1. Central Missouri All Starz Owner and Head Coach Morgan Sapp opened Columbia’s newest cheer academy, the Central Missouri All Starz. She brings five years of cheer coaching experience to the community and teaches students ages 5 to 14 years old. The school offers both competitive and recreational classes to help students develop skills in […]
“A man’s home may indeed be his castle, but there’s a castle in Columbia whose days are number,” wrote Brad Riesenberger, a Columbia Missourian staff writer, in June 1976. Built as a YMCA in 1909, the 120-room castle-like stone mansion served as a busy social center for university students and native Columbians. Its limestone rocks
The Columbia Chamber of Commerce’s Business Showcase on March 5 will be all about innovation, bringing back some of the old, adding some of the new and eagerly awaiting the unexpected. Last year’s showcase committee squeezed 135 booths into the Holiday Inn Expo Center, five more than the allotted amount. With attendance being a non-issue,
Brady Deaton and Kattesh Katti University of Missouri Chancellor Deaton and Katti, professor of radiology and physics in the School of Medicine and the College of Arts and Science and senior research scientist at the MU Research Reactor, were awarded honorary degrees from the Sam Higginbottom Institute of Agriculture, Technology and Sciences in Allahabad, India, on Dec. 9. Deaton was honored for his contributions in the field of agricultural
For Brynne and Bailye Stansberry, business is in their blood. Now they’re betting their futures on an idea they’ve held since high school. When Moberly residents Brynne and Bailye Stansberry were seniors in high school, their parents gave them a choice: a trip to Europe or a patent. After joining DECA, Distributive Education Clubs of
Subchondroplasty gets patients moving again. Imagine your worst toothache, but instead the pain is deep inside your knee and pulses to the surface each time you take a step. It happens every day. You go for months with no relief. Now imagine you are walking — maybe even running — pain free just a few
Once the norm, fewer doctors are going solo As long as he can remember, Erin Meyer has wanted to be a doctor. “I explored other options but always went back to medicine,” he says. “My dad was kind of my inspiration.” Now in his first year at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, the
Although most people are familiar with spas, chances are when it comes to medical spas, there is a bit of a learning curve. Wikipedia defines a medical spa as a facility “whose primary purpose is to provide comprehensive medical and wellness care in an environment that integrates spa services.” Basically, medical spas are an alternative
Name: Dr. Matt Concannon Title and company/organization: Owner, Concannon Plastic Surgery and Medical Spa Age: 50 Job description: Plastic surgeon Years lived in Columbia: 30 Original hometown: St. Louis Education: St. Louis University (undergraduate degree in chemistry); University of Missouri Medical School; residency and fellowship training at the University of Missouri and Massachusetts General Hospital,
