Apr 14, 2018 | Blog
When my wife, Debbie and our then-almost-two-year-old daughter and I moved to this area in August of 1971, we thought we were coming for three years of graduate school. Now almost 47 years later, we are still here. How did that happen? Well, grad school led to job...
Mar 26, 2018 | Blog
I got married in 1965, moving to Urbana and joining my husband Ralph attending graduate school at the U of I. We often left the campus to relax with a walk in the neighborhood around Carle Park. Except for a few years away right after grad school, we’ve lived in...
Mar 16, 2018 | Blog
March 12, 2018 The Champaign-Urbana community lost a great leader when Tom Berns passed away on February 19, 2018. Others can describe better than we can how he founded the engineering firm of Berns Clancy and associates with his partner Ed Clancy, how he was...
Mar 5, 2018 | Blog
I love Urbana’s parks. From the neighborhood charm of Victory Park to the open spaces of Meadowbrook, each park has its own distinctive character. When my wife and I first moved to Urbana in the early 1970s, Crystal Lake Park was my favorite. Only a mile from our...
Feb 19, 2018 | Blog
I have never written a “blog entry” in my life until now! When the Urbana Parks Foundation Marketing Committee asked me for help, I couldn’t wait to talk about one of our UPF Campaign “Pillars”-Crystal Lake Park. To be sure that I...
Feb 12, 2018 | Blog
I’m super excited to be the first Urbana Parks Foundation Board member blogger! Let me introduce myself. My name is Libby Tyler and I’ve lived in Urbana since 1990. In fact, since we’re a pretty close-knit community, we probably already know each...
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