{"id":358567,"date":"2010-02-24T13:22:58","date_gmt":"2010-02-24T18:22:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chicagopressrelease.com\/press-releases\/new-city-awards-to-honor-those-who-have-led-improved-champaign"},"modified":"2010-02-24T13:22:58","modified_gmt":"2010-02-24T18:22:58","slug":"new-city-awards-to-honor-those-who-have-led-improved-champaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/358567","title":{"rendered":"New city awards to honor those who have led, improved Champaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>\n\tCHAMPAIGN \u2013 City officials are hoping the community will take advantage of a new awards program created to recognize those who have led or improved Champaign in some way.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe city&#8217;s Neighborhood Services Department is accepting nominations until March 1. Nominees and winners of awards in six categories will be recognized during the city&#8217;s annual Neighborhood Leaders Meeting, this year on April 14.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&#8220;That recognizes the limitations of the city to do all things as a governmental agency,&#8221; said Neighborhood Services Director Kevin Jackson. &#8220;To promote quality of life, it&#8217;s just a necessity that we promote the involvement of other people in the community.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe department is accepting nominations for individuals in six categories: neighborhood leadership, neighborhood of the year, neighborhood-community building, business-neighborhood partnership, good neighbor award and community partner.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&#8220;These acts don&#8217;t have to necessarily be connected to a particular neighborhood as much as they have some benefit to the Champaign community at large,&#8221; Jackson said.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe city is hoping the program will catch on with residents and promote more community building in the future. <span id=\"more-21170\"><\/span>Jackson hopes to make the so-called STAR awards an annual event \u2013 STAR is an acronym for Service Together Achieves Results.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tJackson already is looking to add to those categories and said an award for elementary- to college-aged individuals will be introduced next year.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tFor more information or to make a nomination, visit the city&#8217;s Web site or call the Neighborhood Services Department, 217-403-7070.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&#8220;I know it will take some time for it to gain visibility here, but I know it will work,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Distributed via <a href=\"http:\/\/chicagopressrelease.com\" rel='nofollow'>Chicago Press Release Services<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/yb4Wm9krqatA1xaBiBBhv9tEZ3c\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/yb4Wm9krqatA1xaBiBBhv9tEZ3c\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/yb4Wm9krqatA1xaBiBBhv9tEZ3c\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/yb4Wm9krqatA1xaBiBBhv9tEZ3c\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.chicagopressrelease.com\/~ff\/windycitynews?a=SleN19bf6Mo:PtwmcKfFcYI:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/windycitynews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.chicagopressrelease.com\/~ff\/windycitynews?a=SleN19bf6Mo:PtwmcKfFcYI:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/windycitynews?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.chicagopressrelease.com\/~ff\/windycitynews?a=SleN19bf6Mo:PtwmcKfFcYI:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/windycitynews?i=SleN19bf6Mo:PtwmcKfFcYI:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/windycitynews\/~4\/SleN19bf6Mo\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHAMPAIGN \u2013 City officials are hoping the community will take advantage of a new awards program created to recognize those who have led or improved Champaign in some way. The city&#8217;s Neighborhood Services Department is accepting nominations until March 1. Nominees and winners of awards in six categories will be recognized during the city&#8217;s annual [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-358567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=358567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358567\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}