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Marching band uniforms are seen in basement storage as band Director Jennifer Currey exits the crowded area Aug. 19 at Champaign Central High School.

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The overcrowding problems at Champaign Central and Centennial high schools have piled up over the years. Here's a small sample:

Central's band room: Room for 45. But 192? 'It's crazy.'

Built in 1956 as an addition to the school, Central's band room comfortably holds about 45 students. And that's without instruments, bands Director John Currey notes.

When it's just the choral students, he says, it's not bad. But bring in the whole orchestra, whose members require more space to move their upper torsos when they play their instruments, and things start to get tight. Add the wind students, and it's even snugger, he says.

And when you try to cram in the entire marching band 192 kids, plus instruments?

"It's maddening," Currey says.

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Fort Lewis College freshman Dan McAuliffe of Hingham, Mass., plays the drums of his dorm roommate Andrew Cranmer of Fort Collins as the two move in to their dorm room Friday.

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Fort Lewis College freshman Dan McAuliffe of Hingham, Mass., plays the drums of his dorm roommate Andrew Cranmer of Fort Collins as the two move in to their dorm room Friday.

This Thursday, Move-In Day again made for a tumultuous scene at Fort Lewis College.

Incoming freshmen lugged suitcases up to third-floor dormitories. In the parking lots, parents many of them fathers were loaded up like pack animals. Inside the residential halls, the urgency with which mothers ferried vast amounts of bedding sheets, pillow cases and comforters up staircases brought to mind laundry day at the Playboy Mansion.

FLC sophomore Elizabeth Thompson, who was posted outside Animas Halls in case newbies needed technological assistance, said when it came to furnishings, incoming freshmen were showing all the right instincts.

Minifridges are certainly out in full force, she said.

Some new students were even avoiding rookie mistakes.

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Suffering from colon cancer, 22-year-old Craig Canape spent at least 74 days in Room 370, a bleak and tired-looking room on the third floor of Fortin Tower at St. Vincent Healthcare.

Despite its glum and antiquated look and feel, the room became a home away from home for Craigs parents, Tom and Susan Canape of Laurel. It was filled with heart. They decorated the room with family and school photos and entertained Craigs friends there routinely, even hosting dinners.

Staff brought in a refrigerator, even a big-screen TV anything to make it better.

At night, Tom transformed a cubbyhole-sized waiting room nearby into a makeshift bedroom to be near his son.

We just adapted to what we had, Tom said. It was home, and we got to be with him. There could be improvements, sure, but its hard to knock it because of the excellent care we received.

Craig, often accompanied by friends and family, would escape his dismal room to visit fourth floor where the surroundings were more pleasant and appealing. Fourth floor houses the nursery and sports a new, modern, 21st century look.

You can tell third floor is probably the last floor on the list to be renovated, said Susan with a smile. Its definitely original.

All of that is about to change as St. Vincent Healthcare prepares to embark on a $4.3 million renovation of the floor so that in the future families will be surrounded by a more pleasant, peaceful environment in addition to receiving quality medical attention.

It was in Room 370 that Craig Canape, a former football and basketball player for the Laurel Locomotives, lived out his final hours.

Tom recalls the precise moment his son died 7:15 a.m., May 18, 2013.

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Eight years after the first bottle of wine was uncorked and poured for tasting room visitors at Winonas Garvin Heights Vineyards, owners Marvin and Linda Seppanen are constructing an addition to the building.

Below ground, the winery will triple in size. But the half-million dollar project wont be just a larger tasting room. For the past year the couple, along with their daughter Christine Seppanen and her husband, have been planning an event center with space for medium-size weddings of 100 or so guests, Marvin said.

On Tuesday, the Seppanens grapes rustled in the wind, seemingly undisturbed by the sound of hammering and the rhythmic pulse of the air compressor. Construction crews were hard at work laying floorboards for the event center, and cement walls stood guard over a sand floor in the lower level.

The project, which began in mid-July, will be completed sometime this fall theyre not sure precisely which day.

You know how that goes, Linda said, laughing.

Marvin, an engineering consultant, and Linda, who retired from teaching nursing at Winona State University this year, have been growing grapes at their location above Garvin Heights for 25 years. They made wine for family and friends until they reached the 200-gallon benchmark that required them to get a license.

Their four acres of grapes are augmented by grapes from at least two other growers, Marvin said, so theyre not restricted by the amount of land they have. The winery currently offers about 20 different wines to its customers.

Of course, fall is wine-making season, and theyll start making wine the first week of September in the current space. Once next year rolls around, they hope to increase production with the extra space the addition will afford.

Linda said she looks forward to offering more events in the new space. Shed like to offer classes like how to pair wine with cheese, and her daughter Christine plans to offer wine and yoga classes.

Besides that, the addition will allow the Seppanens to continue to offer their tasting room to visitors without interruption there will be a separate entrance for the event center.

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Chicago The Tigers on Friday made room for Evan Reeds addition to the active roster by dropping another right-handed reliever, Jose Ortega, who was designated for assignment.

The Tigers likely will outright Ortega to their minor-league system should he clear waivers. They could also trade him within a 10-day period. Ortega, 25, has had stints with the Tigers during the past three seasons, spanning 14 games.

He had been pitching at Triple A Toledo, where he was 2-2, with a 3.70 earned-run average in 45 games. He had 45 strikeouts in 56 innings, but he had also walked 36 batters, accounting for a dark 1.52 WHIP (walks plus hits per inning).

Reed, 28, was with the Tigers earlier this season and in his last 10 games at Toledo had a 1.93 ERA, with 16 strikeouts and a single walk in 14 innings. Earlier this month, sexual assault charges against Reed, stemming from a March incident, were dropped by a Wayne County District Court judge.

The Tigers were preparing Friday for a night game against the White Sox at U.S. Cellular Field. They are scheduled to play a day-night doubleheader Saturday, when another Toledo pitcher, left-handed starter Kyle Ryan, is scheduled to join the team. The Tigers will make a 40-man roster announcement ahead of Saturdays first game as they clear space for Ryan.

Showers and thunderstorms were forecasted for late Friday afternoon in Chicago, extending into early evening Saturday.

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IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) - A University of Iowa professor who donned a robot costume to heckle Bill Clinton and Michele Bachmann has now set his sights on one of his school's famous quirks: the visiting team's pink locker room at Kinnick Stadium.

Kembrew McLeod is organizing what he jokingly calls a "Million Robot March" to coincide with an annual celebration Friday honoring legendary Iowa football coach Hayden Fry, who had the opposing team's locker room painted pink in 1979. McLeod wants the school to ditch the pink, which he says amounts to a school-sanctioned taunt that exudes homophobia and sexism.

Fry has said pink is a calming color meant to make Hawkeyes' opponents passive. But he also noted in his biography that it was the color of little girls' bedrooms and some considered it for sissies. The tactic has rattled some opposing coaches, with the late University of Michigan coach Bo Schembechler having student managers put white paper over the walls.

The paint became part of Hawkeye lore. A 2005 renovation added pink across brick walls and shower floors and installed pink metal lockers, carpeting, sinks, showers and urinals.

Many opposing players have shrugged off the color, with Michigan quarterback Devin Gardner recently calling it the best locker room in the conference because of its spaciousness.

Some feminists, lawyers, gay rights activists and editorial boards have criticized the gimmick over the past decade. But previous protests, including a longstanding threat of a discrimination lawsuit, haven't changed anything.

Fans have generally opposed the various efforts to get the color changed, saying it's a tradition that isn't meant to be a gender-based putdown.

McLeod, a communications studies professor, hopes his absurd approach will draw attention to the issue. He said people dressed as robots will meet on top of a hotel parking garage, and then march through FryFest, an annual event that draws up to 20,000 Hawkeye fans. They plan to hold signs and chant slogans such as, "Binary code yes! Gender binaries no!" and "Delete the pink locker rooms!"

McLeod, 43, was dubbed "Roboprofessor" after he heckled Clinton during a 2008 speech in costume. He followed that up in 2011 when Bachmann, then a Republican presidential candidate, visited an Iowa City diner. Video of McLeod dressed as a "gay robot" accusing Bachmann of being a "robophobe" and a "homophobe" - before getting booed and escorted out - quickly went viral.

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