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How To Make Easy, Delicious Gifts

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Columbia Outdoors

8 The Tasting Room 10 On The Road With Ray 12 Will Your Nest Egg Last?

16 Rockin’ Historian: Chris Edwards

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20 How To Guide 22 Meet A Boone Hospital Center Doctor 25 Prime Time Calendar 30 How Can I Help?

32 Pet Corner 34 Life Lessons 36 Tinseltown Talks 38 Faces & Places

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40 Fun & Games 42 Enter Our Essay Contest!

44 Tell Me About It 46 Recipe Box 50 Chef’s Secrets

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Welcome

Feeling Inspired

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People ask me what my favorite kind of story is to write. That’s easy. People stories.

And my favorite kind of people story is an inspirational profile. I’m always up for talking to people who have overcome a challenge or made a dream come true.

This month, I had the chance to talk to two inspirational people. The first was Chris Edwards, a musician/composer/ songwriter who took his fascination with the Civil War and turned it into creative works that combine rock music with folk music and history. His friends all thought his ideas were “nutty,” he says, but he believed in his visions anyway and has since earned standing ovations for his works. Learn more about his story, as well as the upcoming Battle of Centralia Reenactment Weekend featuring his talents, on Page 16.

The second inspirational profile was for our monthly Your Bucket List feature. This month’s subject is Becky Hennessy, one of 13 Columbia Multisport Club members who competed in the Ironman Canada triathlon on July 27. This extreme endurance race has the tagline, “Anything is Possible,” and Hennessy’s story supports that lofty claim. Read about her experiences on Page 52.

Along with sharing inspiring stories, something else I love about working for Prime is the chance to interact with you, the readers. This month we’re launching a few new opportunities for you to engage with Prime, including a new trivia contest and a new find-the-tiger contest, both on Page 40, and our first essay contest on Page 42.

Even better, we have planned an ice cream social for our Prime readers. We hope you will join us on Sep. 16, from 4 to 6 p.m., at our office at 47 E. Broadway so we can thank you for reading Prime with some free cake and ice cream.

I look forward to seeing you!

Publisher Fred Parry

Prime Magazine is published by OutFront Communications, 47 E. Broadway, Columbia, MO 65203, 573-442-1430. Copyright OutFront Communications, 2013. The magazine is published 12 times a year on the first day of every month. All rights reserved. Reproduction or use of any editorial or graphic content without the express written permission of the publisher is prohibited.

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Associate Publisher Melody Garnett Parry Associate Publisher & Executive Editor Sandy Selby Managing Editor Anita Neal Harrison Editorial Assistant Morgan McCarty Graphic Designer Alyssa Blevins Trever Griswold Rudi Petry Photo Editor L.G. Patterson Marketing Representatives Rosemarie Peck Joe Schmitter Jessica Card Operations Manager Kalie Clennin Finance Manager Brenda Brooks Distribution Manager John Lapsley Director of Customer Retention Gerri Shelton Contributing Writers Kathy Casteel, Heather Finn, Saralee Perel, Angel Donnette Robertson, Ray Speckman, Nick Thomas, John Williams

Serving the boomer & senior markets

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Capen Park 1600 Capen Park Drive

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BY HEATHER FINN If you’re looking for both fun and functionality,

take a trip to Capen Park. Among the park’s 31.9 acres, you can find everything from a natural rock-climbing wall to a city mulch site. So whether you’re looking for a little adventure or need fertilizer for your garden, make a stop here — and don’t forget your dog!

5 Things To Do Here: 1. Try your hand at rock climbing.

Or at least spend a little time watching the pros. Capen Park is a popular site for this extreme sport, with a rock cliff reaching approximately 75 feet high. Bolts atop the bluff allow for easy rope tie-ins.

2. Enjoy the view.

If rock climbing isn’t your thing but you still want a blufftop view, opt for the slightly easier route. Hike up the opposite side of the rock face for a look at Hinkson Creek and the many treetops below.

3. Give and take.

That is, give a little yard waste and take some free mulch. The park has a City of Columbia mulch site where you can drop off your leaves, grass clippings, brush and small tree limbs anytime between dawn and dusk. Mulch found at the site is available for Columbia residents’ personal use.

4. Take the dog for a walk.

The natural trails surrounding the park are home to native prairie grasses and plenty of vegetation. Your furry friend will love sniffing his or her way down the path.

5. Make a splash.

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The Tasting Room

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Stone Hill Triumphs Again With Yet Another Award-Winning Norton

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By Kathy Casteel

Stone Hill Winery has made a habit of winning awards for its wines, but this year the Hermann vintners added a new routine to their winning ways. The winery repeated its triple-win performance of last year by sweeping the Missouri Wine Competition, winning the 2014 Governor’s Cup for best wine in Missouri, plus the C.V. Riley Award for best Norton and Best of Class honors for dry red wine.

The star of the show was Stone Hill’s 2012 Cross J Norton, an elegant wine from the grapes of the 10-acre Cross J Vineyard surrounding winery owners Jim and Betty Held’s hilltop home in Hermann.

This is the Cross J Norton’s second Governor’s Cup but its first Riley Award since the Norton honor began three years ago. Last year’s awards sweep came with the winery’s estate Norton.

The dark purple Cross J is the poster child for everything that’s good about Norton, Missouri’s state grape. An aroma of dark fruit entices, delivering fullbodied, layered flavors of ripe cherries, blueberries and chocolate with an earthy undercurrent. Silky smooth, with nary a trace of bitterness, there is a kick of freshness before the lingering finish sets in. Serve with grilled meats and game, barbecue, brats or anything you like. There isn’t a dish that doesn’t dance with this wine.

The secret to Cross J’s deliciousness is in the coddled vineyard overlooking the Missouri River and a higher percentage of new and European oak in the barrels where it ages for a year. The Cross J label is a labor of love for the winery family, a passion reflected in the quality of the wine. Here’s to another good year from the hilltop! v

Best Of The Best Check out these gold-medal wines, all Best of Class winners in the Missouri Wine Competition.

Sparkling Les Bourgeois Vineyards LBV Brut Rosé Augusta Winery Estate-Bottled La Fleur Sauvage

Sweet White Hermannhof Winery 2012 Vignoles Dry Red Stone Hill Winery 2012 Cross J Vineyard Norton

Dry White Montelle Winery 2013 Seyval Blanc

Semi-Dry Red Adam Puchta Winery Hunter’s Red

Semi-Dry White Les Bourgeois Vineyards 2013 Vignoles

Sweet Red Montelle Winery Stone House Red

The Cross J Vineyard name honors Jim Held with a J and Jesus Christ with a cross.

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Fruit Wine Windy Wine Co. Good News Red Dessert/Fortified Wine Adam Puchta Winery Signature Port Late Harvest/Icewine Stone Hill Winery 2013 Late Harvest Vignoles Distilled Product Montelle Winery Cherry Brandy

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On The Road With Ray

Wandering Through Together Exposing A Romance Based On A Common Lust For Travel By ray speckman

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I am coming out of the closet.

No, not the gay closet, the living-in-sin closet.

For years, I have vaguely written of “my traveling companion,” “my friend,” “my dinner partner” and other generic, hardly identifiable references to the person I am with in my travels.

It’s time to come out of the closet.

For over a half-decade, I have been living with a widowed partner in geriatric harmonic bliss. Her name is Joyce Mitchell.

Joyce and I lived on opposite sides of the Lake of the Ozarks for many years.

We knew of one another but had never met. We are products of the tech age for we met on Match.com.

Joyce was retired from a management position at Avon Corporation and had opened a small boutique in Versailles,

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Emme’s Attic, named for what she was called by her two grandchildren.

So, we began living together, and I found a man-cave corner in the boutique. Joyce and I both have a penchant and lust for exploration and travel. It was a perfect arrangement, especially with reliable friends to run the boutique when we are away.

We look for excuses to go somewhere.

A few years ago, we discovered the wholesale district on North Clark Street in Chicago, about a mile north of Wrigley Field. About 20 wholesale shops call the area home. There, we find bargains, unusual items that make Emme’s Attic unique, and we load our Odyssey to the brim.

We also enjoy the theater in Chicago.

So when Joyce discovered that Dancing with the Stars professionals and brother

and sister Derek and Julianne Hough were bringing their traveling show to Chicago, we jumped on it. We got tickets several months in advance for a show this past July. The show sold out, and there was a good reason why: It was, to say the least, spectacular.

Hotels in downtown Chicago are pricey and car parking is atrocious. A few years ago, we found the Howard Johnson Inn Chicago Downtown, where the hotel was old, convenient, safe, clean and inexpensive with free parking. That has been our destination. But, alas, the wrecking ball will take down our inexpensive hotel in the fall of 2014 to make way for a highrise condo/commercial complex.

We spend the biggest part of a day in the wholesale district. Generally, I abhor shopping. Whenever forced into a shop to purchase for Emme’s, my first order of

business is to locate and commandeer a man chair, plop myself down and wait impatiently while Joyce, the inveterate shopper, fondles every piece of merchandise in the store.

It isn’t like that when we shop for merchandise in Chicago. I enjoy the large selection of jewelry, purses, scarves and other items each store has on display. There are literally hundreds of thousands of selections in every store, and the owners and staff know every single item. We look at purses, for example. The clerks ask us our market — age, race, economic and other demographics.

They tell us styles and colors that sell well to our market. They negate some of our choices: “Oh no, don’t buy that. That won’t sell to your customers.”

Some of the clerks know us by sight. They rush to meet us. I assume they are on some kind of commission.

Joyce and I shop and shop. We debate.

We get advice from the clerks. Never, never has any clerk in any shop in the area advised us to make a purchase that did not sell when we got it back to Versailles.

In each shop, our selections are piled behind the cash register, and when we check out, each item is wrapped separately and placed in a shopping bag. Ingloriously, the beautiful purses are put into garbage bags.

We pay, garbage bags and packages are stowed in the back of the van, and the process is repeated in other shops in the area.

I always like to drive back downtown south on Clark Street, which passes by Wrigley Field, home of the hapless Cubbies.

It is quite a sight, game day or not, to drive past, maybe stopping for a cold one at one of the surrounding bars, such as Murphy’s Bleachers, and see history all over the walls and a statue of old favorite Harry Caray just across the street at the centerfield gate to the old ball park.

On one non-game day, the good folks at Murphy’s took us up several flights of stairs to their rooftop bleachers. It was impressive, but I would prefer to watch my ballgames in the same block as the playing field.

But then I can appreciate just about any view, so long as Joyce is next to me. v — Ray Speckman can be found dreaming of excuses to take a trip or at rayspeckman@emmesannex.com.

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Your Finances

Will Your Nest Egg Last?

Local Financial Experts Give 5 Strategies For Successful Investing In Retirement

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Conventional wisdom says retirees must be conservative investors to protect their hard-earned savings. While there’s some truth to that, local financial experts Aaron Rigdon, a financial advisor with Callaway Investment Services, and Ryan Lovill, market executive and portfolio manager for The Commerce Trust Company, add retirees should not read “conservative” as “removing all risk” from their investments.

“While it is important to reduce risk exposure as one ages, I see all too often that people avoid risk altogether with all or a majority of their monies,” Rigdon says. “Not taking enough risk is a very real threat when you take inflation into consideration.

Americans are living longer, and a gallon of milk 25 years from now will certainly cost much more than it does today. A piece of all retirees’ portfolios needs to be invested in things that can grow even if that means the investment isn’t ‘guaranteed.’ ” “Many retirees think they should have little to zero stock exposure during retirement,” Lovill adds. “What most people forget, however, is that many retirees will spend 20 to 30 years in

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retirement. At Commerce Trust Company, we let our clients know that having a mixture of investments, including stock exposure, can really benefit a portfolio during retirement.”

Being willing to invest in stocks is especially important in the current low-interest-rate market, both Rigdon and Lovill say.

“The market right now presents challenges for retirees searching for income,” Lovill says. “Bonds, CDs and money markets yield very little right now. We are, however, seeing good opportunities in stocks, particularly high-dividend stocks, for those seeking income.”

Rigdon, too, highlights dividend-paying stocks as an opportunity for retirees to generate income.

“There are many large blue-chip stocks out there that are currently very healthy companies and can help provide income to a portfolio,” Rigdon says. “A lot of these companies not only pay the dividend but have a track record of increasing the dividend payment, which can help with rising costs in retirement. Some of these companies’ dividend rates are higher than their

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corresponding yield on their bonds. This is not normally the case.”

Rigdon acknowledges the stock market can seem like a scary place for people who took a hit in 2008 and who aren’t accustomed to the market’s current level of volatility, but he comes back to the fact that investment returns must beat inflation rates or “people really are losing money … because they are losing purchasing power.”

To avoid the downfalls being either too conservative or too aggressive can bring, Rigdon and Lovill suggest retirees follow five important investment strategies.

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Work with a professional.

“Do your due diligence and find an advisor that is client-centric and that you feel you can trust,” Rigdon says. “Listen to this individual and be candid. It is human nature to react irrationally to market events, and those actions can have a detrimental impact. Professionals can help take the emotions out of investing.”

“The road to financial freedom sometimes takes unexpected twists and turns,” Lovill adds. “Those who try to navigate it alone expose themselves to unnecessary risks and miss countless opportunities.

Seek a trusted financial partner who is more interested in meeting your goals than selling a particular investment. Then review your plan quarterly to make sure your asset allocation remains on track.”

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formulate an investment strategy for delivering the rate of return needed to achieve your retirement goals.”

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Plan for longevity.

When doing that visualization, be sure to factor in a long life span and rising health care costs, Rigdon says. “What would your financial picture look like if you lived to be 95?” he asks.

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Plan for income.

“Review your income sources and annual expenses,” Rigdon says. “What income is permanent versus what expenses are fixed? Can you get by living on the interest from your money, or do you need a withdrawal strategy and what does that look like? What amount of income do you need in retirement, and what vehicles can provide the level of yield to attain those while maintaining an appropriate level of risk?”

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Follow your plan.

“Every day, the financial press comes out with new investment ideas and recommendations,” Lovill says.

“But much of that is guesswork and has more to do with market volatility than any real changes in a stock’s value. It’s wiser to stick to your plan and focus on a company’s fundamental performance.”

Do all that and, “most importantly,” Lovill says, “enjoy your retirement!” v

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his month marks the 150th anniversary of a brutal Civil War battle that took place in Centralia and involved men who became legends.

On Sep. 27, 1864, Captain William “Bloody Bill” Anderson led about 80 Confederate guerillas in an ambush against about 125 Federal troops, led by Major A.V.E. Johnston. At the battle’s end, all but a few of Anderson’s men were still standing, while only a couple of Johnston’s Federal troops escaped alive. Among the triumphant Confederate guerillas were brothers Frank and Jesse James, and Jesse, according to Frank, fired the shot that killed Major Johnston.

Chris Edwards was in his mid-20s when he first read this momentous history. Growing up in Columbia in the ’60s and ’70s, Edwards didn’t realize Missouri had seen much conflict during the Civil War. His eyes were opened when his mom gave him the book Jesse James Was His Name by William Settle.

“I read it, and I got really interested in Frank and Jesse,” Edwards says. “I did not know before that Frank and Jesse fought in the Civil War. I really didn’t even know there was a Civil War in Missouri.

“I kept reading, and I really just developed this tremendous passion,” he continues. “It was weird because a lot of my friends would go out golfing on the weekend, and I’d go to the library.”

It took some time — about 30 years, in fact — but Edwards eventually turned that passion into two creative works about the Civil War, as well as a master’s degree in history from the University of Missouri.

He began working on the first creative project back in 1978.

He was already an experienced musician by that time, having picked up the guitar at age 7. He started out studying classical guitar, but when the Beatles hit, “that did it,” he says. “I bought an electric guitar, and I played in rock bands for like 25 years.”

That included two years spent traveling with a band after he graduated from Columbia College, and then when he returned home, he became a member of the Catnip Mouse Band, a popular band in the

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’70s and ’80s led by Columbia music icon Jerome Wheeler.

With his “discovery” of the Civil War, Edwards found a new inspiration for his music. He started writing rock songs about the people and events of the war, focusing on the guerrilla warfare that took place in Missouri and Kansas. As he’d get the money, he’d go to a professional studio to record a song or two, and finally, in 1999, he had a CD, “Blood on the Border.”

“It took me about 20 years to get it out,” Edwards says. “No kidding.”

By the time Edwards had the CD, he’d been studying the Civil War for close to 25 years. He decided he should have more to show for his studies.

“So when I was 50, I applied to get into graduate school at MU in the history department and work on my master’s,” he says, “and lo and behold, they let me in.”

Adding an M.A. behind his name,

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Edwards says, gave him higher credibility as a Civil War historian, which he needed for his next big project, “Bloody Bill Rides.” A “musical docudrama” about the life and times of Captain William “Bloody Bill” Anderson, “Bloody Bill Rides” incorporates Edwards’s original rock songs from “Blood on the Border,” plus historical folk music, live narration and projected images and videos mostly taken at Civil War reenactments by Wide Awake Films, a documentary and film production company in Kansas City.

All of the show’s music is performed live, with a full rock band delivering the contemporary songs and noted folk duo Cathy Barton and Dave Para providing the folk music. The film and images are synced with the songs and narration, for a live music video effect.

Edwards has put on the show three times, each time to rave reviews. Along with knowing he’s helping to preserve history, he says he also derives much satisfaction from seeing something he imagined come to life.

“I think that’s probably the neatest thing to me,” he says.

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about the concept, people said: ‘You can’t do that! That costs too much money!’ The whole thing was built on, ‘No,’ and, ‘You can’t do that.’ And I said: ‘You know what?

I’m going to do it.’ ” This month, Edwards will be a key participant in The Battle of Centralia Reenactment Weekend, Sep. 13 and 14, at the Centralia Battlefield. Already, he has contributed a video that is posted on the event’s website, www. centraliabattlefield.com. The short video features him recounting some of the events leading up to the Battle of Centralia. The weekend before the battle reenactment, he will take part in a Columbia Star Dinner Train event that will reenact the Centralia Civil War Train Raid, which happened 20 days before

the Centralia battle. He will offer narration and perform music during train rides on Sep. 6 and 7.

Then during the Battle of Centralia Reenactment Weekend, he will narrate both the Battle of Centralia and the Mount Zion Battle reenactments. He will also perform alongside Cathy Barton and Dave Para in “Guerrillas of Missouri,” which will present Civil War history through contemporary music, folk music and narration.

“It’s really about education,” he says, about the reenactment weekend and his other Civil War music and shows. “People say, ‘Well, heck, I didn’t know all that stuff happened here, and I say: ‘That’s why I’m doing this.’ ” v

his summer, Chris Edwards retired from teaching at the Columbia Public Schools.

He taught there only a few years, having spent most of his career in administrative positions at Woodhaven, Lenoir, Columbia College and a residential facility in Kansas City.

Now that he’s retired, Edwards will have more time for another ambition: He’s hoping to get a Nashville songwriter deal one day.

Although his musical repertoire ranges from classical to rock, he’s focused on the country genre for pitching his songwriting. He’s recorded twice at Nashville’s Beaird Music Group, where he’s able to hire musicians and vocalists to bring his songs to life.

“I’ve been really fortunate to be able to pitch some of my songs to producers,” he says. “That hasn’t quite come to fruition — it may never — but it’s just a passion of mine, and I just really, really enjoy doing it.

“Nashville is a wonderful environment,” he continues.

“The people down there are hard workers and great musicians.”

Edwards has a couple of songs he plans to take to Nashville within the next year.

“And, again, it would be great to have something that would be picked up,” he says, “but I think the odds are kind of against it, just because that’s the way of the business. But it sure is a tremendous amount of fun for me, and it gives me incredible satisfaction to be in that environment.”

Battle of Centralia Events ll Find more details in our Prime Time calendar on Page 25.

Centralia Civil War Train Raid Presented by the Columbia Star Dinner Train Sat., Sep. 6 and Sun., Sep. 7 573-474-2223 ll www.dinnertrain.com

Battle of Centralia Reenactment Weekend Sat., Sep. 13 and Sun., Sep. 14 573-682-5511 ll www.centraliabattlefield.com Prime Magazine September 2014

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PROMOTION

How To Select An Exercise Professional

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Physical inactivity or a sedentary lifestyle is a major public health problem. Physically inactive people have an increased risk for chronic diseases including heart disease, stroke, diabetes, high blood pressure, osteoporosis and arthritis.

The American College of Sports Medicine, the largest organization of exercise professionals in the world, recommends that adults engage in either a minimum of 30 minutes of cardiovascular exercise, five or more days per week, or 20 minutes of vigorous exercise, three days per week, or a combination. The American College of Sports Medicine also recommends that adults of all ages engage in two to three weight training and three to four stretching exercise sessions per week.

For many sedentary people, this weekly amount of exercise can be intimidating and perceived as difficult to achieve. Help for starting and sustaining an exercise program can come from a knowledgeable exercise professional, someone with the skills, knowledge and abilities to design and implement a safe and effective comprehensive exercise program.

Selecting the right exercise professional can increase the chances of achieving your health and fitness goals and optimizing your health status while minimizing your risk for chronic diseases.

The well-educated and trained exercise professional can also assist in managing a chronic disease you may already have.

The following sets of questions will help lead you to a successful match.

Questions To Ask Yourself When Starting Your Search • Would you prefer a male or female exercise professional?

• Would you prefer someone older or younger?

• What personality type do you feel you can relate to best, someone with a more aggressive “coach” approach or someone with a more reserved “guideonly” approach?

• Do you prefer someone who is open to and welcomes questions, or who designs a plan and is more dogmatic in their approach to implementation?

Questions To Ask Exercise Professionals • Does the professional have at least a bachelor’s degree and preferably a master’s in exercise physiology, exercise science, nutrition and fitness, or a similar professional degree from an accredited college?

• Is the exercise professional certified by an accredited and respected organization? The American College of Sports Medicine (www.acsm.org) and the National Strength and Conditioning Association (www.nsca.com) are the two most prestigious and reputable organizations that provide National Commission for Certifying Agencies certifications for exercise professionals.

• How many years of experience does the exercise professional have?

• How much experience does the professional have working with persons with or at-risk for medical conditions? If you

have a particular chronic disease such as high blood pressure, type 2 diabetes or osteoporosis, ask specifically how much experience the exercise professional has had working with people with your particular condition(s). How knowledgeable is he or she of the condition, and the medical, diet and exercise therapies used for it? Does the professional request medical clearance before working with a person with a documented chronic disease?

• What personal diet and exercise program does the exercise professional follow? It is important that the exercise professional “walk the talk” and live the healthy lifestyle.

• Does the exercise professional have professional liability insurance and is he or she trained in the use of an automatic external defibrillator (AED) and cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR)? Is there an AED at the facility?

Questions To Ask Yourself After An Interview • Did you feel relaxed and comfortable with the exercise professional?

• Did the exercise professional greet you favorably and give you a tour of the facility?

• Did the professional discuss how he or she approaches working with clients?

• Did the professional seem knowledgeable and interested in your needs and goals?

• Was he or she a good communicator, i.e. did he or she maintain eye contact, focus on your questions and provide straightforward answers? v

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09.14September September 1 Every Labor Day since 1960, the Columbia Track Club has hosted the Heart of America Marathon. This race is not for the faint of heart due to dramatic elevation change and the season’s usual hot and humid weather.

Running south from Hearnes Center, the course includes a 17-mile loop that takes runners over Easley Hill on the Missouri River and through Rock Bridge Memorial State Park before heading back to Columbia for a downtown finish at the intersection of Seventh Street and Broadway. There will be aid stations every two miles at this event. Race headquarters are at the Hampton Inn on Stadium Boulevard. $45 early registration, $50 registration Aug. 31-Sept. 1; 6 a.m.; 1225 Fellows Place; www.columbiatrackclub.com/hoa

Market. Space is limited. $27 in advance, $32 at the door; 4 to 8 p.m.; 405 Fay St.; 573-289-0913; www.drinkmobeer.org

September 6 Make a run for it in the third annual Jefferson City Outdoors Prison Break, a 5-mile race that includes an obstacle course. The race begins at the Missouri State Penitentiary and ends at Prison Brews on Ash Street. Water stations are available throughout the course; goodies include T-shirts, free slices of pizza, awards and giveaways. $40; registration is from 7:30 to 8:30 a.m., race is from 9 to 11 a.m.; 115 Lafayette St., Jefferson City; 573-6322820; www.jcrprisonbreak.wordpress.com

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Order fresh-baked cookies for customers, employees, friends and family members for delivery during the Assistance League of Mid-Missouri’s Cookie Connection fundraiser. Proceeds benefit programs that make a difference in the lives of local women and children. Order online; cookie delivery is Sept. 16. From $7; 1729 W. Broadway, Suite 1A; 573-445-3848; www.almm.org

For anyone seeking a personal challenge and a world free of multiple sclerosis, Bike MS: Express Scripts Gateway Getaway Ride is the nation’s premier fundraising cycling series. Join the National Multiple Sclerosis Society for a weekend that’s more than a ride. Spend two days in the countryside, beginning and ending at the Central Missouri Events Center (Boone County Fairgrounds). There are route options for 20, 40, 75 and 100 miles. $50 registration fee, with a $250 fundraising minimum; 5212 N. Oakland Gravel Road; 314-7819020; bikemos.nationalmssociety.org

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The Barley & Hops Hoopla is the second Mid-MO Home Brew Fest. Taking place at LogBoat Brewery, this event will feature a competition sanctioned by the Beer Judge Certification Program, where home brewers can show off their best beer-brewing skills. The festivities will include homebrew tastings, a barbecue meal with beer from local brewers, entertainment by Ironweed and drawings for door prizes. All proceeds support the Access to Healthy Food program, which matches benefits from the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program used at the Columbia Farmers

Columbia Star Dinner Train passengers will get more than a fine meal and a scenic ride during this weekend’s excursion through northern Boone County. The Centralia Civil War Train Raid will reenact the Sept. 7, 1864, raid by Confederate Capt. G.W. “Wash” Bryson and his band of guerrillas. The event kicks off the sesquicentennial commemoration of the Battle of Centralia. $79.95 Saturday, 6 p.m. departure boarding at 5:15; $59.95 & $39.95 Sunday, 1 p.m. departure boarding at 12:15; 6501 N. Brown Station Road; 573-474-2223; www.dinnertrain.com

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september 9 Orr Street Studios invites the public to the opening reception and awards ceremony for the 2014 “One Read” art exhibit.

Inspired by this year’s One Read selection, The Boys in the Boat by Daniel Brown, mid-Missouri artists explore a range of experiences and views of water. The show will run Sept. 7 to 20. Free; 6 p.m.; 106 Orr St.; 573-443-3161; www.oneread.dbrl.org

september 10-14 Stampeding elephants! Raging typhoons!

Runaway trains! Unabashed slapstick!

Hold on to your seats for the original amazing race, “Around the World in 80 Days!” Phileas Fogg has agreed to an outrageous wager and sets out to circle the globe in 80 days. But a detective dogs his every step, thinking Fogg is a robber on the run. It’s a whirlwind of a show at the Lyceum Theatre as five actors portraying 39 outrageous characters traverse seven continents in Mark Brown’s new adaptation of one of the great adventures of all time. $35; 2 & 8 p.m.; 114 High St., Arrow Rock; www.lyceumtheatre.org

september 11 Kick off the football season right with Inside Columbia’s Culinary Adventures’ third annual Tailgating with Chef Brook Harlan class. Learn easy and accessible recipes that can be prepared ahead of time and finished on the grill at your favorite tailgating spot. $34.95; doors open at 6 p.m., class starts at 6:30; 47 E. Broadway; 573-442-1430; www.comoculinaryadventures.com

SEPTEMBER 12–NOVEMBER 2 Welcome fall and make family memories with a visit to Shyrocks Corn Maze, just off Interstate 70 east of Columbia. Every year, Shryocks Callaway Farms creates incredibly detailed pictures in its cornfield using GPS technology and then invites farm visitors to venture through the elaborate design. Completing the 16-acre maze Prime Magazine September 2014

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takes about 1½ hours, but it’s not a bad idea to allow two hours when planning. The maze is wheelchair-accessible with compact dirt paths. $8 adults, $7 children 4 to 12, free for kids 3 and younger; 4 to 9 p.m.

Fridays, 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Saturdays, 2 to 6 p.m. Sundays; 2927 County Road 253; 573-592-0191; www.callawayfarms.com

september 12 Mojo’s presents Nikki Hill, a fireball singer who is rising to the top of the roots music scene and leaving jaws on the floor along the way. With a no-filter energy, she and her band, The Pirate Crew, take all the flavors of American roots music and deliver a sound that makes listeners believe in rock ’n’ roll again. $10; doors open at 7:30 p.m., show at 8:30; 1013 Park Ave.; 573-8750588; www.mojoscolumbia.com

september 13 The Pet Expo Unleashed 5K is raising money to benefit No Kill Columbia’s Spay Neuter Project. The 5K will take place at Stephens Lake Park and is open to runners and walkers of all abilities and their dogs.

There will be two categories for prizes: the top three finishers without dogs and the top three finishers with dogs. Packet pickup is 4 to 7 p.m. Sept. 12 at Treats Unleashed and 7 to 8:15 a.m. Sept. 13 at Stephen’s Lake Park. $25 through Sept. 5, then $30; 8:30 a.m.; 2001 E. Broadway; www.unleashed5k. eventbrite.com

september 13 Cheer on the Mizzou Tigers at the University of Missouri vs. Central Florida football game at Faurot Field.

Prices TBA; 11 a.m.; 600 E. Stadium Blvd.; 800-CATPAWS (228-7297) or 573-8847297; www.mutigers.com

september 13 The Blue Note presents “Grateful Dead Tribute: The Schwag,” a show dedicated to carrying on the music and the vibe of the legendary Grateful Dead. Founded in 1991 as a local St. Louis-based Dead tribute, The Schwag has played more than 2,500 shows in 18 states, with a working repertoire of 200 songs. Like the Dead, The Schwag operates without set lists and gives performances that encourage dancing and good vibes. $10; doors open at 8 p.m., show starts at 9; 17 N. Ninth St.; 573-874-1944; www.thebluenote.com

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1864 Centralia. Relive everyday life with food, entertainment, crafts, vendors, musicians, storytellers and a 150th anniversary re-enactment of the Battle of Centralia on both Saturday and Sunday. Read more on Page 16. Free admission, $10 parking is good for both days; 9 a.m.; 19007 N. Rangeline Road, southeast of Centralia (look for signs); 573-682-5511; www.centraliabattlefield.com

september 16 Rosario Andino is often described as that rare package of a “pianist’s pianist” who’s also a crowd-pleaser. Her expertise is undisputed, her repertoire formidable. The Cuban-born artist brings her extraordinary talent to the Missouri Theatre to delight audiences with touches of baroque, classical and romantic canons. From $12; 7 p.m.; 203 S. Ninth St.; 573-882-3781; www.concertseries.org

SEPTEMBER 17 Come to Flat Branch Park for Family Fun Fest: Creative Kids, the last fest of the season. Hands-on, kid-friendly art activities, musical performances, theater and dance are just some of the ways kids will be able to show their creative and artistic sides. Free; 6 to 8 p.m.; 101 S. Fourth St.; 573-874-7460; www.gocolumbiamo.com/ParksandRec

SEPTEMBER 18 Join Inside Columbia’s Culinary Adventures for an End-of-the-Season Farmers Market Class, an event sponsored by the Root Cellar and Columbia Farmers Market. You will learn how to cook with and preserve abundant local produce for garden goodness yearround. $34.95; doors open at 6 p.m., class starts at 6:30; 47 E. Broadway; 573-4421430; www.comoculinaryadventures.com

SEPTEMBER 18 Mojo’s presents Mary Gauthier, a singer/ songwriter who communicates urgently without rattling rafters or crashing into power choruses. Her painfully personal songs infiltrate the souls of her listeners, no matter how their life paths differ from hers.

Plunge into the depths of love, loss and a life transformed. $22 in advance, $25 day of show; doors open at 7 p.m., show at 7:30; 1013 Park Ave.; 573-875-0588; www.mojoscolumbia.com

SEPTEMBER 19 Join Mizzou Dance Marathon for the Color Me Blue 5KRun & 1 Mi Walk at Cosmo Park. Choose to make it a fun run by dashing through clouds of color, or appeal to your more adventurous side by focusing on the Prime Magazine September 2014

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scenic, six-terrain course — grass, gravel, dirt paths, wooden decking, concrete and dirt/rock paths — that winds through the trees and along the lake. The 1.25-mile walk course is a paved path that is stroller and wheelchair friendly. All proceeds benefit pediatric patients of mid-Missouri. $25; check-in begins at 6 p.m., race begins at 7; 1615 Business Loop 70 W.; www.mizzoudm.org

SEPTEMBER 20 Fill Memorial Stadium with Tiger spirit for the University of Missouri vs. Indiana family weekend football game. Price and time TBA; 600 E. Stadium Blvd.; 800-CATPAWS (228-7297) or 573-8847297; www.mutigers.com

SEPTEMBER 20–21 Take a trip back in time at the 37th Annual Heritage Festival & Craft Show in Nifong Park. Listen, learn and watch history come alive. See artisans and tradesmen dressed in 19th-century attire demonstrating their trades and selling their wares. Another large area will feature contemporary handmade crafts.

Music, dancing and storytelling will take place on two stages, and the Mid-Missouri Organization Storytellers will present Saturday Ghost Stories from 8 to 9:30 p.m. Tour the Historic Maplewood Home and the Walters-Boone County Museum as well. Free; 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.; 3700 Ponderosa St.; 573-874-7460; www.gocolumbiamo.com/ParksandRec

SEPTEMBER 24–28 The Lyceum Theatre presents “Cotton Patch Gospel,” a show that translates the story of Jesus into the mid-20th-century American South and considers what might have happened had Jesus been born in Georgia — with Gainesville standing in for Bethlehem, Valdosta for Nazareth and Atlanta as the fateful Jerusalem. Jesus is from Georgia, his disciples are a bluegrass band and King Herod is the mayor of Atlanta in this “Greatest Story Ever Retold,” the final and perhaps best work of Harry Chapin, presented with foot-stomping fun and exuberant inspiration. $35; 2 & 8 p.m.; 114 High St., Arrow Rock; www.lyceumtheatre.org

SEPTEMBER 25 Get an early start to the Roots N Blues N BBQ weekend with the RNBNBBQ Kickoff Event in The District. Hear local musicians while wining, dining and shopping around downtown Columbia. Free; 5 p.m.; downtown Columbia; 573-442-5862; www.rootsnbluesnbbq.com 28

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SEPTEMBER 26 Join other Beatle fans celebrating the 50th anniversary of The Beatles’ U.S. invasion with The Fab Four: The Ultimate Tribute at the Missouri Theatre. The Fab Four’s precise attention to detail elevates them far above every other Beatles tribute; you’ll think you are watching the real thing. From $19; 7 p.m.; 203 S. Ninth St.; 573-8823781; www.concertseries.org

SEPTEMBER 26–28 The eighth annual Roots N Blues N BBQ Festival will bring Jason Isbell, Los Lobos, The Avett Brothers, Amos Lee, John Prine and Rosanne Cash among other artists representing roots, blues, gospel, country, folk, rock and soul to perform at Stephens Lake Park. Visual art will once again transform the park setting, and the food offerings will come from around 25 food vendors. This year brings a new beer garden and free transportation on COMO Connect. Prices and times vary; 2001 E. Broadway; 573442-5862; www.rootsnbluesnbbq.com

SEPTEMBER 27 Join fellow runners on a new, exciting course for the RNBNBBQ Half Marathon & 10K Run. This year, racers will start and finish at Stephens Lake Park. All runners will get a race shirt and discounted tickets for the festival, and those who finish will receive a medal, free barbecue and beer. $50 for 10K, $60 for half marathon; 7 a.m. start for half marathon, 7:30 start for 10K; 2001 E. Broadway; 573-4425862; www.rootsnbluesnbbq.com

SEPTEMBER 28 The University Concert Series presents “Camelot” in its series of films saluting the best Broadway musicals. Watch the tale of King Arthur and Guinevere, played by screen legends Richard Harris and Vanessa Redgrave, unfold on the Missouri Theatre screen. $8; 2 p.m.; 203 S. Ninth Street; 573-882-3781; www.concertseries.org

SEPTEMBER 29–OCTOBER 4 Enjoy an unforgettable week of wining and dining at Inside Columbia’s seventh annual Wine & Food Festival. Savor the taste of Missouri at a Farm-to-Table event; enjoy three days of Wine, Dine & Design dinners; discover new favorites at Seeing Red, a blind wine tasting; and shop ’til you drop at the Sip & Shop. Prices & times vary; 47 E. Broadway; 573-442-1430; www.ColumbiaWineFest.com ❖ Prime Magazine September 2014

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How Can I Help?

Coyote Hill Christian Children’s Home 573-874-0179 www.coyotehill.org

BY HEATHER FINN ➤ What is the organization’s impact?

“I wanted there to be a place where wounded, abused and neglected children could have a chance to grow up feeling worthy, capable, loved and completely able to have a life that is full and complete,” McDaniel says. “Children who are oppressed don’t feel these things; they don’t believe them to be possible of themselves. But if we surround those children with individuals who will believe all those things are possible on their behalf, we create an environment of safety and success.

We create what Coyote Hill is known to provide, ‘A Place to Be a Child.’”

FOUNDED: 1991 ➤ Who is in charge?

Larry McDaniel, founder and executive director. McDaniel has a master’s degree in social work from the University of Missouri and is a licensed clinical social worker. ➤ What population is served and how?

Coyote Hill’s mission is to provide a professional yet traditional family home for mid-Missouri children, ages 3 to 19, who have been victims of abuse and neglect. The home has served more than 300 children in its 23 years.

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children, but many sibling groups are larger. At Coyote Hill, 80 percent of the children are part of a sibling group.

“Keeping siblings together in a loving home, with professional care, is our greatest strength,” Hopkins says. She adds Coyote Hill also provides emergency and private placements to those families in need of a fresh start or a little time to get back on their feet.

➤ How can I help?

You can support Coyote Hill by providing meals to Coyote Hill’s families, working on cleaning projects, collecting paper goods for donation and other volunteer activities.

You can also give to Coyote Hill financially by giving online at www.coyotehill. org/donate or mailing in a donation to Coyote Hill, PO Box 1, Harrisburg, Mo., 65256. Your financial support is much appreciated — more than 80 percent of Coyote Hill’s annual budget comes from community donations. v

MArk your calendar!

If you’re looking for a little fun and philanthropy, join Coyote Hill at Stoney Creek Inn on Thursday, Oct. 2, for the annual Boots ’n Bids for Kids dinner and auction event. Guests are encouraged to wear boots and bid on various items to raise money for the Coyote kids’ needs.

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Pet Corner

Blunder Lips Beware These Veterinarian Office Gaffes!

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By dr. john williams I think it is safe to say that there is one disease that is as old as mankind itself. It’s an affliction that is epidemic in scope, shows no preference for age or gender and has no known cure. It can and will recur without any hint, and while it is not fatal or debilitating, it frequently leaves its victim with an acute case of “red-face syndrome.”

What is it? Well, it’s called many things, but the most common is “footin-mouth disease.”

Who of us hasn’t done something like asking the boss’s full-figured daughter when her baby is due, only to find out she’s home from the convent visiting her parents? Or maybe it was the time you told your son’s date that she is certainly more attractive than his old girlfriend, only to find out that he hadn’t switched girlfriends, and furthermore her parents would be dropping by momentarily to meet you.

Probably no job is fraught with a higher potential for “foot-in-mouth” than the veterinary profession. Of course, the classic example is the messed-vup pronoun snafu. That is, calling little Fifi a “he” when, in fact, the entire Western world apparently knows that she is a “she.” All veterinarians do it, and no matter how long they practice medicine, they are going

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to do it over and over again, even though it is the first real-life lesson they warn you about in veterinary school. It is pounded into every aspiring vet’s brain on a daily basis, but alas, once in a while the stars misalign just enough that the old doc’s neurons seize up and he/she drops the big one. Fifi is a “she,” and you have no place to hide. A quick glance at her medical chart or under her tail might have given you a clue, but of course, you’re too busy to do that. And you know what? There is no recovery from this. Over the years, I have tried everything, only to come off looking like an overly apologetic nimrod. I swear Henry Kissinger couldn’t have negotiated his way out of this one.

But let’s not lay all of this at the doc’s feet. Pet owners are far from immune to this ailment, too. Even though they may not realize it, most of the time, pet owners can and will drop little zingers that can make even the most even-tempered vets (which are a small minority) want to do unthinkable things with their rectal thermometers. Of course the ones that are repeated the most are the timeless classics, “Why didn’t you become a real doctor?” and it’s fraternal twin, “Did you ever think about being a regular doctor?” I used to be miffed when I heard this, but years of seasoning taught me

to cool down and try to respond to these queries with a knee-slapper like, “If you don’t think I’m a real doctor, just wait until you get my bill,” or my particular favorite, “I have been a regular doctor ever since I started the prunes.”

Come on. Admit it. We’ve all put the old size nine past our tonsils more than a few times. Once, while releasing a hospitalized patient, I proudly explained to the owner, in graphic detail, the nature of her cat’s problem and the treatment that was conducted. After what I thought was a stirring description of my genius and heroics, I inquired if the owner had any questions. She said that she only had one: “You do realize that my pet is a dog, don’t you?” It seems my soon-to-be unemployed receptionist had sent me to the wrong exam room.

At least I got the he/she thing right. Still gotta work on that species thing, though. v

— John Williams, DVM, is a retired Columbia veterinarian who spent 39 years as a small-animal practitioner.

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Life Lessons

The Lunatic In The Garden A Poignant Tale Of Transformation Amid Smashed Pepper Plants

By Saralee Perel

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For the first time in 11 years, my husband, Bob, is growing a garden. He’s finally happy again — deranged but happy. You see, since my spinal cord injury, his life has not only been filled with taking care of me but also with a sadness and a lack of joy for most everything he once loved to do.

This year Bob actually grew some flowers and vegetables. He used to grow rabbits and woodchucks. No fruits came to fruition.

One summer, while reaching for my liquid lavender soap, I picked up a bottle of fox urine.

He explained, “You put it on cotton balls on sticks around the garden, and it keeps critters away.”

That delightful stench didn’t stop the animals from coming to the garden. It did, however, stop Bob and me and anyone we invited over.

Now he has a new attitude. He says: “I don’t care if anything grows. It’s the journey that counts, not the end result.”

When the peppers keeled over, I saw him with his shovel, preparing to solemnly bury them.

He said to the plants: “I watered you.

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I fertilized you. I gave you your very own fence.” He slowly raised the shovel. Then he shouted: “I do everything around here! You could show a little appreciation!” He started smashing the plants with the shovel. “Just die, you ungrateful little amount-to-nothing pieces of green slime!”

“Bob, the end result doesn’t matter.

You loved the peppers’ journey.”

“Oh yeah? They can rot, for all I care.”

“Well, honey — they did.”

Bob has started practicing Transcendental Meditation, hoping to bring peace to himself and his plants. I heard him chant, “Make me one with the garden.”

One morning at 3, he was roaming the garden with a flashlight. I called out, asking what he was doing.

“Looking for that raccoon with the cloned brain of Stephen Hawking. He got in the compost again.”

He came back to bed, stewing. “I welded a lock to the compost bin, and he still got in.” He pushed my shoulders.

“Did you hear me? Welded!”

“Sweets,” I said, “meditation is supposed to calm you.”

“Oh, I’m calm. I don’t want to kill those backbiting freeloaders. I want revenge.” Then he yelled: “The garden is mine. All mine!”

“Sweets, Buddhists don’t scream stuff like that.”

That night, he came in the kitchen while I was sautéing zucchini from the supermarket. He slowly sat down at the table and said, “The rabbits ate the heads off my sneezewort.” He began to cry.

“That’s OK, Bob. You’ll always be one with your flowers.”

“I don’t want to be one with a dead sneezewort.”

And so, I took Bob’s hand and led him to his garden. I pointed to a glorious red geranium surrounded by plants that didn’t blossom. “What do you see?” I said.

“I see a lot of work for nothing.”

“I see the results of a happy man.”

“It’s just a geranium.”

“I wasn’t looking at the geranium. I was looking at your creation. You made this masterpiece out of a brand new desire to participate in life — a happiness I haven’t seen in 11 years — a love of life and all the parts of it, both good and bad.”

This time I was the one crying, as I hugged him and whispered, “Welcome back, my love.” Over his shoulder, I saw the sparkling leaves of a vinca vine, although it held no flowers. But that didn’t matter. Bob’s garden is blooming beautifully in its own way.

And he’s blooming beautifully as well. v — Award-winning columnist Saralee Perel can be reached at sperel@saraleeperel.com or via her website: www.saraleeperel.com.

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Tinseltown Talks

How Leonard Nimoy Sees The World Famous Actor Reflects On Spock, Photography And Living With COPD

By NICK THOMAS

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Photos by Seth Kaye Photography

As “Star Trek’s” Spock, Leonard Nimoy created one of the most iconic characters in television history. But for the past two decades, he has transported his career to the other side of the camera and is regarded as a leading contemporary American photographer.

Despite receiving a diagnosis of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease this year, Nimoy, who is 83, plans to keep busy. The diagnosis of the lung ailment, which affects more than 12 million Americans and is primarily caused by smoking, didn’t really catch him off guard.

“Before I stopped smoking 30 years ago, I was deeply addicted,” says Nimoy from his home in Los Angeles. “I had to go through various programs before I quit. But by then, the damage was done. In my late 70s and early 80s, I recognized that I did not have great breathing capacity, so wasn’t surprised by the COPD diagnosis.

“I use medication daily and give myself a jolt of oxygen when I need it,” he added. “The main difficulty is high altitudes. We’ve had a house in Lake Tahoe for 20 years, which is a beautiful retreat.

But at 6,000 feet, I just can’t go there anymore. Other than that, I’m still very active and not ready to cash it in yet!”

Though best known as an actor, the photography bug bit him hard at the pinnacle of his career.

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“Mission: Impossible,” and I actually considered changing careers,” explains Nimoy, who even returned to school at UCLA to study under master art photographer Robert Heinecken.

But with no enthusiasm for commercial photography, Nimoy realized a career in fine art photography would be difficult at the time. “So I decided to stay with my acting and directing, although I continued to study photography and work at it.”

Around 1994, he became a full-time photographer (while continuing to tackle some film and TV projects of interest), producing work that was largely concept-driven. His diverse subjects includ-

ed hands, eggs, landscapes, nudes and dancers, all shot with traditional black and white film, which Nimoy developed.

“I have two darkrooms and do my own printing up to a 16-inch-by-20-inch image,” he says. “I like to be in touch with the whole process. But years of exposure to those darkroom chemicals probably didn’t help my breathing.”

Nimoy has published several books of his works. Most recently, for his “Secret Selves” project — his first shot in digital color — he photographed 100 people from all walks of life, each acting out a fantasy identity.

As an actor, Nimoy is accustomed to

creating alternative identities, with his most celebrated being the unemotional Vulcan scientist. Despite rumors throughout his career that he resented being typecast as Spock, Nimoy says he regards the character with fondness.

“I’ve always been proud to be identified with Spock and never had any concern about it,” he says. “I’m a very lucky guy and have had a great run as an actor.”

But what if J.J. Abrams, the producer/ director of the new “Star Trek” films, approached him for reprising the role?

“I’d take his call, but doubt I’d do any acting,” he says. “I don’t want to go off on location again. I’m enjoying life with my family too much.”

Nimoy is represented by R. Michelson Galleries in Northampton, Mass. Several of his photographs are available for online viewing at www.RMichelson.com. v

Photo from Nimoy’s early “Shekhina” series.

— Nick Thomas teaches at Auburn University in Montgomery, Ala. His features, columns and interviews have appeared in more than 400 newspapers and magazines.

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Faces And Places

Vincent P. Gurucharri MD Foundation Annual Golf Tournament The fourth annual Vincent P. Gurucharri MD Foundation Golf Tournament took place on July 21 at Columbia Country Club. More than 70 golfers enjoyed an afternoon of golf while raising funds to provide financial assistance to mid-Missouri cancer patients undergoing treatment. The event sponsor was Missouri Professional Mutual. Rhonda and George Henstorf organized the event. Since 2006, the foundation has distributed more than $380,000 for financial needs such as rent, utilities, medications, co-payments and medical equipment determined by social workers.

Jared Lafrenz, Judd Lafrenz and Ryan Wiedemeyer

Randy Rauch, Louis Studer, Ron Sergent and Jamie Amerman

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Walter Peters, Kurt Simpson, Curt Vogel and Mike Shirk

Mary Starbuck, Karen Althage and Gary Powell

Rhonda and George Henstorf

Jerry Cupp and John Crouch

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Fun & Games word list

Crossword

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1. “Lorna Doone” character

1. Breach

5. Sinbad’s bird 8. Demolish: Brit.

12. Idea (Fr.) 13. Alas 14. Cheese 15. Leg ends 16. Burmese knife 17. Taro 18. Small S.A. rabbit 20. Pilgrim 22. Skin vesicle 23. Veneration

4. Hate 5. Fanatical 6. Wood sorrel 7. Rudderfish 8. Flat molding 9. “Cantique de Noel” composer 10. Kemo ____ 11. Turk. Title 19. Jap. Fish 21. Intimidate 24. Amazon tributary

28. Blaubok

25. Grab

32. Public vehicle

26. Kwa language

33. 54 (Rom. numeral)

27. “____Abner”

36. Ringed boa 39. Reading desk 42. Abdominal (abbr.)

44. Have (Scot.)

45. Female falcon

Decipher this quote by unraveling the secret code. Each letter stands for another letter. We’ve given you a few hints to get you started.

3. Profound

24. Beginning

35. Israelite tribe

Cryptogram

2. Design

29. “Fables in Slang” author 30. Rhine tributary 31. Television channel 34. Car 37. Insect

48. Butterfly

38. Presidential nickname

52. State (Fr.)

40. Helper

53. Television channel

41. Caddy (2 words)

55. Endearment

43. Male duck

56. Mine (Fr. 2 words)

45. Loyal

57. Rom. first day of the month

46. Hindu soul 47. Cella

58. Per. poet

49. Crippled

59. Maid

50. Dayak people

60. Compass direction

51. Aeronautical (abbr.)

61. Foreign (pref.)

54. Low (Fr.)

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Do You Have Tiger Vision?

This tiger face is hiding somewhere in this issue. Find it, and send an email to prime@insidecolumbia.net telling us the page number where the tiger is hiding. (Hint: It’s not this page.) Readers with a correct answer by Sep. 30 will be entered into a drawing for one $25 gift card to Shiloh Bar & Grill.

Throwback Trivia

Who is the astronaut in this iconic photo of the first moon landing? Email your answer to prime@insidecolumbia.net.

Readers with a correct answer

by Sep. 30 will be entered into a drawing for one $25 gift card to Hands on Ceramics.

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Enter Prime’s First Essay Contest!

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or the last several months, Inside Columbia’s Prime has encouraged you to write down some of your personal history with a memoir prompt. Now we want to offer you even more encouragement with an essay contest.

Your theme is our August memoir prompt, republished below. Using the topic “The Hardest Thing I Ever Had To Do,” write an original nonfiction essay that is no more than 750 words and send it to prime@insidecolumbia.net. This contest is open to Prime readers who are at least 50 years old.

Essays will be judged on their creativity, clarity and emotional power. Make us laugh or make us cry; we’re up for either.

And while it’s OK if your essay does not cover every question in the prompt, it must connect to the given theme.

If your essay wins, you will receive $100 in gift certificates from Bleu Restaurant and Wine Bar, along with a chance to have your essay published in Inside Columbia’s Prime. One runner-up will receive $50 in gift certificates to Glenn’s Café.

Your Prompt Think about the “hardest thing you ever had to do.”

What were the circumstances?

Why were they so difficult for you? How did you accomplish the task or reach the goal or survive the trial? What were the consequences — both positive and negative?

What did you learn?

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Details To Know • • • • • • •

We will accept submissions from Sep. 1 through Oct. 31, 2014.

Essays should be no longer than 750 words. Essays exceeding this length may not be considered.

Eligible writers must be at least 50 years old by Oct. 31, 2014.

Use “Prime Essay Contest” as the email subject line when making your submission to prime@insidecolumbia.net.

We prefer essays attached as a Microsoft Word document; however, we will consider essays that are pasted into the body of the email.

Be sure to include your name, age, email address and phone number both in the body of the email and on all attached documents.

This contest is for original nonfiction work that has not been previously published. By entering, entrants warrant that the piece (1) is original and does not infringe the intellectual-property rights of any third party and (2) has not been published in any medium.

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Prime Advice

Tell Me About It

With Angel Donnette Robertson

Q:

My daughter-in-law will not allow my husband and me to babysit our toddler grandson, even though her parents often keep him, even overnight upon occasion. I keep offering to babysit, but she always replies with a polite “No, thank you.” My husband and I want to build a relationship with our grandchild.

What can we do?

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Your daughter-in-law could have any one of numerous reasons to limit your time with your grandchild, some of which relate directly to you and others that have nothing to do with you whatsoever.

So, first, let’s consider those you can control.

Do you have a good relationship with your son and daughter-in-law?

If not, then you need to take the steps necessary to repair the relationship.

Do you attempt to follow their parenting choices, even when you disagree with their methods? It is not unusual for a younger generation to differ with an older generation on parenting styles. You may not agree with them, but you need to respect their choices, as long as those choices are not abusive.

Are you always offering unsolicited advice? Sometimes, advice — especially unsolicited advice — can sound more like criticism, so limit yourself as much as possible.

Also, often, quite simply, a woman feels more comfortable with her own mother, which is a factor mostly beyond your control. All you can do is make your daughter-in-law as comfortable as possible through your attitude and behavior.

Of course, your daughter-in-law could also have reasons over which you have absolutely no control. She could be selfish, vindic-

tive, fearful — any number of personality traits that you simply can’t change, only accept and work with as best as you can.

You should talk to your son and, if possible, your daughter-inlaw, controlling any natural defensiveness if they mention a fault with you. You will need to consider their reasons, even discuss the possibilities with a trusted friend. If they have a valid concern, then take the necessary steps to correct your behavior.

However, if they don’t have a valid concern, then all you can do is remain respectful and compassionate in any exchange with your son and daughter-in-law. They may not change their minds, but at least you leave the possibility open, rather than totally alienating them. And, eventually, hopefully, they will appreciate your desire to have a respectful relationship with them and a loving relationship with your grandson. v

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I love my husband, I really do, but since our children have all left home, I am beginning to realize that he spends a lot of his time at home in front of the television watching sports. What can I do to get his attention? (I already tried to walk between him and the television au natural. It didn’t work. Help!)

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Your husband has probably just fallen into a comfortable routine. The first thing you need to do is engage in a conversation with him. Sometimes, we try to avoid the direct route, uncomfortable with asking another person for help, especially the more important or personal the

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subject. But if you want your husband’s assistance in reconnecting in your marriage, he needs to know it’s even a goal. So talk to him. He may even surprise you with his own ideas.

(And he may ask that you avoid interrupting the big games — playoffs and championship games, for example. If he is willing to work with you, you need to be willing to work with him.)

Here are just a few options for deepening intimacy in a marriage: meet each other at the door with a smile and a kiss after even short absences, find a hobby to share, take a trip (even just a day-trip) with each other, reminisce about your history, discuss goals for the future, leave love notes for each other, surprise each other with favorite foods or gifts or activities.

And remember you don’t have to create grand plans or fill every night with a new activity. And don’t do anything that makes you or him uncomfortable. Just have fun and enjoy each other. And don’t overlook the possibilities offered in whipped cream and chocolate syrup. v

MEMOIR PROMPT Some of life’s watershed moments are obvious at the time — birth of a first child, loss of a parent. Others are not always obvious — a routine promotion, a new acquaintance. Think of a watershed moment in your life.

Was it obvious at the time or only later? What was the biggest marked difference between your “old” life and your “new” one?

How did you change? What did you learn? How did you grow?

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Recipe Box

Easy-To-Make Jam And Jelly Recipes

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With fresh inspiration from the season’s juiciest, most delicious fruits, you can create jams, jellies and other spreads with ease right from your own kitchen.

For many, the thought of turning their favorite fruits into sweet and scrumptious jams and jellies may sound like countless hours in a hot, stuffy kitchen. But creating your own, homemade fruit spreads can be quite simple with the right ingredients and tips.

“Any cook can create delightful jams and jellies, regardless of their canning abilities,” says Shirley Camp, registered dietitian, licensed dietitian nutritionist and retired University of Illinois Extension master canner and educator. “There are so many great products, such as Mrs. Wages No Cook Freezer Jam Fruit Pectin, which allow you to whip up homemade spreads, without cooking, saving time without a messy kitchen.”

Fresh, Flavorful Canning Recipes Whether you need a sweet topping for a slice of breakfast toast or a dollop for thumbprint cookies, these simple jam and jelly recipes are sure to please everyone in your family. From the ease of Fast Fruity Freezer Jam to the cool blast of Mint Jelly, these recipes all feature Mrs. Wages fruit pectin, which provides the perfect consistency to enhance all your favorite fruit flavors.

Best Blue Ribbon Basil Jelly Yield: 6 half pints 4 2 1 3 5

cups water cups firmly packed fresh basil leaves, finely chopped package Mrs. Wages Fruit Pectin Home Jell drops green food coloring, optional cups sugar

In large saucepan, bring water and basil to a boil. Remove from heat, cover and let stand for 10 minutes. Strain and discard basil. Return 3 2⁄3 cups liquid to pan. Stir in pectin and food coloring, if desired. Return to rolling boil over high heat. Stir in sugar. Boil for 1 minute, stirring constantly. Remove from heat. Skim off any foam that forms on top of jam. Ladle mixture into hot, clean jars, leaving 1⁄4-inch headspace.

Remove air bubble. Wipe jar rims and threads. Cover with two-piece lids. Twist lid bands until not loose but not too tight. Process for 15 minutes in boiling water bath canner.

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Fast Fruity Freezer Jam Yield: 5 half pints 1 1⁄2 1 4

cups sugar or Splenda No Calorie Sweetener (Granular) package Mrs. Wages No Cook Freezer Jam Fruit Pectin cups crushed fruit, fresh or frozen

Combine sugar or Splenda No Calorie Sweetener (Granular) and pectin in bowl. Blend well. Stir in crushed fruit. Stir for three minutes.

Ladle mixture into clean jars, leaving 1⁄4-inch headspace. Wipe jar rims and threads. Cover with two-piece lids. Twist lid bands until not loose but not too tight. Let stand for 30 minutes to thicken. Refrigerate up to three weeks; freeze up to one year.

State Fair Strawberry-Rhubarb Jam Yield: 6 half pints 4 2 1 ⁄4 1 5 1⁄2 1 ⁄2

cups crushed strawberries cups chopped rhubarb cup fresh squeezed lemon juice package Mrs. Wages Fruit Pectin Home Jell cups sugar tablespoon butter

Combine sugar or Splenda No Calorie Sweetener (Granular) and pectin in bowl. Blend well. Stir in crushed fruit. Stir for three minutes.

Ladle mixture into clean jars, leaving 1⁄4-inch headspace. Wipe jar rims and threads. Cover with two-piece lids. Twist lid bands until not loose but not too tight. Let stand for 30 minutes to thicken. Refrigerate up to three weeks; freeze up to one year.

Serrano Cherry Jam Yield: 8 pints ⁄4 1 16 4 4 1

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cup olive oil cup Serrano peppers, seeded and minced cups cherries, fresh or frozen and thawed cups sugar cups water package Mrs. Wages Fruit Pectin Home Jell

In large pot on high heat, pour in olive oil and bring to almost smoke point. Add peppers and blister. Add cherries and sugar, reduce heat, then pour in water. Bring to a simmer to dissolve sugar. Add pectin and continue to cook for 15 minutes. Remove from heat. Skim off any foam that forms on top of jam. Ladle mixture into 16-ounce containers or freezer-safe zipper bags. v 48

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4 Canning Tips For Great Jams And Jellies For the best results for your canning creations, follow these four simple tips for canning success: 1. Pick ’em right. When picking berries, keep in mind these fruits have high water content and are very fragile. So, use smaller containers when picking them so the berries do not get crushed under their own weight.

2. Rinse, don’t soak. Due to their fragile nature, the berries should be lightly “rinsed” to remove surface dirt.

Do not allow them to sit in water for very long because they tend to take on more water and will become mushy.

3. Go for firm and ripe. When selecting berries for jellied products, ripe berries are best, but not overripe ones. Choose those that have good flavor and are still firm to the touch. For strawberries, look for the smaller, juicier berries instead of larger types that are available today.

4. Mix flavors. While many people prefer their jams to be one flavor, mixing two or more different types of berries together produces great jams with good flavor. Try a mix consisting of blackberry and red raspberry, or strawberry with red raspberry. Another great combination includes pureed berries and peaches mixed together to make jam. Red raspberry peach jam is always a huge hit.

For canning or preservation questions, call the Mrs. Wages Customer Care Center at 1-800-6478170, Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 5p.m. For additional canning recipes and how-to information, visit www.mrswages.com.

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Chef ’s Secrets

Taste-Full Celebration It’s Time For Inside Columbia’s Wine & Food Festival

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By Dennis Clay It’s my favorite time of the year!

Inside Columbia’s annual Wine & Food Festival will begin on Tuesday, Sep. 29, and run through Saturday, Oct. 4. We are hosting some great events during this week, including some favorites from past festivals.

Kicking off our packed week of festivities will be a fabulous country dinner dubbed Taste of Missouri Farm-to-Table.

This new event will focus exclusively on Missouri produce, meats and dairy to highlight all of the great and plentiful bounty our Show-Me state has to offer.

Hosted at Blue Bell Farms in Fayette, this dinner will be a collaborative effort, featuring multiple local chefs, as well as Missouri wines from our best wineries.

Next up will be our Wine, Dine & Design Dinner Series, running Tuesday, Sep. 30 through Thursday, Oct. 2. Local designers will transform our office space into an elegant dining wonderland. We have special guest chefs lined up to collaborate on the multi-course menus and the wine pairings for each evening.

On Friday, Oct. 3, we’ll have our oneof-a-kind red wine tasting, Seeing Red: A Blind Wine Tasting. Guests will get to blindly taste 12 wines and be asked to guess the grape varietals and other characteristics for each wine. This is a special event in that it is both educational and entertaining. You never know which wine you might like best when you don’t know what you are sampling!

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our Sip and Shop event. This Saturday afternoon combines two favorite pastime: shopping and wine! Sip and Shop passport holders will enjoy significant discounts from local merchants as they stroll from shop to shop enjoying a different wine at each location.

This entire week is great for me because I get challenged to flex my creative muscles numerous days in a row.

Collaborating with not only great chefs, but great friends, subtly pairing wine with food, transforming our magazine office into an elegant dining showroom and coordinating the dinner services and events makes for a full week for this chef.

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fun & games solved Challenge your brain with this month’s puzzles found on Page 40.

Letter-Link Word Search

— Dennis Clay is the executive chef at Inside Columbia’s Culinary Adventures.

Cryptogram Answer Get YOUR TICKETS To find out more about this fun-filled week and to get your tickets to any of the events, visit our Wine & Food Festival website at www.columbiawinefest.com.

“To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you’re wrong, admit it; whenever you’re right, shut up.” ~ Ogden Nash

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Your Bucket List

Rebecca Hennessy, You Are An Ironman!

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By Anita Neal harrison

The whole time Becky Hennessy was training for Ironman Canada, she told herself she’d get through the grueling triathlon and never do a full Ironman race again.

She signed up for the triathlon on an impulse, caught up in the excitement of her friends in the Columbia Multisport Club.

“They were posting on Facebook: ‘I’ve signed up. You should sign up!’ ” she says. “There was this wave of enthusiasm, and my husband was out of town, and I didn’t have anybody to talk to about it, and I just signed up!”

Similar encouragement had prompted Hennessy, who is 52 and the laboratory operations manager at Boone Hospital Center, to join the Columbia Multisport Club in 2009. Her spinning instructors suggested she give triathlon a try. At first, she thought it was a crazy idea, but then they explained she didn’t have to be in incredible shape to succeed.

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aren’t out there doing this to win something. They’re out there to get better at the sport, to keep in shape, to accomplish something.”

Prior to signing up for Ironman Canada, Hennessy had done 25 to 30 triathlons, including some half Ironmans.

But early last year, she had a setback when an injured leg led to a blood clot that later traveled to one of her lungs. She spent six months on blood thinners and for three weeks could do no training.

“It was like I was starting all over again,” she says.

That challenge made her even more appreciative of the chance to compete in Ironman Canada, which took place July 27. The Ironman Triathlon is recognized as one of the most difficult sporting events

in the world, if not the most. It consists of a 2.4-mile swim, a 112-mile bike ride and a full marathon, or 26.2-mile run, raced in that order, with no breaks. Hennessy traveled to Whistler, Canada, for the race with 12 other Columbia Multisport Club members, plus several of the athletes’ friends and family, including Hennessy’s husband and son.

The setting, Hennessy says, was “one of the most beautiful places on earth,” and the atmosphere was pure encouragement.

“You close your eyes, and you hear so many different languages, and so much enthusiasm, that it’s just kind of surreal,” she says. “You’re like: ‘Oh my gosh. I’m here with all of these people, and we’re all going to do the same thing. All of us. Some of us are going to do it in eight hours,

and some are going to take 17, but we’re all doing the same thing.’ ” Hennessy’s race started off with her fastest swim time ever in a triathlon, 1 hour and 31 minutes. Next came the bike race, which included two enormous hills, each around seven miles long. The second hill came at mile 90, and at about mile 95, Hennessy began to question her ability to finish.

“But then you think about your training, and you think about your family, and you think about everything you’ve done to get there, and you think: ‘I’ve just got to power through it,’ ” she says.

She finished her bike ride in seven hours and 40 minutes.

That left seven and a half hours to finish her marathon before the cutoff, and she felt confident she could make it in six. Her plan was to run 90 steps and then walk 90 steps, but she ended up running more and walking less. Two miles from the finish, she began to hear the crowd at the finish line, as well as the triumphant announcement greeting every finisher: “[Athlete’s name], you are an Ironman!”

“I stopped walking, and I started running, and I ran faster than I could run before I started training,” she says. “It’s like you’re transcended. You’re no longer worried about being tired or that something’s aching or that your stomach hurts. It’s like, ‘I’m almost there,’ and you just find something and you just start running.”

Fifteen hours, 20 minutes and 17 seconds after she jumped in the water to start the race, and five hours and 48 minutes after beginning her run, Hennessy crossed the finish line.

Immediately she set a new goal.

“After I finished, the first thing I thought was, ‘This is not the last time I’m going to do this,’ ” she says. v

Tell us your story Have you crossed something off your bucket list? Please send a brief note describing the feat to anita@insidecolumbia.net, and if we choose to feature your triumph, we will be in contact for an interview.

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Columbia Confidential: Publisher Fred Parry On The Issues Columbia Is Talking About

Development Fees Will Become Final Nail in Columbia’s Coffin

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If you follow local politics, you’re no doubt aware of the latest anti-growth scheme concocted by Columbia City Council members Karl Skala, Barbara Hoppe and Ian Thomas. After years of threatening to wage war on Columbia’s development community, they have officially fired their first bullet by approving a ballot issue that, if passed, will add significant development fees to every home and commercial building built in Columbia. On Nov. 4, local voters will finally have the opportunity to hammer the final nail in Columbia’s economic coffin, killing any hope for new jobs and a last shot at affordable housing for Columbia’s working poor.

Skala, Hoppe and Thomas are proposing development fees that will essentially add $3,750 to the cost of an average home in Columbia and another $12,000 to the cost of building the average “Mom and Pop” size business here in Columbia.

To bring the matter a little closer to home, let’s look at how our citizen-owned Boone Hospital Center would be affected by this change as it pertains to the permit fees that will be paid for the construction of the buildings on the hospital’s new South Campus at the corner of Nifong and Forum boulevards. With 132,000 square feet of finished space, the Boone Hospital Center Board of Trustees would pay $66,000 in current permit fees for this project. Under the proposed fee structure, Boone Hospital would face a whopping $264,000 just for building permit fees.

Keep in mind that Boone Hospital is not only making medical care more accessible to the fastest-growing area of our community, it’s also creating new jobs. The hospital has also funded 100 percent of the off-site road improvements at that intersection, adding lanes to both Nifong and Forum boulevards, significantly improving traffic congestion at no cost to the city or taxpayers. For this act of good corporate citizenship, Boone Hospital will be penalized with a 300 percent increase in its building permit fees.

Some say that the ultimate objective of Skala, Hoppe and Thomas is to punish the development community for allegedly not paying its “fair share” over the years. Ian Thomas claims that developers are only paying 15 percent of the true cost of building a new subdivision. Nothing could be further from the truth.

When a developer buys land to build a subdivision, the buyer also takes 100 percent of the financial responsibility for building the streets, putting in sewer and water lines, and running electricity to every lot in that neighborhood. These development costs are not subsidized by the city or by taxpayers in any way.

The most vivid example of this may be the Community of Old Hawthorne development that has been under construction over the last few years on Route WW. The developer of that neighborhood spent more than $20 million out of his own pocket to build roads and bring sewer to his development. Not one dime of taxpayer money was used to build any of the infrastructure. The same can be said for Thornbrook, The Cascades,

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Copperstone, Bellwood and every other development built in Columbia during these last 20 years. Skala, Hoppe and Thomas have discovered that they will be more successful in shutting down growth and development using misinformation and innuendo rather than stating the actual facts. That’s unfortunate for Columbia.

Most savvy Columbians understand that these increased fees will simply be passed on to the end user. The new homebuyer will absorb 100 percent of these new impact fees. Business owners will pass on the added costs of fees to their customers. In the end, these City Council members are ultimately punishing the citizens of Columbia and anyone who chooses to buy a home or trade with our locally owned businesses.

If you study economic development, you know that most healthy cities in Missouri and across the United States are offering incentives and abatements to encourage business growth and expansion. The state of New York offers 10 years of tax abatements for new business startups. In Missouri, Warrensburg just attracted an automotive parts manufacturer by offering a free building site. Yet Columbia wants to assess penalties on commercial building sites to discourage growth. Do we want our children and grandchildren to inherit a ghost town? That’s the direction we’re heading.

I spent eight years as a commissioner for the Columbia Housing Authority, and I learned a thing or two about the fastfleeting dream of homeownership in our community. With these proposed fee increases, it will be nearly impossible for a schoolteacher, police officer or factory worker to buy a suitable home for their families here. They will be forced to either rent substandard housing or move to surrounding communities to achieve home ownership. As a community, we must create an inventory of housing options that are affordable and accessible to those across all socio-economic groups.

The anti-growth ideology of Skala, Hoppe and Thomas is a toxic mindset. As a community, we must recognize the connection between economic opportunity and those who build businesses and create jobs. Penalizing those who build affordable homes and those who create jobs is a disastrous step in the wrong direction.

Fred Parry, fred@insidecolumbia.net

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