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February business and community briefs

GIVING BACK UScellular Delivers Donation to the Community Garden Coalition UScellular has delivered a nearly $600 gift card to Community Garden Coalition, located at 711 Claudell Lane in Columbia. The nonprofit volunteer group provides support, supplies, and garden plots to community gardeners, seeking especially to help lower-income individuals, the elderly, people with disabilities, children, and […]

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Get REDI

Regional Economic Development Inc., known to most people as REDI, is a local collaboration that has worked to benefit the Columbia and Boone County community since its founding in 1988. Yet, many people still ask — what does REDI do?  It’s a complicated question to answer. REDI works with a long list of partners and

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PYSK: Dave Griggs

Update: See Dave Griggs get roasted at the Alzheimer’s Association annual roast May 29 at the Holiday Inn Executive Center. Name: David R. (Dave) Griggs Title and company/organization: Owner/president, Dave Griggs’ Flooring America Age: 68 Years lived in Columbia/mid-Missouri: Columbia native Original hometown: Columbia Education: Graduate of Hickman High School, attended the University of Missouri

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Invent Yourself and Innovation REDI’s Sean Siebert

1. You’re a man of many ventures. Tell us what you have on your plate at the moment. My current project is The Innovation REDI Project, a global model of innovation, entrepreneurship and economic development. The developed model binds educational institutions (secondary, higher) to economic development through entrepreneurship. Over the past few months, I’ve been

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Sharing Innovation

Innovation. It’s a broad topic that encapsulates technology, entrepreneurship and bravery. It’s easy to say you exude an innovative mind, but what about execution? For many people, execution of an innovative project is exactly where an idea stops. Technology is used two-fold in innovation. Machines, software and digital advancements are used to create projects, make

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