Support those who support Habitat   Women Build Homes with the Corona Family Alto Vineyards Amasong Beaumont Alignment Plus BridalU.net Cooper's Hawk Winery Corkscrew English Hedgerow Friar Tuck Furrow Vineyard Chef Benjamin Graves Herriott's Rentals Kickapoo Creek Winery Lynfred Winery, Inc. Mackinaw Valley Vineyard Macy's Michelle's Bridal National Council of Negro Women, Champaign County Section Printec Sleepy Creek Vineyards El Toro II Traveling Vineyard Women of Grace Community Church Wells Fargo Housing Foundation Z Entertainment ReStore sponsors BASF Plant Science Carter's on Prospect C-U Computing Champaign Carpet and Tile Champaign Estate Sales Champaign Telephone Company Custom Flooring and Tiles Flooring Surfaces General Growth Properties & Marketplace Mall Lowe's McClure Financial Group Meyer Drapery Gary Perkins Construction Remco Electric Mr. Rooter Peckham & Associates Scheitlin Construction Slumberland Springfield Electric Strata Decision Technologies Tepper Electric Town & Country Apartments   Shop - Donate - Volunteer   Champaign County's ReStore is open Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday 1 to 5 p.m. Please note: the ReStore will be closed on Sunday, March 23 in honor of Easter. Donations of goods for the ReStore are accepted during business hours. Please pull up to the southeast garage door and ring bell for assistance. Too large for your vehicle? Schedule a donation pick up! Donation pick ups are $5 in C-U, and $10 outside C-U within a 15 mile radius. Contact us at (217) 355-6460 x120 or restore@cuhabitat.org to schedule. See new items here! Play the ReStore Restock game here.   Play volleyball with tomorrow's leaders   Habitat for Humanity at UIUC presents ULTIMATE FRISBEE TOURNAMENT! March 29, 10 am on the South Quad Teams of 7 with at least 2 women. $7 per person. AWESOME PRIZES and FREE FOOD! Also, design the best team t-shirt and win prizes!! Register your team online by March 16 here   Your online donation could help buy…   $10 = Box of Nails $35 = Roof Shingles $50 = Low Flow Toilet $65 = One Square Foot of a Home $75 = Window $100 = Kitchen Sink $150 = Front Door $500 = Siding $1,000 = Wallboard $2,000 = Flooring   Habitat for Humanity of Champaign County & ReStore   119 E. University Ave. Champaign, IL 61820 (217) 355-6460 ReStore (217) 359-0507 Administration www.cuhabitat.org Flickr photo stream	Brought to you by...     Share a Meal next week     Thank you, story tellers!   As adults, it is easy to forget the simple joy of listening to a story. What a treat, then, to hear stories of home and hearth shared by generous, talented professionals. Last Sunday, Kathe Brinkmann, Kim Sheahan, Camille Born, Lin Randall and Elizabeth Simpson gave a concert to benefit the Women Build Homes partnership with the Maricela Corona Family, raising $600 in two renewing hours. Thank you, too, to Ceka Cuk and Pekara Bakery for pastries, Keller Williams for ice cream, and Grace Community Church for sharing their faith home.   Women Build Homes with Lowe's   The Women Build Homes Committee of Habitat for Humanity of Champaign County and ReStore invite you to attend a series of free home construction clinics at Lowe's (1904 N Prospect, Champaign). Each clinic is being offered twice: Clinic 1: Painting and Trim a) Done! b) Saturday, April 5 at 10am c) Tuesday, March 25 at 6pm Clinic 2: Tools and Framing a) Tuesday, March 11 at 6pm b) Saturday, April 12 at 10am Clinic 3: Siding and Roofing a) Tuesday, March 18 at 6pm b) Saturday, April 19 at 10am Whether you plan to help on the Women Build (with the Corona family at 114 N Cottage Grove in Urbana) or simply want to learn new skills, we hope you will come. Each clinic is free and open to the public but space is limited, so register with Ellen Willcox (359-0507 x11 or house@cuhabitat.org). Donations to the home build are welcome. Additional clinics will be scheduled if enough interest is expressed.   United Rentals helps Women Build Homes   On March 28th, 2008, United Rentals will be having a customer appreciation day complete with lunch (11 am - 2pm) and sales on equipment and supplies. United Rentals (3501 N. Countryview Rd., Urbana 351-5820) will encourage shoppers that day to join them in making a donation to the Women Build Homes partnership with the Maricela Corona family. Thank you, United Rentals, for helping to build community and relationships through new construction with low-income families!   Community Education Classes   At Habitat for Humanity of Champaign County and ReStore, we hear a lot about the financial pressures our neighbors are under, we answer a lot of questions about juggling responsibilities, making healthy choices. Land of Lincoln Legal Assistance Foundation is sponsoring several courses this spring, covering debt, home ownership, identity theft and more. The Community Reinvestment Group, of which we are a member, is participating in Money Smart Week. This will include the housing fair in April. Please take a moment to read about these efforts and share it with your community. Land of Lincoln Legal Assistance Foundation Community Education Classes: All classes will be held at the LLL office, 302 N First St. in Champaign. For more information call 217/356-1351. Your Money and Your Life: March 10 from 6-8pm and March 11 from 6-8pm Credit 101: April 7 from 11-1130am, April 8 from 1130-12pm, April 9 from 12-1230pm Identity Theft: April 7 from 1130-12pm, April 8 from 12-1230pm, April 9 from 1230-1pm Keeping Your Home: April 7 from 12-1230pm, April 8 from 1230-1pm, April 9 from 1-130pm Buying a Used Car: April 10 from 12-1pm Your Money and Your Life (in English and in Spanish): April 7 from 6-8pm, April 8 from 6-8pm, April 14 from 6-8pm, April 15 from 6-8pm, April 21 from 6-8pm, April 22 from 6-8pm Home Ownership: April 29 from 6-8pm, May 6 from 6-8pm, May 13 from 6-8pm, May 20 from 6-8pm, May 27 from 6-8pm Money Smart Week will be held April 5 - 12, 2008. For the first time, Champaign County, IL will participate as hundreds of banks, financial institutions, schools, non-profit organizations and government agencies are joining together to provide a week of classes and events aimed at helping consumers make informed choices when managing their personal finances. Roughly 60 free educational classes will take place in Champaign County and several hundreds more are scheduled around the state. The events focus on financial topics for people of all ages and walks of life. Money Smart Week began as a coordinated effort of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago and the Money Smart Advisory Council – a diverse group of more than 40 Chicago-area organizations working together to promote personal financial literacy. Members agreed to share resources and ideas to achieve greater public awareness of the programs and services available to consumers. The result was Money Smart Week. The effort would showcase different programs, help consumers get information, bring together different organizations many for the first time and help these organizations share expertise and leverage limited resources.