Columbia Business Times

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Volume 16
Issue 8
November 14, 2009
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Business Profile
Immunophotonics
Inc. brings
innovative cancer
research to the
business incubator.
MU Vet School
The College of
Veterinary Medicine
expands amidst a
national shortage of
veterinarians.
Hiring Trends
City unemployment
rate passes 7 percent
as employers tighten
belts and cut costs.
The First Family of Real Estate
Elizabeth Mendenhall and her brother, Ford, are running the city’s
largest and oldest real estate company, which their father, Richard, took
over from their grandparents. Elizabeth is the incoming president of the
Missouri Association of Realtors, a role Richard once held. She’ll lead
the trade group at an intensely political period as the members attempt
to get a constitutional amendment banning transfer taxes on the ballot.
(story on Page 12)
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Job Point
Local business
trains employees on
how to find work in
a difficult market.
Construction
Update
Vandiver Drive
extension project
to improve
transportation.
ABC Laboratories................................................. 4, 22
Agents National Title Insurance................................ 24
Boone County National Bank............................... 4, 23
Boone Tavern........................................................... 12
Bucket Media Inc....................................................... 4
Café Berlin................................................................ 27
Caroline & Company................................................ 22
Casablanca............................................................... 27
Chef Connection...................................................... 27
CM Engineering.......................................................... 4
Columbia Insurance Group.................................... 3, 4
Columbia Orthopedic Group................................ 4, 23
Commerce Bank......................................................... 4
Cornerstone National Insurance Company.............. 23
Dana Corporation..................................................... 22
Emery Sapp & Sons................................................. 28
Engineering Surveys and Services............................. 4
Equinosis LLC............................................................ 9
Golden Barrel........................................................... 31
Grote & Associates..................................................... 4
Immunophotonics Inc................................................. 8
Job Finders Employment Services........................... 23
Kelly Services........................................................... 22
Landmark Bank.......................................................... 4
Little Dixie Construction............................................. 4
MBS Books.............................................................. 22
Miller’s Professional Imaging.................................... 23
Midway Electric Inc.................................................... 4
Missouri Bankruptcy Center..................................... 24
Missouri Employers Mutual........................................ 3
Newsy......................................................................... 4
Olive Café and Grocery............................................ 27
PetScreen................................................................... 9
RE/MAX Boone Realty....................................... 12, 13
Rogers, Ehrhardt & Weber LLC:................................. 4
Rumors Beauty Salon................................................. 5
Shelter Insurance................................................. 4, 22
Simon Oswald Associates.......................................... 4
Stag’s Leap Wine Cellars......................................... 31
State Farm Insurance....................................... 3, 4, 22
Tech 2 Consulting....................................................... 3
Terminus Energy......................................................... 9
The Textbook Game................................................. 27
Trabue, Hansen and Hinshaw Inc.............................. 4
Trugreen...................................................................... 4
U.S. Bank................................................................... 4
VA Mortgage Center................................................. 22
ValueAg LLC............................................................... 9
Visionworks................................................................ 4
Weaver Manufacturing............................................. 22
Yogoluv..................................................................... 27
Albright Heating & Air Conditioning................ 7
Ashland Industrial Park................................ 24
Boone County National Bank....................... 32
Business Conference & Showcase.............. 28
City of Columbia Water & Light.................... 20
Columbia College......................................... 22
Columbia Regional Airport............................. 7
Columbia Turf/Columbia Landscape.............. 8
Commerce Bank........................................... 18
Delta Systems Group..................................... 6
Hawthorn Bank............................................... 3
Hoss's Market & Rotisserie............................ 7
Landmark Bank.............................................. 2
McAdams' Ltd.............................................. 21
Missouri Theatre Center for the Arts............ 26
Moresource.................................................. 27
PCE.............................................................. 15
Personalized Computers.............................. 12
ResCare HomeCare..................................... 30
Rickman Center............................................ 24
Room 38 Restaurant & Lounge.................... 23
Sandler Training............................................ 29
Shelter Insurance Mike Messer & Mike Hatchett........................ 9
Socket Internet............................................. 19
Sycamore..................................................... 25
The Insurance Group...................................... 4
The Tiger Hotel............................................. 24
Towner Communications Systems............... 25
Triangle Blueprints........................................ 30
Wilkerson & Reynolds Wealth Management.13
Willie Smith's Magic Services...................... 30
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Women’s Network Homemade Holiday Gift Party
1-4 p.m., 300 South Providence Road
The Women’s Network is inviting area women to bring their
scrapbooking, knitting and other craft items to the Columbia
Chamber of Commerce on Nov. 14. www.columbiamochamber.
com or call 874-1132.
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City Council Meeting
7 p.m. (5:45 p.m. pre-council meeting) City Building, 701 E.
Broadway
The pre-council meeting topics include the city’s snow removal
plan and the Ewing Business Park. According to a letter that will
be presented at the pre-council meeting, the city has a territorial
right to serve the Ewing Business Park, and though the City
doesn’t have competitive electric rates, it will enter into a supply
arrangement with qualifying projects. More information: 874-7222.
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EPIC Lunching Outside the Box “Social
Networking Success Stories”
11:45 a.m.-1 p.m., Country Club of Missouri, 1300 Woodrail Ave.
This professional development seminar will focus on using social
networking to improve businesses. Jonathan Sessions, owner of
Tech 2 Consulting, and Jen Reeves, the new media manager at
KOMU 8, will give tips on using Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and
YouTube. Cost: $10 online, $13 at the door. Lunch is included.
Chamber members will receive a $3 discount for registering online.
More information: 874-1132.
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Women’s Network Luncheon-“It's Not Right or
Wrong, It's Just Different"
11:30 a.m.-1 p.m., PeachTree Catering & Banquet Center, 120 E.
Nifong Blvd. Ste. D
The luncheon will focus on the diversity of the generations in
the workforce and will help managers find ways to engage each
group. A business trainer and consultant from the Missouri Training
Institute, Rae Lee, will speak at the luncheon. As part of her
professional background, Rae Lee helped develop and deliver the
State of Missouri’s Career and Vocational Education programs.
Cost: $18 or $15 for Chamber members, minus $3 for online
registration, which is open until Nov. 17. 874-1132.
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Board of Directors of the Columbia Chamber of
Commerce meeting
11:30 a.m.-1 p.m., Walton Building, 300 S. Providence Road
The Board of Directors is expected to vote on the priorities during
the next session of the Missouri General Assembly. The board
reviews and evaluates the results of committee action toward
accomplishing Chamber goals. More information: 817-9109.
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Joe Schmitter | Marketing Representative
Ashley Meyer | Creative Services
Writers in this issue: Marilyn Cummins, Chris Dieterich,
Kathleen Pointer, Abby Rogers, Jason Rosenbaum, Jonathan
Sessions, Robert Thomas
Columnists in this issue: Chris Belcher, Al Germond,
Patricia Lensmeyer, Lili Vianello
Economic Outlook Conference
1-5:30 p.m., University of Missouri-Columbia’s Trulaske. College of
Business
The 2009 Economic Outlook Conference will focus on the
insurance industry. Representatives from Columbia Insurance
Group, Missouri Employers Mutual and State Farm Insurance
will speak at the conference. Economic expert Jim Moody will
present an economic forecast for the state as well, and there will
be presentations about Columbia’s potential in the animal health
industry. Cost: $40 for Chamber members who register online,
$43 for non-Chamber members and participants who mail or fax
in registrations. Registration deadline: Nov. 20. More information:
817-9108.
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cbt calendar of events - November 14-28, 2009
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PEOPLE
ON THE
MOVE
Presented By:
It’s Your Life, Your Health, Your Family
- Choose Well
Succession
MacLellan
Gibbens
Maples
Jeff MacLellan, CEO of Landmark Bank, will retire at the end
of 2009. Chief Operating Officer Kevin Gibbens will succeed him.
MacLellan has been with the bank since 1987. He started as president
and CEO of First National Bank, which recently changed its name to
Landmark Bank. MacLellan later became president of the Landrum
Company, the bank’s holding company.
As CEO, MacLellan combined First National Bank and Trust in
Columbia with First National Bank in southern Missouri and Landmark
Bank in Texas and Oklahoma. Now Landmark Bank has 10 Columbia
locations as well as branches in other areas in Missouri, Oklahoma and
Texas. The bank’s assets rose from $250 million in 1987 to $1.4 billion in
the past year, loans grew from $160 million to $1.1 billion and deposits
grew from $210 million to nearly $1.2 billion.
MacLellan will maintain an official role at Landmark Bank for the
next three years and will help with the transition and with business
development in the Columbia area.
Gibbens came to Columbia to run First National Bank in 1997. Prior
to that position, he was the senior vice president and credit policy executive at Nations Bank in Charlotte, N.C. Gibbens was named holding
company chief operating officer in 1997.
Hirings
Newsy.com hired two Missouri School of Journalism graduates:
Pam Maples is Newsy.com’s vice president of editorial, and Jim Flink
is an editorial advisor. Maples previously served as managing editor
for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and STLtoday.com. The Post-Dispatch
won several national awards for online and video news while Maples
was managing editor. Flink worked as a news anchor and reporter for
Kansas City’s ABC affiliate KMBC-TV prior to taking a position with
Newsy.com. He anchored a newscast that won the national Edward R.
Murrow Award.
Columbia College hired Jennifer Jolls as the associate director
of marketing for the college. Jolls had worked as the interim senior
director of public relations at the college for 10 months. She also worked
as a public relations coordinator at Columbia College for four months
prior to becoming the interim senior director.
Columbia College hired Kaci Smart as a graphic designer for public
relations creative services. Smart has been working as a part-time freelance designer for the college since August 2008 and was a graphic
design intern for Columbia College prior to that.
Columbia College has added Jessica Royston as a public relations
associate in the division of editorial services in the public relations
department. Royston previously worked as a public information specialist for the Department of Natural Resources.
Ownership Change
Wagner
Brent Beshore, CEO of Pure Marketing and Media, purchased the
membership interest of Erik LaPaglia, who co-founded the company
with Beshore in February 2008. LaPaglia’s departure from the organization was the result of “significant differences of business philosophies
and corporate core values,” according to Beshore, the sole owner of the
organization and its subsidiaries. “I take very seriously the recruitment
and retention of talented individuals who share Pure’s core values of
honesty, integrity and innovation.”
Appointments
The Columbia Chamber of Commerce has selected the members
of the 2010 Leadership Columbia program. Leadership Columbia
is a 12-session program that allows participants to join nearly 500
Chamber members who have completed the program since 1986. The
University of Missouri’s Robert J. Trulaske Sr. College of Business is
sponsoring this year’s program. The participants are: Leslie Anderson,
Services For Independent Living; Kara Barker, State Farm Insurance
Companies; Rich Blattner, Trugreen; Jami Dennis, State Farm
Insurance Companies; Judy Donnell, Columbia Insurance Group;
Sarah Dubbert, Commerce Bank, NA; Ryan Euliss, Boone Electric
Cooperative; Scott Gibson, Columbia Independent School; Renee
Graham, City of Columbia; Ross Kasmann, Engineering Surveys
& Services; Barb King, Visionworks Marketing & Communications;
Leighanne Lamb, Landmark Bank; Sara LeMone, Little Dixie
Construction LLC; Jessica Macy, Boone County Council on Aging;
Jasen Matyas, Rogers, Ehrhardt & Weber LLC; Elaine McCoy, ABC
Laboratories Inc.; Jill Nabors, ABC Laboratories Inc.; Annie O'Toole,
Grote & Associates Inc.; Bill Oreskovich, Shelter Insurance Companies;
Jason Philips, U.S. Bank; Polly Reynolds, Landmark Bank; David
Rielley, University of Missouri; Krista Shouse-Jones, City of
Columbia; Michele Spry, Midway Electric Inc.; Dawn Stephenson,
Boone County National Bank; Jocelyn Tipton, Bucket Media Inc.; Tom
Trabue, Trabue, Hansen and Hinshaw Inc.; Paula Williams, Harry S.
Truman Memorial Veterans' Hospital; Deronne Wilson, Boys & Girls
Club of Columbia; and Lindsay Young Lopez, Columbia College.
The city of Columbia appointed Greg Jones to the board of New
Century Fund Inc. The New Century Fund is a nonprofit organization
that acts as a liaison for tax-deductible gifts and grants for the city of
Columbia above the normal role of city government. Jones is a partner
with Jones & Watkins LLC, which is a law firm that focuses in estate
planning, business and contract law.
Honors
Columbia College’s newly renovated Missouri Hall received LEED
Silver certification from the U.S. Green Building Council. The $3.9
million project was designed by Simon Oswald Associations and CM
Engineering and constructed by Reinhardt/Wilson. Missouri Hall was
originally constructed in the 1920s and is now around 38,000 square
feet. The building, which served as a women’s dormitory, now holds
admissions, enrollment and the registrar, among other services. As
part of its new sustainable rating, the building has improved indoor air
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Director/Senior Coordinator — Gaines/Oldham Black Culture Center/
Department of Student Life at the University of Missouri
AGE: 38 YEARS LIVED IN COLUMBIA: 38 ORIGINAL HOMETOWN: Columbia, Mo.
JOB DESCRIPTION: I manage the day-to-day operations of the Gaines/Oldham Black Culture Center, a 12,000-square-foot facility on the
MU campus; manage the GOBCC budget; plan activities and events to disseminate black culture; do diversity speaking and training;
collaborate with campus and community entities to support and promote diversity and cultural competency; and assist with student
leadership and development.
EDUCATION: I attained a bachelor’s degree in social work from Columbia College, a master’s degree in non-profit administration/social
work from the University of Missouri, and I am currently working on a Ph.D. in educational leadership and policy analysis.
COMMUNITY INVOLVEMET: I am the co-founder of the First Ward Ambassadors, co-founded Youth Empowerment Zone, co-founder of Black
Parents Association of Columbia Public Schools, Heart of Missouri United Way Board Member, and I sat on the police chief selection
committee. I also try to work with various individuals, groups and entities when I am able to. My mother once told me that I was a
born social worker, and so I do what I can to help.
PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND: I have worked extensively with at-risk youth for more than nine years in various
contexts such as an adolescent mental health program, recreational program and mentoring programs. I now
work in the Department of Student Life at MU, and I serve as an adjunct faculty member in the School of Social
Work and teach a class called Working with Minority Youth.
A COLUMBIA BUSINESSPERSON I ADMIRE AND WHY: I admire Sarah Brown, owner of Rumors Beauty Salon. I
admire Sarah because, like most business owners, Sarah started her business with a dream but without the
resources and the financial support that many businesses in Columbia are fortunate to have. Instead she
came to church one Sunday after I spoke at St. Paul AME church, and we prayed together, and from
there she began her business trusting in God and her God-given abilities.
WHY I’M PASSIONATE ABOUT MY JOB: I am passionate about my job because I am able to have a
minor influence on some of the best minds in black America. Seeing what I see from some of
the students when they begin to comprehend the messages that the staff in the Department of
Student Life and others have been trying to get them to understand is priceless. I also admit
that I like playing the role of broker in which I have some resources at my disposal to provide
information and “edutainment.” (The combination of education and entertainment.)
IF I WEREN’T DOING THIS FOR A LIVING, I WOULD: Be working on my doctorate full-time or
working for a grassroots non-profit such as Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Missouri.
photo by jennifer kettler
BIGGEST CAREER OBSTACLE I’VE OVERCOME AND HOW: Balancing everything and not burning
myself out. I have overcome this by realizing when I am about burned out and needing a
break from everything that I can actually break from. This is a requirement for anyone in
social services, and early on in my career I was not aware of when I was getting burned out.
A FAVORITE RECENT PROJECT: The Mizzou Black Males Initiative, in which the goal is to foster
leadership and professional development among young black males at MU. I really enjoy
seeing young black males achieve academically and socially because this is something that the
media doesn’t talk about often.
WHAT PEOPLE SHOULD KNOW ABOUT THIS PROFESSION: This is not an 8-to-5 job, and if that is what
you are looking for, do not work in student affairs. Also realize that students are in many ways
like your own children; they can frustrate you to no end and in the blink of an eye make you so
incredibly proud.
WHAT I DO FOR FUN: I watch or go to sporting events for fun.
FAMILY: My grandparents both have large families, so I am kin to several people in Columbia.
Additionally, my grandparents had 13 children, so I have several aunts and uncles who have
had kids, therefore my extended family is huge. My immediate family includes my wife of
five years, Demetria Stephens, and our blended family of seven children, whose ages range
from 7 to 24.
FAVORITE PLACE IN COLUMBIA: St. Luke United Methodist Church. I always feel the love and
support of my church family even when we disagree. I have a pastor in Rev. Raymond
Hayes who provides encouragement, mentorship and prayer for me as I do the things that
I do in Columbia.
ACCOMPLISHMENT I’M MOST PROUD OF: Graduating from MU with my master’s degree would be my
answer here. I am the first in my family of Columbia natives to do so, and now I have four cousins on
the Mizzou campus.
MOST PEOPLE DON’T KNOW THAT: Most people don’t know that I am deathly afraid of snakes to the point
that I will accidentally hurt someone trying to get away from the tiniest one.
Nathan Stephens
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People You Should Know
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people on the move...Continued
quality and has a controllable thermal level to create a healthier
work environment.
Columbia Police Department Sgt. Geoff Jones accepted
the Midwest Gang Investigators Award for Excellence in late
September. He was nominated for the award because of his work
in the investigation into the “Cut Throats” gang in Columbia.
The investigation lasted 18 months and involved the FBI. The
U.S. Attorney’s Office was able to indict 16 people because of the
investigation. Jones, who was recently promoted, received the
award during an awards ceremony in Springfield, Mo.
Thirteenth Judicial Circuit Presiding Judge Gene Hamilton
received the Permanency Award from Supreme Court Judge Mary
Russell on Nov. 5 on behalf of the entire circuit. The Permanency
Award is given to circuits that successfully hold timely hearings
in child abuse and neglect, in which children are removed from
their homes and are to be reunited with their families or placed in
another permanent home. Boone County associate circuit judges
Christine Carpenter and Deborah Daniels were presented with
the Advanced Science and Technology Adjudication Resource.
On Nov. 2 the Missouri Association of Mutual Insurance
Companies inducted Columbia Insurance Group Chairman and
CEO Bob Wagner into the MAMIC Hall of Fame. Inductees are
recognized for their leadership and contribution to Missouri’s
farm mutual insurance companies and the farm mutual insurance
industry in general.
The American Chamber of Commerce Executives named
Sherry Wohlgemuth, director of special projects for the
Columbia Chamber of Commerce, one of “40 under 40: Rising
Stars of the Chamber World” in Chamber Executive magazine.
Wohlgemuth managed the Columbia Chamber’s Total Resource
Campaign and reached the goal of $475,000. Starting this fall,
Wohlgemuth will serve as President of Chamber of Commerce
Executives of Missouri.
MU Health Care staff members were honored by Children’s
Hospital for their impact on pediatric patients. Dr. Daniel
Hoernschemeyer is an orthopedic surgeon specializing in
pediatrics and was honored with the Healing Hands Award.
Dr. Barry Gainor is an orthopedic surgeon specializing in hand
and wrist injuries and was honored with the Champion of Hope
Award. Carolyn Williams is an administrative assistant for the
Department of Child Health at the MU School of Medicine and
was honored with the Strive for Excellence Award. Jeanne
Campoli is an operating room unit clerk at University Hospital
and was honored with the Community Hero Award. Zimmer
Radio Group was also presented with the Miracle Maker Award.
University Hospital’s Medical and Neurosurgical Intensive
Care Unit won the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses’
Beacon Award for Critical Care Excellence. This is the first time
the award, which recognizes the top hospital intensive care units
in the country, was given to a hospital in Missouri. The award
has been given to about 200 of the 6,000 intensive care units in
the U.S. since 2003. The staff at University Hospital’s Medical
and Neurosurgical Intensive Care Unit is made up of 100 medical
experts, and the unit has 18 beds for acutely ill patients.
Carol Siem of the University of Missouri’s Sinclair School of
Nursing will serve on the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid
Services’ Technical Expert Panel on nursing home quality measures. The group will meet in Baltimore, Md., to discuss quality
measures for nursing homes, which can be used in an online
comparison tool to help the public find and compare nursing
homes. As part of the Quality Improvement Program of Missouri,
Siem is one of five nurses who helps the state’s nursing homes
improve the care they provide, and she serves as chairwoman of
the American Association of Nurse Assessment Coordinators. v
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Columbia’s Economic Indicators
RECEIPTS
1% Sales Tax Receipts August 2009: $1,730,697
August 2008: $1,791,711
Change (#): -$61,014
Change (%): -3.4%
Fiscal Year-to-Date 2009:
$17,589,244
Fiscal Year-to-Date 2008:
$18,232,297
Change (#): -$643,053
Change (%): -3.5%
4% Hotel Tax Receipts
September 2009: $148,989
September 2008: $167,208
Change (#): -18,219
Change (%): -10.9%
Year-to-Date 2009: $1,260,040
Year-to-Date 2008: $1,401,338
Change (#): -141,298
Change (%): -10.1%
LABOR
Columbia MSA Labor Force
September 2009: 91,052
Change (#): -218
Change (%): -0.2%
Missouri Labor Force
September 2009: 3,002,052
September 2008: 2,994,321
Change (#): 7,731
Change (%): 0.3%
Columbia MSA
Unemployment September 2009: 5,776
Change (#): 1,582
Change (%): 37.7%
Missouri Unemployment September 2009: 278,611
September 2008: 186,624
Change (#): 91,987
Change (%): 49.3%
Columbia MSA
Unemployment Rate
September 2009: 6.3%
Change (#): 1.7%
*lowest unemployment rate in a
Missouri Metropolitan Statistical
Area
Missouri Unemployment
Rate
Change (#): 3.1%
CONSTRUCTION
Building Permits –
Residential
October 2009: 68
October 2008: 70
Change (#): -2
Change (%): -2.9%
Value of Building Permits –
Residential October 2009: $5,966,555
October 2008: $5,573,942
Change (#): $392,613
Change (%): 7.0%
Building Permits – Detached
Single Family Homes
October 2009: 23
October 2008: 25
Change (#): -2
Change (%): -8.0%
Value of Building Permits
Detached Single Family
Homes
October 2009: $3,832,000
October 2008: $4,903,000
Change (#): -$1,071,000
Change (%): -21.8%
Residential Additions/
Alterations
October 2009: 42
October 2008: 43
Change (#): -1
Change (%): -2.3%
– Residential Additions/
Alterations
October 2009: $1,329,555
October 2008: $570,942
Change (#): $758,613
Change (%): 132.9
Commercial
October 2009: 27
October 2008: 15
Change (#): 12
Change (%): 80.0%
Value of Building Permits –
Commercial October 2009: $10,061,321
October 2008: $79,262,233
Change (#): -$69,200,912
Change (%): -87.3%
Commercial Add./
Alterations
October 2009: 26
October 2008: 14
Change (#): 12
Change (%): 85.7%
– Commercial Add./
Alterations
October 2009: $9,981,321
October 2008: $79,062,233
Change (#): -$69,080,912
Change (%): -87.4%
HOUSING
Boone County detached
single-family homes
Months of Inventory
October 2009: 8.24
October 2008: 12.85
Change (#): -4.61
Change (%): -35.9%
Units Sold
October 2009: 177
October 2008: 129
Change (#): 48
Change (%): 37.2%
Foreclosures in Boone
County
October 2009: 24
October 2008: 17
Change (#): 7
Change (%): 41.2%
Foreclosures in Boone
County
Year-to-date 2009: 247
Change (#): -6
Change (%): -2.4%
NEW BUSINESS LICENSES
October 2009: 51
October 2008: 48
COLUMBIA REGIONAL
AIRPORT
Passengers on Arriving
Planes
Change (#): 460
Change (%): 30.1%
Passengers on Departing
Planes
Change (#): 564
Change (%): 37.2%
UTILITIES
Water Customers
October 2009: 44,577
October 2008: 44,241
Change (#): 336
Change (%): 0.8%
Electric Customers
October 2009: 44,991
October 2008: 44,791
Change (#): 200
Change (%): 0.4%
Sewer Customers –
Residential
October 2009: 40,212
October 2008: 40,147
Change (#): 65
Change (%): 0.2%
Sewer Customers –
Commercial
October 2009: 3,523
October 2008: 3,524
Change (#): -1
Change (%): 0.0%
Contributors include: Lori
Fleming, Karen Johnson, Sean
Moore, Linda Rootes, Sarah
Talbert and Carol Van Gorp
Compiled by David Walle
Economic index
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business PROFILE
Biotech firm moves into business incubator
By Chris Dieterich
The
latest
start-up
company to move into the
University of Missouri’s
business
incubator
is
developing an innovative
cancer treatment: using
lasers and immunotherapy
to help boost the body’s
natural defenses.
Immunophotonics Inc.
moved into the Life Science
Business Incubator in early
September and will base
its business operations in
Columbia. Immunophotonics is the seventh tenant to
occupy the Providence Road facility since it opened
in January.
So far, Immunophotonics in Columbia is a one-man
operation. Chairman and CEO Tomas Hode is honing
the company's business plan and working to attract
investors from his desk in the “launch pad” wing of
the incubator, where $300 per month buys budding
entrepreneurs furnished workspace, shared office
equipment and access to mentoring resources provided through the Missouri Innovation Center.
The cancer treatment his company is developing
— laser-assisted immunotherapy — is based on 15
years of academic research done primarily through
the University of Central Oklahoma in Edmond, Hode
said. It works by combining two types of treatment.
First, a laser is used to heat up and damage the
tumor. Laser light either can be administered directly
through the skin or guided with a optical fiber to
reach most tumors inside the body, so the procedure
is relatively noninvasive. Secondly, immunotherapy
is administered to condition the body's own immune
system to fight the cancer. Combining the laser with
the immunotherapy is what makes Immunophotonics'
method a novel treatment for human and veterinary
cancer patients.
Immunphotonics holds six patents for its method
and owns the rights to related research.
“The initial data we have is indicating that we
might be onto something entirely new, something that
can educate the body and create an immunity to the
tumor,” Hode said.
A product launch is still a few years away, but Hode
said that Immunphotonics will look in the near future
to hire local talent with skills in business development
and scientific research to assist with tasks such as consulting with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration
and marketing.
Hode, who holds a doctorate in astrobiology,
started Immunophotonics in 2008 as a joint venture
between Irradia USA, a medical laser manufacturing
company, and a team of researchers. He is co-founder
and director of science and education of Irradia USA.
Although the business side of Immunonphotonics
is based in Columbia, research is conducted through
various universities, and prototypes for the cancer
laser have been developed in partnership with Irradia,
which is based outside Charlotte, N.C., Hode said.
The support of local business development
organizations and a little serendipity led Hode to
Columbia and ultimately to the business incubator.
Immunophotonics first connected with members of
the Kansas City Area Development Council about
locating to St. Joseph.
But in July, Hode's wife, Marlo Goldstein Hode,
was accepted to the dispute resolution program at
the MU School of Law, and St. Joseph was out of the
picture. After the two had already decided to move to
Columbia in August, KCADC suggested Hode meet
with leadership from the Missouri Innovation Center.
Hode was impressed and, after receiving a grant from
REDI, decided to sign a lease at the incubator.
As his business grows, Hode said that he's committed to hiring locally.
“I think it's a matter of reciprocity to try to stay in
the region and create jobs,” he said.
Quinten Messbarger, vice president of the Missouri
Innovation Center, said Immunophotonics has the
makings to become an exemplar for what the Missouri
Innovation Center is trying to accomplish at the incubator — growing start-up, high-growth businesses
that can eventually put down roots in Columbia.
“Our job is to work hand-in-hand with
entrepreneurs to establish and grow their ventures to
a point where they can be viable on their own,” he
said. “In three to five years... they graduate from the
incubator and expand by leasing or building space at
Discovery Ridge or some other suitable mid-Missouri
location.” v
Equinosis LLC uses technology developed by MU professor Kevin Keegan to diagnose
lameness in horses, a more objective method than prior techniques.
PetScreen is the only company in the world that offers the Canine Lymphoma Blood Test,
which finds cancer-indicating proteins in the blood. MU researchers will work with the company
to find biomarkers in humans and animals.
Terminus Energy offers low-carbon distributive generation and solid oxide fuel cells. The
company works with both MU researchers and Missouri University of Science and Technology
researchers.
Value Ag LLC is an agribusiness services and technology spin-off from the College of
Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources.
Centennial Investors, a Columbia-based, 53-member investor network, will also occupy space
as a "strategic tenant" and will be used as a source of seed-capital funds for current and future
incubator tenants.
Executive Assistant Service is a “strategic tenant” that provides financial, accounting and
grant administration services to companies, including some of the tenants of the incubator.
Photo courtesy of University of Missouri business incubator
PetScreen opening in December
Kevin Slater and Graeme Radcliffe, founders of
PetScreen Inc., the U.S.
PetScreen, in the Nottingham laboratory.
subsidiary of an animal
health care company based
in Britain, will move into the
MU Life Science Business
Incubator
in
December,
according to PetScreen Ltd.
co-founder Kevin Slater.
Tariq Shah will be the
chief executive officer of the
local laboratory, which will
also function as the entire
company’s research and
development headquarters.
The company is moving
some laboratory equipment
from its facility in BioCity
Nottingham to the Columbia
lab, according to Jake
Halliday, president of the
diseases related to aging in dogs and cats, such
Missouri Innovation Center, which operates
as cancer and renal disease. The company plans
the incubator.
Shah will hire a lab director and lab to use the incubator as laboratory space to
technicians. PetScreen said in February that it conduct cancer detection tests.
The Missouri Technology Corp. agreed in
planned to create more than 30 jobs in Columbia
January to lend PetScreen $250,000 to help with
over the next five years.
PetScreen focuses on developing novel start-up costs, and the terms were agreed upon
detection and treatment tools for the major this month, Halliday said. v
In addition to Immunophotonics Inc., the MU Life Science Business Incubator
at Monsanto Place currently houses six companies.
9
business PROFILE
From the Roundtable
Bottomland wells? Bad idea 20 years ago, bad idea today
Al Germond
Al Germond is the
host of the "Sunday
Morning Roundtable"
every Sunday at 8:15
a.m. on KFRU. Al@
columbiabusinesstimes.
com
My recollections about Columbia's drinking
water go back only a few decades, but it’s
always seemed odd that a series of wells would
be a sufficient source for a growing city, one
that just passed the hundred grand threshold. Surface reservoirs with distinctive Indian
names such as Ashokan and Hackensack supplied water outside New York City where I
grew up, and the engineering feats behind
the famed mountain-sourced, gravity-fed
system require no further tributes. Columbia's founders sited their embyronic
settlement on the banks of a water source, Flat
Branch Creek. As the village grew, a dam across
Hinkson Creek created a reservoir. When that
proved insufficient, the municipality drilled a
series of artesian wells deep into the aquifer as
a source of fresh water that originated
beneath the Ozarks.
My first drink of water here came from
the University of Missouri's own artesian well
system. Drawn from the same aquifer as the
city's first round of wells, MU’s water tasted
fine, aside from its relative hardness, to which
some attribute certain medical benefits because
the hardness is caused by dissolved minerals
such as calcium and magnesium
I'm not sure the same tributes can be paid
to the city’s water supply these days. We can
all agree that the most stringent measures must
be followed to ensure the water is safe to drink.
Taste and feel are more personal, thus subjective, judgments.
I remember when the decision was made
to use the shallower McBaine Bottoms near
the Missouri River for wells, we were told that
the water from it would be "different" —
softer to those who crave that quality.
(Dissolved minerals make soap less
effective, or less lathery, than when
mixed with soft water.) The city said
that by mixing new well water with the
harder water from the original artesian
wells, the overall quality would continue
to be pleasing. For me, city water is OK,
but MU's water still tastes better.
Then came the stunning, at least to me,
decision almost 20 years ago to process
Columbia's wastewater through environmentally trendy "wetlands" impoundments within sight of the McBaine well
field. At the time, I was spending a lot of
time tending to business interests in
northwest Arkansas and recall intense
debate over the deleterious impact of
chicken house effluents coursing into
once pristine sources of drinking water
in the Boston Mountains. Why would
Columbia even think about the potential
intermixture of wastewater with a freshwater source?
Now the city is considering whether
to drill more wells in the McBaine
Bottoms. The answer should be a
resounding "NO!" — at least until the
matter of wastewater seepage into this
An artesian well near the MU campus.
comparatively shallow drawing point
for the bulk of our drinking water is thoroughly and scientifically resolved. At the same time, let the trumpets call impoundments — a lake or two functioning as
for Columbia and every water utility in public water supply reservoirs — will come
the region to initiate a cooperative effort to true because it will be seen as the best alternaimprove and expand our present and future tive for the public interest. How about Osage
water supply. Maybe my dream of future
Lake and the Oto Reservoir? v
photo by al germond
10 November 14, 2009 Columbia Business Times | ColumbiaBusinessTimes.com
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Superintendent’s View
Consumer-driven health care
Chris Belcher
Belcher is
superintendent of
Columbia Public
Schools. cbelcher@
columbia.k12.mo.us
Do you know the cost of an office visit to
your physician? Can you state the difference in cost between a name-brand drug and
a generic? Do you compare rates for blood
tests, diagnostic tests or simple procedures? I
could not give an affirmative response to any
of these questions. I have become accustomed
to allowing the doctor’s office to submit a bill
to the insurance company. The insurance company, in return, pays an agreed upon rate for
a service to the doctor, and I get a statement
that shows what the doctor charged, what the
insurance paid and what I might owe. I have
just assumed this was in my best interest.
Columbia Public Schools spends nearly
$11 million dollars each year to provide health
care coverage to our full-time employees. This
benefit helps us to attract good candidates for
both certified and non-certified positions. The
district has struggled, like many businesses, to
control the increase in health care costs over the
years. In fact, our health care cost has increased
167 percent over the past 10 years.
Beginning Jan. 1, CPS will begin offering
a health care option that will encourage our
employees to become more cost-conscious in
their consumption of health care services. In
return, they will be provided more flexibility
in the management and use of their health
care dollars.
Several years ago, Congress passed legislation that allowed for Health Savings Accounts
in conjunction with a high deductible health
care plan. This allows individuals to put up to
$3050 per year of pre-taxed dollars into a personal and portable account to save for medical
costs. The money can grow tax-free and is
spent tax-free for allowable medical costs,
which saves the consumer about 25 percent on
income taxes.
In theory, the high deductible plan causes
first dollars spent on health care to be the
responsibility of the individual. This in turn
will lead to the individual taking more responsibility for health care spending. This should
result in more prudent use of services and a
reduction in claims.
District employees who choose this option
will receive the difference in premiums of
the new high deductible plan and the more
traditional plan deposited in their HSA. They
can also make their own contributions if they
choose. The individual is then responsible for
the first $1,200 in medical costs. Then 100 percent coverage is provided by the plan. In short,
the employee has excellent financial protection
for long-term or catastrophic illnesses in return
for managing their short-term medical needs.
Time will tell if this model lives up to expectations. However, imagine an environment
where all individuals shop for health care the
way they shop for televisions, computers, cars
and food. This could lead to more transparency
in health care pricing and create a better-educated consumer.
I am not betting on the government to bail
CPS out of escalating health care costs. I am
placing my money on the individual consumer.
CPS employees are certainly capable of making
informed health care choices and deserve
the opportunity to manage their own money.
Furthermore, the more we control health care
costs, the more funds become available for
competitive salaries and other district needs. v
County View
Changing strategies for our changing ways
Lensmeyer
Patricia S. Lensmeyer
is the Collector of
Revenue for
Boone County.
Plensmeyer@
boonecountymo.org
Most of us have heard the phrase, “The
times, they are a changing.” Fewer of us
recognize it as the paraphrased title of Bob
Dylan’s 1964 song “The Times They Are
A-Changing.” Effective business leaders must
not only recognize that times are changing but
also be diligent in seeking out those available
resources of change, which will be beneficial to
the business process.
This diligence of seeking available resources
so positive changes can occur applies not only
to businesses but also to the governmental
process of collecting property taxes and license
fees by my office. We consistently search for
better ways to do what we do for the property
taxpayers and the taxing entities for which we
collect, while keeping in mind that faster is not
always more efficient.
The measures used by my office when a
change is contemplated are basic: Does this
change provide adequate transparency, make it
better for taxpayers or taxing entities, and is it
the right thing to do?
Since becoming Boone County Collector
of Revenue in 1995, changes have become the
byword for my office. Below are a few of the
initiatives:
Installment payments on real estate property
taxes: This service allows a homeowner to pay
the estimated tax liability monthly during the
tax year by remitting payments directly to my
office, or we will electronically draw the agreed
upon monthly amount from the homeowner’s
banking account. When the tax bill is created,
the amount previously paid is credited to the
bill. Homeowners including property taxes
in their monthly payments to a mortgage
company may not use this plan. The number
of property owners using this service has
increased 47 percent since we began offering
it in 2005. The service is particularly beneficial
to retirees on fixed incomes and homeowners
with no mortgage. It provides a way to budget
an annual expense on a monthly basis.
Online services for Boone County property
owners: Boone County residents are computer
literate and expect government to provide electronic services that will be available beyond
regular workday hours. Following are a few of
the services my office has available:
• Pay real estate and personal property taxes
online through our Web site with an electronic
check or a credit card. This is year round so current and delinquent taxes can be paid online.
• County residents can renew motor vehicle
registrations online because my office provides
paid personal property tax information to the
Missouri Department of Revenue.
• Taxpayers may change mailing addresses
on our Web site.
• Property owners may search for their current or prior years’ bill information.
• Business owners can obtain merchant
licensing requirements, verify licenses are
current and/or print an application for a merchant’s license.
• Realtors, title companies and lenders can
locate accurate property tax amounts when
needed, and closing agents can use the calculator to determine the correct tax liability for
property transfers.
The volume of transactions performed in
my office increases every year, such as address
changes, phone calls for information, payments processed, number of tax bills generated
and collected, types of bills to be collected and
the number of taxing entities for which taxes
are collected.
The word change embodies modifying, transforming, adjusting, amending and revolutionizing. In our growing and prospering county,
businesses and government must continue to
embrace change in order to provide the best services possible to our customers and citizens. v
Merchant Liceses FAQ
Other than questions regarding property
taxes, the most common questions posed
by residents relate to licensing businesses.
Who is a Merchant?
Every person, corporation, co-partnership
or association of persons who deals in
selling food, wares and merchandise at
any store, stand or place occupied for that
purpose is a merchant.
Do I need a Boone County Merchant's
License for my business?
Yes! If you answer yes to all the items in
the checklist below:
• You own or operate a business; and
• The business is located in Boone County
either within or outside the city limits of
any incorporated area; and
• There is a sales tax number issued to
the business by the Missouri Department
of Revenue.
What's the cost?
The annual fee is $25 for a calendar year
license and is not prorated. Licenses
expire December 31 each year and must
be renewed.
My business has more than one
permanent location. Do I need a
license for each?
Yes!
What’s your opinion of the House-passed health care bill?
When a bill passes by a five-vote margin with 435
votes cast in the U.S. House of Representatives, a
strong divergence of opinion is expected.
That certainly was the case after the House narrowly
approved a plan that would create a comprehensive
national system of health insurance at an estimated
cost of $1.4 trillion over 10 years. The multi-faceted bill
would force most people to purchase health insurance,
expand the minimum Medicaid eligibility rate to 150
percent of the federal poverty level and bar plans from
turning away people with pre-existing conditions.
It would also install a government-run insurance
entity, which is commonly known as the “public
option.” That part of the plan has been controversial,
with most Republicans and some Democrats balking
at the move.
Here’s some reaction from Missouri politicians and
advocacy groups about the vote:
"We applaud those members of the House who supported
this crucial legislation. This bill will help millions of
older Americans get the health coverage they need, while
strengthening Medicare for today's seniors and future generations.” – Norma Collins, AARP Missouri associate
state director for advocacy. AARP, a major advocacy
group for senior citizens, endorsed the bill.
“This bill imposes inflexible mandates before getting
everyone covered and new regulations that duplicate what
is already in place at the state level. Many of these reforms
begin in 2010 after employees have already chosen their
plans and contracts have been negotiated. The result will
be increased costs and massive disruptions in the quality
coverage individuals and families rely on today.” – Karen
Ignagni, president and CEO of America’s Health
Insurance Plans. AHIP, which represents the country’s
insurance companies, opposes the legislation.
“By forcing this mammoth overhaul on hard-working
Americans, [House Speaker] Nancy Pelosi and the liberal
majority are creating a health care system that increases
taxes on small businesses, reduces benefits and choices for
seniors, and piles insurmountable debt upon our children.”
– U.S. Rep. Blaine Luetkemeyer, a Republican who represents the 9th District that includes Columbia. All of
the Missouri Republicans voted against the legislation.
"After years of effort, months of debate and listening to
the ideas and concerns of people throughout Missouri,
momentum is on the side of the American people and
health insurance reform.” – U.S. Rep. Russ Carnahan, a
Democrat from St. Louis who voted for the legislation.
“I am concerned about the impact the legislation could have
on rural hospitals and doctors. The proposed reductions to
Medicare reimbursement could further squeeze the budgets
of rural health care providers. I also oppose the creation
of a new government run public option and continue to
have serious concerns about its potential unintended consequences for Missourians who have private insurance
plans they like.“ – U.S. Rep. Ike Skelton, who represents
the 4th District south of Columbia and was one of 39
Democrats who voted against the bill.
The bill might face trouble in the U.S. Senate,
where some lawmakers have expressed concerns over
the “public option” and the bill’s funding sources. In
order for the bill to avoid procedural gridlock, it will
need to gain the votes of 60 senators.
“We have the majority because we have moderates. And
those moderates are going to be working very hard to make
sure that we really do something about cost-control in
the bill. I don’t think the House bill went far enough on
cost-control. I think the Senate bill is much better on costcontrol. And that’s what I think you’re going to see pushed
by the middle of the Senate that’s going to be the one that
crafts the compromises.” – U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill,
D-Missouri, on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” Monday,
Nov. 9.
“Our view on this side of the aisle believes reform is
common-sense solutions focused on lowering health care
costs for families and small businesses. We’re offering
solutions that increase access and improve patient care as
well … Our solution includes tax equity for all families,
allowing small businesses to form their own plans across
state lines, and ending the waste of $120 billion annually from medical malpractice and defensive medicine. We
don’t need a government overhaul of health care to give the
American people what they want.” – U.S. Sen. Kit Bond in
a Nov. 2 floor speech. v
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Elizabeth Mendenhall, who represents the
sixth generation of the family’s real estate business, is running the company that her brother
helps manage and her father owns.
She will take over the presidency of the
Missouri Association of Realtors in January and
is heir apparent to the matriarch role that grandmother Mary Jane Mendenhall once held.
But don’t expect to find family rivalry in their
RE/MAX Boone Realty office.
“He’s one of my best friends,” Elizabeth said
of Ford Mendenhall, who oversees the computer
systems and does property management for the
company.
Ford said it can be tough to separate family
rivalries from work, but he couldn’t ask for anything better.
“We always have those moments, but I love it
a lot,” Ford Mendenhall said.
The family’s ease with one other and mutual
respect was obvious during a brief group interview and photo shoot, with Richard Mendenhall
ribbing his daughter by referring to her as
“Madam President.” Richard Mendenhall was
president of the state association in 2001 but still
has a big one-up on his daughter — he was also
president of the National Association of Realtors.
Although the firm’s roots go back to 1894,
Richard Mendenhall formed the current company in 1991 for both residential and commercial sales. The company has about 100 realtors in
its Columbia office
Elizabeth Mendenhall, 36, is the broker manager and CEO and has been with the company
for 13 years. She will be leading the real estate
trade group at an intensely political period, as
the members attempt to get a constitutional
amendment banning transfer taxes on the
November 2010 ballot.
Elizabeth Mendenhall has experience in real
estate far beyond her professional years.
“I remember touring around and tagging
along to open houses,” Elizabeth Mendenhall
said. As a kid, she would work in her family’s
office on snow days and during summer vacations and did odd jobs such as cutting up old
contracts to be used as scrap paper for taking
phone messages, answering the phones and distributing phone messages.
Elizabeth was an assistant manager at Boone
Tavern for five years but said she couldn’t
imagine having a career in anything but
real estate.
“The real estate business is about helping
families, and my family certainly has been
doing this for a long time, so I think it is a nice
fit,” she said.
When Mendenhall was 22, she went to work
for her father. His administrative assistant’s husband got a new job, and she left RE/MAX, which
left a vacancy Elizabeth wanted to fill. Elizabeth
transferred from MU to Columbia College and
worked her way through the rest of her college
degree as her father’s administrative assistant.
Although anybody new in any situation
needs to prove himself or herself, Elizabeth said
she was more worried about her status as the
boss’ daughter than other employees were.
As CEO, Elizabeth oversees the agents,
including training them, and oversees the management of the office. It was her work with the
agents that guaranteed her success in her father’s
eyes. He said he knew she would succeed when
agents started telling him how good she was.
“They really liked her management style and
the things she was doing to improve the company,” Richard Mendenhall said.
The camaraderie between the Mendenhalls
and the agents was apparent during CBT’s photo
shoot at the office. The agents seemed very comfortable with one other, as well as with Elizabeth,
Ford and Richard. However, the agents deferred
to Elizabeth for direction.
According to Elizabeth Mendenhall, working with the real estate agents is the best aspect of
her job.
“I think Realtors are committed to helping people not just achieve a house but really make a
home and live in a community, and I love being associated with the independent contractors,”
Mendenhall said.
In January, she’ll be working for a whole state-load of Realtors. Because Elizabeth has already
done so much work with the organization and with agents, Richard said he didn’t think there was
much he could tell her he’d like to see her accomplish as president.
“I think Elizabeth has done so much already at the state level, she pretty much tells me what she
wants to get done,” Richard Mendenhall said with a laugh.
Elizabeth’s main task will be to lead the campaign against transfer taxes.
A real estate transfer tax is a tax that can be imposed on property when the property is transferred
from one owner to another. It is up to the individual state, county or municipality to determine how
much the tax will be.
Missouri is one of 13 states without a transfer tax; all of its border states have some sort of transfer
tax. Illinois has a 0.10 percent transfer fee rate, while Chicago and surrounding Cook County have
separate transfer fees. Nebraska has a 0.175 percent transfer fee rate.
The Missouri Association of Realtors is working to place a proposed constitutional amendment
on the November 2010 ballot that would give voters the option to bar politicians from enacting
transfer taxes in Missouri.
No legislation concerning transfer taxes has been discussed in Missouri’s General Assembly in
about 10 years, according to the group’s senior vice president for governmental affairs, Sam Licklider.
But the state is facing a severe revenue shortage, and Licklider said there might be discussion in the
general community about the taxes.
The campaign is essentially a preemptive movement, Licklider said.
Elizabeth is opposed to transfer taxes, or “double taxation” as she calls it, because of the burden
she says it will place on homeowners.
“Missourians already pay thousands of dollars each year in property taxes, so an additional
transfer tax would be a double tax on their property,” she said. “Missourians have always had an
appreciation for homeownership, and an additional tax denies fairness, and it defies Missouri’s
common sense.”
Her father supported her stance on transfer taxes and said the taxes have hindered the real estate
industry in other parts of the country and only hurt the economy.
The Association of Realtors’ Web site concerning transfer taxes, www.YesToSaveHomes.com,
details the organization’s proposal.
The proposal asks voters if the Missouri Constitution should be amended to prevent the state,
counties and other political subdivisions from imposing any new tax, including a sales tax, on the
sale or transfer or homes or any other real estate, according to the Web site.
Although she doesn’t know specifically how many signatures the campaign has collected so far,
Mendenhall said the goal is to collect 157,000 plus a comfortable cushion. The next step in the campaign will be to educate the public about transfer taxes.
“Because we don’t currently have transfer taxes in Missouri, we need to make sure that everybody understands what a transfer tax is and then give Missourians the opportunity to vote yes to say
no,” Elizabeth Mendenhall said. v
CEO of Remax and President of the Missouri Board of Realtors Elizabeth Mendenhall, right, answers questions that
agents have on double taxation. Mendenhall, a spokesperson for the Vote Yes to Stop Double Taxation, hopes that
legislators will not impose new taxes on the sale or transfer of homes or any other real estate.
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Buck’s Ice Cream: 20 years of sweet research
MU News Bureau
A comfort food, a tasty treat, an indulgence — ice
cream conjures feelings of happiness and satisfaction
for millions. Ice cream researchers at the University
of Missouri have discovered ways to make ice cream
tastier and healthier and have contributed to ice
cream development and manufacturing for more
than a century. Today, MU researchers are working
to make ice cream into a functional food by adding
nutrients such as fiber, antioxidants and pro-biotics to
premium ice cream.
“The idea of putting a functional ingredient into a
food instead of just using the nutrients found in the
food naturally takes a multi-functional approach,”
said Ingolf Gruen, MU professor of food chemistry
and ice cream researcher in the College of Agriculture,
Food and Natural Resources. “Food provides calories
and comfort — people want to indulge. We’re working
on making ice cream satisfying and healthy.”
Adding nutrients such as pro-biotics, which are
already found in some dairy products, and fiber to ice
cream can improve digestive health. Many diseases
are caused by inflammation that starts in the intestines, Gruen said. Improving digestive health with
functional foods might reduce that inflammation.
Although functional foods have health benefits, there
are many challenges to adding nutrients to ice cream.
“Our major challenges are texture, flavor and psychological acceptance,” Gruen said. “The nutrients we
add often have bitter tastes and affect the texture of
ice cream that we have to mask. Flavors like chocolate
are easier to work with because the flavor is so strong
that it can overcome other flavors from the nutrients.
Another challenge is determining whether people
would be upset that we’re ‘tampering’
with a comfort food. We need to know
if they would be more willing to pay
for ice cream with added nutritional
benefits.”
Gruen and his research team are
looking at using the açai berry and
remnants from grapes in wine-making
to add nutrients to ice cream. They
hope to have a prototype ready for
tasting in the next six months.
This new research on ice cream as a
functional food coincides with the 20th
anniversary of Buck’s Ice Cream Parlor,
an ice cream shop and research facility
at MU. In 1989, Wendall and Ruth
Arbuckle contributed about $160,000 to
ice cream research at MU and were the
namesake for Buck’s Ice Cream Parlor,
previously Eckles Hall Ice Cream Shop
from the 1920s to 1972. Buck’s might be
best known for the invention of Tiger
Stripe ice cream, a popular MU frozen Laura Ortinau, a graduate student in food sciences, helps Rick Linhardt, coordinator
treat made with French Vanilla ice of research operations and manager of Buck's Ice Cream store, make a batch of Tiger
cream and dark chocolate stripes, that Stripe Ice Cream.
is sent to people around the world.
MU has a long history of ice
studying ways to make ice cream meet the nutritional
cream research that dates back to the 1920s. William needs of consumers. This work led to pioneering
Henry Eddie Reid, professor emeritus of dairy research of low-fat ice cream. Researchers found that
manufacturing, and graduate student Wendell replacing milk fat with ingredients made from carboArbuckle started the program by studying the texture hydrates and proteins created low-fat frozen desserts
of ice cream.
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amid
dire
By Marilyn Cummins
Photos by Jennifer Kettler
Vicky Kasten always enjoyed diagnosing and tre
in suburban St. Louis, and she often compared n
was natural that she enrolled at the University o
Vet student Vicky Kasten checks over a dairy
cow during her internship in Versailles, Mo.
(photo courtesy of Vicky Kasten)
Dean of the vet school, Neil
Olson, with the Missouri mules.
(photo pourtesy of the College of
Veterinary Medicine)
But in October, right after donning her white coat in a ceremo- Billion-dollar industry’s w
ny marking the class of 2011’s move into clinical training, Kasten
Veterinary medicine is a $1 b
didn’t work on cats and dogs. She headed down to Versailles said, and every dollar spent for v
to treat large farm animals in a rural area north of Lake of the generates $2.42 in economic im
Ozarks.
“But it potentially goes way b
“It’s hard, physical labor,” Kasten said. For example, she spent the state’s well-being, Olson said
hours one night in bad weather helping a cow deliver a calf by
It’s well-know
wrapping chains around the front hooves of
ture is very vulne
the 80-pound animal and pulling.
strong veterinary
This fall, Missouri’s
But she learned to love working with
erinary medicine
dairy farmers while helping out a veterinarmals and the stat
sole veterinary
ian in Union during breaks at Missouri Baptist
Animal health
school admitted the the No. 2 industr
University, where she earned her undergraduate degrees in chemistry and biology.
that would ensue
largest freshman
“They are just such good, hard-working
mouth disease o
people,” Kasten said. She and the farmers were
class in its history:
happened close
“working together to try to figure out what to
which would re
110 students. In
do better to care for their herds.
animals and the
“To me, veterinary medicine is like a murand more.
2007, when Olson
der mystery," she said. “You’re given all these
Day to day, M
clues, and you work together to try to treat the
became the new
specialists, throu
animal and hopefully save the client money at
consultation and
dean, 76 students
the same time.”
sible for increasin
But there’s a larger mystery that the MU vet
food animal prod
were admitted.
school is helping to solve: How will the U.S.
estimates, every
meet what Dean Neil Olson calls the “current
in the state's $2.5
and looming” shortage of veterinarians in most
in an increase of
areas, particularly those who treat food animals
state’s producers. But that scena
rather than pets and those involved in public health?
of large-animal veterinarians.
This fall, Missouri’s sole veterinary school admitted the
largest freshman class in its history: 110 stu- Luring large-animal docs
dents. In 2007, when Olson became the new
At MU’s veterinary teaching h
dean, 76 students were admitted.
in activity on the floor where st
Olson’s long-term goal is to admit 125 the cacophony of barking dogs
students a year and create more tuition reve- and the floor where students tre
nue to boost programming resources. But that
The surroundings are quiet
will take more space in an already crowded facil- professor and doctor of veterin
ity. His 10-year plan calls for a new academic students — five wombuilding and renovation of current buildings en and one man — on
to meet the space shortages as well as to ac- her rounds at the food
commodate the additional students.
animal clinic.
PridePoints
-----------------------------------------------------------------• MU ranks in the top five of vet schools in research
funding from the National Institutes of Health.
• MU has three NIH National Resource and Research
centers: the only NIH-funded swine center, the only rat
center and one of three mouse centers in the U.S.
• MU has one of 15 regional biocontainment laboratories
in the U.S.
Students prepare to study slides in their
histology lab at the vet school. The school
had to offer another lab to accommodate
the large number of incoming freshmen
who are required to take the class.
eating her menagerie of pets while growing up
notes with her veterinarian aunt in Texas. So it
of Missouri’s College of Veterinary Medicine.
widespread impact
billion industry in Missouri, Olson
veterinary education and services
mpact to the state.
beyond that” in its contribution to
d.
wn, he said, that “animal agriculerable to bioterrorism.” Having a
y college and well-supported vetsystem in the state protects anite’s No. 1 industry — agriculture.
h and safety also helps safeguard
ry — tourism — from the losses
e if something like the foot-andoutbreak in the United Kingdom
to the Interstate 70 corridor,
equire massive slaughtering of
shut-down of highways, airports
MU veterinary medical extension
ugh herd health management
medical care, are directly responng the efficiency of the Missouri’s
duction. According to university
1 percent productivity increase
5 billion livestock industry results
f $25 million more sales for the
ario requires a sufficient number
Although veterinary medicine used to be a male-dominated
industry, that 5-to-1 ratio is now typical at the vet school at MU
and elsewhere. About 80 percent of the MU applicants and the
admitted students are women. And Kasten is one of a very few
of those women who will enter a practice whose main clients are
cattle, hogs, horses and, occasionally, goats; only three to five
female graduates go into large-animal practices each year, according to Olsen.
Kasten has tried to spread her passion for large-animal work.
She helped revive the vet college’s Swine Club and worked with
the Bovine Club to introduce more students to hands-on experience with cattle.
While spending six weeks in dairy practices in Wisconsin this
past summer as an “externship,” Kasten got first-hand insight
into the demand for large-animal practitioners. “There is definitely a shortage,” she said. At a goat-care conference, “I was
swarmed by people all day saying, ‘You need to come here.’”
She’s also realistic about the barriers she might face in her chosen field. “There still is some animosity against women as largeanimal veterinarians,” she said. She recounts stories of women
buying existing practices, then seeing large-animal clients pulling
out because they don’t think a woman can do the job.
Kasten, who’s 5 foot 9 inches tall and strong from her clinical
work, said she’s confident she’ll handle the job.
Olson acknowledges that “there’s a stereotype that’s out
there, and it’s unfortunate. You can’t just flip a switch. Attitudes
have to change over time.” He also said that with proper use of
restraints, lifting mechanisms and other specialized equipment,
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s
hospital, there is a stark difference
tudents treat small animals, with
s and the packed waiting room,
eat livestock.
when Dusty Nagy, an assistant
nary medicine, leads a gaggle of
Dr. Cheryl Rosenfeld, left, helps Cari Van Zweden
understand lymphatic tissue in her histology lab at
the vet school.
Rebecca Moland looks at slides of animal
spleens in her histology lab.
Tonto exercises
in the water on
a treadmill calle
week for her ne
urological dise
d the hydro ph
ase.
ysio three times
a
Medical convergence:
humans and their pets
Researchers in the MU College of Veterinary Medicine are using dogs
such as Tonto, a German Shepherd with a degenerative spinal cord disease, to find better ways to treat both companion animals and humans
with comparable diseases.
The initiative is called One Health, One Medicine: The Convergence
of Human and Animal Health. MU’s administrators have identified One
Health as one of five areas of notable expertise that will be emphasized
in Mizzou Advantage, a new strategy for improving the university’s reputation, increasing research funding and drawing donations.
“These are the areas where we are incredibly well-positioned,”
Provost Brian Foster said during a recent presentation to community
leaders at the Reynolds Alumni Center. “These five areas are an incredible resource for economic development.”
(The other four areas are Food for the Future, New Media, Sustainable
Energy and Disruptive and Transformational Technologies.)
MU is one of about five universities in the U.S. that has medical and
veterinary schools on one campus and is integrating them for research,
according to Carolyn Henry, a professor and director of an endowed
chair in veterinary oncology at the vet school. As a land-grant institution,
MU also has a highly regarded animal science program.
“We’re all treating the same disease, regardless of what species it’s
in,” Henry said.
MU is also one of only 12 members in the Comparative Oncology
Consortium, formed by the National Cancer Institute to organize nationwide trials in tumor-bearing dogs using cancer drugs.
Henry said cancers in companion dogs offer a largely unexplored research opportunity for cancer imaging, device and drug development.
MU also has comparative orthopedic, ophthalmology, general medicine and neurology programs.
Earlier this year, MU researchers reported an incurable, paralyzing
disease in humans is now genetically linked to a similar disease in dogs.
They found that the genetic mutation responsible for degenerative myelopathy in dogs is the same mutation that causes amyotrophic lateral
sclerosis, the human disease also known as Lou Gehrig’s Disease.
Joan Coates, a veterinary neurologist, said in a news release that
dogs with the degenerative spinal cord disease are likely to provide scientists with a more reliable animal model for Lou Gehrig’s Disease than
transgenic rodents, the models traditionally used. “Also, this discovery
will pave the way for DNA tests that will aid dog breeders in avoiding
DM in the future,” she added.
Henry pointed out that companion animals are better research subjects than rodents for numerous reasons, including their more similar
size and structures and the fact that pets and humans have a shared
environment.
She also stressed that the dogs used for their research developed
cancer and other diseases “on their own. I’m not creating cancer in my
patients.” w
students practice large animal veterinary medicine in a
defined area of need — one year for each year they received the scholarship.
Easing the growing pains
The MU Veterinary Medical Teaching Hospital sees 16,000 cases annually in three hospitals — small animal, equine
and food animal. This allows students to see a large number of varied cases, which gives them valuable clinical
experience while serving Columbia and Missouri animal owners.
Vet school ... continued from Page 17
for most procedures “you don’t have to have brute
strength, male or female.”
Olson looks at the gender shift in applicants and
graduates as part of a larger “feminization of the health
professions” going on in medical and dentistry schools
as well. “Here in veterinary medicine, we’ve been the
most dramatically impacted,” he said. He emphasizes
that it has been a gradual change as women have become more interested in pursuing mathematics, science
and engineering.
“The real question we should be asking,” Olson said,
“is this: Where are the male applicants?”
He believes a key factor is less-than-desirable starting salaries for new veterinarians facing an average of
$115,000 in debt load at graduation after so many years
in school. A colleague at the med school tells him the
average student debt there is $150,000, but starting
salaries are disproportionately greater. Veterinarians can
look forward to significant increases in income once a
practice is established or after obtaining additional specialty training, but he said it’s those first few years out
that get people’s attention.
In 2009, the average veterinary school graduate going into private practice started at a salary of $65,165.
As an incentive for students to stay in Missouri to
practice large-animal veterinary medicine, a new federally funded loan program provides six MU students
with $20,000 for living and educational expenses per
academic year. The loans are forgiven, provided the
MU’s College of Veterinary Medicine has graduated more than 3,000 veterinarians since its founding
in 1946. The annual entering class number hovered
around 30 for the first two decades, moved up to 65
to 70 in the late ’60s and early ’70s and only recently
moved above 70.
After admitting 110 students this year, the college’s
long-term goal is to phase in classes of up to 125 a year,
for an eventual total student population of 500.
Until this year, MU’s class size ranked 24th or 25th
out of 28 veterinary colleges in the United States.
“We will still be at about the national average because other schools will increase, too,” Olson said.
“We’ll go from being one of the smallest in terms of
class size to being right in the middle.”
But the MU vet school ranks near the bottom — 25th
out of 28 schools — in state funding.
Why grow? Two major reasons, Olson said. The first
is to reduce the severity of the shortage of veterinarians.
The second is “to generate more revenue.”
Olson said “going to 110 really stretches us.” One
way of coping this year was to divide the histology lab
course into two sections; others were to consolidate
exam schedules and give exams as early as 7 a.m. The
auditorium seats 190 students, so it works for larger
lectures.
“But our curriculum is not like a traditional curriculum,” he said. “Everyone in a class has to take the same
thing at the same time each year. So bringing in a larger
class sends ripples in terms of how we schedule other
courses.”
As the only health professionals trained in multi-species comparative medicine, veterinarians serve the public in myriad ways, some
of which make the headlines regularly: investigating animal and human disease outbreaks such as food-borne illnesses (think E. coli),
the H1N1 influenza pandemic (inappropriately named “swine flu”)
and zoonotic (animal-borne) illnesses (rabies, West Nile viral encephalitis); working in the Food and Drug Administration to evaluate the
safety of everything from pet foods to food additives; protecting the
U.S. from bioterrorism by serving in the U.S. Army Veterinary Corps
and the Department of Homeland Security.
Many of the 24 federal entities with veterinarian workforces told
the General Accounting Office they are concerned about current
and future shortages. The Food Safety and Inspection Service fell 15
percent short of its 2008 hiring goal for veterinarians who inspect
meat and poultry. Just to satisfy current needs, 500 of the 2,500
new graduates each year need to enter the public arena. To make
matters worse, 27 percent of the veterinarians at key USDA agencies
will be eligible to retire in fewer than three years.
MU began a joint Doctor of Veterinary Medicine-Master of Public
Health degree program two years ago; it now has 17 students enrolled — some as a dual degree, others started the program with
their D.V.M in hand. “It will be very desirable for veterinarians of the
future to have a public health background,” Olson said.
The shifts needed to staff up for the future will take time. Olson
said it’s natural for incoming students to apply to veterinary school
to emulate someone they admire — most often a private practitioner whom they have shadowed or who cared for their animals.
The trend to small-animal practice is starting to level off, he said;
students such as Vicky Kasten are rediscovering the satisfaction of
large-animal care.
Kasten drew inspiration from her aunt, a companion-animal veterinarian in Texas who challenged her to learn how to diagnose and
treat animals rather than just take care of them. •
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SPECIAL SECTION | Human resources & staffing
Job market anemic outside health fields
By Kathleen Pointer
Need a job? MBS Books is hiring. So are ABC Labs
and Shelter Insurance. But don’t bother to call on
Dana Corporation, State Farm Insurance or Weaver
Manufacturing.
With the unemployment rate in the city passing 7
percent, which leaves nearly 4,000 workers without
jobs, CBT surveyed some of the largest local employers about their openings and talked with employment
service executives about the job market, which they
said was generally anemic outside the medical field.
About half of the 21 surveyed businesses were hiring for vacancies; a little more than a fourth were hiring for new positions and about a third did not have
plans to hire any time soon. Because most companies
were hiring for vacancies, the positions available tended to be full-time rather than part-time or temporary.
Caroline Gower of Caroline & Company and Allen
Jennings of Kelly Services said they’ve also seen a
higher number of vacant positions available instead
of new positions.
“Employers are continuing to tighten their belts by
cutting overhead and workforce, cutting hours and
placing further demands on employees that remain,”
Gower said.
Jennings said that companies are continuing to take
careful measures to keep costs as low as possible.
“Factories have been adding employees piecemeal,
only as needed,” Jennings said. There have been “no
mass hirings as companies are watching inventories,
scrutinizing incoming orders and doing whatever it
takes to control payroll.”
Dana Corporation has gone down from 250 employees to 138 in the past year, and the manufacturing company was not hiring for any open positions.
Weaver Manufacturing has gone up three employees
in the past year, 36 to 39, but also was not hiring for
vacancies or new positions.
Jennings said just looking in the employment sections of newspapers shows that companies are work-
“Employers are continuing to tighten
their belts by cutting overhead and
workforce, cutting hours and placing
further demands on employees
that remain”
– Caroline Gower.
ing to keep the need for new positions low. There are
“two pages as opposed to five pages a year and a half
ago,” he said.
“While there are a few companies in certain industries either maintaining or showing spurts of business,
current economic conditions are generally not good in
Columbia and the outlying areas,” Jennings added.
But several of the companies surveyed by CBT said
they planned to increase their workforces over the
coming months. MBS Books is hiring for 35 full-time
positions. These positions include three managerial
positions in IT or customer service, three Web devel-
opment programming positions, two inventory data
analysts and four inventory or product specialists. The
available positions also include 20 warehouse operation positions.
VA Mortgage Center also had several positions
available. The company grew from 138 employees last
year to 220 this year. There were seven open positions,
only two of which are vacancies.
The city of Columbia is another place to look for
employment. They were hiring for four vacancies and
four new positions.
Although Shelter Insurance was hiring for three
positions in the Columbia area, two other insurance
groups — Cornerstone National Insurance Company
and State Farm — didn’t have any job openings.
Joe Camoriano of State Farm said they are filling all
their open positions internally, and David Spencer of
Cornerstone said they didn’t have any open positions
and would only be hiring if an open position needed
to be filled.
Columbia’s largest bank, Boone County National
Bank, is hiring for one position in the area. This past
year the bank has gone from 346 employees to 333.
“We hire as needed to replace positions as they
open,” said Melody Marcks, senior vice president of
human resources.
The medical field is one place where jobs are starting to open back up, said Anne Williams of Job Finders
Employment Services.
“Our medical recruiting division is showing a
steady incline,” she said. “Allied health professionals
and mid-level providers are once again interested in
making job changes.”
In the past year ABC Labs in Columbia has increased its workforce from 317 to 330 and was hiring for 15 full-time positions, eight of which are entirely new positions. Another medical business, the
Columbia Orthopaedic Group, was seeking employees to replace two full-time positions.
Workers who don’t have a place in a resurging
field such as medicine might find employment, at
least temporarily, in seasonal or temporary positions.
Both Williams and Jennings said their companies expected to find more response for temporary workers
from employers.
“Our temporary staffing division is starting to increase,” Williams said. “When talking to clients, we
are finding they are ready to get the economy going.
They cannot wait any longer for growth” in the economy to take place.
MBS Books was hiring for 58 part-time temporary positions and more than 50 temporary warehouse positions for December and January. Miller’s
Professional Imaging planned to fill as many as five
seasonal positions.
Williams said the demand for temporary workers
is increasing as companies work to keep their costs of
doing business low.
“They are utilizing our temporary staff, saving
them the costs associated with hiring regular employees: benefit, worker’s compensation insurance,
unemployment insurance and the like,” she said. v
Census measures recession’s impact
In the first year of the recession, Missouri had net job losses overall, across genders and most age
groups, but the state gained more jobs than it lost in the utilities and health care industries, according to
a U.S. Census report.
Missouri lost 28,880 jobs from the fourth quarter of 2007, the beginning of the recession, to the fourth
quarter of 2008, the Local Employment Dynamics report said. (The Missouri Economic Research and
Information Center posted the report — on changes in employment by gender, industry and age — online at www.missourieconomy.org.)
The Missouri job losses followed a regional trend. Illinois lost nearly 79,000 jobs, and Arkansas lost
a little more than 12,000 jobs, though Iowa lost only 2,500, and Kansas lost only 757 on a net basis.
Missouri’s male workforce had more than twice the number of job losses than the female workforce.
Utilities in Missouri gained the most jobs of any industry, with a 5.8 percent growth in female employees and a 9.8 percent growth in male employees.
Healthcare in Missouri went through a growth similar to the utilities industry but not to quite the
same extent. Women in Missouri’s healthcare industry grew by 3.7 percent while men employed in
Missouri’s healthcare industry grew by 3.5 percent. Missouri’s neighbors witnessed growth in their
healthcare industries as well.
Along with Missouri, many states saw job losses in construction. Some of the largest percentages
were concentrated in the Western states. However, the losses were widespread with only eight states
showing an overall increase in construction jobs over the year. Missouri’s losses in the industry were 5.5
percent for males and 7.5 percent for females.
Only three states had net increases in manufacturing jobs. Missouri’s manufacturing jobs dropped 3.2
percent among males and 7.8 among females.
Men between the ages of 25 and 34 gained more jobs on average than women of the same group did
nationwide. However, women aged 45 to 54, 55 to 64 and 65 to 99 gained more jobs on average nationwide than their male counterparts for the same age groups did. v
Job Point prepares employees for market
By Robert E. Thomas
Rhonda Kelly Matthews had to give up her job as
a certified nurse assistant because of medical issues.
Looking for a new career, she turned to Job Point, a
not-for profit employment agency based in Columbia
that serves mid-Missouri.
Matthews graduated from the Job Point office technology training program and now has a permanent position as a legal assistant for the
Missouri Bankruptcy Center.
Job Point, started in 1965, has a staff of
about 50, said Brenda Overkamp, director
of marketing and research. It operates in
Columbia, Jefferson City, Moberly, Wright
City and Marshall. Columbia locations include 2116 Nelwood Drive and 1500 Vandiver
Drive.
Matthews
“We serve about 2,000 people a year,
providing career planning and occupational skills
training to individuals who have any type of barrier
to employment or those economically disadvantaged
who have not had the opportunity for employment,”
Overkamp said.
This past year, Job Point placed more than 200 individuals entering employment at an average hourly
wage of $8.57, she said. Almost 70 percent of adults
hired maintained employment for at least 90 days.
“We specialize in preparing people to enter the
workforce and at the same time provide a critical need
for the business community,” she said
David Townsend, president of Agents National
Title Insurance in Columbia, is on the Job Point board
of directors. He turned to the organization when looking for an administrative assistant and hired Stephen
Neville, 24, who is legally blind. Neville, a college
dropout, had been looking for a job for six months.
“I filled out job applications every day,” Neville
said. “Job Point showed me how to get a job. They
push you and show you how to work. They were very
helpful.”
Townsend said: “We make all the necessary accommodations for him, but it doesn’t
slow him down on bit. He works as hard or
harder than anyone in the office.
“Job Point does a great job in preparing all
their clients for job skills and interviewing.
They are a pretty neat, progressive group.”
Skills training funding is provided by
sponsors such as United Way, Department of
Mental Health, Division of Family Services,
Division of Vocational Rehabilitation, city of Columbia
and others. In some cases, a fee is charged.
Full-time instructors provide hands-on training.
Advisors serve as case managers who work with the
individuals and help them handle things that affect
their ability to keep or maintain employment.
Other staff members contact local businesses and
let them know of people who are ready to go to work.
Training provides entry in various fields including
clerical, manufacturing, custodial, food service and
construction. Training programs can range from four
to 36 weeks. Certificates are awarded to individuals
who complete graduation.
photos courtesy of job point
A YouthBuild group in a Job Point classroom
Employers of Job Point graduates can receive a
Work Opportunity Tax Credit designed to move people from welfare into gainful employment. Tax breaks
include $2,400 for an adult hire and $1,200 for each
summer youth hire.
Job Point offers a Youth at Risk program for participants ages 16 to 24, usually high school dropouts who
are economically disadvantaged. Youth are engaged
in class work to earn their GED while being trained in
skills such as single-family home or highway and road
construction. v
Job Point
Wilkes Center, 400 Wilkes Blvd. Ste. A
449-3431 Contact: Gary Taylor
Resource Center
1500 Vandiver Dr. Ste. 109, 777-1500
Contact: Mark Eye
Fall & Winter Meeting Reservations!
Inquire about our
for first time guests/reservations!
For your next company retreat, group outing, conference, banquet or camp
Rickman Conference Center
P.O. Box 104298, Jefferson City, MO 65110
www.rickman.info
Contact: DeAnne Nigus, Coordinator
(573) 635-0848 or Toll Free: (866) 635-0848
[email protected]
Prepare for health care
reform now before it's too late
By Abby Rogers
Business managers should examine their
health care benefits now rather than wait and see
how federal legislation pans out, according to a
consultant who recently spoke to the Human
Resources Association of Central Missouri.
By the time Congress acts on proposed
changes to the health care system, it might be too
late to avoid significant cost increases, said Janet
Lowe, a principal at Mercer, a human resources
consulting company in St. Louis.
When discussing health care reforms with
clients, Lowe advises them to establish fiscally
responsible plans.
“Once they look at their plans, it’s going to be
more important than ever to control the costs,”
Lowe said.
Lowe spoke on preparing for the impact of
health care reform during the Oct. 13 meeting
of HRA of Central Missouri at William Woods
University’s Columbia campus. Lowe’s projects
at Mercer include development of short- and
long-term benefits strategies and development
of consumerism and employee cost-sharing
strategies.
To cut their costs, Lowe is encouraging
companies to consider at least three options:
consumerism, a more effective pharmacy management program and tighter quality-driven
networks. When it comes to consumerism, com-
panies should have programs, such as wellness
programs, that keep employees engaged in their
health management. Consumer-directed health
plans shift more of the responsibility to the employees to seek health care. To have a more effective pharmacy management program, companies should implement programs that are more
outcome-based in which the pharmacy and the
drugs can truly improve the health of the individual, Lowe said. Tighter quality-driven networks focus on the most effective providers;
many insurance carriers do evaluations to determine which providers have the highest quality
ratings.
Immediacy is key when it comes to preparing
for the health care reform, according to Lowe.
“We are absolutely telling employers that
they can’t wait for health care reform, and they
need to take action now to be better prepared,”
Lowe said.
Employers face a potential surcharge if their
benefits plans cost too much, and according to
Lowe’s data, 25 percent of employers will be
subject to the surcharge by 2013, which is why
she is encouraging them to examine their plans
immediately. Companies need to manager their
costs in the present in order to avoid future
surprises.
“They need to continue to manage their costs
in the short term, and it’s more important than
ever,” Lowe said. v
How to prevent, identify H1N1
The health of employees during an outbreak such as H1N1 influenza plays a critical role in the
continued operations of a business.
The best ways to do this are through education, proper personal hygiene, and appropriate
medical care. Employees should stay home at least 24 hours after they are free of fever without
medication.
It is important to know the differences between common cold and H1N1 flu symptoms. Below
are some guidelines:
Symptom
Cold
H1N1 Flu
Fever
Fever is rare.
Fever is present in up to 80% of all flu cases. A
temperatureof 100°F or higher for 3 to 4 days is
associated with the flu.
Coughing
A hacking, productive (mucusproducing) cough is often present.
A non-productive (non-mucus producing) cough
is usually present (sometimes referred to as dry
cough).
Aches
Body aches and pains are slight.
Severe aches and pains are common.
Stuffy Nose
Stuffy nose is commonly present.
Stuffy nose is not commonly present.
Chills
Chills are uncommon.
60% of people who have the flu experience chills.
Tiredness
Tiredness is fairly mild.
Tiredness is moderate to severe.
Sneezing
Sneezing is commonly present
Sneezing is not common.
Headache
A headache is fairly uncommon.
A headache is very common, present in 80% of
flu cases.
Sore Throat
Sore throat is commonly present with Sore throat is not commonly present with the flu.
a cold.
Chest Discomfort
Chest discomfort is mild to moderate.
Chest discomfort is often severe with the flu.
Customer Service » Lili Vianello
People are talking…
Are you part of the conversation?
In previous years, marketers and businesses directed their messages to an audience in the form
of a push. An ad was produced, the consumer listened, and if the message connected, the customer
would follow the call to action.
Things are a little different now. Consumers are the ones who are seeking out brands. Instead of a
push method, messages are being distributed through a conversation between brands and consumers. This conversation is facilitated through the Web and social media.
People are talking. They say good things and bad things, and they might be talking about you.
You can ignore them, or you can become one of them. Have you joined the conversation?
By joining the conversation, you will know what is being said, and you will be able to make
contributions. Your contributions help direct the tone and direction of things being said. It’s always
better to be able to contribute to a conversation so your message is spread more in the manner you
would like it rather than depending on others to get it right.
Before you jump in, let’s go over a few important things.
• Social networking is all about enabling conversations. It is important to let people talk and to
talk back.
• You can’t control the conversation, but you can influence it. Remember that annoying kid in
high school who always had something to say and shot down everyone else’s ideas? Don’t be that
kid. Be the one who made you think their ideas were your ideas, too.
• Influence is the foundation upon which all viable relationships are built. Social networking is all
about forming a relationship. Make sure that relationship is open and honest. A few negative comments can actually make you seem more genuine — after all, everybody makes mistakes.
Now that we’ve gone over the basics, lets talk about a few popular social networks.
Facebook.com
You’ve probably heard of Facebook. It started in 2004 and with more than 300 million users has
been growing at lighting speed ever since. Facebook says its mission is to give people the power to
share and make the world more open and connected. Millions of people, businesses and organizations use Facebook every day to keep up with friends, upload an unlimited number of photos, share
links and videos, promote events and learn more about the people they meet.
If you want to use Facebook to help promote your business or service, you need to create a fan
page. You can add basic information, photos, videos, articles (called notes), links and status updates
to your page. Your fans can add photos, videos, links and comments to your page if you let them,
which we recommend you do.
MySpace.com
MySpace existed before Facebook but has recently seen a drop in visitors. MySpace is a technology company connecting people through personal expression, content and culture. The site has a
good layout for musicians to showcase their talents. MySpace empowers its global community to
experience the Internet through a social lens by integrating personal profiles, photos, videos, mobile,
messaging, games and the world's largest music community.
On your MySpace account, you can upload personal information, photos, videos, songs, games,
comments and a blog. You can create a list of friends who also have MySpace profiles. Make your
profile public, or keep everything between you and your friends.
Twitter.com
Twitter is a micro-blog. It is a real-time, short messaging service that works over multiple networks and devices. In countries all around the world, people follow the sources most relevant to
them and access information via Twitter as it happens — from breaking world news to updates from
friends.
On Twitter, you get 140 characters to tell the world what you are doing, what you are thinking
or what you find interesting at the moment. Use it to link to interesting articles, direct users to your
Web site or to talk about things going on in the world or with your business.
LinkedIn.com
This is a network for business professionals and it is all about connections.
LinkedIn says it can be used to find past and present colleagues quickly and discover inside connections when you’re looking for a new business opportunity. The network is full of industry experts
willing to share advice.
The form for creating a LinkedIn account asks users to complete a resume-like profile and create
a company profile and a list of employees with LinkedIn profiles.
So are you ready to start networking? If this has been enough to thoroughly confuse you, or if you
don’t have time to do it all yourself, call us at Visionworks. We would love to get you started with
social media. We will even help you maintain your social networking accounts if you need a little
help. It’s time to start the conversation. v
Lili Vianello is President of Visionworks, a Columbia-based full-service marketing and communications
firm offering Web design and maintenance. Contributions to this article were made by Visionworks staff members. Portions were also liberally borrowed from Facebook.com, MySpace.com, Twitter.com and LinkedIn.com.
New Business Licenses
October
*Includes changes in
business ownership
Quiznos Sub
Jeffrey Allen Weaver
2703 E. Broadway, Ste. 125
Restaurant
General licenses:
Studio B Dance Center
Ashley Ann Mayer
(573) 441-2220
2909 Falling Leaf Ln.
Dance studio
Breeze Outfitters
Regeb Mavrakis
908 E. Broadway
Retail women’s apparel
Geo-Monitoring
Herbert Wolverson
(573) 234-4647
1 E. Broadway
Electronic monitoring —
probation, parole
Gold & Silver
Mustafa Ergun
(573) 044-5697
2300 Bernadette Dr.
Retail jewelry
Hunny Bunzs
Anthony Murphy
(573) 442-7530
206 E. Texas Ave.
Restaurant/Bar
Joe Machens Automotive
Group
Gary Drewing
(573) 875-5000
500 Vandiver Dr.
Auto dealership
Marjorie Tveitnes Agency
Marjorie Tveitnes
(573) 443-6080
3201 S. Providence Rd.,
Ste. 203
Insurance agency —
Shelter Insurance
New Deli Sub &
Sandwich Café
RDR Enterprises Inc
33200 Vandiver Dr., Ste. 10
Restaurant
Supercuts
Adam Crews
(573) 874-3001
509 E. Nifong Blvd., Ste. 14
Hair salon
General Licenses-Home
Occupation
Bella Sera
Wedding Designs
Erica Christine Bruns
(573) 680-1131
5204 Opal Dr.
Wedding planning,
entertainment services
Bibby’s DJ Service
John D. Bibby
(573) 529-9769
1967 Jackson St.
Mobile DJ service
Bratten Enterprises
Blake Benjamin Bratten
(573) 256-1824
1904 Longstreet Dr.
Handyman
Columbia Eagle
Eye Tactical
Brandon S. Whitaker
(573) 234-1311
3508 Longfords Mill Dr.
Retail sale of airsoft toy
guns and accessories
Critter Control of
Central Mo
Peter Douglas Riney
(573) 442-2294
2302 Grizzly Ct.
Nuisance wildlife removal,
insect extermination
Dan Berry
Insurance Agency
Dan Berry Parks III
(660) 728-2387
2501 Bear Bluff Dr.
Property and casualty
insurance
Gold Seal Painting
Curtis Dale Bennett
(573) 529-1983
5901 St. Charles Rd., Trlr. 5
Painting and small repairs
Helen Robinson
Cleaning Service
Helen Robinson
(573) 214-0012
2203 Millay Dr.
Residential and
commercial cleaning
service
Loose Change Vending
Diane Bell
(573) 234-8629
2401 Blue Ridge Rd.
Vending machines
NAC Roofing
Alexander Chiu
(573) 447-1536
3505 Zinnia Dr.
Roofing repairs and
installation
One Of A Kind Tours
Cyril David Schaller
(573) 446-9316
14 Eubank Ct.
Travel/tours
Paul Dysart PC Hardward
& More
Paul Robert Dysart
(573) 447-3805
2304 Sallee Gaele Ct.
Wholesale computer sales
Revs Corner
Revanth Korukonda
(573) 639-0676
1319 Anthony St., Apt. 2
Web site — Indian movie
information and ticketing
S & C Home Solutions LLC
Christopher C. Blakemore
(573) 445-1186
4404 Brunswick Dr.
Remodeling and painting
S & S Security Consulting
Scott Sergent
(573) 446-0516
6806 Port Orchard Dr.
Security and safety —
consulting and training
Scott’s Janitorial Service
Stephen R. Scott
(573) 356-1588
2311 Windmill Ct.
Janitorial services
Taylor Structural
Engineering
Timothy D. Taylor
(573) 814-2168
5601 Redwing Dr.
Structural engineering
Tiger Stripes Lawn Care
Eric Steele Wesbury
(573) 881-0987
1708 Oxford Dr., Apt. B
Lawn care
Toni Rahman, LLC LCSW
Toni A. Rahman
(573) 999-6011
623 Bluff Dale Dr.
Mental health, parent
education
Zane’s Piano Service
Zane A. Omohundro
(952) 239-2810
2012 W. Ash St., Apt. B-08
Piano tuning and repair
4 Aces Locksmithing
Services
Andy Lee Hurd
(573) 442-3462
1520 Bodie Dr.
Mobile locksmithing
services
NEW BUSINESS page sponsored by:
New Business Update - Downtown
Olive Café and Grocery
21 N. Providence Rd.
Café Berlin has opened at its new location
at 10th and Park streets, and Olive Café and
Grocery took its place, opening on Nov. 10.
The decision to open the café came after owner Jamal Allza noticed his two similar stores in
Kansas City were drawing customers from the
Columbia area, according to the local manager,
Ayman Harb. Around 60 percent of customers
who would frequent a Columbia store were going to the Kansas City stores.
The Olive Café will serve 12 combination
meals, including falafel, gyros, hummus and kebobs, and will sell groceries.
Chef Connection
22 N. Ninth St. | 356-4461
When owner Kasey Ryan started the Chef
Connection, a catering business run out of her
home, in January, she didn’t expect to be running a restaurant later in the year. The Chef
Connection, which opened the week of Oct. 19
across from The Blue Note, serves breakfast,
lunch and desserts Monday through Saturday.
Casablanca
501 Elm St. | 442-4883
The second location of this Mediterranean
restaurant (the first is on Peachtree Drive in
south Columbia) will join Bengals on the lot on
Elm Street between Sixth and Fifth streets. The
building is still being renovated, but the restaurant is expected to open in late November or
December.
The Textbook Game
904 Elm St, Ste 212 | 441-8398
Beat the Bookstore, where students buy and
sell textbooks, decided to start selling video
games and change its name to the Textbook
Game.
Yogoluv
201 S. Ninth St.
Yogoluv, a do-it-yourself, premiere frozen
yogurt store, will be opening up along side the
Missouri Theatre this month. The store will feature several flavors and toppings for customers
to choose from when making their personalized
yogurt creations.
NEW BUSINESS LICENSES
Construction update
Vandiver Drive Extension,
Upper Hinkson Sewer Project
Where: From Vandiver Drive at U.S. Highway 63 to
Mexico Gravel Road. The extension crosses a new
bridge spanning the upper Hinkson Creek.
Contractor: Emery Sapp and Sons
Cost: $6.7 million
Status: Work began in March and is scheduled to be
finished in December.
Why: The extension will improve transportation
between the northeast and northern quadrants of
Columbia by providing access to U.S. 63, Vandiver
Drive and Mexico Gravel Road. The construction
workers are extending Vandiver Drive to run parallel
to U.S. 63 and connect to Mexico Gravel Road. A twolane bridge will replace a narrow one-lane bridge that
spanned the Hinkson Creek. There will be two new
roundabouts: one at the intersection of Vandiver Drive
and the U.S. 63 interchange and another where Mexico
Gravel Road meets with the Vandiver Extension and
the new bridge. Environmental infrastructure will
also be improved as part of the project. An inadequate
sewer line and pump station along on the creek will be
replaced. The two projects have been major city road
plans for years that were passed in the 2003 and 2005
ballot issues. v
Previous page: The project extends
Vandiver Drive from U.S. 63 to Mexico
Gravel Road.
Clockwise: Construction workers
assemble the new bridge that spans
over Hinkson Creek.
RIGHT: Construction crews work on a
new roundabout at the intersection of
Mexico Gravel Road and the Vandiver
Drive extension.
Construction update
PUBLIC RECORD
Deeds of Trust more than $160,000
Oct. 27-Nov. 2
RADER, JULIE ANN TRUST
LANDMARK BANK
LT 27 PT COLUMBIA
$2,050,000
NINTH STREET PROPERTIES LLC
LANDMARK BANK
LT 26 PT COLUMBIA
$2,050,000
SAUERS, BRYAN R & VALERIE J
NAVY FEDERAL CREDIT UNION
LT 322 OLD HAWTHORNE PLAT
NO 3
$477,050
TONNIES, JOSEPH F & MARGARET A
ALLIED MORTGAGE GROUP INC
LT 1 BL 2 GRASSLANDS ADD
STAGE1
$343,750
STEPHENS, DAVID & DEBRA
COMMERCE BANK
LT 17 PARADISE HILLS ESTATES
BLK 4
$340,000
RYAN, MICHAEL W & JULIE A
BANK OF AMERICA
LT 367 THORNBROOK PLAT NO 11
$328,000
FRAME PROPERTIES LLC
PROVIDENCE BANK
LT 9B HERIGON CENTER I COMMERCIAL CONDOS
$325,000
NEW HAVEN LLC
SECURITY BANK OF PULASKI
COUNTY (1)
STR 26-48-12 //SE
$320,935
PUBLIC RECORD
Deeds of Trust more than $160,000
Nov. 3-9
SENTINEL PROPERTIES LLC
HAWTHORN BANK
LT 10 LAKEWOOD GARDENS SUB FF
W/ESMT
$2,560,000
FLEISCHER, STEVEN P & REIMLER,
MARCI D
BANK OF MISSOURI THE
LT 1 VANDIVER SQUARE SUB
$1,308,880
GIBB, GEORGE A TRUST
BOONE COUNTY NATIONAL BANK
LT 2-B1 LIMERICK HEIGHTS COMMERCIAL SUB PLAT 2A
$475,000
KINKADE, SCOTT & SHEA K
CALLAWAY BANK THE
LT 127 SPRING CREEK PLAT 1
$406,400
HULETT, KRIS K & LISA MALOTT
MAINSTREET BANK
STR 4-48-14 /E/SE SUR BK/PG:
406/259
$389,610
SCHLIMME, MARK & CARRIE
CALLAWAY BANK THE
LT 23 WOODRAIL SUB PLAT 8
$378,640
PRIEST, STEPHEN & ANGELA
LANDMARK BANK
LT 311 CASCADES PLAT NO 3 THE
$327,200
BELL, DEBORA J & ROBERT E SR
BANK OF AMERICA
MAGNUS ENTERPRISES LLC
SECURITY BANK OF PULASKI
COUNTY (1)
STR 25-48-12 /S/SW SUR BK/PG:
2731/88
$320,935
LANGE, ERIC C & ALICIA M
STR 4-46-12 /S/NW SUR BK/PG:
3490/2 FF TRACT 2 A
$260,000
THARP, DANNY J & DARLA L
LT 86 MILL CREEK MANOR PLAT
NO 1
$257,962
BOUCHARD, GUY & CATHERINE A
LT 7 CHAPEL HILL LAKE
$236,000
BURTON, KENNETH M & LINDA V
FLAT BRANCH MORTGAGE INC
LT 10 POWELL SUB
$232,707
MOSS, WALDON L & JANET L
FIRSTRUST MORTGAGE INC
LT 92 HERITAGE MEADOWS PLAT 5
$229,647
MCFADDEN, RODNEY L & AUDREY M
WELLS FARGO BANK
LT 85 QUAIL CREEK PLAT NO 2
$211,105
HORN, KENNETH R & JANELL L
REVOCABLE LIVING TRUST
COMMERCE BANK
STR 18-47-12 //NW SUR BK/PG:
437/553
$208,800
CORNERSTONE CONSTRUCTION
LLC
COMMERCE BANK
1003/983
$316,400
DURDLE, LEIGH A & DANIEL A
CEFCU
LT 407 THORNBROOK PLAT NO 12
$308,750
HOERNSCHEMEYER, DANIEL G &
KAREN L
LT 193 THORNBROOK PLAT 6
$308,000
RELAX INVESTMENTS INC
MONTGOMERY BANK
LT 103A WOODLAND SPRINGS
PLAT 3
$307,000
WRIGHT, DON DAVID JR & MICHELE LYN
BNC NATIONAL BANK
LT 25 BROOKFIELD ESTATES PLAT 3
$305,000
CAVANAUGH, DAWN
CENTRAL TRUST BANK
LT 144 SPRING CREEK PLAT 1
$300,000
WESTLAKE, RICHARD D & JANICE
WELLS FARGO BANK
STR 17-50-12 /W/NE
$275,114
LIEDTKE, CORINNE A & HANS D
PREMIER BANK
LT 214A VINEYARDS PLAT NO 2-A
$274,916
CATHEY, PHILLIP L & SUSAN L
LANDMARK BANK
STR 24-49-13 //SE SUR BK/PG:
400/598
$270,000
LT 34 BOONE'S POINTE
$208,800
MCCRARY, MICHAEL & STACY
LT 35 GREENBRIAR SUB
$192,850
MITCHELL, BARBARA S
LT 17 UNIVERSITY PARK ADD#5
$189,000
MARTIN, JODY & TARA
LT 643 ARCADIA PLAT 6
$186,558
BENNETT, MARK & ANNETTE
EVERETT FINANCIAL INC
LT 56 WEST OAKS PLAT 4
$185,948
KELLY, MICHAEL J & JANET T
400/566 FF PARCEL 1
$184,103
HAMRAH, BENJAMIN
DAS ACQUISITION CO LLC
LT 140 FOREST PARK SOUTH PLAT 1
$164,171
HOLEM, JONATHAN EUGENE
USAA FEDERAL SAVINGS BANK
LT 7 BEARFIELD MEADOWS
$162,316
REYNOLDS, JADA L & TIMOTHY G
WELLS FARGO BANK
LT 340 EASTPORT VILLAGE PLAT 3
$160,663
FILE CONSTRUCTION LLC
HAWTHORN BANK
LT 327 QUAIL CREEK WEST PLAT 3
$160,000
PITT, MICHAEL R & JENNIFER L
LT 16 SMITHTON RIDGE PLAT 1
$268,357
DAVID, CHRIS B & PATRICIA A
LT 16 COUNTRY MEADOWS SUB
$264,500
PRICA, GEORGE JR & FRANCES M
CALLAWAY BANK THE
LT 3 PT FLORAS SUB FF SUNSET
HILL SUBDIVISION #1
$262,400
OFODILE, DIANNA L, ANSELM A JR,
& JANET B
LT 416 CASACADES PLAT NO 4 THE
$261,665
ADAMS, JOHN E & DEAKYNE,
CAROL A
LT 122 HIGHLANDS PLAT 12-B THE
$257,600
SMITH, MARTHA ANNE & LEE
CLAIR
1977/645 AC 10.000
$251,000
MCCALLISTER, BRETT A & JENNIFER L
CITIMORTGAGE INC
LT 22 ARROWHEAD LAKE ESTATES
$250,300
DENTON, DAVID H & CAROLYN H
LIVING TRUST THE
BANK OF MISSOURI THE
LT 202 ROSEWOOD CONDOMINIUMS
$250,000
Perfect Pairings, Like with the Like
“Fay-jwa-da” — spelled Feijoada. It took me a
while to say but no time at all to enjoy. This Brazilian
stew is divine, and I had the chance to sample it recently at the University Club’s Latin Food and Wine
Summit. This two-day event, sponsored by the
University Club and partnered with the American
Culinary Federation, was the second installment of its
kind. The goal of this year’s summit was to educate
UClub staff and members of the Missouri Chapters of
the American Culinary Federation through seminars
and food demonstrations. The concept for the event
was based on the Culinary Institute of America’s
World of Flavor Conference held in California.
I’m there for the wine portion of the event, which
pairs international varietals with Feijoada and fresh
salsas. Golden Barrel, along with importer Kysela Pere
et Fils, set up various wines to showcase during the
two sessions. The room is set up like a test kitchen from on old
PBS cooking show, with students in chef whites and
monitors on either side of the cooking area — perfect
for up-close viewing.
The first chef is Adauto Rodrigues, a consultant
chef from Sao Paulo Brazil. He is a soft-spoken man —
no Emeril Lagasse, that’s for sure — and quietly starts
frying his pork belly. Feijoida is a typical Portuguese
dish made with black beans and smoked pork and
beef. Normally the stew is prepared over a slow fire
in a thick clay pot and served with rice, collard greens,
sliced oranges and toasted cassava flour. Cassava is
a root and is usually processed into meal and flour.
Brazilians use it as a condiment, much like the Italians
use Parmesan cheese. A fresh vinegary salsa goes on
top. The layers of flavors are smoky, salty, meaty, spicy
and fatty delicious. Chef Rodrigues tells everyone that
the locals typically drink rum with Feijoada because
they think it helps with digestion. I, however, am dying for some sparkling wine to go with my sample, so
off I go to the wine table to see if my idea of pairing
works.
Guillome Portalellet of Kysela Pere et Fils mentions
to the crowd that when pairing wine with foods, there
are no boundaries. However, he does have personal
recommendations for the stew that are similar to what
I have in mind — sparkling wine, off dry Rieslings or
spicy reds.
My first pick is a sparkling white from Lonko out
of Patagonia, Argentina. The crisp and refreshing bubbles are exactly the type of palette cleanser I am looking for. It has a great citrus nose that also pairs well
with the orange peel in the stew.
The next wine I try is the off-dry Riesling from
Matheus Piesporter. It’s a fine wine, and I can see this
pairing nicely with seafood or cheeses, but I don’t like
it so much with the stew.
I then go to like and like — spicy wine with spicy
stew. This pairing almost always works well. The
Thorn-Clarke, Terra Barossa, Shiraz from Australia
is a typical big, oaky spicy wine that holds up well
against the hearty stew. But the sparkling wine is still
the best, in my opinion.
The students take a break and then a few minutes
later come back for the salsa demonstration. Chef
Chadwick Isom, president of the Springfield/Branson
ACF chapter, presents five salsas that students had developed during their weekend of classes.
The first salsas are the roasted green tomato salsa,
Vera Cruz cucumber salsa and the mint ginger pineapple salsa. All are very fresh and delicious with lime, cilantro and cumin being the dominant flavors. Pairing
wine with these flavors can be difficult, so I go with the
Latin Food and Wine Summit brings a taste of the world to Columbia
Priya Batchu
Mike and Marcheita Anderson and Valorie Livingston.
two most obvious to me. First is the Wolfberger Pinot
Blanc from Alsace, France. This wine is clean and crisp
and just acidic enough to stand up to the lime.
The second set of salsas features smoky ingredients
such as the smoked heirloom tomato squash and the
grilled corn, pinto bean and ancho salsa. It’s smoky
flavors, smoky wines — like with like.
I’ve said it before; I love Malbec, and the Tiza
Malbec from Mendoza, Argentina, is killer. Aged in
new French oak barrels for 12 months, this wine is
complex, smoky, subtly spicy and still fruity. I love
the wine with both salsas but frankly would love this
wine with just about anything. Yum!
Also on hand from Golden Barrel is the 2006 Mi
Sueno Winery Chardonnay. Rolando Herrera, owner
and winemaker, worked at Stag’s Leap Wine Cellars
for 20 years before launching his own brand. His
wines have won numerous awards and are befitting
of the Latin theme of the weekend. I try this toasty
chardonnay with the corn salsa and love the combination. The velvety texture of the wine goes perfectly
with the corn.
The demonstrations wrap up, and some people linger around the wine table to sample the wines. A few
days later, still impressed with the Feijoada, I end up
buying a Latin cookbook with its version of Feijoada
included. Aproveite! (Portuguese for enjoy!)
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