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Jeff Geib throws an ax at the digital screen at Timbearcats on Satuday, Jan. 22. He and his group were celebrating a birthday.

Located at 218 N. Main St., Timbearcats is just one of several new entertainment options that opened in Maryville in 2021. To see more about things to do in Maryville, visit Page A6.

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South Main Project .......... Page A2 Downtown fills up ............ Page A7 Sale Barn reopens ............. Page A4 Agricultural Learning ....... Page A8 NCAA and R-II ................... Page A5 City manages water ....... Page A10 New entertainment .......... Page A6

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Thursday, January 27, 2022

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BEFORE AND AFTER: A rendering of the Taco Bell area near the intersection of South Avenue and South Main shows what moving overhead power lines underground will look like as part of the South Main Corridor Improvement Project.

After decade of planning, South Main project breaks ground

By GEOFFREY WOEHLK

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The South Main Corridor Improvement Project started construction in October, kicking off the 18-month, phase one of the transformative infrastructure overhaul.

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MARYVILLE, Mo. — Faced with challenge after challenge and obstacle after obstacle, the largest road improvement project in Maryville’s history nonetheless managed to get underway in 2021.

With an 18-month timeline, phase one of the South Main Corridor Improvement Project is slated to finish in summer 2023.

When it’s complete, the stretch from the South Avenue intersection south to the intersection of State Route V will see a slew of functional and aesthetic improvements geared toward making the corridor safer for pedestrians, more accessible for

• Curb/gutter installation, • Enclosed storm sewer system, • Realigned access points to properties, Additional right-hand turn lanes, • Widened intersections, • New traffic signals at South Avenue, State Route V and north entrance to Walmart, • Waterline replacement, • Underground electric utilities, • Enhanced street lighting, • Trail and sidewalk additions, • New wayfinding signage, • Landscaping improvements.

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But the transformative infrastructure overhaul has been in the works for far longer than just the past few years, making slow and steady progress toward an overhaul of the most-trafficked route in the city.

As far back as 2012, a South Main overhaul topped the city’s priorities in its master plan. In 2014, city officials commissioned a traffic corridor study that was the first concrete step toward pinpointing the issues on South Main — and how to fix them.

The remedy was an expensive, decade-long plan that would need to be broken into three phases at around $4 million each — a necessary split to raise the funds needed for each phase.

Initial planning was plodding, but deliberate, and in 2017, voters gave their approval for the plan, passing a capital improvement sales tax to pay for the project.

But in late 2018, city officials put together a Hail Mary application for a federal infrastructure grant that would pay for most of the cost, and therefore allow the project to be completed in a fraction of the time to boot.

Just a month and half before applications were due for the highly competitive, nationwide BUILD grant program — a U.S. Department of Transportation program that awards discretionary funds for capital improvements in cities and towns across the country — city staff and the Northwest Missouri Regional Council of Governments started working on the application materials. On an extremely tight timeline, and with hun-

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Pictured in Dec. 2018, then-Maryville Mayor Rachael Martin and City Manager Greg McDanel attended a ceremony in Washington, D.C., for federal BUILD Grant recipients shortly after being awarded the $10.48 million grant. dreds of other municipalities hoping for similar support for their own projects, the odds weren’t working in the city’s favor.

“It was a hopeful prayer that we could get it,” said City Manager Greg McDanel of the process two years ago.

Over six weeks leading up to the application deadline in 2018, the small staff working on the project built a comprehensive application that fed off the preliminary work that had been done to date. And the years of groundwork paid off in a big way.

Being almost shovelready, McDanel has said, was key to the project overcoming the odds and becoming one of four Missouri proposals awarded a BUILD grant in 2018.

Winning the $10.48 million award gave the project a massive shot in the arm, taking what was initially planned as a $12 million outlay by city taxpayers spread across 10 years down to a contribution of closer to $2 million over only 18-24 months.

But just before the proj-

ect was ready to get into full swing, the COVID-19 pandemic struck, throwing a wrench into the well-laid plans.

Delay after delay at the federal level pushed the process back into 2021, when the city finally received the first construction bids for the project that had been gestating since 2012 — and they were way over budget.

Driven up by pandemicrelated issues affecting global supply chains, what had been estimated as a $1213 million project in 2018 was, by March 2021, now estimated to be closer to $16 million.

The solution drawn up by city staff and contractor SK Design was to split the project into two parts, with phase one running from the South Avenue intersection south to the intersection of State Route V, and phase two encompassing the remaining portion from the State Route V intersection south to U.S. Highway 71.

Phase one would use existing funds that were originally intended to pay for the entire project, including

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The South Main Corridor Improvement Project will redesign access points to businesses along the corridor. the $10.48 million BUILD grant. For phase two, city officials would start working on finding a new funding source, targeting state and federal grants as they did throughout 2021.

After the split into two phases, progress happened

quickly. The city finalized plans with businesses along the corridor to ensure drivers could still access them during construction. And by September, the city had a contractor — VF Anderson Builders. By October, construction had begun up and

down the 1½-mile stretch.

For much of 2022, South Main will stay a construction zone with traffic continuing to flow in both directions, heading into 2023 with an eye toward a whole new look for the city’s busiest thoroughfare.

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Maryville Livestock Auction, previously known as the United Producers Sale Barn, opened in the summer of 2021. Since its opening, owners Tommy Runyan and James Hudgens have made multiple improvements.

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MARYVILLE, Mo.— In July 2021, Tommy Runyan and James Hudgens took the reins of the long-abandoned United Producers Sale Barn, just on the outskirts of Maryville.

When Runyan, a fourthgeneration stockyard operator and an Easton native, talked with The Forum in September, he said the closure of St. Joseph Stockyards prompted him and his business partner to fill the void and purchase the building in order to bring livestock auctioning back to Maryville.

With the purchase of the sale barn completed, the two men set out to revitalize the existing structure under a new name: Maryville Livestock Auction.

Repairs made include painting the exterior of the building, adding new windows, redoing the office area, installing a more energy-efficient heating system, placing a new sign on the exterior of the building, installing highspeed internet and updating and upgrading other various aspects of the building.

Runyan further described

the sale barn’s new capabilities, which exist because of these improvements. These capabilities did not exist when the building closed in 2016.

“You can watch the sale online and bid from your living room,” he noted.

Currently, part of the building’s roof is being repaired because it was destroyed during the recent windstorm in December.

Along with the improvements came a new café run by a local Mennonite family.

The café is open on Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays, as well as during special sales. Runyan speaks highly of the café and has mentioned that it sells homemade ice cream and pie.

“They’ve done a great job,” Runyan said.

In terms of other changes to the sale barn, Runyan said he and Hudgens talked about potentially opening a veterinarian supplies or a farm/feed product store in the future.

When Runyan spoke with The Forum in September, he said he hoped the sale barn’s reopening would aid Maryville’s economy. He is currently seeing it do just that. MLA employs several local residents and college

students. He also noted the more animals the auction sells, the more taxes are paid.

In addition to having Maryville patrons, MLA has individuals come from Kansas and Iowa to participate in the selling of livestock.

Runyan guessed the farthest distance people have come from is 200-250 miles away.

“We’re getting a wide range of customers coming to sell cattle,” he said.

However, these customers are not coming in at a consistent rate. Sometimes the barn has 2,500 total sales, while other times there are only 400. Runyan noted a normal amount would be around 1,200 sales per week.

“It’s been spotty,” he said.

While business is not as consistent as one would hope, Runyan said he enjoys being involved in the process.

Runyan noted people message him and give him updates on how the animals they bought at MLA are doing. They also tell him how their farms are doing. Runyan said this communication has made him feel like he has made friends with the sale barn’s patrons.

“It’s been really fun,” he said. “It’s been enjoyable to meet everyone.”

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NCCA, school partnership a success

By KEN GARNER The Forum

MARYVILLE, Mo. — There have been many upgrades throughout the Maryville R-II School District in 2021, but one of the biggest is not to infrastructure, it is to the stomachs of students and patrons alike.

To begin the 2021-2022 academic year, Maryville partnered with the Nodaway County Cattlemen’s Association to provide locally sourced beef to the student population in its three schools as well as to booster club concession stands. It’s a partnership that has yielded positive results on both sides thus far in working with the district’s food provider Lunchtime Solutions.

“The partnership has been good working with Maryville school district and Lunchtime Solutions,” association member Joseph Frueh told the Forum in an email. “We hope to extend this opportunity to the surrounding schools as well.

The goal for the program is not to just provide local quality beef but to eventually double the amount of beef that is eaten in the school lunches.”

So far the district has received two cows from

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‘Our students have responded favorably to that product.’

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Assistant Superintendent, Maryville R-II School District

local producers — Schenkel Farms and Matt Hess Farms.

With these two donations, the Maryville school district has received 800 pounds of quality beef for the school lunch program with more deliveries planned for the spring semester, according to Frueh.

“Local producers have been the heart of this operation,” he said.

The beef has come to the school in the form of 4-ounce hamburger patties for the lunchrooms and 6-ounce patties for the concession stand. The remaining beef is in ground form.

Maryville Assistant Superintendent Steve Klotz told The Forum that the partnership has been a win-win for the district.

“Not only (receiving) a local product being served from local farmers, but it’s also a product saving our booster club money and the district money,” he said. “... It’s been easy on our end.”

Klotz said the district

cafeterias have seen an increase in beef consumption throughout the year. It’s been so popular that the district ran out of the donated beef in November.

“Our students have responded favorably to that product,” he said.

The Nodaway County Cattlemen have also expanded the type of products it is providing to area school concession stands as well with all-beef hotdogs now being served.

To date, the association has donated more than 3,500 hamburger patties and 1,600 hot dogs to Nodaway County school concession stands, according to Frueh.

“The schools and the attendees of the sporting events have been extremely happy to have the beef,” he said.

The Maryville School District and the Nodaway County Cattlemen’s Association both plan on continuing the partnership into the future.

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Businesses provide diverse entertainment

By TRINITY COBB The Forum

MARYVILLE, Mo.— In 2021, Maryville saw a wide variety of new entertainment opportunities open up.

One entertainment location, Timbearcats, offers its patrons a unique ax-throwing experience. Each lane provides digital scoring and multiple games. Similar to bowling, each lane allows for multiple people to play at the same time.

The business opened in the summer of 2021 with patent-pending technology, including the use of tightly formed wooden targets instead of planks as well as a bounceback system that lessens ricochets and prevents hatchets from returning back to the thrower.

Located at 218 N. Main Street, the business recently obtained its liquor license.

“I just think Maryville is a really good place for a lot of stuff,” owner Shaun Thornton told The Forum in late March. “The growth that I’ve seen over the years … and the direction that Maryville takes with … trying to bring new businesses,

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Pizza creator Cole Bowman pulls a pepperoni pizza out of The Hangar’s New York brick oven. He said it is a very fast cooking process.

I’m overwhelmed with just the reception that I’ve gotten from this.”

While it is not a new business, The Hangar saw major changes in 2021. Owner Tad Gordon said he knew the business had to become more than a cinema to survive the lack of new movies and dearth of customers during the pandemic.

Following through with this

idea, he began to provide sandwiches and pizzas unlike any other in the area.

“Food became very important,” Gordon told The Forum in December. “I have to put some really good food on the table — simple menu, but the best at what I do, so See ENTERTAINMENT, A7

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Gordon is also developing an event calendar, which currently includes karaoke every Thursday night and discounts on menu items.

Those who wish to host an event or a watch party can rent out Gate 5, which is the old dinner theater.

For the children who visit The Hangar, Gordon added new games and prize machines that are stocked with items such as free drink and food tickets as well as an Amazon Echo Dot. “We have a lot of options for everybody,” Gordon said. “You can’t be everything to everybody, but you can try. For a small community, options are important because that’s the one thing that a small community sometimes doesn’t have access to.”

In the fall, The Hangar had live entertainment. Gordon plans to begin offering this again as well as other outdoor events in the spring.

Gordon is also working with The Fields Paintball, a paintball facility that opened next door. Gordon said the businesses work well together because their customer bases differ. However, he is not concerned about the competition that exists because he believes it is important to support new businesses.

“I want The Fields to be successful, and so we have a very good working relationship. And we share assets here, and I’m going to continue to do whatever I can to help The Fields be successful,” Gordon said. “New businesses need to come to Maryville, and this is one that I am confident is going to be successful.”

On Oct. 1, The Fields Paintball opened its permanent location at 1610 S. Main St, behind The Hangar. Both businesses use the same driveway.

The year-round paintball park spans around 20 acres on land that was leased from the Maryville R-II school district on April 19.

On June 14, The Fields received approval from the Maryville City Council to construct the facility, which includes paintball courses such as Sherwood Forest, tires, speedball, hyperball and a large farm course.

Guests may bring their own gear or rent equipment from the facility.

“The response from the Maryville community and surrounding areas has been overwhelmingly positive,” owners David Baker and Chelsey Clark wrote in an email to The Forum in October. “We are so grateful for how much support the community has given us, and we hope to provide them something they’ll be proud of.”

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Local businesses offer new options downtown

By GEOFFREY WOEHLK and SKYE POURNAZARI The Forum

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A few other notable shifts downtown include White Elm and Blue Willow owner Stephanie Campbell moving her storefronts to the north side of the square, even painting the upper portion of the buildings a deep dark blue color.

Alyson Fisher brought her dog grooming and training business Fantastic Fido’s to the square located at 220 N. Main St. Downtown Maryville held a ribbon cutting to celebrate the completion of the Downtown Pocket Park. One more piece of that park is still to be finished, a mural on the north-facing wall next to the park.

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‘Dreaming what can be’

Northwest opens Agricultural Learning Center

By GEOFFREY WOEHLK The Forum

MARYVILLE, Mo. — If there is a theme of this year’s Progress Edition, it’s that accomplishing big goals requires, well, progress — they require extended planning and effort instead of happening all at once.

Starting in 2014, Northwest Missouri State University and the Northwest Foundation set to work on building support and funding for a new Agricultural Learning Center, a landmark effort that came to fruition in July.

Fundraising work brought in more than $6.5 million for the center, including donations of $25,000 or more from more than 50 individuals, galvanizing a passionate alumni base around a project

Missouri Gov. Mike Parson, dressed in Bearcat green, toured Northwest Missouri State University’s Agricultural Learning Center in November. From left: State Rep. Allen Andrews; Gov. Parson and his wife, Teresa; and Rod Barr, director of the School of Agricultural Sciences at Northwest. near and dear to their hearts. lion in state funding.

The efforts culminated in That proved to be more than half of the total $11.4 million a groundbreaking in April price tag that included a new 2020 — held virtually beturn lane on U.S. Highway cause of the pandemic. But 71 as well. The university work proceeded quickly, added in its own $2 million, and by the next summer, the along with another $2.5 mil- center was open to students,

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Missouri Director of Agriculture Chris Chinn and State Rep. Allen Andrews joined Nodaway County community members and Northwest Missouri State University leaders in July as Rod Barr, director of the School of Agricultural Sciences at Northwest, cut a ribbon celebrating the completion of the new Agricultural Learning Center at the R.T. Wright Farm. intended to be a draw across the region and stake Northwest to becoming the place for agricultural education in

Missouri far into the future.

“This is about academic quality, academic excellence and momentum forward for Northwest Missouri State University,” said Northwest President John Jasinski at the ribbon cutting ceremony this summer.

The 29,500-square-foot building includes classroom, laboratory, kitchen, exposition and office spaces at the university’s existing R.T. Wright Farm. The student spaces allow for research and scholarly activities centered on crop, soil and livestock resources, as well as space for processing agricultural products. The multipurpose areas can be used to hold public and private

functions like producer and agricultural industry meetings, workshops, shows and career development events, and for the promotion of agricultural literacy.

The university expects the facility will help the School of Agricultural Sciences grow even further, having already skyrocketed over the past decade: about 12 percent of all students at Northwest held a major in the school, and the university’s agricultural business program is the largest in the state.

Additionally, the center helps address infrastructure needs at R.T. Wright Farm See ALC, A9

State Rep. Allen Andrews speaks in July at the opening celebration of the Northwest Missouri State University Agricultural Learning Center.

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A9 Missouri Sen. Roy Blunt toured Northwest Missouri State’s new Agricultural Learning Center in August. Inside, Rod Barr, right, director of the School of Agricultural Sciences, shows off one of the 29,500-squarefoot facility’s lab spaces.

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Members of the Nodaway County Commission and representatives from Northwest Missouri State University stand on the proposed construction site of Northwest’s Agricultural Learning Center in 2019. From left: Northwest President John Jasinski, South District Commissioner Robert Stiens, North District Commissioner Chris Burns, Northwest School of Agricultural Sciences Director Rod Barr, Northwest Director of Donor Engagement Mitzi Craft Marchant and Presiding Commissioner Bill Walker.

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related to academic facilities, parking and farm production, and its learning opportunities will help enable innovation and partnerships to produce and improve best practices for the campus and the School of Agricultural Sciences.

State Rep. Allen Andrews, who was one of several government officials to tour the center and praise its vision this summer, said the ALC is just one of many steps the university has taken in recent years that have set it apart from other public higher education institutions across the state — making it one of the only schools to continue to see increased enrollment year after year.

Although Andrews said much of the university’s success is due to tangible factors like job outcomes for graduates, affordability and atmosphere on campus and in town, he said the one over-

‘This is the Northwest Ag Learning Center: a place that will prove to be an instrument for learning, for growing, for creating, for adapting and for dreaming what can be.’

­‑ State Rep. Allen Andrews, R-Grant City

arching “driving theme” is a vision from leadership.

“Vision does not just happen, it is developed — sometimes it’s painstakingly developed,” Andrews said at a ribbon cutting ceremony in July. “When it is developed, it begins with a leader, a leader who has a vision. In our case, it begins with a leader and a leadership team willing to dream it, and to create it, and to cast it out for others to grab hold. But a vision is futile — it’s pointless — if there is no one who believes in it or benefits from it.”

Missouri Director Agriculture Chris Chinn celebrated the center’s opening during that ribbon cutting ceremony, with Sen. Roy Blunt

praising the foundation for practical agricultural education after a visit of his own in August. And during a tour in November, Missouri Gov. Mike Parson said it was a unique initiative unlike any other university in the state.

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People are shown on a large floating device in July 2020 at Mozingo Lake while preparing for the wake of a passing boat. Mozingo is Nodaway County’s main source of drinking water. The city of Maryville has undertaken numerous steps to update and regulate the water system.

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2021 laid groundwork for next decades of water management

By GEOFFREY WOEHLK The Forum

MARYVILLE, Mo. — When Mozingo Lake, where most of the area’s drinking water comes from, was shut down in January 2020 because of high levels of cyanobacteria — also known as blue-green algae — it marked the beginning of a long process of overhauling the city of Maryville’s water system across the board.

And 2021 saw the biggest leaps forward yet in that process, showing progress in several areas that have allowed the future of water treatment in the region to take shape.

Immediately after the troubling events of 2020 that skyrocketed water quality to the top of the city’s priority list, city officials took a three-pronged approach to solving the taste and odor

Mozingo Lake was briefly closed in January 2020, marking a new commitment to overhauling the city’s water treatment process from top to bottom. issues that have cropped up more and more recently over the past few years: treating the source water at Mozingo Lake, mitigating nutrient runoff into the lake that could cause future issues and improving water treatment infrastructure.

This year, the city made significant progress in all three areas, laying the

groundwork for the coming decades.

Throughout the year, the city has applied algicide to the lake to help keep algae counts low, trying to prevent the growths that eventually cause the taste and odor issues for consumers. And in a joint effort with Public Water Supply District No. 1, the city installed a granular activated carbon adsorber to the Maryville Water Treatment Plant, which helps remove much of the offending constituents from water during the treatment process.

That, though, is an interim measure. In this year’s city budget is funding for a pilot water treatment plant that would be a precursor to a full-fledged facility down the line to replace the existing plant that has been in service since the 1950s. The pilot plant will be used to first test out the efficacy of different treatment methods — like using ozone, granular activated carbon and others — to determine the best strategies for use in a new plant.

The pilot plant, which would likely operate for about nine months, would cost between $750,000-$1 million, the city has estimated. City officials and PWSD No. 1 — which provides water to much of the outlying county and is by far the city’s largest water customer — continue their partnership on solving the water issues by discussing cost-sharing arrangements for the new pilot plant. In the meantime, the city has allocated $500,000 of federal American Rescue Plan funds to help pay for the project.

It’s not the only area where federal and state funds have come in handy.

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Since January 2020, a slew of local, state and federal agencies have brainstormed how to attack the problems plaguing Mozingo Lake, and in 2021 met regularly to discuss new funding opportunities and best practices for managing both the lake itself and surrounding watershed.

One of the chief causes of blue-green algae in standing bodies of water is runoff of nutrients like nitrogen and phosphorous from the surrounding watershed area.

Prior to 2021, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Natural Resources Conservation Service had already committed $200,000 in incentives for watershed management practices for landowners alongside a matching $200,000 costshare program authorized

by Missouri’s Soil and Water Districts Commission.

And in August of last year, the Missouri Department of Natural Resources announced a partnership with the U.S. Geological Survey on a multi-year monitor-

ing program totaling more than $370,000 to collect and track data from Mozingo Creek in the watershed to help gauge where nutrient runoff may be coming from. That’s in addition to the USGS’s 2020 efforts to begin mapping the bottom of Mozingo Lake to get a clearer picture of the effects of sediment and its composition.

But in November, state and federal officials showed their commitment to the issue by visiting Maryville to announce a $1 million federal grant program for landowners in the watershed to incentivize implementing new conservation practices over the next four years.

By developing different practices, especially on farmland, the agencies aim to trap more water in soil, rather than letting it make its way to the lake as it does now.

After a few years of encouraging more cover crops, adjusting systematic grazing practices, adding or adjusting waterways and other efforts, the agencies said they’re confident the lake will see a significant difference in improved water quality.

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A11 Luke Skinner, Soil Health Specialist with the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Natural Resources Conservation Service, demonstrates the difference in water runoff through various types of land for landowners and representatives of local, state and federal agencies at a meeting in November at Mozingo Lake Recreation Park to discuss programs to slow nutrient runoff.

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WHAT’S INSIDE Page B5 David Merrill, of Maryville, works Friday to strengthen his legs during an outpatient therapy session with Physical Therapist Michael Gard at the Mosaic Outpatient Therapy Center in Maryville. The facility has more space to provide therapy services for patients in its new location and during the last year the number of patients assisted has increased.

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Mosaic Outpatient Therapy Center gains space to serve more patients

By SKYE POURNAZARI The Forum

MARYVILLE, Mo. — Early last year, Mosaic Medical Center – Maryville’s Outpatient Therapy Services shared rehabilitation space with the administration wing, often having to announce to those in the offices that patients would be running in the hall. In June that changed when those services moved to a 10,000-squarefoot facility just southwest of the main hospital.

Now with more space, Director of Therapy Services Jason Haer, PT, OCS, told The Forum the Mosaic Outpatient Therapy Center is seeing around 250 outpatient visits per week and is able to not only provide a safer environment for them, but also one that’s more private.

“Where we were before, we were on top of each other,” he said, further describing having to coordinate with other therapists to safely treat patients in the limited space.

Haer explained that when the department identified any potential growth opportunity that would allow more services be provided locally, it was impossible to follow-up on, simply because of space restrictions.

“This space allows us to spread out a little bit, which improves patient safety, improves the things we can do with patients so we’re maybe a

A large workout space at the Mosaic Outpatient Therapy Center offers numerous pieces of equipment and staff members to help people recover after surgery or receive treatment.

The gymnasium at the Mosaic Outpatient Therapy Center houses athletic equipment and machines used to help athletes in Nodaway and surrounding counties with physical therapy and athletic restrengthening.

little bit more effective,” he said.

Shifting to the new building, the department has been able to expand services, specifically for lymphedema. Though they offered some services regarding this condition caused by a blockage in the lymphatic system that causes swelling in the extremities, now an entire room is dedicated to this issue, where exercise, wrapping, massage and compression can take place. Haer explained that the therapy is done over time and numerous visits. The new space allows all the materials to be stored more accessibly, thus making the entire visit experience better for the patient.

“This space allows us to do that more effectively,” he said.

He said the new center allows for that and much more including jumping, change of direction work, balance and strength building. The center also features a large gymnasium filled with various athletic machines to help athletes re-train and strengthen after injuries or surgeries.

Dr. Timothy Monahan, orthopedic surgeon, joined the Mosaic staff at the end of December and will work with the center creating plans after surgeries.

“We’ll be working closely with him,” Haer said. “We’re glad to have him on board.”

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He noted that the building also provides more accessibility for those patients entering and exiting, since it’s all on one floor.

The center not only provides these services in Maryville, but also for community members throughout the region.

Haer said the center has athletic trainers who treat athletes from schools in Nodaway, Gentry, Holt and Andrew counties. In the previous 3,000-square-foot location, when those athletes needed a place for running therapy, it had to be done in the administration hallway and safety was a concern.

Haer said the center provides other types of therapy as well including speech, occupational therapy and pediatric therapy, for which there is an entire room dedicated.

The room is designed with children in mind including smaller chairs, tables and equipment used for various types of therapy for those patients.

In another large room, exercise bikes, treadmills, step apparatus and a Keiser functional trainer machine provide options for physical therapists to help their patients reach wider flexibility and gain strength.

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The Mosaic Outpatient Therapy Center is shown recently. The center provides various therapies including physical, occupational, speech and athletic training.

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One room in the facility is designed with children in mind. It offers seating and tables at a size children can feel comfortable at while receiving various therapies.

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The larger space also allows for additional staff members. Currently the center has seven physical therapists, one physical therapy assistant, one occupational therapist, one speech therapist and two athletic trainers.

Haer said another physical therapist is to start in the summer.

He said the facility is seeing some growth in physical and occupational therapy needs, but that it’s been difficult to see trends since the COVID-19 pandemic.

“We’re just kind of finally having a normal fiscal year since COVID,” he said. “...

It’s just a different environment now, as far as health care.”

He said the larger space has definitely helped them be able to distance patients, keep people safe and still get them the health care they need.

“Health care as an industry has really transitioned,” Haer said. “It used to be so inpatient dominant, a lot of hospital stays and those things. It has really shifted more to an outpatient intervention. ... I think it’s important that therapies especially have that ability to be flexible and have more space and be able to offer more programs as they develop because I think that’s kind of where it’s going as an industry.”

A good thing in his mind since he believes patients spending most of recovery time in their home and coming in for outpatient therapy is a better model, especially since staff will be in contact with them throughout their recovery.

“People get back to normal routine and daily living activities sooner that way,” Haer said.

The facility’s services are open to the public, but only by referral from a doctor or a nurse practitioner.

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A map by Snyder & Associates shows the basic layout of the north side of an addition to the RV park at Mozingo Lake Recreation Park that would add a total of 43 new full-hookup sites.

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The first of 75 new golf cars began to arrive at Mozingo Lake Recreation Park this month. The vehicles will be outfitted with GPS units that will help golfers navigate the course, as well as allow Mozingo staff to track each car and track usage statistics to ensure more accurate maintenance timelines. Each GPS unit also will feature a display and notification system, allowing messages — like advertisements — to appear on the display.

MARYVILLE, Mo. — While many tourist destinations struggled during the pandemic, Mozingo Lake Recreation Park continues to grow, drawing in sportsmen, golfers, campers and general outdoor enthusiasts from across the region.

In 2021, the park took several steps forward, growing right alongside its visitor count and preparing for the future.

In addition to being a hotspot for weddings and other events — at any given time, reservations are booked at least a year in advance — Mozingo is also a burgeoning destination for camping, especially with RVs. One of the growth industries during the pandemic, RV travel has increased significantly across the country, and at Mozingo too.

In the works since 2018, the city last year laid the groundwork for a massive new expansion to its RV park. At nearly a half a million dollars, the expansion will add 43 new, full-hookup RV sites, two new shower houses and an expanded RV dump station.

Work on the project began in 2021, and is expected to be ready for the season in 2022.

To handle all the new reservations, the city also implemented a new online reservation system, hoping to eliminate some of the backlog and issues from a previous system that just wasn’t designed for such high volume.

And out at the golf course, a new set of golf cars is de-

signed to bring in new revenue streams and provide a more connected experience for golfers at Mozingo.

A new fleet of 75 golf cars have already begun arriving at the park and are being prepped for service come spring.

Part of that prep will be installing a new GPS unit into each car. The units will help golfers navigate the course, as well as allow Mozingo staff to track each car and collect usage statistics to ensure more accurate maintenance timelines.

Each GPS unit will also feature a display and notification system, allowing messages — like advertisements — to appear on the display. When a car reaches a designated hole, for example, the GPS unit could display a menu for William Coy’s restaurant and allow golfers to enter their orders so their food will be ready when they get back.

Additionally, the notification system will be used in cases of emergency, like severe weather, to recall golfers from the course.

The golf car refresh, RV expansion and other improvements all come as Mozingo showed another year of growth in fiscal year 2021 — the fourth straight year with $100,000 or more in additional revenue. All in all, the park brought in more than $3.2 million in the fiscal year that ended Sept.

30, 2021, which was about $400,000 higher than the city had projected.

The Mozingo budget is an enterprise fund, meaning that its expenses are paid for through its own revenue and is self-sustaining.

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Bolder Industries expands, commits to Maryville New partner primes growth

By SKYE POURNAZARI The Forum

MARYVILLE, Mo. — Last year, Bolder Industries CEO Tony Wibbeler told The Forum that his company, now amid a worldwide expansion, plans to build new facilities around the country and world, but train right here in Maryville.

“This is a major expansion worldwide,” he said in October 2021. “This is the gold standard in the whole world. No one in the world does this like us.”

The local facility underwent a facility expansion and celebrated receiving its

ISO 9001:2015 certification for quality management.

The expansion brought with it 11 new jobs, three to four management roles and numerous others.

The certification shows proof of concept for the company’s sustainable chemical manufacturing sourced from unusable tires, standardizing practices and offering its customers predictability in product, and also predictability in local workers’ dayto-day work at the facility.

Pyrolysis, the process Bolder uses to create its “Bolder Black” product, involves subjecting ground-up waste tire material to temperatures around 1,200 degrees Fahrenheit in an oxygenstarved environment to siphon off the oil and gas leav-

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Bolder Industries CEO Tony Wibbeler, front row, sixth from left, stands with employees at the Maryville plant during a celebration of the company’s new ISO 9001 certification in October 2021. He told The Forum that the company recently invested in more safety features and the certification proves that commitment to quality for not only customers, but employees as well. ing behind a dark-colored solid that is then reduced to ultra-fine powder before being mixed with water and formed into tiny pellets for shipment to customers.

It is difficult and dirty, but Wibbeler said the company has focused and invested millions of dollars upgrading the facility to enclose transfer systems.

This will help with health and safety for employees and cleanliness for the facility. The company also spent $500,000 to build large new locker rooms and showers for employees.

The certification also allowed Bolder to go global.

Furthering its reach just last week, Bolder signed a new 20-year strategic marketing

agreement with petrochemical company Tauber Oil. According to an article in the magazine Manufacturing Global, Tauber Oil will be the exclusive purchaser of BolderOil for the next 20 years acquiring approximately 2 million barrels each year as supply becomes available.

“After visiting their facility, it was immediately apparent they were doing something special,” said Jonathan Tauber, president of Tauber Oil in the article.

“Now, through arduous due

diligence we are confident and eager to provide sustainably derived petrochemicals at the level of quality, consistency, and specifications our customers demand. We expect this partnership will give way to expansion and deliver meaningful environmental impact that our customers and the world needs.”

Wibbler said in the article that strategic investments and alliances such as the Tauber agreement signals the next phase of growth for Bolder.

“To be able to take something as notoriously synonymous with pollution as an old tire and repurpose it into literally hundreds of different useful products is an incredible achievement

by Bolder Industries,” David Tauber Sr., chairman of Tauber Oil was quoted in the article as saying. “We at Tauber Oil are delighted to have a hand in bringing to market products from our industry that not only reduce production emissions and natural resource use, but keep millions of tires out of landfills every year.”

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Maryville High School sees facility upgrades New student lockers, phase 2 of multi

By KEN GARNER The Forum

MARYVILLE, Mo. — In a continuation of improvements made last spring and summer, the Maryville R-II School District will continue its updating of the multipurpose building on the high school campus.

Last spring and throughout the summer, maintenance crews worked diligently on providing much-needed upgrades to the facility in phase 1, with new restrooms and improvements to the concession stand area.

“We’re really happy with how it’s turned out,” said Superintendent Becky Albrecht. “I think it’s been received great by the community.”

In previous years, the district had to rent out portable toilets for patrons to use, which Albrecht said was not a great look or environment

for those attending athletic or other outdoor events.

“It’s kind of a testament to the talents of our maintenance crew because (our facilities) are now very attractive and clean,” Albrecht said.

Phase 2 of the project is now underway as there will be upgrades to the remainder of the building.

The scheduled upgrades include converting the old weight room area into a new football locker room with the lockers being purchased from Northwest Missouri State University and to be refinished by Monjar’s Wood Shop in Maryville. The current football locker room will be converted into a football film/meeting room. The wrestling area is also seeing some upgrades, while the visitors’ locker room will be updated and also serve as a locker room for other Spoofhound outdoor sports.

The upgrades, including painting as well as flooring and ceiling improvements, continues the modernization of the aging facility.

Albrecht said that in the past there have been challenges to maintaining the multi, especially in regards to cleaning despite the best efforts of staff and athletes.

“The upgrade and aesthetics is important, but so is the cleanliness,” she said.

Over the holiday break, the district installed new lockers for students in the high school, replacing the building’s original lockers. Previously, students had to share a locker with a classmate. Now, each student has their own locker.

“The feedback has been pretty good,” high school principal Thom Alvarez said at the January board of education meeting. “I think they like each having their own individual locker.”

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Conception Seminary campaign supports endowment, residence hall

By TRINITY COBB The Forum

CONCEPTION, Mo.— In the spring of 2019, Conception Abbey and Conception Seminary College, collectively known as Conception, launched their Brothers in Unity campaign with the goal to “help the entire community live in greater unity with one another and in faith,” the abbey’s website stated.

This goal was further described with two main purposes: to fundraise $10 million for a new residence hall and to increase funding

for Conception’s Monastic Retirement Endowment by $4.5 million, with a total campaign goal of $14.5 million.

The endowment covers the medical needs and housing of retired monks who reside in the abbey’s infirmary. The infirmary currently provides these services to 12 resident monks and other monks who live in the monastery, Conception’s website stated. The average age of all monks living at Conception is 66 years old and eight more monks are anticipated to retire within the next five years. The $4.5

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The additional $10 million dollars raised is funding the construction of a new residence hall, named Good Shepherd Hall. The current dormitories of St. Michael Hall and St. Joseph Hall have outdated plumbing, electrical and heating systems. St. Michael Hall is also unable to keep up with the structural, physical and technical needs of a higher education institution. Neither building has modern fire alarm and suppression systems. They are also not compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act. To raise the $14.5 million in funds, Conception received donations from public donors and applied for a grant from the J.E. and L.E. Mabee Foundation, a press release stated.

According to the Mabee Foundation website, the organization requires 40 percent of the total project cost to be raised by other public donors before it will consider a grant request. Conception met this requirement

and received a $1 million grant from the foundation.

With funding secured, construction of Good Shepherd Hall began in spring of 2021. The building is situated south of St. Maur Hall, which is the main seminary academic building.

As Conception underwent construction on the residence hall, it discovered that some alterations needed to be made. For example, the positioning of the building required the implementation of a retaining wall.

Other changes are intended to enhance the seminarians’ ability to create a sense of brotherhood.

“These new additions will allow us to better fulfill our mission of priestly formation. Completing this project properly enables us to house all seminarians under one roof, further strengthening our formation program,” said Rev. Victor Schinstock, president-rector of Conception Seminary College, in a press release.

Good Shepherd Hall is a

single building designed to replace two existing residence halls on the college’s campus. Kaity Holtman, director of communications at Conception, said the existing buildings would most likely be converted to guest housing. This is because the building that was most recently used by the Abbey Guest Center, St. Benedict Hall, was torn down to make room for Good Shepherd Hall.

The new dormitory will have 68 rooms with two beds each. It will house all the college’s seminarians, seminary chaplains and the president-rector under one roof.

“This building is no ordinary dorm, but a true house of formation where roommates and classmates become friends and eventually brothers, growing together as men of communion preparing to be shepherds of the Catholic Church,” Schinstock said in a news release.

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“The care given to the construction of this new building is a sign of our commitment to the church and her future priests.”

Spaces within the hall are specially designed to further emphasize unity among the seminarians inhabiting the building.

Conception’s website states the layout of the hall is intended to reflect Psalm 133, which begins, “How good and pleasant it is when God’s people live together in unity.”

The hall includes student lounges, a chapel and a laundry room, which all allow for the seminarians to gather together as they go about their routines.

Other features of the building include central air, modern environmental services, restrooms and common spaces for recreation.

Progress 2022 • Maryville Forum “One of the things Conception Seminary College does the best is creating brotherhood,” Holtman said. “… (Good Shepherd Hall) is one step toward that.”

There was a lot of rainy weather that slowed construction down, but Holtman said she believes the warmer winter allowed the construction crew to work later into the year than originally expected. There have also been difficulties due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

In November, Conception launched a signature phase to raise an additional $2.5 million for structural alterations and additions to Good Shepherd Hall, as well as to provide for the rise in cost for construction materials.

Despite these setbacks, construction of the residence hall is underway, and the building is set to be completed in time for students to occupy it during the 2022-2023 school year.

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SUBMITTED RENDERING

Pictured is a rendered image of what the front of Good Shepherd Hall will look like once it is completed.

In our home of nearly 150 years, the monks of Conception Abbey are moving into the future as a growing and thriving community in service to the Church and the world.

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TOGETHER, ACCEPTED. WE’RE BUILDING A FOUNDATION

In early 2020, we challenged our team to make Nucor the safest steel company in the world. Within weeks of that challenge, we were Nucor is proud to beaanglobal American manufacturer.

Ourthe steelworld goes into the infrastructure andfuture. products that fighting pandemic, and faced an uncertain form the foundation of our modern economy.

But the most important job we have is taking care of the Yet the team never lost sight of our most important value – the health, people who we live and work with every day. From our Nucor teammates, to our customers to those in the safety and well-being of our Nucor family. The result was the safest communities we call home, we know that the strongest foundations are built by working together. year in Nucor’s history.

Congratulations and thank you to our more than 26,000Learn dedicated more at Nucor.com Nucor teammates. You cared enough to face this challenge head-on and delivered a world-class performance.

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