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5Person You Should KnowTad A. Johnsen, director of Columbia Water & Light, on work, the community and MU sports

Power Lunch: Tech TransferMU Life Sciences Business Incubator, moving ideas from the lab to the marketplace 8

18Movie Rental Market While the box stores izzle out, local shop Ninth Street Video continues to thrive.

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Media & Entertainment

Since 1980, Richard King has consistently lured famous and soon-to-be-famous artists to our little college town. The Blue Note celebrates its 30th anniversary on July 30 with a Ninth Street concert featuring Snoop Dog and Ice Cube.

Coverage begins on Page 14

Music Maestro

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22Construction UpdateBuffalo Wild Wings hopes to gain more attention in its newly renovated space at the Rock Bridge Shopping Center.

Air Masters Corporation .......................................... 19 Boone County National Bank .................................. 28Beckett & Taylor Agency ......................................... 12Carpet One .............................................................. 10CenturyLink ............................................................... 3City Of Columbia Water & Light .............................. 17Delta Systems ......................................................... 21Huber And Associates ............................................... 7Information Management Systems ......................... 22KBIA Concert Series ................................................ 23Ke Lani Hair And Day Spa ......................................... 6Landmark Bank ......................................................... 2Midwest Computech ............................................... 26Miss-Lou's Catering ................................................ 19Missouri Press Service, Inc ..................................... 20Peace Of Mind Salon & Spa .................................... 19Savant Business Development Systems ................. 18SOCKET .................................................................. 25Sycamore ................................................................ 16The Callaway Bank .................................................... 9The Insurance Group ................................................. 4Towner Communication........................................... 16Wells Fargo .............................................................. 27Whiskey Wild ........................................................... 13Wine Cellar & Bistro ................................................. 24

Activity and Recreation Center .................................. 7Bank of Missouri ........................................................ 8Blockbuster ....................................................... 18, 19The Blue Note .................................... 1, 14, 15, 16, 17Boone County National Bank .................................... 8Boone County Pork Producers ................................. 7Boone Electric Cooperative....................................... 4Boone Hospital Center .......................................... 3, 4Bucket Media Inc. ..................................................... 4Buffalo Wild Wings .............................................. 2, 22The Callaway Bank .................................................... 8Camp Wonderland..................................................... 5Centennial Investors ........................................ 8, 9, 12CJ’s ............................................................................ 5Columbia Daily Tribune.............................................. 4Columbia Farmers Market ......................................... 7Columbia Missourian ................................................. 6Columbia Photo ....................................................... 18Columbia Regional Airport ........................................ 4Commerce Bank .................................................... 4, 8Cooper’s Landing .................................................... 17Daniel Boone Regional Library .................................. 4Emergency Umbrella Records ................................. 17Emery Sapp and Sons ............................................... 4Equinosis ................................................................. 12First State Community Bank ..................................... 4Great Rivers Council, Boy Scouts of America ........... 4Harpo’s ...................................................................... 3Heart of Missouri United Way.................................... 4Hollywood Video ............................................... 18, 19Huebert Builders........................................................ 4Hy-Vee ....................................................................... 4KMIZ .................................................................. 20, 21Knoebel Construction .............................................. 22KOMU 8 News ......................................................... 21KOPN ...................................................................... 17KQFX ....................................................................... 21KZOU ....................................................................... 21Landmark Bank ................................................... 8, 12LGI Business Builders ............................................... 4MERS Goodwill ................................................... 2, 24Missouri Employers Mutual ....................................... 4Missouri Innovation Center ....................................... 8Missouri Theatre Center for the Arts ......................... 4Mojo’s ................................................................ 15, 17Movie Gallery ..................................................... 18, 19Mustard Seed Fair Trade ......................................... 18National Title Insurance Company ............................ 4Netlix ................................................................ 18, 19Ninth Street Video ......................................... 1, 18, 19Optimist Club ............................................................ 5Peachtree Banquet Center ........................................ 3Ragtag ............................................................... 18, 19Redbox .............................................................. 18, 19Regional Economic Development Inc. .............. 3, 4, 8Roots ‘N Blues ‘N BBQ Festival ........................ 15, 17Shelter Insurance....................................................... 4Small Business Technology Development Center ..... 8St. Thomas More Parish and Newman Center .......... 5Stephens College ...................................................... 4Streetside Records .................................................. 14Summerfest ......................................................... 1, 15Taco Bueno.............................................................. 24Tech 2 ........................................................................ 3Tracy Arey Real Estate............................................... 4True/False Film Festival ........................................... 19Uprise Bakery .......................................................... 18Walmart ............................................................. 19, 24

Construction Update MERS-Goodwill store moves to a stand-alone facility, offers 15,000 square feet of retail space

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CbT BUSINESS CALENDAR — JULY

12City Council Work Session5:30 p.m. City Hall, conference room 1A and 1BWork session topics will include capital improvement projects, the Parks Sales Tax, the downtown charette and a presentation by Dan Rothery, Boone Hospital Center’s president.

13Special Business District Board Meeting4-5:30 p.m. SBD Ofice, 11 S. 10th St.

15Advancing Renewables in the Midwest Conference7:30 a.m. - 5 p.m. University of Missouri campus - registration at the Agriculture BuildingAnnual conference on renewable energy and energy eficient trends. Speakers include Natural Resources Department Director Mark Templeton, Lawerence Mensueti of the Department of Energy and Chandler Von Schrader from the US Environmental Protection Agency.

15Columbia Public Schools Ribbon Cutting4 p.m. at the new high school location on St. Charles Road.For more information, call 874-1132.

15 Women’s Network Luncheon11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. Peachtree Banquet Center, 120 S. Nifong Blvd.Jonathan Sessions with Tech 2 will moderate a discussion

about online social media, including references to local businesses that use social media successfully and effectively and how they do it. Cost: $12 Chamber of Commerce members, $15 non-members. $3 online discount

Kickapalooza4-9 p.m. Antimi Softball Center, Cosmo Park, 1615 Business Loop 70 W.The Chamber puts on its second kickball tournament this summer. Cost for spectators: $10, includes food and beverages

14REDI Board of Directors Meeting11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. REDI ofice, Walton Building, 300 S. Providence Contact Michelle Holmes, 442-8303, for agenda information.

City Comprehensive Task Force Meeting5:30-7:30 p.m. Daniel Boone Building New Addition, conference room 1A

19City Council Meeting7 p.m. Daniel Boone Building New Addition, Council Chambers

20EPIC 4th Anniversary Celebration5-7:30 p.m. Harpo’s, 10th and Cherry streets. Emerging Professionals in Columbia. Contact: Emily Poore, 817-9115

22Columbia Planning & Zoning Commission Meeting7 p.m. Daniel Boone Building Addition, conference room 1A

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HiringsStephens College hired Rick Enyard as

its human resource director. A graduate of the University of Missouri, Enyard previously owned a human resources consulting irm and was the human resources director for the Missouri Department of Corrections from 1998 to 2007.

David Putnam was hired as president of First State Community Bank’s Columbia locations. First State bought Premier Bank’s Columbia operations and on July 2 converted three former Premier Bank ofices into First State locations. Putnam was a senior loan oficer for Premier.

The University of Missouri Board of Curators named Cindy S. Harmon the board secre-tary. Currently a business operations manager at Missouri Employers Mutual Insurance in Columbia, Harmon will, in her new position, support the activities of the nine curators who col-lectively serve as the governing body for the four campuses of the University of Missouri System.

Kathy Miller was named interim chief of staff for the University of Missouri System. She will assume administrative responsibilities, including the coordination of media requests for information under the provisions of the Missouri Sunshine Law.

John Fabsits was named the new director of inance and marketing for Great Rivers Council, Boy Scouts of America. Jon Wilson was named the senior district executive for the Boonslick District.

Mitzi St. John has been hired as the public relations administrator for Daniel Boone Regional Library. She previously worked in the marketing department of the Columbia Daily Tribune and in the Hanna Stanley St John advertising agency.

National Title Insurance Company hired Noah L Heaton to join its risk management department. Heaton has been a Realtor since 1997 and most recently was the ofice manager and a Realtor with Tracy Arey Real Estate.

Midwest Independent Bank announced the hiring of Paul Langewisch as vice president and loan oficer. Langswisch brings with him 37 years of community banking experience in Missouri, most recently with a community bank in Fulton.

AppointmentsThe Columbia Chamber of Commerce announced a number of new members to its board of direc-tors: Mary Beck, vice president, patient care services at Boone Hospital Center; Todd Culley, chief executive oficer and general manager of Boone Electric Cooperative and a REDI board member; Jeff Guinn, president of LGI Business Brokers; Susan Hart, vice president of Huebert Builders; Tom Klucking, store director of Hy-Vee on Broadway; Kelley Marchbanks, development oficer at the University of Missouri College of Veterinary Medicine; Lowell Patterson of Emery Sapp and Sons and former city Public Works director; Tim Rich, executive director of the Heart of Missouri United Way; Vicki Russell, associate publisher at the Columbia Daily Tribune, chair-elect of the board; Valerie Shaw, executive vice president for Commerce Bank; and Keri Tipton, president of Bucket Media Inc.

AwardsLeRoy Welch, assistant air trafic man-

ager for the Columbia Regional Airport FAA Contract Tower, was named the 2009 Controller of the Year by the Midwest Air Trafic Control Service Central Region. Welch received a plaque during a ceremony at the Hotel Intercontinental in Kansas City, Mo., on May 5.

Darrah Berck of Thompson, Mo., received the Shelter Insurance Foundation's 2010 Fred V. Heinkel Award for Excellence in Humanity. Berck, a 20-year-old pre-med student at the University of Missouri, won the award for her donation of an organ, which saved the life of a childhood friend.

ResiginationsR. Eric Staley, CEO of the Missouri Theatre

Center for the Arts, has resigned his position, effective July 31. Staley, who had been in the theater position since last fall, will return to his private irm, which consults nonproit organiza-tions, municipalities and for-proit companies in the areas of organizational structure, public-private partnerships and fund development. v

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PERSOn YOu SHOULD KNOW

Tad A. JohnsenWater & Light Director, City of Columbia

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AGE: 49

YEARS LIVED IN COLUMBIA: 32 years

ORIGINAL HOMETOWN: Lamoni, Iowa

JOB DESCRIPTION: Direct and oversee Columbia’s Municipal Water and Electric Utility. This utility also operates a short-line railroad and trans-load facility.

EDUCATION: Graduated from Urbandale High School in Urbandale, Iowa, in 1979. Bachelor of science in electrical engineering with emphasis on control systems and economics.

COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT: Challenger Baseball, Pride Soccer Club, Optimist Club, St. Thomas More Parish and Newman Center, Columbia Catholic School, Boy Scouts and Camp Wonderland.

PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND: During college I worked as a graduate school assistant at the University of Missouri. After graduation, I began working as a computer system designer for Tengco, an importer of utility

and specialty fasteners. I was promoted to purchasing agent and held this position for the inal three years of employment. I started with the city of Columbia in the Parks and Recreation Department

in electrical maintenance then transferred to the Water and Light Department and started as the power plant controls technician.

A COLUMBIA BUSINESSPERSON I ADMIRE AND WHY: Howard Eiffert. He’s a hardworking businessman who took the time to understand his customers, enjoy the importance of

family and be involved in the community.

WHY I’M PASSIONATE ABOUT MY JOB: Work in the public service sector gives me a great sense of pride and satisfaction. Working for this municipal utility gives me pride by knowing my efforts can have a direct beneit to our water, electric and rail customers. I also get satisfaction from knowing I am working for our

customer and not just for a proit.

IF I WEREN’T DOING THIS FOR A LIVING, I WOULD: Be a military pilot or racecar driver. I have always wanted to be in a line of work that applies technical

knowledge to solve problems.

BIGGEST CAREER OBSTACLE I’VE OVERCOME AND HOW: During my sophomore year at MU, I had to miss a semester of school for surgery due to a

detached retina. This obstacle gave me time to evaluate my life goals with a new perspective.

A FAVORITE RECENT PROJECT: Completing an addition to our home.

WHAT PEOPLE SHOULD KNOW ABOUT THIS PROFESSION: Providing water, electric and rail services for a community requires a wide diversity of disciplines working together to eficiently operate. Although

understanding the technical and inancial details is the base, good customer communication and service are necessary to be successful.

FAMILY: I have been married for 18 years to Vicki, and we have six children: Emily, Sandy, Annie, Sally, Tucker and Marissa. We also have ive grandchildren: Savanna, Brayden, Zachery, Carlie and Kallie. Pets: Jake, Murphy and KeKe.

WHAT I DO FOR FUN: As an MU sports fan, I enjoy football, wrestling and baseball games. I also enjoy watching my daughter

Marissa’s soccer games. Family camping, boating and trips to the beach are some of my favorites.

FAVORITE PLACES IN COLUMBIA: Home, then dining with my wife at CJ’s restaurant, biking with the family on the MKT trail and Faurot Field after a win.

ACCOMPLISHMENT I’M MOST PROUD OF: Marrying my lifelong friend and our family.

MOST PEOPLE DON’T KNOW THAT I… would rather read a technical manual than a novel and have always enjoyed mowing grass. I took my parents lawn mower apart as a kid and had two extra parts after reassembly, but it still ran. Also, I wrestled in high school. v

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From the Roundtable

MU lab explosion a reminder of experimental dangers

VOICES

The recent explosion and ire in Schweitzer Hall on the University of Missouri's white campus reminds us that the practice of scien-tiic research is fraught with risk.

The explosion on June 28 was caused by the ignition of hydrogen gas in a chamber used for working with bacteria, a Columbia Fire Department captain said. Three students and a lab technician were burned and hit by shrapnel, and one suffered a serious impact injury.

Looking forward, we want to be assured that all is well on the university campus.

However, the incident triggered memories of how MU had to close and decontaminate Schweitzer decades ago and, during this decade, another campus building dedicated to the study of chemistry, neighboring Schlundt Hall.

During a segment of the Columbia Business Times Sunday Morning Roundtable on KFRU after the latest accident, a caller to the radio station also recollected that both buildings were contami-nated at different times. In the 1970s, Schweitzer Hall was taken apart to the bare walls and probed minutely with a Geiger counter until all traces of radioactivity had been found and disposed of. Schlundt Hall was decon-taminated after radiation was discovered ive or six years ago.

Wow! Think about it: radioactive substances contained in two uni-versity buildings where during the years tens of thousands of people — professors, instructors, students, staffers and maintenance workers — had circulated in sur-roundings that just about everyone assumed were perfectly safe.

Months ago, I came across a brief item in the New York Times, Oct. 19, 1930, with a headline that said, "Chemistry Students Reine Radium From Watch Dials." The article was picked up from a Columbia Missourian article from three days before, which said students in MU’s chemistry department “have been engaged in the work of reining radium from the lumi-nous dials of old watches and clocks.” The Times described it as “the only factory of its kind in the United States” and said that sev-eral thousand dollars worth of the element had been recovered in the six months since the work had started. The radium was the basis for the luminosity of the paint used on the dials.

Placed in the context of the gathering eco-nomic Depression, any supplemental income to the university in 1930 would have been welcome. This was a time of managerial tur-moil at MU. President Stratton D. Brooks had

been ired rather unceremoniously, a scape-goat after publicity about an instructor's sex survey that was innocuous by today's stan-dards. During the ruckus the state Legislature forced Brooks out, and the presidency went to School of Journalism founder Walter Williams.

The history of radioactivity at MU prob-ably began in 1903 when Dr. Herman Schlundt (1869-1937) arrived in Columbia with a freshly minted Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin. Elevated to full professor in 1907, Schlundt authored popular experiments in chemistry textbooks and in 1909 wrote a paper about radioactivity in mineral waters in Yellowstone National Park.

Schweitzer Hall was built in 1912, and a decade later the chemistry department was expanding beyond its capacity to handle the increased number of students and amount of research work.

On Feb. 4, 1922, the Columbia Missourian printed a story with the headline, "Plans Ready for New Hall of Chemistry." The building was to cost $125,000 and include "a specially equipped room for research work in radium [that] will be in the basement." A few years later, the MU catalog shows a three-hour course, "Radioactivity and Structure of Matter," taught by Dr. Schlundt. One assumes the radium laboratory was in full operation in the basement of the building eventually named after him.

In 1924, William McGavock of Springield, Ill., (1906-1985) moved to Columbia and entered the university where he received B.A. and M.A. degrees in chemistry. McGavock worked with Schlundt to develop a labora-tory "for reining Radium and Mesothorium," which, according to one Internet source, "at the time was the only lab reining the Thorium

series, and notable scientists such as Mme. Curie obtained Thorium from that lab."

The article from the Oct. 16, 1930, Missourian noted that the university was reining a sub-stance called mesothorium derived from the radium scrapings of discarded watch dials and was expected to earn $75,000 from this endeavor in 1930.

Then something happened, and here is where the mystery deepens.

Shortly after MU’s operation was spot-lighted in the national press, the lab was shut down.

Perhaps knowledge of the so-called “radium girls” case in 1928 at the US radium plant in Orange, N.J., had an impact. Pending further investigation, it's pure conjecture at this point.

In the radium girls case, female workers were fatally poisoned in the factory, where

they had been painting radium on watch and instrument dials since 1917. The case, according to Wikipedia, "established the right of individual workers who contacted occupational diseases to sue their employer."

One wonders about the immediate aftermath of whatever was going on within the conines of Schweitzer and Schlundt halls. Something stopped this work perhaps rather quietly and with little, if any, press attention at the time, but it deinitely ended leaving contami-nated buildings for future generations to deal with.

One wonders about the health and eventual outcome of anyone who worked in the radium lab. What about Schlundt’s residence on Westmount Avenue? Were any radioactive contami-nants found there? Was Schlundt's death in 1937 related to working with

radium and its derivatives? These are valid questions for further research.

As for the present, we can only go by what we are told by university authorities and assume the complete safety of the campus and, as mandated by law, full disclosure of all research activities and cooperation with the Columbia Fire Department and other public safety agencies.

As the fundamental underpinning of any research institution, scientiic study at the University of Missouri continues to yield a great number of exciting projects to talk about. There are increases with patenting and licensing activities and serious income implications. Stories from the past should not unduly alarm us, but we all share the respon-sibility that the university's research activities be conduced with complete safety and the assurance of well-being to the public.v

Al Germond

Al Germond is the host of the "Sunday

Morning Roundtable" every Sunday at 8:15

a.m. on KFRu. Algermond@gmail.com

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Guest Column

Meat inspection program preserves local option for consumers, producers

Hagler is the state director of agriculture

Jon Hagler

From the Missouri Department of Agriculture

Every Saturday from March through October, shoppers at the Columbia Farmers Market line up to purchase pork chops, roasts, ribs, bacon and other products from Jim and Deanna Crocker of Centralia.

Halfway across the state, upscale St. Louis restaurants feature beef, pork, lamb and poultry produced by Greenwood Farms of Newburg. At a Mennonite country store near Versailles, the freezer is stocked with meat bearing the name of a local farmer and a seal of approval from the Missouri Department of Agriculture.

The state Meat and Poultry Inspection Program monitors production at facilities that produce meat for sale exclusively within the boundaries of Missouri and certiies that plants processing meat for private consumption are clean and safe.

“When people purchase meat that was raised locally, the chances are very good that this depart-ment provided the inspection services to assure safety and quality,” said Jon Hagler, state director of agriculture. “In a very real way, the shortest distance between pasture and dinner plate often passes through a state-inspected processing facility.”

Inspection is the key to putting meat on the grill. No meat can be sold to consumers in America unless an oficial inspector — either state or federal — is present at the time of harvest. Federal regulations require USDA inspection for any meat sold across state lines. State programs, which must be equal to or better than federal standards, inspect facilities that supply meat to local markets.

Ten Department of Agriculture inspectors travel the state and visit 27 state-licensed meat-processing plants and three poultry facilities to ensure that the food they produce meets USDA standards as “wholesome, unadulterated and properly labeled.”

Inspectors observe livestock handling to conirm that animals are treated humanely. They monitor harvest procedures to make sure all regulations are followed and examine car-casses for any signs of disease. In addition, the department’s inspectors review the sanitation, labeling and food safety practices of retail stores that repackage federally inspected meat and 137 “custom exempt” facilities that process animals for personal consumption.

USDA regulations are often intimidating to small-business owners, especially those irst entering the commercial meat market. Missouri’s meat and poultry inspectors offer guidance and advice that helps processors make sense of these complex rules.

“We’re much more hands-on than the federal inspectors,” said Harold Treese, who heads the Meat and Poultry Inspection Program for the state Agriculture Department. “We assist these plants and work to get them ready for inspection.”

By helping processors comply with USDA standards, the state inspection program encour-ages the continued success of local businesses that serve the needs of low-volume and specialty livestock producers. State-inspected plants are typically smaller than federal plants and often provide custom services that allow producers to develop particular cuts and offer unique prod-ucts to satisfy consumers’ increasing appetite for locally produced foods.

“These small state-inspected plants give the consumer another option when buying meat and provide a convenience for the producer,” said Scott Heintz, owner of Heintz Processing, a state-licensed plant in Cuba and president of the Missouri Association of Meat Producers. “State inspection allows them to ill a niche market, selling at the local farmers market or in restaurants.”

When the local FFA club holds a fundraiser barbecue, it often serves pork and beef donated by a local producer and processed at a state-inspected plant. Elk and bison ranchers rely on state-inspection so they can sell their products. When a family farm decides to diversify by mar-keting jerky or other meat snacks, they often take their recipe to a state-inspected plant.

Jim and Deanna Crocker said they would have given up raising hogs in Boone County years ago if it were not for the direct-to-consumer marketing that local processing and state inspec-tion allows.

“We would not be in business if we had not changed the way we sell our pork,” said Jim Crocker, president of Boone County Pork Producers. “By going to the farmers market, we can control our price from start to inish.”

The Crocker’s rely on the services of Davis Meat Processing, a small state-inspected facility in Jonesburg. The facility, a member of the AgriMissouri program, provides more than 30 cuts of packaged pork products for the Crockers, including four types of bratwurst and hot dogs free of added nitrites. “We wouldn’t be able to survive without them,” Deanna Crocker said of their state-inspected processor. v

City View

The healthy beneits of parks and recreation

Hood is director of Columbia’s Parks and

Recreation Department.

Mike Hood

Since 1985, America has celebrated July as the nation’s oficial Park and Recreation Month. The National Recreation and Parks Association set this year’s theme as “Celebrate, Advocate, Recreate!”

As our local parks, trails, facilities and recre-ation programs are in full swing this summer, it’s a good time to relect on how parks and rec-reation impacts our health and quality of life.

Studies have shown that parks and recre-ation play an important part in the health of a community. In 2009, the Columbia/Boone County Department of Public Health and Human Services conducted a healthy lifestyle survey in collaboration with the University of Missouri Boone County Extension Healthy Lifestyle Initiative. Sixty-three percent of local respondents cited using physical exercise as a way to improve their health. About 41 percent of local respondents named parks and trails as a motivator to help them become more active.

Columbia’s Parks and Recreation Department strives to do just that. Our mission statement includes the goal of improving our “commu-nity’s health … by providing outstanding parks, trails, recreational facilities and leisure opportu-nities for all Columbia citizens.”

We offer the community 66 parks, 38 miles of trails, the Activity and Recreation Center, along with other recreational facilities and a

variety of recreation programs intended to pro-mote healthy lifestyles while having fun. Many of these programs are low-cost or free and are geared toward all ages and abilities.

It’s been found that 70 percent of all med-ical costs are due to lifestyle practices such as physical activity, diet, weight management and coping with stress. These are all factors that Parks and Recreation helps address by promoting healthy programs designed to get people active. Activities range from organized sports teams to itness classes at the ARC to leisurely strolls on a trail.

During the past year, more than 900 youth and adult teams participated in sports leagues offered or co-sponsored by the department. Our young athletes in particular learn the importance of physical activity and healthy habits that will beneit them throughout their lives. Youth can also get active through pro-grams such as the Camp Adventure summer day camp, the Active Kids Club, youth itness programs at the ARC, the Blue Thunder Track Club or golf lessons.

For those who prefer other activities, Columbia’s parks, trails, aquatic facilities and playgrounds offer unstructured places to exercise and play. Did you know that research shows that parks with a paved or unpaved trail or wooded area are seven times more likely to

be used for physical activity than parks without a trail? As we plan our facilities, we try to adhere to standards for outdoor park facilities set by the Missouri Department of Natural Resources and outlined in our Parks, Recreation and Open Space Master Plan. These standards include a recommended amount of trail mileage to aptly serve our population.

Our master plan also identiies the need for neighborhood parks. It’s our goal for all Columbia residents to be within a half-mile of a park or recreation facility so they can easily walk to it. Neighborhood parks typically fea-ture a playground, picnic shelter, basketball court, open space play ield and an exercise trail. Studies have shown that children with a playground within a half-mile of their home are ive times more likely to be a healthy weight than those without.

Our 2010 citizen survey revealed that 87 percent of Columbia households have visited a city-owned park in the past year, which is well above the national average of 72 percent. As a Parks and Recreation Department, we are pleased to serve such an active community. In recognition of National Parks and Recreation Month, we invite you to join us to celebrate the ield, advocate for support, and get out there and recreate! v

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By David Reed

MU biophysics professor Gabor Forgacs is back in his lab after launching a company to commercialize his invention for three-dimensional human tissue printing, Organovo.

Professor Kevin Keegan is teaching horse surgery at the veterinary hospital again after taking a year away to run Equinosis, a company that sells his technology to evaluate lameness in horses and was inanced in part by Columbia’s Centennial Investors.

Anthony Harris has returned to surgical residency after working with biodesign and innovation fellow Rebecca Rone to invent a laparoscopic hand tool and start a company commercializing the device, Adroit Motion.

All three companies are tenants in the MU Life Sciences Business Incubator and illustrate the univer-sity’s recent success in moving inventions from the labs to the marketplace.

Financial support for faculty researchers, patent disclosures and licensing income have surged to record levels since Rob Duncan became MU’s vice chancellor for research two years ago.

New invention disclosures, for example, jumped from 77 in 2008 to 106 in 2009, and the biodesign team led by Harris and Rone was responsible for 15 of them.

The success in commercializing research, Duncan said, resulted from “literally thousands of very cre-ative people pulling on the rope in the same direction. It’s great that so many people in the community are engaged and encouraging this; it will allow innova-tions and inventions from the university to come to market much more rapidly.”

MU administrators, inventors and community leaders came together for a CBT Power Lunch on June 21 to talk about what more can be done to help turn good ideas into successful startups and perhaps meet President Gary Forsee’s goal of reaching $50 million in annual licensing income.

“There might be synergies and opportunities we haven’t yet explored,” Duncan said.

One of Duncan’s early decisions was to hire a technology transfer director to modernize the process

POWER LUNCH | TECH TRAnSFER

POWER LUNCH PARTICIPANTS

PRESENTER: Rob Duncan; MU Vice Chancellor for ResearchPARTICIPANTS:Andrew Beverley; President, Landmark Bank;Chairman, Centennial InvestorsMike Brooks; President, Regional Economic Development Inc.Curt Davis; Director, MU Geospatial Intelligence CenterSteve Erdel; President, Boone County National Bank; Member, MU Economic Development

CouncilChris Fender; Director, MU Ofice of Technology ManagementJim Gann; Director, Technology Business Development, Small Business Technology Development Center Jake Halliday; President & CEO, Missouri Innovation Center, MU Business Incubator David Keller; President, Bank of Missouri; Member, MU Economic Development CouncilDon Laird; President, Columbia Chamber of

CommerceTeresa Maledy; President, Commerce Bank; Member, MU Economic Development CabinetRebecca Rone; MU Biodesign Fellow, Startup DeveloperSteve Wyatt; MU Vice Provost for Economic DevelopmentTHE CALLAWAY BANK:Gary Meyerpeter; President, Boone Co. MarketKim Barnes; Chief Operations Oficer

Duncan leads high-tech culture change

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MU Vice Chancellor Rob Duncan and Landmark Bank President Andrew Beverley discuss commercializing research and recent developments such as the Club Innovation for Missouri Business, which links students who want to commercialize products with local researchers and entrepreneurs.

Mike Brooks, Columbia's economic development director.

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of transforming promising concepts into marketable products.

Some of the developments since then:• In February, Duncan created the Club Innovation

for Missouri Business to link students who want to commercialize products with researchers and estab-lished local entrepreneurs.

• In May, MU revamped its intellectual property rules for undergraduates after a School of Journalism student developed an i-Phone application for real estate that spawned other inventions.

• Centennial Investors, created by the Columbia Chamber of Commerce to nurture local entrepreneurs who need startup capital and mentoring, has put $1.7 million into eight companies.

• The Business Incubator now has a dozen tenants and expects to be full by the end of the year.

• The city announced that it wants to move the economic development ofice into ground-loor space at a downtown parking garage when construction is inished and turn some of the remaining space into a business incubator for students and recent gradu-ates in collaboration with MU’s Small Business and Technology Development Center.

But Rone and Curt Davis, another startup developer from MU, said during the forum that the university needs to improve the technology transfer process so faculty members can launch their companies faster.

“The university policies and procedures can be improved substantially in order to encourage faculty startups,” Davis said. “It’s a very disjointed process,

in my opinion, based on my personal experience. I’ve talked with a lot of other faculty, and they believe it’s a dificult and cumbersome process as well.”

Galen Suppes, a chemical engineering professor, is still ighting with MU in court for the ownership rights to his discoveries, including a process that converts a

byproduct of biodiesel into environmentally friendly antifreeze. Suppes told IP Advocate early last year that the MU tech transfer program was “totally broken and basically beyond repair.”

Another critic of the tech transfer process is Jeffrey Phillips, a professor in the MU School of Medicine who

From left, Rebecca Rone, David Keller, Jake Halliday, Dave Baugher, Kim Barnes, Gary Meyerpeter and Steve Wyatt.

MU estimates that the $481 million in eco-nomic activity generated last year through its research is roughly equivalent to 20 com-panies with revenues of $12 million each.

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invented an acid relux drug called Zegerid that is the university’s largest royalty earner.

Suppes told the Tribune recently that had the tech transfer reforms been in place when he was going through the process, his dispute would have been avoided. But he also said the university demands too much from faculty members who want to commer-cialize their discoveries.

Duncan said tech transfer “didn’t have leadership” when he arrived in fall 2008.

“It wasn’t that the university didn’t want to move into this; it frankly didn’t know how,” he said. “They had so many ofices that worked in different busi-ness environments. It was critical to get those ofices working together closely.”

Duncan hired Chris Fender to direct the Ofice of Technology Management, and Fender is about to hire his ifth staff member. The ofice, which Duncan said is funded entirely by revenue generated from tech-nology licensing, helps faculty identify, assess, protect and market commercially viable intellectual property.

The number of deals closed jumped from a half dozen to 27 in 2008 and 31 in 2009, Duncan said.

A federal act passed in 1980 allows universities to control inventions and other intellectual property that resulted from research funded by the federal govern-ment and to license the inventions to other parties.

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In 2009, licensing income revenue at MU reached $10 million, up from about $6 mil-lion in 2008. Research spending increased 11 percent from the previous year to $543 million. The number of patent applications iled rose from 49 to 68, and new invention disclosures jumped from 77 to 106.

Rob Duncan hired Chris Fender, far left, soon after coming to MU to direct the Technology Management ofice. Next to him are Don Laird, Steve Erdel, Teresa Maledy and Jim Gann.

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POWER LUNCH | TECH TRAnSFERThe success of a deal often hinges on the

amount of money MU gets for its investment to patent technology and the division of royalties from product sales among inventors, the univer-sity and, in some cases, nonproit or for-proit business incubators.

Jim Gann, director of MU’s Small Business Technology Development Center, said the uni-versity is working on templates for licensing agreements that could streamline the process.

Duncan said university researchers typically don’t have the time or expertise to run the com-panies that are trying to bring their ideas to the market.

Jake Halliday, president and CEO of the MU Business Incubator, said they’ve recently had success in recruiting MBA students from the busi-ness school to run startups after they graduate.

For example, Adroit Motion’s CEO, Xandra Sifuentes, led a team of MU students that came up with a business plan for the company that won a $20,000 NASA prize and two other awards. She was hired after graduating with a master’s in business administration in May.

Steve Wyatt, the MU vice provost for eco-nomic development, said former CEOs from

mid-Missouri or executives looking for a new challenge could also be recruited to run local startups.

Duncan said that though it’s challenging to come up with research breakthroughs, “nothing is more challenging than starting successful com-panies — getting into a market niche, making money, facing people in harsh competition with you and being able to excel. So when faculty think it’s hard to start a company, that’s good because it really is.”

Rone also pointed out that it’s dificult to acquire funding in an academic institution to develop a product with the intention of licensing and commercializing. “This does not it the his-toric academia model of science discoveries from research and publications,” she said.

But Duncan and Andrew Beverley said the culture has improved.

“If we look over the past several years, it’s amazing what the university has been able to do,” Beverley said. “I bet half of us here, four or ive years ago, couldn’t have even deined tech transfer, and here we are talking about some ine tuning. There’s been tremendous progress.” v

Curt Davis, director of MU's Geospatial Intelligence Center, said during the CBT Power Lunch that the university needs to improve the tech transfer process.

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By Sean Spence & David Reed

A local group of angel investors is helping ledgling companies cross what startup devel-oper Rebecca Rone calls “the Valley of Death.”

That’s the chasm that inventors must cross after proving the concept of their product or service works, and they need money to run their companies and build their prototypes.

Since 2007, Centennial Investors has invested $1.7 million in eight companies located in Columbia, said Andrew Beverley, president of Landmark Bank and co-founder of the network of equity investors.

Although angel investor networks some-times specialize in certain industries or in technology-related companies, Centennial has shown itself to be more open-minded while hearing pitches from more than 50 entrepre-neurs in the past three years.

“We have a wide variety of companies that have received equity capital, ranging from a university inventor with a technology that detects lameness in horses all the way to a com-pany that targets newcomers in a marketing program,” Beverley said.

MU researchers formed three of the CI-funded companies, but Equinosis, the irst to get a inancial investment, is the only company in which the university has a formal stake.

Equinosis founder Kevin Keegan, who took a year off to run the company and then returned to his university position, said the company would not have gotten off the ground without Centennial Investors’ support. “We kind of used their monetary support to do some initial work and to apply for grants,” he said.

Beverley said several companies have lever-aged investments from Centennial to acquire other funding. So far, the $1.7 million invested through Centennial Investors has helped attract more than $5 million in additional funding, including investments from angels in other communities, loans and grants.

Several of the CI-funded companies are located at the MU Life Science Business Incubator.

Jake Halliday, president and CEO of the Business Incubator, said during a CBT lunch forum on tech transfer that the pattern “is very clear: Centennial Investors invest in investment-ready deals. Rebecca mentioned the Valley of Death. Unfortunately there often is a gap between the excellence in research at the university and a clear customer product that becomes the nucleus of a venture.”

Halliday said at all of the CI-funded compa-nies, “there was a crying need in the market-place and an appropriate solution being offered as the nucleus of the company — and someone running the company in whom the investors could have conidence that it would move forward.”

Both Beverley and Halliday predicted that the angel investors will see a growing number of investment-ready deals based on MU research.

One reason for that optimism, Halliday said, are programs that match university researchers with MBA students who develop business plans for companies they want to eventually run.

“That matchmaking is one of the most encouraging things I’ve seen in the last three or four years,’ he said.

Centennial was founded in cooperation with the Columbia Chamber of Commerce in con-junction with its 100th anniversary. Chamber President Don Laird continues to be active with the group, but Centennial is a stand-alone organization with 51 dues-paying members. All members are required to be “accredited inves-tors” as deined by the Securities and Exchange Commission, which means having a net worth exceeding $1 million or annual income exceeding $200,000.

Co-founder John Thompson said: “We tell people that they are going to have to invest in eight or 10 deals to see a pay-off, and in the meantime they are going to see and learn a lot of interesting things. I think we’re having a hell of a lot of fun.” v

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This machine compacts biomass materials into energy tablets.

A Columbia company has built a compacting machine that transforms corn cobs, corn stalks and other plant material into dense tablets that look like big hockey pucks and burn like coal.

Ecologic Tech is an intellectual property licensing irm with seven employees located in an industrial building on McGuire Boulevard, around the corner from the future home of IBM.

Ecologic Tech specializes in building proto-types, and its work is based on the research of civil engineer Henry Liu, who retired from MU in 2000 and died in a car crash last December.

The use of biomass as an alternative energy source has grown rapidly, but most biomass materials such as switch grass or corn are bulky when collected, costly to handle, store and transport.

Ecologic Tech has built a small, electrically powered machine that compresses biomass into tablets without having to use heat or a binder, said Jesse VanEngelenhoven, Ecologic Tech’s research director. The irm has been funded by two $100,000 grants from the federal depart-ments of agriculture and energy.

The prototype now being tested at the MU Bradford Farm Research and Extension Center produces tablets about six inches across and an inch and a half thick. It’s capable of processing a few hundred pounds of biomass per hour.

VanEngelenhoven said the company expects to ind out within a month whether it has won a second Department of Energy grant that would fund the construction of a commercial-sized tablet-making machine capable of processing two to three tons of biomass per hour.

The tablets could be mixed with coal to pro-vide fuel for turbines that generate electricity or used on their own to heat buildings. The primary markets would be power plants and

ethanol plants, and the machines or the rights to build the machines would be licensed by Ecologic Tech.

The key to producing the tablets is obtaining a ‘happy spot” where the tablet is dense enough to hold together and durable, yet loose enough for air to enter when placed in a ire, VanEngelenhoven said.

Ideally, biomass material could be bought from local farmers turning the biomass waste into useable energy form. “All the waste that farmers would normally throw away could be brought to a central processing center, com-pacted and then sold as a value-added product,” he said.

“This would open markets for local agricul-tural products,” said Tim Reinbott, Bradford Farm supervisor. “This could directly affect Missouri farmers.”

“With these bulk materials, transportation is expensive,” Reinbott said. “You want some-thing that is within a 25- to 30-mile radius to be economical. If you had a machine that could be mobile, then you could condense the biomass onsite.”

Liu’s initial goal was to develop underground pipe transit to ship coal after it had been com-pacted into condensed logs, and the company was originally called Freight Pipeline Company. While researching that technology, Liu managed to translate the compacting process into the pro-duction of bricks made of the ash left over from burning coal.

Liu, familiar with ly ash from his work at the university’s coal-ired power plant, began researching and developing the irst ly ash brick. The company has since licensed the brick-making technology to CalStar Products, which launched early this year. v

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Richard King creates harmony through musical relationshipsBy Jeremy Essig

The Blue Note, though known for building up bands, also holds a notorious place in alternative music history as the spot where an influential band self-destructed.

Minnesota’s Husker Du, touring in support of 1987’s Warehouse: Songs and Stories, played their final show at The Blue Note. Drummer Grant Hart performed after missing the sound check and then disappeared.

“There was something weird going on; I could feel it the whole day,” King said.

Although the history of The Blue Note is filled with countless examples of bands the club featured before they hit it big, King said he has also passed on artists that would eventually become stars. The most noticeable example involves Missouri native Sheryl Crow.

While attending the University of Missouri in the early 1980s, Crow sent The Blue Note a demo tape of her band, a cassette Costello listened to and then promptly threw across the office.

“We had the too-cool-for-school attitude at the time,” King said, adding that Crow’s band was not the type they would have booked during that period.

Years later, when booking Crow at the Hearnes Center, King said he discussed the demo tape with the Grammy Award winner.

Upon meeting King, Crow told him she was a friend of Costello, now a manager in Los Angeles. The discussion then turned to Crow’s desire to play The Blue Note.

“I said it was Phil’s fault,” King said laughing, adding that Crow told him Costello put the blame

on him. “I said, ‘No, it was definitely (Costello).’”

Although The Blue Note might have missed out on Crow, King played an integral role in the development of another regional band — Uncle Tupelo from Belleville, Ill.

Uncle Tupelo, whose members would go on to form the more widely known Wilco and Son Volt, played the club almost once a month in the early ’90s, said Tracy Lane, who worked at The Blue Note back then.

They were “another one of those bands Richard made happen,” Lane said.

King said he remembers an agent calling him and inquiring about Uncle Tupelo, and he recommended, with great enthusiasm, that the agent sign on with the band.

His investment in the young musicians has been repaid. Both Wilco and Son Volt have matched King’s loyalty with their own by continuing to play

in his venue when they could be playing in much larger concert halls in other cities.

“To this day, I still consider Jeff (Tweedy of Wilco), Jay (Faraar of Son Volt) and John Stirratt (of Wilco) friends,” King said.

Although friendly with some of the bigger names in music, King said he doesn’t see his job any different from how it was when the venue opened.

“Our job is still development,” he said. “Anything we can do to help a band.”

King said one of the best parts of his job is finding new bands. He became visibly excited when talking about the new generation of lesser-known bands coming through the club, including Band of Horses, the Local Natives and Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros.

Although he has delegated the majority of booking responsibilities to others in recent years, King said The Blue Note also tries to help out local musicians when possible.

n 1982, Richard King booked a little-known band with a randomly chosen acronym to play at The Blue Note. Both the nightclub and the band, which had just recorded its first album, were 2 years old at the time.

Following an appearance in support of their album Chronic Town, Michael Stipe and the other members of R.E.M. were about to leave Columbia when King’s partner Phil Costello noticed they were about to loose a tire on their van, recalled Kevin Walsh – a longtime friend of both King and Costello.

When it came time to pay them, Costello provided extra money to purchase a new tire for the band, which would go on to become one of the most famous in rock and roll history.

“I can’t see myself at 30,” Stipe sang on “Little America,” the band’s commentary on touring. On July 30, The Blue Note will do just that — turn 30 — and will celebrate the milestone with a concert featuring Snoop Dogg and Ice Cube on Ninth Street outside the concert hall.

How is King able to bring hip-hop royalty to Columbia? He does it the same way he was able to book country kings such as Johnny Cash, blues legends such as Buddy Guy and Koko Taylor and rockers from Chuck Berry to Megadeth.

The key, Walsh said, is King’s ability to build relationships in the music industry, as he illustrated by purchasing up-and-coming band R.E.M. the necessary equipment to continue touring. The trait helps him bring in performers that similar clubs couldn’t get.

Although the venue will celebrate its birthday with a famous lineup, The Blue Note made its bones bringing Columbia acts that had not yet broken into the public consciousness.

“We weren’t very mainstream at all,” King said of The Blue Note’s early bookings.

In the club’s early days, King and Costello spent hours at local record stores and discovered new bands by trading music back and forth with Walsh, King’s friend from Pennsylvania who came for a visit and ended up working at Streetside Records for 25 years.

King, who also was just planning to visit Columbia while on his way to California, excelled at becoming friends with both the band members who came through The Blue Note and the managers and agents who represented them. King’s focus might have come from his experiences growing up around Democratic ward politics as a youth in Pennsylvania, Walsh said: “Relationships existed wherever you went.”

King managed to bring some of the most influential bands of the ’80s’ and early ’90s’ underground scene to Columbia, including The Replacements, The Pixies and the Red Hot Chili Peppers.

King said he keeps a ceiling tile signed by the Chili Peppers on display in his office. The band came though The Blue Note during a notorious tour in which they would wear nothing more than tube socks during parts of the show.

The performance “scared the [crap] out of me,” King said due to the raucous nature of the performance and the fact that the club did not have security measures such as barricades around the stage at the time. (continued on Page 16)

Although the history of The Blue Note is illed with countless examples of bands the club featured before they hit it big, King said

he has also passed on artists that would eventually become stars.

on him. “I said, ‘No, it was definitely (Costello).’”

Although The Blue Note might have missed out on Crow, King played an integral role in the development of another regional band — Uncle Tupelo from Belleville, Ill.

Uncle Tupelo, whose members would go on to form the more widely known Wilco and Son Volt, played the club almost once a month in the early ’90s, said Tracy Lane, who worked at The Blue Note back then.

They were “another one of those bands Richard made happen,” Lane said.

King said he remembers an agent calling him and inquiring about Uncle Tupelo, and he recommended, with great enthusiasm, that the agent sign on with the band.

His investment in the young musicians has been repaid. Both Wilco and Son Volt have matched King’s loyalty with their own by continuing to play

in his venue when they could be playing in much larger concert halls in other cities.

“To this day, I still consider Jeff (Tweedy of Wilco), Jay (Faraar of Son Volt) and John Stirratt (of Wilco) friends,” King said.

Although friendly with some of the bigger names in music, King said he doesn’t see his job any different from how it was when the venue opened.

“Our job is still development,” he said. “Anything we can do to help a band.”

King said one of the best parts of his job is finding new bands. He became visibly excited when talking about the new generation of lesser-known bands coming through the club, including Band of Horses, the Local Natives and Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros.

Although he has delegated the majority of booking responsibilities to others in recent years, King said The Blue Note also tries to help out local musicians when possible.

Richard King has expanded his reach beyond The Blue Note to bring live music to Columbia. King

is a co-founder and booker for the annual Roots 'N Blues 'N BBQ Festival, which during the past

three years has brought artists such as Taj Mahal and Buddy Guy to Columbia. He also created

Summerfest, an annual music series held on Ninth Street that this year kicked off with Willie

Nelson and will feature the Old 97’s among others, and the Blue Moon series at Forest Rose Park

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“If we can get anyone locally, regionally on a bill, that’s our No. 1 goal,” he said.

One beneficiary of this goal is a Columbia band called The Foundry Field Recordings, which has had the opportunity to open for national acts such as Spoon and Deerhoof, according to singer Billy Schuh.

“I can’t stress enough the importance of someone like Richard King owning and operating a venue in Columbia,” Schuh said.

And members of the Columbia community provide King with what he said is one of his greatest joys: hearing them talk about their special nights at The Blue Note.

“It just takes one or two comments from people mentioning they saw some band, and I’m like... ‘Well tell me the story,’” King said.

Barry Hibdon, a local musician whose band The Record Collector will play as part of The Blue Note’s 30th anniversary celebration, remembers the early days of The Blue Note.

“I went to high school in Jeff City, and The Blue Note was an oasis where we could go and see these bands," Hibdon said.

At the time, he said, the only way to find out about new music was through small

fanzines and word of mouth. The Blue Note provided Hibdon and his friends a place to experience the music firsthand.

“It was really important in our formative years,” he said.

Hibdon said one of his fondest memories of the venue was an appearance by Joe Strummer of The Clash. He credited King’s relationship-building prowess as the reason the former Clash front man included a Columbia stop on a tour that mostly featured larger cities such as New York and Los Angeles.

Like King’s other relationships, there is no doubt that what he has received from the city he has given back. People are fortunate, Lane said, to have the opportunity to see the incredible bands King has brought to The Blue Note.

King’s most important relationship might be the one he has established with the city of Columbia. King said he’s proud to have put down local roots during the past 30 years.

“I really like this city, and I’ve said that from day one,” King said. “I like living here, I like the whole community, so for me it’s like, wow, I get to do this in Columbia.” H

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Although The Blue Note has been importing some of the biggest names in music to Columbia, the city has proven that it can export talent as well.

The White Rabbits, for example, were formed in Columbia in 2004 and since that time have released two albums on Say Hey Records and toured nation-ally and internationally. The band, now based in Brooklyn, returned to Columbia for the ilming of its irst music video.

In addition, a number of artists who performed at last year’s Roots ‘N Blues ‘N BBQ Festival call Columbia home, including Deke Dickerson and mem-bers of Steeldrivers and Chump Change.

Billy Schuh, lead singer for local band The Foundry Field Recordings, said three elements of the city make it an ideal place for starting a band: a low cost of liv-ing, a supportive community and a central location that makes it feasible to tour on either coast.

Schuh, who is also the co-owner of Emergency Umbrella Records, described the Columbia music scene as “transitionary.”

“There is an ebb and low to Columbia’s music scene,” Schuh said. “Five or six years ago, there were seven or eight bands that were really dedicated. … Right now we have a handful but many more new bands.”

Although new bands regenerate the music com-munity, KOPN radio host Kevin Walsh, a mainstay of the local music scene since the early ’80s, said he’s found excitement in the return of veteran musicians to Columbia stages.

Some musicians who were active in years past are inding more time to play music now that their chil-dren have grown, Walsh said.

“The best thing that’s happened to the Columbia music scene (has been) getting the kids out of the house and getting the band back together,” he said.

The key for the local music scene, he said, is con-necting musicians from different generations. “There has always been a consistent musical tradition in Columbia,” he said.

Walsh and local musician Barry Hibdon said Columbia has a reputation for nurturing musicians who write their own songs.

When local musician Wes Wingate was attempting to secure the rights to put together a Bob Dylan tribute album, he contacted one of Dylan’s lawyers. As Walsh recalled, the lawyer told Wingate that when the music legend heard of the project, he said: “Missouri? They make their own music there, don’t they?”

Hibdon, who has lived in Columbia more than 20 years, said, “Young musicians doing something fresh, you can always ind that in this town.” But he said music fans are paying less attention now than they were in years past.

Although events such as the Roots ‘N Blues ‘N BBQ Festival might be packed, Hibdon said he believes fewer people are paying to see music on a club level.

“You have to push a little harder to get that atten-tion together,” Hibdon said.

The Blue Note and Mojo’s booker Peter McDevitt described the local music scene as thriving. Columbia’s student population allows for bands to develop a fan

base while still going through their “growing pains,” he said.

McDevitt also said that he tries to be as supportive of local bands as possible when booking openers for headline acts in the two venues.

“By opening for touring bands that are coming to The Blue Note or Mojo's, local bands get the oppor-tunity to network with bands that might have a little more experience than they have,” he said. “It certainly never hurts a band to establish a friendship with a band that is based out of a different city.”

And local musicians, according to Schuh, relish the opportunity The Blue Note provides.

“To have that in your hometown... really helps out the local scene,” he said of the club and the im-portance McDevitt and owner Richard King place on helping local talent.

The advent of blogs and social networking have provided the local scene in cities such as Columbia with exposure they might not have found in years past.

The Internet allows bands to “spread like wildire,” McDevitt said.

Hibdon said that when his band Ditch Witch toured with record label support in the late ’90s, it was reach-ing the end of an era. The model of a label taking the time to develop a band is over, he said, and has been replaced by music blogs, a medium that he said has almost as much power in publicizing a band as radio or traditional music press.

“I sort of feel like if you can’t do it from here, you’re probably not going to do it from anywhere else ei-ther,” he said. v

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Local movie rental shop outlasting big boys ByPaul Weber

Customers inside Ninth Street Video linger in front of the movie racks, talk with one another and ask the cashier for recommendations. Some come from the adjoining Ragtag Cinema and Uprise Bakery with movies on the mind.

Owner Janet Marsh said the casual, open environment and discern-ing service distinguishes her shop from other movie rental stores.

“It’s like a cocktail party without any liquor,” Marsh said. “And 99 percent of the time, the topic of conversation is movies.”

The locally owned business has been recommending and renting movies to Columbians since 1992, and Marsh said the number of em-ployees and revenue have been steady through the past 18 years despite growing competition and a move from Ninth Street.

The other movie rental stores in Columbia, outlets of retail giants Blockbuster, Movie Gallery and Hollywood Video, are getting driven out of business as Netlix DVD rentals by mail, Redbox $1-per-day DVD dispensers and home movies-on-demand grow in popularity.

But the small, service-based model with roots from Al’s Video and Columbia Photo has thrived locally.

Ninth Street Video took over the location of Al’s Video at 25 S. Ninth St., where Mustard Seed Fair Trade now operates. Al’s Video, an eclec-tic operation, liquidated its inventory and closed, though the store was still outitted with shelves for DVDs and VHS tapes. Shortly thereafter, Columbia Photo chose to move into the computer market and sold its inventory of rental movies to Marsh and partner Sally Beattie.

Marsh said Columbia had been left without a place to rent interesting movies. “We were fulilling a community entertainment need,” she said.

ABOVE: Ninth Street Video on Hitt Street rents more than 7,900 DVDs.LEFT: Owner Janet Marsh talks with a customer about movie choices.

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As Ninth Street Video moved to its new loca-tion on Hitt Street just south of Broadway, mas-sive rental companies were beginning to collapse with the introduction of savvy new competitors.

Movie Gallery Inc., the operator of Hollywood Video and Movie Gallery video rental stores, announced in May that it intended to close its stores nationwide and liquidate its assets.

Movie Gallery closed its location at the Village of Cherry Hill in south Columbia in May and is preparing to close its other corporate-owned store on Rainforest Parkway in north Columbia. Over the holiday weekend, Hollywood Video on the eastern end of Broadway, another corporate-owned outlet, was advertising a going-out-of-business sale, with discounts of up to 70 percent off DVD purchases.

Blockbuster has two franchise operations in Columbia owned by a Kansas irm: one at 3305 Clark Lane and another at 3910 Peachtree Drive. The company lost $65.4 million during the irst three months of 2010 and is seeking $150 million in inancial investments to avoid having to ile for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, according to an Associated Press report.

New innovations in distribution and technol-ogy might be partially responsible for the down-fall of the movie rental giants.

Netlix burst onto the rental scene in 1997 with an entirely new business model featur-ing an online storefront. For less than $10 each month, its 13 million customers can have an un-limited number of DVDs mailed to their homes and stream Netlix movies from the company website. (New movie discs are mailed to cus-tomers after Netlix receives previously rented movies in postage-paid, company-provided envelopes.)

As luck would have it for Columbians, Netlix has a Columbia distribution center, which means movies can be delivered sometimes as soon as one or two days after ordering.

Another upstart, Redbox, offers hundreds of DVD se-lections in fully automated kiosks at the rate of $1 per movie per day. The chain has more than 24,000 rental kiosks in the US, includ-ing 14 at grocery stores and Walmarts throughout Columbia. Customers need only insert a credit card and choose a movie, much like a soda vending machine. The idea has proven to be a gold-en ticket, with more than 750 million rentals made in the company’s eight-year history.

What these high-tech in-novations lack is precisely

the strong point of Ninth Street Video — a vast selection of vid-eos at hand with sales clerks to physically interact with.

The shop also has a well-maintained Web presence. The site, www.9thstvideo.com, al-lows customers to search its catalog of movies and scan genre-speciic employee picks. Employees regularly update the Ninth Street Video blog and

Facebook pages with new releases, summa-ries and links to movie reviews.

Marsh said the website is popular with the educational community. “Teachers and students use the website a lot to ind movies for classes,” she said.

Marsh says that her store has the largest number of titles in the state. Ninth Street Video’s 7,900 DVDs span every conceivable subject from foreign ilms to documentaries to movies fea-tured at both Ragtag Cinema and Columbia’s True/False Film Festival.

Marsh values having the Ragtag Cinema close by; the two businesses share customers and have forged a kind of symbiotic relation-ship. “It’s kind of like we’re cousins or some-thing,” she said.

Marsh said the same kind of folks who see movies at Ragtag will walk next door to rent from her.

A sign by the cash register, for example, reads: “Please Give, a new comedy from Nicole Holofcener, opens Friday at Ragtag. Check out her other ilms here.”

The founders of Ragtag also run the True/False Film Festival, and Ninth Street has a sepa-rate section of documentaries from the festival.

The store is open 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. Monday through Saturday and from noon to 11 p.m. on Sunday. It costs $3 to rent a newly released DVD for two nights or an older movie for three nights.

Marsh credits the shop’s success to the cus-tomer service she and Beattie and their part-time employees (a steady number of about nine) have been offering since they opened the store.

The staff will recommend movies to custom-ers and chat with them about directors or genres they’ve enjoyed.

“These people watch movies all the time,” she said of her employees. Marsh confessed she’s a movie addict: “I feel kind of weird about it if I don’t have a movie to watch when I get home.” v

ABOVE: Anand Prahland and Eze Pojmann check out videos at Ninth Street Video.LEFT: Caricatures by David Friesen add art and character to the video selection at Ninth Street Video.

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The future of local TVByTim Kridel A CBT Analysis

A few weeks ago, KMIZ launched “ABC 17 News This Week,” a newsmagazine-style program based in Columbia. It might not be a cash cow, but at least it's less vulnerable to some of the new realities of the TV business.

Take retransmission fees, which cable operators, satellite companies and tele-communications companies pay to local stations for the right to retransmit their programming. In 2006, stations earned a collective $215 million, according to SNL Kagan, a research irm that tracks the TV market.

The annual tab was $762 million in 2009 and is on track to hit $1.1 billion this year. Another way of look-ing at this trend is in terms of how much retransmis-sion fees add to a station’s bottom line: In 2009, they were about 4 percent of revenue, and by 2016 they’ll be 10 percent, SNL Kagan estimates.

It's shortsighted to dismiss retransmission as in-dustry minutiae that only TV insiders should care about. Instead, retransmission is an example of some of the trends and issues that will have a ripple effect throughout mid-Missouri, including employee levels and salaries at local stations, local TV’s effectiveness as an advertising vehicle and stations' ability to pro-vide original, local programming.

Time to pay up?Not surprisingly, networks are eyeing burgeoning retransmission fees. At SNL

Kagan's TV and Radio Finance Summit in June, one CBS executive said his network wants its afiliate stations to fork over half of their retransmission fees.

Many industry watchers believe they’ll comply. For example, two days before that speech, the investment bank Caris & Co. raised its rating of CBS from average

to above average, partly based on the belief that about 60 percent of CBS afiliates will pony up.

How much would a local station pay? The answer depends on several factors such as market size and the percentage that each network wants. Take Macon, Ga., the No. 122 TV market in terms of size. (Columbia-Jefferson City is No. 137.) One station there dropped its ABC afiliation after the network requested an annual fee of about $500,000.

Of course, not every station is willing to go independent.

“I do believe that most broadcasters think the next round of afiliation contracts will include some type of retransmission fee sharing, revenue comp, etc.,” said Randy Wright, who was general manag-er of KMIZ and its three sister stations until April, when the University of Florida named him execu-tive director of its division of multimedia properties.

Wright’s successor, Gene Steinberg, said he sees a possible upside to the retransmission debate, particularly for broadcasters that aren’t owned by a large national conglomerate that has the clout to negotiate big retransmission fees from cable and satellite providers. Those small-group or individu-ally owned stations could have the network negoti-

ate on their behalf, with the network’s cable channels — such as ESPN in the case of ABC — thrown in for more bargaining leverage.

If that strategy pays off in the form of a higher retransmission fee than the sta-tion could have negotiated by itself, then Steinberg would be willing to share a bigger portion of that fee.

The end of affiliates?The retransmission question has a corollary: Why don’t networks simply phase

out their afiliate relationships and go straight to viewers?

Wright’s successor, Gene Steinberg,

said he sees a possible upside to the

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broadcasters that aren’t owned by a large

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"People ask, ‘Why not break the bond with the afiliates and go directly to cable?’” CBS CEO Les Moonves said in December 2008. “It is something that down the road could happen."

It’s an option that becomes more viable as more households sign up for cable, satellite or telco TV. Estimates vary, but most say that less than 14 percent of US households are completely over-the-air, meaning all of their TVs rely on an antenna.

That percentage could dwindle even more if a Federal Communications Commission proposal is enacted. The FCC wants to reclaim some frequencies licensed to TV stations to free up spectrum for broadband wireless services. Under the proposal, households that lose broadcast service as a result would be eligible for free cable TV for life.

The FCC proposal is part of its National Broadband Plan, which aims to make high-speed Internet service available to every home. If that goal is achieved, it would bolster a second option for networks to reduce their reliance on local afiliate stations: providing their programming over the Internet.

Case in point: Hulu, the Internet video service that features programming from ABC, NBC and Fox, which co-own Hulu. In April 2010, US consumers watched 958 million videos on Hulu, accord-ing to comScore, a research irm.

Besides networks, local TV stations also rely on syndicated programming, but much of that is also available directly to viewers on the Web. Granted, they might tune into their local station if they want to see the entire episode of, say, The Oprah Winfrey Show, but if all they want is the Cameron Diaz interview, that’s available on demand at www.oprah.com/media.html.

The more the TV audience fragments, the fewer eyeballs each station or programmer can attract. That can make them less attractive to advertisers seeking to reach as many people as possible — a marked change from what the trio of KMIZ, KQFX and KZOU delivered in the May prime time ratings.

"Over 100 choices, and 24 percent of people were watching us," Steinberg said. "That’s an impor-tant piece of the puzzle that we bring.”

The local angleThat viewership also funds local news and other original programming. Yet during the past few

decades, TV stations have — with the exception of news — scaled back their original, local program-ming in favor of syndicated shows. That trend makes them vulnerable if syndicators, networks or both go straight to viewers via cable or the Web.

“Those stations that are cutting back on locally originated programming and going with less ex-pensive syndicated fare are setting themselves up for a hard fall in the future," Wright said. "While I do believe that the syndication model can survive, in the future it's going to be tougher and tougher for stations to be able to afford ever-growing syndication fees as audiences become more and more fragmented.” Local, original programming doesn’t come cheap, but some stations are biting the bul-let for reasons that include community service or a desire to give viewers something they can’t get anywhere else. One example is ABC 17 News This Week.

“I just thought it was the right thing to do to continue and fulill our news brand,” Steinberg said. “There are some things you can’t do in a minute-and-a-half story in the newscast.

“Would we make more money if we did something else? In that particular case, the honest an-swer is yes, but I still think it’s the right thing to do.” v

KOMU expands news programmingKOMU 8 News has started airing a 9 p.m. newscast and an extended edition of KOMU 8

News Today. Both are running Monday through Friday.KOMU’s 9 p.m. newscast, launched last Monday, will compete with KMIZ’s 9 p.m. news-

cast on Fox 22/KQFX. Jim Riek and Angie Bailey will anchor KOMU 8 News at Nine, and Megan Murphy and

Chance Seales will anchor the extra half hour of KOMU 8 News Today. The program, which previously ended at 7 a.m., now runs from 4:30-7:30 a.m. On July 1, Seales replaced Lauren Whitney, who left the station to pursue another career opportunity, according to a KOMU news release.

KOMU 8 General Manager Marty Siddall said the newscasts will feature live, in-depth cov-erage of overnight and breaking news, investigative reporting and weather forecasts.

News Director Stacey Woelfel said the TV station created the additional news programming “to bring our viewers the highest quality news coverage at more times to it their schedules.”

KOMU 8 is a self-funded auxiliary enterprise of the University of Missouri. The station serves a dual purpose within the community. KOMU 8 provides the public with news and entertainment programming while also serving as an educational institution for MU students. The KOMU 8 newsroom is the only one of its kind to also serve as a teaching lab, according to the station’s news release. At KOMU 8, students attending the Missouri School of Journalism are given the unique opportunity to work alongside professional journalists in a real-life news-room. v

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Buffalo Wild Wings will move next month from Peachtree Drive in the shopping center at Providence Road and Nifong Boulevard to a renovated space across the intersection in the Rock Bridge Shopping Center. The restaurant will be in the southern end of the building that once housed Nowell’s supermarket.

The renovation by Knoebel Construction started in mid-June and is scheduled to be inished in mid- or late August.

The local franchise of the Minnesota-based restaurant chain is owned by a St. Louis company, A Sure Wing LLC. The restaurant is downsizing — from 6,300 square feet to 5,100 square feet — but spokeswoman Christina Boehm said the new location is better.

“We really want to be able to be seen,” Boehm said. “We were kind of hidden on Peachtree Drive, and we feel that the new location has better visibility.”

The sports-themed restaurant will carry more than 20 draft beers and 18 variations of chicken wings and will have 40 lat-screen, high-deinition televisions and at least ive projectors.

Buffalo Wild Wings will continue to host the MU sports show Tiger Talk at the new location, Boehm said.

“We hope to capture the local sports fan and be the home for MU sports,” she said.The Peachtree Drive restaurant will close on a Tuesday in August, and the new restaurant will

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New business licencesissued by the city in June

General Business LicensesAccelerated Wealth ColumbiaFrederickW.Ingram573-489-15431000Building1W.NifongBlvd.InsuranceandFinancialStrategies

Casey’s Fitness LCCCaseyWarrenMiller573-406-87914580OaklandGravelRoadPersonalFitnessTraining

Hager’s Custom Glass LCCDannyHager573-442-19791403GrandAvenueAutomotiveGlass-Retail

Hunsaker Smokers LLCDarrylMarkHunsaker573-443-61172511ParisRoadSuiteCManufactureSmokers

JR ConstructionJamesC.Barber573-447-2222300St.JamesSt.GeneralContractor

Pagano’s Italian IceJohnPagano573-864-39122009W.WorleySt.MobileItalianIceCart

Payday Cash ConnectionMichaelWankum573-875-23001410I-70DriveS.W.Suite106-2PaydayLoanCompany

Wheelchair Personalities LLCSharonK.Paulsell573-424-14864603JohnGarryDriveSuite8CustomWheelchairCovers/Accessories

Wireless View PCS LLC1105GrindstoneParkwaySuite103RetailCellPhones

Creve Coeur Camera Inc.StephenWeiss111S.NinthSt.Suite140RetailPhotography(FormerlyColumbiaPhoto)

Noumenon Print Studio/GalleryKendraMarieBaxter573-441-030023N.10thSt.ArtGallery

Serenity Therapeutic MassageJohannaM.Givens573-442-8511908E.WalnutSt.MassageTherapy

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What: The MERS-Goodwill store is moving from 507 E. Nifong in the Rock Bridge Shopping Center to a new building at 1405 Grindstone Parkway behind Taco Bueno.

Contractor: Coil Construction Inc.Status: Work began in March and is expected to be inished by Aug. 31. The store’s opening cer-

emony will be sometime in September.Why: “The Goodwill corporation wanted a little more exposure and decided to move forward

with a stand-alone building,” said Terry Bruns, the project manager.The new building, with 15,000 square feet of retail space, is larger than the current location and is

at the edge of a shopping center anchored by Walmart. There will be a drive-up center with a canopy where donations can be dropped off during business hours.

“We are excited about the opportunity to move into the Walmart area,” said David Kutchback, the assistant CEO at Goodwill. “It will be a bigger building than our last one, giving us the opportunity to have more items in the store for our customers.”

Goodwill sells donated goods at more than 166 independent, community-based stores in the US and Canada. Goodwill offers job training and jobs to people who have disabilities or face other em-ployment challenges such as lack of education or employment experience. v

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Little dixie Construction Co.2801LeMoneIndustrial$10,000,000CommercialalterationsnonresidentialWelek Construction Company Inc.6202Overbrook$800,000Newsingle-familydetachedBright Star Academy4300RainbowTrout$780,000NewcommercialschoolsandotherHercon Construction3710CrossTimber$665,000Newsingle-familydetachedCMCA1004NSeventhSt.$500,000NewcommercialhospitalsRobert Conrad Builders Inc.1000W.Worley$400,000Newcommercialothernonresidential

Tompkins Home1400SaddleBag$355,616Newsingle-familydetachedFairway Meadows Corporation6502RipplingWater$330,000Newsingle-familydetachedBeacon Street Properties LLC5103Henwich$330,000Newsingle-familydetachedSmith Building Company5615Dunmeyer$300,000Newsingle-familydetachedHercon Construction5803CoralRidge$291,000Newsingle-familydetachedVirginia Kristin Matthieu27S.10th$286,946CommercialalterationsnonresidentialJC Penney2301W.Worley$258,321CommercialalterationsnonresidentialMorton Buildings Inc.3600W.VawterSchool$225,000Residentialauction

Tom darrough Construction LLC2901Crestwood$200,000ResidentialalterationrepairGrove Construction901E.Nifong$180,000CommercialalterationsnonresidentialPate-Jones Construction Inc.2700GreenValley$175,000Newsingle-familyattachedParagon Builders Inc.3908FoxCreek$175,000ResidentialadditionTompkins Home1303LeaVerde$170,000Newsingle-familydetachedBeacon Street Properties LLC4502Orrine$151,000Newsingle-familydetachedProfessional Contractors2000Bernadette$150,000Commercialalterationsnonresidential

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PUBLIC RECORdDeeds of trust $200,000+ iled in Boone County the last week in June

$1,175,000 VANDIVER 1500 LLCHAWTHORN BANKLT 4 CURTIS ROLLINS SUB BLOCK 2 THE

$752,000 ADVANCED HOSPITALITY LLCENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT CORPLT 4B KEENE ESTATES LT4 FF W/ESMT

$532,000 MCGAUGHEY, JEFFREY M & SIOBHANLANDMARK BANKLT 200 OLD HAWTHORNE PLAT NO. 2

$417,000 KERLEY, MONTY S & KELLI AMID AMERICA MORTGAGE SERVICES INC.STR 18-48-13 /W/NW SUR BK/PG: 3088/73 FF TRACT 2A

$417,000 WHITED, JOHN D & KEPLINGER, LYNN ELANDMARK BANKLT 450 THORNBROOK PLAT NO. 13

$374,000 KELLY, CURT R & PEGGY JU S BANKLT 21 PT COUNTRY CLUB ESTATES

$369,930 GRAY, BRIAN A & BRANDY NICOLECITIMORTGAGE INC.LT 482 THORNBROOK PLAT NO. 13

$356,000 BLUE, CHRISTOPHER & LILLIANBOONE COUNTY NATIONAL BANKLT 15 HARPERS POINTE BLK 2

$310,000 COLLIER, JAMES C JR & DANA DFLAT BRANCH MORTGAGE INCLT 20 GRASSLANDS SUB BLK15

$303,200 REYES, MARCOS & RAINA MBOONE COUNTY NATIONAL BANKLT 206 WESTCLIFF PLAT 2

$294,312 WILTSHIRE, KIMBERLY A & JAYPREMIA MORTGAGE LLCLT 108 BELLWOOD PLAT NO. 1

$288,000 DUNSCOMBE, VICKI & TERRY FAMILY TRUSTBOONE COUNTY NATIONAL BANKLT 7-A WOODRAIL SUB PLAT 3

$265,000 GRANT, DOROTHY L & JAMES REVOCABLE TRUST AGREEMENTFCS FINANCIALSTR 18-48-11 //SW AC 169

$255,117 IRELAND, KENNETH M & ELLEN LUS BANKLT 113A MADISON PARK PLAT 5

$240,000 THORNHILL, JASON T & LESLIE GCALLAWAY BANK THELT 131 BELLWOOD PLAT NO. 1

$231,920 NICHOLL, MICHAEL B & LACEYBOONE COUNTY NATIONAL BANKLT 1220 HIGHLANDS PLAT 12-B THE

$222,095 HARRIS, DANIEL T & TAMARA DFLAT BRANCH MORTGAGE INC.LT 22 LAKE CAPRI SUB BLK 2

$219,900 HAYES, KELLY & BOBBIE CALANDROSTATE FARM BANKLT 121 QUAIL CREEK PLAT NO. 2

$216,826 SANDERS, TERRY A & SHARON EUSAA FEDERAL SAVINGS BANKLT 133 THESSALIA SUBDIVISION PLAT 7

$216,000 STEINBECKER, CHRISTINABANK OF AMERICALT 101A VILLAGE OF CHERRY HILL PLAT 1-A THE

$216,000 BOYD, STEPHEN ECOMMERCE BANKLT 46 MONTEREY HILLS PLAT NO. 1

$211,500 KIM, DAE-YOUNG & MUINMISSOURI CREDIT UNIONLT 46 BEDFORD WALK PLAT 2

$210,398 MERRIOTT, ROY & RACHELTMG REAL ESTATE & FINANCIAL SERVICE LLCLT 16 BLUEGRASS SOUTH ESTATES

$208,635 BAKER, THOMAS AJPMORGAN CHASE BANKLT 2 BROADWAY SUB

$208,400 SPRY, DALE L & JACQUIE ACALLAWAY BANK THELT 51 LONGVIEW SUB PLAT 1

$207,000 CROUCH, DENNIS & HENSLEY, SHANNONMISSOURI CREDIT UNIONLT 162 BEDFORD WALK PLAT 6

$202,500 WOOD, J T III & MIRAE CBANCORPSOUTH BANKLT 348 CASCADES PLAT NO. 3 THE

$200,000 SMITH, DAVID K & TAMMERA KBOONE COUNTY NATIONAL BANKLT 181 ROEMER LAKE SUB PLAT 4

$200,000 JOHN C VANSTONE MD P CBOONE COUNTY NATIONAL BANKSTR 8-47-13 //E SUR BK/PG: 479/352 AC 53.724

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31. Peggy Kirkpatrick, director of the Food Bank and John Anderson2. Drew Smith, Chase Daniel, James Samorian, Dr. Scott Hussey and Joe Scogin3. Matt Nivens, Mike Anderson, David Nivens, Travis Schumacher and Tyler Nivens4. Dick Kistner, John Anderson, Chad Moeller, Weyen Burnam and Eric Slater

The inaugural John Anderson Celebrity Golf Invitational, held June 28 at the Country Club of Missouri, raised $30,000 for the Columbia-based Food Bank for Central and Northeast Missouri, organizer Susan McNay said.

Anderson, who anchors ESPN’s “SportsCenter” and co-hosts ABC’s reality show “Wipeout,” is a 1987 graduate of the MU School of Journalism.

About 140 golfers played the course. There were 28 teams with ive members, including one ce-lebrity in each group.

Among the former MU football stars playing in the tournament were Chase Daniel, Corby Jones, Phil Bradley, Mel Gray, Johnny Roland and Gus Otto. Former St. Louis Cardinal great Lou Brock also participated. v

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