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2 www.columbiatribune.com COLUMBIA DAILY TRIBUNE Sunday, June 8, 2014Guide to the insideCOMMUNITY Page 4 High achievers Page 40 COLUMBIA’S WARD BOUNDARIES Page 4 Private schools Page 42Council profile Page 6 Higher education Page 46 Columbia is divided into six wards that were updated in 2011 to reflect the 2010 census.Trash Pickup 101 Page 8 Columbia College Page 46 Each is represented by a member of the city council.City government Page 9 Stephens College Page 47Neighborhood associations Page 10 University of Missouri Page 51Public transit Page 10 University museums Page 53City profile Page 13County government Page 14 CULTURE Page 54 SECOND WARD THIRD WARDSenior services Page 21 Page 55 FIRST WARDServices for the disabled Roots N Blues Festival Page 56 FOURTH WARDLegislators Page 21 Fairground Page 58 Page 22 Festivals and more Page 59SAFETY Page 22 Craft breweries Page 61 Page 23 Country music Page 62Law enforcement Music venues Page 63Legal services Food trucks Page 64Crime statistics Civil War events Alternative courts Literary journals Page 65 Page 66ECONOMY Page 26 PARKS AND RECREATION Page 67 SIXTH WARD Page 27 Page 67Downtown infrastructure Page 27 Adult leagues Page 71 FIFTH WARDTop employers Page 29 Dog parks Hospitals Page 30 City trails Health care facilities Page 32 City parks, golf courses Airport City pools Housing EDUCATION Page 34 SPORTS Page 75 Page 37 Page 76Columbia Public Schools Page 38 MU football Page 77Elementaries map Page 39 MU basketball Page 78Secondaries maps Show-Me State Games School programs High school sports This is our annual volume of For me, it’s hard to beat a Sunday THE COVER things to know about living an sunset at Cooper’s Landing on the engaged life in Columbia. Snip- Missouri River or a Monday night at Members of Rockpets by Tribune writers Bridge High School’sdescribing their favorite local Murry’s. A walk through Ste- show choir, Cityplaces are interspersed phens Lake Park during Roots Lights, rehearse athroughout the essential N Blues N BBQ weekend is performance Aprilinformation. Several writers just about perfect, and the 8. Rock Bridge Highare relative newcomers and sidewalks along Ninth Street is well-known foroffer an interesting perspec- take on an interesting aura of its show choirs andtive for someone like me in hipness during the True/False also hosts annualhis fifth decade of wandering Film Festival. benefit concerts.around this town. I suppose This year, City Lightsit’s not surprising that my list — and It’s our great fortune to live brought homeI’ll bet a large number of yours — in a place that offers such a Grand Championincludes some of the same places and diverse lineup of potential favorite titles from both thefeatures our newcomer friends sug- places. If you haven’t already found Carthage SoundFestgest: the Devil’s Icebox, the MKT Trail yours, we’re happy to offer some sug- and Smith-Cottonand Rocheport. gestions. Enjoy Our Town. Show-Me Festival Jim Robertson, managing editor competitions and jrobertson@columbiatribune.com accolades for best vocals and choreog- Nick Schnelle/Tribune raphy. Mike Pierson is in his 10th year teaching and serving as choir director at Rock Bridge.

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4 www.columbiatribune.com COLUMBIA DAILY TRIBUNE Sunday, June 8, 2014Stipends begin forCOMMUNITY council serviceReps receive$6,000; mayorgets $9,000.By andrew denney Columbia City Council members, from left, Mayor Bob McDavid, TRASH PICKUP 101 Vivian Abagiu/Tribune Fifth Ward Councilwoman Laura Nauser, Third Ward Councilmanadenney@columbiatribune.com | 815-1719 Karl Skala and Second Ward Councilman Michael Trapp discuss For its residential customers, the up in the landfill, recyclables also The Columbia City Council is the proposed development agreements during a special meeting city of Columbia’s SolidWaste Utility are collected at several drop-off March 19 at City Hall. Council members this year begin receiving conducts curbside pickup of trash locations throughout the city.city’s rule-making body, and its stipends for their work on the city’s governing body. and recycling, and collection is con-seven members are charged with ducted throughout the workweek Residents are advised to throwthe time-consuming duties of relay- addiction counselor for Phoenix students or residents with modest and on Saturdays on weeks when away yard waste with their trash.ing constituents’ concerns to city Programs, said he devotes about 40 incomes to serve on the council. official holidays fall on a weekday. The city has a bioreactor at thestaff, making public appearances hours per week for his job and about municipal landfill that converts theand having the final say on a num- 40 hours per week for his responsi- “I don’t think that it really opens The city mails vouchers to cus- methane emanating from trash intober of often-contentious issues fac- bilities on the council. up the position to have a lot of tomers in April, August and Decem- energy.ing the city at the council’s regular diversity,” Chadwick said. She is a ber that can be redeemed for blueand special meetings. He said he is able to juggle the 36-year-old single mother of two recycling bags and black trash bags Customers must place bags dual roles because of the similari- who is working toward a master’s at local retailers. directly on the curb and cannot use Starting this year, Mayor Bob ties between them — they both boil degree at MU. a can or a container.McDavid, the council’s at-large down to “reading, writing stuff and New residents are given vouchersmember, and the council’s six ward talking to people.” The other council members are: within three weeks of becoming This is a longstanding and popu-representatives no longer are serv- McDavid, 67, a retired obstetrician; Solid Waste customers. lar method of trash collection ining as volunteers; after the election But Trapp said he has less time Third Ward Councilman Karl Skala, Columbia.of Ginny Chadwick to the First Ward now to take care of other things, 67, who served on the council from Customers only have to provideseat in April, McDavid began to simple tasks around the house such 2007 to 2010 and was elected back the vouchers to receive the bags; no A few years ago, the city proposedreceive a $9,000 annual stipend for as cooking for himself and taking to the seat in 2013; Fourth Ward purchase is necessary. a plan to adopt a roll-cart system forhis role on the council and ward care of his yard. Councilman Ian Thomas, 52, who refuse collection, but the idea wasrepresentatives began receiving served as executive director of the Customers are charged $15.42 tossed at the time for lack of public$6,000 stipends. “Taking care of myself becomes PedNet Coalition before being elect- per month for trash pickup, but the support. challenging,” Trapp said. ed in 2013; Fifth Ward Councilwom- rate can vary slightly depending on Columbia voters approved a bal- an Laura Nauser, 50, who served in whether the resident receives bags Citing concerns with SolidWaste’slot measure in 2011 to pay council Trapp represents the ward that that seat from 2005 to 2011 and was or if a landlord covers the trash fee. dwindling cash reserves, city lead-members, who are elected to three- encompasses the northwest portion elected back in 2013 in a special ers said earlier this year that rollyear terms, and each council seat of the city. election after her successor retired Customers can place aluminum, carts might be worth reconsideringhad to be put up for election at least early; and Sixth Ward Councilwom- glass, tin and plastic materials in so the city could implement a “pay-once before the mayor and ward Chadwick, who represents the an Barbara Hoppe, 63, who has the blue recycling bags. as-you-throw” system that wouldrepresentatives started receiving ward that encompasses downtown, served on the council since 2006 charge customers more for throw-checks. the University of Missouri and and is the city’s mayor pro tem. Paper and cardboard, though, ing away more. neighborhoods along the West must be placed in separate card- The stipend breaks down to $4.32 Broadway corridor, said the stipend board boxes for curbside pickup. For more information, the city’sper hour for the mayor and $2.88 for does not go far enough to entice Solid Waste Utility can be reached atcouncil members for a 40-hour If you’ve run out of bags but still 573-874-6291 or by visiting www.week. don’t want recyclable items to end gocolumbiamo.com. Serving as an elected representa-tive for a vibrant city of about110,000 has become more of a full-time job for council members, whohave traditionally been well-heeledor retired. Each ward representativeis responsible for handling the con-cerns of more than 18,000 resi-dents. Second Ward CouncilmanMichael Trapp, 45, who works as an meet the staff Andrew Denney covers city government is- sues. Reach him at 573-815-1719 or adenney@ columbia tribune.com.

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6 www.columbiatribune.com COLUMBIA DAILY TRIBUNE Sunday, June 8, 2014 COMMUNITY COLUMBIA CITY COUNCIL City Clerk sees a range of city services and New Neighborhoods site Sheela Amin utilities, including engineering, makes mapping data easy Mayor Bob McDavid Office: City Hall, sec- streets and sidewalks mainte- Office: City Hall, second floor ond floor nance, building maintenance The Tribune in March unveiled Term expires April 2016 skamin@gocolumbi- and solid waste, sanitary sewer a data-mapping website called mayor@gocolumbiamo.com amo.com and stormwater management. Neighborhoods that offers resi- 573-874-7222 (daytime) 573-874-7208 dents an easy way to see what’s The city clerk serves Community Development going on where they live. First Ward Councilwoman as the secretary to the Department The website, which representsMcDavid Ginny Chadwick Amin city council and is Teddy Director Tim Teddy the nation’s first large-scaleChadwick deployment of the OpenBlock 305 Alexander Ave. responsible for keeping Office: Daniel Boone Build- software, features arrest reports, Trapp Term expires April 2017 records of official city ing, fifth floor, 701 E. Broadway emergency dispatch activity, Skala ward1@gocolumbiamo.com business, including tteddy@gocolumbiamo.com tweets that include location in- Thomas 573-999-2641 (cell) minutes, resolutions 573-874-7239 formation, restaurant inspections, Nauser and ordinances. The department features the Tribune news stories and more, Hoppe Second Ward Councilman Planning and Development with most of the data being Michael Trapp Law Department division, which handles tasks served up in real time. Users of 10 Leslie Lane City Counselor associated with land use and the site also can post “Neighbor Term expires April 2015 Nancy Thompson development including zoning Messages” to share information ward2@gocolumbiamo.com Thompson Office: City Hall, sec- Griggs requests, housing programs and with their neighbors. The data can be filtered by location and 573-256-0174 (daytime) ond floor administering Community topic and viewed on a map or in njthomps@gocolum- Development Block Grants; the a list. Third Ward Councilman biamo.com Office of Neighborhood Servic- The site was built using the open- Karl Skala 573-874-7223 es, which coordinates with source OpenBlock software, 5201 Gasconade Drive The Law Department neighborhood associations and which was developed with grant Term expires April 2016 provides legal advice enforces property codes; and funding from the John S. and ward3@gocolumbiamo.com and support for the city the Building and Site Develop- James L. Knight Foundation. The 573-474-2195 (home) council, city staff and ment division, which issues OpenBlock project, announced boards and commis- construction and occupancy in 2010, includes the Tribune, The Fourth Ward Councilman Burton sions. It also prepares Buckler permits, certifies trade crafts Boston Globe and OpenPlans, a New York-based software Ian Thomas all ordinances, resolu- and enforces the city’s zoning development company. The 2616 Hillshire Drive tions, contracts and and land preservation ordinanc- Knight Foundation gave grants of Term expires April 2016 leases for the city. es. $235,000 to OpenPlans, $90,500 ward4@gocolumbiamo.com to the Tribune and $133,125 to the 573-239-7916 (cell) Columbia Parks and Recreation Globe. Police Department Department The Neighborhoods site is at Fifth Ward Councilwoman Chief Ken Burton Director Mike Griggs neighborhoods.columbiatribune. Laura Nauser Office: 600 E. Walnut Office: Gentry Building, 1 S. com and is offered free alongside 5707 Bridlewood Court St. Seventh St. the Tribune’s other free content, Term expires April 2014 Witt kmb@gocolumbia- Browning mbg@gocolumbiamo.com such as the home page, calendar listings, classified ads and wire ward5@gocolumbiamo.com mo.com 573-874-7460 service news stories. Under the 573-999-4002 (cell) 573-874-7402 (chief) The Parks and Recreation Tribune’s metered model, website 573-874-7652 (main Department plans, develops visitors can view as many as 10 Sixth Ward Councilwoman office) and maintains parks, green items of locally produced content Barbara Hoppe The police depart- spaces and recreational facili- — including news stories, blog 607 Bluffdale Drive ment provides crime ties and oversees recreational entries, archives, police reports Term expires April 2015 prevention and protec- services. and obituaries — for free each ward6@gocolumbiamo.com tive services. month before needing to pur- 573-424-9668 (cell) Human Resources chase a subscription. Glascock Blattel Department — By the Tribune’s staff CITY DEPARTMENTS Columbia Fire Department Director Margrace Buckler Chief Charles Witt Office: Howard Building, 600 E. Broad- ing and treatment; emergency planning; Administration building: 201 Orr St. way the Women, Infants and Children pro- AND LEADERSHIP fire@gocolumbiamo.com mfb@gocolumbiamo.com gram; Animal Control services; human rights promotion; and programs to City Manager Mike Matthes 573-874-7391, 573-874-7450 week- 573-874-7677 encourage safe and healthy living. ends and after-hours The Human Resources Department Office: City Hall, second floor The fire department provides emer- coordinates evaluation, promotion and Finance Department mematthe@gocolumbiamo.com gency medical care and assistance dur- development of staff for city depart- Director John Blattel 573-874-6338 ing fires, explosions, hazardous materi- ments. Office: City Hall, fifth floor The city manager als incidents and other catastrophic jlblatte@gocolumbiamo.com answers directly to the events. It also provides investigative, Columbia/Boone County 573-874-7365 Columbia City Coun- inspection and code enforcement ser- Department of Public Health The Finance Department is responsi- cil. He is responsible vices. and Human Services ble for the administration of financial for the general admin- Director Stephanie Browning services for the city, including financial istration of the city, Public Works Department Office: 1005 W. Worley St. planning, budgeting, treasury manage- appointing depart- Director John Glascock skbrowni@gocolumbiamo.com ment, investments, purchasing, account- ment heads, program Office: City Hall, third floor 573-874-7355 ing, payroll, business licensing, insur- coordination and the jdglasco@gocolumbiamo.com Health department services include ance and utility customer services. implementation of Matthes 573-874-7250 immunizations, restaurant and lodging policies. The Public Works Department over- inspections, communicable disease test-

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8 www.columbiatribune.com COLUMBIA DAILY TRIBUNE Sunday, June 8, 2014COLUMBIA NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATIONSThere are more than 80 neighborhood associations recognized by 6 16the city of Columbia. These groups provide a channel for informa-tion flow and encourage public participation in municipal decision- 74 67 52making. Recognized associations receive notification about planning 70and zoning applications in the area and advance notice of publichearings. Associations in older neighborhoods are occasionally 36 28 51 40eligible for federal funds for public improvements. Organized neigh- 73 53borhoods are in a better position to discuss issues with developers. 46 37More information is available from the Department of Public Com- 50munications at 874-7248 or bpcantin@gocolumbiamo.com. 56 45 351. Bearfield Meadows 21. East Walnut 78Pat Bess, 573-499-4445; Nancy Burnett, 573-443- 81pbess@camcolumbia.com 7593; burnettn@netzero.net 39 65 54 30 59 49 3 122. Bedford Walk 22. Eastland Hills 62 15 80 17 64 21 79 22Susan Clark, 573-445-2050; Pat Bess, 573-499-4445; 57susan@dmc-columbia.com pbess@camcolumbia.com 69 18 23 33 75 723. Benton-Stephens 23. Fairview 43 8Brandon Renaud, 573-256- Sarah Lang, 573-446-0146; 38 5 61 34 499283; brandon.r.renaud@ jimlang@socket.net 14 55 71gmail.com 24. Grasslands4. Bluff Creek Estates Robbie Price, 573-441-2395; 32Pat Bess, 573-499-4445; price@soa-inc.compbess@camcolumbia.com T2r5a.cGi rWeeilns2ob3nri-aKrl-eTerakailmRpidge 76 19 485. Bourn Avenue twilsonklee@earthlink.net 11 31 63Brett Grill, 718-473-5539; 26. Green Meadowsgrillj@missouri.edu Mary von Schoenborn, 77 58 246. Brookside Square 573-449-7838; mlgvs@Ewell Lawson, 573-875-5133; hotmail.com 66 47esjk1993@aol.com 27. Grindstone/Rock Quarry 107. Cedar Lake Julie Youmans, 573-443-Peter Koukola, 573-443-2352; 2154; julie_youmans@yahoo. 9 20pkouk@socket.net com 428. Chapel Hill Estates 28. Haden Park 4Patricia McIntosh Coles, (Inactive); Contact 573-874- 25 68 27573-446-6265; pcoles2008@ 7248 if interested 26 44gmail.com 29. Heritage Estates9. Chapel Hill Lake Pat Bess, 573-499-4445 60Pat Bess, 573-499-4445; pbess@camcolumbia.com 41pbess@camcolumbia.com 30. Highland Park10. Chapel Woods Jeannine Norman, 573-474- Pat Bess, 573-499-4445; 13 1Donald Spiers, 573-445-3544; 1404; norninec@aol.com pbess@camcolumbia.com 2spiersd@missouri.edu 31. Hinkson Creek Valley 43. Longview11. College Park Jeanine Pagan, 573-442-8851; Urb Molitor, 573-445-0690; 29 7Al Tacker, 573-446-5525; jeanine.pagan@gmail.com urbmolitor@aol.comaltacker@aol.com 32. Historic Old Southwest 44. Meadows 56. Parkade Phebe La Mar, 573-443-3141; Source: City of Columbia12. Country Club Estates Hank Ottinger, 573-443- Pat Bess, 573-499-4445; Paul Love, 573-443-6093; lamar@smithlewis.comSarah Catlin-Dupuy, 573-875- 4954; theottingers@mac.com pbess@camcolumbia.com paullove783@centurytel.net 65. Smithton Ridge 9070; tim@enviteme.com6547; sarahcatlin-dupuy@ 33. Historic Sunset Lane 45. Meadowvale 57. Quail Creek Mark Pulliam, 573-446-9431; 74. Vanderveen Crossingsocket.net Trevor Harris, 573-442-2227; Sherman Wefenstette, Susan Clark, 573-445-2050; mpulliam@mbsbooks.com Pat Bess, 573-499-4445;13. Country Club Fairways trevornharris@yahoo.com 573-474-7311 susan@dmc-columbia.com 66. Southwest Hills pbess@camcolumbia.comGrace Elder, 573-875-4989; 34. Historic West Broadway 46. Mexico Gravel 58. Quarry Heights (Inactive); Contact 573-874- 75. West Ashgjelder4050@hotmail.com Louis Wilson, 573-875-8039; Nile Kemble, 573-474-7016 Ken Sheldon, 573-446-4553; 7248 if interested Julie Baka, 573-256-1858;14. County House Branch hwbnassoc@gmail.com 47. Miles Manor sheldonk@missouri.edu 67. Spencer’s Crest j.baka2002@yahoo.comPaula McFarling, 573-874- 35. Hominy Branch Pack Matthews, 573-442- 59. Ridgeway Pat Bess, 573-499-4445 76. Westmount0982; pmcfarli@mchsi.com Karl Skala, 573-474-2195; 7864; pack@socket.net John McFarland, 573-449- pbess@camcolumbia.com Catherine Doyle, 573-443-15. Coventry Court skalak@missouri.edu 48. Moon Valley Heights 2686; john.mcfarland@ 68. Stadium Heights 2324; doylecat@yahoo.comBill Moyes, 573-446-5078; 36. Hunters Gate (Inactive); Contact 573-874- mediacombb.net Joe Coke, 573-449-3640 77. Westwinds Parkmotiger1@me.com Bill Pauls, 573-256-1429; b2k- 7248 if interested 60. Rockbridge 69. Stonecrest Patty Koehner, 573-442-16. Deer Ridge pauls@yahoo.com 49. North Central Joseph Vradenburg, 573-874- (Inactive); Contact 573-874- 2084; koehnerp@missouri.Cherie Rutter, 573-356-6224; 37. Indian Hills Jessie Starbuck 9509; jvradenburg@aol.com 7248 if interested educheriescakeboutique@gmail. Wallace Malveaux, starbuckjess@yahoo.com 61. Rockingham 70. Tanglewood 78. White Gatecom 573-474-2307 50. Northland-Parker Kathi Jantz, 573-823-5773; Paul Penn, 573-819-1161 Greg Ahrens, 573-886-9786;17. Douglass Park 38. Katy Lake Estates Annette Weaver, 573-449- kfjantz@gmail.com 71. Tenth Hitt Elm Locust gregahrens@aol.comTyree Byndom, 573-864-6145; Pat Bess, 573-499-4445; 7417; colbooks@tranquility. 62. Rothwell Heights Kelly Veach, 573-443-1588 79. Woodridgeblaqpaladin@gmail.com pbess@camcolumbia.com net Farah Nieuwenhuizen, 573- kveach@agent.shelterinsur- Allen Hahn, 573-474-4037;18. Dubradis 39. King’s Meadow 51. Oakland Manor 445-6853; farahn19@yahoo. ance.com hahna@missouri.edu(Inactive); Contact 573-874- Henry Warren, 573-445-8220; Diane Oerly, 573-474-4542; com 72. Timberhill Road 80. Worley Street Park7248 if interested hwarren@socket.net oerlyd@missouri.edu 63. Shepard Boulevard Harold Johnson, Phill Christensen, 573-673-19. East Campus 40. Lake Shire Estates 52. Oaks John Prenger, 573-673-7964; 573-449-1533 7928; phill.christensen@gmail.Janet Hammen, 573-442- Pat Bess, 573-499-4445; Curtis Flatt, 573-814-1281; prengerclan@gmail.com 73. Valley View Gardens com5827; janethammen@yahoo. pbess@camcolumbia.com flatt.cmcb@mchsi.com 64. Shoe Factory District Tim Chancellor, 573-489- 81. Zaringcom 41. Lenoir Woods 53. Oakview Drive Judy Johnson, 573-474-6940;20. East Pointe Roger Moe, 573-874-0121 Tami Avery, 573-474-2260; jjohns02@centurytel.netDan Harder, 573-424-2384; 42. Limerick Lakes taavery1824@yahoo.comdan@midwestpropertymgmt. 54. Park DeVillecom Terry Baker, 573-445-9643; twbaker@centurytel.net 55. Park Hill J.D. Estes, 573-441-2386

Sunday, June 8, 2014 COLUMBIA DAILY TRIBUNE www.columbiatribune.com 9 COMMUNITYTRANSIT SERVICES Megabus Downtown isn’t 877-462-6342 short on parkingColumbia Transit www.megabus.comWabash Station The Megabus runs Nick Schnelle/Tribune By andrew denney126 N. Tenth St. twice a day from Wa-573-874-7282 bash Station: Ahmed Bagaber, a sophomore engineering student at the University of Missouri, adenney@columbiatribune.com | 815-1719www.gocolumbiamo. 2 p.m. to St. Louis and boards a bus Feb. 18 at Wabash Station. The city is implementing a new transit Parking downtown might seemcom/PublicWorks/ Chicago; and 4:40 system that will end reliance on Wabash Station as a central hub for bus routes.Transportation p.m. to Kansas City. like a difficult task during peak travelRates are $1.50 for Prices vary. Order tick- CoMo Connect replaces old hours, but Columbia offers a rangeadults, 75 cents for ets online, and present hub-and-spoke bus system of parking options for downtownchildren ages 5 to 11 your reservation num- residents, shoppers and workers.or students with ID ber to the bus opera- By andrew denney Teresa White, marketing specialist forand free for children tor upon boarding. Columbia Transit, said during that time, new The city maintains nearly 1,700younger than 5. Stu- adenney@columbiatribune.com | 815-1719 routes will run “on top” of the old system to on-street parking meters through-dents can purchase Greyhound Lines This year, Columbia Transit is rolling out give riders a chance to try the new system. out the downtown area that are col-a semester pass for Midway Truck Stop or-coded for the maximum amount$100. Hours of opera- Travel Plaza CoMo Connect, an overhaul of the city’s bus White said as part of the overhaul, Colum- of time motorists can purchase fromtion are 6:20 a.m. to 6401 Highway 40 W. system that will include a switch from the bia Transit will bid farewell to the underper- the meters to park there.6:35 p.m. Monday 573-445-9466 time-honored hub-and-spoke system in forming, downtown-based FastCAT Express,through Wednesday; www.greyhound.com which bus routes begin and end at theWabash Columbia Transit’s attempt at creating a stu- Green-painted meters are 10-hour6:20 a.m. to 9:15 p.m. Provides bus connec- Station downtown to a transfer-based sys- dent-centric route. It had low ridership num- meters, orange means five hours,Thursday and Friday; tions to cities across tem. bers. purple is four hours, gray is twoand 10 a.m. to 7:05 the country. Prices hours and red allows one hour. Yel-p.m. Saturday. vary. Open seven days When CoMo Connect is fully implemented The FastCAT brand will be dropped, and low meters mark spots limited to 24Starting on Aug. 4, a week. Aug. 4, bus routes will consist of two com- the FastCAT route will be replaced with a minutes.Columbia Transit will muter loops that span the city east-west and slightly expanded downtown route stretchinglaunch the new CoMo MO-X north-south and connect with shorter neigh- farther north to Rogers Street and passing in The on-street meters cost 60 centsConnect system, 303 Business Loop borhood loops through more than 40 transfer front of Paquin Tower and by the west side of per hour throughout downtown andand as part of the 70 E. points throughout the city. Boone Hospital Center. After the change, only $1 per hour for parking meters nearchange bus routes 573-256-1991 or one bus will serve the route. the University of Missouri campusno longer will begin 877-669-4826 Fourth Ward Councilman Ian Thomas, who from 7:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. Mondayand end at Wabash www.moexpress.com worked as an alternative transit advocate The proposal to switch to CoMo Connect through Saturday.Station in downtown Provides a sched- before being elected to the council last year, was unveiled last year after officials had beenColumbia. Instead, uled shuttle service said the city has outgrown its current system, working for years to bring the transit system Most of the meters take change orbuses will run on a between Columbia in which routes loop out to the edge of the into financial solvency. The hope is CoMo an EZ Park card, while meters ontransfer-based system and the Kansas City city before looping back in toward Wabash. In Connect will be a more convenient system Ninth Street between Broadway andin which commuter and St. Louis airports. heavy traffic, buses can take 40 minutes or that attracts more riders, which would mean University Avenue and on Broadwayroutes that span the Twelve round trips more to complete their loops. more revenue from fares. between Ninth and Tenth streetscity will link up with daily to St. Louis and have been upgraded to accept creditshorter neighbor- five round trips daily “It’s a design that’s appropriate for smaller “We are hoping that the improvements to and debit cards.hood routes through to Kansas City are cities,” Thomas said. “But Columbia’s gotten the system will attract more riders, moretransfer points. offered. Prices range so much larger that it’s really not an efficient interest and more support for the system,” EZ Park cards are not compatibleSchedules, route maps from $46 one way to system.” White said. with the meters that take creditand detour informa- $110 round trip. cards.tion are available on Wabash Station will be removed from the If CoMo Connect is successful at attractingthe Columbia Transit system’s routes entirely, and the city has dis- new riders, Thomas said, Columbia Transit The city also maintains six multi-website. cussed converting the historic space into a might be able to expand the service by having level downtown parking garages that dispatch center for Columbia Transit’s para- it run later, having more buses or even pro- offer a total of 2,300 parking spaces,Columbia Paratransit Train service transit service. Columbia Transit will begin viding free service to school-age riders to of which 424 are unreserved meteredFor disabled resi- The nearest Amtrak implementing some of the CoMo Connect encourage them to get comfortable with pub- spaces that cost 50 cents per hour.dents, Columbia has station is in Jefferson routes during the last two weeks of July before lic transit at an earlier age.lift-equipped para- City, 101 Jefferson St. the system goes into full effect. The remaining spaces in thetransit mini-buses that Information on routes garages are intended for parkingprovide curb-to-curb and tickets is available pass holders, who can purchase cov-transportation ser- at www.amtrak.com. ered, uncovered and reserved spacesvices. The service is in the garages for $65, $75 and $115available for people Columbia has a per month, respectively. As a way towho qualify under the train-focused tourist encourage a de facto “park-and-Americans with Dis- attraction, the Colum- ride” system in the downtown area,abilities Act. The rate bia Star Dinner Train, parking pass holders also receiveis $2 per ride. Res- which recently came passes to ride on Columbia Transitervation hours are 7 under new owner- buses.a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday ship. The dinner trainthrough Friday and 11 runs from Columbia The city also offers 535 off-streeta.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday. to Centralia and back, parking spaces on surface lots, ofTo schedule service, departing at 6 p.m. which 138 spaces are metered. Per-email PTscheduling@ Saturdays and 1 p.m. mitted spaces on surface lots are $60gocolumbiamo.com. Sundays each week- per month. Quarterly and yearlyIf you do not receive end from 6501 N. parking passes also are available fora response within one Brown Station Road. both parking garages and surfacehour during regular Information is avail- lots.business hours, call able at 573-474-2223573-874-7290. or dinnertrain.com. Parking is free in city parking garages on Saturdays and Sundays, and on-street meters are not enforced on Sundays. For more information, go to www. gocolumbiamo.com/PublicWorks/ Parking.

10 www.columbiatribune.com COLUMBIA DAILY TRIBUNE Sunday, June 8, 2014 COMMUNITYFACTS ABOUT COLUMBIA recordings, videos and electronic materi- KCLR, Boonville, 99.3 BOONE COUNTY GOVERNMENT als. KBBM, Jefferson City, 100.1 POPULATION KPLA, Columbia, 101.5 Boone County was formed in 1820 from segments Columbia: 113,225 (2012 census esti- University of Missouri libraries: More than KBXR, Columbia, 102.3 of Howard and Montgomery counties and namedmate) 3 million volumes and 6 million micro- KZJF, Jefferson City, 104.1 after the frontiersman Daniel Boone, who spent his Boone County: 170,773 (2013 census esti- forms across the main library, branches KRES, Moberly, 104.7 final days in Missouri.mate) and storage facilities. Ellis Library is MU’s KZZT, Moberly, 105.5 CLIMATE largest. KOQL, Columbia, 106.1 About 163,000 people — a 20 percent increase Temperatures: Columbia’s mean temper- KTXY, Jefferson City, 106.9 from 2000 — lived in the 687-square-mile county inature is 54.8 degrees. The warmest month RECREATION TELEVISION STATIONS 2010. The county is governed by a three-memberis July, with an average high of 87 degrees; Two commercial bowling alleys KOMU-8, Columbia, NBC affiliate county commission. Each commissioner is electedthe coldest is January, with an average high Three movie theaters KMIZ-17, Columbia, ABC affiliate to a four-year term.of 42.1 degrees. 65 city parks, including six major trails KQFX-22, Columbia, FOX affiliate Precipitation: Annual rainfall averages 27 city-maintained tennis courts KRCG-13, Jefferson City, CBS affiliate The county receives revenue from real estate and38.76 inches; snowfall averages 20.4 inch- Three public and six private golf courses KMOS-6, Warrensburg, PBS affiliate personal property taxes, fees, and state and federales. One outdoor skate park and one indoor EMERGENCY SERVICES money, but more than 72 percent of county funds CONVENTION AND TOURISM roller rink Columbia Police Department: About 160 come from sales taxes. The county-owned Boone Lodging: There are 36 hotels with more 50-plus miles of nature and fitness trails sworn officers Hospital Center has a lease agreement with St. Lou-than 3,500 total sleeping rooms. 18 city-maintained volleyball courts Boone County Sheriff’s Department: About is-based BJC HealthCare, which pays an annual sum Exhibition: The Central Missouri Events 18 city-maintained soccer fields 80 full-time-equivalent positions in law to the county based on the consumer price index.Center’s main area has two sections total- PRINT MEDIA enforcement and 55 positions at the jail. The 2013 budget included a lease payment ofing 88,000 feet; Hearnes Center, 67,584 Daily newspapers include: Fire departments: The Columbia Fire $1,790,000 and another $510,000 for the county tosquare feet; Midway Expo Center, more Columbia Daily Tribune: Afternoon paper Department has 135 employees, and the use for community health grants.than 50,000 square feet; Columbia Expo on weekdays, morning paper on weekends. Boone County Fire Protection District has aCenter, 18,612 square feet. Weekday/Sunday readership of 81,368; volunteer staff of about 265 and 24 employ- Boone County became a first-class county in Information on events, points of inter- online readership of 68,616. (Source: The ees. 1991, a designation based on the valuation of land.est, meeting plans and tour arrangements Media Audit, Boone County, 18+ cume rat- TRANSPORTATIONis available through the Convention and ings). Highways: Interstate 70 runs east-west, State law allows county officeholders to set theirVisitors Bureau, 300 S. Providence Road, Columbia Missourian: Morning paper and Highway 63 runs north-south through own salaries. The Boone County presiding commis-P.O. Box 6015, Columbia, Mo., 65205. The published daily except Saturdays and Mon- the city. sioner earns $92,139 a year, and the associate com-bureau can be reached by phone at 573- days by the MU School of Journalism. Air travel: Columbia Regional Airport, missioners each earn $90,051. The county assessor,875-1231 or 800-652-0987 or online at Weekday/Sunday readership of 9,062. between Columbia and Ashland just east of auditor, clerk, public administrator, recorder, trea-www.visitcolumbiamo.com. (Source: The Media Audit, Boone County, Highway 63, has a 6,500-foot runway. surer and collector each earn $90,051 per year. Sala- EDUCATION 18+ cume ratings). American Airlines provides two daily flights ries for prosecutor and sheriff are set by state stat- Elementary and secondary: As of the Other area publications include the to Dallas and two daily flights to Chicago ute. The prosecutor earns $116,854, and the sheriffopening of the 2013-14 school year, Colum- monthly city magazine Inside Columbia on 50-seat regional jets. earns $114,733.bia Public Schools will have four high and its sister publications, the quarterly Bus: Columbia Transit, intracity; Grey-schools, six middle schools and 19 elemen- business magazine CEO and the monthly hound; Megabus; airport shuttle; and char- BOONE COUNTY COMMISSIONtary schools. The 2012-13 enrollment was baby-boomer-focused Prime. Also publish- ter services. Presiding Commissioner17,722 students. There are 18 private and ing monthly is the Columbia Business Post offices: 511 E. Walnut St. and inside Dan Atwillparochial schools. Times magazine. Columbia Mall, 2300 Bernadette Drive Term expires: 2014 Career-technical: The Columbia Area The Boone County Journal and Centralia UTILITIES AND SERVICESCareer Center offers classes for ninth- Fireside Guard newspapers and the Add Natural gas: Ameren Missouri Northern Districtthrough 12th-grade students as well as a Sheet free advertising shopper all publish Electricity: Ameren Missouri, Columbia Commissionervariety of courses each semester for adults weekly. Columbia Home magazine pub- Water and Light, Boone Electric Coopera- Janet Thompsonand customized training for local busi- lishes every other month. Other advertis- tive, Centralia Municipal Water and Light Term expires: 2016nesses. ing publications include the Columbia Cable TV: Mediacom, Charter, Centu- Colleges: The University of Missouri Marketplace monthly direct-mail deal ryLink Southern District Atwillrecorded a total enrollment of 34,658 stu- magazine, and the Real Estate Book featur- Phone/Internet providers: CenturyLink, Commissioner Karen Millerdents in fall 2013, including 26,965 under- ing Mid-Missouri housing, Mediacom, Socket, Tranquility Term expires: 2016graduate students. Its faculty and staff AM RADIO STATIONS Water: The city system has a capacity ofnumber more than 13,000 in Columbia, KFRU, Columbia, 1400 28 million gallons per day. Rural water dis- Offices: Room 333, third floor ofincluding University Hospital and MU KTGR, Columbia, 1580 tricts supply county residents. the Boone County GovernmentHealth Care employees. KWRT, Boonville, 1370 Sewer: The city wastewater treatment Center at Eighth and Ash streets; Columbia also has two private college KFAL, Fulton, 900 plant near McBaine has a capacity of 20.6 573-886-4305campuses based here: Columbia College, KLIK, Jefferson City, 1240 million gallons per day with an average Website: showmeboone.com/which has about 4,000 students enrolled at KWOS, Jefferson City, 950 flow of 16 million gallons per day. The commissionits Columbia campus and more than 30,000 KXEO, Mexico, Mo., 1340 Boone County Regional Sewer District The county commission serves Thompsontotal at its 34 nationwide campuses and KWIX, Moberly, 1230 serves the county. as the executive body of the coun-online; and Stephens College, with an FM RADIO STATIONS Recycling: Columbia’s recycling program ty, establishing policy and manag-enrollment of about 700. KCOU, Columbia, 88.1 is active in the city limits and is operated by ing the budget. The commission Other higher-education institutions with KJLU, Jefferson City, 88.9 the Columbia Public Works Solid Waste has regular public meetings atColumbia campuses include Moberly Area KOPN, Columbia, 89.5 Division. 9:30 a.m. Tuesdays and 1:30 p.m.Community College, Bryan College, Wil- KWWC, Columbia, 90.5 Thursdays in the commissionliam Woods University and Central Meth- KBIA, Columbia, 91.3 Sources: Regional Economic Develop- chambers on the first floor of theodist University. KMFC, Centralia, 92.1 ment Inc., Columbia Convention and Visi- Boone County Government Cen- MAIN LIBRARIES KSSZ, Columbia, 93.9 tors Bureau, city of Columbia, state of Mis- ter. The commission meets at Daniel Boone Regional Library, including KATI, Jefferson City, 94.3 souri, U.S. Census Bureau, media reports various times throughout the MillerColumbia Public Library: More than 556,000 KWWR, Mexico, 95.7 and institution websites and representa-items, including 438,000 books, plus KCMQ, Columbia, 96.7 tives week in work sessions with other elected officials KPOW, Sedalia, 97.7 and department heads. Commissioners also serve as the county’s liaison with dozens of community boards and committees. Continued on 12

Sunday, June 8, 2014 COLUMBIA DAILY TRIBUNE www.columbiatribune.com 11Joe Machens Ford Lincoln Truck Center Joe Machens Toyota Scion Joe Machens Chrysler Dodge Jeep Ram 1911 W. Worley, Columbia 600 Bernadette Dr., Columbia 1180 Vandiver Dr., Columbia 1310 Vandiver Dr., Columbia 573-474-9500 800-745-4454 866-811-7518 866-519-4450Joe Machens Pre-owned Supercenter Machens Vandiver Joe Machens BMW Joe Machens 900 Bernadette Dr., Columbia 416 Vandiver Dr., Columbia 1510 I-70 Drive SW, Columbia 1710 I-70 Drive SW., Columbia 866-728-3078 888-261-5510 877-269-2660 573-774-7040 Joe Machens Hyundai Joe Machens Volkswagen Joe Machens Automotive Group Machens Auto Outlet1300 Vandiver Dr., Columbia 1200 Vandiver Dr., Columbia 500 Vandiver Dr., Columbia 700 Vandiver Dr., Columbia 866-907-0339 800-473-6343 855-301-6700 573-442-0700 Joe Machens Nissan201 Nebraska Ave., Columbia Joe Machens Nissan Pre-owned Center Joe Machens Capital City Joe Machens East Collision Center 1717 N. Providence, Columbia Ford Lincoln 1606 Commerce Ct., Columbia 877-305-1660 573-446-5010 573-442-4700 807 Southwest Blvd., Jefferson City Joe Machens Body Shop 800-234-4953 600 Bernadette Dr., Columbia 573-445-8385 Joe Machens Rental 1908 W. Worley St., Columbia 573-445-4282Shop Over 6,000 vehicles All roads lead to aOnline at machens.com Joe Machens Dealership

12 www.columbiatribune.com COLUMBIA DAILY TRIBUNE Sunday, June 8, 2014BOONE COUNTY GOVERNMENT COMMUNITYContinued FROM 10 Sheriff Dwayne Carey ty government center; 573- construction arm of the Public Works Depart- ment in late 2010. The planning department Term expires: 2016 886-4295 enforces zoning and subdivision regulations. Office: 2121 E. County Website: showmeboone. The building inspection unit issues buildingOTHER ELECTED OFFICIALS permits and inspects new construction inCounty Assessor Tom Schauwecker Drive; 573-875-1111 com/clerk unincorporated areas of the county. TheTerm expires: 2016 Website: showmeboone. The county clerk is office also conducts design and constructionOffice: Room 143, first com/sheriff responsible for managing of capital projects and houses the county’sfloor of the county govern- The sheriff’s primary and conducting elections. stormwater management personnel.ment center; 573-886-4270 responsibility is to protect The office also is chargedWebsite: showmeboone. and preserve the safety of with keeping accurate Medical examiner: Carl Stacy, 573-474-com/assessor Boone County residents. records of the orders and 2700. The medical examiner investigates Noren deaths caused by violence, deaths that occur while the person is in custody of the law or anThe assessor is respon- The office patrols the coun- Carey meetings of the county inmate at a public institution, and deathssible for tracking all taxable ty, responds to calls for ser- commission. The clerk maintains payroll that occur in any unusual or suspicious man-real and tangible personal vice and investigates crimes. The office also files, administers employee benefits, admin- ner.property in Boone County oversees operations of the Boone County Jail isters the records management budget andand assessing the property Schauwecker and distributes permits on all-terrain vehicles purchases adequate insurance and bonding Human resources: Jenna Redel-Reed, 573- 886-4395. Boone County Annex, 613 E. Ashannually. Assessed valuation provides the tax and firearms. for county assets and elected officials. St., Room 114. The department screensbase for property taxes levied by the county employment applicants, evaluates the coun-and its political subdivisions, including Treasurer Nicole Galloway Recorder of Deeds Bettie Johnson ty’s job-classification system and coordinatesschools, fire districts, library districts and Term expires: 2016 Term expires: 2014 the county’s affirmative action plan andmunicipalities. Office: Room 205, sec- Office: Room 132, first employee training. ond floor of the county floor of the county govern-County Collector Pat Lensmeyer government center; 573- ment center; 573-886-4345 Purchasing: Director Melinda Bobbitt,Term expires: 2014 886-4365 Website: showmeboone. 573-886-4392. Boone County Annex, RoomOffice: Room 118, first Website: showmeboone. com/recorder 110. Businesses and individuals selling goodsfloor of the county govern- com/treasurer The recorder is respon- and services to the county go through pur-ment center; 573-886-4285 The treasurer is respon- sible for recording docu- chasing, which also coordinates disposal ofWebsite: showmeboone. sible for receiving, disburs- ments in three main areas: surplus, damaged and obsolete materials andcom/collector ing and investing all funds real estate, uniform com- equipment.The collector is respon- for the county and ensur- Galloway mercial code and marriage Johnson Facilities maintenance: Manager Bobsible for collecting property ing money is segregated into separate funds. licenses. In addition, servicemen’s records, Davidson, 573-886-4400. Boone Countytaxes, distributing revenue The treasurer issues all general obligation tax liens and miscellaneous documents not Annex, Room 106. The department overseesand collecting liquor, auc- bonds and revenue bonds for the county. in these areas might be recorded. maintenance and custodial services for thetioneer and merchant Lensmeyer county’s buildings and parking lots and main- tenance of county-owned parks and aboutlicense fees. Primary tax records are held for County Auditor June Pitchford OTHER BOONE COUNTY SERVICES 4.5 miles of the Katy Trail.public use in the collector’s office. Term expires: 2014 Public Works Department: Chet Dunn, Office: Room 304, third road maintenance supervisor; Greg Eding- County counselor: C.J. Dykhouse, 573-Prosecuting Attorney Dan Knight floor of the county govern- ton, fleet maintenance supervisor; 573-449- 886-4414. Room 211, second floor of theTerm expires: 2014 ment center; 573-886-4275 8515. Office is at 5551 Highway 63 S. The county government center. The county coun-Office: fourth floor of the Website: showmeboone. department is responsible for the condition selor is the attorney for all county electedBoone County Courthouse, com/auditor of roads and bridges in Boone County, includ- officials and department directors. The coun-705 E. Walnut St.; 573-886- The auditor is the coun- ing snow and ice control. ty’s deeds, contracts, ordinances and resolu-4100 ty’s chief budget officer and Court administrator: Kathy Lloyd, 573- tions are drafted or reviewed by this office.Website: showmeboone. is responsible for preparing 886-4060. The court administrator managescom/pa the official financial state- Pitchford the daily operation of the court; functions Community Services: Director Kelly Wallis,The prosecutor repre- ments and the annual include case docketing and acting as the 573-886-4298, 609 E. Walnut St. The Commu-sents the state in all crimi- audit. The auditor also certifies contracts and court’s liaison to the public. nity Services Department, a new function ofnal cases in the county. The expenditures. Robert L. Perry Juvenile Justice Center: Boone County Government in 2014, will over-office also collects delin- Knight Superintendent Rick Gaines, 573-886-4450. see administration of the community health The juvenile justice center is designated by fund created by an annual $500,000 paymentquent child support and tax payments. Circuit Court Clerk Christy Blakemore the 13th Judicial Circuit Court to provide by BJC HealthCare as part of BJC’s lease Term expires: 2014 detention, evaluation services and temporary agreement to operate county-owned BoonePublic Administrator Cathy Richards Office: first floor of the care to juveniles. Hospital Center. The department will alsoTerm expires: 2016 Boone County Courthouse; Resource Management: Director Stan manage the Children’s Services Fund that wasOffice: first floor of the 573-886-4000 Shawver, 573-886-4330. Room 315, third floor created by a voter-approved sales tax in 2012Boone County Courthouse; Website: www.courts. of the county government center. Planning to address youth mental health needs.573-886-4190 mo.gov/hosted/circuit13 and Building merged with the design andWebsite: showmeboone. The circuit clerk iscom/publicadmin responsible for all circuitThe public administra- court records. All new courttor is responsible for the cases are filed with the OUR TOWN — ON TUESDAYScustodial and administra- clerk’s office. The circuit Blakemore The Tribune has a weekly photo columntive tasks for the estates of Richards clerk’s office issues all warrants and writs, called Our Town that explores the people,the deceased and estates of notifies all parties of trials or any court actions places and relationships that make living inminors and incapacitated or disabled people and receives and disburses money paid into Columbia a unique and interesting experi-when there is no legal guardian or conserva- the court for bonds, fines, garnishments and ence. Subjects’ thoughts and backgroundstor. The public administrator also serves as other court-related costs. are included to shed light on their commu-the court-appointed guardian, conservator, nity impact and reveal something about theirpersonal representative, fiduciary or surro- County Clerk Wendy Noren character. If you have a suggestion for Ourgate for people or descendants when no one Term expires: 2014 Town, contact the photo department at 573-else is willing or qualified. Office: Room 236, second floor of the coun- 815-1770 or photo@columbiatribune.com.

COMMUNITY for nursing home residents Sunday, June 8, 2014 COLUMBIA DAILY TRIBUNE www.columbiatribune.com 13 (See long-term care om-SENIOR SERVICES Chapter 5390, 1413 Range budsman entry). Transpor- SDcihscnouvcekrs! Line St., 573-449-4181. tation assistance (call forThe Senior Network of Services: Advocacy, travel, details). Medicare education Schnucks, a full-service grocery store, has everything you needColumbia is composed of tax assistance, driver safety and assistance with enroll- in one convenient stop. You’ll find fabulous fresh produce,representatives of area program ment. local products and artisan foods like our fresh signature sausages –organizations, agencies and Fees: None made fresh in-store! Check out our selection of organic andbusinesses, as well as indi- Adult Day Connection gluten-free choices.viduals who are interested MU campus, 137 Clark Hall Central Missouri Stop by our in-store Kaldi’s Coffee or ask our Certified Specialistin promoting the quality of 573-882-7070 Community Action of Wine, David Farmer, for the perfect wine with dinner.life for the senior citizens of adcshp.missouri.edu 807B N. Providence Road Plus, we have a full-service Schnucks Pharmacy and Florist Shop.Boone County. Hours: Monday-Friday, 7:30 573-443-1100 Save every week with Advertised Deals, Wednesday WowsThe Senior Network meets a.m. to 5 p.m. www.showmeaction.org and Drivetime Specials. Plus, Schnucks family of brands give youat 8 a.m. on the third Services: State-licensed Services: Emergency utility quality choices for less every day!Wednesday of each month adult day health care pro- assistance, weatherization,at the Columbia Area Senior gram that includes nursing tax assistance, foster grand- Schnuck Columbia • 1400 Forum Blvd. ©2014 SchnucksCenter, 1121 Business Loop supervision, hot lunches, parent program. Open 6:00 a.m. - Midnight • Phone (573) 446-280070 E. A directory can be daily activities and thera- Fees: None. Pharmacy (573) 446-2804 • Florist (573) 446-2850found online at www.se- peutic exercise, respite forniornetworkdirectory.com. caregivers. Central Missouri Regional schnucks.comThe directory, updated in Fees: Call for fee informa- Arthritis Center2012 and produced by the tion. Medicaid accepted and 1205 University Ave., SuiteBoone County Council on some assistance available 1100Aging, has listings for food for those who qualify. 573-882-8097and home-delivered meals, www.moarthritis.orggeriatric care management, Alzheimer’s Association Fees vary by program; mosthome maintenance, health 2400 Bluff Creek Drive are offered at no charge. Noinsurance assistance, hos- 573-443-8665, help line eligibility requirements.pices, hospitals and clinics, 800-272-3900 Arthritis Foundation ex-independent living options, www.alz.org/mid-missouri ercise program; arthritisnursing homes, shelters, Services: Referrals, help self-management program;information and support line, patient and caregiver chronic disease manage-services, in-home care, legal support groups, newsletters ment program; otherassistance, mental health, and educational materials, services.prescriptions/medicine as- respite funds, advocacy.sistance, recreation oppor- Fees: Donations accepted. Central Pantrytunities, response services 1007 Big Bear Blvd.and assistive devices, senior Boone County Council 573-874-7848centers, tax assistance, util- on Aging Hours 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.,ity assistance, volunteer op- 1123 Wilkes Blvd., Suite 100 Monday-Friday, 10 a.m. to 2portunities, faith-based ser- 573-443-1111 p.m. Saturdayvices, financial counseling, www.booneaging.org Provides supplemental foodfuneral services, mortgage Services: Resources about to low-income individuals;services, moving services living independently; emergency food assistance;and veterans services. income-based volunteer shopping assistance can beA list of coalition members services, including grocery arranged.is also available art the shopping, yard mainte-Columbia Public Library nance; tax assistance for Columbia/Boone Countyand at most senior-service homebound seniors; home Department of Publicproviders. repair program. Health and Human Services50+ Program and 50+ Trips Fees: Donations accepted. 1005 W. Worley St.(Previously OAK Tours) 573-874-73551907 Hillcrest Drive (Hill- Central Missouri Area www.gocolumbiamo.com/crest Community Center, Agency on Aging HealthWaters-Moss Memorial 1121 Business Loop 70 E., Services: Flu and pneumo-Wildlife Area) Suite 2A nia shots, immunizations,Program: 573-874-7475 573-443-5823, 573-443- assistance with prescriptionTrips: 573-441-5525 0105 TTY medications, rural healthActivities: Music, dances, www.cmaaa.net screenings, hypertension/painting, crafts, instructional Hours: 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., blood glucose screenings,classes, social activities, Monday-Friday tuberculosis testing, utilitytravel opportunities. A func- Eligibility: Age 60 and older assistance, in-home ser-tion of the Columbia Parks A federal/state/private- vices.and Recreation Department. funded not-for-profit Fees: Vary depending onFees: Vary. Call for details. organization that serves 19 service.AARP Missouri Central Missouri counties.9200 Ward Parkway, Suite Services: Information and Columbia Housing350, Kansas City assistance, care coordina- AuthorityLocal meetings at 10 a.m. tion, case management, op- 201 Switzler St.every second Monday of tions counseling. Respite as- 573-443-2556the month at Boone Electric sistance program. Provides www.columbiaha.comCooperative’s commu- congregate and home-de- Low-income public housingnity room for Mid-Missouri livered meals for a suggest- ed donation of $3.50 per Continued ON 14 meal. (See Oakland Senior Center entry). Long-term care ombudsman program

14 www.columbiatribune.com COLUMBIA DAILY TRIBUNE Sunday, June 8, 2014 COMMUNITYContinued FROM 13 573-886-7554 have approved application SERVICES FOR PEOPLE Central Missouri 874-3777for seniors and people with www.mealsonwheelsco- on file. WITH DISABLITIES Subcontracting Enterprises www.eastersealsmidwest.disabilities lumbia.org Curb-to-curb service for 4040 S. Bearfield Road org Email: mowheels@gmail. disabled individuals; all Alternative Community 573-442-6935 Provides treatment andColumbia Senior Activity com buses are fully accessible, Training Inc. www.cmse.org training for individuals withCenter Services: Meal delivery to including wheelchairs; pro- 2200 Burlington St., A flexible, low-cost al- autism spectrum disorders1121 Business Loop 70 E. Columbia residents, hot gram of city of Columbia 573-474-9446 ternative to performing and their families. Also of-573-874-2050 noon meals, box suppers transportation system. www.actservices.org labor-intensive projects fers consultation for direct-www.columbiaseniorcenter. Fees: Sliding scale. Provides community living in-house. Provides people care staff.com Primaris programs, a work program with disabilities with jobs inHours: 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Mid-Missouri Legal 200 N. Keene St., Suite 101 and vocational rehabilitation a range of services, includ- Freedom HousesMonday-Friday; 11 a.m. to 1 Services 573-817-8300 assessments for people with ing industrial subcontracting Apartmentsp.m. Sunday 1201 W. Broadway www.primaris.org developmental disabilities. and bulk mail processing. 107 N. William St.Services: Daily meals, 573-442-0116 Services for Medicare or Those in the work program Includes CMSE Giving Gar- 573-875-6644blood pressure and glucose www.lsmo.org/content/ Medicaid beneficiaries. As- recycle magnetic media. dens, a retail greenhouse. Provides barrier-free hous-screenings, volunteer op- mid-missouri-legal-services sists with concerns about ing for people with physicalportunities and activities, Free legal services for quality of care, educational Boone County Family Columbia Housing disabilities. Privately ownedincluding cards, dances, qualified low-income indi- materials on HMOs, reviews Resources Authority and government-subsidized.dominoes, exercise, pool, viduals. Civil cases only. quality complaints regard- 1209 E. Walnut St. 201 Switzler St.educational seminars. ing Medicare. 573-874-1995 or 573-443-2556 Job PointFees: Lunch costs $6 from Missouri Veterans 800-359-4607 www.columbiaha.com 2116 Nelwood Drive,11 a.m. to 1 p.m. weekdays Commission Retired Senior Volunteer www.bcfr.org Low-income public housing Suite 200, 573-474-8560(soup and salad $4) and 1500 Vandiver Drive, Suite Program Offers an array of services for seniors and individuals www.jobpointmo.org$7 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. on 107 1123 Wilkes Blvd., Suite 100 to people with develop- with disabilities. Offers vocational assess-Sundays. Closed Saturday. 573-882-5135 573-443-1111 mental disabilities. Supports ments, job training and mvc.dps.mo.gov Services: Volunteer place- families caring for people Delmar A. Cobble placement services toExperience Works No-fee services for honor- ment, training, supple- with disabilities. State School people with disabilities and2012 Cherry Hill Drive, Suite ably discharged veterans, mental accident, liability 108 W. Craig St. the economically disad-202C their dependents and insurance for volunteer Bureau of Special 573-442-6482 vantaged. Also provides an573-442-0067 survivors. activities. Fees: None. Health Care Needs Provides learning opportuni- array of services throughwww.experienceworks.org Assists in filing for VA 1500 Vandiver Drive, ties for students with severe partnerships with severalServices: Training, em- benefits, compensation The Salvation Army Suite 112 disabilities whose conditions local organizations to assistployment and community pensions, death benefits/ 1108 W. Ash St. 573-882-9861 include developmental de- people on probation or pa-service opportunities for burial allowances, military 573-442-3229 State agency supports lays, autism and other cog- role to successfully re-enterworkers 55 and older. grave markers, education Services: Food pantry, eligible children, from birth nitive disabilities. Operated society and the workforce.Fees: None. and training. Applications Christmas assistance, to age 21, with severe medi- by the Missouri Department for state veterans’ homes clothing voucher. Emergen- cal problems by providing of Elementary and Second- The LEAD InstituteFamily Support Division and the Missouri Veterans cy shelter and noon food therapy and equipment. ary Education. 2502 W. Ash St.573-882-9180 Cemetery System. program, 602 N. Ann St., 573-445-5005; crisis line1500 Vandiver Drive, Suite 573-442-1984; thrift stores, Cedar Creek Therapeutic Division of Senior for the deaf, 573-445-5059;103 OATS Inc. 1304 Parkade Blvd., 573- Riding Center and Disability Services crisis line for anyone, 573-www.dss.mo.gov/fsd/ 2501 Maguire Blvd., Suite 449-5202; 23 E. Walnut St., 4895 E. Highway 163 (Department of Health 445-5035No fees for eligible families 101 573-443-2786 573-875-8556 and Senior Services) www.deaflead.comand individuals. 573-443-4516 Fees: None. cedarcreek.missouri.org 1500 Vandiver Drive, Offers training and educa-Food stamps, supplemen- www.oatstransit.org Offers specialized therapeu- Suite 102 tion in deaf culture to othertal aid to the blind, Blind Services: Door-to-door Services for Independent tic horseback riding lessons 573-882-6293 agencies. Acts as an advo-Pension, nursing home transportation on a sched- Living for children and adults with Elder Abuse and Neglect cate for deaf people and of-assistance, MO HealthNet uled basis. 1401 Hathman Place disabilities. Fees vary. Hotline, 800-392-0210 fers two 24-hour crisis lines.(based on age eligibility or Fees: Donations accepted. 573-874-1646; TDD 800- www.dhss.mo.gov Also offers classes in signingdisability). 766-1968 Central Missouri Dream Services for individuals to the deaf and hearing. Oakland Senior Center www.silcolumbia.org Factory age 60 or older or age 18 Free mental health servicesLEAD Institute 805 Old 63 N. Services for seniors and P.O. Box 139, Columbia, Mo., and older with disabilities. for deaf victims of crime,(Leadership through 573-449-8000 people with mental or 65205 Investigates abuse, neglect including domestic violence,Education and Advocacy Services: Home-delivered physical disabilities, with www.centralmissouridream- and exploitation of elderly child abuse, sexual assaultfor the Deaf) meals, congregate meals, door-to-door transporta- factory.org and disabled. Authorizes and rape.2502 W. Ash St. social activities, hot-lunch tion for grocery shopping Fulfills dreams of critically in-home services: personalPhone/TTY 573-445-5005 program from 10:30 a.m. and medical appointments. ill and chronically ill children care, respite, day care and Missouri Protection andCrisis line: 800-380-3323 to 12:30 p.m., volunteer Call for intake process. ages 3 to 18 in a seven- other services. Care plan Advocacy Serviceswww.deaflead.com opportunities. Open 8 a.m. Fees: $2 one way inside county region. management; assists with 925 S. Country Club Drive,All direct services are free. to 4 p.m. Monday through city limits, $3 outside city information and referral for Jefferson CityEducation, advocacy, crisis Friday limits and $5 one way Central Missouri long-term placements. 573-893-3333 or 866-777-intervention services, free Fees: Suggested dona- county-to-county in the Regional Office for the 7199counseling and other direct tion of $3.50 per meal for service region. Developmentally Disabled Great Plains ADA Center moadvocacy.orgservices for the deaf, hard clients older than 60 and 1500 Vandiver Drive, 100 Corporate Lake Drive Federally funded agencyof hearing or deaf and $6.50 for those younger Voluntary Action Center Suite 100 573-882-3600 advocates for the rightsblind. than 60. 403A Vandiver Drive 573-882-9835 or www.gpadacenter.org of people with mental andFree counseling for hearing 573-874-2273 888-671-1041 Provides technical assis- developmental disabilities.and deaf individuals who Paratransit www.vacmo.org Provides eligibility determi- tance, information and train-are victims of domestic vi- 126 N. Tenth St. Services: Referral, client ad- nation, family-directed sup- ing on the Americans with NAMI of Columbiaolence, sexual assault, rape, 573-874-7290 vocacy, emergency assis- port, crisis intervention, case Disabilities Act and related 515 Cherry St., Suite 300incest and child abuse. www.GoColumbiaMO.com tance, transportation, food, management, residential disability laws. Support for people who Closed Sundays. Hours shelter, clothing, medical support and employment have a family member withMeals on Wheels vary. needs, volunteer recruit- support. Easter Seals mental illness. NAMI of800 Hospital Drive $2 one way. Must be unable ment and placement. Midwest Autism Services to ride a fixed route and Fees: None. 918 Bernadette Drive, 573- Continued on 20

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20 www.columbiatribune.com COLUMBIA DAILY TRIBUNE Sunday, June 8, 2014 COMMUNITY The only inpatient rehabilitation hospital in Central Missouri.Continued FROM 14 PublicWorks/Transporta- Pays disability benefitsColumbia meets on the sec- tion under two programs: the “To all of the staff at Rusk -Throughout my timeond Monday of each month Provides curb-to-curb Social Security disability at Rusk, everyone was so kind and supportiveat 6:30 p.m. at the Unity service for people who insurance program and of my recovery which helped me to gainCenter, 1600 W. Broadway. are ADA-eligible. All buses the Supplemental Security independence to go home.This is truly a specialNew Horizons are fully accessible. Riders Income program to qualify- place to heal.” --M.A1408 Hathman Place must be unable to ride a ing individuals.573-443-0405 Columbia mass transit fixedwww.mo-newhorizons.com route and have an approved UCP Child DevelopmentProvides residential care application on file. Fees are Centerfacilities in Columbia and $2 one way. 3804 Santiago DriveJefferson City for individu- 573-449-6783als with disabilities. Offers Services for Independent Provides child care servicesoutpatient mental health Living for children of all abilities.services for people with 1401 Hathman Place Services offered throughmental illnesses. Serves 573-874-1646; 800-766- Boone County Family Re-lunch for clients at its edu- 1968 sources. Camp Friday offerscation center. www.silcolumbia.org respite care for childrenOATS Inc. Provides referrals, advo- with disabilities and their2501 Maguire Blvd., Suite cacy, peer support and siblings twice a month dur-103, 573-449-3789 training in independent- ing the school year.www.oatstransit.org living skills for people withOffers transportation to disabilities. Other projects Woodhavenpeople with disabilities include: Show-Me Tech, an 1405 Hathman Place, 573-and the general public assistive-technology dem- 875-6181in Columbia. Call for ride onstration center, and the www.woodhaventeam.orginformation. SIL Ramp Project, which Operated by the DisciplesParatransit helps wheelchair users get Benevolent Services, aWabash Station, 126 N. ramps. Also provides trans- branch of Christian Church-Tenth St., 573-874-7290 portation. Disciples of Christ. Offerswww.gocolumbiamo.com/ professional community- Social Security based supported living Administration services for people with 803 Gray Oak Drive, 866- developmental disabilities. 563-9108 or 800-772-1213 Operates social and com- www.socialsecurity.gov munity services.favorite place: ROCHEPORT | MATT SANDERS Stroke • Brain Injury • Spinal Cord Injury Neurological Disorders • Hip Fractures I’m fairly new here, having started work at the Tribune in November, so Amputee Care • Orthopedic • Multi-Trauma I haven’t had the chance to visit many area spots of renown. However, my wife, Mary Beth, daughter, Emma, and I fell in love with Rocheport on a recent Sunday afternoon. We loved the Katy Trail and the amaz- ing food at Abigail’s, but the best part of Rocheport was simply the laid-back atmosphere. Life seems to move at a different pace there. It’s a pace the Sanders family loves. I’m looking forward to many years ahead living in Boone County — and many visits to Rocheport. Matt Sanders is the Tribune’s city editor. Reach him at 573-815-1716 or msanders@columbiatribune.com.Resources help refine child care search Finding the right child care center or pre- Child Care Aware of Missouri Chief Execu- Joint Commission Gold Seal ofschool is one of the biggest decision parents tive Officer L. Carol Scott said the service can Approval for Stroke andof young children will make. In Missouri, tailor results depending on what a particular Amputation Rehabilitationthere’s no official rating system for child care family is looking for, using factors such as thefacilities, and some organizations are exempt age of the child and whether home child care 573-817-2703from licensing. However, there is information or a child care center is preferred. A referral www.ruskrehab.comabout where to find local child care. specialist will create a list that can be sent by 315 Business Loop 70 West, Columbia, MO 65203 mail or email, along with a packet of con- The state Department of Health and Senior sumer education materials to help familiesServices keeps a database of child care opera- find the best option. The packet containstions and information about how they’re information about how to determine thelicensed on its website at www.health.mo. quality of child care offered at a location,gov/safety/childcare/index.php. The depart- including questions to ask of child care pro-ment also provides funding to Child Care viders, and explains the difference betweenAware of Missouri to help consumers find the licensed and exempt facilities.right place for their children. Families caneither search the organization’s website at Many child care operations also have anmo.childcareaware.org or call toll free at 866- online presence and can be easily found using892-3228 to get access to a no-cost referral popular search engines.service. — Matt Sanders

Sunday, June 8, 2014 COLUMBIA DAILY TRIBUNE www.columbiatribune.com 21 COMMUNITY/SAFETYDRIVER’S LICENSES favorite place: ROCK BRIDGE STATE PARK | aLAN BURDZIAK Driver’s licenses and vehicle registration services are available at the Columbia License The best part of Boone County I’ve experienced so far is RockOffice at 403 Vandiver Drive, Suite B. Office hours are 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays, closing at Bridge Memorial State Park. Being from Michigan and having been6 p.m. on the last five business days of the month. On the last Saturday of every month, the here only since August, I’m still familiarizing myself with the area.office is open from 8:30 a.m. to noon. The telephone number is 573-474-4700. One thing that continues to enthrall me is the difference in geog- raphy compared to my home state. The natural rock bridge and Driver’s license testing is offered by the Missouri State Highway Patrol at 1500 Vandiver Connor’s Cave off the Devil’s Icebox trail are incredible and offerDrive, Suite 106. The station offers the written exam between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. weekdays, certainty that I don’t live in the mitten state anymore. I’ve takenand driving tests are conducted between 8 a.m. and 4:20 p.m. Monday through Friday. The visitors from Michigan to the rock bridge and cave this year, andtelephone number is 573-884-1399. their sentiments are the same as mine: intrigue and a little bit of awe at something we’re not so familiar with.U.S. CONGRESS kurt.schaefer@senate.mo.gov Twitter: @KurtUSchaefer Alan Burdziak is the Tribune’s public safety reporter. Reach him atSen. Claire McCaskill 573-815-1718 or aburdziak@columbiatribune.com.Washington, D.C., office: Rep. Caleb RowdenHart Senate Office Building, Suite 506 44th House District Tax proceeds payWashington, D.C., 20510 201W. Capitol Ave., Room for new 911 centerPhone: 202-224-6154 201CFax: 202-228-6326 Jefferson City, Mo.,mccaskill.senate.gov 65101Twitter: @clairecmc Phone: 573-751-1169Columbia office: caleb.rowden@house.915 E. Ash St. mo.govColumbia, Mo., 65201 Twitter: @calebrowden44Phone: 573-442-7130 RowdenFax: 573-442-7140 McCaskill Rep. Chris Kelly 45th House DistrictSen. Roy Blunt 201W. Capitol Ave., Room Building expected increase slightly as the details are ironed out.Washington, D.C., office: 106B to open early 2016. “I would say that since those projections260 Russell Senate Office Building Jefferson City, Mo.,Washington, D.C., 20510 65101 By alan burdziak were put in place, all realistic costs have comePhone: 202-224-5721 Phone: 573-751-4189 to the forefront,” Atwill said. “Some thingsFax: 202-224-8149 chris.kelly@house. aburdziak@columbiatribune.com | 815-1718 that were overlooked have now been includedblunt.senate.gov mo.gov Officials expect the new home of Public and it will be pushing upwards somewhat.”Twitter: @RoyBlunt Twitter: @repckelly Kelly Safety Joint Communications and Columbia/ Construction is tentatively slated for fall Boone County Office of Emergency Manage- 2014 after the floor and building designs areColumbia office: Rep. Stephen Webber ment, planned as a larger building with finalized over the summer. The new building1001 Cherry St., 46th House District updated technology, to open in early 2016. will be designed to withstand an EF-5 tornadoSuite 104 201 W. Capitol Ave., and is expected to have a life span of as longColumbia, Mo., 65201 Room 106A The communications center, estimated to as 50 years, Atwill said.Phone: 573-442-8151 Jefferson City, Mo., be about 25,000 square feet, is expected toFax: 573-442-8162 Blunt 65101 house all facilities, equipment and storage for One of the primary considerations in its Phone: 573-751-9753 both entities in one place, Boone County Pre- design is not only making the center as up-to-Rep. Vicky Hartzler stephen.webber@house. siding Commissioner Dan Atwill said. date as possible technologically, but ensuringWashington, D.C., office: mo.gov any modifications can be made in the future1023 Longworth House Office Building Twitter: @s_webber Joint communications fields all emergency as technology inevitably advances, AtwillWashington, D.C., 20515 calls and police and fire dispatch for the city said. Webber of Columbia and most Boone County com- munities. “Trying to be positioned to accept and dealPhone: 202-225-2876 Rep. John Wright with the next generation of technology is veryFax: 202-225-0148 47th House District Voters approved a dedicated three-eighths- difficult because nobody knows what it is,” hehartzler.house.gov 201W. Capitol Ave., Room cent sales tax in April 2013 to fund the new said.Twitter: @RepHartzler 105-I building, its equipment, personnel costs andColumbia office: Jefferson City, Mo., ongoing maintenance. Joint Communications Operations Manag-2415 Carter Lane, Suite 4 65101 er Brian Maydwell said the new building willColumbia, Mo., 65201 Phone: 573-751-1501 The tax is expected to generate $9.3 million consolidate all of his department’s operationsPhone: 573-442-9311 john.wright@house. this year. in one place and alleviate several issues,Fax: 573-442-9309 mo.gov including a lack of storage space, a conference Hartzler Twitter: @wright4mis- The Boone County Fire Protection District room and training areas. souri is charged with operating the Office of Emer-STATE LEGISLATORS Wright gency Management until the new building is “We’re kind of crammed in the space that open, Atwill said. we’re in now,” Maydwell said. Sen. Kurt Schaefer Schaefer Rep. Caleb Jones Jones 19th Senate District: 50th House District Currently, joint communications is housed When extra personnel are called to work aBoone and Cooper coun- 201W. Capitol Ave., Room in a cramped, city-owned building at the cor- special circumstance such as a weather event,ties 233A ner of Walnut and Seventh streets, although he said, the extra employees usually have to 201 W. Capitol Ave., Jefferson City, Mo., the county took financial control of both at work out of the backup shack near the Sher-Room 221 65101 the beginning of this year and will be on the iff’s Department at 2112 County Drive, next to Jefferson City, Mo., Phone: 573-751-2134 hook for all employees’ salaries by Jan. 1, the planned site for the new center. The65101 caleb.jones@house.mo. 2015. backup site, he said, is only equipped to han- Phone: 573-751-3931 gov dle calls for service. Fax: 573-751-4320 Twitter: @calebmjones Construction and design of the building is expected to cost about $10 million, and new “Instead of having people answering calls equipment will cost another $8 million to $10 in one spot and doing dispatch at another you million, although Atwill said costs likely will can have everyone in the same room,” he said.

22 www.columbiatribune.com COLUMBIA DAILY TRIBUNE Sunday, June 8, 2014LEGAL SERVICES SAFETY 2013 CRIME STATISTICS Legal matters, including civil disagreements and County prosecuting attorney: Dan Knight. The elect- COLUMBIA POLICE DEPARTMENTalleged violations of the law, are addressed at Columbia ed prosecutor and 12 assistants handle circuit andMunicipal Court or Boone County Circuit Court. associate circuit court criminal cases; another assistant Crime 2013 2012 Change leads a child-support enforcement unit. Offices are on Homicide 5 3 2 MUNICIPAL COURT the fourth floor of the courthouse. The phone number Rape 67 41 26 Columbia Municipal Court is on the second floor of is 573-886-4100. Robbery 112 162the Howard Municipal Building, 600 E. Broadway. It Assault -50handles all alleged infractions of city ordinances, Circuit and associate circuit judges: Circuit judges Burglary 232 270 -38including traffic violations, first-time drunken-driving are Gary Oxenhandler, Kevin Crane, Christine Carpen- Larceny 703 784 -81offenses and Columbia marijuana cases involving pos- ter and Jodie Asel. Associate circuit judges are Larry Auto theft 3,492 3,295 197session of less than 35 grams. Bryson, Carol England, Michael Bradley, Leslie Sch- 167 143 24 To pay fines, visit the Traffic Violations Bureau, also neider, Deborah Daniels and Bob Sterner. Sara Miller ison the second floor. For more information, call 573- family court commissioner. Offices are on the second BOONE COUNTY SHERIFF’S DEPARTMENT Change874-7230. floor of the courthouse. The phone number is 573-886- 0 Municipal judge: Robert Aulgur and Associate Judges 4060. Crime 2013 2012 4William McKenzie, Jack Morgan and John Clark. Homicide 0 0 -2 Municipal court clerk: Deetra Williams MID-MISSOURI LEGAL SERVICES Rape 7 3 -6 City prosecutor: Stephen Richey and Assistant Pros- The not-for-profit at 1201 W. Broadway serves 11 Robbery 12 14 -61ecutors Robert Rinck and Sara Watson. Contact the counties, including Boone. Attorneys offer help in civil Assault 94 100 -4office at 573-874-7229. matters involving orders of protection, divorce, child Burglary 139 0 BOONE COUNTY CIRCUIT COURT custody, landlord-tenant relations, Social Security ben- Larceny 200 All other civil and criminal cases are handled at the efits and other issues. Services are provided free of Auto theft 532 536 ChangeBoone County Courthouse, 705 E. Walnut St. Missouri charge to low-income individuals. 50 50 0law divides Boone County Circuit Court into circuit, Office hours are 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays. New 2associate circuit and family courts. For more informa- applicants for services can apply from 9 to 3 p.m. To UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI POLICE 0tion, visit www.courts.mo.gov/hosted/circuit13/. contact the office, call 573-442-0116 or 800-568-4931; -6 Court administrator: Kathy Lloyd oversees adminis- email legalaid@mmls.org; or fax 573-875-0173. Crime 2013 2012 2tration of the court, information services, courthouse PUBLIC DEFENDER’S OFFICE Homicide 0 0 -35and courtroom security, jury management, bond inves- The Boone County Public Defender’s Office, 601 E. Rape 3 1 -2tigations and the Juvenile Justice Center. The office Walnut St., is part of a state system representing low- Robbery 2 2phone number is 573-886-4060. income people charged with crimes. District Defender Assault 6 12 Circuit clerk: Christy Blakemore. The court clerk’s David Wallis has 12 assistants. Hours are 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Burglary 13 11office maintains records of criminal and civil cases in weekdays. Call 573-447-8087 or fax 573-447-8097. Larcenycircuit and associate circuit courts. The civil and family AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION Auto theft 323 358court divisions are on the main floor of the courthouse, The Mid-Missouri ACLU is part of a national not-for- 2 4and the criminal division is on the second floor. The profit that defends against constitutional-rights viola-phone number is 573-886-4000. tions. Its St. Louis office handles area cases. Call 314- 652-3111 or visit www.aclu-mo.org.Voters pass bond issue PUBLIC SAFETY STAFF AND BUDGETSfor fire district projects Columbia Police Department: $19.86 million budget; 194 totalBy alan burdziak were asked for and approved a $14 Don Shrubshell/Tribune employees, 163 sworn officers million bond issue this year.aburdziak@columbiatribune.com | 815-1718 Members of the Community Emergency Response Team remove a Columbia Fire Department: The Boone County Fire Protec- Fire district Chief Scott Olsen said “victim” from beneath chunks of concrete during a training exer- $15.92 million budget; 140 employ- the extra cash was necessary to cise May 15 at the Boone County Fire Protection District training eestion District serves the unincorpo- replace old vehicles, replace one facility on Roger I. Wilson Memorial Drive.rated areas of the county and parts station, build a new one and do “a Columbia Municipal Court:of Columbia’s outskirts, as the city lot of renovations on 11 other sta- district’s 16th station is planned at The bonds will pay for equipment $893,139 budget; 12 employeeshas expanded to include land where tions.” routes B and HH. Olsen said the for firefighters countywide, alongsome of the district’s stations sit. location of the new station was cho- with several new trucks and appara- City Prosecutor’s Office: Olsen said all the planned con- sen because of the increase in call tus. Physical training rooms, kitch- $561,953 budget; seven employ- In those areas where the city came struction and equipment purchas- volume in that area and because it is ens and multipurpose rooms will be eesto control the land surrounding a ing is expected to be done in the outside a 5-mile radius of all other added to some stations as part ofdistrict station, a mutual aid agree- next two to three years. “Everything stations. renovations. Boone County Sheriff’sment was entered into with the we asked for is critically needed. We Department: $6.39 million bud-Columbia Fire Department. Staffed waited until a point where we get; 81.74 employeeslargely by volunteers, the Boone couldn’t any more,” he said, addingCounty Fire Protection District is that the district was long overdue in Boone County Fire Protectionone of the largest fire services of its seeking a bond issue. The previous District: $3.71 million budget; 25kind in Missouri. one was paid off in 2008. employees and 258 volunteers. It is Missouri’s largest fire protection With the city and county popula- Station 13, on Route E northwest district in terms of land area.tions continuing to grow and district of Columbia, will be rebuilt, and thefacilities continuing to age, voters Boone County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office: $2.67 million budget; 37.73 employees Boone County Circuit Court: $3.29 million budget; 40.42 employees

Sunday, June 8, 2014 COLUMBIA DAILY TRIBUNE www.columbiatribune.com 23 SAFETYAlternative courts offer shot at rehabilitationFour programs are Brian Bromwell of Columbia looks at his certificate of completion from the 13thoffered in county. Judicial Circuit Drug Court on May 14 after he and 18 other people graduated from the alternative sentencing program. Boone County operates four alternative courtsBy alan burdizak for people with chronic mental health or substance abuse issues.aburdziak@columbiatribune.com | 815-1718 Don Shrubshell/Tribune caught smoking pot, Carpenter said, but “Missouri has more drug courts per capita Keeping with a national trend aimed at “people who would not be in the system if not than any other state.” being a way to offer people a chance at reha- for their mental health issues or their drug orreducing prison and jail populations while bilitation. alcohol issues.” About 850 people have graduated fromoffering people a chance to reform their lives, Drug Court since its inception, said Carpen-Boone County operates four alternative courts “The idea is that we give people the oppor- Those admitted have to follow a stringent ter, who has been involved with the alterna-for people with chronic mental health or sub- tunity to change so they get out of the system protocol, which includes an average of eight tive courts since 1999. As of spring 2014,stance abuse issues. instead of just getting locked up over and drug tests a month and a weekly appearance Epping said, 69 people were in Drug Court, 22 over,” Carpenter said. in front of a judge. Carpenter and Associate in Mental Health Court, 21 in DWI Court and Drug Court was the first established, in Circuit Judge Michael Bradley oversee the seven in Veterans Treatment Court.1998. Since then, mental health, driving while Participants are screened before being courts. The alternative courts are a form ofintoxicated and veterans treatment courts allowed into any alternative court. Sex offend- stricter probation, and participants also have Funding for the courts comes mostly fromhave all started, with Veterans Treatment ers and most people charged with violent to meet with their probation officers on a participant fees and state grants, but the Men-Court being the newest, beginning in July crimes are ineligible. Most admitted are not regular basis. The only two ways out of the tal Health Court receives money from Propo-2013. Each court has a judge, prosecutor, first-time offenders or youths who were obligations are relapse and incarceration, sition L, an eighth-cent sales tax Boone Coun-administrator, receptionist and administra- Carpenter said, or graduation, which comes ty voters approved in 2002, and the veteranstive assistant assigned and works in conjunc- only after a minimum of six months of clean court was founded via a donation from thetion with a treatment provider, said Mary drug tests. charitable arm of Veterans United HomeEpping, assistant Boone County court admin- Loans.istrator. Alternative courts are found in many other states, including California, Illinois, Michigan Epping said testimony from graduates who Initially, the alternative courts began in and New York, Carpenter said. She added that say the alternative courts helped them turnBoone as a way to ease jail overcrowding, nearly every judicial circuit in Missouri has at their lives around underscores the need forBoone County Circuit Judge Christine Car- least one. them.penter said, but it quickly changed to mainly “We’re not unique here,” Carpenter said. “It’s these stories that show how important these programs are,” Epping said. Rated Standing Strong. by Bauer Financial, Inc. A Higher Level U.S. Small Business Administration of BankingTop 10 Community Bank Lender 2010 - 2013 #1 Community Bank Lender Central Missouri Member FDIC 573.874.4700 / www.bankofmissouri.com 3610 Buttonwood Drive / Columbia /

24 www.columbiatribune.com COLUMBIA DAILY TRIBUNE Sunday, June 8, 2014 our townCommunity Arts CaMstuGseaullmeryS&tore Edward S. Rollins, Executive Director Open: Ayako Tsuruta, Artistic Director Monday-Friday 10am-4pm Season 11, 2014-2015 binespired. Museum Galleries opening this Fall 2014 10.17 Romantic Fall 11.9 Flute Sparks! 12.5 Paganiniana 1.17 Kids@Heart: Dance MusicTake an art class, enroll your child in summer 2.6 Baroque Classicsart camp, visit one of our themed exhibits, or 3.6 Odyssey Performance Fellowsshop for a unique, hand-crafted art gift.You can do it all at CAL! ThePlowman Performing Arts at Stephens Tuesday - Friday : 11:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Chamber Music Competition Year-round theatreSaturdays : 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.Entrance to the Gallery is Free of Charge 3.19 Sergei Babayan Piano Recital and dance performances  3.21 Plowman: Semi-Finals207 S. 9th Street 3.22 Finals Concert & Award Ceremony www.stephens.edu/performingarts 573-443-8838 boxoffice@stephens.edu  5.8 American Soundscapeswww.ColumbiaArtLeague.org 573.825.0079 OdysseyMissouri.org Visit us online at: http://maa.missouri.edu Mizzou North, 115 Business Loop 70 West Columbia, MO 65211-8310 “We Always Swing”® JAZZ SERIES • Columbia, MO • 2014/2015: A 20th Anniversary Season-Long Celebration! 573/449-3009 wealwaysswing.org 21 N. Tenth St.

Sunday, June 8, 2014 COLUMBIA DAILY TRIBUNE www.columbiatribune.com 25Community Arts our town Create some memories! COLUMBIA ENSEMBLE 25CELEBRATING YEARS Of Excellence through Music 1989 - 2014 www.chebells.org Offering quality choral experiences for youth (grades 2-10) and adults! To learn more about how to join the region’s premier choral organization, visit www.ColumbiaChorale.com. ContemMpisosroaurryi Ballet discover public art Join Us For A Missouri Contemporary Ballet is a take in a show • explore a museum Night At The Barn! professional dance company committed get lost in a gallery • find a festival to creating and presenting high-qualityArt guiGdeosCaondluemvebniatsMcaol.ecnodmar/5aA7v3rat-si8la7b4l-e6a3t86 2014 SeASoN: productions and educational opportunities through the art of contemporary ballet. Financial assistance provided by the Nunsense II Karen Mareck Grundy, Artistic Director Missouri Arts Council, a state agency. May 29-June 1 • June 5-9 573.219.7134 June 12-15 110 Orr Street, Ste 102 Columbia, MO 65201 Adams eve THE SCHOOL OF July 2-6 • July 10-13 MISSOURI CONTEMPORARY BALLET Julius Caesar 573.825.0095 July 31-August 3 • August 7-10 For more info about the company Something’s A Foot and the School of MCB visit: www.MissouriConteMporaryBallet.CoM August 28-31 • Sept. 4-7 Sept. 11-14 www.MaplewoodBarn.com

26 www.columbiatribune.com COLUMBIA DAILY TRIBUNE Sunday, June 8, 2014Developments strainECONOMY infrastructureCity considersfunding options. Ryan Henriksen/Tribune We didn’t see the residentialBy andrew denney Construction continues on the Brookside student apartment complex at 1206 E. Walnut St. on April coming this fast.” 25. City officials began raising alarms about downtown infrastructure last year when the city was hitadenney@columbiatribune.com | 815-1719 with a flurry of new proposals for luxury apartment buildings. — JOHN GLASCOCK, Over the past several years, there Public Works Department director idea to move forward. The city’sWater and Light Depart- decades.has been a boom in new residential The city is now considering vari- ment plans to ask voters to approve Water and Light has been work- lion and $40 million, said Conniedevelopment in downtown Colum- a bond issue in November that Kacprowicz, a spokeswoman for thebia, but progress has come with ous options for raising funds to pay would cover the cost of running a ing for the past few years to find a department. The bond issue likelyproblems, specifically that the new for infrastructure improvements. new electric feeder line into the route for the new transmission lines will be paired with electric ratedevelopment is being served by Among the big-ticket items are downtown area. — which are needed to ensure that increases.some of the city’s oldest infrastruc- increasing electric capacity for the city-owned utility is in compli-ture. downtown and the replacement of The central purpose of the bond ance with federal regulations — that The bond issue also would cover the main trunk sewer line that runs issue is to pay for the construction would be acceptable for residents. the cost of a new electric substation City officials began raising alarms through the Flat Branch creek of new high-voltage electric trans- at Mill Creek that could take someabout downtown infrastructure last watershed and serves downtown mission lines in south Columbia, As of May, Water and Light had of south Columbia’s electric demandyear when the city was hit with a and residential neighborhoods west where substantial residential growth not determined the size of the bond off of its Hinkson substation, whichflurry of new proposals for luxury of Providence Road. took place over the past few issue it would present to voters, but could then be used to provide moreapartment buildings, including one estimates range between $30 mil- capacity to downtown circuitsfor a more-than-20-story high-rise through at least one new feedernear the University of Missouri line.campus. But as of May, the city was less “We didn’t see the residential certain about how it will raise thecoming this fast,” John Glascock, money it needs to pay for a newdirector of the city’s Public Works sewer in the Flat Branch basin. TheDepartment, said at a May town hall project might cost as much as $10meeting on downtown infrastruc- million, according to Public Works’ture. preliminary estimates. The trunk line is made out of clay and has Late last year, City Manager Mike been serving central Columbia lon-Matthes proposed to form a central- ger than its residents have beencity tax increment financing, or TIF, alive.district to freeze tax rates and divertthe future revenue to a fund to pay More than 600 new residentialfor infrastructure projects. beds are set to be constructed downtown and ready for tenants by Matthes identified about $70 mil- fall 2015.lion worth of infrastructure improve-ments and cultural projects that As it prepares to approve a capitalmight have been funded with TIF, improvement plan for its 2015 fiscalbut the idea ran into opposition year, which begins Oct. 1, thefrom representatives of local taxing Columbia City Council has calledentities. for the replacement of Flat Branch sewers to be moved up on the list to In February, the Columbia City projects that could be addressedCouncil voted down a measure that within the next two fiscal years.would have allowed the TIF district

Sunday, June 8, 2014 COLUMBIA DAILY TRIBUNE www.columbiatribune.com 27TOP EMPLOYERS City of Columbia HosEpCONOiMYtals humming along 701 E. Broadway Patient towers,All employee numbers represent 573-874-7111 other projectsfull-time-equivalent positions in 1,387 employees keep going up.the Columbia area. All numbers Mike Matthes, city manager;are self-reported, except where Margrace Buckler, human re- By jodie jackson jr. Nick Schnelle/Tribunenoted. sources director jjackson@columbiatribune.com | 815-1713 Boone Hospital Center staff transfer a patient into a room in theUniversity of Missouri Truman Memorial Veterans’ Columbia’s health care industry Stewart Cancer Center as it officially opened Jan. 6. Local hospitals105 Jesse Hall, 573-882-2121 Hospital have made major expansions over the past few years.8,722 employees, which include 800 Hospital Drive helped the city absorb and moreUM System administration and 573-814-6000 quickly recover from the economic of trustees has hired a project man- recently released the 2013 Commu-Extension employees but not 1,259 employees downturn of the last decade. ager for the tract that it bought 21 nity Health Assessment that mapstemporary appointments. Wade Vlosich, director; Jimmy years ago with an eye on the future. A out areas to focus energy andTim Wolfe, UM System presi- Powell, human resources man- Three of Columbia’s top 10 employ- final cost estimate for the three- resources for improvement. The nextdent; R. Bowen Loftin, MU ager ers — University of Missouri Health phase project has not been deter- phase of the five-year process is tak-chancellor; Karen Touzeau, MU Care, Boone Hospital Center and mined. ing steps toward addressing theassistant vice chancellor of hu- MBS Textbook Exchange Inc. Truman Memorial Veterans Hospital health assessment findings.man resource services; Betsy 2711 W. Ash St. — held their own and also have com- In terms of overall health, the 2014Rodriguez, UM System vice 573-445-2243 bined since 2010 for a whopping County Health Rankings and Road- Not surprisingly, Columbia was apresident of human resources 1,280 employees $429 million in new health care facil- map, a Robert Wood Johnson Foun- focal point for the launch of the Bob Pugh, chief executive of- ities and renovations. dation program, ranked Boone Affordable Care Act, also calledUniversity of Missouri ficer; Dan Schuppan, president; County No. 2 among Missouri coun- Obamacare, online marketplaceHealth Care Jerome Rader, vice president of That number includes the $190 ties, in part because of the abun- health insurance sign-ups. A pair of1 Hospital Drive human resources million patient care and surgery dance of health care facilities. In fact, Columbia-based organizations —573-882-4141 tower at University Hospital that the county has a ratio of one primary Primaris Healthcare Business Solu-4,694 employees Shelter Insurance Cos. opened in March 2013 and also care physician for every 941 resi- tions and the Missouri Association ofMitch Wasden, chief executive 1817 W. Broadway includes $50 million for the reloca- dents, which is well above the state Area Agencies on Aging — sharedofficer and chief operating of- 573-445-8441 tion of Ellis Fischel Cancer Center to average and near the level of top- some $1.8 million in federal grants toficer; Deb Pasch, chief nurse ex- 1,029 employees the tower. The other top projects ranked counties in the country. hire staff to train as navigators toecutive and executive director of Rick Means, president and chief from that list include a $125 million help people shop for the new healthUniversity Hospital; Sue Kopfle, executive officer patient care tower, parking garage In addition, the Columbia/Boone insurance options.chief human resources officer and other improvements at Boone County Department of Public Health Joe Machens Dealerships Hospital Center in 2011, and the and Human Services, working with Primaris and MA4 led coalitionsColumbia Public Schools 1911 W. Worley St. $55.5 million Missouri Orthopedic dozens of representatives of local that totaled 21 entities involved in1818 W. Worley St. 573-445-4411 Center, which opened in 2010. businesses, social service agencies Obamacare marketplace plan navi-573-214-3400 995 employees and other community members, gation and sign-ups.2,288 employees Gary and Rusty Drewing, co- The growth continued into 2013Chris Belcher, superintendent owners with the opening of the $5.9 million(retiring June 30); Peter Stieple- Stewart Cancer Center at Boone Hos-man, incoming superintendent State Farm Insurance Cos. pital Center and MU Health’s March(starting July 1); Dana Clippard, 4700 S. Providence Road announcement of an affiliationassistant superintendent for 573-499-2000 between Ellis Fischel and Houston-human resources (starting as 956 employees based MD Anderson Cancer Net-deputy superintendent July 1) Edward Rust Jr., chairman and work. CEO of State Farm Mutual Auto-Boone Hospital Center mobile Insurance Co. And coming soon: a 130,000-1600 E. Broadway (company spokesman declined square-foot Boone Hospital medical573-815-8000 to provide name of local official) campus on 13 acres at the corner of1,411 employees Nifong and Forum boulevards inJim Sinek, president; Mary Beck, south Columbia. The hospital’s boardvice president of patient careservicesFamily FamilyHealth Center Dental Center 573-214-2314 573-777-8997 Over 50 Years of Selling & Servicing These Popular Brands: or toll-free: or toll-free: 877-677-4342 Asko • BEST Range Hoods • Bosch • Broan • Fisher Paykel • Frigidaire 877-677-4342 General Electric • Holland Grills • Hotpoint • Nuvo • Samsung • Serta Mattresses1001 W. Worley St. Speed Queen • Sub Zero • Thermador • U-line • Viking • Waste King • Wolf • Zephyr Columbia 1101 N. Providence Rd. Columbia Visit us at 1104 E. 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Sunday, June 8, 2014 COLUMBIA DAILY TRIBUNE www.columbiatribune.com 29HEALTH CARE FACILITIES ECONOMY We invite you to Compare to any other Brand For Quality, Design, In addition to hospitals and other major lumbar spine, joint replacement, hand and Price and Warrantyhealth centers, Columbia is home to dozens upper extremity, foot and ankle, pediatricof primary care physician offices, ambulatory orthopedics and spine deformities, and phys- Protection!surgical centers, dental offices, chiropractors ical medicine and rehabilitation.and eye clinics. Specialty centers handle med- 1805 Westfall Drive, Columbiaical issues such as weight-loss surgery, sports The Osteoporosis Center was the first clinic 573-814-2244 • columbiaappliance.commedicine, orthopedics, wound care, urology, in Mid-Missouri to focus solely on the preven- We’re JennAir’s ONLY Servicing/Display Dealer in Mid-Missouriimaging and radiology, cancer treatment, tion, diagnosis and treatment of osteoporosisdialysis, and fertility and reproductive servic- and low-bone density. 3 Locations Toes. The major health care facilities include: Make You Feel Better! FAMILY HEALTH CENTER BOONE HOSPITAL CENTER 1001 W. Worley St., 573-214-2314 Kilgore’s North 1600 E. Broadway, 573-815-8000 www.fhcmo.org 700 N Providence www.Boone.org Family Health Center of Boone County is a Boone Hospital Center is a county-owned federally qualified health center serving a 573-442-0194not-for-profit facility leased by St. Louis-based 10-county area in Central Missouri. Kilgore’s SouthBJC HealthCare. The original 40-bed hospital Services include primary medical, dental 1608 Chapel Hill Rdopened in 1921. and mental health care with a focus on resi- Today, the hospital is licensed for 397 beds dents who have experienced barriers in access 573-447-4444and serves a 25-county area. It specializes in to care. The center accepts Medicaid and Ashlandcardiology, neurology, orthopedics, obstetrics Medicare coverage and most commercialand oncology and has been named among health insurance and provides a discount for 109 B Eastside Drthe nation’s 100 Top Hospitals three times. eligible low-income uninsured people. 573-657-3333 Its most recent expansions include a $5.9 The primary medical site of service is atmillion, 32-bed inpatient oncology unit as 1001 W. Worley St., and the primary dental site www.kilgoresrx.compart of the Stewart Cancer Center and a $10.7 of service is at 1101 N. Providence Road. Addi-million renovation of two floors, 64 total tional sites are at 307 S. Broadway in Salisburyrooms, to house Medical Specialties and and 1600 N. Missouri Ave. in Marceline.Orthopedic Specialties: Joint Replacement. The hospital added a high-field, open MRI LANDMARK HOSPITALin 2010, a 64-slice PET/CT scanner in 2011 604 Old 63 N., 573-499-6600and 3-D mammography technology in 2012. www.landmarkhospitals.com/columbia.The hospital also updated its da Vinci surgical aspxrobot to the da Vinci Si in late 2012. Landmark Holdings of Missouri LLC, based Physician referral service is available at in Cape Girardeau, owns and operates long-815-6400 or (800) 872-9008. term acute care hospitals in Cape Girardeau; Joplin; Athens, Ga.; Salt Lake City, Utah; and COLUMBIA/BOONE COUNTY Columbia. The company will open a facility DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH on Oct. 1 in Savannah, Ga., and plans to add a AND HUMAN SERVICES hospital in Naples, Fla., in 2015. The company 1005 W. Worley St., 573-874-7355 has more than 600 employees. www.gocolumbiamo.com/Health/index. The Columbia facility opened in Septem-php ber 2009 and was certified by the Centers for Housed at the west entrance of the Sanford- Medicare and Medicaid Services as a long-Kimpton Building, the public health agency term acute care hospital on April 1, 2010. Theprovides services including immunizations, hospital also was certified by the Joint Com-family planning, STD testing and treatment, mission on Accreditation of Healthcare Orga-WIC services, assistance with utilities and nizations on Feb. 1.prescriptions, and other health and social The 32,000-square-foot hospital has 42 pri-services. The department also issues certified vate patient rooms. Patients are primarilycopies of birth and death certificates, oper- from Columbia, St. Louis, Jefferson City andates the county’s Animal Control division and Kansas City. Most patients are dischargedinspects restaurants, licensed day cares, pools home or to rehab hospitals for further care.and lodging facilities. The typical stay is 25 to 30 days. COLUMBiA ORTHOPAEDIC GROUP TRUMAN MEMORIAL 1 S. Keene St., 573-443-2402 VETERANS’ HOSPITAL Columbia Orthopaedic Group consolidated 800 Hospital Drive, 573-814-6000Columbia Imaging Center, the Surgical Center www.columbiamo.va.govat Columbia Orthopaedic Group, and the Dedicated in 1972 and serving 45 counties,Osteoporosis Center into its 72,000-square- Truman Memorial is the health care hub forfoot building in April 2008. The facility also nearly 36,000 U.S. armed services veterans. Itrecently added a pain management clinic and also is a regional referral center for veteransa pharmacy. Inpatient surgery is done at who need cardiac surgery and cardiologyBoone Hospital Center. care. The 123-bed hospital has sharing agree- Columbia Orthopaedic has 55 clinic rooms ments with MU Health Care and other localand four operating rooms. Specialties include providers for some specialized services.arthroscopy, sports medicine, cervical spine, Continued ON 30

30 www.columbiatribune.com COLUMBIA DAILY TRIBUNE Sunday, June 8, 2014 ECONOMYContinued FROM 29 A veteran’s eligibility is based on whether MISSOURI ORTHOPAEDIC INSTITUTE as a wing of McHaney Hall, a former MU dor- In 2013, MU Health opened a $190 millionan ailment is connected to military service 1100 Virginia Ave., 573-882-2663 mitory. In 1991, Rusk became a separate hos- addition to University Hospital. The eight-and financial need. A majority of care at the The Missouri Orthopaedic Institute is cen- pital in the university system. It features a story patient care tower includes a $50 millionhospital is outpatient. The hospital operates tral Missouri’s largest freestanding orthopedic 60-bed center next to Mizzou North (formerly new home for Ellis Fischel Cancer Center.clinics in Jefferson City, Kirksville, Marshfield, center, as well as the region’s most compre- Ellis Fischel Cancer Center).Mexico, Osage Beach, Sedalia, St. James and hensive orthopedic surgery center.The 20-bed WOMEN’S AND CHILDREN’S HOSPITALWaynesville. About 900 health care students center opened in 2010 and includes special- The facility is a joint effort between the 404 Keene St., 573-875-9000annually receive some training at the facility. ists in joint replacement, sports medicine, university and HealthSouth Corp. Rusk pro- The 136-bed MU Women’s and Children’s pediatric orthopedics, trauma care and infec- vides specialized treatments for brain injury, Hospital is Missouri’s only hospital solely THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI tion, and care for foot and ankle, hand and stroke, arthritis, spinal cord injury, chronic dedicated to the comprehensive care of HEALTH SYSTEM elbow, hip and knee and shoulder and spine. pain and industrial injury. Its treatment focus women and children. The University of Missouri Health System is MISSOURI PSYCHIATRIC CENTER is helping patients learn to manage their dis- MU Women’s and Children’s Hospital offersone of the most comprehensive academic Three Hospital Drive, 573-884-1300 abilities by combining individual skills with the only emergency room in Central Missourimedical centers in Missouri, offering primary, The Missouri Psychiatric Center provides special types of equipment or assistance. Spe- with physicians and nurses who have special-secondary and tertiary health care services to short-term, intensive inpatient treatment ser- cial emphasis is placed on pediatrics. ized training in pediatric emergency care.Central Missourians in a 25-county service vices for adults, adolescents and children at Children’s services include a comprehen-area with a population of 776,861. the facility adjacent to University Hospital. UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL sive neonatal intensive care unit, a pediatric Through the MU School of Medicine, Sin- The center has 61 inpatient beds divided One Hospital Drive, 573-882-4141 medical transport unit and more than 30clair School of Nursing and School of Health among units for pre-adolescents, adolescents University Hospital is a 248-bed tertiary pediatric specialties, including cardiology,Professions, the health system provides edu- and adults. The center also has an emergency care center that provides a full range of medi- orthopedic surgery, radiology, plastic andcation for future health care professionals and assessment unit for evaluating patients who cal and surgical services, including the region’s reconstructive surgery, pediatric intensiveconducts medical research. might be having a mental health crisis. only Level 1 trauma center, the Frank L. Mitch- care and the area’s only pediatric blood disor- In 2013, the center opened a $1.9 million ell Jr., M.D., Trauma Center. Patients at Uni- ders and cancer unit. UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI renovated youth unit. The nearly 7,800-square- versity Hospital have access to a world- Women’s health services include the Family HEALTH CARE foot inpatient unit provides state-of-the-art renowned minimally invasive surgery pro- Birth Center, where more than 1,800 babies MU Health Care consists of University Hos- expanded facilities for behavioral health treat- gram, nationally recognized diabetes center, were born last year. MU Women’s and Chil-pital, Ellis Fischel Cancer Center, Women’s ment of patients 5 to 18 years old. accredited sleep disorder center and same- dren’s Hospital also includes the Missouriand Children’s Hospital, the Missouri Ortho- RUSK REHABILITATION CENTER day surgery center. Center for Reproductive Medicine and Fertil-paedic Institute and the Missouri Psychiatric 315 Business Loop 70 W., 573-817-2703 A designated Chest Pain Center of Excel- ity, Missouri OB/Gyn Associates, the Mater-Center, all based in Columbia, and 51 outpa- Rusk Rehabilitation Center began in 1968 lence, University Hospital also offers a nation- nal-Fetal Medicine and Ultrasound Clinic,tient clinics in Columbia, Fayette and Fulton. ally recognized stroke and neurosciences pro- and the Missouri Center for Female Conti-MU Health also includes a long-term acute gram. It receives more than 50,000 visits to its nence and Advanced Pelvic Surgery.care hospital, the Missouri Rehabilitation emergency and trauma centers annually.Center, in Mount Vernon. Affiliates of MUHealth include Rusk Rehabilitation Center, BY THE NUMBERS | COLUMBIA REGIONAL AIRPORT 8 PRIVATE JETSoperated by HealthSouth Corp., and CapitalRegion Medical Center in Jefferson City. COU Columbia Regional Airport has two runways. The main runway, Runway 02/20, 36 AIRCRAFT ARE BASED AT COLUMBIA REGIONAL AIRPORT, INCLUDING: MU Health is the only health system in is 6,501 feet long and can support aircraft weighing as much as 215,000Columbia or Central Missouri to make U.S. pounds. The second runway — Runway 13/41 — is 4,401 feet long and canNews and World Report’s prestigious list of handle aircraft weighing as much as 12,500 pounds.best hospitals for 2012-13. Inpatient and outpatient care is provided 9 MULTI-ENGINEby University Physicians, a group practicewith more than 500 physicians trained inmore than 75 specialties and subspecialties. ELLIS FISCHEL CANCER CENTER 17 SINGLE-ENGINE AIRCRAFT One Hospital Drive, 573-882-2100 Ellis Fischel Cancer Center opened in 1940 11.6% In 2013, more than 43,176 passengers flew out of Columbia Regional Airport. TWO HELICOPTERSas the only cancer center west of the Missis- This was an 11.6% increase from 2012. Also, during 2013, American Airlinessippi River and the second in the nation. In expanded its operations out of Columbia by adding flights to Chicago’s2013, it moved into its new $50 million facility O’Hare International Airport to the existing flights to Dallas-Fort Worth.at University Hospital, and all oncology carewas consolidated at the new location. BETWEEN OCT. 2012 AND OCT. 2013, 16,610 AIRCRAFT ARRIVED OR DEPARTED FROM COLUMBIA REGIONAL AIRPORT In March 2014, Ellis Fischel became thefirst academic medical center to become acertified member of the MD Anderson CancerNetwork, a program of The University of TexasMD Anderson Cancer Center. Outreach services to underserved areasinclude screenings offered through a mam-mography van. Ellis Fischel also provides cen-tralized screening, diagnosis, treatment, andpost-operative recovery and support services,as well as a palliative care program. For patients who must travel more than 50miles, Ellis Fischel offers lodging at the Ernestand Eugenia Wyatt Guest House. AIR CARRIER Source: Federal Aviation Administration, Columbia Regional Airport OPERATIONS: GENERAL AVIATION CHARTER MILITARY OPERATIONS: OPERATIONS: OPERATIONS:

Sunday, June 8, 2014 COLUMBIA DAILY TRIBUNE www.columbiatribune.com 31 ECONOMY Boone County Fire Protection District will you be ready? the training is intense, the work is fulfilling, but the rewards are endless. Ryan Henriksen/Tribune PHOTO BY ANDREW WORRALLBarriers block Scott Boulevard at Brushwood Lake Road on March 7. A portion of Apply to be a volunteer firefighter.Scott was closed so crews could replace a bridge over Hinkson Creek. www.BCFDMO.comState, city road projects aimto boost safety, traffic flow ViewwAwllwA.rSeeallLMisotiPnrgospaetrty.comHighway 63, Scott The city’s repairs on Scott Boulevard were Serving Residential Cynthia Laboileamong work areas. on schedule this spring, and lanes should be RanedalCEosmtamteercial fully open by early August, just in time for theBy Alex Schiffer school year, said Steve Sapp of the Public 573.356.7755 Direct Works Department. 573.256.2161 Officeaschiffer@columbiatribune.com | 815-1705 This spring and summer, work on several “We’ve had no delays so far,” Sapp said in May. “They’ve even been able to get stuff donemajor routes in and around town caused on rainy days, so everything is on schedule.”some headaches for commuters, but theagencies that oversee state and local roads The Scott Boulevard work is part of a three-hope the temporary pain is worth the benefit phase project, currently in its second phase.of smoother travel. Phase One was completed in 2011, and Bridge renovations on Highway 63 at Sta- Phase Three is scheduled to begin in 2016.dium Boulevard and Grindstone Creek recent-ly finished up, with more coming on other The current work involves raising a bridge 9bridges farther down the highway, including feet to prevent flooding on the roadway andthe Broadway overpass and ramps from High- adding a roundabout at the intersection withway 63 to Broadway. The work was part of a Vawter School Road to improve traffic flow.program of spring bridge repairs along High-way 63 that also included bridges over Homi- The roundabout renovations will close theny Creek. Scott-Vawter School Road for a few weeks, with the goal of having two lanes open for the Construction crews worked mainly in the start of school.late afternoon to evening to repair parts of thepavement and add a new driving surface. Although the project will not be fully com- pleted by August, the lanes will still be open, More resurfacing was set for Highway 63, and patching and landscaping will be the twowith work continuing from Broadway south biggest tasks remaining.to Highway 54 in Callaway County, said Mis-souri Department of Transportation Engineer Phase Two is expected to be finished byKirsten Munck. November. The repaving was set for completion in the The intersection of Stadium Boulevard andfall. Interstate 70 recently received some touchup work with sign installation, pavement repairs In Ashland, bridge repairs and installation and signal light installation.of roundabouts on the Route M/Y overpassand construction of a J-turn at Peterson Lane Pavement repairs took place primarily atadd to the improvements on Highway 63. night, with additional pavement work being done at the intersection of Broadway and Sta- dium. Widening work on Stadium was scheduled to continue until winter 2014.

32 www.columbiatribune.com COLUMBIA DAILY TRIBUNE Sunday, June 8, 2014 Fast Track Learning ECONOMY Reach For School Success! Where learning has no limits! C2e9leyberaartsi!ng Elementary - College • Study Skills • Speed Reading • Reading Improvement • Writing and Composition • ACT – P/SAT – GRE Preparation • Math Instruction (through Calculus and Stat) Ryan Henriksen/Tribune www.FocusOnLearningCenter.com 110 N 10th St. • (573) 875-5187Crews work on a home in the Oak Park subdivision on May 6. The local real estatemarket has rebounded from the economic downturn, and activity is picking up. Ene-Kaja Chippendale, Ph.D., President/OwnerAfter recovery, local market gALoeaatlrtsnaSGuincacmieernSiSt Betterment Effortreturns to its regular cycles EnFIrniscltorhuumcrteiIosnhnt Advance Improve V progress irtue create strive RewardBy justin willett meet the staff Growth FGaOrjwillett@columbiatribune.com | 815-1735 Justin Willett is the Wisdom After two years of annual increases in home Tribune’s associate city editor and business edi- Substancesales, most experts agree the local housing tor. Send him tips about Excellencemarket has officially recovered from the crash business news for inclu- development Enhancethat followed the recession. sion in Saturday Business. Reach him at 573-815- yGoouafwtearnthte. life Now, local real estate agents and home- 1735 or jwillett@colum-builders are back to talking about the natural biatribune.com. dream up.cycles that affect homebuying habits. “Although there was a decline in closed Graduate, Online and For the first quarter of 2014, the long Mid- transactions, pending listings soared 10 per- Certificate ProgramsMissouri winter looms large. cent over last year, bucking a six-month slide, easily absorbing the 363 new single-family stephens.edu (800) 876-7207 online@stephens.edu The snow, ice and cold temperatures put a listings that came on the market duringdamper on sales, with the number of homes March,” Toohey wrote in a note to members.sold in the first quarter down 12.5 percentfrom the same period in 2013. The first-quar- The median home price stayed about theter sales number, however, was nearly identi- same for the first quarter — $162,000 in 2014cal to 2012, the first year the market notched versus $163,000 in 2013. The average price foran increase in total sales after several years of March was $195,083, up from $179,950 indeclines. March 2013. For the first quarter of 2014, new home Over the past few years, the average price ofsales were down 14 percent from the first a home increased significantly. It hit $186,331quarter of 2013, and existing home sales fell in 2013, rising from $172,381 in 2009. So far in12 percent compared to the first quarter of 2014, the average price is $191,165.2013. The first-time homebuyer is seen as an “I think the weather hurt us pretty mightily engine that propels the housing market. Dur-the first quarter of this year,” said Becky Ster- ing the recession, the federal governmentling, the 2014 Columbia Board of Realtors offered a tax credit to first-time buyers inpresident and a Realtor with Re/Max Boone hopes of boosting real estate markets.Realty. Many people purchased homes between Brian Toohey, director of operations for the 2008 and 2010 to take advantage of the federalColumbia Board of Realtors, said although tax credit.first-quarter sales were down, a key indicatorshowed the market was just as healthy. Pend- Sterling said many of them are now in theing listings in the first quarter were nearly market to move up, freeing up those homesidentical to the same period in 2013 — 501 in for the next wave of first-time buyers.2014 versus 500 in 2013 — and for March theywere up 10 percent.

Sunday, June 8, 2014 COLUMBIA DAILY TRIBUNE www.columbiatribune.com 33Fast Track Learning Effort our town gALoeaatlrtsnaSGuincacmieernSiSt BettermentImprove EnFIrniscltorhuumcrteiIosnhnt Growth Advance V progress Wisdom irtue Substance create strive Reward FGaOr Excellence development EnhanceBoonslick Technical Education Center“Where technicaltraining leadsto satisfyingcareers.” 660-882-5306www.boonville.k12.mo.us/schools/btecHERE, IT’SPERSONAL. COLUMBIA INDEPENDENT SCHOOL Junior Kindergarten through 12th Grade A College Preparatory School (573) 777-9250 I www.cislions.org

34 www.columbiatribune.com COLUMBIA DAILY TRIBUNE Sunday, June 8, 2014Bond issue leaves schoolsEDUCATION on firm footingBelcher hands batonto Stiepleman with Tribune file er $148 on an annual bill. Hopefully Dr.10-year plan as guide. Voters approved both issues, and Superin- Stiepleman will have Outgoing Superintendent Chris Belcher the possibility to make thisBy catherine martin speaks with a teacher at Paxton Keeley tendent Chris Belcher called the approval a a routine without … asking Elementary School. “vote of trust.” voters for an increase on theeditor@columbiatribune.com | 815-1700 debt service levy.” Columbia Public Schools hit a milestone million bond issue in 2010 that did not come Funds from the 2012 issue will pay for a with a tax increase. Funds from that issue paid new elementary school, set to open in 2016, — Chris Belcher,this spring when it passed a $50 million bond for Battle High School, which opened in the and an early childhood center, set to open in outgoing CPS superintendent,issue, the last tax-increase bond issue that will 2013-14 school year, and will cover the cost of 2017, along with several other projects. referring to his successor, Peter Stieplemango before voters in the foreseeable future. an elementary school, set to open in 2015, along with other projects. The bond issue from this past April will pay ty,” Boren said in February. “It serves as a road That’s not to say more bond issues won’t be for yet another new elementary school, addi- map for what we hope to do here in the dis-on the ballot — several more are slated in the That was followed by a $50 million bond tions at existing schools and other projects. trict for many years to come.”years to come. issue in 2012 that came with a 12-cent tax Belcher, who will leave his post as superinten- increase in the same year the district asked for dent this summer, said after the issue passed The 10-year plan now goes through 2022. It But the district said after the $50 million a 40-cent tax levy increase. Together, the two that he was happy he could leave the 10-year calls for the district to put $40 million to $50issue voters approved in April, which came were estimated to cost the average homeown- plan in place for his successor, Peter Stieple- million bond issues, which will not come withwith a property tax increase of 4 cents per man. “I’ve been very pleased to know with the a tax increase, before voters every other year.$100 of assessed valuation, that future bond 10-year plan in place … that hopefully Dr.issues will not seek a tax hike. Stiepleman will have the possibility to make For now, the details of what the bond issues this a routine without … asking voters for an will pay for are vague, just listing “new or Recent and planned bond issues are part of increase on the debt service levy,” he said in renovated instructional space to accommo-a 10-year plan for the district. Administrators April. date growth.” District officials left the wordingcame up with the plan to deal with growth — open to allow leaders to make decisions basedthe schools add about 200 more students each Deputy Superintendent Nick Boren, who on where growth is.year — and to get rid of the surplus of trailers, also will leave his post this summer, describedor “mobile classrooms.” the 10-year plan as a “clear, concise” guide that will help the district in the future. The district got the ball rolling with a $120 “The 10-year plan seems to be easy to understand … by members of the communi-

Sunday, June 8, 2014 COLUMBIA DAILY TRIBUNE www.columbiatribune.com 35 EDUCATION School of Ballet Halcyone Ewalt Nancy PERLMAN STOY Halcyone Ewalt Perlman Est. 1933 Nancy Stoy Background of study Background of study includes: includes:King Whitt Cushing Mees Preis • Madame Victoria • Halcyone Perlman Cassan • Joan Hewson - London • John Marshall • Madame Alexandra • Stephens College Danilova • Perry Mansfield • Canadian College • Joan Hewson • Igor Schwezoff of Dance • Stephens College • Banff School of • National Ballet Fine Arts of Canada • Florentina Lojekova - • School of American Russian School BalletSessions Wade Quinley Yoakum Tilley • Danny Daniels Teaching Certificates: • Robert Joffrey’s Royal Academy of DanceCOLUMBIA PUBLIC SCHOOLS 4003 Day Flower Court Pictured: Antonita Jones, Madeleine Jones Term expires April 2015 American Ballet Center and Larkin Shull. Photo by Katie Alaimo and AISTD - Superintendent Caneking2@gmail.com • Dalcroze School Cecchetti Society - Peter Stiepleman 573-356-5573 London with emphasis Office: 1818 W. Worley St. Board of Education of Music on childrens’ work pstieple@columbia.k12. Vice President James Whitt • Internationalmo.us 3805 Keystone Court 573-214-3410 Term expires April 2016 Bournonville Seminar- jawhitt@cphase.com Copenhagen 573-234-2202 Board of Education CALL 449-5794, 442-0004 or 449-0409 member Paul Cushing Deputy Superintendent Stiepleman 2865 S. Hancock Hill Road, Rocheport FOR INFORMATION & APPOINTMENT Dana Clippard Clippard Term expires April 2017 Office: 1818 W. Worley St. Paul.unixcorn@gmail.com All Levels of Ballet Training & Dance Exercise • Sound Careful Training dclippar@columbia.k12. 573-864-3034 Stretching Classes for Adults & Teensmo.us Board of Education 573-214-3413 member Jan Mees Let the LODGE be Part of Oversees systems that sup- 2746 Willowbark Courtport student achievement Term expires April 2016 the NEW Chapter in Your Lifeincluding data, curriculum, janmees@mchsi.comassessment, special services 573-445-7781 Board of Education Chief Financial Officer and member Darin Preis Chief Operations Officer Linda Quinley 4803 Chilton Court Office: 1818 W. Worley St. Term expires April 2015 lquinley@columbia.k12.mo.us Dspreis88@yahoo.com 573-214-3416 573-864-2281 Oversees the district’s financial and budget Board of Educationoperations in addition to transportation, member Jonathan Sessionstechnology services and building operations 1123 Wilkes Blvd., Suite 230 Term Expires: April 2017 Assistant Superintendent jonathan@jonathansessions.com New Friendships New Home of Secondary Education Jolene Yoakum 573-424-1999 Office: 1818 W. Worley St. Board of Education H Private Rooms In a Home-Like Atmosphere jyoakum@columbia.k12.mo.us member Helen Wade H Long Term, Short Term, Recovery/Vacation & Adult Day Care 573-214-3411 401 Locust St., No. 302 Oversees secondary schools (high schools Term Expires: April 2017 H Individualized Care and Servicesand middle schools) hwade@hewnlaw.com 573-442-1660Assistant Superintendent Assisted Senior Communityof Elementary Education Ben Tilley 1406 Business Loop 70 WestOffice 1818 W. Worley St.btilley@columbia.k12.mo.us Columbia, MO573-214-3412Oversees elementary schools To start your new chapter today call (573) 449-5287.Board of EducationPresident Christine King

36 www.columbiatribune.com COLUMBIA DAILY TRIBUNE Sunday, June 8, 2014 EDUCATIONCOLUMBIA PUBLIC SCHOOLSBattle High School Lange Middle School Lee Elementary School Shepard Boulevard Elementary School7575 E. St. Charles Road, 214-3300 2201 E. Smiley Lane, 214-3250 1208 E. Locust St., 214-3530 2616 Shepard Blvd., 214-3660Kim Presko, principal Bernard Solomon, principal Karen Burger, principal Jacquie Ward, principalDouglass High School Smithton Middle School Midway Heights Elementary School Two Mile Prairie Elementary School310 N. Providence Road, 214-3680 3600 W. Worley St., 214-3260 8130 W. Highway 40, 214-3540 5450 N. Route Z, 214-3560Eryca Neville, principal Jean Selby, principal Angie Gerzen, principal Patti Raynor, principalHickman High School Alpha Hart Lewis Elementary School Mill Creek Elementary School West Boulevard Elementary School1104 N. Providence Road, 214-3000 5801 Arbor Pointe Parkway, 214-3200 2200 W. Nifong Blvd., 214-3280 319 N. West Blvd.,214-3670Eric Johnson, principal Tim Majerus, principal Tabetha Rawlings, principal Susan Emory, principalRock Bridge High School Benton Elementary School New Haven Elementary School Field Educational Center4303 S. Providence Road, 214-3100 1410 Hinkson Ave., 214-3610 3301 New Haven Road, 214-3640 1010 Range Line St., 214-3585Jennifer Mast, principal Troy Hogg, principal Carole Garth, principal Mary Rook, Title I preschool; Amy Wil- son, early childhood special education;Columbia Area Career Center Blue Ridge Elementary School Parkade Elementary School Terry Gaines and Jake Giessman, Center4203 S. Providence Road, 214-3800 3700 Woodland Drive, 214-3580 111 Parkade Blvd., 214-3630 for Gifted EducationRandall Gooch, director Kristen Palmer, principal Amy Watkins, principal Quest Center of Responsive EducationJefferson Middle School Cedar Ridge Elementary School Paxton Keeley Elementary School 4600 Bethel St., 214-3740713 Rogers St., 214-3210 1100 Roseta Ave., 214-3510 201 Park de Ville Drive, 214-3570 Connie Divine, site facilitatorGregery Caine, principal Angie Chandler, principal Adrienne Patton, principal STATE PUBLIC SCHOOLSOakland Middle School Derby Ridge Elementary School Ridgeway Elementary School3405 Oakland Place, 214-3220 4000 Derby Ridge Drive, 214-3270 107 E. Sexton Road, 214-3550 Delmar Cobble State SchoolHelen Porter, principal Jeri Petre, principal Shari Lawson, principal for the Severely Handicapped 108 W. Craig St., 442-6482West Middle School Fairview Elementary School Rock Bridge Elementary School The day school serves about401 Clinkscales Road, 214-3230 909 Fairview Road, 214-3590 5151 S. Highway 163, 214-3290 40 severely disabled students.Connie Dewie, principal Diana DeMoss, principal Jill Brown, principalGentry Middle School Grant Elementary School Russell Boulevard Elementary School4200 Bethel St., 214-3240 10 E. Broadway, 214-3520 1800 W. Rollins Road, 214-3650Jeff Beiswinger, principal Jennifer Wingert, principal Ed Schumacher, principalColumbia Orthopaedic GroupGarth S. Russell, MD R andal R. Trecha, MD Matt E. Thornburg, MD Brian D. Kleiber, MDRonald D. Carter, MD Mark A. Adams, MD John Havey, MD Kurt T. Bormann, MDWilliam G. Quinn, MD Jennifer L.K. Clark, MD Jeffrey W. Parker, M D Jason T. Koreckij, MDDennis L. Abernathie, MD Benjamin T. Holt, MD Todd M. Oliver, MD Alan G. Anz, MDPeter K. Buchert, MD John D. Miles, MD S. Cr aig Meyer, MD Matt L. Jones, MDPatrick A. Smith, MD Robert W. Gaines, MD B.J. Schultz, MD Tim Crislip, DPMThomas R. Highland, MD B. Bus Tarbox, MD Christopher D. Farmer, MD J. Camp Newton, MDJames F. Eckenrode, MD David E. Hockman, MD www.columbiaorthogroup.com1 South Keene Street • Columbia, MO 65201 • 573-443-2402

Sunday, June 8, 2014 COLUMBIA DAILY TRIBUNE www.columbiatribune.com 37 EDUCATIONELEMENTARY SCHOOL ATTENDANCE ZONES1. Midway Heights Elementary 8. Shepard Boulevard Elementary 15. Paxton Keeley Elementary2. West Boulevard Elementary 9. Benton Elementary3. Derby Ridge Elementary 10. Cedar Ridge Elementary 16. Fairview Elementary4. Parkade Elementary 11. New Haven Elementary5. Blue Ridge Elementary 12. Lee Elementary 17. Mill Creek Elementary6. Alpha Hart Lewis Elementary 13. Grant Elementary7. Two Mile Prairie Elementary 14. Russell Boulevard Elementary 18. Rock Bridge Elementary 19. Ridgeway Elementary, located at 107 E. Sexton Road, is a magnet school and has no attendance zone. 6 2 13 7 45 10 9 15 14 13 8 16 12 17 11 18

38 www.columbiatribune.com COLUMBIA DAILY TRIBUNE Sunday, June 8, 2014 EDUCATIONMIDDLE SCHOOL ATTENDANCE AREAS HIGH SCHOOL ATTENDANCE ZONES5 3 Hickman High School Battle High School 6 4 2 Rock Bridge Columbia High School city limits 1 Tribune graphicN 4 Oakland Middle School N 5 Smithton Middle School 1 Gentry Middle School 6 West Middle School Source: Columbia Public Schools 2 Je erson Middle School 3 Lange Middle School Tribune graphicSource: Columbia Public Schools

EDUCATION Sunday, June 8, 2014 COLUMBIA DAILY TRIBUNE www.columbiatribune.com 39PUBLIC SCHOOL PROGRAMS The Highest Quality in Women’s Health Care Adult education: Columbia Public Schools School meals: Columbia Public Schoolsoffers adult classes in English as a second offers lunch and breakfast. For the 2014-15 Since 1976, Women’s Health Associates has been honored tolanguage for visa classification, GED prepara- school year, breakfast will cost $1.55 for all serve the women of central Missouri by providing obstetricaltion classes and basic adult literacy. Classes students and $1.90 for adults. Lunches will and gynecological care of the highest quality. Our board certifiedare free, but temporary residents might have cost $2.45 for elementary students and $2.70 physicians specialize in preventative services, adolescent medicine,to pay a small processing fee for ESL courses. for grades 6-12. Lunch is $3.25 for adults. Stu- maternity care and menopausal treatment — all delivered in aFor information, call 573-214-3690. dents from families that meet federal income friendly, caring and confidential environment. We are dedicated to guidelines qualify for free or discounted providing our patients with comprehensive, compassionate care After-school care: All elementary schools breakfast and lunch. For more information, throughout each stage of a woman’s life.offer before- and after-school Adventure Club call 214-3480.programs operated by the University of Mis- (L to R): Kimberly Morse, MD, FACOG | Matthew Borgmeyer, MD, FACOG | Elizabeth Wilson, MD, FACOGsouri College of Education. For information, Summer programs: The free, full-day Sum- Katherine Welch, MD, FACOG | Lynn Puckett, MD, FACOG | Lee Trammell, MD, FACOGcall 884-2582 or visit education.missouri.edu/ mer SUNsation program provides core sub-orgs/adventure/programs/index.php. ject classes in the morning and physical edu- (L to R): Karen Thies, PhD, DO, FACOG | Stephanie Womack, MD, FACOG | Kevin Jones, MD, FACOG cation and core enrichment courses in the Renee Boulicault, MD, FACOG | William Trumbower, MD, FACOG | Jennifer Roelands, MD Parents as Teachers: Expectant parents afternoon. Classes are available for kids enter-and those with children from birth to age 5 ing kindergarten through eighth grade. 1601 E. Broadway, Suites 100, 300, 330, 350 | Columbia, Missouriwho are not yet in kindergarten can receive 573.443.8796 | www.wha-inc.comresearch-based information, support and Secondary summer school provides oppor-encouragement from Parents as Teachers. The tunities for students entering grades 9-12 toprogram offers home visits with a certified earn credits toward high school graduation.parent educator, meetings and activities for For information, call 573-214-3995.parents and children, developmental screen-ings, a newsletter and a lending library. The Columbia Summer Enrichment pro- gram is a three-week, half-day, tuition-based Participants can check out books, videos program in which students select from a vari-and toys from the resource center and play- ety of classes designed to enrich learning. Tworoom at 1818 W. Worley St. Parents as Teachers three-week sessions for preschool studentsis free. To find out whether your family is eli- are scheduled. For information, call 573-214-gible, call 573-214-3955 or go to service. 3260.columbia.k12.mo.us/pat. The Minority Achievement Scholars, or Parent-teacher associations: Each school MAC Scholars, holds summer events at MU.has a parent-teacher, parent-teacher-student For information, call 573-884-8536.organization or family-school partnership.Most groups are affiliated with a citywide PTA. Columbia Public Schools offers a variety ofThe Columbia Council of PTAs is a central other specialty programs. For more informa-organization with representatives from all tion visit www.columbia.k12.mo.us/summer/district schools. For information, visit cc-pta. index.php.org. Transportation: The school district con- Preschool: Children ages 3 to 5 within the tracts with First Student to bus students toschool district might be eligible for a free or and from school. Elementary and middletuition-based preschool program. Interested school students living at least a mile fromfamilies should call 573-214-3585 to schedule school and high school students living at leasta preschool screening appointment. 2 miles from school, along with students liv- ing along hazardous roads, are bused free of Preschool classes are at Blue Ridge, Derby charge. Students living outside the attendanceRidge, Fairview, Field, Parkade, Rock Bridge, zones also can be bused through First StudentRussell Boulevard and West Boulevard ele- with special permission. Special permissionmentary schools. The school district also must be obtained by their respective schooloffers preschool at Rock Bridge and Battle and assistant superintendent. For informa-high schools. Columbia Public Schools offers tion, call First Student at 573-474-9473.a partnership program in collaboration withHead Start at Field and at Park Avenue Child Volunteers: The school district is alwaysand Family Development Center. Participat- looking for parents, grandparents, college stu-ing children must be eligible for Title I and dents, business representatives and otherHead Start to attend a partnership program. residents to volunteer with mentoring, tutor-For information about preschool programs, ing, reading and service learning. For infor-call the Title I Early Childhood Office at 573- mation, call the Community Relations Office214-3585. at 573-214-3960, or find volunteer applica- tions at www.columbia.k12.mo.us/pie/volun- Grant Montessori Preschool, a not-for- teers/beavolunteer.php.profit, public-private partnership betweenthe Columbia Public Schools and The Rollins Committees: Columbia Public Schools hasReading Co., Missouri 501©3 nonprofit orga- several districtwide committees addressingnization, serves as many as 20 children. Ten of building needs and achievement. Volunteerthose children are provided with scholarships forms can be found online at www.columbia.based on certain eligibility criteria. k12.mo.us/volun.php.

40 www.columbiatribune.com COLUMBIA DAILY TRIBUNE Sunday, June 8, 2014 Ryan Henriksen/Tribune From left, John Yoo, Michael Pennella, Ashwath Kumar, Chormaic Sullivan, Mingu Kim, Austin Scoles, Faaris Khan and Jenny YaoSTRIVING TO ACHIEVEposeApril28intheschoolhouseatShelterInsuranceGardens.Columbia’s kids Columbia students and teachers Hickman High School senior Ashwath Kumar. was helpful to his future. make the most agree that what makes Columbia For this year’s Our Town, the Tribune high- “Definitely, the ability to think logically onof opportunities special — and allows its students to thrive — is an abundance of lighted some of the whiz kids who exemplify your feet when expressing ideas,” he said of available in a opportunities. the area’s emphasis on learning. what he got out of it. “Each speech … is unique.community rich Being a college town means It’s important to speak from the heart, not the students can access “rich resources,” including SPEak from the heart page.” in resources. events and professors at the three local colleg- es, Rock Bridge High School gifted-education Kumar didn’t just participate in a speech The scholarship money will help, too. Next STORY By catherine martin teacher Kathryn Fishman Weaver said. Local competition; he won the American Legion’s year, Kumar will start a six-year medical pro- professionals also offer students internships national speech contest. His victory came with gram at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. editor@columbiatribune.com | 815-1700 and job-shadowing. Schools have community an $18,000 college scholarship. partners that allow for unique opportunities. A HELPING HAND His speech, titled “This Great House,” was Some of Columbia’s “whiz kids,” who have a about “our responsibility as citizens to not only Michael Pennella is only a sophomore at list of impressive achievements, agreed oppor- understand the Constitution” but also to “par- Rock Bridge High, but he, too, dreams of going tunities from the schools helped get them ticipate and enforce the principles of it.” Kumar to the six-year medical program at UMKC. He where they are. said the idea stemmed from a prompt that wants to be a hematologist, although his time focused on the Constitution and citizen in the debate club has made him think about “Someone who is interested in medicine engagement. law, too. participating in a speech competition hope- fully speaks to a wide range of opportunities He used knowledge from his Advanced His dreams for the future are big, but at 16 he available in Columbia Public Schools,” said Placement courses, such as U.S. history, to put has already been recognized for another impor- together a speech. Although his long-term goal tant accomplishment — volunteering. He is medical school, Kumar said the experience started with Youth in Action last summer and

Sunday, June 8, 2014 COLUMBIA DAILY TRIBUNE www.columbiatribune.com 41said he can’t count the number of hours he Don Shrubshell/Tribune He said he also wants to study applied math-has spent volunteering. Aside from Youth in ematics.Action, he also volunteers at Boone Hospital Jin Kyu Yoo listens as his son, John Yoo, plays piano at their home on May 10, 2013.Center. John Yoo has placed in a local music competition for the past five years. STUDENT CHEFS “I love volunteering,” he said. “It’s a nice Ryan Henriksen/Tribune Kim isn’t the only senior who has his plansthing to do to give back what you receive from mapped out for the future. Rock Bridge studentsthe community.” Rock Bridge High School senior Chormaic Sullivan, left, and Austin Scoles, right, Chormaic Sullivan and Austin Scoles do, too. prepare desserts in the Columbia Area Career Center’s kitchen on April 9. Pennella was recognized for his efforts at Scoles will attend Johnson and Wales’ Col-the Tribune’s 2014 Hero Awards, where he was engineering or computer science or doing a national Siemens Competition. lege of Culinary Arts in North Carolina in thenamed “Youth Volunteer of the Year.” program at MIT that combines molecular For the project, he and a teammate put fall. After college, Scoles said, he likely will work biology and computer science. in a restaurant for a while, but his ultimate goal “I was very surprised to hear I was nominat- adult dental stem cells on a substance called is to become a private chef for a family.ed because, really, I didn’t realize the efforts I She credits the local schools for starting her graphene. The two found that the cells grewput into volunteering were seen by others,” he on the right path. faster on the graphene. The technology could Sullivan will get his cooking education atsaid. be used to grow bone cells without any chem- the Culinary Institute in Hyde Park, N.Y. He “They just give us a lot of opportunities,” icals, Kim said. wants to get an associate degree in culinary Pennella said he plans to continue volun- she said, pointing specifically to internships arts and baking and go to trade school for fourteering, and Columbia Public Schools also and research projects. With a fourth-place finish, he and his team- years. Eventually, he wants to open his owngives him the opportunity to try a “myriad of mate received a $30,000 scholarship to split. restaurant.other things.” THE SCIENCE GUY Kim said he has continued his work since Before all of that, the two have another goal THE RIGHT NOTES Fellow scientist Mingu Kim, a senior at the Siemens contest in December, looking at in mind — the national Skills USA competi- Hickman High, also spoke highly of the intern- gene expression and doing math research. He tion this month. John Yoo also plans to continue to pursue ship opportunities offered through the dis- will continue doing research over the summerhis passion, even if it’s not a long-term career trict’s gifted program. after being accepted to the International Sum- Sullivan took first place in culinary arts atgoal. mer School for Young Physicians at Perimeter the state-level competition, and Scoles took The schools are “wonderful. They’ve given Institute, a leading center for scientific first place in commercial baking. Now the two Ultimately, Yoo, a sixth-grader at West Mid- me the background of things I know in math research and training. said they will spend about seven hours a daydle School, wants to be a computer program- and science and encouraged me to go getting ready for the national competition.mer. But he also has a great passion for music beyond,” he said. In the fall, Kim will start school at Harvard,— Yoo is a piano player who has placed at the where he is considering taking the pre-med Students from the Columbia Area CareerCreating Original Music Project, or C.O.MP., Kim definitely went beyond with a research track. Center have a history of success at the nation-for the past five years. project that earned him fourth place in the al competition. Yoo also has a plethora of other piano Last year, Hickman’s Heather Pitt became theawards under his belt. first Missouri student to take the top prize for commercial baking. Also in 2013, Rock Bridge’s “I like it because it gives me challenges — I Hailey King took the top prize in culinary arts,like challenges,” Yoo said of playing piano. following the success of two other Career Cen- ter students to get that prize — they’re the only He said the public schools have also given three Missouri students to earn the honor.him a “lot of challenges,” such as participatingin a regional math contest and science Olym- The career center also has produced statepiad. He also won the spelling bee at West champions in culinary arts for the past 11 yearsMiddle School this year. and in baking five out of the past six years. In addition to computer programming, Yoo Although it’s evident the Career Center hasalso likes listening to music, playing clarinet high standards, the students said the teachersand working Sudoku puzzles. He said he don’t put too much pressure on them for suc-wants to go to MIT. cess. “The pressure, we put it on ourselves,” Sullivan said. PERFECTION SPELLING WHIZ Yoo might be a few years away from MIT,but Jenny Yao, a senior from Rock Bridge High Faaris Khan, an eighth-grader at GentrySchool, will start school there in the fall. Middle School, also puts a lot of pressure on himself for success. But that has paid off — Yao has many qualifications that helped Khan won the Tribune’s Regional Spelling Beeher gain admission to MIT, and it probably for the third time in March, making him thedidn’t hurt that she earned a perfect score on only three-time champ.both her ACT and SAT. In May, he competed in the Scripps Nation- Only 0.03 percent of test takers get a perfect al Spelling Bee and made it to the semifinals.score on the SAT, and less than one-tenth of 1percent are perfect on the ACT. Even with such This was Khan’s last year in the bee, but heodds, Columbia produces a number of stu- has plenty of other activities to keep busy. Hedents with perfect scores on the exams each participates in track and field and, like his fel-year. low whiz kids, has big goals for his future. Since Yao learned of her second perfect He has an interest in surgery and said hescore, she has kept busy and kept winning has been thinking about studying ophthal-awards. In May, Yao was named a Presidential mology. He would like to go to Harvard.Scholar, an honor given to only 141 studentsin the country each year. Jenny is the 21st The “unusual number of high-achievingColumbia Public Schools student to receive students” in Columbia make Virginia Lennon,the honor, which includes a visit with the Fishman-Weaver’s counterpart at Hickman,president. grateful to have settled here. Yao said that might have been the high “Kids excel here because that’s what humanpoint of her year, but she also enjoyed partici- beings do when given the right circumstancespating in the Missouri Junior Science, Engi- — plenty, safety, positive role models, aca-neering and Humanities Symposium, which demic resources and a culture that supportsshe said increased her desire to do research in the understanding that people can accom-college. plish great things by working hard and follow- ing their passion,” she said. Yao said she’s thinking of majoring in bio-

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46 www.columbiatribune.com COLUMBIA DAILY TRIBUNE Sunday, June 8, 2014 EDUCATIONAREA HIGHER EDUCATION Columbia is home to the state’s flag- and evening undergraduate and grad-ship research university as well as sev- uate programs and more than 30,000eral private colleges that attract thou- students through extended campusessands of students from across the and online. Scott Dalrymple wasglobe. Here’s a closer look at the Uni- selected as the president earlier thisversity of Missouri and other area col- year. His first day was May 1. Moreleges. information is available at www.ccis. edu. UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI: MU,also known as Mizzou, is the flagship STEPHENS COLLEGE: A privatecampus in the four-campus UM Sys- four-year women’s college that edu-tem. cates more than 1,000 under- Fall 2013 enrollment: graduate and graduate stu-34,658. 24,743 in-state, 9,915 dents every year. Dianneout-of-state; 26,965 under- Lynch has been president forgraduate; 6,439 graduate and four years. More information1,254 professional; 5,197 is available at www.stephens.minority; 2,212 international. edu.Fall 2014-spring 2015 fees: WILLIAM WOODS UNI-For undergraduates, tuition is VERSITY: The coeducational,$10,286 for Missouri residents professions-oriented institu-and $14,026 for nonresidents Wolfe tion serves more than 1,000for the year, assuming the stu- students at its Fulton campusdent is enrolled in 14 credit and at a campus on Fallinghours each semester. Graduate Leaf Court near Route AC andtuition is $6,548 for Missouri Highway 145 in Columbia.resident, and $9,006 for non- More information is available Don Shrubshell/Tribuneresidents per year, assuming at www.williamwoods.edu.the student is enrolled in eight Columbia College President Scott Dalrymple hands the 2014 Presidential Award to Shakeera CENTRAL METHODIST Schneller of Columbia at Southwell Complex on May 10.credit hours each semester. UNIVERSITY: The private, Students each semester also four-year university was Scott Dalrymple takes overare required to pay $28.14 for a Loftin founded in 1854 and educates top job at Columbia Collegeprepaid health fee, a $70.34 more than 5,000 students inrecreational facility fee and an Fayette, and about 700 stu-$85.20 student activity fee for dents work on their bachelor’sfull-time students, as well as a degrees on the Columbia cam-$13 per credit information pus. The Columbia campus istechnology fee. at 1400 Forum Blvd.Faculty and staff: 13,255,including 2,139 faculty and WESTMINSTER COLLEGE: Leader brings variety Founded in 1851, the private of experience to role. Because Columbia College has 34 campuses acrossinstructors and 4,533 at Uni- college offers a liberal arts cur- the country, including the headquarters office inversity of Missouri Health Dalrymple riculum with an emphasis on BY ASHLEY JOST Columbia, the new president will be spending a large amount of time traveling and visiting the differentCare developmental experience. aljost@columbiatribune.com | 815-1721 sites to meet the needs of each satellite space.Mascot: Tiger The college, located in Fulton, Scott Dalrymple is many things: a published sci-Colors: Black and gold hosts a Winston Churchill It’s one of several things he hopes to do to fill theWebsite: www.missouri. museum and institute and ence fiction writer, a movie enthusiast and, as of late, shoes of his predecessor, Gerald Brouder, who retirededu serves more than 1,000 stu- the president of Columbia College. in August after 18 years leading the school.UM Board of Curators: The dents. The campus is locatedcurators oversee the UM Sys- at 501 Westminster Ave. in Ful- Dalrymple was chosen by the college’s Board of David Roebuck, academic affairs interim dean,tem and represent each con- ton. Trustees in January, and his first day in office was said in January that although he doesn’t envy the taskgressional district in Missouri. BRYAN UNIVERSITY: A May 1. of filling Brouder’s shoes, he is impressed with Dal-Curators and the year their Lynch private institution that offers rymple, especially his good sense of humor and He and his wife, Tina, called Columbia their home humility, which make him a good fit at Columbiaterms expire: Chairman Don Downing, focused, career-based training for stu- right away, though the moving truck didn’t pull up College.Webster Groves, 2015; Wayne Goode, dents with campuses in Missouri, until scarily close to his first day at the new job.St. Louis, 2015; David Bradley, St. Arkansas and Kansas. The Columbia Dalrymple said he wants to spend as much time asJoseph, 2015; David Steward, St. Louis, campus, at 3215 LeMone Industrial Before Columbia College, Dalrymple was the dean possible out on campus, getting involved with the2017; Pam Henrickson, Jefferson City, Blvd., has been in operation since 2010 of the School of Liberal Arts at Excelsior College in lives and activities of the students. He said this is not2017; Donald Cupps, Cassville, 2017; and serves about 100 students. Brian Albany, N.Y., an online-only institution. Before that, just to get to know the campus community better,Ann Covington, Columbia, 2019; John Stewart serves as president. he served as a tenured professor at Hartwick College, but to show that he means what he says about beingPhillips, Kansas City, 2019; student MOBERLY AREA COMMUNITY a more traditional school. an “engaged president.”representative Tracy Mulderig, UM-St. COLLEGE: The two-year college pro-Louis. vides day and evening classes to about Dalrymple said his varied experience will give him “My door will always be open,” Dalrymple said inTim Wolfe is UM System president. 5,000 students. The school is based in the skills to run Columbia College, which is a mixture January. “I want to make sure all of the students, fac-R. Bowen Loftin became the 22nd Moberly but has satellite locations, of the traditional and the online. ulty and staff all across the country feel like they canchancellor of the Columbia campus in including a Columbia campus at 601 come to me — always.”February. Business Loop 70 W. Jeff Lashley has “I purposefully went to work at Excelsior so I couldCOLUMBIA COLLEGE: A private, served as president since 2013. More learn more about the online world,” he said in Janu- The couple is still deciding whether Tina, Dal-not-for-profit institution that serves information can be found at www. ary. rymple’s wife, will resume a teaching or nursing posi-3,500 students in Columbia with day macc.edu. tion in Columbia using her doctorate. She is a “That was a very conscious decision. I wanted to licensed nurse practitioner. see how one would offer online education on a large scale but still with quality.” For now, the plan is for Columbia College’s first lady to be just that, the first lady.

Sunday, June 8, 2014 COLUMBIA DAILY TRIBUNE www.columbiatribune.com 47 EDUCATION Serving Generations of Mid-Missouri Families Columbia 573-442-7112 Nick Schnelle/Tribune • Organic FertilizersStephens College students pose for a picture behind a mockup of an advertisement - early bird compostwrap for a city bus during an April 3 event unveiling the school’s new brandingcampaign at Lela Raney Wood Hall on the Stephens campus. • Bagged Fertilizers • Bulk Garden SeedsStephens College takesits new brand for a spin • Pet FoodMarketing puts the the new site, there were as many as five • Purina Red Flannelfocus on students. brands within it. “We’ve had a lot of great, exciting growth Dog Food since” Lynch “got here,” Kline said about the • Livestock FeedBY ASHLEY JOST school’s president, who joined Stephens five • Organic Chicken Feedaljost@columbiatribune.com | 815-1721 years ago. “The time was right to move for- Bourn Feed & Supply, Inc.Stephens College wants everyone to know ward with a consistent voice.”that their students “starkle.” Kline said the execution of the new brand 573-474-4113The college unveiled a completely new was done entirely in-house, though some ofbrand in April that incorporates faux words the ideas came with help from Mindpower, an 4011 I-70 Dr. S.E. • Columbia, MO 65201such as “starkle” and “shero” with a Atlanta-based marketing compa- Serving Columbia Since 1964new, bright color palette. The tag ny.line for the new brand is simple but Neesha Edwards, a Stephens Your trusted advisors in Central Missouriall-encompassing: “dream up.” student, said she really likes theStephens President Dianne Follow your “modern, hip” color scheme and • Tax compliance & planningLynch said this new brand shows thinks it fits well with what the • Audit & accountingthe “creative, dynamic face” of the dreams. school is and who the students • Business consulting • Wealth advisorycollege. Lynch spoke about the new Better yet, are. She also really likes quotesbrand during a launch party for used in the marketing campaign servicesstudents, faculty and staff April 3. chase them and hopes to hang them in her Columbia (573) 442-6171 • Jefferson City (573) 635-6196At the party, the school showed off down and room as a daily motivator. www.williamskeepers.com • twitter.com/WilliamsKeepersthe banners that are now hanging “Every color represents a differ-along College Avenue and Broad- show them ent type of girl here,” Mi’Kaelway, as well as a fully wrapped city who’s boss.” Henderson said.bus with the new marketing. Henderson said she thinks it’s — Slogan on a “Students love it because they city bus wrap, empowering to be able to seerecognize themselves in it,” Lynch as part of Stephens’ women she goes to class with onsaid. new ad campaign much of the new marketing. Pho-In addition to the marketing vis- tos of students are used on post-ible downtown, the college also has ers and electronic marketing.a new website, which was months in the mak- “Follow your dreams,” the bus wrap reads.ing. Rebecca Kline, director of marketing and “Better yet, chase them down and show themcommunications, said before the launch of who’s boss.”

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