March: Movers & Shakers
Abby Warner Visionworks Marketing Group announced the addition of Abby Warner to its team. Working as a visual aid, she will focus on graphic design for newsletters, Facebook, and program inserts, among other projects. She graduated from MU with a degree in graphic design and a minor in art history. Formerly, she worked for Bur […]
March: Briefly in the News
Sky Zone Celebrates First Anniversary In January, Columbia’s Sky Zone Trampoline Park marked its first year in business. They offered guests discounted jumping prices in honor of their anniversary. Their available activities, ranging from a ninja warrior course to dodgeball, drew in more than 100,000 visitors in the first year. The trampoline park employs more […]
Creating Connections
Women’s Network celebrates and champions the women in Columbia by providing community and recognition. Gender equality in the workplace is a hot topic right now. The national conversation is rife with thoughts on representation, equal pay, equal rights, and more. Fortunately, this conversation took a big step forward for Columbia in 1979 and has led […]
Bea Litherland Smith, Dean Emerita, MU’s College of Human Environmental Sciences
Job description: Advocate, counselor, dreamer, drudge, planner, cheerleader, manager, yard guy, writer, landlord, sage, taxpayer. Years lived in Columbia: 42 years. I was recruited from North Dakota State University in 1977 to become, at age 36, MU’s youngest dean. I retired in 2002 as the university’s longest-serving dean. Original hometown: Hornick, Iowa. Population 250. Education: […]
Meeting Unmet Needs
The Assistance League of Mid-Missouri celebrates 25 years. Just off West Broadway sits the offices and retail shop for the Assistance League of Mid-Missouri, one of only three Assistance League chapters in the state. This year marks their 25th anniversary. The Mid-Missouri chapter, which began in 1994, has grown to include 300 members and nine […]
A Fair Financial Forecast
Pushing almost a decade of economic recovery, Americans are thinking the clock is ticking on this economic honeymoon phase. The Dow Jones took more than just a tumble when it lost 6.8 percent in December 2018, which was its worst percentage drop since October 2008, according to CNBC. A government shutdown and trade war with […]
Embracing Winter Activities
In what’s shaping up to be a miserable winter, a bright spot appeared in the form of a tweet from Mike Griggs, director of Columbia’s parks and recreation: The ice at Stephens Lake was thick enough for skating. Parks and Rec is certainly doing yeoman’s work keeping us busy this winter from the ROC […]
February: Movers & Shakers
Klingner & Associates P.C. Klingner & Associates P.C. welcomed Harry Bozoian as business development manager and Joseph Bindbeutel as a business development specialist. Both men will find solutions for clients in need of municipal engineering, water resources engineering, environmental engineering, and architecture services throughout the Columbia area. Bindbeutel previously served the Missouri Attorney General’s Office […]
February: Briefly in the News
Missouri Airbnb Hosts Earned $48 Million in 2018 Airbnb announced that its Missouri host community earned a combined $48 million in supplemental income while welcoming approximately 483,000 guest arrivals to the state in 2018. There are now more than 4,500 Missouri hosts who share their homes via Airbnb, earning about $5,500 annually in supplemental income […]
Boone Hospital Center’s Heart Program Update
Who doesn’t like to be first? Whether that’s first in line, top of your class, or winning in sports, we all want to be our best and do our best. With our fourth year as U.S. News & World Report’s No. 1 hospital in Mid-Missouri, Boone Hospital Center is definitely no stranger to being first […]
Stephens College Master of Physician Assistant Studies Graduates First Class
Stephens College embraces the future of health care with a new program.
Uncovering an Invisible Injury
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, traumatic brain injury, or TBI, accounted for approximately 2.8 million injuries and deaths in the U.S. in 2013. Advanced age is the leading cause of TBI in the civilian population; however, the Department of Defense identified more than 300,000 service members who sustained training- or combat-related […]