of event (if applicable)
- Address of event (if applicable)
- Admission fee (if applicable)
To be included in the upcoming issue, you must submit this information two weeks prior to your event (if it is an information submission, by every Monday). If it is not in this format, we will ask you for a re-submission. Send your information to: tyla@urbanabusiness.com
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'Read Across America' celebrates reading around the world Saturday!
The Whole World Reads!
 Children in Champaign County are invited to join millions of their peers across the country in celebration of the area's 10th annual National Education Association (NEA) Read Across America Day. The theme of the local celebration this year is "The Whole World Reads!" It will feature more than two dozen fun games and hands-on activities, "Rock and Read" stations, celebrity greeters,storytellers, parent and toddler areas, and readings in many other languages.
For more information, on NEA's Read Across America Day, contact Sheri Langendorf at 384-3530 or email her at slangendorf@parkland.edu
Saturday, March 6, 2010
10:00 am-1:00 pm
Lincoln Square
201 Lincoln Square, Urbana |
27th Annual International Dinner and Performance Night
Tickets are on sale now and seats are limited!
The Annual
International Dinner is held each spring
in partnership with Cosmopolitan Club, Office of International Student
Affairs, and the University of Illinois YMCA. Each year, international
performers entertain the audience with dancing, singing, and other forms
of art performance as diners feast on a buffet featuring dishes from
over 30 countries.
If you would like more information, please e-mail
Kasey Umland, University YMCA Program Director, at:
kasey@universityymca.org
Sunday, March 7, 2010
6:00 - 8:00 pm
Tickets: $8
University YMCA
1001 South Wright Street, Urbana
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Share A Meal
Giving never tasted so good!
Join us for the Seventh Annual Share A Meal with Community Shares on Tuesday, March 9th, 2010! Help raise funds for over 70 community groups working to address homelessness, domestic violence, hunger, health care and other issues facing our communities. Combine the delight of eating out with the joy of giving into one fun-filled event by eating at one of these participating restaurants around Champaign-Urbana:
- Luna - 116 N. Chestnut, Champaign (lunch)
- Siam Terrace - 212 W. Main St., Urbana (dinner)
- Great Impasta - 156 C Lincoln Square, Urbana (lunch & dinner)
- Black Dog Smoke & Ale House - 201 N. Broadway Avenue, Urbana (lunch & dinner)
For more information visit us at www.cs-il.org or contact us at 217-352-6533.
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
All Day
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Spring Into A New Look
Bring your business card to be entered to win several prizes!
Join the Urbana Business Association and H2O Salon & Spa for our March Networking Event. Bring your business card and be entered to win free eyebrow shaping, hairstyle blow outs, bang trims, hairline clean ups and a grand makeover prize!
For more information, call (217) 344-3872.
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
5:00 - 7:00 pm
H2O Salon & Spa
109 North Broadway Avenue, Urbana |
Urbana's Climate Action Plan Public Input Session
Help us shape the draft Climate Action Plan that will be sent to Urbana's City Council for action!
 We want to educate members of the community and businesses about actions and programs that reduce energy use, save money, stimulate our local economy, and improve our environment. We also want to solicit input from the community on how we can best meet these goals and learn about potential barriers to success and solutions to those barriers. Listen in on a brief overview of the science so all attendees are starting from the same point.
Thursday, March 11, 2010
7:00 - 9:00 pm
Urbana Civic Center
108 East Water Street, Urbana |
Ate After Eight at Courier Cafe!
For our night owl customers!
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Urbana-Champaign Big Broadband Has Been Funded
High-speed connectivity to community anchor institutions, and
support fiber-to-the-home services in four low-income neighborhoods!
 Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois: $22.5 million broadband
infrastructure grant with an additional $6.8 million applicant-provided
match to construct 187 miles of fiber-optic broadband network in
Urbana, Champaign and Savoy to provide high-speed connectivity to
community anchor institutions, and support fiber-to-the-home services in
four low-income neighborhoods. The project expects to provide speeds of
at least 100 Mbps to directly connect 143 anchor institutions,
including schools, social service agencies, healthcare facilities, youth
centers, public library systems and higher education institutions. For more information, click here! |
Champaign Urbana
Theatre
Company presents RENT
WCIA and the
Champaign Urbana Theatre Company present a Tony© Award winning musical!
 Jonathan Larson's
Pulitzer-prize winning
Broadway musical based loosely on Puccini's opera La Bohème. It follows
a year in the lives of seven friends living the disappearing Bohemian
lifestyle
in New York's East Village.
HIV/AIDS and both its physical and emotional complications pervade the
lives of Roger, Mimi, Tom and Angel. Mark, an aspiring
filmmaker, feels like an outsider to life in general, always behind the
camera
recording the events but never playing a part. To order tickets,
call the Virginia Theatre Box Office
(217) 356-9063. For more
information, call Michael Galloway at (217) 344-3884.
Thursday, March 11 - Saturday, March 14, 2010
7:30 pm Thursday - Saturday 2:30 pm matinees on
Saturday & Sunday Tickets: $18 Adults, $15 Seniors &
Students, $6 Children (under 12)
Virginia Theatre
203 West Park Avenue,
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111 West Main Street
Urbana, IL 61801
(217) 344-3872
Susan Toalson
Special Events Coordinator
Marketing Coordinator
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2010 UBA Board Members
President
Chris Harlan
Vice President
Stephanie Bond
Treasurer
Jennifer Rybicki
Secretary
Tom Carrino
Members
Joe Duchene
Wade Franklin
Pamela Franks
Ted Jeurrisen
Jan Kijowski
Brian McKay
Amanda McWilliams Dan Manolakes
Leah Pettit
Becky Weber
Paul Wirth |
Urbana Community Education will
be offering Business Aspect of Art class
If you would like to gain knowledge of
the business side of art, this is the class. Deborah Fell, a well known
quilt artist, will facilitate discussion including the following topics:
marketing your work, portfolios, necessary computer skills, artist bios
and resumes, the artist statement, venues, electronic portfolios,
inventory strategies, copyright issues, accounting and other issues
raised by students. Four sessions (8 hours) is $50.
For more information and to enroll, click here!
Class begins Tuesday, March 30, 2010
6:00 - 8:00 pm
Urbana High School, Room 1145
1002 South Race Street, Urbana
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The Governors
Volunteer Service Awards
These awards recognize
individual volunteers
through a statewide award
program to highlight the importance of volunteerism and
community service in the
State of Illinois.
Individual awards will be
provided to one Youth (18 & under), one Adult (19-54 yrs.) and one Retiree/Senior (55+
yrs.) in each of the Commission s five service regions across the
state (Northeast,
Northwest, East Central, West Central and Southern Illinois). Five
categories will be given
special priority, in alignment with priority areas as defined by the
Corporation for National
and Community Service: Economic Opportunity, Education,
Environmental
Conservation, Health, and Veterans Affairs.
For more information, click here or call (800) 592-9896.
Spring 2010 nominations
will be accepted through March 19, 2010 and winners will be notified no
later than April 2, 2010.
The Governor and Serve Illinois Commission
will host a luncheon at the Executive Mansion in Springfield, Illinois to honor the 2010
Governor s Volunteer Service Award recipients on April 12, 2010.
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Prom Benefit for Hunger Relief
Save the Date! ...and go snag one too!
For the second consecutive year, our friends at Paramount Staffing are hosting the Prom Benefit for
Hunger Relief to raise funds for the work of the Eastern Illinois
Foodbank. But this is no prom for kids-we'll be featuring:
music through the decades spun by DJ Kris
Ehler of E Entertainment,dancing, a signature cocktail, heavy appetizers, prom couple photography, naming of the First State Bank Prom King and Queen, raffles & prizes (including a chance to win $1,000 in airfare!), and even a ride home for you and your car from Tatman's Towing (if
driving is not the best option at the end of the evening)!
Feel free to come dressed up in that original prom garb-or to wear
something a little more contemporary. We're delighted to have you any
way you come!...but 21 and over only, please.
Get your tickets now-there are only 200 available. (Go ahead, get
'em!) Call 217-328-3663 for more ticket information.
For more event information, click here!
Friday, March 27, 2010
7:00 pm - 12:00 am
Kennedy's at Stone Creek
2560 South Stone Creek Boulevard, Urbana |
Law Day Poster Contest
Law Day is Friday, April 30, 2010
Who Can Participate?
All public, private & home school students in grades 3-12.
Why Participate?
Designing a poster and researching the theme can give you a voice in your community. Good posters tell important stories to present and future generations. Posters capture people's attention with a powerful graphic and inspire with a message to your community.
Rules:
Any media may be used to create a flat or two-dimensional effect (paint, crayon, colored pencil, charcoal, ink or other materials). Poster size must be 8.5" x 11" (portrait or landscape). All posters must be created by an individual student rather than a team of students.
All entries must be postmarked by April 15, 2010 to:
Law Day Poster Contest
c/o Early American Museum
PO BOX 1040
Mahomet, IL 61853-1040
Although younger students will most likely receive help in planning from parents or teachers, we encourage each student to do as much of the work as possible by him/herself. Entries completed by students in their handwriting and coloring will score better.
For more information, click here!
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