[Peace] Fwd: [Aware] venue for ICPJ conference in March?

Tue Nov 7 12:31:42 CST 2006

My apologies.

The space I will be using (church basement - a large space) is accessible.
I assume the church above would be, because of Sunday services.  The first
floor of the foundation, with several meeting rooms and a medium sized space
(with lots of heavy wooden tables- probably cannot be stored) is accessible,
even though there are stairs in the middle, because of the mini-elevator
that goes up and down those few steps.  

I guess what is NOT accessible is the second floor of the foundation which
is a large open space.

It would kind-of be a pain to have stuff in both buildings (in order to take
advantage of the large basement room) but it might be doable if nothing else
is found.  My apologies for steering you wrong.  Someplace all in one
building would be better.  

Have you considered the Unitarian Universalist Church on 309 W Green St?
I'm not sure how much space you need but it was renovated a couple years ago
and has a good sized fellowship hall as well as the sanctuary and several
meeting rooms.  It is accessible, in a sense.  There is an elevator that
goes to both floors but it requires a key and a small amount of training for
someone to help with those using it.

Contact info:
Office manager is Karen Hsu.  Phone number is 217-384-8862.  Her hours are 9
to 1 weekdays.

I have no idea how to locate suitable UI campus spaces.

Good luck,
Joan

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:peace-bounces at lists.chambana.net] On Behalf Of Siobhan Kolar
Sent: Tuesday, November 07, 2006 11:49 AM
To: jnelshoppen at insightbb.com; brussel4 at insightbb.com; kmedina at uiuc.edu
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Subject: RE: [Peace] Fwd: [Aware] venue for ICPJ conference in March?

Joan--any insights MOST welcome.
How is McKinley accessible though--they told us the elevator cannot be used 
to get to the 2nd floor.  I can re-contact them though if you are saying it 
can be?

>From: "Joan Nelshoppen" <jnelshoppen at insightbb.com>
>To: "'Morton K. Brussel'" <brussel4 at insightbb.com>,"'Karen Medina'" 
><kmedina at uiuc.edu>
>CC: 'AWARE peace' <peace at lists.chambana.net>
>Subject: RE: [Peace] Fwd: [Aware] venue for ICPJ conference in March?
>Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2006 11:33:24 -0600
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>Not to quibble here but if you take another look at McKinley Presbyterian,
>you'll find it is completely handicap accessible, both the foundation and
>the church.  There is also a lot of space there.  The biggest problem is
>that there is there is no parking lot.  That's okay if the event is on a
>weekend because there would be FREE parking in two nearby UI parking
>garages, each less then a block away.  There is also metered parking.
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>I'm holding an event there in December and have found the staff incredibly
>wonderful to work with.  You may want to take a second look.
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>Joan
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>From: peace-bounces at lists.chambana.net
>[mailto:peace-bounces at lists.chambana.net] On Behalf Of Morton K. Brussel
>Sent: Tuesday, November 07, 2006 10:54 AM
>To: Karen Medina
>Cc: AWARE peace
>Subject: [Peace] Fwd: [Aware] venue for ICPJ conference in March?
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>Hi Karen,
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>What do you think about this? Can we get U. space for such an event?
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>Mort
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>From: Siobhan Kolar <siobhankolar at hotmail.com>
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>Date: November 7, 2006 10:45:46 AM CST
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>To: brussel4 at insightbb.com
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>Subject: Re: [Aware] venue for ICPJ conference in March?
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>Great--can you give me some contact information for them or tell me who to
>contact about that?
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>From: "Morton K. Brussel" <brussel4 at insightbb.com>
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>To: Siobhan Kolar <siobhankolar at hotmail.com>
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>Subject: Re: [Aware] venue for ICPJ conference in March?
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>Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2006 10:09:59 -0600
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>I believe that your last entry is the most promising; we do have student
>AWARE members, and they ought to be able to commandeer University space,
>perhaps in the Illini Student Union building, but possibly in others as
>well.
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>---mkb
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>On Oct 16, 2006, at 1:22 PM, Siobhan Kolar wrote:
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>Hi,
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>Laurel had been in communication with Jan and Durl Kruse--not sure if you
>are getting this, Kruses' but I'm emailing about venues for the conference
>if we were to have it in Champaign. The 2nd ICPJ conference we are planning
>for March 31.
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>So far this is what we have found--
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>Ill Disciples Foundation - too small
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>Post office space - probably also too small in terms of breakouts and a 
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>gathering space
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>YMCA- not accessible
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>Union --main rooms we might use are booked
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>McKinley - not accessible
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>Does your group have any other venues we might check out? Are there active
>student groups that could help us hold the event on campus?
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>Siobhan Kolar
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>630-845-9418
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