Columbia Daily Tribune (Columbia, MO) articles from August 2000

Columbia Daily Tribune (Columbia, MO) archives from August 2000

Columbia Daily Tribune, Mo., Top Drawer Column.
August 31, 2000... Aug. 31--ONWARD & UPWARD: Rich Miller and Terry Wilson have joined Firstar Bank's community bank board in Columbia. Miller serves as a certified insurance counselor with The Insurance Group Inc. Miller received a bachelor's degree in...

Fired Workers from St. Louis, Mo., Minivan Plant Help Habitat for Humanity.
August 31, 2000... Byline: Josh Flory Aug. 31--The shutdown of a St. Louis minivan plant was good news for Columbia's chapter of Habitat for Humanity. Textron Automotive Interiors, a Columbia company that is based in Rhode Island, makes dashboards for...

Wisconsin Woman Organizes Final Antique Show in Columbia, Mo.
August 30, 2000... Byline: Cory de Vera Aug. 30--As dealers from around the country set up booths Thursday for this weekend's 50th Annual Host Lions Club Antique and Collector's Show, the announcer declared a special sale: a set of reference books owned by...

Columbia Daily Tribune, Mo., Street Talk Column.
August 30, 2000... Byline: Andrew Waters Aug. 30--Bill Kundraw is trading his legacy of laundry for a lifestyle of lug nuts. The owner of Mazzu Laundromat and Cleaners, 207 Hitt St., plans to sell his laundry business and open a Tires Plus retail tire...

Online Publishing Companies Give Authors Chance to See Work in Print.
August 30, 2000... Byline: Christopher Leonard Aug. 30--It's an aspiring writer's dream come true, and it could evolve into publishing companies' worst nightmare. It's the new phenomenon of online publishing, the vanity press of the information age. It...

Missouri Hog Farmers, Association Embroiled in Debate over Pork Checkoff.
August 30, 2000... Byline: Christopher Leonard Aug. 30--Politics hardly seems like Don Nikodim's arena. Nikodim's arena is a quiet one, where cedar chips cover the floor beneath the expansive ceiling of the Swine Building at the Missouri State Fair in...

University of Missouri Faculty Discuss Possible Reviews of Tenured Professors.
August 30, 2000... Byline: Brian C. Kaller Aug. 30--A proposed post-tenure review policy for the University of Missouri system would either eliminate academic freedom or protect it, depending on whom you ask. In the next few months, faculty at each of...

Columbia, Mo., Residents Attend Hearing on Proposed Utility Rate Increase.
August 30, 2000... Byline: Christopher Leonard Aug. 30--Columbia residents turned up the heat on AmerenUE last night. About 150 people gathered at a public hearing on the Stephens College campus to give their opinions about Ameren's proposed rate...

Portland, Ore.-Based Timber Company May Abandon Missouri Chip Mill.
August 30, 2000... Byline: Christopher Leonard Aug. 30--Willamette Industries, the timber corporation that owns one of two high-capacity chip mills in Missouri, might abandon its facility here. Scott Freeburn, a senior environmental engineer at...

AT&T Cable Services to Air Spanish-Language TV Station in Columbia, Mo.
August 24, 2000... Byline: Cory de Vera Aug. 24--AT&T Cable Services announced that it will begin airing the Spanish language television station Telemundo on Sept. 20, a response to a petition signed by 5,000 people that was presented to AT&T in May. ...

Columbia Daily Tribune, Mo., Top Drawer Column.
August 24, 2000... Aug. 24--ONWARD & UPWARD: Tonya Veltrop of Columbia is the new director of admission at William Woods University. Veltrop has worked at WWU since 1994 as an admission counselor and has been associate director of admission since 1997. As an...

Club Asks U.S. Senate Candidate to Return Funds From Missouri Hog-Farming Firm.
August 24, 2000... Byline: Josh Flory Aug. 24--In the race's latest squabble over campaign contributions, the local chapter of the Sierra Club called on a U.S. Senate candidate to return donations from Premium Standard Farms. The club's Ozark Chapter...

Columbia, Mo.-Area Panel Denies Housing Proposal Near Park.
August 24, 2000... Byline: Cory de Vera Aug. 24--A standing-room-only crowd packed the Boone County Commission chambers last night as the county Planning and Zoning Commission voted 5-3 against a proposed housing development south of Rock Bridge Memorial...

Fine Possible Over Two Missouri University Reactor Errors.
August 24, 2000... Byline: Josh Flory Aug. 24--The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has found three possible violations of federal rules at the MU Research Reactor and will meet with university administrators next month to discuss the matter. The meeting,...

Columbia, Mo., Council Might Postpone Parking Rate Increase Till February.
August 24, 2000... Byline: Tim Higgins Aug. 24--Downtown customers and merchants might get a temporary reprieve from a scheduled increase in parking fees. Instead of doubling rates this fall as originally planned, city manager Ray Beck is recommending...

Mistakes Could Affect Missouri University Reactor's Relicensing.
August 24, 2000... Byline: Brian C. Kaller Aug. 24--Insufficient employee training contributed to accidents earlier this year at the MU Research Reactor, director Ed Deutsch said today. Deutsch predicted the accidents would not affect the reactor's...

Couple's Gift Puts Central Missouri State University In Digital Age.
August 24, 2000... Byline: Brian C. Kaller Aug. 24--Ashland residents Ray and Mary Piper gave $1 million to prepare Missouri students for what they believe is an imminent technological revolution. Their cash donation, announced yesterday, is to pay for...

Missouri Nursing Educators Seek Better Model, Curriculum.
August 18, 2000... Byline: Josh Flory Aug. 18--Armed with a $427,000 grant, a team of local researchers is hoping to change the face of nursing education. The MU School of Nursing, along with Moberly Area Community College, sponsored a conference this...

Columbia Daily Tribune, Mo., Top Drawer Column.
August 17, 2000... Aug. 17--ONWARD & UPWARD: The Mid-Missouri Chapter of the Alzheimer's Association is pleased to introduce five new members to the board of directors. The new members began serving last month and include Linda Fisher, Central Missouri...

Columbia, Mo., Mall Hopes to Attract Barnes & Noble Bookseller.
August 17, 2000... Byline: Kathleen McLaughlin Aug. 17--Columbia Mall's parent company wants to have the next dance with Barnes & Noble. General Growth Properties hopes to sign a lease with the nation's largest book retailer by the end of the year,...

Columbia, Mo.-Area College's Fund Tops $1 Million for First Time.
August 17, 2000... Byline: Brian C. Kaller Aug. 17--Stephens College is bringing in donations like never before. For the first time in its history, the college's annual fund has surpassed $1 million, the largest in its history and up from $734,000...

Columbia, Mo.-Area Residents Oppose Development Plan to Rezone Land.
August 17, 2000... Byline: Cory de Vera Aug. 17--When James Comas moved from Syracuse, N.Y., two years ago, he wasn't looking to live in a rural setting. But when he found a home at 1231 E. Blue Bird Lane, he fell in love with it. "We liked the space,...

Columbia, Mo.-Area Hospital Trustees Seek Lease Input Wednesday.
August 17, 2000... Byline: Josh Flory Aug. 17--The future of Boone Hospital Center will once again be discussed behind closed doors this week, followed by a series of meetings at which the public will be invited to give input. The hospital's board of...

Former Missouri University Professor Rips Rising Tuition.
August 17, 2000... Byline: Brian C. Kaller Aug. 17--After four decades in higher education, John Campbell turned whistle-blower. In his latest book, "Dry Rot in the Ivory Tower," the former MU professor maintains state universities have become corrupt...

Columbia, Mo., Restaurant Participates in University Composting Study.
August 16, 2000... Byline: Tim Higgins Aug. 16--It might look like nothing but a pail of garbage. But the half dozen 20-gallon rubber buckets stacked in the back room of The Main Squeeze on Ninth Street are considered by some environmentalists to be...

Audrain County, Mo., River, Area Recover from Hog Plant's Waste Spill.
August 16, 2000... Byline: George Mazurak Aug. 16--The Loutre River headwaters near a Cargill Pork finishing plant met water quality standards on Wednesday when checked by an inspector with the Missouri Department of Natural Resources. Along a...

Columbia, Mo., Specialty Children's Store to Close after 33 Years.
August 16, 2000... Byline: Christopher Leonard Aug. 16--After 33 years of business, Buffy Atkins is packing it in. Atkins' store, Buffy's for Children, sells children's specialty products including clothes, furniture and dolls. Atkins announced this...

Columbia, Mo., Mall Hopes Barnes & Noble Will Replace Theaters.
August 16, 2000... Byline: Kathleen Mclaughlin Aug. 16--Columbia Mall's parent company wants to have the next dance with Barnes & Noble. General Growth Properties hopes to sign a lease with the nation's largest book retailer by the end of the year,...

Columbia, Mo., Man Takes Roundabout Way to Ownership of Music Store.
August 16, 2000... Byline: Lisa Frick Aug. 16--This is the story of how a young man named Ken Wikowsky became a hippie songwriter named Ken Shepherd and finally a businessman named Ken Shepherd W. Along the way he went from repairing broken guitars in his...

Downtown Columbia, Mo., Businesses Bemoan Parking Meter Hike.
August 16, 2000... Byline: Christopher Leonard Aug. 16--Downtown merchants are none too happy about a plan to double parking meter rates in the central business district. The plan was discussed at yesterday's meeting of the Special Business District...

Columbia, Mo., Tries to Minimize Pollution, Educate People on Good Habits.
August 16, 2000... Byline: Christopher Leonard Aug. 16--There was a toxic waste spill in Columbia last week. It happened Monday night, spewing pollution into creeks and rivers around the city. The event started around 6 p.m. when thick black...

Columbia Daily Tribune, Mo., Company Profile Column.
August 16, 2000... Aug. 16--YELLOW CAB: OWNER/MANAGER: Ve-Wenda Mabengo is the owner, and Glen Willet is the business' manager. ADDRESS: 2411 N. Stadium Blvd. TELEPHONE: (573) 446-9035 FAX: (573) 446-9225 NATURE OF SERVICE OFFERED: Willet...

'Average Joes' from Mid-Missouri Given Time in Spotlight.
August 16, 2000... Byline: Andrew Waters Aug. 16--A few average guys from Mid-Missouri are basking in their fleeting moments of fame. Ed Frederick, shop foreman at MHC Kenworth-Columbia, made a TV appearance this week on TNN's "18 Wheels of Justice,"...

Missouri University Researcher Personalizes, Personifies Heart Disease Risks.
August 10, 2000... Byline: Brian C. Kaller Aug. 10--Maurice Laughlin had studied heart disease for decades before his research got personal. "My father developed heart disease, which finally took him from this world," said Laughlin, head of veterinary...

Plan to Hike Parking Rates Rankles Columbia, Missouri Merchants.
August 10, 2000... Byline: Christopher Leonard Aug. 10--Downtown merchants are none too happy about a plan to double parking meter rates in the central business district. The plan was discussed at yesterday's meeting of the Special Business District...

No Delay in Annexation around Airport, Says Ashland, Mo., Mayor.
August 8, 2000... Byline: Pierrette J. Shields Aug. 8--Despite attorney Nathan Nickolaus' advice to delay, Ashland's mayor hopes to continue the process to annex about 850 acres into the city, bringing its borders up to Columbia Regional Airport. ...

Columbia, Mo., Hospital Workers Find New Technology Challenges Patient Privacy.
August 8, 2000... Byline: Christopher Leonard Aug. 8--Hospitals have an obligation to keep patient information confidential, a job that's becoming harder to do in the age of e-mails, Internet hackers, fax machines and cell phones. Local hospitals are...

Columbus, Mo., Voters May See Measure on Parkland Tax.
August 8, 2000... Byline: Kathleen McLaughlin Aug. 8--When parks experts tour state-of-the-art facilities in the St. Louis area this month, Maryland Heights director Mary Vaughan will credit a dedicated sales tax approved by voters there and in 63 other...

Columbia, Mo., Residents Back Lake Property Proposal.
August 8, 2000... Byline: Kathleen McLaughlin Aug. 8--A survey about the proposed city purchase of the Stephens Lake property shows support for a sales tax increase. The Trust for Public Land hired American Viewpoint Inc. of Alexandria, Va., to...

Snacks Made at Columbia, Mo., Plant Fueled Quaker Oats Turnaround.
August 8, 2000... Byline: B.C. Jones Aug. 8--Since it opened in 1995, the local Quaker Oats plant has flourished even as the company stumbled. Indeed, the Columbia plant has played a key role in Quaker's turnaround. Operating with 200 employees in a...

Reduced Columbia, Mo., University Faculty Braces for Bigger Class Sizes.
August 8, 2000... Byline: Brian C. Kaller Aug. 8--Record freshman enrollment and the loss of faculty to early retirement means some MU professors will have to knuckle down and teach larger classes this fall. The fall semester begins in just two weeks....

Columbia Daily Tribune, Mo., Top Drawer Column.
August 7, 2000... Aug. 7--ONWARD & UPWARD: Carol and Allen Dollens of Dollens Aonghus Farm in Centralia have recently been enrolled in the Angus Herd Improvement Records program of the American Angus Association. Angus Herd Improvement Records is a...

Columbia Daily Tribune, Mo., Street Talk Column.
August 7, 2000... Byline: Andrew Waters Aug. 7--ARTIST EYES WALNUT ST. FOR WATERCOLOR GALLERY: Columbia artist Paul Jackson and his wife, Dina, plan to open a downtown gallery called Illumia in the former location of Brook Mays School Music Service, 918...

City Services Dominate Columbia, Mo., Council Budget Talks.
August 7, 2000... Byline: Kathleen McLaughlin Aug. 7--Columbia City Council members continue to push for more user-friendly services in next year's budget. Sixth Ward councilman John Coffman said he wants to find a way to continue the work of...

Columbia Daily Tribune, Mo., Top Drawer Column.
August 3, 2000... Aug. 3--A listing of the honorable, noteworthy, new and what's ahead for business people in Columbia. ONWARD & UPWARD: MARILYN CUMMINS, ORIGINALLY OF STANBERRY, has become coordinator of the agricultural journalism program at the...

Columbia Daily Tribune, Mo., Street Talk Column.
August 3, 2000... Byline: Andrew Waters Aug. 3--MIKE POWERS, OWNER OF QUINTON'S BAR & Deli on Ninth Street, is putting the finishing touches on a new dance club next door called Tonic. The new business is located in the former Peking Restaurant...

Missouri Committee's Chip Mill Report Contains Few Surprises.
August 3, 2000... Byline: Christopher Leonard Aug. 3--ST. LOUIS--The chip mill industry can breathe a sigh of relief. An advisory committee convened by Gov. Mel Carnahan issued its final report yesterday and recommended only one new regulation to...

Boone County, Mo., Commission Approves Contested 117-Acre Development.
August 3, 2000... Byline: Lynde Hedgpeth Aug. 3--The Boone County Commission last night approved a hotly contested 117-acre development that could bring more business, homes and traffic to northern Boone County. Pending review of some of the...

New Director Leads Columbia, Mo., Downtown Association.
August 3, 2000... Byline: Martha Brendel Aug. 3--Carrie Gartner did a lot of work to learn a simple truth. For her doctorate dissertation, the California native interviewed students about how they protest grades with their teachers. Most people, she...

Columbia, Mo., Commissioner Incumbent Says Business-Based Group Is Partisan.
August 3, 2000... Byline: Pierrette J. Shields Aug. 3--Three-term Democratic incumbent Karen Miller last week warned party cohorts that a local business-based group coaxed the Republican candidate into the race for her job as a county commissioner. ...

Politicos, Turkey Callers Show Up at Boone County, Mo., Ham Breakfast.
August 3, 2000... Byline: Tim Higgins Aug. 3--In the line for breakfast yesterday morning at the Boone County Fair, it was hard to tell exactly who was running for political office and who was simply waiting to get his serving of eggs and ham. Billy...

Columbia, Mo., 'School to Careers' Program Sets Up Student Internships.
August 3, 2000... Byline: Cory de Vera Aug. 3--Like a lot of high school students, Megan Haffey wasn't very sure about the career she wanted after high school. An internship through the School to Careers program at Columbia Public Schools is helping...

Co-Chair of Missouri Interstate Committee Doubts Bypass Will Pass DOT.
August 3, 2000... Byline: Tim Higgins Aug. 3--Many members of the I-70 Stakeholders Committee believe the Missouri Department of Transportation will propose a bypass or loop for the interstate around Columbia when it releases its recommendation for...

Columbia, Mo., Residents Divided over City Plan to Buy, Develop Lake.
August 3, 2000... Byline: Kathleen McLaughlin Aug. 3--A telephone survey that seeks to gauge public support for a city purchase of the Stephens Lake property is under way, but Bill Samuels is one of the first to say he isn't buying the idea. The tax...

Appraisal to Determine Market Value of Prized Columbia, Mo., Lakeside Land.
August 3, 2000... Byline: Kathleen McLaughlin Aug. 3--Commercial zoning will play in an appraisal of Stephens Lake under direction of the Trust for Public Land, which is leading negotiations for city purchase of the parkland. Stephens College attorney...

Columbia, Mo.'s Cost of Living below National Average.
August 3, 2000... Aug. 3--The cost of living in Columbia is 2.7 percent below the nationwide average for the first three months of the year, according to the Columbia Chamber of Commerce. The local chamber collects data on the prices of 59 items, which...

Columbia, Mo., City Council Moves toward Permanent Parks Tax.
August 3, 2000... Byline: Kathleen McLaughlin Aug. 3--If Columbia voters decide in November to buy Stephens Lake, they will give the city new freedom to purchase land for parks. The Columbia City Council decided in a work session last night to use a...

Boone County, Mo., Business Group Endorses Sales Tax for Jail Expansion.
August 3, 2000... Byline: Pierrette J. Shields Aug. 3--A local business-based group has endorsed the idea of a quarter-cent sales tax to help fund the county jail expansion and operations but added that the city of Columbia should get in on the action to...

Dumping of Contaminated Soil in Cooper County, Mo., Draws Complaints.
August 3, 2000... Byline: Josh Flory Aug. 3--Gary Jolley says it's his land, and he can do whatever he wants with it -- within the law, of course. But Cooper County residents say Jolley should leave his contaminated waste in Boone County, where it...

Columbia, Mo., University to Place Student Overflow in Temporary Housing.
August 3, 2000... Byline: Brian C. Kaller Aug. 3--Rising enrollment has caused the residence halls to exceed their capacity, said Frankie Minor, director of Residential Life at the University of Missouri-Columbia. Minor said that about 40 students will be...

Activists Air Gripes about Columbia, Mo., Welfare-to-Work Training Program.
August 3, 2000... Byline: Pierrette J. Shields Aug. 3--Leaders representing communities using a welfare-to-work training program told BooneWorks brass last night that a number of problems are keeping some participants from landing jobs. Frederick...

Missouri Billboards' Fate to Be Decided on November Ballot.
August 2, 2000... Byline: George Mazurak Aug. 2--Missouri voters in November will decide whether to prohibit new billboards along interstate and federal highways. Secretary of state Rebecca Cook today was to certify Proposition A for the Nov. 7 ballot. ...

Missouri Mental Hospital Survives Amid Cuts in Funding, Support.
August 2, 2000... Byline: Christopher Leonard Aug. 2--Ranada stopped outside the door to her brother's apartment. Someone inside was screaming "The righteous souls will burn in Hell!" again and again. It took Ranada a moment to realize the voice was...