PUBLICATIONS Inside Illinois Vol. 22, No. 1, July 5, 2002

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Intensive English Institute
Host families needed
The Intensive English Institute is recruiting local residents who would like to host visiting Japanese and Korean college students in Champaign-Urbana this summer.

Students from Korea Maritime University (Pusan) will be on campus for three weeks in July, and Japanese students from Konan (Kobe), Senshu and Dokkyo (Tokyo) universities will be in residence for four weeks in August while they study the English language and American culture at the institute.

Hosts, either families, couples or single people, are needed to spend a few hours a week with one or more of the students, so that the students can meet people outside the classroom and practice their English while sharing common, everyday activities, such as meals, shopping, sports, county and state fairs or movies.

Anyone interested in being a host should contact Stan Van Horn at the Intensive English Institute, at (217) 333-6598 or at svanhorn@staff.uiuc.edu.

Preparing for fall opening
Volunteers needed for new museum
Anyone with an interest in museums and world cultures who has an interest in working with the public is encouraged to apply for training to be a volunteer docent or information desk assistant at the new Spurlock Museum. The museum opens Sept. 26 and training sessions will be in July through September. Session sizes will be limited and completed applications are due July 10. To receive an application packet or further information, call Kim Sheahan at 244-3355.

WILL radio sale offers LPs, CDs, stereo equipment
Vintage Vinyl sale is July 13
WILL Radio’s 10th annual Vintage Vinyl sale will be from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. July 13 in Lincoln Square Mall in Urbana.

Thousands of used records, tapes and CDs will be offered for sale, most for only $1. Used stereo equipment, including CD players, turntables, reel-to-reel machines and speakers will be offered at bargain prices.

Included in this year’s sale are a collection of jazz LPs from a local donor; 5,000 recordings of classical and some jazz from an estate in Alton; 1,200 rock music records from a collector in Springfield; and some new stereo equipment still in the boxes.

"Vinyl is alive and well in Central Illinois," said event coordinator Heather Miller.

All proceeds benefit public radio stations WILL-AM (580) and WILL-FM (90.9/ 101.1 in Champaign-Urbana, 106.5 Danville).

Campustown construction continues
Stadium Drive to be closed
Stadium Drive between Neil and Oak streets in Champaign will be closed beginning at 7 a.m. July 8 because of underground utility work. The UI is installing additions to the electrical distribution system. The affected portion of Stadium Drive is to reopen at 4 p.m. July 20.

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