Champaign County summer camps
From the News-Gazette today:
Registration for the Champaign County Forest Preserve District’s summer camps at Homer Lake and Lake of the Woods in Mahomet opens on Thursday. Space is limited in these camps, so district officials encourage signing up early by visiting ccfpd. org, where you can also see a list of programs. There are too many to list, but here are a few examples: Grossology, July 17-20 Learn about some of the grossest things in the forest preserves, like slime, scat, vomit and more as camp instructors teach campers how some of Illinois’ yuckiest animals protect themselves and more.Article link here.
Outdoor Adventure, June 12-15
Practice skills that have been used by generations of nature explorers, learning about plants and animals in the forest preserves, or discover how to track animals and more.
Superheroes, June 26-29
Many superheroes have names and powers modeled after animals, like Spider-Man or Black Widow. Discover what makes these animals so super.
Former County Board Member no longer deleted from the system:
Also from the News-Gazette (bottom of the article):
James gets his papersA followup of the original story here: http://www.news-gazette.com/news/local/2018-02-14/tom-kacich-its-red-tape-fiasco.html
Stan James of Rantoul, a former Champaign County Board member who had trouble with the federal bureaucracy over the question of his citizenship, is officially a citizen of the United States of America.
He got the word Thursday evening — more than three months after he applied — when an official from the State Department called to tell him that his passport finally was on the way. For James, who was born in Germany but spent about 99.67 percent of his life in the United States, the passport is proof of his citizenship and will allow him to retire and receive Medicare and Social Security benefits...
The government apparently had a problem establishing James’ citizenship because it had two different birth dates for his father, who joined the Air Force as a teenager and apparently lied about his date of birth in order to enlist.
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