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Local organizations partner with schools to reduce waste in lunchrooms, offer meals to homeless

Cliff Maduzia packages excess food from Unit 4's Central High School's lunches to bring to the TIMES Center. Maduzia is a volunteer for the Susan Freiburg Memorial Food Surplus program, which provides meals to the homeless.

By Abrar Al-Heeti

November 10, 2014

When Cliff Maduzia walks through the hallways of Westview Elementary School in Champaign each day with large, empty containers in tow, faculty, staff and students know what he’s there to do. “Hi, Cliff,” a secretary says as he walks into the main office. Another faculty member says hello as Ma...

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One Winter Night raises funds for warming center

Jolie Huang and Catherine Kemp, sophomores at the University of Illinois, speak to each other in their cardboard structure for One Winter Night, which happened in downtown Champaign, on Fri., Feb. 21st.

By Angelica Lavito

February 22, 2014

About 500 people sleep somewhere other than their home each night in Champaign County, according to C-U at Home’s website. C-U at Home hosted its third One Winter Night on Friday. Participants spent the night outside from 6 p.m. until 6 a.m. sleeping in cardboard boxes to experience what it is lik...

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