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<p style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 8.5pt; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; color: black;">The program is scheduled for<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><strong><span style="font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif;">Tuesday, September 20 at 7 p.m.</span></strong><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Please meet at the Champaign County Extension office at 801 N. Country Fair Drive, Champaign, IL. This program is free and open to the public, so invite your fellow bee-enthusiast. So we can have materials for all attendees,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a style="color: #4276aa;" href="https://illinois.edu/emailer/forward2/5143162?emailAddress=ccmg-announce@lists.communitylists.org&orderId=3"><span style="color: #4276aa;">please register on our website</span></a>. </span></p>
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<p><em>Program Coordinator, Horticulture</em></p>
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<p>Champaign County</p>
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