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We had a great time at our annual Chamness Care Christmas party!  This year’s theme was “Whoville”. We sang and danced and ate all the good Christmas treats.  Santa and Mrs. Clause stopped in to pass out presents.  The Grinch tried his best to ruin our party, but we didn’t let that happen!!!  We were […]

Our Annual Christmas Party was a huge success!  We want to give a huge thank you to the United Missionary Baptist Church.  They are the sweetest, most accommodating congregation.  Pastor Paul and several of the church members were on hand to help make the day special.   Martha Clover prepared the meal and worked her […]

This fine group is some of the hardest working people you will meet.  Day in and day out, they pour love, encouragement and energy into the lives of the people we serve.  We are a diverse group of Directors, Managers, Nurses, Social Workers and Maintenance crew.  We are constantly raising the bar to set new goals […]

Crystal has worked hard for years to master the art of tying her own shoe strings.  For a long time she gave up and chose to wear velcro so she could be more independent.  Recently, she was encouraged by her CILA staff Teresa and the other staff at her home to start working on it […]

2014 Chamness Care Christmas Card- our team keeps growing.   We have had had a few changes since then, but we want you to see the face of our core group. Most of our leadership has been with the company for at least a decade.  In Martha’s case she has been with the Chamness family for […]

It was so fun to attend the Valentine’s coronation at one of the local DT’s.   Several individuals who reside at Chamness Care made the Valentine’s Court.  I am pleased to announce that Crystal & Dallas were crowned King & Queen!  We are in the presence of royalty!  Does this make our CILA homes palaces? Tasha

We had such a great time at the 2015 Special Olympics at SIU.  Our athletes did such a great job and made us proud.  We had several earning gold, silver and bronze medals.  Our oldest  athlete with Gerry.  He is very serious about competition and loves the Olympics.  Special thanks to all of our staff […]

We had such a great time at our Annual Halloween Bash.  This is one of the funnest things we do each year.  (my personal favorite) The Administration from the office recruited community volunteers, family and off duty staff  to throw the biggest, funnest party ever!  We had pizza, music and games.  Everyone came with awesome […]

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