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ON THE COVER For this year’s Our Town edition celebrating the bicentennial of Columbia, Boone County and Missouri, the Tribune chose a gallery of people who were born or made their home here who made important
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contributions to the life and fame of the community. Each represents a decade of the past 200 years. 1820s: David Todd (1786-1859), First Circuit Judge of Boone County. 1830s: James S. Rollins (1812-1888), Father of the University of Missouri, attorney, member of Congress 1861-1865. 1840s: John Lathrop (1799-1866), First President of the University of Missouri. 1850s: Anne Hawkins Gentry (1791-1870), Postmistress of Columbia from 1838 to 1865. 1860s: Odon Guitar (1825-1908), Civil War general, attorney, legislator. 1870s: Tom Bass (1859-1934), born a slave near Ashland, world famous horse trainer working in Mexico, Missouri. 1880s: J.W. “Blind” Boone (1864-1927), pianist and composer credited with being one of the first to write and play the music called ragtime. 1890s: Richard Henry Jesse (1853-1921), president of the university, 1891 to 1908; oversaw the construction of
Jesse Hall and additional buildings after fire consumed Academic Hall in 1892. 1900s: Annie Fisher (18671938), overcame twin prejudices of racism and sexism to become a wealthy caterer, owning service for 1,000 people, and entrepreneur, selling “beaten biscuits” through a mail-order business. 1910s: Walter Williams (1864-1935), founder of the MU School of Journalism and president of the university from 1931 to 1935. 1920s: Helen Guthrie Miller (1862-1949), national leader for women’s suffrage and child health; delegate to the 1922 Missouri Constitutional Convention. 1930s: Frank Harris (1871-1944), three-term lieutenant governor from 1933 to 1944. 1940s: Jane Froman (1907-1980), Singer and actress; performed on Broadway, movies and radio. Severely injured in an airplane crash while touring with the USO during World War II. 1950s: Mary Paxton Keeley
(1886-1986), first woman graduate of the School of Journalism; educator at Columbia College and founder of Columbia Art League. 1960s: Muriel Battle (1930-2003), educator and first woman to serve as assistant superintendent in Columbia Public Schools. 1970s: Betty McCaskill (1928-2012), first woman elected to the Columbia City Council. 1980s: Norm Stewart, (1935-), University of Missouri basketball coach from 1967 to 1999; member of the College Basketball Hall of Fame. 1990s: Roger Wilson, (1948-), Boone County Collector, state Senator, lieutenant governor and governor. 2000s: Darwin Hindman (1933-2019), attorney, fitness advocate, key proponent of the Katy Trail, Mayor of Columbia, 1995 to 2010. 2010s: Richard King (1954-), co-founder of The Blue Note and organizer of the Roots N Blues N BBQ festival. Background: Map of Columbia circa 1870.
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CALENDAR OF EVENTS
JANUARY Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration Through art, music, dance, awards, discussion and food, residents celebrate diversity and the memory of Martin Luther King Jr. www.gocolumbiamo.com. North Village Arts District First Fridays The first Friday of each month, venues in the North Village Arts District host a crawl with entertainment and educational opportunities. www.facebook. com/NorthVillageArts-District.
FEBRUARY Black History Month Art and film events, community conversations and celebrations featuring food and gospel music gather residents to celebrate Black History Month. www. gocolumbiamo.com.
MARCH True/False Film Fest Drawing in documentary filmmakers and fans from across the country, the annual event features some films discovered at Sundance, Toronto and other festivals as well as world premieres. Attendees watch screenings, talk with directors, listen to buskers and celebrate at parties between films. www.truefalse.org. Missouri Beer Festival At this festival held sometime each spring, attendees sample various microbrews and craft beers, including a number of selections from Missouri breweries. Local vendors create a food court, and live music is performed. www. missouribeerfestival.com.
APRIL Unbound Book Festival A free book festival celebrating literature and bringing in authors across a number of different genres, including fiction, non-fiction, children’s literature and poetry. The event features author interviews, panels on a range of bookrelated subjects and writing contests. www.unboundbookfestival.com. Earth Day Hosted by the Columbia Earth Day Coalition, the event features music, games, workshops and displays on going green.
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It takes place in MU’s Peace Park and on surrounding streets. www.columbiaearthday.org.
MAY Bike, Walk & Wheel Week The week of events promoting nonmotorized transportation includes a focus on bicycle commuting, safety, trail riding and more. www.gocolumbiamo.com. Movies in the Park Family-friendly films are screened outdoors in Flat Branch Park on Friday evenings, once a month, May through September. www.gocolumbiamo.com. Family Fun Fest Held the third Wednesday of every month from May through September. Located at Cosmo Park, the event features a new theme each month and provides family-focused entertainment through music, performances, art activities and more. www.gocolumbiamo.com. Stephens Lake Park Amphitheater Concert Series This series of free musical performances runs from May through September featuring local acts in an outdoor setting. www.gocolumbiamo.com.
Pedaler’s Jamboree Held each Memorial Day weekend, this event combines a music festival and trail ride with stops along the Katy Trail. www.pedalersjamboree.com. Centralia Anchor Fest A part of life in Centralia since 1987, this family-friendly festival features live music, food, sports, car and tractor shows and more. Traditionally held the weekend after Memorial Day. www.centraliamochamber.com/anchor-festival. html.
JUNE Columbia Art League’s Art in the Park During the first weekend of June, this free-entry, family-oriented event celebrates art by bringing in artists from across the country. www.artintheparkcolumbia.org. Shelter Gardens Concert Series Columbia ensembles perform free Sunday-evening concerts, typically in June and July in this pastoral setting. Styles and performers range from community bands and classical music to bluegrass and Cajun bands. www. shelterinsurance.com/aboutshelter/ companyevents/.
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Juneteenth Black heritage is celebrated at Douglass Park in central Columbia with bands, choirs, speakers, games and food. www.gocolumbiamo.com.
at First Baptist Church. The series consistently calls on local talent, yet mingles in guest performers from across the country and world. Concerts generally get underway in October and run through May. Odyssey also works with a number of other cultural organizations to present The Plowman Chamber Music Competition and Festival during the spring of odd-number years. odysseymissouri.org.
Hot Summer Nights A six-week lineup of musical performances ranges from classical to pop. The event sponsored by the Missouri Symphony Society provides entertainment to all ages with a diverse repertoire. www.mosymphonysociety. org.
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◄ Fire in the Sky Annual free fireworks celebration of the Fourth of July will take place in downtown Columbia. www.gocolumbiamo.com. Show-Me State Games The Olympic-style sports event hosts competitors in approximately 40 sports, including judo, tennis, golf and soccer, to promote healthy competition and sportsmanship. www.smsg.org. Mizzou International Composers Festival Audiences are exposed to musical world premieres during this festival, where established composers mingle with and coach emerging composers from across the globe. newmusicsummerfestival. missouri.edu.
AUGUST MidMo Pridefest An annual celebration of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, questioning and ally community in MidMissouri. This event features music, food, vendors, children’s activities and information on community organizations. www.midmopride.org.
and tradesmen to demonstrate their trades and sell their wares. The event also provides music, hay rides, children’s activities and more. www.gocolumbiamo.com. Roots N Blues N BBQ festival ▲ Held in Stephens Lake Park, this large celebration features a variety of music, food and other entertainment, drawing in thousands of people from across the country. www.rootsnbluesnbbq.com.
OCTOBER Hartsburg Pumpkin Festival Held the second full weekend in October in Hartsburg, the event features craft vendors and a variety of pumpkinrelated activities, plus lots of pumpkins for sale in all shapes, sizes and colors. www.hartsburgpumpkinfest.com. University of Missouri Homecoming Celebrate with a parade and tailgates, plus myriad campus activities over the preceding week, including extravagant Greektown house decorations. www. missouri.edu.
SEPTEMBER
“We Always Swing” Jazz Series The jazz program brings in top talents to Columbia, offering an educational program and films to promote, preserve and celebrate jazz. Performances generally start in October and are scheduled through the following spring. wealwaysswing.org.
Boone County Heritage Festival and Craft Show The festival celebrates the history of Mid-Missouri by bringing in artisans
Odyssey Chamber Music Series This concert series presents intimate yet ambitious chamber music performances
Boone Dawdle The True/False Film Fest hosts this annual summer bike ride from Columbia to Rocheport, where a dinner is served and a film is screened. www.truefalse. org/dawdle.
Spooktacular This annual and free alternative to door-to- door trick-or-treating on Halloween night features games, activities and treats. www.gocolumbiamo.com.
NOVEMBER Columbia Jaycees Holiday Parade On the Sunday before Thanksgiving, this kid-friendly event includes a parade with visits by Santa and Mrs. Claus. www. columbiamojaycees.com. Black Culture Awareness Week Centered on the mission of the Gaines/ Oldham Black Culture Center at MU, the weeklong event features a soul food dinner, musical performances, guest speakers and discussions. diversity.missouri.edu.
DECEMBER Living Windows Festival On the first Friday in December, the downtown district hosts live window displays, strolling carolers, visits with Santa and more. www.discoverthedistrict.com. Holiday Homes Tour Serving as the primary fundraiser for the Women’s Symphony League, the tour features some of Columbia’s most decorated homes to celebrate the holiday season. The event hosts a silent auction and bake sale. mosymphonysociety.org/ womens-symphony- league. City Kwanzaa Celebration This annual event celebrates the black holiday based around family and community. A free holiday feast, entertainment and community awards will be given at the event. www.gocolumbiamo. com.
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GREEK TOWN
COLUMBIA HAS B EEN CALLED A MO DERN ATH EN S — D OES T HE COM PARI SON HOLD WATER?
BY LAUREN MIERS Columbia Daily Tribune
Columbia as the Athens of Missouri: It’s a comparison that elevates our city to the legend of Greece’s innovative center. Widely regarded as the birthplace of democracy and Western civilization, the artists and thought leaders that called Athens home laid the roots and foundations for much of culture as we know it. Some would say Columbia has more than old stone columns in common with the ancient city. Does Columbia stack up? Do we, as a city, set the trend and pave the way for Missouri’s culture? See what local experts have to say.
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ALEX GEORGE As a published novelist (with his seventh title on the way in May 2020), owner of Skylark Bookshop and founder of the Unbound Book Festival, Alex George has his finger on the pulse of Columbia’s literary scene. He asserts that Columbia continues to be an Athens-esque hotbed for culture because of the smart and engaged community that attracts it. “I always knew that a book festival would work well here because we have a community that embraces these kinds of things,” George said. “You don’t do these things in a vacuum; you need to have an audience for it. We’re really lucky to have a community that embraces these sorts of artistic things. That’s the key.” It’s no secret that Columbia loves its festivals, but its affinity for the arts runs much deeper. George illustrated this by recounting a recent Thursday night out. He went to a poetry reading — but if he hadn’t attended that, he could have seen the University of Missouri Choral Union perform Mozart or listened in at a fiction reading at Fretboard Coffee. With regular jazz performances from the “We Always Swing” Jazz Series, productions from GreenHouse Theatre Project (among many others) and open-mic poetry readings via the OneMic collective, options abound for entertainment and cultural experiences in Columbia. “You don’t have to travel down I-70 to experience world-class acts,” George said. “They’re right here on our doorstep.” In April the Unbound Book Festival brought 57 poets and authors to Columbia for its fourth festival. Attended by 9,000 this year and drawing keynotes from authors like George Saunders, the festival is proving to the publishing world that Missouri isn’t just flyover territory. “It’s all very well putting Columbia on the map, but that’s not really the point,” George said. “The point is the difference we’re making in people’s lives.”
“You don’t have to travel down I-70 to experience world-class acts. They’re right here on our doorstep,” said author, Unbound Book Festival founder and Skylark Bookshop co-owner Alex George [COURTESY]
George says anecdotally the Unbound team hears that the festival is making reading relevant again. Outside the festival weekend, George is cultivating a bookish community around Skylark Bookshop, located on Ninth Street. Opening in August 2018, Skylark uses its space as a platform by holding events for local authors and supporting and stocking their work. George said the shop hosts a local writer night for those who are self-published or those don’t have a traditional publishing deal. The available spaces fill almost immediately, George said, citing Columbia’s endless stream of talent and creative energy and the need for venues to showcase it. “I would say that the key word with
an independent bookstore ought to be discovery,” George said. “It’s about finding things that you didn't actually know that you wanted until you walked in and found them under your fingers.” This sense of discovery is led by curiosity and followed by learning, which ultimately leads to an engaged, educated populace. This band of readers and writers attracts and engages with all types of arts and culture, creating a feedback loop that continually elevates the offerings and opportunities in Columbia. “We have every reason to be very proud of this community,” George said. “As small as we are, I think it’s extraordinary that we punch above our weight in many ways. It’s not about the people who put these things together; it’s about the audience.”
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Jazz icon Branford Marsalis will return to Columbia as part of the 2019-20 “We Always Swing” Jazz Series [COURTESY]
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KENNY GREENE
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If Columbia is Athens, then the North Village Arts District would be its beating heart, the city’s epicenter of innovative and artistic culture. “We have breweries. We have wineries. We have distilleries. We have culinary delights of all kinds,” Kenny Greene said. “And we have each other.” For 35 years Greene, owner of Monarch Jewelry, has done business in the North Village Art District. An artist himself, he creates handcrafted jewelry that can be spotted on necks, wrists and ring fingers all over town. He is the current president of the North Village Art District’s board of directors and can attest that the area and the artists in it work consistently and continually to elevate Columbia’s culture. Several businesses and entrepreneurs call the North Village home. Artists — such as Shannon Webster and Tootie Burns — work alongside shops, services and eateries, such as Drinkraft and Coming Home, a home goods store. The North Village lives up to its name: It’s Columbia’s most concentrated area of art galleries, including staples like the Sager Braudis Gallery, Orr Street Studio and Artlandish Gallery. First Friday brings all of North Village’s players to life for one night a month. Galleries stay open late and entertainers come out to play, so guests can experience the area’s quirky culture after hours. “We’re the cultural center that radiates out into the rest of the city,” Greene said. Greene asserts we could have more culture and art if we invested in it. He said many of our local and state government officials don’t understand the importance of a healthy art community, which was vital to the growth and vibrancy of places like Athens and Florence in their heyday. “They feel that artists are going to [create] no matter what, which is one of the problems because artists do,” Greene said. “They do things on a wish and a prayer. They work jobs so they can do their art. They supplement their incomes, and they give to organizations over and over again to keep the arts going. But they're working with so little, and they could do so much more.” Greene said that’s why he volunteers for arts organizations; it’s another way of adding value by committing his time and resources to help build what he finds important. “We have been really proud of what we've done as an arts organization within North Village,” Greene said. “There are so many other people in town that support the arts and support the community and show and know the value of our work.”
Without innovation and risk-taking new ideas, Athens wouldn’t have been the groundbreaking, democracyestablishing birthplace of Western culture we know it to be. The innovation that took place on the streets and in the community defined its place in history. Jennifer Schenck says Columbia has a similar spirit — one focused more on collaboration than competition. Schenck co-founded and co-owns The Connection Exchange, a welcome service for new businesses and new residents in the area, and serves on the community organizing team for 1 Million Cups, a weekly gathering where new businesses present ideas and get feedback from the community. “If we're all working together, we're all improving, “ Schenck said. “If we all have that higher level of energy and interest in each other, then it's just going to make the community as a whole better and improved because of it.” A few factors propel Columbia’s innovative spirit. Our city has multiple co-working spaces, like The Hatchery and REDI Innovation Hub, where Columbia can come together to both work individually and co-create. Schenck said the city’s colleges and universities and its young entrepreneurs encourage a vibrant, engerized spirit. The business community is invested, both in time and money, in fostering new ideas. Figures from all aspects of the business world, including entrepreneurs, academics, investors, sole proprietors, business professionals and side hustlers, come together weekly at 1 Million Cups to work towards this common goal. Schenck said the event includes time for presentations, tough questions and connectionbuilding conversations. The concept is centered around the question of "What can our community do for you, new business owner)?" Healthy competition and curiosity encourages innovators to spur each other on for the betterment of the community. Small businesses and start-ups band together in Columbia in a collaborative and supportive way, similar to the communities we have centered on local art and new food. “I don't think you see that in other communities with this population size,” Schenck said. “Columbia just has this really funky, awesome vibe to it that I think you’d be more likely find in a place like Austin, Texas. That's such a huge population metro area, but yet we have those kinds of things here.” Schenck cites concepts like rolled ice cream, cat cafes, ax throwing and growler filling stations as some of our city’s unique businesses. Columbia acts as fertile ground for the seeds of new ideas. Schenck’s own business is a testament to this: She started The Connection Exchange four years ago and now has two locations in St. Louis and one in Springfield with the goal of going nationwide.
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In this 2016 file photo, Giovanni Bartolacci arranges orange slices on a kale salad at the Columbia Area Career Center. [TRIBUNE FILE PHOTO]
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SUCCESS CACC students know what’s cooking BY LAUREN MIERS Columbia Daily Tribune
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he third-block bell chimes, and the kitchen begins to bustle. High school students in crisp chef’s coats and white hats collect utensils and ingredients as they begin cooking up the day’s assignment. It’s more hands-on than English class, but every bit as useful. The Columbia Area Career Center’s culinary program equips today’s high schoolers to be the chefs of tomorrow. Some will take their skills to commercial, restaurant-style kitchen environments around the world. Others will apply the practical life skills, like time management and promptness, in less foodfocused ways.
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Chef Jeff Rayl transitioned the then restaurant management and service course to a culinary arts class in 1997. The class met only at Hickman High School in a room with one four-burner demonstration table, similar to the stovetop you’d find at home. Chef Brook Harlan, the culinary program’s department chair and a chef instructor, graduated from Rock Bridge in 1999. Harlan took Creative Cuisine 1 and 2, both cooking classes in the Family and Consumer Science department, during his high school years. Post-grad Harlan attended the Culinary Institute of America and started classes not knowing basic knife cuts or meat fabrication. “If I had a fraction of what the students here have now, I would have felt way more comfortable when I got to the Culinary Institute of America,” Harlan said. Today three campuses — Battle and Hickman high schools alongside the CACC campus — host 150 high school students enrolled in the program, which is led by four full-time staff chefs, Rayl, Harlan, John Minor and Katie Frink, who graduated from the CACC culinary program in 2006. During Frink’s time in the program, the only professional kitchen was in the basement of Rock Bridge, and the kitchen at Hickman was a family and consumer science class setup. Her senior year, Frink was among the first group to take the Baking and Pastry Arts course — a class she now teaches. At that time, the program was not as established, and the district was not able to allocate the budget the program has now, Frink said. Students hosted a weekly buffet at the high school to recoup the cost spent on class that week. The curriculum centered on the menu for the week’s buffet. “It has evolved and grown in a good way,” she said. Frink’s Baking and Pastry Art class covers new techniques not taught in the Culinary
Arts 1 and 2 courses and centers on skills that are relevant in any baking and pastry kitchen. The year begins with breads, both yeast and quick, followed by pies and tarts. At Thanksgiving, the class works to make mass amounts of holiday pies to sell. Frink said the repetition and scale of the sales helps replicate a real-world experience. Semester Two includes cookies; cakes, both icing and decorating; pastry elements, like mousse and meringues; and finishes with frozen desserts. Before students can try their hand at making the sweet stuff, they have to pass Culinary Arts 1, a course Harlan teaches. The class covers the building blocks to a successful kitchen, such as sanitation, stocks, knife cuts, and cooking and fabricating meats. Harlan said not all students in the culinary program have food-focused aspirations. Even so, food-related skills developed in the kitchen translate into everyday life. “We have to do this thing called a timeline or a game plan,” said Giovanni Bartolacci, a CACC culinary program alum and current Culinary Institute of America student. “Essentially, we write out what needs to get done and what order to do it in. It’s important to have that skill even if you aren’t in the cooking field.” In April, Harlan’s Culinary Arts 1 students were in the midst of their egg unit. Students had the duration of the 90-minute class to prepare 10 eggs in 10 different ways — think omelet, over-easy and poached. Each chef-in-training serves their plate of eggs to Harlan for evaluation. Thankfully he doesn’t have to taste-test the eggs. He pokes and prods them with a spoon and peppers the student with questions about temperature, cook time and visual characteristics. The following week students took those basic egg skills and translated them into more complex dishes, like breakfast burritos, french toast and egg sandwiches.
US Air Force Concert Band & the Singing Sergeants Thursday, October 19 7 p.m., Jesse Auditorium
The Beach Boys
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LA Theatre Works: The Mountaintop Monday, February 19 7 p.m., Jesse Auditorium
Sweet Honey in the Rock Sunday, February 25 7 p.m., Jesse Auditorium
Mummenschanz: you & me Wednesday, March 7 7 p.m., Jesse Auditorium
112 Seasons of Bringing Performers Show Me Opera: Alcina Pablo Ferrandez of Prestige to Mid-Missouri
Festival of South African Dance Thursday, November 2 7 p.m., Jesse Auditorium
Wednesday November 15 7 p.m., Missouri Theatre
MU Choral Union; Elijah Thursday November 16 7 p.m., Jesse Auditorium
Missouri Contemporary Ballet; Eclipse in Movement November 17-18 7 p.m., Missouri Theatre
Danu: A Christmas Gathering Feile na Nollag Saturday, December 2 7 p.m., Missouri Theatre
The Great Russian Nutcracker Monday December 4 7 p.m., Jesse Auditorium
Garth Fagan Dance Company Saturday, January 27 7 p.m., Jesse Auditorium
Antonio Sanchez: Birdman Live Thursday, February 8 7 p.m., Missouri Theatre
March 9-10 7 p.m., Missouri Theatre
Missouri Contemporary Ballet: Cinderella
A Collaboration with Odyssey Chamber Music Series
March 16-17 7 p.m., Missouri Theatre
Staatskapelle Weimar Sunday, March 18 3 p.m., Jesse Auditorium
Cameron Carpenter: International Touring Organ Friday, April 6 7 p.m., Missouri Theatre
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Celebrating 100 Years of Mizzou Music Monday, April 9 7 p.m., Missouri Theatre
MU Choral Union: Chichester Psalms and Missa Solemnis Thursday, April 19 7 p.m., Jesse Auditorium
Moscow Festival Ballet: Cinderella Tuesday, April 24 7 p.m., Jesse Auditorium
Dublin Irish Dance: Stepping Out
Missoula Children’s Theatre: Snow White & the Seven Dwarfs Saturday, April 28 Information on our exciting season can be found at www.concertseries.org 3 & 6 p.m., Jesse Auditorium
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At the same time, the Culinary Arts 2 students were preparing for their endof-course exam, which is proctored to American Culinary Federation standards by outside chefs. If they pass, students receive a certification through the ACF as well as a good grade. In addition to equipping students for real-world culinary work, CACC helps students connect with the community through partnerships with the True/False Film Fest and the Columbia Center for Urban Agriculture’s Harvest Hootenanny. In the case of True/False, festival events coordinator Johanna Cox pitches the opportunity to create appetizers for the festival’s events to each Culinary 2 class. Harlan equates the experience to talking with a client. Students group together and come up with recipes to pitch to the event. Harlan and the staff evaluate the pitches and make final recommendations to True/ False on what to serve. CACC’s culinary program is more than just teaching high schoolers to prepare themselves something other than microwaveable Ramen post-graduation. For some it’s a chance to get vocational training in their area of interest before graduation. Current CACC culinary student Rachel Riegel always knew she wanted to work with food, so when she moved from Michigan and saw her new high school had culinary classes, she was excited. She enrolled and knew it would be a focus for her high school education. Riegel spends every spare moment in the CACC kitchen — she works during her lunch hour and took both Culinary Arts 2 and Baking and Pastry Arts during the 2018-2019 school year. This fall, her senior year, Riegel will complete two independent studies, one focused on culinary and the other on baking. Outside of CACC, Riegel works at the Wine Cellar, a job Chef Frink
helped her get. “Anyone can cook at home, but being in this environment where you’re in a professional kitchen and using this type of equipment is really helpful both for skills and working in a restaurant,” Riegel said. In April Riegel won the state title in the SkillsUSA commercial baking competition and represented Missouri at the national competition in Louisville, Kentucky in June. She isn’t the only CACC student to take home the Missouri SkillsUSA title: Riegel is the latest in a long line of winning chefs, who have won both state titles and national championships. Bartolacci won the 2016 SkillsUSA national championship in the culinary category. Now a senior at the Culinary Institute of America, he enrolled in the CACC culinary program because he likes to eat, but the program led him to his passion and career path. CACC’s program gave Bartolacci an advantage in culinary school. He remembers being familiar with most of the skills taught in his first culinary fundamentals class at the Institute. His preparedness helped him to hone and refine those basic skills further and focus in on skills he wasn’t familiar with. “I definitely learned dedication and commitment,” Bartolacci said. “Going into it, I wasn’t dedicated, but by my senior year I was completely committed. I was showing up at the Career Center every day at 6:30 a.m., and I was in the kitchen almost all day until 4 p.m. During that time, it never really felt like work because we were just having fun cooking and figuring out different things.” Bartolacci’s final semester at CIA will take him to Napa Valley, where he will learn about sustainable practices as part of his farm-to-table emphasis. After graduating CIA, Bartolacci plans to move to Italy to work.
TREAT YOURSELF Wondering how to get your hands on these tasty student creations? Half of the program’s budget comes from outside sales. What students make in class gets sent over to a chef to be standardized, finished and frozen for sale to the public. Visit www.caccculinary.com for more information.
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The Montminy Gallery during this summer’s Small Art/Big Stories exhibit [PHOTO BY BETHANIE IRONS/COURTESY MONTMINY GALLERY]
COMMUNITY VISION Montminy Gallery artfully ties together past, present, future BY LAUREN MIERS Columbia Daily Tribune
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t would be easy to say the Montminy Gallery is an unexpected or hidden outlet for art in our city, mostly due to its location. But that isn’t the case. The Montminy, located at the Boone Historical Museum in south Columbia, challenges viewers to consider the intersection of curiosity and art, charting innovative territory for the future of arts in our city. “Tracy Montminy’s wish for the gallery was that it would be a place that Boone County residents could show, promote and sell their work,” Montminy Gallery
Director and Curator Kate Gray said. “That mission is the benchmark for all the shows.” Established in 1993, the gallery was a gift from local artist and University of Missouri professor Tracy Montminy. Montminy and her husband Pierre were pillars in the Columbia arts community. After Pierre passed away, Tracy wanted to share their significant collection with Boone County. The result was the the area’s largest for-profit art gallery — and its vaults — attached to the Boone County Historical Museum.
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Gallery director and curator Kate Gray flips through artwork in the vault at the Montminy Gallery at the Boone County Historical Society on Friday, April 12, 2019. [HUNTER DYKE/TRIBUNE]
Though the gallery is nestled at the back of the historical museum, history isn’t completely separated from the art: A stately grand piano commands a corner of the Montminy. As its former owner, Blind Boone, was a prominent figure in the community, his oak piano, a later addition to the space, sits as a centerpiece. Past meets present in the gallery, keeping close at mind where we’ve come from and how some of Columbia’s artistic seeds first blossomed. As further reminder, large-scale works by the Montminys hang on either side of the hallway connecting the museum to the gallery. They act as a bridge, uniting art and history and reminding guests of the local artists that brought the gallery to life. Intentional and spacious, the Montminy allows one artist to exhibit over 50 pieces on the wide white walls. Attendees are invited to peruse the open space and explore the gallery’s unique shape.
“It’s not like things are hidden, but you go on a journey as you walk through the different arms of the gallery,” said Kirsteen Buchanan, local designer and Stephens College professor. “It gives a sense of discovery.” Buchanan will display her work as part of the Small Art/Big Stories show this summer. With history at its hip and Tracy’s mission in mind, the Montminy writes a unique narrative. Averaging around six exhibitions annually, the gallery features new and fresh work from underrepresented voices and not-for-profits alongside curated educational experiences. In 2018, the Montminy exhibited shows like the What is Columbia?, a photography exhibition which invited 10 local photographers to answer that question through images; a show uniting local artists Kelly Coalier and David Spear; and the Access Arts: Building Community show, featuring works from the center’s students and instructors.
Local artist Jenny McGee displayed a collection of experimental abstract pieces in the Artist and Educator Women’s Collective show in early 2018. Her mixed-media work centered on courage, and McGee says the show made her feel honored, embraced and well-represented. She especially appreciated the attention to detail the Montminy took in displaying her work. “It was overall just a positive, intimate and authentic experience in a gallery setting, which isn’t always the case,” McGee said. “Oftentimes there’s work on the walls, and you feel this disconnect of what was the artist’s intention for the work. In this exhibit the artist and viewer perspective and communication felt very clear.” As part of the Artist and Educator Women’s Collective exhibition, the Montminy hosted a panel for the artists to discuss their work and converse with the audience. McGee said that experience brought connection with the crowd.
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UPCOMING SHOWS THROUGH JULY 28 Small Art/Big Stories, featuring 15 artists exhibiting works no larger than 8 by 10 inches AUGUST 3 - SEPTEMBER 1 The Residence: Access Arts, including works from Access Arts Residents SEPTEMBER 7 - NOVEMBER 3 A Relationship with Color, featuring work centered on color and communication from Jenn Wiggs, John Fennell and Scott Patrick Myers NOVEMBER 8-10 Weavers and Spinners Guild Show, showcasing work by the local artisans guild NOVEMBER 23 - JANUARY 26, 2020 Mid-Missouri Arts Alliance, featuring artwork from alliance membership Â
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The artistic process pairs with the work through additional displays in the exhibit — like the artist studio setup during Gladys Swan’s early 2019 exhibition or the thoughtful placards providing context for the work, detailing the artist’s background and intention for the display. A participatory show in 2018, What Does Art Do?, invited guests to ask themselves that question as they entered and exited
the space. The responses created an evolving, collaborative piece that was on display for the duration of the show. Gray’s emphasis on education means guests can get a glimpse into the artist’s thought process as they explore their body of work and the exhibit’s concept. “Art isn’t just a painting hanging on a wall,” Gray said. “It’s about process. It’s a creative process.”
Artwork by spotlight artist Matthew Ballou is seen at the Montminy Gallery at the Boone County Historical Society on Friday, April 12, 2019. [HUNTER DYKE/TRIBUNE]
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Rob Harris introduces a participant before a stand-up routine during a monthly comedy showcase at Rose Music Hall on Wednesday, April 24, 2019. [HUNTER DYKE/TRIBUNE]
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t’s Tuesday night. Chatter from the nearby FieldHouse patio bubbles into the quiet evening. A small wooden sandwich board sign advertising drink deals and a 10 p.m. comedy show sits outside Eastside Tavern. The sidewalk is otherwise empty. Inside the bar isn’t much fuller. A few comedians and their supporters rest atop barstools and cluster around tables. Some pace or wander around the homey space known for its mismatched decor. Last-minute jokes are scribbled on index cards and notepads while the first round of drinks are downed. No one sits in the small collection of chairs arranged around the bar’s similarly-sized stage, not until just after 10 p.m. when the weekly As Yet Unnamed Comedy show begins. Columbia’s comedy club isn’t a building — it’s a group of people. Members of the small-butmighty scene make us laugh regularly with their honest and creative storytelling. They’re not dying to be noticed, though they would love if you’d show your support by attending a show. “We have this little community that I really love,” local comedian Clayton Mistler said.
“Everyone in it does comedy because they love it.” Mistler regularly hosts the weekly As Yet Unnamed Comedy Show at Eastside Tavern and co-hosts Rose Music Hall’s monthly Pints and Punchlines showcase with Rob Harris and Tyler King. Both Mistler and Harris agree performing at Eastside is the gateway to time behind the mic in Columbia, something Harris equates to riding a roller coaster. Just before the clock strikes 10, Mistler gathers those performing onstage for a huddle. As showtime draws, near the audience fills with both aspiring comedians, hopeful to get their name in the lineup one day, and spectators. Those audience members could be sitting at home watching the latest Netflix comedy special from the comfort of their recliners. Instead they chose to see comedy live. It’s participating and interacting with art: The audience reacts to the performer, who reacts to the audience. It’s an endless, uncut feedback loop that a TV or laptop can’t possibly replicate. Plus, comedians riff off of shared experiences, so local performers can weave in jokes about the things we collectively love to hate, like Bird scooters and politics.
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“John Mulaney started out at something like Pints and Punchlines or the As Yet Unnamed Comedy Show,” Mistler said. “There are people from Columbia who now perform in Los Angeles and New York that got their start at these shows.” On this particular Tuesday, Ellie Bonilla, Cole Brendel and Max Roberts, among others, are set to perform. After Mistler kicks off the show with a few jokes of his own, the comedians take the stage one-by-one. Some jokes bomb and others take life in the audience’s laughter. Either way, As Yet Unnamed serves as a launch pad for those who hope to make a name for themselves. Harris said he has seen the comedy community grow over the six years he’s been involved. Pints and Punchlines is a staple of the scene. For just a few bucks, attendees can see a handful of local and regional comedians hold court. Mistler and Harris source talent from all over the state as well as right here at home. Heading into its fourth year, Pints and Punchlines has a modest following of around 120 attendees monthly, growing from the initial 15 to 20, Harris said. Harris loves the community at Eastside, but hopes Columbia can have an actual comedy club with a few nights a week dedicated to comedic
acts. There’s need for a training ground to workshop material, get feedback, polish up and gain a following. As for out-of-town acts, The Blue Note’s new CoMo Comedy Club series is filling the void left when Deja Vu closed in 2016. Now the likes of Drew Lynch, of “America’s Got Talent” fame, and Fortune Feimster, from “Chelsea Lately” and “The Mindy Project,” grace the venue’s stage. Otherwise, comedy in Columbia occurs in unexpected places, like at Eastside or at Sidelines sports bar, which hosts a monthly show organized and hosted by Caleb Wright and Kovoski George. Unlike other art forms in town, there’s no brickand-mortar gallery to pass or marquee advertising the next show. Underground would be too strong of a word, but the Columbia comedy scene is something to be sought out. As the night continues at Eastside, comedians taking the mic were honest and vulnerable. Topics like sexuality, death and addiction weaved through much of the material. Some punchlines fell flat, leaving the comedians to pick themselves up, shake it off and keep going. No matter how the set went, it always ended with raucous applause in support of the performer’s effort and courage.
MAKE IT UP AS YOU GO: COLUMBIA'S IMPROV SCENE When it comes to laughs, stand-up isn’t the only comedic option in town. Several improv troupes, like The Stable Boys, call Columbia home. Established in 2018, The Stable Boys performs long-format improv and are the house improv troupe at Talking Horse Theater. Member Monica Palmer said when most people think improv, they think TV’s “Whose Line is it Anyway?” Instead, long-format improv focuses on making up an entire play, complete with character development and interaction. The story evolves, or devolves, over the course of the evening. “Audiences really get to be a part of the creation of something, which that's rare,” Palmer said. “Normally when you go to a theater, the scripts were written years before. With improv it’s all fresh. It's all happening right in front of your eyes, and you're a part of it.” Improv and stand-up bear similarities in the crowd’s laughter, but how you get there, the methodology, is entirely different. Stand-up is fueled with prepared content based on lived experiences, and the mundane that everyone encounters and can share a laugh over. Improv, however, is a living document, so to speak, and a team effort. “With improv, you and your team are living this experience together with a live audience right there in front of you,” Palmer said. “There's nothing scarier or more fun than I've ever done on stage.”
— Lauren Miers
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Clayton Mistler performs a stand-up routine during a monthly comedy showcase at Rose Music Hall on Wednesday, April 24, 2019. [HUNTER DYKE/TRIBUNE]
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EDUCATION IN COLUMBIA
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Hickman High School graduates applaud others while sitting with their medals and awards during a commencement ceremony at Mizzou Arena. [TRIBUNE FILE]
with a “What Parents Want” award. Columbia also offers a number of private school options from preschool through high school, with two Catholic schools and three other faith-based academies, several Montessori options for early childhood education and a secular independent school.
and 80-90 percent of Columbia students extend their education beyond high school. Columbia Public Schools has been recognized as a District of Distinction by District Administration magazine, a Top 15 School District ranking by Niche.com and has been nationally recognized by SchoolMatch
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SCHOOL LISTINGS HIGH SCHOOLS (GRADES 9-12) Battle High School 7575 St. Charles Road 573-214-3300 www.cpsk12.org/bhs
Hickman High School 1104 N. Providence Road 573-214-3000 www.cpsk12.org/hhs
Douglass High School 310 N. Providence Road 573-214-3680 www.cpsk12.org/dhs
Rock Bridge High School 4303 S. Providence Road 573-214-3100 www.cpsk12.org/rbhs
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MIDDLE SCHOOLS (GRADES 6-8) Gentry Middle School 4200 Bethel Street 573-214-3240 www.cpsk12.org/gms Jefferson Middle School 713 Rogers Street 573-214-3210 www.cpsk12.org/jms Lange Middle School 2201 E. Smiley Lane 573-214-3250 www.cpsk12.org/lms Oakland Middle School 3405 Oakland Place 573-214-3220 www.cpsk12.org/oms Smithton Middle School 3600 W. Worley Street 573-214-3260 www.cpsk12.org/sms West Middle School 401 Clinkscales Road 573-214-3230 www.cpsk12.org/wms
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(GRADES K-5) Alpha Hart Lewis Elementary 5801 Arbor Pointe Parkway 573-214-3200 www.cpsk12.org/ahl Benton STEM Elementary 1410 Hinkson Avenue 573-214-3610 www.cpsk12.org/bee Beulah Ralph Elementary 5806 S. Hwy. KK 573-214-3840 www.cpsk12.org/beu Blue Ridge Elementary 3700 Woodland Drive 573-214-3580 www.cpsk12.org/bre Cedar Ridge Elementary 2345 Howell Mountain Drive 573-214-3510 www.cpsk12.org/cre Derby Ridge Elementary 4000 Derby Ridge Drive 573-214-3270 www.cpsk12.org/dre Eliot Battle Elementary 2600 Battle Avenue 573-214-3790 www.cpsk12.org/bes Fairview Elementary 909 Fairview Road 573-214-3590 www.cpsk12.org/fve
Grant Elementary 10 E. Broadway 573-214-3520 www.cpsk12.org/gre Lee Expressive Arts Elementary 1208 Locust Street 573-214-3530 www.cpsk12.org/lee Midway Heights Elementary 8130 W. Highway 40 573-214-3540 www.cpsk12.org/mwe Mill Creek Elementary 2200 W. Nifong Boulevard 573-214-3280 www.cpsk12.org/mce New Haven Elementary 3301 New Haven Road 573-214-3640 www.cpsk12.org/nhe Parkade Elementary 111 Parkade Boulevard 573-214-3630 www.cpsk12.org/pke Mary Paxton Keeley Elementary 201 Park DeVille Drive 573-214-3570 www.cpsk12.org/pax Ridgeway Elementary 107 E. Sexton Road 573-214-3550 www.cpsk12.org/rwe Rock Bridge Elementary 5151 Highway 163 S. 573-214-3290 www.cpsk12.org/rbe Russell Boulevard Elementary 1800 W. Rollins Road 573-214-3650 www.cpsk12.org/rus Shepard Boulevard Elementary 2616 Shepard Boulevard 573-214-3660 www.cpsk12.org/she Two Mile Prairie Elementary 5450 N. Route Z 573-214-3560 www.cpsk12.org/tmp West Boulevard Elementary 319 West Boulevard 573-214-3670 www.cpsk12.org/wbe
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Apple School 573-449-7525 www.appleschoolmo.org Children’s House Montessori of Columbia 573-443-2825 www.comomontessori.com Christian Chapel Academy 573-874-2325 www.cca-columbia.com
Christian Fellowship School 573-445-8565 www.cfsknights.org College Park Christian Academy 573-445-6315 www.cpchristian.org Columbia Christian Academy 573-441-1140, ext. 206 www.fwcacademy.org Columbia Independent School 573-777-9250 www.cislions.org Columbia Montessori School 573-449-5418 www.columbiamontessori.org Good Shepherd Lutheran School 573-445-5878 www.columbialutheran.org Heritage Academy 573-449-2252 heritageacademyofcolumbia.com Our Lady of Lourdes Interparish School 573-445-6516 ollisk8.org Shalom Christian Academy 573-256-4824 shalomchristianacademy.com Stephens College Children’s School 573-876-7260 stephens.edu/services/youth-programs/ childrens-school The Community Montessori 573-777-3131 www.facebook.com/ columbiacommunitymontessori/ The Islamic School 573-442-1556 www.theiscm.org Tolton Catholic High School 573-445-7700 www.toltoncatholic.org Windsor Street Montessori School 573-441-9767 windsorstreetmontessori.com
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Columbia Area Career Center www.career-center.org Center of Responsive Education www.cpsk12.org/core Field School (Gifted Education) www.cpsk12.org/eee Center for Early Learning - North (Preschool, Early Childhood Special Education and Parents as Teachers) www.cpsk12.org/domain/6540
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EDUCATION IN COLUMBIA HIGH SCHOOLS
Mascot: Spartans Year opened: 2013 Number of students: 1,469 Students per classroom: 19 Feeder Schools: 2 Lange Middle School: Alpha Hart Lewis Elementary, Blue Ridge Elementary, Derby Ridge Elementary, Eliot Battle Elementary, Two Mile Prairie Elementary Oakland Middle School: Alpha Hart Lewis Elementary, Blue Ridge Elementary, Cedar Ridge Elementary, New Haven Elementary, Shepard Boulevard Elementary
Battle High School 7575 St. Charles Road | 573-214-3300 | www.cpsk12.org/Domain/26
Opened in fall 2013, Battle High School was named in honor of Dr. Muriel Battle, an educator who served Columbia Public Schools for 40 years. Battle was a pioneer in the desegregation of both the school district and the community at large. Starting as a social studies teacher at Douglass High School, Battle spent the bulk of her time with CPS at West Junior High School, where she worked as a teacher, department chairperson, assistant principal and principal. The motto at West Junior High while Battle was at the helm was, “We’re glad you’re here.” She retired as the first female associate superintendent of Columbia Public Schools. The Battle Spartans have achieved success in the short time they have been competing, with a state championship in football in 2014.
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Douglass High School 310 N. Providence Road | 573-214-3680 | www.cpsk12.org/Domain/15
Mascot: Bulldogs Year opened: 1885 Number of students: 130 Students per classroom: 8
Frederick Douglass High School has been many things since it was first incorporated into the Columbia School District in 1865 as an all-black school. The high school program is believed to have been started around 1887. After Brown vs. Board of Education in 1954, Douglass was designated one of Columbia’s seven elementary schools and the junior and senior high programs were slowly phased out. In 1967, Douglass became the home of the district’s new continuing education program created by former principal Eliot Battle. The district’s Secondary Learning Center — recognized by the district and by former Gov. John Ahscroft as a model program — was relocated to the Douglass building in 1985. In November 1992, the Columbia School Board voted a name change for the Secondary Learning Center back to Frederick Douglass High School. Douglass once again became an official, accredited high school in 1993, and its mascot was changed to the original bulldog. Douglass’ mission is to “re-engage students at risk of dropping out to achieve successful high school completion and design a positive, productive post-secondary transition plan.”
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Mascot: Kewpies Year opened: 1927 Number of students: 1,707 Students per classroom: 19 Feeder Schools: 2 Smithton Middle School: Alpha Hart Lewis Elementary, Derby Ridge Elementary, Midway Heights Elementary, Parkade Elementary, Paxton Keeley Elementary, Russell Boulevard Elementary, Shepard Boulevard Elementary, West Boulevard Elementary West Middle School: Benton Elementary, Fairview Elementary, Grant Elementary, Parkade Elementary, Russell Boulevard Elementary, West Boulevard Elementary
Hickman High School 1104 N. Providence Road | 573-214-3000 | www.cpsk12.org/Domain/19
Columbia’s oldest operating high school is named for David Henry Hickman, who donated part of his estate — which had formerly been home to a horse race track and grandstand — for construction of the new school in 1927. Legend has it the school gained its Kewpie mascot after a school secretary placed her Kewpie doll in the center of the court during a basketball game and the entire game was played around it without it being broken — as the team won, it became a good luck charm. The school’s motto is “Keep smiling.” As a twotime Blue Ribbon School and a Missouri Gold Star School and being named in the top 5 percent of high schools in the nation by “Newsweek” magazine in 2006, Hickman has had a lot to smile about.
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Mascot: Bruins Year opened: 1973 Number of students: 1,975 Students per classroom: 23 Feeder Schools: 2 Gentry Middle School: Grant Elementary, Locust Street Elementary, Midway Heights Elementary, Mill Creek Elementary, New Haven Elementary, Paxton Keeley Elementary, Rock Bridge Elementary, Russell Boulevard Elementary Oakland Middle School: Benton Elementary, Blue Ridge Elementary, Fairview Elementary, Grant Elementary, Lee Elementary, Mill Creek Elementary, New Haven Elementary, Paxton Keeley Elementary, Russell Boulevard Elementary, Shepard Boulevard Elementary
Rock Bridge High School 4303 S. Providence Road | 573-214-3100 | www.cpsk12.org/Domain/32
Opened in 1973 to meet the needs of a growing Columbia, Rock Bridge is named for the state park just two miles away. The school’s original architectural design won a national award in school design. It was the student body who decided on the Bruins mascot (patriots, turtles, road runners and rebels were also considered) and the Kelly green and new gold school colors. Student Sam Smith also designed the Bruin logo. Continuing that student-led theme, in 1973 a humanities class created the school crest with the motto, “Omnes Vincent Ursi” or “Bruins Conquer All.” The Bruins have indeed conquered all with a number of state athletic titles, one of the most recent being the boys basketball team's 2019 championship.
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Fr. Tolton Catholic High School 3351 E. Gans Road | 573-445-7700 | www.toltoncatholic.org
Mascot: Trailblazer Year opened: 2011 Number of students: 261 Students per classroom: 16 Feeder School: Our Lady of Lourdes Interparish School
Opened in fall 2011, Fr. Tolton Catholic High School was the result of years of grassroots fundraising and planning efforts by local Catholic parishes and families. The high school was named for John Augustin Tolton, America’s first black priest. Tolton was born a slave in Brush Creek, Mo. In 1854, he escaped to join the Union Army. He was ordained to the priesthood in Rome because no American seminary would accept him. Fr. Tolton High School started off with just over 50 ninth and tenth graders, expanded the next year to serve grades 9-11 and graduated its first senior class in spring of 2014. The school’s mission is to educate students “within a community of faith founded upon the teachings of Jesus Christ and His Church” and “facilitate the growth of the whole student: spirit, heart, mind and body.” Fr. Tolton has nationally-recognized AdvanceED accreditation. The girls’ track team secured the Trailblazers’ first team state championship in 2015. The school also has a state title in cheerleading.
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EDUCATION IN COLUMBIA POSTSECONDARY SCHOOLS
Columbia College 1001 Rogers St. | 573-875-8700 | www.ccis.edu
Originally founded in 1851 as Christian Female College, the school was the first women’s college west of the Mississippi River to be chartered by a state legislature. Today, Columbia College is a fouryear, coeducational liberal arts and sciences college that prides itself on its faculty, quality educational programs and small class sizes. The school offers 10 associate degree programs, 59 bachelor’s degree programs and four master’s degree programs in Columbia and at 36 extended campuses in 13 states and Cuba, as well as an online program.
Columbia College has accumulated a number of accolades, including being named to U.S. News and World Report’s list of best online programs for its bachelor’s degree offerings, criminal justice, education and MBA programs and as a “best buy” by GetEducated.com for affordability and for its business, criminal justice, MBA and psychology and human services programs. It was named a “college of distinction” by Student Horizons Inc. and was recognized with a “most affordable” award and as the most popular online school in Missouri by Online U. Columbia College also has received recognition for its service and educational
support for veterans. The school made Military Times’ lists of “Best for Vets: Colleges” and “Best for Vets: Business Schools” and was named a top school for military and veteran education by Military Advanced Education and was named to the Military Friendly Schools list. Columbia College is a member of the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics and of the American Midwest Conference. The Cougars compete in 13 sports, including baseball, softball and men’s and women’s basketball, soccer and track and field. The school has earned national titles in volleyball and men’s basketball.
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Stephens College 1200 E Broadway | 573-442-2211 | www.stephens.edu
Stephens College has been educating women for more than 180 years. Founded in 1833 as Columbia Female Academy, Stephens is the second-oldest women’s college in the country and prides itself on its emphasis on leadership. The school offers 21 undergraduate degree programs and seven graduate and continuing education programs — including the master in strategic leadership and health information administration programs, which are both 100 percent online.
Stephens is also home to the TRYPS Institute —a children and youth theater program — and the Children’s School — a lab school embedded within the teacher education program that educates children from preschool through fifth grade. Pride points for Stephens include being the only private college in Mid-Missouri to be included in the Princeton Review’s Best 378 colleges; its theater program is rated 11th in the nation by The Princeton Review; its fashion program is ranked 13th in the world by Business of Fashion,
London and rated first for long-term investment; consistently ranked among the top regional colleges in the Midwest by U.S. News and World Report; and its master’s program in strategic leadership is ranked No. 2 in the country for quality and affordability by GetEducated.com. Stephens is a member of the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics and is a member of the American Midwest Conference. The Stars compete in eight sports, including basketball, soccer, softball, tennis and volleyball and others.
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University of Missouri Columbia, MO | 573-882-2121 | www.missouri.edu
Founded in 1839, the University of Missouri was the first state university west of the Mississippi River. Other firsts for the university include the world’s first School of Journalism, founded in 1908; Missouri’s first College of Veterinary Medicine, founded in 1946; the first engineering program west of the Mississippi, founded in 1849, and the nation’s first College of Education at a public university, founded in 1868. Also known as MU and Mizzou, the school is a major land-grant institution and is the state’s largest public research university, conducting millions of dollars in federal research each year. It is one of only 34 public universities (and the only in Missouri) selected for membership in the Association of American Universities. Mizzou offers more than 300 degree
programs and is among only five institutions in the country with law, medicine, veterinary medicine and a nuclear research center — the most powerful university research reactor in the country — on one campus. The campus itself is designated a botanic garden, with more than 42,000 plants and trees, and serves as an outdoor laboratory for 10 academic programs. MU also operates a Museum of Art and Archaeology and Museum of Anthropology, both of which are open to the public. The university has been nationally recognized by the National Science Foundation as one of the top 10 universities in the country for undergraduate research opportunities. Other accolades include being designated “Research University/ Very High” and “Community Engaged” by the Carnegie Foundation for the
Advancement of Teaching; accreditation through the Higher Learning Commission; named a veteran-friendly school by G.I. Jobs, U.S. News and World Report and other national media; the university, the Trulaske College of Business and the College of Education’s graduate program are all listed in the top 50 by the U.S. News and World Report; the Journalism School is consistently a top ranked program by organizations and publications such as the NewsPro-Radio Television Digital News Association, USA Today and College Magazine and the Energy Star CHP Award from the Environmental Protection Agency for significant pollution reduction and energy efficiency. The University of Missouri is a Division I member of the NCAA and joined the Southeastern Conference in 2012. Since making the switch, the athletic department budget has grown to more than $90 million. The Tigers compete in 18 sports and have achieved notable success in everything from gymnastics and wrestling to football and basketball.
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Bill Heffernan, 80, and his daughter Lisa Heffernan Weil in the wheat field on their family farm off Route J in western Boone County. The farm is the site of Lexington, the first permanent European settlement in Boone County, and the “Model Farm” chosen in 1872 as the premier farm in the state. [PHOTOS BY DON SHRUBSHELL/TRIBUNE]
REMEMBERING OUR ROOTS Family seeks to preserve site where Boone County was born BY RUDI KELLER | Columbia Daily Tribune
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he history of Boone County, not unlike the history of the largest empires on the globe, may be said to be funnel-shaped. Starting from a single point of time (1815) and from a single locality (Thrall's Prairie), its contour diverges and widens as the years roll on …” William F. Switzler, History of Boone County, 1882. On the morning her parents were scheduled to close the deal on a 500-acre farm in western Boone County, Lisa Heffernan Weil called her father, Bill Heffernan, with an urgent message. “I called Dad that morning and said, ‘You’ve got to buy this place. It is amazing. You can’t believe the history here,’ ” she recalled. It was, she had found, the place of the first permanent settlement by Europeans of what would
become Boone County. And to add to the provenance of the property, it also won the title “Premium Farm of the State,” or “Model Farm” in an 1872 competition sponsored by the State Board of Agriculture. Weil was a sophomore history student at Washington University and interning at the Missouri Historical Society. Both her father and mother, Judy Heffernan, were rural sociologists at the University of Missouri and Bill Heffernan farmed as a sideline. They chose the land along Route J because soil maps showed it was among the best in the region, wind-blown loess carried by updrafts from the Missouri River bottoms. That fertility was noticed by early settlers, who thought it was like the land they left in the Bluegrass region of Kentucky. Timothy Flint, who traveled through the region
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This collection of square nails was found during a 2005 excavation of Lexington, the first permanent European settlement in Boone County, which is now a part of the Heffernan farm off Route J north of Highway 40.
from 1816 to 1826, wrote that he witnessed as many as 100 people per day passing through St. Charles on their way west. He noted wagons laden with household goods, large numbers of slaves, livestock and everyone walking alongside. “From some cause, it happens that in the western and southern states, a tract of country gets a name, as being more desirable than any other …,” he wrote.
A granite marker on Route J about three miles north of Highway 40 marks where Boonslick Road crossed Thrall’s Prairie, site of Lexington, the first settlement in what became Boone County in 1820.
“During the first, second, and third years of my residence here, the whole current of immigration set towards this country, Boon's Lick, so called, from Boon's having discovered and worked the salines in
that tract. Boon's Lick was the common centre of hopes, and the common point of union for the people. Ask one of them whither he was moving, and the answer was, ‘To Boon's Lick, to be sure.’ ”
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The Boonslick took its name from the salt works begun in 1804 by Daniel Morgan Boone and his brother Nathan Boone, sons of famed frontiersman Daniel Boone. The older Boone had come to Missouri in 1799 at the invitation of the Spanish government and he settled in what is now St. Charles County. The Boone brothers worked at a salt spring in what is now western Howard County and began manufacturing salt, an essential commodity for preserving meat. The trail that developed from St. Charles to the salt lick became known as the Boonslick Road. The eastern edge of the Boonslick began at Thrall’s Prairie, named for tavern owner Agustus Thrall, who ran a tavern in Lexington, the first town within the boundaries of future Boone County. “Standing on a high ridge along the eastern edge of the area referred to as Boonslick, Thrall’s Tavern provided a gateway, the link between the trail and the area of settlement,” Weil wrote in her thesis. “Thrall’s Tavern welcomed thousands of travelers into the western section of Missouri. Especially in these early years, the tavern played a crucial role in the young community.” Weil, a teacher of history and psychology at Columbia Independent School, often brings her students on a field trip to the farm. “We try to get them to imagine what it was like, you are cold, you are hungry, it is October, you have to harvest your crops from the farm and move,” she said. “You have to walk and everything is damp or wet or cold.” Legal title to land on Thrall’s Prairie could not be obtained until 1818, when the federal land office opened in Franklin. Taylor Berry, a land speculator, likely used “New Madrid certificates” – claims for land to replace property destroyed in the 1811-12 earthquakes – to claim land that housed squatters, including Thrall. Thrall purchased 160 acres of land in 1820 for $2,000. Boone County was created by an act of the Territorial Legislature on Nov. 16, 1820. The thrust of development soon passed Lexington by. It was not suited geographically to be the county seat because it was on the
This lunette depicts the April 2, 1821, meeting of the first Boone County Circuit Court. It was painted by Walter Ufer in 1927 as a decoration for the Missouri State Capitol Building. [IMAGE COURTESY MUSEUM OF ART & ARCHAEOLOGY, UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI]
western edge of the county. That honor went to Columbia, founded originally in 1818 as Smithton and moved moved a half-mile east to the banks of Flat Branch Creek in 1821. It was in Columbia where David Todd — uncle of future first lady Mary Todd Lincoln — would preside over the first circuit court session in April 1821. The post office opened in Lexington in 1821 was closed by 1837. The place lives on in the names of the people who settled on Thrall’s Prairie as place and street names. Anderson Woods was an original settler and John Woods Harris, his nephew, was a child of one when his parents arrived. He would later marry into the family that owned the Weil’s farm in the 1850s and improve it to become the Model Farm. Harris gave his name to Harrisburg and Woods to Woodlandville. The prosperity those early European inhabitants brought was evident in the 1830 census. The individual pages of the 1820 census for Missouri do not exist. Sixteen early settlers on Thrall’s Prairie who could be found in the 1830 count for Boone County owned 53 slaves, accounting for 32 percent of their households. In 1839, that prosperity was enough to secure the University of Missouri for Columbia. The land remains in production,
and on a recent visit golden wheat was being harvested. The Heffernans have worked to preserve the property and learn about it. An excavation in 2005 identified the site of the well and blacksmith shop, and artifacts they own range include hundreds of square nails and shards of glass. The town well was found and today it is enclosed in a chain link fence, overgrown but still full of water. From the farm's more recent past, the Heffernans have a grist mill stone and steps from Harris’ plantation home, remnants of the Model Farm. They have a duty to the past, Lisa Weil said, and they got that message loud and clear when the previous owner’s farm goods were sold after the family bought the land in 1991. Floy McQuitty, born in 1894, was there, related to an early settler David McQuitty, was there. “She stood 4-foot-10, maybe, on a good day,” Bill Heffernan recalled. “I could have just picked her up and carried her.” Weil remembers her message for her father. “She got right in Dad's face,” Weil said. “She came up at this event and said this is really important. There is a lot of history here and you need to take care of it.”
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This map of Missouri at the time of its admission to the Union in 1821 shows only a few of the counties in the boundaries they have today, including Boone County, formed in November 1820. Missouri became a state under the 1820 Missouri Compromise, which barred slavery north of Missouri’s southern boundary in what remained of the Louisiana Purchase. [IMAGE COURTESY OF THE STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF MISSOURI]
ORIGINAL F SIN Slavery in Missouri remains a difficult issue as bicentennial approaches
BY RUDI KELLER | Columbia Daily Tribune
or most of two years in the early 19th Century, Congress was consumed by a debate over what to do about slavery in Missouri. And for much of that period, exactly how the issue would be decided was uncertain. As the state approaches its bicentennial in 2021, how to explain Missouri’s birth in the pain of that debate – and the bloody legacy of racism that it bequeathed us – is also uncertain. But organizers know slavery, which has been called America's Original Sin, cannot be ignored.
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“For me, I have been looking back at this issue some in part because I am working on a bicentennial history of Missouri that is a general overview from 1817 to the present,” said Gary Kremer, director of the State Historical Society of Missouri. “What has struck me so profoundly, and it is something that I knew anyway, but just how central race has been to Missouri history.” The society will open its new home at the Center for Missouri Studies in August and is the lead agency in preparations for marking the state’s 200th anniversary. Exactly how it will tell the story of slavery in the center’s exhibits hasn’t been decided. “I think we do need to remember that the bicentennial is not a celebration for every person who has a history with Missouri,” said Joan Stack, curator of the society’s art collection. “For some, that meant slavery being ensconced in our constitution and also the indigenous people gradually being forced out of our state.” The long debate on Missouri started in 1819 and did not end until the state was officially admitted in August 1821. Anti-slavery representatives had the majority in the House but there was a balance of votes between slave and free states in the U.S. Senate. In February 1819, Rep. James Tallmadge of New York introduced an amendment, which was adopted, barring settlers from bringing slaves to the state and slaves born after Missouri became a state would become free at age 25. The Senate would not agree and Congress adjourned without an invitation to Missouri to write a constitution. When that opportunity did come, the delegates wrote one of the most pro-slavery documents ever delivered for a new state. It required the state to compensate slaveowners if slaves were freed by law and guaranteed the right of slaveowners to bring their human property with them to the state. It also barred “free negroes and mulattoes from coming to, and settling in, this state, under any pretext whatsoever.”
For the new arrivals in central Missouri, the issue wasn’t just theoretical. People had been streaming into the lands known as the Boonslick Country for several years, bringing families and slaves with them. In the 1820 census of the Missouri Territory, 15.4 percent of the people in the state were slaves. In central Missouri, the census for Howard County was divided into two
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counts – east and west of the Bonne Femme Creek. The eastern portion, basically eastern Howard today and all of Boone County, had 5,466 people including 753 slaves. Boone County was not formed until November 1820. Those white settlers who displaced the native tribes weren’t just men developing a wild land alone, Kremer said. “In that sense, these were not selfreliant men,” Kremer said. “They were relying tremendously on their slaves and they were relying tremendously on their wives and their children.” The Missouri Compromise of 1820
allowed the statehood of Missouri and Maine, Missouri as a slave state and Maine as free, keeping the balance in the U.S. Senate. It barred the creation of new slave states in the Louisiana Purchase territory north of Missouri’s southern border. In 1820, that meant what is now Arkansas and a large portion of Oklahoma. The defiant tone of the state’s first constitution, especially the prohibition on the entry of free blacks into the state, caused further problems in Washington. “There are numerous themes that emerge in this period that are with us to this day,” Kremer said. “One is the conflict between state and federal control. If you go back and read the Missouri Gazetteer, or any newspapers from this period, what Missourians are complaining about most vigorously is they don’t want the federal government to tell us what to do.” Congress demanded a statement from the legislature that it would not prohibit citizens from exercising their rights – granted by lawmakers in a special session in 1821 – and finally approved Missouri statehood later that year. The Missouri Compromise lasted until 1850 as a political solution for slavery. During that period, abolitionism grew in the North and views hardened in slave states. The attempt at compromise in 1850 to grant California statehood as a free state lasted but a few years. The Civil War finally ended slavery, with Missouri enduring armies camped on its soil and guerrilla warfare that left people dead on their doorsteps. Missouri freed its slaves in January 1865. During debate on the Tallmadge Amendment, Rep. John Taylor of New York foresaw tragedy if Missouri was allowed to retain slavery. “History will record the decision of this day as exerting its influence for centuries to come over the population of half our continent,” he said. “If we reject the amendment and suffer this evil, now easily eradicated, to strike its roots so deep in the soil it can never be removed, shall we not furnish some apology for doubting our sincerity when we deplore its existence …”
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CENTER FOR MISSOURI STUDIES
TO SERVE AS VENUE FOR BICENTENNIAL EXHIBITS, SPEAKER BY ROGER MCKINNEY | Columbia Daily Tribune
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s the Center for Missouri Studies at 605 Elm St. is prepared for its grand opening on Aug. 10, there already are bicentennial exhibits and events that will use it as a venue, including a planned "signature event." The 76,700-square-foot building will house the State Historical Society of Missouri and its collections, which includes 58,000 reels of microfilm, 30,000 pieces of art, 12,000 Civil War manuscripts, maps dating to the early 1700s and more than 6 million photographs. The five-story center will have an auditorium, art gallery, gift shop, classrooms, administrative offices and several other rooms. Michael Sweeney, Missouri Bicentennial coordinator, said a Missouri Bicentennial quilt will be on display in the center by the end of 2021. The State Historical Society and Missouri Star Quilt Co. in Hamilton
have teamed up for the project, which is underway now. The historical society is seeking a quilt block from each Missouri county and the city of St. Louis, with blocks representing an aspect of geography or culture or a landmark of the respective counties. When more than one block for a county is submitted, a committee of judges will make the official selection. Missouri Star Quilt Co. will assemble the quilt after all selections are made. Mary Bonnette is spokeswoman for the quilt company. The company ships 50,000 orders each month from its 150,000-square-foot distribution center. "We're absolutely thrilled to be a small part of the state's bicentennial celebration," Bonnette said. "People will view the quilt for generations to come. Quilts have told stories for centuries." She said some other states have done quilts for their bicentennials.
For the "My Missouri 2021" photography project, 200 photographs will be selected to be part of the permanent Missouri Bicentennial collection, submitted by Missourians. Photographs must be received by Nov. 1, 2019. Notification of selections will be made by Jan. 31, 2020. The photos will be part of a digital exhibition on the Missouri 2021 website and physically exhibited at the Center of Missouri Studies and other locations throughout the state. Information about submitting quilt blocks and photos are on the Missouri 2021 website. There also is a Missouri 2021 Facebook page. Sweeney said there would be other bicentennial events and speakers in 2021, but many are still in the planning stages. "We're planning a signature event at the center that year," Sweeney said,adding that he couldn't say any more about it. "Some things are still tentative."
Construction continues on the Center for Missouri Studies at Sixth and Elm Streets. A grand opening of the new building which will preserve Missouri’s history is scheduled for Aug. 10. [DON SHRUBSHELL/TRIBUNE]
Cindy Mustard, a member of the Columbia Cemetery Association Board of Trustees, identifies the graves of Mary Jane Todd, daughter of David and Eliza Todd, who died at age 9 in 1824. The grave is the oldest identifiable grave in the nearly 200-year-old cemetery. [PHOTOS BY DON SHRUBSHELL/TRIBUNE]
A grave legacy W ander through the maze of roads and graves in Columbia Cemetery for long enough, and eventually you’ll find the spot near the corner of Bowling and Prewitt streets where a stone plaque marks the grave of nine-year-old Mary Jane Todd. The Todd family buried Mary Jane Todd in 1824, four years after the Columbia Cemetery opened and three years after early settlers incorporated the city about a half mile away near the Flat Branch Creek. Columbia’s first business, the not-for-profit Columbia Cemetery Association, remains one of two businesses from around the
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town’s founding to still be in operation. Today, Mary Jane Todd's grave is the oldest, still identifiable grave in the cemetery, said Columbia Cemetery Superintendent Tanja Patton. From Mary Jane Todd’s Grave, visitors can see the town below them to the east. Crucially, graves on the spot also face the rising sun, as is the Christian tradition. The early settlers of Smithton opened the cemetery on the site of an existing cemetery on the farm, just to the south of Mary Jane Todd’s grave, Patton said. “This was the high point,” Patton said. “Cemeteries were generally put on the highest point near a city up on a hill.”
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The headstones of David Todd and his family in the Columbia Cemetery were refurbished by the Columbia Cemetery Association.
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The headstone of Mary Jane Todd and her family members in the Columbia Cemetery was refurbished by the Columbia Cemetery Association.
Before the cemetery opened, the Todd family farmed the land near Mary Jane Todd’s gave. Legend holds that Abraham Lincoln visited his future wife Mary Todd at the home of David and Eliza Todd, Mary Jane Todd’s parents, in the summer of 1840. Walgreens at 222 E. Broadway sits adjacent to the cemetery and sits on the site of the home. In 1818, early settlers settled the early town of Smithton near the farm. Almost 200 years into its history, the 34-acre cemetery still has almost 10,000 graves open. With cremation becoming more popular, Patton says it likely never will be full. “It will always be here,” Patton said. “We’ll not ever run out of room.” When Smithton was platted, a 1.5 acre cemetery opened on the site. For a period, the city of Columbia briefly owned the cemetery, said Cindy Mustard, a member of the Columbia Cemetery Association Board of Trustees. Under municipal leadership, the cemetery fell into disrepair, Mustard and Patton said. So, James Rollins, William Switzler, Jefferson Garth and other businessmen formed the Columbia Cemetery Association in 1853, and began operating the cemetery. Municipalities run most cemeteries, Patton said. She takes pride in the association’s work over the decades to maintain the space for the community. “Their main objective is to maintain this beautiful cemetery for future generations,” Patton said. "That’s what
makes it different, and I don’t think people realize that.” Over the years, the site has been a gathering place for community members. The vast space contains large swaths of green space unoccupied by the dead. For long periods of the city’s history, the city had no parks, Mustard said. So, community members used the cemetery in a Victorian way, and had picnics, played baseball and even raced horses within its grounds. “It’s modeled off the English country type of cemetery,” Mustard said. At one point the cemetery even had a band shell, Mustard said. Today the band shell’s base remains visible. Often, as a kid, Mustard would meet friends at the cemetery. “The cemetery was our playground,” Mustard said. “It was a great place to hang out.” Chris Campbell, Boone County History and Culture Center executive director, said the only other business remaining from around that time period is the University of Missouri, which was founded 19 years after the cemetery in 1839. Three businesses opened in 1822, according to the 1882 book “The History of Boone County” by William Switzler, Campbell said. Charles Hardin opened a tanning yard on Flat Branch Creek near the current site of the Walton Building at 300 S. Providence Road, Campbell said. Samuel Scott also had a blacksmith shop which opened in the first three or four
blocks of Broadway. John Van Horn was a cabinet maker, but the book did not list a location for his shop, Campbell said. The town of Smithton was founded near the cemetery site because it also provided early settlers, like the Todd family, protection from Native Americans, Campbell said. After two years, when residents realized they did not have adequate access to water, the town moved down to the banks of the creek and became Columbia. Business may have played a role in this decision, Campbell said. Tanning hides requires large amounts of water, Campbell said. After Hardin opened his tannery, the town’s first marketplace sprang up on the site of the present day Flat Branch Park. “Back then, it would be people buying saddles, furs, everything you need,” Campbell said. “That need for water is probably why the whole town got replatted in the spring of 1821. Had they started there, the cemetery might be somewhere else entirely.” Two Revolutionary War veterans lie in the Columbia Cemetery, as do veterans of every American war since, Mustard said. With the way the cemetery’s site shaped Columbia’s history, Mustard hopes the cemetery will teach students at nearby Grant Elementary School, and others, for generations to come. “The cemetery reflects a lot of the pioneers of the early years of Columbia,” Mustard said. “It’s also a teaching place.”
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HEALTH CARE HOSPITAL LISTINGS
Boone Hospital Center 1600 E. Broadway | Find a doctor/make appt. 573-815-6400 General Info. 573-815-6400 | www.boone.org
Boone Hospital Center consistently ranks as a top health-care provider in the region, the state and even the nation. It has earned special recognition for its nursing staff, obstetrics and stroke care. Boone is a 397-bed, fullservice regional referral center covering 26 counties. It ranked No. 1 among mid-Missouri hospitals in 2015 and No. 3 among state hospitals in 2016, according to U.S. News and World Report. Boone is one of only 64 hospitals in the nation to rank high-performing in all nine U.S. News and World Report categories. Boone is the only Magnet hospital for nursing excellence in the area. It has received the designation three consecutive times, placing its nursing staff in the top 1 percent worldwide.
This year, the Women’s Choice Award named Boone one of America’s Best Hospitals for Obstetrics. The award — based on national accreditations, consumer assessment surveys and hospital outcome scores — signifies that Boone is in the top 17 percent of U.S. hospitals offering obstetrics. “Our award gives a woman the confidence that her choice of a hospital for her delivery will be the best in terms of quality care and patient safety for her and her baby,” said Delia Passi, founder and CEO of the Women’s Choice Award. “As the trend of women waiting longer to start their families continues, having the Women’s Choice Award seal is especially important for older moms who face increased risk and need a top hospital to
provide her care.” U.S. News and World Report also rated Boone at Stroke Award Gold Plus and named the hospital to its Stroke Elite Honor Roll in 2015. The ratings reflect consistent 85 percent or higher adherence to quality measures and at least four consecutive quarters of 75 percent or higher achievement of door-to-needles times within 60 minutes, respectively. “The interdisciplinary team at Boone Hospital Center works and communicates closely with the patients and family. Our common goals are to provide rapid intervention to save brain, implement care to prevent further strokes and initiate early
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In a time when veterans’ services are often in the news because of issues with the quality of service provided, Harry S Truman Memorial Veterans Hospital continues to receive recognition for the opposite. Truman is a four-star facility and was among only 32 VA medical facilities recognized as a “top performer” by The Joint Commission and continues to be ranked in the top 30, which Public Affairs Officer Larry S. Gaither attributed to the overall quality of patient care. He said
Truman consistently ranks high in satisfaction for customer service. Truman has 398 medical staff members, 123 operating beds and provides both inpatient and outpatient services in primary care, medical and surgical specialty care, behavioral health, physical rehabilitation and pharmacy services, as well as serving as a referral center for heart care services. They also offer home-based primary care, TRUMAN continues on 52
rehabilitation to get our patients back to their lives at home,” said stroke program coordinator Donna Pond, BSHA, RN, CEN. Boone has worked to achieve high-quality facilities, as well. In 2011, the hospital completed work on a state-of-the-art addition that provides patients with private rooms. Boone continues to expand its services. It leads the market in imaging technology and in minimally invasive robotic surgery. Improving patient access to quality care is a priority moving forward. Boone is growing its primary-care and specialtycare clinic networks, including with a new specialty clinic in Moberly.
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a seamless transition clinic for newly enrolled combat veterans, an addiction treatment program, suicide awareness and prevention and support for homeless veterans among other services. Serving about 38,000 veterans, Truman maintains eight communitybased outpatient clinics located in Jefferson City, Osage Beach, Kirksville, Marshfield, Mexico, Sedalia, St. James and Waynesville. The hospital also has affiliations with the University of Missouri’s School of Medicine, the Sinclair School of Nursing and the School of Health Professionals, among others, providing training opportunities for about 900 students each year. Truman Memorial Veterans Hospital is landlocked, which limits opportunity for expansion, but there are plans to build a new ICU unit on top of the OR extension that was completed less than two years ago, and plans are also underway to add a new floor to ambulatory care.
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As the state’s premier academic health center, University of Missouri Health Care provides patient-centered care that is at the forefront of medical research and technology. With five hospitals and more than 55 outpatient clinics throughout central Missouri, MU Health Care offers patients a full spectrum of care. Patients and families who choose MU Health Care also have access to more than 600 physicians trained in more than 60 specialties and subspecialties, whether they are receiving primary care or highly specialized, multidisciplinary treatments for the most severe illnesses and injuries. MU Health Care’s family medicine physicians are recognized as national leaders in their field. The MU School of Medicine’s Department of Family and Community Medicine has been ranked among the top 10 family medicine
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quality of life for thousands of people each year. Ellis Fischel is the first academic certified member of MD Anderson Cancer Network, a program of the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. Ellis Fischel offers patients access to specialists who provide treatment for a wide range of cancers including colorectal cancer, breast cancer, melanoma and skin cancer, prostate cancer and pediatric cancer. MU Health Care offers the region’s only American College of Surgeons-verified Level I trauma center and a Level I stroke center at University Hospital. MU cardiovascular specialists were the first in mid-Missouri to offer Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement (TAVR), a heart valve-replacement procedure for high-risk surgical patients MU Health Care’s neuroscience specialists provide care through nationally recognized programs, making MU Health
Care a leader in the areas of sleep disorders, stroke, and epilepsy and movement disorders. At the Missouri Orthopaedic Institute, Missouri’s largest and most comprehensive freestanding orthopaedic center, more than 30 expert orthopaedic surgeons offer team-approach care. Mizzou BioJointSM is the first and only treatment
of its kind, bringing biological solutions to knee, hip, shoulder, ankle and other joint problems. Rather than using artificial joint replacements, our surgeons utilize natural tissue grafts of tendons, ligaments, cartilage, menisci and bone to improve joint function. University of Missouri researchers have developed the Missouri Osteochondral Allograft Preservation System. It more than doubles the storage life of bone and cartilage grafts from organ donors. At MU Health Care, we recognize that a patient-centered approach is not just about providing quality care but also about being accessible to patients in person, online and via secure messaging. Through our robust patient portal, patients can go online to view their physician notes and lab results, request medication refills and pay bills. By offering online registration forms, we give our patients more face-toface time with their health care team.
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HEALTH LISTINGS EMERGENCY Boone Hospital Center 1600 E. Broadway 573-815-3501 University Hospital 1 Hospital Drive 573-882-4141 Women & Children’s Hospital 404 N. Keene St. 573-771-9000
URGENT CARE Boone Convenient Care 601 Business Loop 70 573-874-0008 Broadway Urgent Care 2003 W. Broadway No. 100 573-777-5880 401 N. Keene St. 573-876-1677 Columbia Urgent Care 619 N. Providence 573-234-1070
Mizzou Quick Care Clinics Conley Hy-Vee 25 Conley Road 573-884-0169 Rock Bridge Hy-Vee 405 E. Nifong Blvd. 573-884-0146 West Broadway Hy-Vee 3100 W. Broadway 573-884-0036 After-hours call 884-2401. Mizzou Urgent Care 551 E. Southampton Drive 573-882-1662 Providence Urgent Care 202 E. Nifong Blvd. 573-874-6824 403 N. Stadium Blvd. 573-818-6500 2910 Trimble Rd. 573-397-7434 University Physicians Urgent Care 1020 Hitt Street 573-882-1662
PHARMACIES Accurate Rx Pharmacy 103 Corporate Lake Drive 573-256-4279 Boone Plaza Pharmacy 1600 E Broadway 573-815-6255 D&H Drugstore 1001 West Broadway 573-777-7333 1814 Paris Road 573-777-7373 Flow’s Pharmacy 1506 E. Broadway 573-449-5366 303 N. Keene Street 573-447-8093 Gerbes Supermarket Pharmacy 1729 W. Broadway # 1 573-445-9451 2900 Paris Road 573-474-9418 205 E. Nifong Blvd. 573-442-2951 Hy-Vee Pharmacy 25 Conley Road 573-442-7703
3100 W. Broadway 573-447-0133 405 E. Nifong Blvd. 573-442-2951 Interlock of Columbia 1812 Paris Road 573-814-1365 Kilgore’s Medical Pharmacy 700 N. Providence 573-442-0194 Toll Free: 877-442-0194 1608 Chapel Hill Road 573-447-4444 Toll Free: 877-591-4706 Mizzou Pharmacy University Hospital Lobby 1 Hospital Dr # 1L29 573-882-8600 Ellis Fischel One Hospital Drive 573-882-8890 Fairview 101 S. Fairview Road 573-884-1100 Keene Street 404 N. Keene Street 573-499-6022 S. Providence 551 E. Southampton Drive 573-882-3151
MU Student Center 911 E. Rollins Street 573-884-4373 Orthopaedic Institute 1100 Virginia Avenue 573-884-3020 Smiley Lane 2325 Smiley Lane 573-817-3555 Sam’s Club Pharmacy 101 Conley Road 573-875-1095 Schnuck’s Pharmacy 1400 Forum Blvd. 573-446-2804 Target/CVS Pharmacy 2400 Bernadette Drive 573-445-9544 Walgreens Pharmacy 222 E. Broadway 573-874-3562 Walmart Pharmacy 415 Conley Road 573-499-1933 1201 Grindstone Parkway 573-442-9989 1000 Club Village Drive 573-449-8330
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ith more than 3,200 acres of parks, green spaces and recreation facilities — not to mention over 53 miles of trails — Columbia offers a plethora of options for individuals and families seeking to spend a little time outdoors. The city maintains 32 neighborhood parks, two regional parks, eight nature parks, 14 community parks and five special-purpose parks. Amenities include two golf courses, an archery range, three disc golf courses, 10 garden plots available for rent, a skate park, three pools, two water play areas and a swimming lake. Whether you want to have a picnic, go fishing, play anything from soccer to roller hockey or simply take your kids to the playground, Columbia has what you’re looking for. After the successful renewal of a quarter-cent sales tax for capital improvements, Columbia Parks and Rec has plans for a number of projects, including completion of Atkins Park, Phase II of Douglass Park — which includes the addition of a skate spot, replacement of playground equipment and a new shelter — and continued development of Gans Recreation Area, Columbia’s newest regional park. On the recreation side, the department is working on growing popular events such as the Splat! youth mud run and adding new programs like Yappy Hour — a social hour at Twin Lakes Recreation Area for dogs and their owners — as well as expanding events that use the city’s trail system, such as the Roc 7k trail run and the Bear Creek Run half marathon. “In the past few years, our programs geared toward active lifestyles have been very popular,” said Tammy Miller, marketing specialist with Columbia Parks and Recreation. “Our enrichment programs — martial arts, dance and fitness at the ARC also continue to be well-received and well-attended.”
A group of visitors walks on the Greenbriar Trail in Columbia. [TRIBUNE FILE]
ATHLETIC GROUPS
AMF Town&Country Lanes www.amf.com Big Tree Cycling Team www.bigtreecycling.com Columbia Bike Club www.columbiabikeclub.com Columbia Disc Golf Club www.cdgc.org Columbia Multisport Club www.columbiamultisport.com Columbia Rugby Football Club www.pitchero.com/clubs/ columbiarugbyfootballclub CRFC Black Sheep Women’s Rugby Club www.facebook.com/MidMoRugby Como Polo www.facebook.com/groups/comopolo Columbia Track Club www.columbiatrackclub.com Deuce Pub & Pit www.deucepub.com/leagues Ultramax Sports www.ultramaxsports.com Show-Me Pickleball Club www.facebook.com/ShowMePickleballClub
GOLF (PUBLIC COURSES)
L.A. Nickell Golf Course 1800 Parkside Drive 573-499-4653 www.gogolflan.com Lake of the Woods Golf Course 6700 St. Charles Road 573-499-4653 www.gogolflow.com
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A.L. Gustin Golf Course, University of Missouri 573-882-6016 www.gustingolfcourse.com Columbia Country Club 573-449-4115 www.columbiacc.net Country Club of Missouri 573-449-7201 www.ccmo.net
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PARKS
A. Perry Philips Park 5050 Bristol Lake Parkway www.como.gov/ParksandRec/Parks/Philips Albert-Oakland Park 1900 Blue Ridge Road www.como.gov/ParksandRec/Parks/ Albert-Oakland Bethel Park 4500 Bethel Street www.como.gov/ParksandRec/Parks/ Cosmo-Bethel Bonnie View Nature Sanctuary 3300 Rollins Road www.como.gov/ParksandRec/Parks/ Bonnie_View_Nature_Area Cosmo Park 1615 Business Loop 70 W. www.como.gov/ParksandRec/Parks/ Cosmo_Park Douglass Park 400 N. Providence Road www.como.gov/ParksandRec/Parks/Douglass Nifong Park 2900 E. Nifong Boulevard 3700 Ponderosa Street www.como.gov/ParksandRec/Parks/Nifong Shelter Gardens 1817 W. Broadway www.shelterinsurance.com/aboutshelter/ sheltergardens Stephens Lake Park 2001 E. Broadway www.como.gov/ParksandRec/Parks/ Stephens_Lake
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TOP EMPLOYERS IN COLUMBIA AND BOONE COUNTY *University of Missouri University Hospital and Clinics Columbia Public Schools Veterans United Home Loans Harry S. Truman Memorial Veterans' Hospital City of Columbia Boone Hospital Center Shelter Insurance Companies MBS Textbook Exchange Columbia College Joe Machens Dealerships State Farm Insurance Companies ~Hubbell Power Systems, Inc. 3M ~State of Missouri (excludes MU) ^IBM Kraft Heinz Boone County Government Eurofins BioPharma Product Testing (formerly EAG)
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Central Bank of Boone County ~U.S. Postal Service MidwayUSA ~Missouri Employers Mutual Landmark Bank Woodhaven MFA, Inc. ~Pepsico/Quaker Oats ~Schneider Electric: Square D Burrell Behavioral Health ~U.S. Dept. of Agriculture ~AAF Flanders ~CenturyLink Columbia Insurance Group Dana Light Axle Products ~Columbia Orthopaedic Group OTSCON Environmental Dynamics International, Inc. (EDI)
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PARKING IN COLUMBIA
Columbia’s population swells with the start of each new school year, and all those new people mean more cars. As you head into the community, here’s what you need to know about parking:
PARKING GARAGES The city has six multi-level parking garages in downtown Columbia, which all include hourly spaces. The hourly spaces at the Seventh and Walnut garages use a “ticket and attendant” system. Most of the rest of the garages utilize pay machines that use a pay in advance system — a patron notes their parking space number and pays the machine for that space for the anticipated time they will be parked. The exception is the Eighth and Cherry Street garage, which has parking meters. Meter rates are 50 cents per hour in the hourly spaces.
• TENTH AND CHERRY STREET GARAGE 1000 Cherry St.: 104 hourly spaces • SIXTH AND CHERRY STREET GARAGE 555 Locust St: 78 hourly spaces • EIGHTH AND CHERRY STREET GARAGE 14 S. Eighth St.: 39 hourly spaces • EIGHTH AND WALNUT PLAZA GARAGE 17 N. Eighth St.: 99 hourly spaces • FIFTH AND WALNUT STREET GARAGE 500 E. Walnut St.: 78 hourly spaces • SHORT STREET GARAGE 1110 E. Walnut St.: 26 hourly spaces Parking enforcement in city garages runs from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday. Parking in city garages is free on Saturday and Sunday.
Parking violations and fines include: • Public parking violation: $15 • Parking in municipal rental lots: $15 • Parked in rental space-municipal
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The city has 138 metered off-street parking spaces and 1,683 metered on-street spaces. Time limits on most downtown spaces ranges from 24 minutes to four hours, with some as long as 10
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hours. There are also 71 disabled access parking spaces. Metered parking enforcement is from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday through Saturday. Meter rates are 60 cents per hour downtown and 75 cents per hour in the campus zone.
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meter: $15 • Handicapped parking violation: $100
Fines on these violations increase to $30 if not paid within 15 days.
St. Andrew’s Lutheran Church Sharing Christ in Faith, Fellowship & Service
Sundays, 8:30 am & 11:00 am saintandrewslutheran.org 914 West Boulevard South + 573.449.5674 A congregation of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America
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GO-TO INFORMATION POPULATION Columbia: 123,180 (2018 census estimate) Boone County: 180,005 (2018 census estimate)
CLIMATE Temperatures: Columbia’s mean temperature is 54.6 degrees, with highs averaging 64.8 degrees and lows averaging 44.5 degrees. Precipitation: Annual rainfall averages 42.6 inches; snowfall averages 18 inches.
CONVENTION AND TOURISM Lodging: There are dozens of hotels, bed and breakfasts and rooms available online through sites such as Airbnb. Exhibition: The Hearnes Center totals 67,584 square feet; Midway Expo Center, more than 50,000 square feet; Columbia Expo Center, 18,612 square feet. Information on events, points of interest, meeting plans and tour arrangements is available through the Convention and Visitors Bureau, 300 S. Providence Road, P.O. Box 6015, Columbia, Mo., 65205. The bureau can be reached by phone at 573-875-1231 or 800-652-0987 or online at www. visitcolumbiamo.com.
EDUCATION Elementary and secondary: Columbia Public Schools has
four high schools, six middle schools and 21 elementary schools. Enrollment to start the 2018-2019 school year was 19,060 students. There are 17 private and parochial schools. Career-technical: The Columbia Area Career Center offers classes for ninth- through 12thgrade students as well as a variety of courses each semester for adults and customized training for local businesses. Colleges: The University of Missouri recorded a total enrollment of 29,866 students in fall 2018, including 22,503 undergraduate students. Its full-time faculty and staff number is more than 13,000 in Columbia, including University Hospital and MU Health Care employees. Columbia also has two private college campuses based here: Columbia College, which had about 2,600 students enrolled at its Columbia campus in 2018 and more than 20,000 total at its nationwide campuses and online; and Stephens College, with an enrollment of 648, according to a U.S. News and World report. Other higher-education institutions with Columbia campuses include Moberly Area Community College, Bryan College, William Woods University and Central Methodist University.
421,000 books, plus recordings, videos and electronic materials. University of Missouri libraries: More than 3 million volumes and 6 million microforms.
Two commercial bowling alleys Three movie theaters 70 city parks, with eight destination trails 27 city-maintained tennis courts Three public and three private golf courses One outdoor skateboard park and one outdoor roller rink 58-plus miles of nature and fitness trails 15 city-maintained volleyball courts 28 city-maintained soccer fields
paper published daily except Saturdays and Mondays by the MU School of Journalism. Other area publications include the monthly city magazine Inside Columbia and its sister publications, the quarterly business magazine CEO and the monthly baby-boomerfocused Prime. Also publishing monthly is the Columbia Business Times magazine. The Boone County Journal and Centralia Fireside Guard newspapers and the Add Sheet free advertising shopper all publish weekly. Columbia Home magazine publishes every other month. Other advertising publications include the Columbia Marketplace monthly direct-mail deal magazine, and the Real Estate Book featuring Mid-Missouri housing.
PRINT MEDIA
AM RADIO STATIONS
Daily newspapers include: Columbia Daily Tribune: Publishes 365 days a year in the morning in print and online. Columbia Missourian: Morning
KFRU, Columbia, 1400 KTGR, Columbia, 1580 KFAL, Fulton, 900 KWRT, Boonville, 1370 KRLL, California, Mo., 1420
RECREATION
Simply Teaching the Bible Simply
MAIN LIBRARIES Daniel Boone Regional Library, including Columbia Public Library: More than 554,000 items, including more than
Sunday 10:15 a.m. www.calvarychapelcomo.com 601 Business Loop 70 W Suite 104 • 573-356-8702
100% of our profits help people escape poverty in Columbia, MO* A charming thrift store selling gently-used furniture, housewares, home decor, clothing, collectibles and much more! 19 Business Loop 70 East, Columbia, MO 65203 • 573-447-SEAT (7328) • *columbialoveseat.org • Mon-Fri: 10 am- 5pm, Sat: 9 am-4 pm, Sun: Closed
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FM RADIO STATIONS KCOU, Columbia, 88.1 KJAB, Mexico, Mo., 88.3 KSDQ, Moberly, 88.7 KJLU, Jefferson City, 88.9 KOPN, Columbia, 89.5 KMCV, High Point, 89.9 KBKC, Moberly, 90.1 KNLG, New Bloomfield, 90.3 KWWC, Columbia, 90.5 KAUD, Mexico, Mo., 90.5 KBIA, Columbia, 91.3 KMFC, Centralia, 92.1 KSDL, Sedalia, 92.3 KWJK, Boonville, 93.1 KSSZ, Fayette, 93.9 KATI California, Mo., 94.3 KSDC, Centralia, 94.9 KWWU, Fulton, 94.9 KTKS, Versailles, 95.1 KWWR, Mexico, 95.7
KCMQ, Columbia, 96.7 KPOW, La Monte, 97.7 KCLR, Boonville, 99.3 KBBM, Jefferson City, 100.1 KTGR, Fulton, 100.5 KPLA, Columbia, 101.5 KBXR, Columbia, 102.3 KZJF, Jefferson City, 104.1 KRES, Moberly, 104.7 KZZT, Moberly, 105.5 KOQL, Ashland, 106.1 KTXY, Jefferson City, 106.9 KLJE, Columbia, 107.9 KRFL, Fulton, 107.9
TELEVISION STATIONS
KOMU-8, Columbia, NBC affiliate KZOU-11, Columbia, MyTV affiliate KMIZ-17, Columbia, ABC affiliate KQFX-22, Columbia, FOX affiliate KRCG-13, Jefferson City, CBS affiliate KMOS-6, Warrensburg, PBS affiliate
EMERGENCY SERVICES
Columbia Police Department: 173 sworn officers in 2018 budget. Boone County Sheriff’s Department: About 141 employees Fire departments: The Columbia Fire Department has 145 full-time employees, and the Boone County Fire Protection District
has a volunteer staff of about 220 and 24 employees.
POST OFFICES
511 E. Walnut St., 3709 Sandman Lane, 3212B LeMone Industrial Blvd., 911 Rollins St., 1408 Forum Blvd. and 2300 Bernadette Drive
UTILITIES AND SERVICES
Natural gas: Ameren Missouri Electricity: Ameren UE, Columbia Water and Light, Boone Electric Cooperative, Centralia Municipal Water and Light Cable TV: Mediacom, Charter, CenturyLink Water: The city system has a capacity of 28 million gallons per day. Rural water districts supply county residents. Sewer: The city wastewater treatment plant near McBaine has a capacity of 20.6 million gallons per day with an average flow of 15.4 million gallons per day. The Boone County Regional Sewer District serves the county. Recycling: Columbia’s recycling program is active in the city limits and is operated by Columbia Public Works’ Solid Waste Division. Sources: Regional Economic Development Inc., Columbia Convention and Visitors Bureau, city of Columbia, state of Missouri, U.S. Census Bureau, media reports and institution websites and representatives
Since 1820
We are Columbia’s historic cemetery, and burial sites are still available. As a non-profit, every penny we earn goes back into the cemetery. Call us today to learn more and schedule a visit.
Thank You Listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Contact Tanja Patton for prices on burial sites, urn niches & monuments. 449.6320 | www.columbiacemetery.org | 30 E. Broadway
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SENIOR SERVICES Senior Network The Senior Network of Columbia is composed of representatives of area organizations, agencies and businesses, as well as individuals who are interested in promoting the quality of life for the senior citizens of Boone County. A directory can be found online at www.silcolumbia.org. The directory has listings for everything from food and home-delivered meals to volunteer opportunities. 50+ Program and 50+ Trips 1907 Hillcrest Drive (Hillcrest Community Center, Waters-Moss Memorial Wildlife Area) 573-874-7475 Activities: Music, dances, painting, crafts, instructional classes, social activities, travel opportunities. A function of Columbia Parks and Recreation. AARP Missouri 9200 Ward Parkway, Suite 350 Kansas City 866-389-5627 Local meetings at 10 a.m. every second Monday of the month at Boone Electric Cooperative’s community room for Mid-Missouri Chapter 5390, 1413 Range Line St. Services: Advocacy, travel, tax assistance, driver safety program Adult Day Connection MU campus, 137 Clark Hall 573-882-7070 adcshp.missouri.edu RECREATION continued from 55
POOLS & WATER PARKS
Albert-Oakland Family Aquatic Center 573-474-5331 www.como.gov/ParksandRec/ Parks/Albert-Oakland/oaklandaqua.php ARC Water Zone 573-874-7700 www.como.gov/ParksandRec/ARC/ arc_water_zone.php Douglass Family Aquatic Center 573-442-5019 www.visitcolumbiamo.com/directory/ douglass-family-aquatic-center-2 Hickman Pool 573-874-7476 www.como.gov/ParksandRec/ Parks/Hickman_Facilities Lake of the Woods Pool 573-474-7878 www.visitcolumbiamo.com/ directory/lake-of-the-woods-pool
Hours: Monday-Friday, 7:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Services: State-licensed adult day health care program that includes nursing supervision, hot lunches, daily activities and therapeutic exercise, respite for caregivers. Alzheimer’s Association 2609 E. Broadway, Ste. 119 573-443-8665 | help line:
800-272-3900
www.alz.org Services: Referrals, help line, patient and caregiver support groups, newsletters and educational materials, respite funds, advocacy. Central Missouri Area Agency on Aging 1121 Business Loop 70 E., Suite 2A 573-443-5823, TTY: 573-443-0105 www.cmaaa.net Hours: Monday-Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Eligibility: Age 60 and older A federal/state/private-funded notfor-profit organization that serves 19 Central Missouri counties. Services: Information and assistance, care coordination, case management, options counseling. Respite assistance program. Longterm care ombudsman program for nursing home residents. Transportation assistance (call for details). Medicare education and assistance with enrollment. Central Missouri Community Action 807B N. Providence Road 573-443-1100 www.showmeaction.org
Little Mates Cove 573-445-8839 www.visitcolumbiamo.com/directory/ little-mates-cove-at-twin-lakes Stephens Lake Park www.como.gov/ParksandRec/ Aquatics/facilities.php#SL Flat Branch Sprayground www.como.gov/ParksandRec/ Aquatics/facilities.php#flatbranch Douglass Park Sprayground www.como.gov/ParksandRec/ Aquatics/facilities.php#DFAC
STATE PARKS
Finger Lakes State Park 1505 Peabody Road 573-443-5315 Open: 6 a.m. to 10 p.m. www.mostateparks.com/park/ finger-lakes-state-park Rock Bridge Memorial State Park 5901 S. Highway 163 Office: 573-449-7402 Trail Hotline: 573-442-2249 Open: Sunrise to Sunset www.mostateparks.com/park/ rock-bridge-memorial-state-park
Services: Emergency utility assistance, weatherization, tax assistance, foster grandparent program. Central Missouri Regional Arthritis Center 1205 University Avenue, Suite 1100 573-884-1220 www.moarthritis.org Arthritis Foundation exercise program; arthritis self-management program; chronic disease management program; other services. Central Pantry 1007 Big Bear Boulevard 573-874-7848 Hours: Tuesday-Friday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Provides supplemental food to low-income individuals; emergency food assistance; shopping assistance can be arranged. Columbia Senior Activity Center 1121 Business Loop 70 E. 573-874-2050 www.columbiaseniorcenter.com Hours: Monday-Friday, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Services: Daily meals, blood pressure and glucose screenings, volunteer opportunities and activities, including cards, dances, dominoes, exercise, pool and educational seminars. Experience Works 573-445-4509 www.experienceworks.org Services: Training, employment
and community service opportunities for workers 55 and older. Family Support Division 785-285-5044 601 Business Loop 70W #272 www.dss.mo.gov/fsd/ Food stamps, supplemental aid to the blind, Blind Pension, nursing home assistance, MO HealthNet (based on age eligibility or disability). Meals on Wheels 800 Hospital Drive 573-886-7554 Email: mowheels@gmail.com www.mealsonwheelscolumbia.org Services: Meal delivery to Columbia residents, hot noon meals, box suppers Missouri Veterans Commission 601 Business Loop 70 W., Suite 214A 573-882-5135 mvc.dps.mo.gov No-fee services for honorably discharged veterans, their dependents and survivors. Assists in filing for VA benefits, compensation pensions, death benefits/ burial allowances, military grave markers, education and training.
Katy Trail State Park www.mostateparks.com/park/ katy-trail-state-park
Hinkson Creek Trail 2011 Old 63 S. 1600 Capen Park Drive; 2 miles Indian Hills Park Trail 5009 Aztec Boulevard, 1.25 mile MKT Nature/Fitness Trail Access points at: Fourth and Cherry streets 501 S. Providence Road 800 S. Stadium Boulevard 2701 Forum Boulevard 3662 Scott Boulevard 4.7 miles of city trail, plus another 4.2 miles of county-owned trail Nifong Park Trail 3700 Ponderosa Street 1.3 miles Philips Lake Trail 5050 Bristol Lake Parkway, 1.44 miles South Providence Trail Runs alongside Providence Road between Old Plank and Green Meadows roads, 1.7 miles Stephens Lake Park Trail Old 63 S. and Broadway, 0.4 mile lake trail and 1.7 mil park perimeter trail
TRAILS
Albert-Oakland Park Trail 1900 Blue Ridge Road, 1 mile Bear Creek Trail Access points at: 1615 Business Loop 70 W. 3201 Creasy Springs Road 2799 N. Garth Ave. 2304 Northland Drive 1900 Blue Ridge Road, 4.8 miles Cosmo Park 1615 Business Loop 70 W. Includes Cosmo Nature Trail, 1.75 miles; Cosmo Fitness Trail, 1.25 miles and Rhett’s Run Mountain Bike Trail, 2.4 miles County House Trail Twin Lakes Recreation Area, Stadium Boulevard at College Park Drive, 2 miles Garth Nature Area Trail 2799 N. Garth Ave., 1.1 miles Grindstone Nature Area and Capen Park Trail 2011 Old 63 S.; 3 miles
OTHER RESOURCES
Columbia Disabilities Commission 573-874-7235 Division of Senior and Disability Services 573-751-4842-6222 Elder Abuse Hotline 800-392-0210 Osher Lifelong Learning Institute 573-882-8189
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LOCAL RESOURCES ANIMAL SERVICES
PRESCHOOLS/DAYCARES
All Creatures Animal Hospital 1300 Business Loop 70 W. 573-875-0907
A Discovery Zone Child Care adiscoveryzonechildcare.com A Good Start agoodstartpreschool.com Academy of Early Childhood Learning - East academycastle.com Academy of Early Childhood Learning - South academycastle.com Apple School appleschoolmo.org Big Steps Early Learning Center, Inc bigstepselc.com Bright Star Learning Center, LLC brightstar-kids.com Bright Start Academy (East) bsacolumbia.com Bright Start Academy (West) brightstartcolumbia.com Building Blocks Learning Center 573-445-9768 Cannery Row Preschool 573-445-1600 Carousel Playschool carouselplayschool.com Columbia’s Finest CDC columbiafinestcdc.com Columbia KinderCare kindercare.com/our-centers/ columbia/mo Columbia Montessori School columbiamontessori.org Countryside Nursery School cnskids.com Discovery Days Preschool-MUMC facebook.com/ discoverydayscolumbia Down to Earth Preschool downtoearthpreschool.com Garden Gate School gardengatepreschool.org Grant Montessori Preschool rollinsreading.org/grant_montessori.php Green Meadows Preschool greenmeadowspreschool.com Humpty Dumpty Preschool humptydumptypreschool.org King’s Kids www.facebook.com/kingskidscomo Latter House Childcare Center latterhousekingdomministries.org Little Miracles Preschool littlemiraclespreschool.webs.com Lots of Love Preschool Childcare Center 573-818-6343 Luke’s Treehouse Child Care & Preschool lukestreehousechildcare.com Nora Stewart Early Learning Center norastewart.com Panda Pals Preschool & Daycare 573-445-0512 Precious Hearts Learning Center preciousheartslearningcenter.com
Bed and Biscuit, LLC 1412 Jade Road 573-474-3515 Columbia Pet Hospital 400 Nebraska Avenue 573-443-7274 Creekside Pet Center 5820 Missouri Hwy. 163 573-256-7387 Dog Daze Playcare, LLC 815B Blue Ridge Road 573-999-5077 Greenridge Farm Pet Resort and AKC Handling 9535 I-70 Dr. N.E. 573-474-7500 Horton Animal Hospital Central location: 1700 I-70 Dr. S.W 573-445-4466 Northeast location: 2608 Paris Road 573-474-9508 Noah’s Ark Animal Hospital and Bird Clinic 1003 N. Fairview Road 573-445-1388 Pet Center Ltd. 2504 W. Worley St. 573-445-3000 The Pet Fair 1706 I-70 Dr. S.W. 573-445-7783 South Paw Acres, LLC 5500 W. Gillespie Bridge Rd. 573-446-2733
GOVERNMENT (CITY) Columbia Police Department Geoff Jones, Chief (Interim) policepio@como.gov 573-874-7652 (main office) Columbia Fire Department Randy White, Chief fire@como.gov 573-874-7391 573-874-7450 (weekends and after-hours) Office of Neighborhood Services 573-817-5050 Public Works Department David Nichols, Director pubw@como.gov 573-874-2489 Columbia/Boone County Department of Public Health and Human Services Stephanie Browning, Director 573-874-7355
Ready Set Learn Early Childhood Learning Center readysetlearnpreschool.com Sprout Academy Preschool sproutacademypreschool.com Stephens College Children’s School stephens.edu/childrens-school Tiger Tots Academy of Early Learning tigertots.com TigerSide Intergenerational Preschool tigersideigp.com Trinity Lutheran Child Learning Center tlclckids.com Turn the Page Child Development Center turnthepagecdc.com A World of Discoveries Daycare aworldofdiscoveries.com
TELECOMMUNICATIONS Bluebird Network, LLC 573-777-4200 bluebirdnetwork.com Boone Electric Satellite Systems 573-876-1266 booneelectric.coop CenturyLink 573-886-3336 centurylink.com SOCKET 573-817-0000 socket.net Charter Communications 888-438-2427 charter.com Mediacom 573-489-1919 Mediacomcable.com Charter Business 314-706-7572 charterbusiness.com Lamm Tech 660-827-9944 lammtech.com Towner Communications Systems 573-874-3339 calltcs.com Quantum Wireless Internet 573-256-1166 quantumwirelessinternet.com
TRANSPORTATION Go COMO Bus Service 573-874-7282 gocomotransit.com OATS, Inc. 573-443-4516 oatstransit.org OATS is a public transportation for medical, essential shopping, business and nutrition purposes that is available to everyone. Columbia Paratransit 573-874-7290 PTScheduling@GoColumbiaMo.com Columbia Regional Airport 573-874-7508 flycou.com American Airlines offers two daily round flights between Columbia Regional Airport (COU) and Chicago O’Hare International Airport (ORD) and two daily round trip flights between COU and Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport (DFW). Additional transportation services include Amtrak out of Jefferson City, Greyhound, limousine, shuttles to the airports at Kansas City and St. Louis along with local taxis.
UTILITIES
City of Columbia Utilities 573-874-7380 como.gov/Finance/Utilities Alliance Water Resources, Inc. 573-874-8080 alliancewater.com Ameren Missouri (electric and gas) 800-552-7583 ameren.com Boone County Regional Sewer District 573-443-2774 Boone Electric Cooperative 573-449-4181 booneelectric.coop Public Water Districts Consolidated Water Supply No. 1: 573-443-7494 Consolidated Water Supply No. 9: 573-474-9521
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MILITARY LIFE
VETERANS SERVICES
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ccording to the Department of Veterans Affairs, Boone County is home to 10,179 veterans. Kim Wischmeyer, quartermaster at VFW Post 280, said the post has more than 600 combat veterans in the area who are members. He estimated that about 20 percent of area veterans are women. According to the Veterans Association, as of Sept. 30, 2015, Missouri has 458,702 veterans.
OF THOSE: • • • • • • • •
350,776 are wartime veterans 19,951 are World War II veterans 40,034 are Korean War veterans 161,932 are Vietnam War veterans 141,574 are Gulf War Veterans 107,926 are peacetime veterans 34,901 are female 423,801 are male
Missouri Veterans Commission 601 Business Loop 70 W., Suite 214A 573-882-5135 mvc.dps.mo.gov
U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Columbia Vet Center 4040 Rangeline Street, Suite 105 573-814-6206 or 877-927-8387 www.va.gov
Harry S. Truman Memorial Veterans’ Hospital 800 Hospital Drive 573-814-6000 www.columbiamo.va.gov
American Legion Herbert Williams Post 202
Ousley Family Veterans Service Center, Columbia College
3669 Legion Lane 573-442-2950 www.americanlegionpost202.org
226 Missouri Hall, 1001 Rogers Street 573-875-7504 or 800-231-2391 ext. 7504 web.ccis.edu/Military/veteranscenter
Central Missouri Women, Post 1111
MU Veterans Center
PO Box 7482 Meets the third Tuesday of each month at Harry St. Truman Memorial Veterans’ Hospital, third floor conference room B3444.
N-5 Memorial Student Union, 518 Hitt Street 573-884-4383 veterans.missouri.edu
Richard T. Kelly Post 238
Show-Me Heroes Veteran Employment Services, Missouri Job Center
PO Box 7733 573-896-5079
VFW Post 280
Welcome Home, Inc.
1509 Ashley Road 573-442-8413 vfw280.org
1206 Rangeline Street 573-443-8001 welcomehomelessveterans.org
800 Cherry Street 573-441-6361 or 888-728-5627 jobs.mo.gov/jobseeker/ veteran-employment-services
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BOONE HOSPITAL CENTER
U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid medicare.gov/hospitalcompare
Only one hospital in mid-Missouri earned a 5-star rating from the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid, Boone Hospital Center. This rating system looks at mortality, safety of care, readmission, patient experience, effectiveness of care, timeliness of care and efficient use of medical imaging. Thank you to the medical staff, clinical staff, support staff, management and volunteers. It’s 5-stars and number one rankings (2015-2018, U.S. News and World Report) that make Boone a hospital to believe in.
