In 1982, Carol Miller opened Central Missouri Auto Body with her husband. In the ensuing years, Carol found her passion for the automotive repair industry, even through their separation. “The business had become my passion,” she says. “It had been our livelihood for close to 30 years at the time we were deciding its fate. […]
It all began with two people going from business to business — scrubbing, vacuuming, getting the job done. Fast-forward 35 years and those two people have maintained an established cleaning service for businesses throughout Mid-Missouri, leading 60 employees from their Columbia headquarters. Owners Rob and Susie Cason began cleaning buildings and homes as teenagers. Rob
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With fewer than six months to go until its 10th anniversary this July, Achieve Balance Chiropractic has grown into a bustling practice. It’s hard to find anyone as passionate and enthusiastic about their work as Dr. Arminta Phelps, who runs a team of six at Achieve Balance with the help of her mother, Gwendolyn Carl,
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Hunters bagged more than 263,834 deer during last year’s hunting season in Missouri. Boone County’s total came in at 900 for the season, according to the Missouri Department of Conservation. It was another successful year for one of the Midwest’s oldest pastimes. MidwayUSA opened its doors in 1977 as Columbia’s first gun shop. In its
Since its founding in 1936, Boone Electric Cooperative has always had the mission to provide Missourians with access to power — but now, with more ways in which to supply power than ever before, access isn’t enough. The cooperative wants to further reach members’ needs by providing them with the options they want for where
“The only thing an agency has to sell is time and ideas. So an agency is only as good as their people,” president and CEO Terry Woodruff says, sitting in the Columbia office of his namesake company. “And I would put our group of 80 employees up against just about any other agency.” Those aren’t
It’s luxurious to dream about having a personal grocery shopper whose mission is to track down only the finest foods for our personal consumption. For those who seek only locally sourced foods, it would be nearly impossible to personally drive to each farm in the surrounding counties, selecting the highest quality choice of each item
Home computers have come a long way since the old green screens that allowed you to do little more than type a few words and play Pong. Eventually, you could also play Wheel of Fortune, but only until you memorized all nine of the word puzzles that your eight-inch floppy disk could hold. Midwest Computech
When you think about it, our feet take a lot of abuse day to day. If you’ve ever suffered from foot pain —an ingrown toe nail, a corn or callus, or something more serious, like nerve pain — you know that painful feet can really slow you down. The doctors and staff at Columbia Podiatry
It’s a Thursday morning, and the executive team of The Callaway Bank is gathered around the conference table at their West Broadway location. This board table is a place they find themselves regularly, a place where decisions have been made over the years, and it shows. Made by Elliot’s Custom Cabinets in Fulton, the table
