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Tribune publisher’s final farewell Washington

The hearse carrying the late former publisher Hank Waters drives away from the MU Columns on Wednesday at Francis Quadrangle. The hearse was guided by a motorcade that
made stops to greet friends and former co-workers at the Columbia Daily Tribune, the Missouri Press Association and the Columns on MU’s campus.
A motorcade honoring the BY GRACE COOPER, TONY MADDEN
AND GRACIE ALVAREZ
late Hank Waters passed news@columbiamissourian.com
notable landmarks of his life Friends, family and onlookers gathered
Wednesday afternoon to watch a motorcade
and legacy in Columbia honoring Hank Waters, the former publish-
er of the Columbia Daily Tribune. Waters
died last week at 90 years old, leaving
behind a legacy for his work at the Tribune
and his service to the Columbia community.
“He was a treasure to Missouri newspa-
pers. No question about that,” said Mark
University
COVID-19
‘spit test’
gets FDA
approval
BY SUMMER BALLENTINE
The Associated Press
A Washington University sali-
va test for the coronavirus has
been approved by the Food and
Drug Administration, Missouri
Gov. Mike Parson announced
Wednesday.
The St. Louis-area universi-
ty worked with biotechnology
company Fluidigm to develop
the test, which allows people to
collect their own testing sam-
ples by spitting into small tubes.
Test results are available in a
few hours.
The FDA gave Fluidigm emer-
gency approval for the test,
which also allows the Washing-
ton University School of Medi-
cine to start using it, according
to a release from the school.
The test removes the need for
health care workers to swab
deep inside noses,
Jeffrey Milbrandt, who heads
Washington University School
of Medicine’s McDonnell
Genome Institute, said in
a statement. It also doesn’t
require RNA extraction kits,
which Milbrandt said makes the
tests cheaper.
ARMOND FEFFER/Missourian “People can collect the sam-
ple themselves, and it doesn’t
require an uncomfortable nasal
swab,” Milbrandt said. “Another
problem with current testing
Maassen, executive director of the Missou-
ri Press Association.
is the shortage of certain lab
supplies that are required to
The motorcade for Waters started at the
Tribune office building at 4 p.m. and ended
process viral samples. We have
at Columbia Cemetery, passing notable
developed a method to process
the saliva samples that doesn’t
landmarks of Waters’ life along the way,
including the Tribune Publishing build- require these specialized sup-
plies.”
ing, Boone County Courthouse, the Daniel
Boone City Building, the Missouri Press Meanwhile, Missouri’s state
Association and MU’s campus. health director said he won’t
One car in the motorcade stood out from follow new recommendations
by U.S. officials against testing
Please see WATERS, Page 3A people who have been in close
contact with infected people.
The new guidance was posted
earlier this week on the website

MU professor won’t teach, can continue campus-related work

BY SKYLAR LAIRD
news@columbiamissourian.com
Joel Poor, the MU professor relieved of his
teaching duties after a comment he made
during a marketing class this week, will con-
tinue supporting a campus marketing center
and laboratory this semester, MU spokesperson
Christian Basi said Wednesday.
Poor asked international students in his
Monday morning class where they were from.
When one answered Wuhan, China, where the
coronavirus pandemic originated, Poor said,
“Let me get my mask on.”
He went on to welcome the student and ask
whether there had been any problems with
travel because of the pandemic.
A Twitter account shared a 20-second
recording of the exchange, with demands for
MU to fire Poor. MU’s Twitter account said it
had submitted the video to the Office for Civil
Rights and Title IX. By the end of the day, Poor
of the Centers for Disease Con-
trol and Prevention.
The agency previously
advised testing for close con-
tacts, but that was changed
alerted his class over Canvas that he would no
Monday to say that testing is no
longer be teaching this semester.
longer recommended for symp-
Poor, who has been at MU since 2000, is a tom-less people who were with-
nontenure track associate teaching professor in 6 feet of an infected person
and was teaching Principles of Marketing and for more than 15 minutes.
Services Marketing classes. Nontenure track Missouri Health Department
professors do not have the long-term job secu- Director Randall Williams
rity tenured professors do, and their contracts said Wednesday that he doesn’t
are subject to nonrenewal. understand why U.S. health
Please see POOR, Page 3A officials shifted gears on test-
ing and has been trying to get
more information.
“At this point in time, barring
something I learn that I don’t

Murder charge filed after victim dies

TODAY’S WEATHER
PARTLY CLOUDY
91/73
BY ELIZABETH OKOSUN
news@columbiamissourian.com
INDEX
Abby5B The Columbia Police
Classifieds4B Department said Wednesday
Nation6A it is looking for a suspect
Opinion5A identified by witnesses as
the shooter in a Douglass
Sports1B
Park incident that left a man
Sudoku4B dead.
TV schedule 6B
Prosecutors filed charges
earlier in the day of first-de-
gree murder and armed
criminal action against
Rickey Lee Murry, 48. Court
Our 112th year/#249 documents said the victim
2 sections — Corey M. Jordan — was
12 pages taken to a hospital and later
died of his injuries.
When police arrived at
the shooting scene Tuesday
night, officers reported
there were approximately
6 54051 90850 3
100 people at Douglass Park,
according to information
provided at a news confer-
ence Wednesday afternoon.
With the help of witnesses,
they were able to identify
Murry as the suspect.
He was last seen leaving
the area in an eastbound
direction, and he’s consid-
ered armed and dangerous,
police said at the conference.
“We don’t know exactly
where he is, but we don’t
believe that he is still in
town,” Police Lt. Matt Ste-
phens said at the news con-
ference.
Police said Murry is a
Black man, 5-feet 11-inches
tall and weighs about 220
pounds. He was last seen
wearing a white T-shirt and
traveling eastbound from
the scene on foot, according
to a news release from the
Columbia Police Depart-
ment.
The probable cause state-
ment said witnesses told
police Murry and the victim
were in a dice game when
they began arguing over
money. Murry reportedly
left, then came back about
15 minutes later and shot the
victim, the statement said.
One witness told police
that Murry later admitted
to them that he’d shot the
victim.
Prosecutors are seeking
a $1 million cash bond for
Murry when he is arrested.
According to officials, two
police cars collided while
responding to the scene,
resulting in minor injuries to
three officers.
know yet, that would not be the
direction I’d recommend Mis-
souri go,” Williams said.
Williams said unless he’s pre-
sented with “clear evidence” to
the contrary, he still encourages
Missouri residents to get tested
if needed and as recommended
by their doctors.
Parson’s administration has
pushed for increased testing as
part of the governor’s reopening
plan.
More than 57,000 tests for
active cases were reported in
Missouri during the past week,
according to state health depart-
ment data and an Associated
Press analysis of The COVID
Tracking Project data. That’s
down from about 69,000 tests
reported the week before.
The state uses a “box-in” strat-
egy to test everyone at nursing
homes and other places where
there have been outbreaks and
Please see SPIT, Page 3A
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WEATHER
Seventh COVID-related death in ‘Go online; close bars,’
Boone County; 69 more MU cases online petitions argue
BY RIDDHI ANDURKAR record single-day jump for day afternoon, MU spokes- BY XANDER NEGOZIO One author of the petition,
news@columbiamissourian. the county. person Christian Basi said. news@columbiamissourian.com who asked not to be named
TODAY’S FORECAST: com The state reported nine The latest number of in fear of losing a graduate
A growing number of com-
additional deaths outside active cases represents 0.7% assistantship, said the deaths
A seventh person has munity members have signed
HIGH 91° LOW 73° of Boone County that were of the student population at petitions calling for a return
of several close friends’ par-
died in Boone County ents and grandparents were a
related to COVID-19 and MU, up from 0.5% Monday. to virtual-only classes, mass
Partly sunny with a 30% from complications relat- wake-up call about the pain-
78,062 cases overall. Twenty-seven students have testing of students at MU
chance of storms in the ed to COVID-19, according ful consequences of the virus.
At MU, the number of stu- recovered. and the shutdown of bars and
to a tweet Wednesday “Under the university’s
early afternoon, mostly dents with active COVID-19 The dashboard will be restaurants.
current policies, I’m current-
cloudy in the evening afternoon from Colum- cases was 228 as of Wednes- updated each Wednesday One petition, “Transpar-
ly unable to safely visit my
bia/Boone County Public day morning, according to with numbers current as of ency, Testing, and Online
mother, who is in her 60s and
Sunrise 6:34 a.m. Health and Human Ser- a campus online dashboard 7:30 a.m. that day. It might Instruction to Prevent a
has an underlying condition,”
vices. COVID-19 Outbreak at Miz-
Sunset 7:46 p.m. launched Monday. That’s an be updated more frequently the person said.
The person was in the zou,” has been signed by
increase of 69 cases since depending on the situation. The petitioners said they
more than 300 community
FRIDAY 60–64 age group. The Monday. Boone County Since Aug. 19, when MU members since it was posted
stand with the “#StillCon-
High 90° Low 70° department also reported reported 2,152 cases overall. began receiving local public cerned” movement and that
Sunday. It notes that Boone
Mostly sunny with a calm wind 87 additional cases of the None of the students health data, 263 cases have failure to address COVID-19
County’s active cases already
leading into a partly cloudy on campus is also a racial jus-
evening, 20% chance of rain coronavirus were diag- among the active cases was been reported, according to exceed the number that
tice issue.
nosed since Tuesday, a hospitalized as of Wednes- the dashboard. prompted the University of
“Structural racism in
SATURDAY North Carolina at Chapel Hill
health care systems, work-
High 85° Low 60° to go to online instruction.
places and schools (like MU)
Mostly sunny during the day, partly FAMILY SUBMITTED OBITUARY It also calls into question
the efficacy of MU’s social
is resulting in Black people
cloudy in the evening and other people of color, on
distancing measures because
SUNDAY Henry Michael “Hank” Taylor, students have already violat-
ed county health ordinances
average, being exposed to
COVID-19 more frequently
High 83° Low 67°
Mostly sunny during the day, Feb. 19, 1939 — Aug. 9, 2020 off-campus, specifically at
the Brookside Midtown pool.
than white people and expe-
riencing more severe symp-
cloudy in the evening
toms when they’re sick,” the
The petition, addressed to
Henry house on the Bay of Fundy to whatever is next for person explained.
PRECIPITATION UM System President and
Michael with the help of Marie, him. His practice of Zen That’s one of the reasons
None MU Chancellor Mun Choi,
his son, Geoff, and a great gave him much peace and the petition authors said
Normal daily value: 0.14” “Hank” Tay- MU’s executive leadership
they’d like MU to develop a
Total month to date: 1.99” lor, M.D., 81, many others. insight, which he shared and Columbia Mayor Brian
more robust dashboard. “It
Normal month to date: 3.66” of Ashland Eventually he returned with everyone who came Treece, calls for:
should include data disag-
passed away to Missouri and the Univer- to know him. Many folks ■  A pivot to all-online
Total year to date: 32.81” gregated by race for each
Normal year to date: 29.05” peacefully sity of Missouri Medical found long hours of peace- instruction at MU for the fall
campus constituency (i.e.,
Aug. 9, 2020 Center. He later practiced ful enjoyment talking with 2020 semester and the start
students, faculty, and staff) to
Henry Taylor at his res- medicine part time with the Hank about anything that of the spring 2021 semes-
track and address racial dis-
DEATH NOTICES idence fol- Missouri Department of might come up, or just sit- ter, or until Boone Coun-
proportionalities,” a petition
lowing a lengthy illness. Corrections before retiring ting quietly together. ty’s 14-day rate of positive
author said.
Mary Elizabeth Frost, 68, died He was born Feb. 19, to enjoy the peace, beauty He is survived by three COVID-19 cases per 10,000
The group also pointed out
Aug. 16. residents in the area served
1939, in Detroit, Michigan, and natural music of life in children, Marjorie Moran recent evidence that the coro-
by Columbia Public Schools
Donald Eugene (Gene) Thur- the son of Carl and Eva Fox Hollow. of Maryland, Rebecca navirus could be transmitted
falls below 10.
man, 91, a longtime Columbia LaRose Taylor. Some of his greatest plea- Horning of Maryland, and in aerosols that remain for
■  Publishing aggre-
resident, died Aug. 21. A private He was married June 21, sures in life derived from Geoffrey Taylor of Colum- hours in classrooms, hallways
gate data on the number of
1980 in Ashland to Marie reading a wide variety of bia; four grandchildren; and elevators.
burial will be held at Wesley COVID-19 cases identified
Christine Eveker, who pre- subjects and genres which two great-grandchildren; Another petition, “Increase
Chapel Cemetery in Armstrong among MU students, faculty
ceded him in death Oct. 25, led, among other things, to two sisters, Mary (Den- Regulations to Ensure Essen-
at a later date. and staff since Aug. 15.
2019. an interest in woodworking nis) Paradoski of St. Clair tial Services in Columbia,
■  A COVID-19 dashboard
Marc Bair, 60, died Aug. 22. Missouri” calls for:
Hank’s long life led him and astronomy. Shores, Michigan, and that would report daily aggre-
■  Restricting all restau-
Larry Palmer, 53, died Aug. 22. to many and varied places Hank was a federally Kathleen (Jeff) Eberts of gate data on positive cases
rants to outdoor seating and
Arrangements are under the in the world for work and licensed amateur radio Merritt Island, Florida; one identified among MU stu-
take-out services.
direction of Memorial Funeral travel. He served with operator, holding the call brother, Dave (Pat Watkins) dents, faculty and staff. The
■  Closing all indoor enter-
the Michigan National sign KDØBVQ. He was an Taylor of Ashland; and dashboard unveiled by MU on
Home. tainment facilities, including
Guard through his college active member of the Mid- many cousins, nieces and Monday doesn’t include fac-
indoor movie theaters, loung-
Peggy S. Rhoades, 87, died years at the University of MO Amateur Radio Club, nephews. ulty and staff infection num-
es, arcades, bowling alleys,
Aug. 23. There will be a visita- Detroit and his medical Boone County Central Mis- He was preceded in bers and will be updated just
night clubs, music halls and
tion from 9 to 10 a.m. Friday, school years at Wayne souri Radio Association, death by one sister, Nancy once a week for now, accord-
adult entertainment.
Aug. 28, 2020 at Memorial ing to MU News Bureau.
State University, where he Boone County Amateur Rochette; and two brothers, ■  Closing all indoor gyms
■  Investment in and
Funeral Home in Columbia. earned his doctorate. Then Radio Emergency Service Timothy Taylor and Thom- and fitness centers.
implementation of twice- or
on to California and later (ARES) and the Columbia as Taylor. It had more than 500 signa-
three-times-weekly surveil-
to Nigeria and Norway, and Boone County Emer- Private family services tures Wednesday afternoon.
OUR STAFF returning to the United gency Response Team. will be held at a later date
lance testing of students who
One of its authors is longtime
live in MU housing and of
Executive editor: Ruby Bailey, States for his medical resi- He enjoyed his daily together with a small and Columbia physician Eliza-
faculty and staff required to
baileyru@missouri.edu, 882-6695 dencies in hematology and bicycle rides, which he intimate gathering where beth Allemann, and it uses
report to the MU campus for
Managing editor: Jeanne Abbott, pathology. continued until just a few interment will take place, language borrowed from
essential operations.
abbottjm@missouri.edu, 882-4164 a previous open letter and
He met, made and kept weeks before his passing. alongside Marie on the ■  Assurance that COVID-
Business, news, sports editor: Pete petition she wrote earlier this
many friends from nearly He loved folk dancing, was farm the two of them so 19 testing and any required
Bland, blandp@missouri.edu, month. Her previous letter
every place he traveled and a member of the Mid-Mis- loved. screening appointments to
882-5744 was signed by 168 concerned
worked, eventually settling souri Traditional Dancers- In lieu of flowers, memo- qualify for such testing are
Director of community outreach: community members and 49
near Ashland and working group and played music for rials are suggested to the available free to MU stu-
Elizabeth Stephens, other health professionals,
at MU Health Care. Soon his own enjoyment and the Cholangiocarcinoma Foun- dents, faculty and staff.
stephensec@missouri.edu, 882-9951 according to previous Mis-
after relocating to Mis- pleasure of many others. dation, 5526 W. 13400 S, The petition is authored by
Director of photography: Brian sourian reporting.
souri, he bought a farm in The many friends he came #510, Herriman, UT 84096; the anonymous “COVID Safe-
Kratzer, kratzerb@missouri.edu, “This is an attempt to
southern Boone County, to know while playing Irish or Preferred Hospice of ty 4 MU,” a group of three
884-0693 broaden the appeal,” Alleman
MU graduate students.
Education editor: Elizabeth Brixey, where many of his friends music became frequent vis- Missouri (Central), 1900 said of the new petition.
brixeye@missouri.edu, 882-2632 came to know him. itors over the years. When N. Providence, Suite 311,
News editor: Victoria Jones, He and his wife, Marie, these friends came togeth- Columbia, MO 65202.
jonesv@missouri.edu, 882-5744
Public life editor: Scott Swafford,
created much great music
and memories within a
er, it would not be long
before the sounds of music
Dulle-Trimble Funeral
Home, 3210 N. Ten Mile
Larry B. Marti,
swaffords@missouri.edu, 884-5366 large community that con-
tinues to this day in even
would fill the air.
His long study and cho-
Dr., Jefferson City, MO
65109, is in charge of
March 22, 1938 — Aug. 21, 2020
Public safety and health editor:
Katherine Reed, greater numbers. For a sen path of Zen Buddhism arrangements.
reedkath@missouri.edu, 882-1792 Dr. Larry B. Marti of Rolla tice full time until his retire-
time, in the 1980s and early gave him no fear of death Those wishing to send
Senior editor: Fred Anklam, passed away Aug. 21, 2020, at ment in 2018.
1990s, they lived in New but rather a gathering joy, tributes or condolences to
anklamf@missouri.edu, 882-5720 the age of 82. Larry distinguished him-
Brunswick, Canada, where looking forward to the the family may do so at Larry B. Marti was born self in many ways through-
Senior news editor: Laura Johnston, he built a timber frame transition from this world www.dulletrimble.com.
johnstonlc@missouri.edu, 882-6870 March 22, 1938, in Mountain out his career, but the great-
View, Missouri, the mid- est of these distinctions is
State government editor: Mark Horvit,
horvitm@missouri.edu, 884-6149
dle son of Fred and Alice the love he had for his fami-
Newsroom coordinator: Cheri Cherry, Donald Eugene (Gene) Thurman, Marti. His childhood was
spent in Missouri, Arizona
ly, friends and patients in the
community. He loved life;
cherryc@missouri.edu, 882-5747
Newsroom librarian: Sandy Schiefer, Feb. 7, 1929 — Aug. 21, 2020 and California. He married
Patsy Ledgerwood in June
he loved to help people and
wanted everyone to follow
schiefers@missouri.edu, 882-4876
1959 and graduated with a their dream. He was gener-
Donald Missouri. They later owned Gene is survived by four bachelor’s degree from MU ous, fun-loving and welcom-
HOW MAY Eugene
“Gene”
and ran Thurman’s Stop
and Shop grocery store and
children: William Thurman
and wife, Alice; Donald
in 1960. He subsequently ing to all. He will be greatly
entered medical school, missed.
WE HELP? Thurman restaurant in Clifton Hill, Thurman and wife, Laura; earning his doctorate in 1967. In addition to his par-
OUR OFFICES are located at died Aug. Missouri. Eventually, in Peggy Bunton and husband, During these college years, ents, he was also preceded
221 S. Eighth St. 21, 2020, at about 1961, they relocated Tim; and Skip Thurman they had four of their five in death by brother, Jim
Columbia, MO 65201 children. The fifth arrived Blalock; a grandson, Ricky
the Bluffs to the Columbia area. and wife, Denise.
WE ARE OPEN 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday
Care Facil- Gene Thurman started Surviving grandchil- in 1971. Brown; and a great-grand-
through Friday. The Columbia Missourian is
and ran Thurman’s Sales Following his internship daughter, Ella Close.
published five days a week except for the Donald Eugene ity. dren: Troy Thurman, Chad
day after Christmas. Mr. Thur- and Associates, offering at Kansas City General Hos- Larry will be sadly missed
Thurman Thurman, Casey Thurman,
MAILING ADDRESS: man was preneed funeral insurance pital, he was drafted into by his wife, Pat Marti of
Glen Thurman, Bethany active duty in the United Rolla; five children: Debbie
The Columbia Missourian born Feb. 7, 1929, near throughout central Missou-
P.O. Box 917 Thurman, Travis Bunton States Army and initially Brown and husband, Rick,
Salisbury, Missouri, to ri. Jean Thurman managed and Samuel Thurman.
Columbia, MO 65205 served in South Korea. Upon of Rolla; Trish Whitson and
PHONE: 882-5700 Ethel Freeman and Farris Thurman Burial Monu- Great-grandchildren: returning to the states, he husband, Steve, of Rolla;
FAX: 882-5702 Thurman. He attended ments. Addye Bunton, Hunter completed his residency Brenda Leuenberger and
EMAIL: news@ColumbiaMissourian.com Gene was an avid citizens
Gold Dust School near Thurman, Rory and Liam from 1970 to 1974 at Fitzsi- husband, Art, of Columbia;
ON THE WEB: ColumbiaMissourian.com band radio operator and a
Armstrong, Missouri. Mahfood-Thurman, Blake mons Army Medical Center Larry Marti and wife, Karen,
OUR POLICY: The Missourian’s policy is to principal figure in starting
check all local stories for accuracy before
Gene married Alice Jean and Amelia Thurman, in Denver, Colorado . of Evergreen, Colorado; and
publication. If you are a source of informa- Williams of Armstrong on up the first Boone County He was then transferred John Marti and wife, Paula,
Cooper, Finley and Wyatt
tion, and we don’t double-check it with you, Nov. 7, 1947. The couple Rural Fire Department, an to General Leonard Wood of Rolla. He is also survived
Bunton and Giani Thurman
please let us know. If you spot a mistake, lived in the Fayette, Mis- all-volunteer group made Army Hospital, where he by his brother Fred Marti
let us know that, too. Call the newsroom to Great-great-grandchildren:
souri, area for some years. up principally of CB radio served as assistant chief and and wife, Linda, of Califor-
speak to an editor at 882-5720.
users. Grayson Thurman. then chief of orthopaedic nia; 23 grandchildren and 18
PRINT AND DIGITAL SUBSCRIPTION with Gene managed the Kroger
Both Gene and Jean were Surviving nieces: Mary surgery from 1974 to 1976. great-grandchildren.
delivery in Columbia is $9.95 per month. grocery store in Boonville,
long-standing members Wells of Daytona Beach, He completed his nine years A funeral service for Dr.
of the Fraternal Order of Florida; Nancy Green of of military service as chief Larry B. Marti will be con-
Eagles in Columbia. They Stem, North Carolina; of pediatric orthopaedic ducted at 10 a.m. Saturday,
both loved to dance. In Kathy Henries of Aurora, surgery and assistant chief Aug. 29, at the First Baptist
retirement, Gene owned North Carolina; and Shir- of the Orthopaedic Surgery Church in Rolla. Interment
ley Norris of Lee Summit, Department at Walter Reed will follow in the Hudgens
and managed a profession-
Missouri. Army Medical Center in Cemetery in rural Phelps
al video camera business
Columbia N Columbia S for events and weddings. A private burial for Gene Washington, D.C. County. A visitation for fam-
Larry moved his family to ily and friends will be held
573.777.1000 573.777.9500 Both Jean and Gene were will be held a later date at
Rolla, where he established from 5 to 8 p.m. Friday, Aug.
Sedalia - Smithton members of the Armstrong Wesley Chapel Cemetery in the Rolla Orthopaedic Clin- 28, at the church.
Baptist Church. Armstrong. ic. He remained a private Memorial contributions
Warrenton - Wentzville Online condolences may
He was preceded in death practice physician from 1977 are suggested to the Phelps
Foristell - Hermann by his wife, Alice Jean be shared at memorialfu- until 1994, when he joined County Faith Distribution
www.TheMissouriBank.com Thurman, and his grand- neralhomeandcemetery. Mercy Medical Group in center or the Jagat Lamsal
Member FDIC | Equal Housing Lender
son, Timmy Bunton. com. Rolla. He continued to prac- family.
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Family, friends gather to commemorate local publisher

WATERS from Page 1A
the rest. A white vehicle with
a sign on the front that read
“HJWIII,” a nod to the signoff
that Waters would use at the end
of his editorials.
“The fact that he did so many
editorials just speaks volumes
of his experience,” Maassen
said. “And he always shared
his thoughts, but he did it in a
non-obtrusive way. He was wide-
ly respected, regardless of what
side of the aisle you were on.”
Waters is not only remembered
for his role as longtime publish-
er of the Tribune but also for
the thousands of editorials he
penned.
ARMOND FEFFER/Missourian Doug Crews, former executive
A procession witness holds balloons in honor of the director of the Missouri Press
late former Columbia Tribune publisher Hank Waters on Association, said of Waters’ opin-
Wednesday at the Columbia Tribune. ion writing, “You always knew
where Hank stood. That’s for
sure.”
Clyde Bentley, associate pro-
fessor emeritus for the Missouri
School of Journalism, would
invite Waters to speak to his
class every year.
“I think the thing that really
impressed them is when he said
that he wrote all his editori-
als in advance when he took a
vacation,” said Bentley. “They
couldn’t understand how he did
that. He said, ‘When you live
here in this town that long, you
know what’s going to be import-
ant. So you can write the editori-
als in advance.’”
Waters’ prolific opinion writ-
ing embodied his devotion to the
Columbia community.
“I also oversaw a master’s the-
sis that took a look at his impact
on the town and how so many
people in this research talked
about him being the face and
voice of a newspaper, which was
rare,” Bentley said. “We don’t
have that much anymore. Colum-
bia was the one city left where
the newspaper was a person.
That impressed a lot of people.”
Linda Hayes, who worked
with Waters as part of the
Columbia Tribune’s advertising
department, remembered him
for his curiosity and commit-
ment to the community.
“He was a person who took the
time to constantly learn about
and analyze things that were
going on in the community and
then write about them,” Hayes
said. “What a service. We are
missing a voice like that today.”
Not only was Waters a valued
figure in the Columbia communi-
ty, he was also a lifelong resident
of Boone County.
“He loved Columbia. The Mis-
souri Historical Society was like
his baby. He was so proud of it,”
said Barbara Schlemeier, wife
of Terry Schlemeier (d. 2018),
who wrote for the Tribune under
Waters. “He truly loved Colum-
bia, and he did everything he
could to make it better.”
As a prominent figure in
Columbia, many people knew
Waters, whether as colleague,
reader, or friend.
“You couldn’t help but love
him. And I think the Columbia
community is going to miss him
a lot,” said Susan Currier, a for-
mer colleague of Waters.
Crews summed up the senti-
ments of many who had gathered
to honor Waters: “I can’t say
enough about Hank Waters. He
was just a brilliant man.”

Gov. Mike Parson, State Auditor Galloway come to Columbia

BY WICKER PERLIS AND
ALLISON SAWYER
news@columbiamissourian.com
The two major party can-
didates for Missouri gov-
ernor came to Columbia on
Wednesday, each focused on
discussing different priori-
ties.
State Auditor Nicole Gal-
loway, who is running as the
Democratic candidate for
governor, announced her
plan to fight COVID-19 cases
and spoke on the challenges
the virus poses in Missou-
ri. The plan, “Rebuild and
Recover: An Action Plan to
Address COVID-19 in Mis-
souri,” focuses on protecting
public health, restoring local
governments and communi-
ties and providing economic
relief.
“A virus that is impacting
our most vulnerable neigh-
bors,” Galloway said in a
speech. “The worst econom-
ic shock since The Great
Depression. Chronic under-
investment in health care
and education. Persistent
gun violence in cities across
our state. And tough conver-
sations about how to make Gov. Mike Parson speaks about his upcoming COVID-19 plans Wednesday outside of Women’s and Children’s Hospital. Parson made this stop in
Missouri more equitable and Columbia before traveling to onward toward Jefferson City.
just. … It starts with contain-
ment.”
Gov. Mike Parson visited the city
to discuss telemedicine advance-
ments with leaders at MU Health
Care, including MU Chancellor and
UM System President Mun Choi.
The use of telemedicine has expand- vide more services to more people,
ed significantly during the COVID-
19 pandemic, and Parson said the
increase in virtual health care
access will help Missouri residents
long after this crisis passes.
Parson pointed to how MU Health be encouraged but not required
has performed nearly 50,000 tele-
medicine visits since the pandemic
began and referenced his goal of
increasing broadband access in
rural Missouri as an important step
in further increasing access.
“I also think it’s going to make us
better, at the end of the day,” Parson
said. “We’re going to be able to pro-
especially in rural Missouri.”
Both candidates discussed mask
mandates, a key difference in their
respective policy platforms. Parson
maintained that mask usage should
statewide. Parson wore a mask while tain the virus.
inside the MU Women’s and Chil-
dren’s Hospital facility but removed so we can open our economy again
it to address the reporters outside.
He said he believes that a statewide
mandate would further politicize the in her speech. “We all want those
issue.
“To make it into a political issue
is just, you know, it’s unfortunate
because we want to encourage peo-
ple to wear a mask every day,” Par-
son said.
Galloway, by contrast, said she
would implement a statewide mask
mandate based on models of nearby
states, like Minnesota, to help con-
“Masks are a ticket to freedom
HANA KELLENBERGER/Missourian
— people can go back to work and
schools can open,” Galloway said
things, but in the midst of a pandem-
ic you can’t just say it, you have to
take action to make it happen. And a
mask mandate is proven to contain
the spread of the virus.”
Parson said he does not have a
problem with local government
mask mandates.
“I know that’s become a political
issue, but the reality of it is most
areas in the state that have these
significant problems, the higher
numbers, have mask mandates in
place,” Parson said. “I support the
mayors that implement that pro-
gram.”
Galloway also said if elected gov-
ernor, she plans to assign a state-lev-
el response team to provide counties
with assistance utilizing CARES
Act funds for contact tracing and
personal protective equipment and
emergency relief funding for county
governments. With public health and
restoration efforts in place, Gallo-
way believes providing an economic
relief council is also necessary in
order to stabilize Missouri’s econo-
my in the short term and elicit long-
term recovery.
“A lot of research and progress
has been made on fighting COVID,”
Galloway said. “The solutions to
help us avoid another shutdown are
in front of us. There is just not the
political will (in) Jefferson City or
the Parson administration to imple-
ment these things to get it done.”
Parson also hinted at an impend-
ing announcement regarding rapid
tests. Less than an hour later, in Jef-
ferson City, he announced the Food
and Drug Administration’s approval
of a saliva-based rapid COVID-19
test developed by Washington Uni-
versity in St. Louis.
When asked whether he was
concerned by a spike in COVID-
19 cases in Boone County, Parson
responded that he has many con-
cerns.
“Look, I’m concerned every day
when I get up, with this virus,”
Parson said. “People ask me those
questions, ‘Am I concerned?’ I think
on multiple fronts I’m concerned.
You know, I’m concerned with the
virus that’s out there, I’m concerned
with trying to get health care to
rural. I’m concerned with the things
that we’re going through in our state
right now, whether that’s the violent
crime situation, whether it’s the
economy, whether its schools start-
ing. Just on multiple fronts.”

Social media, petition signatures offer support for fired professor
POOR from Page 1A
Poor said by email Tuesday he
was unable to comment, instead
referring questions to Basi. How-
ever, a student posted on Twitter
did something wrong, we need to
be humble, not defensive, and learn
from it.”
Poor ended the note by saying,
“If I offended you by this, I’m so
an official will reach out to the
person who filed the report. If the
person decides to make a formal
complaint, MU will “take reason-
able steps to investigate the matter,
‘Spit test’
an out-of-context joke and a longer
video shows that.
yields
results in a
Poor has won awards for his
teaching, more recently including
the Shelter Insurance Teaching

the apology Poor sent to the class
via Canvas. In it, he explained he
meant his comment as a joke and
felt the video shared on Twitter
didn’t provide enough context but
also that what he said was still
wrong.
“It doesn’t matter if I didn’t
intend to offend someone, the fact
that I did is what counts,” Poor
wrote. “When someone tells us we
MU Cashiers Office extends
class refund deadline
MU Office of Cashiers has
announced an extension until Sept.
8 of the 100% reassessment for
dropped classes or approved sec-
tion changes, according to the MU
Office of Cashiers website.
The last day for students to drop
full session classes without a fee
originally had been Monday — Aug.
31.
The Chancellor and Provost
approved the extension Aug. 15,
according to MU spokesperson Liz
McCune. “Extending the refund
deadline gives students more time
to choose courses and helps them
make the right decision,” McCune
wrote in an email.
“The university is making this
adjustment this semester because
we recognize that this is an atypical
sorry.”
Basi said he could not discuss the
specific process officials used in
relieving Poor of his teaching duties
or provide further details about the
situation because it is a personnel
matter.
The Office for Civil Rights and
Title IX lays out an overview of its
procedures on its website. Once a
report is filed detailing the incident,
IN BRIEF
environment for everyone, and we
want to be sensitive to the students
who may need to change their
schedules.”
— Eva Qian
Census Bureau to setting up
temporary assistance sites
The U.S. Census Bureau will set
up temporary questionnaire assis-
tance sites this week in Columbia
to promote and assist in collecting
responses.
Mobile Questionnaire Assistance
sites will be hosted at the Daniel
Boone City Building, Columbia
Public Library, Columbia Parks and
Recreation Activity & Recreation
Center, The Food Bank Central
Pantry and others, according to a
Wednesday news release from the
city.
U.S. Census Bureau employees
stop the harassment, prevent its
recurrence and remedy its effects,”
according to the website.
In a Tuesday news release, MU
said officials would investigate the
comments, giving Poor “due pro-
cess.”
Many replies to the tweet called
Poor’s comment xenophobic and
offensive. Others defended him,
saying it was nothing more than
will be at these sites to help resi-
dents access the census question-
naire on mobile devices. Staff mem-
bers at these sites will follow all
local health guidelines, according to
the release.
The sites are part of a nationwide
operation that works in low-respond-
ing areas to promote higher census
response rates. Currently, the Boone
County self-response rate is at 67%.
The census closes Sept. 30.
— Gracie Alvarez
Anonymous donor gives
$3M to MU journalism for
business reporting students
An alumna who wishes to remain
anonymous has given $3 million to
the Missouri School of Journalism
for scholarships, internships and
professional mentoring for students
reporting at the Missouri Business
few hours
Excellence Award in Marketing in
2018. One student created a petition
to keep Poor as a professor, which
had over 7,200 signatures Wednes-
day evening. Fieldhouse and Wil-
lie’s, a local sportsbar, announced SPIT from Page 1A
in an Instagram post that it would
be doing a $100 gift card giveaway there have been outbreaks and
to support Poor. Another Instagram people are in frequent close
account, @free_joelpoor, is also sell-
contact with one another.
ing T-shirts to support him.
Williams also said as college
classes resume, his agency is
particularly concerned about
Alert, according to an MU news spread among 20- and 30-year-
release.
The organization aims to provide olds, who Williams described as
top business news across the state, “super spreaders.”
according to its website. Found-
In Boone County, home to the
ed in 2012, it has grown to report
University of Missouri’s Colum-
on entrepreneurial and business
news through a range of platforms, bia campus, cases increased
including a daily newsletter and a
weekly podcast. 15% in the past week, from
“Between two endowed faculty
1,757 to 2,014, according to
chairs in business journalism, an
health department data.
existing hands-on business news-
room, the extensive use of the Mis- Statewide, at least 78,062 peo-
souri Method and a journalism pro-
ple were reported to have test-
gram hailed as the best in the world,
there is no better place for students ed positive for the virus as of
to prepare for future careers in Wednesday. The deaths of 1,449
business news organizations across
the globe,” founder Randall Smith, people have been attributed to
the Donald W. Reynolds Endowed COVID-19, though deaths have
Chair in Business Journalism, said
in the release. dropped significantly since
— Zoia M. Morrow April and May.
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Sunflowers were in full bloom as

local residents took a sunset stroll
Tuesday through the
Bradford Research Center in
Columbia to take senior photos,
selfies or celebrate the Qixi
Festival, also known as
Chinese Valentine’s Day. The farm
was granted to MU in 1959 by
Mary and Estelle Bradford. Since A bee, center, lands on a
sunflower Tuesday at the
then, the research center has Bradford Research Center
been used by MU students as a in Columbia.
DANIEL SHULAR/
classroom and a laboratory. Missourian

DANIEL SHULAR/Missourian
Zayla Dearixon, 17, right, talks to her aunt Brenda Imhoff before taking senior photos with the sunflowers Tuesday at the Bradford Research Center in Columbia. Dearixon’s aunt Cindy Gillam took the photos.

The sun is setting for Bradford’s sunflowers

DANIEL SHULAR/Missourian DANIEL SHULAR/Missourian

A bee collects pollen from a wilting sunflower Tuesday at Bradford Research Center in A single sunflower rises above the rest Tuesday at the Bradford Research Center in Columbia.
Columbia. Columbia residents often visit the field around sunset to take pictures and look at The sunflowers are expected to die within the next month.
the flowers.
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OPINION
WRITE • REFLECT • RESPOND • COLUMBIAMISSOURIAN.COM

WHAT OTHERS SAY

Let’s do our part

to return safely to
in-person classes
As local schools in the region start the 2020–
21 school year this week, we have a national
laptop shortage, delayed classes and uncertain-
ty about what school will look like. Most impor-
tantly, we wonder how
safe it will be to return to
JEFFERSON in-school classes.
CITY NEWS Welcome to back-to-
TRIBUNE school week amid a pan-
demic.
If you have school-age
children, you probably
have a lot on your mind this week.
Reopening schools during COVID-19 is a
massive undertaking. Teachers and adminis-
trators are working hard to make this work.
They’ve spent the summer developing plans
for the start of the school year, which include
increased cleaning, daily health checks and
increased social distancing, among other
things.
So do your part. Make sure your children
understand what’s at stake and what steps they
need to take to lessen the spread of the virus.
Make sure your children know the impor-
tance of social distancing, frequent hand-wash-
ing and wearing masks. Just like you make
sure they have their books and lunches, make

Ensuring every vote counts

sure they have their masks when they leave the
house in the morning.
What should they do if they encounter situa-
tions in which social distancing is difficult or
ignored? Should they drink from water foun-

starts with getting registered

tains or bring refillable bottles?
Also, parents must be acutely aware of their
children’s health. When they show any signs of
sickness, keep them at home.
There have been arguments about whether
schools should reopen for in-person classes ver-

sus distance learning. Here in mid-Missouri,
some students are returning in person while
others will have a hybrid model.
So it’s in our collective interest to make this
work. Let’s all do our part to lessen the spread
of the virus so we can all stay healthy and more
students can get the benefits of in-school learn-
ing.
Copyright Jefferson City News Tribune.
Reprinted with permission.
TO THE EDITOR
Disrespect, mediocrity
showing up at Mizzou
I grew up in central Missouri, and many
highlights of my childhood included celebrating
the University of Missouri, with respect to both
academics and athletics. I went on to attend
and graduate from MU,
NICK HEUER where I was taught the
four values of the uni-
versity were discovery,
respect, responsibility
and excellence.
The ongoing pandemic has laid bare the farce
I was sold, as it is evident that MU doesn’t hold
these values true for the students who attend
the university or for the surrounding communi-
ties that support the university.
While I am no longer a resident of central
Missouri, many of my family members are,
and I am furious the administration at the
university has decided to move forward with
an on-campus learning model — at least long
enough to cash those sweet, sweet tuition
checks — while endangering both the students
and the community members that hold the uni-
versity so dear.
This level of buffoonery is next-level and
downright negligent.
It’s time for the university to put an end to
this idiocy and send the students home.
Nick Heuer is an MU alumnus and central
Missouri native who now lives in Chicago.
A
n avid reader and good friend of
this column, Fred Dittrich, is prob-
ably one of the smartest people I
know. I would swear that he has a
super brain with more information and triv-
ia than one person should be allowed.
So when he asks me a question, I sit up
and listen.
Fred asked, “Can those voters who are
evicted before the election vote? They are
something like 80% minority.”
In a July 3 article, the Riverfront Times
reported that “14% of Black people sur-
veyed in Missouri had no confidence they
could pay next month’s rent, compared with
6% of white people.”
In 2019, some 268 people were recorded
as homeless in Boone County, of which 49
did not reside in shelters. These numbers
have remained fairly constant over the last
five years.
It seems to me there will be two types of
people evicted from their homes: those who
have another location they can call home
— even if it is temporary — and those who
will become truly homeless, couch surfing,
living in shelters, cars or under a tarp.
Will these men and women be disenfran-
chised?
A July 30 article from FindLaw reports
that “the number of people experiencing
homelessness who vote is extremely low,
likely because voting procedures (could
be) long and exhausting, especially for the
homeless.”
The commentary continued: “Most states
require everyone registering to vote to
provide a mailing address where voter ID
cards and other election-related materials
can be sent.”
In order to get your utility bill, voter
registration card or Missouri nondriv-
er‘s license ID, one must have a mailing
address.
If one is showing a utility bill or a govern-
ment-issued check as proof of residency, it
must have a current address.
According to Boone County Clerk Brian-
na Lennon, the homeless can use a street
corner nearest their frequent nontraditional
DAVID ROSMAN
Yes, the homeless and newly
evicted, as well as college
students and some felons, can
vote in Missouri
“residence.”
Just stating that one lives near the I-70
connector is good enough to establish what
precinct one is to vote in.
According to Lennon, “The good news is
that the mailing address does not need to
be the voter’s residential address. Instead,
it can be anywhere willing to accept mail
on the voter’s behalf, such as an advocacy
organization or shelter.”
It may also include a post office box or a
church address if the person’s mail is deliv-
ered there.
The problem is that in order to vote, one
must show a valid ID. On the good side, that
identification does not to have a current
physical address. These could include a
state issued identification, a utility bill, a
government issued check or a birth certif-
icate.
The Missouri secretary of state’s website
indicates that acceptable IDs include:
• Identification issued by the state of Mis-
souri, an agency of the state or a local elec-
tion authority of the state.
• Identification issued by the United
States government or agency thereof.
• Identification issued by an institution
of higher education, including a university,
college, vocational and technical school,
located within the state of Missouri.
• A copy of a current utility bill, bank
statement, paycheck, government check or
other government document that contains
the name and address of the voter.
It should also be noted if one does not
have a driver’s license, that person may
obtain a state-issued ID for the purpose of
voting simply with a letter from the shelter
where they are staying, at no charge.
If a person doesn’t have an acceptable
ID available at the time he or she wishes to
vote, then they can cast a provisional ballot.
A valid ID can be presented later during
Election Day so that the vote becomes
“complete.”
Dan Viets, a founding member of the
Mid-Missouri Civil Liberty Association,
reminded me that Missouri is in another
unique position. Unlike some other states,
another group who are able to vote in Mis-
souri are felons who have successfully
completed their parole or probation. They,
too, can vote in the upcoming elections if
registered.
Viets also mentioned that college and
university students should register to vote
in Columbia. Local and statewide issues do
affect their lives, and they should have a
voice.
Every vote counts, especially this year,
with the presidential, congressional, state
legislative and gubernatorial elections to be
decided. Even those who are economically
less fortunate or have successfully complet-
ed their probation or parole have the right
to vote and need to be given every opportu-
nity to do so.
So, to answer Fred’s question: Yes, the
homeless and newly evicted, as well as col-
lege students and some felons, can vote in
Missouri, with some restrictions of course.
David Rosman is an award-winning edi-
tor, writer and professional speaker. You
can read more of David’s commentaries at
columbiamissourian.com and inkandvoice.
com.

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Page 6A — Thursday, August 27, 2020
Decades later, Rev. Scant mention of crises at Republican convention
Sharpton still insists:
No justice, no peace
Sharpton embraces
the resonance of Black
Lives Matter while
remembering the roots
of the Civil Rights Era
BY AARON MORRISON
The Associated Press
NEW YORK — The Rev.
Al Sharpton sat quietly in
his office in late July, watch-
ing the final funeral service
for Rep. John Lewis on a
wall-mounted television.
Instead of flying down to
the memorial in Atlanta,
Sharpton had remained in
New York; he had work to
do. Preaching at the funer-
al of a 1-year-old boy who
was shot in the stomach at
a Brooklyn cookout — a boy
not much younger than his
first and only grandson —
Sharpton demanded gun
control, an issue close to
Lewis’ heart.
He also was embroiled in
putting together this week’s
commemoration of the 1963
March on Washington for
Jobs and Freedom. This
protest will focus on police
violence, and its ever-ex-
panding roll call of victims:
George Floyd, Breonna
Taylor, Rashard Brooks,
Ahmaud Arbery, Trayvon
Martin, Eric Garner and
Jacob Blake, among others.
But Sharpton knows he
will also encounter the
ghosts of another era on the
steps of the Lincoln Monu-
ment, where the Rev. Martin
Luther King Jr. proclaimed
that he had a dream.
Sharpton said he had
always felt a kinship with
people like Lewis, who had
been the last surviving
speaker from the original
march.
But Sharpton is still stand-
ing. He reaches multitudes
on television and on radio.
The man who helped pop-
ularize the 1980s cry, “No
justice, no peace,” is putting
himself at the center of a
new wave of activism, in a
new millennium.
“I want to be able to show
that the movement is not
dead,” said the Rev. Al.
For more than three
decades, Sharpton, 65, has
been a go-to advocate for
Black American families
seeking justice and peace
in the wake of violence and
countless incidents that
highlight systemic racism.
He has a penchant for seiz-
ing the national spotlight
and focusing the public on
police brutality and acts of
hatred against Black people,
particularly at moments
of heightened tensions and
grief.
But Sharpton now con-
tends with a new question:
In what shape will he leave
the world for Marcus Al
Sharpton Bright, the only
male heir to the family leg-
acy?
“I never thought I’d live
to see my grandchild,”
Sharpton said recently in
an interview at the midtown
Manhattan offices of Nation-
al Action Network, the civil
rights organization he found-
ed in 1991.
“In many ways, every
time I see him, I know it’s a
blessing God gave me that
he didn’t give some of the
civil rights leaders before
me,” Sharpton said. “I’m
hopeful and I’m challenged.
... What kind of society am I
leaving him where you can
get shot by the cops and the
robbers?”
Sharpton has embraced
the resonance of Black Lives
BEBETO MATTHEWS/The Associated Press
The Rev. Al Sharpton listens during an interview July 30 at his office in
New York. For more than three decades he has been an advocate for
Black American families seeking justice in the wake of violence.
Matter — it’s now said to be
the largest protest move-
ment in U.S. history. But he
takes issue with people who
claim that the leaderless,
decentralized nature of the
emerging movement is an
entirely new phenomenon.
“One of the follies of youth
— including me when I was
young — is you think you’re
the first one to do what you
do,” Sharpton said. “There
ain’t nothing new. If you
don’t have that kind of back
and forward (over tactics),
which Dr. King used to call
creative tension, then you
ain’t got no movement.
“I expect there’s going
to be alternatives to me,”
he added. “And it’s good,
because it’ll bring a synthe-
sis and because nobody’s got
all the answers.”
Born in 1954 in Brooklyn,
Sharpton quickly showed
promise as a preacher. At
age 4, he delivered his first
sermon; he was an ordained
minister by age 10.
When he was just 13, Jesse
Jackson appointed Sharpton
youth director of New York’s
Operation Breadbasket,
an anti-poverty project of
King’s Southern Christian
Leadership Conference.
The Al Sharpton who
grabbed the spotlight in the
1980s was a rotund young
man in a track suit, his neck
garlanded by a chain and
medallion and his hair in a
pompadour — a remnant of
his days as James Brown’s
tour manager.
Sharpton constantly court-
ed controversy for using
inflammatory language
against his opponents. He
reserved his most fiery
rhetoric for elected officials
and attorneys representing
police officers and alleged
assailants in case after case
of racial violence.
In 1989, Sharpton’s atten-
tion was drawn to the death
of Yusuf Hawkins, a Black
teenager fatally shot after
being confronted by a mob
of white youths in Benson-
hurst, a historically Ital-
ian-American neighborhood
of Brooklyn.
As explored in the recent
HBO documentary, “Storm
Over Brooklyn,” Sharp-
ton’s work on the Hawkins
case was widely seen as
the main cause of flared
tensions between Black and
white communities in New
York City. In 1991, as he
prepared to lead a march
through Bensonhurst with
the Hawkins family, a white
man stabbed Sharpton in the
chest.
Sharpton came to be
known as a political strat-
egist skilled at staging
direct-action protests, while
adhering to King’s principles
of nonviolence. Although few
of his critics would classify
his tactics and rhetoric as
entirely civil or peaceful,
Sharpton is the reason why
Amadou Diallo, Abner Loui-
ma and Sean Bell, Black
men killed or brutalized
by police in New York City,
became household names
long before the advent of
social media and hashtags.
“I had core beliefs and I
could work with different
eras” of the movement,
Sharpton said. “I was always
free enough — never took
government funds, never
held office — I was free
enough to flow.”
Today, the track suits
and chains are long gone,
replaced by tailored suits
over a frame less than half
the size of what it once was.
But the fire is still there.
The night focused on
the positive, with the
president pardoning a
reformed felon
BY STEVE PEOPLES AND
DARLENE SUPERVILLE
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — As
Republicans make the case
for a second Trump term at
their convention, trouble is
brewing outside.
A potentially catastrophic
hurricane is bearing down
on Texas and Louisiana and
will likely test the adminis-
tration’s emergency response
capabilities. California is
battling some of the largest
wildfires in its history. A city
in the battleground state of
Wisconsin is reeling after
another night of violent pro-
tests. And the coronavirus
pandemic — the worst public
health crisis in a century — is
raging.
The approaches to the tur-
moil taken by President Don-
ald Trump and his allies have
been striking.
The first two nights of the
Republican National Con-
vention included virtually no
reference to the hurricane
gaining strength in the Gulf
of Mexico nor the California
fires. A Las Vegas pastor did
17-year-old arrested after 2 killed in Kenosha
Witnesses say police let
the gunman walk past
them and leave the
scene after the incident
BY MIKE HOUSEHOLDER
AND SCOTT BAUER
The Associated Press
KENOSHA, Wis. — A white
17-year-old police admirer
was arrested Wednesday
after two people were shot to
death during a third straight
night of protests in Kenosha,
Wisconsin, over the police
shooting of a Black man,
Jacob Blake.
Kyle Rittenhouse, of
Antioch, Illinois, was taken
into custody in Illinois on sus-
picion of first-degree inten-
tional homicide. Antioch is
about 15 miles from Kenosha.
Two people were killed
Tuesday night and a third
was wounded in an attack
Gulf Coast residents Iran to allow access to
flee coming hurricane 2 suspected nuke sites
Mark Allums, left, and Hunter Clark watch waves crash ashore as outer
bands from Hurricane Laura begin to hit the coast Wednesday in High
Island. The two are from Bogata, Texas, near Paris, Texas, and they came to
board up windows at a beach house in High Island.
BY JAKE BLEIBERG AND
STACEY PLAISANCE
The Associated Press
LAFITTE, Louisiana —
Thousands of Gulf Coast
residents fled inland from an
approaching storm deemed
“unsurvivable” by forecast-
ers, heeding warnings from
leaders in two states, but
leaving some without help as
available space in hotels and
shelters filled quickly.
Evacuees arrived as far
as Ennis, Texas, a city south
of Dallas that’s roughly 200
miles from the coast, as the
approaching Hurricane Laura
grew in power hours before
its expected landfall.
James and Samantha Bison
evacuated from Jasper, about
200 miles away, and eventual-
ly made their way to Ennis by
early Tuesday morning after
being directed there by a 211
information line. Hoping for
a place to stay, they ended up
sleeping in their car. When
they called 211 again, an
operator told them to drive to
San Antonio, about 250 miles
in a different direction.
President Donald Trump leaves with first lady Melania Trump on Tuesday
after her speech to the 2020 Republican National Convention from the
Rose Garden of the White House in Washington.
open the second night of the
convention with a prayer for
Jacob Blake, a 29-year-old
Black man who was shot by
police in Kenosha, Wisconsin,
prompting three nights of
protests. But most speakers
have stuck to Trump’s law-
and-order message, warning
that electing Democrat Joe
Biden would lead to violence
in American cities spilling
into the suburbs.
Health issues weren’t total-
apparently carried out by a
young white man who was
caught on cellphone video
opening fire in the middle of
the street with a semi-auto-
matic rifle.
“I just killed somebody,”
the gunman could be heard
saying at one point during
the rampage that erupted just
before midnight.
In the wake of the killings,
Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers
authorized the sending of
500 members of the National
Guard to Kenosha, doubling
the number of troops. The
governor’s office said he is
working with other states to
bring in additional National
Guard members and law
officers. Authorities also
announced a 7 p.m. curfew,
an hour earlier than the night
before.
“A senseless tragedy like
this cannot happen again,”
JON SHAPLEY/The Associated Press
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott
said Wednesday that the
state has 200,000 hotel rooms
across the state for evacuees.
But as of Wednesday after-
noon, the couple was waiting
for a call from the Red Cross
amid hopes the agency would
have a hotel room for them
somewhere.
Inside the hall, evacuees in
face masks waited at tables
and on hold with Dallas Coun-
ty Case Management, whose
number was being given out
at the entrance.
Like the Bisons, others
had come to Ennis hoping
for shelter. But Mayor Ange-
line Juenemann said all the
hotels in the area were “100%
booked” and the city never
received vouchers to give
people.
“We don’t have a place for
them to sleep,” Juenemann
said. “We just really need to
set the record straight.”
Leaders in both Texas and
Louisiana urged residents to
flee in the final hours before
landfall made it too danger-
ous to travel.
COLUMBIA MISSOURIAN
EVAN VUCCI/The Associated Press
ly ignored. But Larry Kudlow,
the president’s top economic
adviser, referred to the virus
in the past tense even as the
death toll in the United States
surpassed 178,000.
First Lady Melania Trump
was the most direct of any
of the convention speakers
in addressing the suffering
wrought by the pandemic.
“My deepest sympathy goes
out to everyone who has lost
a loved one, and my prayers
the governor, a Democrat,
said in a statement.
In Washington, the Justice
Department said it is sending
in the FBI and federal mar-
shals in response to unrest.
The dead were identified
only as a 26-year-old Silver
Lake, Wisconsin, resident
and a 36-year-old from Keno-
sha. The wounded person, a
36-year-old from West Allis,
Wisconsin, was expected to
survive, police said.
“We were all chanting
‘Black lives matter’ at the gas
station and then we heard,
boom, boom, and I told my
friend, ‘That’s not fireworks,’”
19-year-old protester Devin
Scott told the Chicago Tri-
bune. “And then this guy with
this huge gun runs by us in
the middle of the street and
people are yelling, ‘He shot
someone! He shot someone!’”
According to witness
BY DAVID RISING
The Associated Press
BERLIN — Iran has
agreed to allow inspectors
into two sites where the
country is suspected of
having stored or used unde-
clared nuclear material, the
U.N. atomic watchdog agen-
cy said Wednesday.
The International Atomic
Energy Agency said Iran
was “voluntarily providing
the IAEA with access to the
two locations specified by
the IAEA and facilitating
the IAEA verification activi-
ties to resolve the issues.”
It said in a joint statement
with Iran that the dates for
the inspections had been
agreed but did not elaborate.
IAEA Director General
Rafael Grossi wouldn’t name
the dates after returning to
Vienna on Wednesday eve-
ning but said they will take
place “very, very soon.” He
called the outcome “very
important” for peace and
security.
The inspections would
resolve a months-long
impasse between Iran and
the IAEA. Grossi’s visit to
Tehran this week was his
first since taking over as the
agency’s leader in Decem-
ber.
Iran had been resisting
providing access to the sites,
which are thought to be
from the early 2000s, before
it signed the 2015 nuclear
deal with world powers,
maintaining the IAEA had
no legal basis to visit them.
The head of Iran’s nuclear
agency, Ali Akbar Salehi,
confirmed that Iran had
agreed to the inspections,
saying “this will bring the
case to an end.”
“We are loyal to conven-
tions and our commitments,”
he said, adding that he
are with those who are ill or
suffering,” she said Tuesday
night.
While the president and
his surrogates have mostly
stayed away from the cri-
ses during the convention
programming, Trump on
Wednesday took to Twitter to
note that his administration
was engaged with state and
local officials in areas in Hur-
ricane Laura’s path. He also
tweeted about sending federal
agents to Kenosha.
Republicans sought on
Tuesday to show a more
forgiving side of a combat-
ive president. The president
pardoned a reformed felon
and oversaw a naturalization
ceremony for several immi-
grants, though he frequently
states his vigorous opposition
to more immigration.
The convention has fea-
tured fierce attacks on Biden
and his running mate, Cali-
fornia Sen. Kamala Harris.
But the lineup Tuesday was
generally more positive than
the opening night.
Mrs. Trump was the intend-
ed star of the night.
“Whether you like it or not,
you always know what he’s
thinking. And that is because
he’s an authentic person who
loves this country and its peo-
ple,” Mrs. Trump said.
accounts and video footage,
police apparently let the
gunman walk past them and
leave the scene with a rifle
over his shoulder as members
of the crowd were yelling for
him to be arrested because he
had shot people.
As for how the gunman
managed to leave the scene,
Sheriff David Beth portrayed
a chaotic scene, with scream-
ing, chanting, nonstop radio
traffic and people running all
over — conditions he said can
cause “tunnel vision” among
law officers.
Rittenhouse was assigned a
public defender in Illinois for
a hearing Friday on his trans-
fer to Wisconsin.
Much of Rittenhouse’s
Facebook page is devoted to
praising law enforcement,
with references to Blue Lives
Matter, a movement that sup-
ports police.
hoped the agreement would
open a new chapter between
Iran and the IAEA based
upon “good intentions and
mutual acceptance.”
Iranian President Hassan
Rouhani, who on Wednesday
met with the IAEA chief,
said Grossi’s visit had pro-
duced a “good agreement
that can help for moving on
a correct and proper path
and achieve the final resolu-
tion of problems.”
As the U.S. and others con-
tinue to put more pressure
on Iran, Rouhani urged the
IAEA to continue its “inde-
pendence, impartiality and
professionalism.”
Grossi told IAEA board
members in March that it
had “identified a number of
questions related to possible
undeclared nuclear material
and nuclear-related activi-
ties at three locations that
have not been declared by
Iran” and had been pressing
for access.
In its report in June, the
agency said it had deter-
mined that one site had
undergone “extensive saniti-
zation and leveling” in 2003
and 2004 and there would
be no verification value in
inspecting it. It said Iran has
blocked access to the other
two locations, one of which
was partially demolished in
2004 and the other at which
the agency observed activi-
ties “consistent with efforts
to sanitize” the facility from
July 2019 onward.
Grossi said Wednesday
that the outcome of his visit
to Iran was “very important
because the work of our
agency was being interrupt-
ed. Our essential work for
nonproliferation had found
an obstacle, and we were
having serious difficulties in
overcoming this obstacle for
many, many months.”

Boycott: NBA playoff games postponed amidst player protest
BY BRIAN MAHONEY
AND TIM REYNOLDS
The Associated Press
LAKE BUENA VISTA,
Fla. — Making their stron-
gest statement yet in the
fight against racial injustice,
players from six NBA teams
decided not to play postsea-
son games on Wednesday in a
boycott that quickly reverber-
ated across other professional
leagues.
Also called off: Some
games in Major League
Baseball, Major League
Soccer and the three WNBA
contests, as players across
four leagues decided the best
way to use their platform
and demand change was to
literally step off the playing
surface.
Players made the extraordi-
nary decisions to protest the
shooting by police in Keno-
sha, Wisconsin on Sunday of
Jacob Blake, a Black man,
apparently in the back while
three of his children looked
on. The Los Angeles Lakers
and Los Angeles Clippers
each voted to boycott the
playoffs at an all-teams meet-
ing Wednesday.
Kenosha is about 40 miles
south of Milwaukee. That
city’s NBA team, the Bucks,
MISSOURI FOOTBALL
Cornerbacks show promise in fall practice
BY ANDERSON KIMBALL
sports@columbiamissourian.com
During Missouri football’s fall
camp, one of the bigger tasks has
been establishing and having success
with head coach Eliah Drinkwitz’s
new offense.
Through camp’s first two weeks,
one roadblock has emerged between
the offense and that task: the corner-
backs.
“They’ve been whipping our tail
ends for the last six practices,”
Drinkwitz said.
Even though the offense’s steeper
learning curve has given the defense
an advantage during camp, Mis-
souri’s younger corners seem to be
stepping up after the departures of
2018 second team All-Southeastern
Conference honoree DeMarkus Acy
and Christian Holmes, who played in
35 games over the last three years
before moving to Oklahoma State as a
graduate transfer.
Drinkwitz said he was excited
about the position this season partial-
ly due to its depth.
“We’ve got a lot of young guys;
we’ve got great competition,” Drink-
witz said. “The only thing better than
a little competition is a lot of competi-
tion, and (there’s) a lot of competition
in that room.”
That competition starts with junior
Jarvis Ware, who is the only return-
ing starter after beating out Holmes
for a job in the middle of last season.
Ware had four passes defended in 11
games in 2019.
Ware also pointed toward the
HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL
Battle looks to fix ‘in-house’ mistakes in season opener against Fort Zumwalt
BY EMILY LEIKER
sports@columbiamissourian.com
Atiyyah Ellison sees Bat-
tle’s 2019 season-ending loss
to Fort Zumwalt North as the
result of “in-house” mistakes.
Not only did the Spartans
struggle with penalties and
turnovers in their final game,
but the players’ attitude didn’t
show a united front on the field
. A few players, including first-
string running back DaleShaun
Coleman, left the program at
the conclusion of the season.
“You know, I don’t mess
with a lot of people who don’t
align themselves with what
we’re trying to do here, so
it was kind of a purge if you
want to say,” Ellison said.
“Some guys were kind of just
tolerating it and not taking
what we were trying to teach
them, I think, to heart. And
they were upset about other
things.”
The Spartans finished
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started the boycotts Wednes-
day by refusing to emerge
from their locker room to
play a playoff game against
the Orlando Magic.
“There has been no action,
so our focus today cannot be
on basketball,” said Bucks
guard Sterling Brown, who
joined teammate George
Hill in reading a statement
on the team’s behalf. Brown
has a federal lawsuit pending
against the city of Milwau-
kee alleging he was targeted
because he was Black and
that his civil rights were vio-
lated in January 2018 when
officers used a stun gun on
him after a parking violation.
Other games that were not
played: NBA playoff games
between Oklahoma City and
Houston, and the Los Angeles
Lakers and Portland; three
WNBA games; MLB games Referees huddle on an empty court at game time of a scheduled game between the Milwaukee Bucks and the Orlando Magic for Game 5 of an NBA
between Milwaukee and Cin- basketball first-round playoff series, Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2020, in Lake Buena Vista, Fla.
cinnati and Seattle and San
Diego; and five MLS matches.
situation. The person spoke to
Two members of the St. Louis
The Associated Press on con-
Cardinals sat out their team’s
dition of anonymity because
game with the Kansas City
the meeting plan was not
Royals as well.
revealed publicly.
The NBA’s board of gover-
nors have called a meeting “The baseless shootings
on Thursday to discuss the of Jacob Blake and other
new developments, said a black men and women by law
person with knowledge of the enforcement underscores the
competition in camp, mainly with
redshirt freshman Ishmael Burdine,
whom Ware affectionately calls his
son. Burdine redshirted the 2019 sea-
son after missing the first 11 games
with a shoulder injury before playing
the season finale against Arkansas.
“Every time we step on the field,
we go try and compete,” Ware said.
“‘Who’s going to get the first inter-
ception?’ Who’s going to make the
first fumble?’ and things like that,
which can only just make the corner-
back room better.”
Younger players like Burdine and
the freshman duo of Ennis Rak-
estraw and Jaylon Carlies are driv-
ing that competition with Ware and
senior Adam Sparks, who has had an
up-and-down career in coverage and
saw a dip in playing time last season.
Sparks is one of the better corners in
run support due to his tackling ability
and has three interceptions and 10
passes defended over the last three
seasons.
Missouri’s corners were part of a
secondary that took a leap last sea-
son, ranking sixth in the country in
passing yards allowed per game after
a disappointing 2018 campaign in
which the unit finished No. 111.
That showed a good amount of
progress, but the addition of the
boundary safety and the pass cover-
age prowess of Nick Bolton and Cale
Garrett, who had a team-high three
interceptions in only five games, also
deserve credit for that jump.
Despite the turnover and previous
improvement at the position, defen-
Battle sophomore Ryan Shoenburg runs with the ball at practice Wednesday at Battle High School in Columbia.
Battle’s first game will be at home Friday against Fort Zumwalt North.
NBA
need for action,” the NBA
Coaches Association said in
a statement. “Not after the
playoffs, not in the future, but
now.”
The statement by the Bucks
also called for state lawmak-
ers to reconvene and take
immediate action “to address
sive coordinator Ryan Walters thinks
the unit can take another step up in
2020.
“I like those younger guys; those
guys, I think, have a chance to be
really special,” Walters said Friday.
“It’s only through four practices, but
I like their maturation; I like what
Gibbs is doing with them.
“I think we’ll be even better this
year than we were last year.”
Some of that optimism is due to
the additions of Carlies, a three-star
recruit from Florida, and Rakestraw,
a three-star from Texas.
“JC, he’s long and rangy, and he
can run; Ennis, I mean he’s long and
he also can run. And both of them be
tight in coverage,” Ware said.
Rakestraw has been one of the most
hyped players on defense throughout
camp after being one of the crown
jewels of Drinkwitz’s first recruiting
class. Drinkwitz let out a scream
and ran through Missouri’s football
offices when he chose Missouri over
Texas and Alabama on signing day.
Rakestraw was only a three-star
recruit and saw zero Power Five
offers before his senior season, but
his recruitment took off after not
giving up a single touchdown and
leading Duncanville to an undefeated
season and a state championship in
Texas’ highest division. Rakestraw
was also named the Dallas Morning
News’ 2019 Defensive Player of the
Year.
The corner has taken some reps
with the first team during practice.
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BLYTHE DORRIAN/Missourian
issues of police accountabil-
ity, brutality, and criminal
justice reform.”
“I couldn’t agree more.
Thank you, Bucks,” Wiscon-
sin Gov. Tony Evers tweeted.
The NBA did not say when
Wednesday’s games would
be played or if Thursday’s
MU BASKETBALL
Missouri basketball adds
to 2021 class by gaining
four-star small forward
BY JOEL LORENZI
sports@columbiamissourian.com
Missouri basketball picked
up a commitment from class of
2021 wing Sean Durugordon via
Twitter on Wednesday morning.
Durugordon, from New York, is
a senior at Connecticut’s Putnam
Science Academy, alma mater of
Oklahoma City Thunder guard
Hamidou Diallo. He’s listed as a
four-star prospect by ESPN and
a three-star on 247Sports and
Rivals. He’s currently ranked as
the 237th-best player in his class
by 247Sports. Auburn, Georgia
and Arizona State were among
his final eight schools.
Durugordon is Cuonzo Mar-
tin’s third recruit of the 2021
class, following point guards
Anton Brookshire and Kaleb
Brown. His commitment comes
just two days after Brown’s.
“Looking forward to getting up
there,” Durugordon said when
contacted Wednesday afternoon,
“and competing for a national
championship and just working.”
Shariff Durugordon, Sean’s
older brother, said Sean chose
Missouri because “it really just
came down to where his heart
was ... , where he saw himself
last season — Ellison’s first
as head coach — with a 7-4
record, after Fort Zumwalt
ended Battle’s season with
a 63-20 victory in the Class
5 District 4 championship
game.
It was just the second time
Battle has lost to Fort Zumwalt,
and the loss also broke Battle’s
five-year district title streak.
The Panthers made it to the
final four of the state tourna-
ment before falling to Carthage
20-17, their only loss of the
season.
While Ellison said the loss
of some former key players
could be perceived as a weak-
ness, he sees his smaller ros-
ter size as a plus.
“We have a smaller number
of athletes this year, so a lot
of people are playing offense
and defense,” he said. “So
they’re playing a role that
they probably didn’t play the
year before. They’ll be more
KEVIN C. COX/The Associated Press
schedule of three more
games involving six other
teams would be affected.
NBA players and coaches
were meeting Wednesday
night to determine next steps,
presumably including wheth-
er the season should continue.
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playing. With Missouri, Cuonzo
Martin and his staff are peo-
ple that carry themselves with
integrity and keep their guys
accountable.”
Durugordon is listed as
a 6-foot-7 small forward on
247Sports but is a player who
can find himself at the off-guard
position as well.
According to Shariff, his
brother is known as a “3-and-D
guy” but can also put it on the
floor to get to the rim.
“People see the videos,” Shar-
iff said, “(and) they see the
defense and athleticism, but a lot
of people are going to see that
Sean can actually score.”
With his defensive prowess, he
can be a solid two-way player.
According to Rivals, Durugor-
don has a 7-foot wingspan, which
will be crucial for his perimeter
defense with Missouri.
It’s early, but the class of 2021
is shaping up to be the deepest
recruiting class Cuonzo Martin
has had at the guard position
since 2018. That group featured
Xavier Pinson and Torrence
Watson. With three commit-
ments before September, Mis-
souri’s class sits at No. 32 in the
nation according to 247Sports.
conditioned and ready I think
than just playing one position
by this time of the year.”
Gerry Marteen and Rickie
Dunn, who both saw action last
season, will take the place of
Coleman, who’s now at Rock
Bridge, and Darren Jordan,
who graduated in May.
At quarterback last season,
Khaleel Dampier shared
snaps under center with Har-
rison Keller while also spend-
ing time at running back.
With Keller graduated, the
senior takes over as the first-
string quarterback. Soph-
omore Justin Goolsby will
start as Dampier’s backup,
but could compete for some
starting reps.
“Dampier’s been a good play-
er for us,” Ellison said. “I think
he’s ready to come into his own
this year.”
Ellison also noted a number
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Players demand social change Ellison

NATIONAL LEAGUE STANDINGS AMERICAN LEAGUE STANDINGS
East Division East Division
W L Pct GB W L Pct GB
Atlanta 18 12 .600 — Tampa Bay 21 11 .656 —

preparing
Miami 14 12 .538 2 New York 16 11 .593 2½
Philadelphia 12 14 .462 4 Toronto 15 14 .517 4½
New York 13 16 .448 4½ Baltimore 14 16 .467 6 NBA from Page 1B “Players have, once again, “We’re the ones getting shot.
Washington 11 17 .393 6 Boston 10 21 .323 10½ made it clear — they will We’re the ones that we’re
Central Division “We fully support our not be silent on this issue,” denied to live in certain com-

new-look
Central Division
W L Pct GB
Chicago 18 12 .600 —
W L Pct GB players and the decision National Basketball Players munities. We’ve been hung.
Minnesota 20 12 .625 —
St. Louis 11 9 .550 2
Chicago 19 12 .613 ½
they made,” Bucks owners Association Executive Direc- We’ve been shot. And all you
Milwaukee 13 15 .464 4
Cleveland 19 12 .613 ½ Marc Lasry, Wes Edens and tor Michele Roberts said. do is keep hearing about

Spartans
Cincinnati 11 17 .393 6
Pittsburgh 7 19 .269 9 Detroit 13 16 .448 5½ Jamie Dinan said in a joint Demanding societal fear. It’s amazing why we
Kansas City 12 19 .387 7½
West Division
West Division
statement. “Although we did change and ending racial keep loving this country and
W L Pct GB
Los Angeles 22 9 .710 — W L Pct GB not know beforehand, we injustice has been a major this country does not love us
San Diego 18 13 .581 4 Oakland 22 10 .688 — would have wholeheartedly part of the NBA’s restart back. And it’s just, it’s really
Colorado 15 15 .500 6½ Houston 17 14 .548 4½ agreed with them. The only at Walt Disney World. The so sad.” BATTLE from Page 1B
San Francisco 15 16 .484 7 Seattle 12 19 .387 9½
Arizona 13 18 .419 9 Texas 11 19 .367 10 way to bring about change is phrase “Black Lives Mat- Players from Boston and
to shine a light on the racial Toronto met Tuesday to of other underclassmen
Los Angeles 10 22 .313 12 ter” is painted on the arena
TUESDAY’S GAMES injustices that are happen- courts, players are wearing discuss boycotting Game 1 who could step up this sea-
Miami 4, N.Y. Mets 0, 7 innings, 1st game TUESDAY’S GAMES ing in front of us.” messages urging change on of their Eastern Conference son in different positions:
Philadelphia 8, Washington 3 Houston 6, L.A. Angels 3, 7 innings, 1st game Added Jeanie Buss, the their jerseys and coaches semifinal series, which had Sophomore Tyson Ellison
Detroit 7, Chicago Cubs 1 Tampa Bay 4, Baltimore 2
Chicago White Sox 4, Pittsburgh 0 Cleveland 4, Minnesota 2
Governor of the Lakers, in are donning pins demanding been scheduled for Thurs- — Atiyyah’s son — at tight
Milwaukee 3, Cincinnati 2
Boston 9, Toronto 7 a tweet: “I stand behind our racial justice as well. day. NBPA officers were end and defensive end,
Kansas City 5, St. Louis 4
Miami 3, N.Y. Mets 0, 7 innings, 2nd game
Detroit 7, Chicago Cubs 1 players, today and always. Many players wrestled for part of those meetings, sophomore Aiden Jones on
Chicago White Sox 4, Pittsburgh 0
Seattle 8, San Diego 3
L.A. Angels 12, Houston 5, 7 innings, 2nd
After more than 400 years weeks about whether it was and Miami forward Andre both sides of the line and
Colorado 5, Arizona 4
San Francisco 10, L.A. Dodgers 8, 11 innings game of cruelty, racism and injus- even right to play, fearing Iguodala — one of those offi- junior D’aire Williams.
Atlanta 2, N.Y. Yankees 1, 7 innings Oakland 10, Texas 3 tice, we all need to work that a return to games would cers— said around 2:15 p.m. “Our mantra has always
Kansas City 5, St. Louis 4
WEDNESDAY’S GAMES Seattle 8, San Diego 3
together to say enough is take attention off the deaths that he did not believe a boy- been next man up, so what-
Chicago White Sox 10, Pittsburgh 3 Atlanta 2, N.Y. Yankees 1, 7 innings enough.” of, among others, Breonna cott plan had been finalized. ever reason a guy’s not
Atlanta 5, N.Y. Yankees 1, 7 innings, 1st game
WEDNESDAY’S GAMES
Several NBA players, Taylor and George Floyd in Things apparently moved there, he’s not there,” Elli-
Atlanta 2, N.Y. Yankees 1, 7 innings, 2nd game
including the Lakers’ LeB- recent months. quickly: Less than two hours
Philadelphia 3, Washington 2 Chicago White Sox 10, Pittsburgh 3 son said. “The next guys
N.Y. Mets 5, Miami 4 Atlanta 5, N.Y. Yankees 1, 7 innings, 1st game ron James, tweeted out mes- Taylor, a 26-year-old Black later, the Bucks wouldn’t
gotta be ready to take the
Detroit 7, Chicago Cubs 6 Atlanta 2, N.Y. Yankees 1, 7 innings, 2nd game sages demanding change. woman, was fatally shot take the floor.
St. Louis 6, Kansas City 5 Toronto 9, Boston 1
Some teams including reins.”
Seattle at San Diego, ppd. Tampa Bay 4, Baltimore 3 when police officers burst “When you talk about boy-
Colorado at Arizona, 8:40 p.m. Cleveland 6, Minnesota 3 Boston, Orlando and Utah into her Louisville, Kentucky cotting a game, everyone’s Dampier, defensive tackle
L.A. Dodgers at San Francisco, ppd. Detroit 7, Chicago Cubs 6 released messages support- apartment using a no-knock antenna goes up,” Iguodala Jamileon Kimble, free safe-
Cincinnati at Milwaukee, ppd. Oakland 3, Texas 1
ing the players. warrant during a narcotics said. “It’s sad you have to ty Tommy Atherton and
THURSDAY’S GAMES St. Louis 6, Kansas City 5
Seattle at San Diego, ppd. “We weren’t given investigation on March 13. make threats like that — I guard Owen Lewis will be
Pittsburgh (Kuhl 1-1) at St. Louis (Kim 1-0),
ppd., 1st game L.A. Angels at Houston, ppd. advanced notice about the The warrant was in connec- wouldn’t say threats — but this year’s team captains,
Seattle (Kikuchi 0-2) at San Diego (Richards
THURSDAY’S GAMES decision but we are happy tion with a suspect who did you have to be willing to sac- Ellison announced Monday
1-1), 3:10 p.m.
Cincinnati (Miley 0-3) at Milwaukee (Lindblom L.A. Angels 12, Houston 5, 7 innings to stand in solidarity with not live there and no drugs rifice corporate money for night on Twitter . They’ll
Seattle (Kikuchi 0-2) at San Diego (Richards
1-1), 4:10 p.m., 1st game
1-1), 3:10 p.m.
Milwaukee, Jacob, and the were found. Then on May people to realize there’s a big help Ellison lead the Spar-
Colorado (Freeland 2-1) at Arizona (Gallen 0-0),
5:10 p.m. Boston (Mazza 0-1) at Toronto (Ryu 2-1), entire NBA community,” 25, Floyd died after a white problem out there.” tans through what is sure
Philadelphia (Howard 0-1) at Washington 5:37 p.m. Orlando guard Michael Car- Minneapolis police officer Professional sports has to be an eventful season
(Scherzer 2-1), 5:37 p.m. Oakland (Bassitt 2-1) at Texas (Lyles 1-3),
Pittsburgh (Ponce 0-1) at St. Louis (Oviedo 5:37 p.m.
ter-Williams said. “Change pressed a knee into the Black seen both strikes and lock- due to COVID-19. “All of
0-0), ppd., 2nd game Baltimore (Means 0-2) at Tampa Bay (Yar- is coming.” man’s neck for nearly eight outs in the past, almost those dudes are leaders, but
Miami (Sánchez 1-0) at N.Y. Mets (TBD),
6:10 p.m.
brough 0-2), 5:40 p.m. Magic players and refer- minutes — all captured on a always over salary disputes. they’re leaders in different
Minnesota (Dobnak 5-1) at Detroit (Boyd 0-4),
ees were on the basketball cell phone video. But this wouldn’t seem to
L.A. Dodgers (Buehler 1-0) at San Francisco 6:10 p.m. ways,” Ellison said. “Like,
(Webb 2-2), 7:05 p.m. court for the game but Hill said after Blake’s classify as a strike, even
Cincinnati (TBD) at Milwaukee (TBD), ppd., FRIDAY’S GAMES they’re totally different
2nd game Milwaukee never took the shooting that he felt players though it was initiated by
N.Y. Mets at N.Y. Yankees, 3:05 p.m., 1st people, but they all come
game floor. The National Basket- shouldn’t have come to Dis- players, since their dispute is
FRIDAY’S GAMES
Baltimore at Toronto, 5:37 p.m. ball Referees Association ney. not with the NBA. Boycott, together and appeal to the
N.Y. Mets at N.Y. Yankees, 3:05 p.m., 1st
game Minnesota at Detroit, 6:10 p.m.
said it “stands in solidarity” “We’re the ones getting meanwhile, is defined as the group in different ways, so
Tampa Bay at Miami, 6:10 p.m.
Atlanta at Philadelphia, 6:05 p.m.
with the players, and teams killed,” Los Angeles Clippers act of refusing to engage in that’s why they ended up
Chicago Cubs at Cincinnati, 6:10 p.m. Washington at Boston, 6:30 p.m.
Tampa Bay at Miami, 6:10 p.m. L.A. Dodgers at Texas, 7:05 p.m. including Orlando and Bos- coach Doc Rivers, who is an action, usually to express with the most votes. I think
Washington at Boston, 6:30 p.m. Kansas City at Chicago White Sox, 7:10 p.m.
ton released statements or Black, said in an emotion- disapproval with some con- they were spot-on with the
L.A. Dodgers at Texas, 7:05 p.m. Cleveland at St. Louis, 7:15 p.m.
Pittsburgh at Milwaukee, 7:10 p.m. N.Y. Yankees at N.Y. Mets, ppd., 2nd game tweets of support. al speech Tuesday night. dition. guys they picked.”
Cleveland at St. Louis, 7:15 p.m. Oakland at Houston, 8:10 p.m. Kickoff against Fort
N.Y. Yankees at N.Y. Mets, ppd., 2nd game Seattle at L.A. Angels, 8:40 p.m. Zumwalt is scheduled for

New recruit has coaches excited

San Diego at Colorado, 7:40 p.m.
San Francisco at Arizona, 8:40 p.m. Wednesday’s Box Score 7 p.m. Friday at Battle
ST. LOUIS 6, KANSAS CITY 5 High School. There will
Wednesday’s Transactions Kansas City St. Louis be reduced capacity at the
Baseball game in accordance with
ab r h bi ab r h bi MUFB from Page 1B feet moving at the line of is to never have dead feet,
AMERICAN LEAGUE Merrifield cf-rf 5 0 32 Wong 2b 4 1 11 scrimmage, so he never has because if you have dead health and safety protocols,
BOSTON RED SOX — Sent LHP Stephen
Gonsalves and RHP Mike Shawaryn outright to
Dozier rf-1b 4 0 0 0 Edman rf-3b 5 0 1 0 “With Ennis, he does a dead feet,” Ware said. “The feet you’ll get beat every but an official number has
Soler dh 3 0 0 0 Gldschmdt 1b 2 1 0 1
alternate training site. O’Hearn 1b 2 0 0 0 B.Miller dh 5 1 10 very good job of keeping his key to playing cornerback time.” not been announced.
CLEVELAND INDIANS — Recalled RHP Mike Starling cf 0 0 0 0 DeJong ss 4 1 10
Clevinger from alternate training site. Optioned Franco 3b 4 0 0 0 Carpenter 3b 1 1 0 0
C Beau Taylor to alternate training site.
CARDINALS 6, ROYALS 5 MU FOOTBALL
Gordon lf 4 0 0 0 Bader pr-cf 0 0 00
HOUSTON ASTROS — Optioned RHP Humberto Mondesi ss 4 1 1 0 Schrock ph 1 0 0 0
Castellanos to alternate training site.

Drinkwitz on Blake
Lopez 2b 3 2 1 0 Molina c 4 1 21
KANSAS CITY ROYALS — Activated RHP Jakob Gallagher c 2 1 1 2 O’Neill lf 4 0 22
Junis from 10 day-IL. Optioned RHP Chance McBroom ph 1 1 1 1 Carlson
Adams to alternate training site. cf-rf 401 1
LOS ANGELES ANGELS — Optioned RHP Viloria c 100 0

shooting: ‘It’s not right’

Jaime Barria and 2B Luis Rengifo to alternate Totals 33 5 7 5 Totals 34
training site. 6 9 6
NEW YORK YANKEES — Recalled RHP Albert Kansas City 002 000 012 — 5
Abreu from alternate training site. Acquired C St. Louis 001 100 004 — 6
Rob Brantly from San Francisco in exchange E—Gallagher (1), Molina (1). DP—Kansas
for cash considerations. Sent C Rob Brantly to City 0, St. Louis 1. LOB—Kansas City 6, St.
alternate training site. Sent RHP Albert Abreu Louis 14. 2B—Merrifield 2 (8), Carlson (2), BY ADAM COLE football team. I feel for my
to alternate site. B.Miller (3). HR—Gallagher (1), McBroom (4).
SF—Goldschmidt (1).
sports@columbiamissourian.com coaches.”
OAKLAND ATHLETICS — Transferred RHP
IP H R ER BB SO “You know, I was sitting
Burch Smith from the 10-day IL to the 60-day Prior to taking questions
IL. Kansas City with one of my coaches
SEATTLE MARINERS — Transferred RHP Carl Junis 3 2/3 4 2 2 1 6 from reporters Wednesday, while we were seeing it on
Edwards and LHP Taylor Guibeau from the 10- Newberry 1/3 0 0 0 0 0 Missouri football’s head
ESPN and just the pain.
day IL to the 60-day IL. Holland 1 0 0 0 0 0 coach Eliah Drinkwitz made
Kennedy 1 2 0 0 0 2 We’ve got to make reform.
TAMPA BAY RAYS — Placed LHP Jalen Beeks a point to address a story
on the 60-day IL. Selected the contract of LHP Barlow 1 0 0 0 1 2 We’ve got to address the
Staumont H,5 1/3 1 0 0 2 0 making headlines nationally.
Ryan Sherriff from alternate training site. issue so this does not contin-
TEXAS RANGERS — Activated RHP Nick Goody Rosenthal H,1 1 1/3 1 3 3 2 4 The coach took time to
Rosario L,0-1 BS,0-1 0 1 1 1 2 0 ue to happen. And I want to
from the 10-day IL. Optioned RHP Ian Gibaut to say he’s “extremely disap-
alternate training site. St. Louis be a part of the solution. Our
pointed” in the events that
TORONTO BLUE JAYS — Activated OF Derek Hudson 6 3 2 2 3 3 football team wants to be a
Cabrera 1 2 1 1 0 1 occurred Sunday in Keno-
Fisher from the 10-day IL. Recalled RHP part of the solution. We want
Sean Reid-Foley from alternate training site. Reyes W,1-0 2 2 2 2 2 2 sha, Wisconsin, when Jacob
Rosario pitched to 4 batters in the 9th,
JEFF ROBERSON/The Associated Press to bring awareness to the sit-
Optioned LHP Travis Bergen and RHP Sam
The St. Louis Cardinals’ Kolten Wong, left, tosses his bat after earning Blake, a Black man, was
Gaviglio to alternate training site. Cabrera pitched to 2 batters in the 8th. uation. And our prayers are
a bases loaded walk allowing Yadier Molina, right, to score the game- shot seven times in the back
NATIONAL LEAGUE
HBP—Junis 2 (Carpenter,Carpenter), Rosario with Jake. Our prayers are
(Molina). WP—Junis, Rosario.
winning run during the ninth inning of a game against the Kansas City by a police officer.
Umpires—Home, Ed Hickox; First, Jordan with the state of Wisconsin
ATLANTA BRAVES — Recalled C Alex Jackson
Royals on Wednesday in St. Louis. Drinkwitz was asked
from alternate training site. Baker; Second, Jerry Meals; Third, Jeremie and the situation right now,
Rehak. Tuesday evening if his team
and by no means am — I

St. Louis beats KC in

CINCINNATI REDS — Activated RHP Pedro
Strop from the 10-day IL and designated him T—3:37. had discussed Sunday’s
support the police and I sup-
for assignment. Optioned RF Travis Jankowski shooting. He didn’t have
to alternate training site. Selected the contract NBA PLAYOFF STANDINGS port that there’s good police
much to say.
of SS Jose Garcia from alternate training site. FIRST ROUND officers, but the situation
“We haven’t yet,” he said.

thriller; players sit out

MIAMI MARLINS — Optioned LHPs Daniel (Best-of-7) that occurred, again, the
Castano and Josh D. Smith to alternate train- “Nope, but, you know— hav-
third time in three months.
ing site. Recalled LHP Brandon Leibrandt from THURSDAY’S GAMES en’t yet, no.”
alternate training site. Placed OF Magneuris We’ve got, as the United
Miami 109, Indiana 100 But Wednesday — as ath-
Sierra on the 10-day IL retroactive to Aug. 24. States of America, to contin-
MILWAUKEE BREWERS — Released 2B Brock Houston 112, Oklahoma City 98 letes across sports leagues
BY STEVE OVERBEY ers. ue to do better.”
Holt. Milwaukee 111, Orlando 96 were striking in solidarity
NEW YORK METS — Optioned C Patrick Mazei- L.A. Lakers 111, Portland 88 The Associated Press Fowler was originally with Blake — Drinkwitz
ka to alternate training site.
in the starting lineup, but
Missouri football has
didn’t waste much time:
PITTSBURGH PIRATES — Acquired LHP Austin
Davis from Philadelphia for a player to be
FRIDAY’S GAMES ST. LOUIS — Kolten Wong
decided not to play right “First, just want to address 2 active cases of
name later and cash considerations.
Toronto 117, Brooklyn 92
Utah 124, Denver 87
drew a bases-loaded walk, before the game. Team man- something from yesterday,” COVID-19
SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS — Selected the
Boston 102, Philadelphia 94
to cap off a four-run rally in agement issued a statement he said. “(The Athletic Drinkwitz also told report-
contract of OF Joey Rickard from alternate
L.A. Clippers 130, Dallas 122 the ninth inning that lifted in support of both players. writer) Peter (Baugh) asked ers Wednesday that the
training site. Optioned RHP Shaun Anderson to
alternate training site. Designated RHP Dereck the St. Louis Cardinals over Dylan Carlson tied it at 2 about the situation (in) Wis- football program has two
SATURDAY’S GAMES
Rodriguez for assignment. the Kansas City Royals 6-5 with an RBI double in the consin, believe the young student-athletes in isolation
WASHINGTON NATIONALS — Activated LHP Milwaukee 121, Orlando 107,Miami 124,
Sean Doolittle from the 10-day IL. Optioned 3B Indiana 115,Oklahoma City 119, Houston 107,
on Wednesday night. fourth. He also added a key man’s name is Jake Black. with positive cases of the
Carter Kieboom to alternate training site. OT,L.A. Lakers 116, Portland 108, Tyler O’Neill tied the hit in the ninth inning. I’ll admit, I wasn’t as aware coronavirus. Three other
game at 5 with a two-out, St. Louis starter Dakota of the situation as I needed people are also quarantin-
SUNDAY’S GAMES to be and so I made myself ing because of those cases,
Football two-run single with the Hudson allowed two runs on
Boston 110, Philadelphia 106, Boston wins
NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE bases loaded off the glove aware after the meeting he said. The program did
series 4-0 three hits over six innings.
CAROLINA PANTHERS — Signed WRs Cam of third baseman Maikel and (I’m) just disappointed. another round of surveil-
Phillips and Darrell Stewart. Waived CB Derek
Dallas 135, L.A. Clippers 133, OT,Toronto 150, He retired the last 10 batters Extremely disappointed lance testing Wednesday.
Brooklyn 122, Toronto wins series 4-0 Franco. he faced.
Thomas. that we’re having to address “We’ve had some contact
CINCINNATI BENGALS — Signed S Maurice Utah 129, Denver 127 Wong coaxed a five-pitch Kansas City starter Jakob these situations again, but tracing situations, mostly
Smith. Waived K Tristian Vizcaino. walk off Randy Rosario (0-1) Junis gave up two runs and
CLEVELAND BROWNS — Claimed WR Damion
MONDAY’S GAMES you know, it says in the good roommates, when you get
Willis off waivers from Cincinnati. Milwaukee 121, Orlando 106,Oklahoma City Alex Reyes (1-0) got the four hits over 3⅔ innings in book ‘Don’t grow weary a COVID positive, usually
INDIANAPOLIS COLTS — Signed TE Dominique 117, Houston 114,Miami 99, Indiana 87, win. first start since Aug. 7. He while in doing good. For in tend to be automatically con-
Dafney. Waived RB Bruce Anderson III. Miami wins series 4-0 Ryan McBroom and Cam struck out six and walked due time you will receive tact traced,” he said. “We’re
MIAMI DOLPHINS — Claimed RB Salvon
Ahmed off waivers from San Francisco.
L.A. Lakers 135, Portland 115, L.A. Lakers Gallagher homered for Kan- one. your award if you do not lose moving forward.
leads series 3-1
MINNESOTA VIKINGS — Signed LB David sas City, which has lost 13 of Junis had been slowed by heart,‘ and we’ve got to keep “Again, like I addressed
Reese II. Waived S Brian Cole II. TUESDAY’S GAMES its last 17 to its cross-state back spasms and came off bringing attention because yesterday, I think it’s going
NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS — Activated RB
Sony Michel from the PUP list.
Denver 117, Utah 107 rival. the 10-day injury list prior there is a real problem in the to be the next two weeks that
NEW ORLEANS SAINTS — Waived DB Tino
Utah leads series 3-2
St. Louis outfielder Dex- to the contest. United States of America.” we’ve talked to our team
Ellis. L.A. Clippers 154, Dallas 111
ter Fowler and pitcher “Abraham Lincoln said about this, it’s the next two
NEW YORK JETS — Waived S Anthony Cioffi.
PHILADELPHIA EAGLES — Signed CB Trevor
L.A. Clippers lead series 3-2
Jack Flaherty opted to sit Trainer’s room we’re striving to become a weeks that’s really, you know,
WEDNESDAY’S GAMES out the game in solidarity more perfect union and we’re going to tell the tape and see
Williams and DT T.Y. McGill. Waived LB Dante Royals: Sent RHP Chance if we can continue to move
Olson. Placed TE Josh Perkins on injured Milwaukee vs. Orlando, ppd., Milwaukee leads
with other players around not there yet. We’re not there
reserve. series 3-1
Adams to their alternate yet. The atrocities that have forward in a positive way.”
the league in protest of camp to make room for
TENNESSEE TITANS — Signed RB Jeremy Oklahoma City vs. Houston, ppd. series tied occurred, on video tape, in Drinkwitz was also
McNichols. Waived LB Khaylan Kearse-Thomas
2-2 the shooting in Kenosha, Junis. the last three months; it’s not informed in Wednesday’s
and RB Cameron Scarlett.
L.A. Lakers vs. Portland, ppd., L.A. Lakers Wiscoinsin. Jacob Blake, a Cardinals: RHP Car- right. It’s not right and no Zoom of reports that most
Hockey Black man, was shot multi- los Martinez will pitch to
NHL — Sanctioned the Arizona Coyotes for
leads series 3-1 matter what justification was of Louisiana State’s offen-
violating the NHL’s Combine Testing Policy THURSDAY’S GAMES ple times by police Sunday. teammates at the Cardinals used, there was no reason for sive line had contracted the
during the 2019-20 season, directing the
Denver vs. Utah, 4 p.m Three major league games alternate site in Springfield, seven shots to be fired in that virus. The Tigers travel to
forfeiture of the Club’s 2nd-round pick in the
2020 NHL Draft and 1st-round pick in the Boston vs. Toronto, 5:30 p.m. were postponed Wednesday Missouri on Friday. He has situation, and that’s my opin- Baton Rouge to play LSU on
2021 NHL Draft. L.A. Clippers vs. Dallas, 8 p.m. in decisions driven by play- missed the last 15 games. ion. And I feel, I feel for my Oct. 10.
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HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL
Trailblazers look to stay positive in 2020
BY EMMA EATON
sports@columbiamissourian.com
Playing Friday night foot-
ball with empty stands isn’t
normal. There will be com-
plete silence, aside from the
sounds of play-calling and
pads hitting.
Meanwhile, some teams
have unfinished business
and something to prove, like
Tolton Catholic.
Despite coming off a transi-
tional 1-9 season last year, the
Trailblazers are ready to get
back on the field. Head coach
Michael Egnew said his team is
undersized and has some seri-
ous depth issues, but it is trying
to play to their strengths and
focus on moving the ball well.
“All of our games this year
are going to be a challenge,”
Egnew said. “Every single
GOLF
Mickelson wins in PGA Tour Champions debut
The Associated Press
RIDGEDALE — Phil Mick-
elson chose to make his PGA
Tour Champions debut at
Ozarks National this week
so he could avoid a two-week
break right in the middle of
his preparations for the U.S.
Open at Winged Foot.
He closed with a 5-under
66 on Wednesday to reach
22 under, leaving him three
shots clear of Tim Petrovic.
The wire-to-wire victory
made Mickelson the 20th
player to win on the 50-and-
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Obviously, there’s all sorts of
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over-tour in his debut, not
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In Re: JONATHON ROBERT
POTOCHNIC
20BA-FC01226
To Whom It May Concern:
Notice is hereby given that on Aug. 7,
2020 by order of the Circuit Court of
Boone County, the name of JONATHON
ROBERT POTOCHNIC was changed to
that of ROWEN ANDERSON MUTT.
Christy Blakemore,
Circuit Clerk
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Deputy Clerk
Insertions: Aug. 13, 20, and 27, 2020
CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE COUNTY
OF BOONE, STATE OF MISSOURI
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file an answer or other pleadings or shall
otherwise appear and defend against the
aforesaid petition within 45 days after
AUGUST 27, 2020 judgment by default
will be rendered against you.
Witness my hand and the seal of the Cir-
cuit Court this date.
Christy Blakemore,
forward to competing with
Pfenenger and the rest of the
Trailblazers for a final sea-
son. An athlete’s senior year
is special, he said, as years
and years of practice and
hard work culminate into one
last go-around.
“Coach did a good job keep-
ing us focused on ourselves
and not worrying about the
outside noise and complaints
and concerns,” Brucks said.
Tolton will get its first shot
at redemption Friday night
at Hallsville High School.
The Trailblazers will look to
gain some momentum before
heading back to Columbia on
Sept. 4 for their first home
game of the season.
“We’re going to give every-
thing we can to win,” Egnew
said. “That’s our goal.”
which was moved up to an
earlier start because of
approaching bad weather,
with a birdie on the first
hole. He added another at
the fourth before driving the
par-4 fifth and rolling in a
25-footer for an eagle.
Mickelson added three
straight birdies, making the
turn to reach 23 under and
putting the 54-hole scoring
record on the PGA Tour
Champions in danger. David
Frost shot 25 under at the
2010 3M Championship.
CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE COUNTY
OF BOONE, STATE OF MISSOURI
CASE NUMBER
20BA-JU00200
IN THE INTEREST OF C.V.R
NOTICE UPON ORDER FOR
SERVICE BY PUBLICATION
THE STATE OF MISSOURI TO:
UNKOWN
LAST KNOWN ADDRESS: UNKNOWN
You are hereby notified that an action
has been commenced against you in the
Circuit Court for the County of Boone,
Missouri, the object and general nature of
which is: TERMINATION OF PARENTAL
RIGHTS & ADOPTION.
The names of all parties to said action
are stated above in the caption hereof
and the name and address of the attor-
ney for Petitioner is: CINDY BENTCH,
P.O. BOX 521, VERSAILLES, MO
65084, (573) 569-2344.
You are further notified that, unless you
file an answer or other pleadings or shall
otherwise appear and defend against the
aforesaid petition within 45 days after
AUGUST 27, 2020 judgment by default
will be rendered against you.
Witness my hand and the seal of the Cir-
cuit Court this date.
Christy Blakemore,
Circuit Clerk
By: Kayla Turley
Court Clerk
Insertion Dates: AUGUST 27, SEPTEM-
BER 3, 10, 17, 2020.
CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE COUNTY
OF BOONE, STATE OF MISSOURI
CASE NUMBER
20BA-JU00212
IN THE INTEREST OF J.M.M
NOTICE UPON ORDER FOR
SERVICE BY PUBLICATION
THE STATE OF MISSOURI TO:
UNKNOWN
LAST KNOWN ADDRESS: UNKNOWN
You are hereby notified that an action
has been commenced against you in the
Circuit Court for the County of Boone,
Missouri, the object and general nature of
which is: TERMINATION OF PARENTAL
RIGHTS & ADOPTION.
The names of all parties to said action
are stated above in the caption hereof
and the name and address of the attor-
ney for Petitioner is: CINDY BENTCH,
3610 P.O. BOX 251, VERSAILLES, MO
65084, (573) 569-2344.
You are further notified that, unless you
file an answer or other pleadings or shall
otherwise appear and defend against the
aforesaid petition within 45 days after
AUGUST 13, 2020 judgment by default
will be rendered against you.
Witness my hand and the seal of the Cir-
cuit Court this date.
Christy Blakemore,
Circuit Clerk
By: Kayla Turley
Court Clerk
Insertion Dates: AUGUST 13, 20, 27,
SEPTEMBER 3, 2020
CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE COUNTY
OF BOONE, STATE OF MISSOURI
CASE NUMBER
20BA-JU00217
IN THE INTEREST OF E.C.H.
NOTICE UPON ORDER FOR
SERVICE BY PUBLICATION
THE STATE OF MISSOURI TO:
SIRENNA LASHAWN TODD
LAST KNOWN ADDRESS: UNKNOWN
You are hereby notified that an action
has been commenced against you in the
Circuit Court for the County of Boone,
Missouri, the object and general nature of
which is: TERMINATION OF PARENTAL
RIGHTS & ADOPTION.
The names of all parties to said action
are stated above in the caption hereof
and the name and address of the attor-
ney for Petitioner is: ABIGAIL
COURSEN, 705 E WALNUT, COLUM-
BIA, MO 65201, (573) 886-4200.
You are further notified that, unless you
file an answer or other pleadings or shall
otherwise appear and defend against the
aforesaid petition within 45 days after
AUGUST 20, 2020 judgment by default
will be rendered against you.
Witness my hand and the seal of the Cir-
cuit Court this date.
Christy Blakemore,
Circuit Clerk
By: Bobbi Mathews
Court Clerk
Insertion Dates: AUGUST 20, 27, SEP-
TEMBER 3, 10, 2020.
Thursday, August 27, 2020 — Page 3B
GOLF
Woods to host TV
match at self-designed
Missouri public course
BY DOUG FERGUSON
The Associated Press
OLYMPIA FIELDS, Ill.
— Tiger Woods is unveiling
his first public golf course
design with an exhibition
that will be the closest golf
gets to a Ryder Cup match
this year.
The Payne’s Valley Cup
will be played Sept. 22,
the Tuesday after the U.S.
Open, at Payne’s Valley Golf
Course at Big Cedar Lodge
in Ridgedale, Missouri.
Woods and Justin Thomas
will be the U.S. team that
takes on Rory McIlroy and
Justin Rose of Europe. The
18-hole match will be tele-
vised live on Golf Channel
with players wearing mics.
It will feature elements of
the Ryder Cup, with a mix
of foursomes, fourballs and
singles.
Mostly, though, it’s a
chance to show off the
first public course of TGR
Design. The other courses
from his design group have
been either private or resort
courses. This one is a trib-
ute to Payne Stewart, the
three-time major champion
who died in a plane crash
in 1999, a month after the
U.S. won the Ryder Cup at
Brookline.
Stewart was a native of
the Ozarks. The event will
raise money for the Payne
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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF
BOONE COUNTY, MISSOURI
Probate Division
Case Number:
20BA-PR00196
In the Estate of: ISABELLA FAITH
LONG, Minor
NOTICE OF HEARING
TO: ASHLEY LYNN LONG AND TO ALL
OTHER UNKNOWN PERSONS WHO
CLAIM ANY INTEREST IN THE ES-
TATE OF ISABELLA FAITH LONG
You are hereby notified that a Petition
has been filed in the above Court by
BENJAMIN RUSSELL LONG and NATA-
LIE LONG COLUMBIA, MO 65201 for
the GUARDIANSHIP AND CONSERVA-
TORSHIP of said Minor.
You are hereby required to appear in an-
swer to said petition on or before
28-SEP-2020 at 09:00 AM of said day in
said Court in the city of Columbia, Boone
County, Missouri, at which time and
place said petition will be heard. Should
you fail therein, judgment and decree
may be entered in due course upon said
petition.
CHRISTY BLAKEMORE,
CIRCUIT CLERK
By: Sue Puppel-Smith,
Clerk
INSERTION DATES: August 13, 20, 27,
and September 3, 2020
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF
BOONE COUNTY, MISSOURI
PROBATE DIVISION
Case No.
20BA-PR00238
ROBERT D. BLACK, Successor
Trustee of the Thomas C. Porter
Trust uta restated on July 19, 2014,
Petitioner,
vs.
UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI,
COLUMBIA, MISSOURI FOUNDATION
and
THE CURATORS OF THE
UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI
Jenelle Beavers
University Counsel’s Office
227 University Hall
Columbia, MO 65211
Respondents.
NOTICE OF HEARING UPON ORDER
FOR SERVICE BY PUBLICATION
To: University of Missouri, Columbia,
Missouri Foundation and the Curators of
the University of Missouri
Please take notice that the undersigned
will call up for hearing the following mat-
ters at September 28th, 2020 at 9:00
a.m. in Division XI, the Probate Division
of the Circuit Court of Boone County,
Missouri, 7th and Broadway, Columbia,
Missouri. All beneficiaries are invited to
participate. Any beneficiary may also file
correspondence or other documents with
the Court in connection with any matter
to be heard.
MATTERS TO BE HEARD
1. Declaratory Judgment Petition.
2. Claim of Kathy Montgomery.
3. Claim of R. Stephen Porter.
Christie Murray,
Probate Clerk
Publication to run: August 6, 13, 20, and
27, 2020
CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE COUNTY
OF BOONE STATE OF MISSOURI
PROBATE DIVISION
Case No.
20BA-PR00238
ROBERT D. BLACK, Successor Trustee
of the Thomas C. Porter Trust uta re-
stated on July 19, 2014, Petitioner,
vs.
UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI, COLUM-
BIA, MISSOURI FOUNDATION Re-
spondent.
NOTICE UPON ORDER FOR
SERVICE BY PUBLICATION
The State of Missouri to Defendant Uni-
Stewart Family Foundation.
“Payne’s Valley is the
first public golf course that
I have designed. I couldn’t
be prouder of how it turned
out,” Woods said.
It will be the second made-
for-TV exhibition Woods
plays this year. He teamed
with Peyton Manning to
compete against Phil Mick-
elson and Tom Brady in May
to raise money for COVID-
19 relief efforts.
This one features four
players who all have been
No. 1 in the world and won
major championships, most
of that belonging to Woods.
He has 15 majors and was
No. 1 for a record 683
weeks.
The event will be closed
to the public, except for a
select group hosted by Big
Cedar Lodge.
The Payne’s Valley Golf
Course was the idea of John-
ny Morris, a conservationist
who founded Bass Pro Shops
and Big Cedar Lodge, where
the PGA Tour Champions
has played the last two
weeks.
“Tiger and I have a
20-year friendship that
started through fishing and
has evolved into a great
partnership. We look for-
ward to showcasing this des-
tination to the world through
the Payne’s Valley Cup,”
Morris said.
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STATE MISSOURI
Case No.
20BA-PR00238
ROBERT D. BLACK, Successor Trustee
of the Thomas C. Porter Trust uta re-
stated on July 19, 2014, Petitioner,
vs.
UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI, COLUM-
BIA, MISSOURI FOUNDATION Re-
spondent.
NOTICE UPON ORDER FOR
SERVICE BY PUBLICATION
The State of Missouri to Defendant Uni-
versity of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri
Foundation.
You are hereby notified that an action
has been commenced against you in the
Circuit Court for the County of Boone,
Missouri, the object and general nature of
which is to determine to whom a bequest
should be distributed from the Thomas C.
Porter Trust under uta restated on July
19, 2014 regarding a residuary distribu-
tion to be made to an entity identified and
described therein as the University of
Missouri, Columbia, Missouri Foundation
of whose existence Petitioner is unable
to locate any record; also seeking a dec-
laration that said distribution may be
made to Defendant The Curators of The
University of Missouri; and further seek-
ing an adjudication and declaratory judg-
ment as to which of two same-dated re-
stated trust indentures is the intended
and legally effective version; and which
action affects the following described
property:
A thirty (30%) percent residuary bequest
of the net corpus of the Thomas C. Por-
ter Trust.
A Hearing has been scheduled for Sep-
tember 28, 2020 at 9:00 a.m. to discuss
the Declaratory Judgment Petition, the
Claim of Steve Porter and the Claim of
Kathy Montgomery.
The names of all parties to said action
are stated above in the caption hereof
and the name of the attorney for Peti-
tioner is Thomas M. Schneider, Jones,
Schneider and Stevens, LLC, 11 N. Sev-
enth Street, Columbia, MO 65201.
You are further notified that, unless you
file an answer or other pleading or shall
otherwise appear and defend against the
aforesaid petition within 45 days after the
date of first publication of this notice as
specified below, judgment will be de-
clared and entered against you granting
such relief.
Witness my hand this 07 day of August
2020.
Christy Blakemore
Circuit Clerk
Christie Murray,
Deputy Clerk
INSERTION DATES: August 13, 20, 27,
and September 3, 2020
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF
BOONE COUNTY, MISSOURI
Judge or Division:
PROBATE
Case Number:
20BA-PR00242
In the Estate of NORINE L KETCHUM,
Deceased
NOTICE OF HEARING
(Determination of Heirship)
To all persons who claim any interest in
the property of NORINE L KETCHUM,
deceased, as an heir of said decedent or
through any heir of said decedent:
You are hereby notified that a petition
has been filed in the above court by
PHILLIP B. CRANE for the determination
of the heirs of NORINE L KETCHUM, de-
ceased, and of their respective interests
as such heirs in and with respect to the
following described property owned by
said decedent at the time of death, towit:
Petitioner's attorney is RICHARD B.
HICKS whose business address is 1103
E. BROADWAY SUITE 101 COLUMBIA,
MO 65205.
You are hereby required to appear to an-
swer said petition on the 11TH DAY OF
SEPTEMBER,
2020, at 09:00 AM, Division 11, in the
Probate Division of the Circuit Court of
Boone County, Missouri, at which time
and place said petition will be heard.
Should you fail therein, judgment may be
of the heirs of NORINE L KETCHUM, de-
ceased, and of their respective interests
as such heirs in and with respect to the
following described property owned by
said decedent at the time of death, towit:
Page 4B — Thursday, August 27, 2020
Petitioner's attorney is RICHARD B.
HICKS whose business address is 1103
E. BROADWAY SUITE 101 COLUMBIA,
MO 65205.
You are hereby required to appear to an-
swer said petition on the 11TH DAY OF
SEPTEMBER,
2020, at 09:00 AM, Division 11, in the
Probate Division of the Circuit Court of
Boone County, Missouri, at which time
and place said petition will be heard.
Should you fail therein, judgment may be
entered in due course upon said petition.
Christie Murray,
Clerk
Newspaper: MISSOURIAN
Insertion dates: AUGUST 6, 13, 20, and
27, 2020
IN THE 13TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT
COURT, BOONE COUNTY, MISSOURI
Judge or Division:
PROBATE
Case Number:
20BA-PR00246
In the Estate of DENNIS M SMITH, De-
ceased.
Notice to Creditors
(Small Estate)
To All Persons Interested in the Estate of
DENNIS M SMITH, Decedent.
On JUNE 29, 2020 a small estate affida-
vit was filed by the distributees for the de-
cedent under Section 473.097, RSMo,
with the Probate Division of the Circuit
Court of Boone County, Missouri.
All creditors of the decedent, who died on
10-MAR-2020, are notified that Section
473.444, RSMo, sets a limitation period
that would bar claims one year after the
death of the decedent. A creditor may re-
quest that this estate be opened for ad-
ministration.
Receipt of this notice should not be con-
strued by the recipient to indicate that the
recipient may possibly have a beneficial
interest in the estate. The nature and ex-
tent of any person’s interest, if any, may
possibly be determined from the affidavit
on this estate filed in the Probate Division
of the Circuit Court of Boone County,
Missouri.
Date of first publication is AUGUST 27,
2020.
Christie Murray,
Clerk
INSERTION DATES: August 27 and
September 3
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF
BOONE COUNTY, MISSOURI
Probate Division
Case Number:
20BA-PR00258
In the Estate of: HONYSTI MARIE ANN
WILSON, Minor
NOTICE OF HEARING
TO: TERRY WILSON AND TO ALL
OTHER UNKNOWN PERSONS WHO
CLAIM ANY INTEREST IN THE ES-
TATE OF HONYSTI MARIE ANN WIL-
SON
You are hereby notified that a Petition
has been filed in the above Court by
LAVOSIA SMITH COLUMBIA, MO 65201
for the GUARDIANSHIP of said Minor.
You are hereby required to appear in an-
swer to said petition on or before
08-OCT-2020 at 09:00 AM of said day in
said Court in the city of Columbia, Boone
County, Missouri, at which time and
place said petition will be heard. Should
you fail therein, judgment and decree
may be entered in due course upon said
petition.
CHRISTY BLAKEMORE,
CIRCUIT CLERK
By: Sue Puppel-Smith,
INSERTION DATES: August 13, 20, 27,
Clerk
and September 3, 2020
IN THE 13TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT
COURT, BOONE COUNTY, MISSOURI
Judge or Division:
PROBATE
Case Number:
20BA-PR00281
In the Estate of THOMAS MARK
MALLOY, Deceased.
Notice of Letters of
Administration Granted
(Independent Administration)
To All Persons Interested in the Estate of
THOMAS MARK MALLOY, Decedent:
On AUGUST 4, 2020, the following indi-
viduals was appointed the personal rep-
resentative of the estate of THOMAS
MARK MALLOY, decedent, by the Pro-
bate Division of the Circuit Court of
Boone County, Missouri. The personal
representative’s business address and
phone number is: SUSAN M. MALLOY, 7
THISTLEDOWN DRIVE, COLUMBIA,
MO 65203
The personal representative may admin-
ister the estate independently without ad-
judication, order, or direction of the Pro-
bate Division of the Circuit Court, unless
a petition for supervised administration is
made to and granted by the court.
The personal representative’s attorney’s
name, business address and phone
number is: JASON DERRICK
SIMMONS, 1109 CLUB VILLAGE DR
STE 101, P O BOX 7068, COLUMBIA,
MO 65205-7068, 573-447-3355.
All creditors of said decedent are notified
to file claims in court within six months
from the date of the first publication of
this notice or if a copy of this notice was
mailed to, or served upon, such creditor
by the personal representative, then
within two months from the date it was
mailed or served, whichever is later, or
be forever barred to the fullest extent per-
missible by law. Such six-month period
and such two-month period do not extend
the limitation period that would bar claims
one year after the decedent's death, as
provided in Section 473.444, RSMo, or
any other applicable limitation periods.
Nothing in Section 473.033, RSMo, shall
be construed to bar any action against a
decedent's liability insurance carrier
through a defendant ad litem pursuant to
Section 537.021, RSMo.
Date of the decedent's death:
05-APR-2020
Date of first publication: AUGUST 6,
2020
Christie Murray,
Clerk
Receipt of this notice by mail should not
be construed by the recipient to indicate
that the recipient necessarily has a bene-
ficial interest in the estate. The nature
and extent of any person's interest, if any,
can be determined from the files and rec-
ords of this estate in the Probate Division
of the above referenced Circuit Court.
INSERTION DATE: August 6, 13, 20,
and 27, 2020
IN THE 13TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT
COURT, BOONE COUNTY, MISSOURI
Judge or Division:
PROBATE
Case Number:
20BA-PR00302
In the Estate of CLETUS E. COOPER,
Deceased.
Notice of Letters
Testamentary Granted
(Independent Administration)
To All Persons Interested in the Estate of
CLETUS E. COOPER, Decedent:
On AUGUST 10, 2020, the last will of the
decedent having been admitted to pro-
bate, the following individual was ap-
pointed the personal representative of
the estate of CLETUS E. COOPER, de-
cedent, by the Probate Division of the
Circuit Court of Boone County, Missouri.
The personal representative may admin-
ister the estate independently without ad-
judication, order, or direction of the Pro-
bate Division of the Circuit Court, unless
a petition for supervised administration is
made to and granted by the court. The
name, business address and phone
number of the personal representative is:
CLIFTON D. COOPER, 54 BROADWAY
To All Persons Interested in the Estate of
CLETUS E. COOPER, Decedent:
On AUGUST 10, 2020, the last will of the
decedent having been admitted to pro-
bate, the following individual was ap-
pointed the personal representative of
the estate of CLETUS E. COOPER, de-
cedent, by the Probate Division of the
Circuit Court of Boone County, Missouri.
The personal representative may admin-
ister the estate independently without ad-
judication, order, or direction of the Pro-
bate Division of the Circuit Court, unless
a petition for supervised administration is
made to and granted by the court. The
name, business address and phone
number of the personal representative is:
CLIFTON D. COOPER, 54 BROADWAY
VILLAGE APT. A, COLUMBIA, MO
65201,
The personal representative’s attorney’s
name, business address and phone
number is: NATHAN A JONES, 2412
FORUM BLVD, SUITE 101, COLUMBIA,
MO 65203, 573-874-1122.
All creditors of said decedent are notified
to file claims in court within six months
from the date of the first publication of
this notice or if a copy of this notice was
mailed to, or served upon, such creditor
by the personal representative, then
within two months from the date it was
mailed or served, whichever is later, or
be forever barred to the fullest extent per-
missible by law. Such six month period
and such two-month period do not extend
the limitation period that would bar claims
one year after the decedent's death, as
provided in Section 473.444, RSMo, or
any other applicable limitation periods.
Nothing in Section 473.033, RSMo, shall
be construed to bar any action against a
decedent's liability insurance carrier
through a defendant ad litem pursuant to
Section 537.021, RSMo.
Date of the decedent's death: JULY 16,
2020
Date of first publication: AUGUST 13,
2020
Christie Murray,
Clerk
Receipt of this notice by mail should not
be construed by the recipient to indicate
that the recipient necessarily has a bene-
ficial interest in the estate. The nature
and extent of any person's interest, if any,
can be determined from the files and rec-
ords of this estate in the Probate Division
of the above referenced Circuit Court.
INSERTION DATES: August 13, 20, 27,
and September 3, 2020
IN THE 13TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT
COURT, BOONE COUNTY, MISSOURI
Judge or Division:
PROBATE
Case Number:
20BA-PR00310
In the Estate of MARION ELLOUISE
SHERMAN, Deceased.
Notice of Letters
Testamentary Granted
(Independent Administration)
To All Persons Interested in the Estate of
MARION ELLOUISE SHERMAN, Dece-
dent:
On AUGUST 17, 2020, the last will of the
decedent having been admitted to pro-
bate, the following individual was ap-
pointed the personal representative of
the estate of MARION ELLOUISE SHER-
MAN, decedent, by the Probate Division
of the Circuit Court of Boone County,
Missouri. The personal representative
may administer the estate independently
without adjudication, order, or direction of
the Probate Division of the Circuit Court,
unless a petition for supervised adminis-
tration is made to and granted by the
court. The name, business address and
phone number of the personal represent-
ative is: JOY J BRINKERHOFF, 2900
LAKE TOWN DR, COLUMBIA, MO
65203, 573-449-7721
The personal representative’s attorney’s
name, business address and phone
number is: AMY HENDERSON, CRIPS
& SIMMONS, LLC, P.O. BOX 7068, CO-
LUMBIA, MO 65205-7068, 573-447-3355
All creditors of said decedent are notified
to file claims in court within six months
from the date of the first publication of
this notice or if a copy of this notice was
mailed to, or served upon, such creditor
by the personal representative, then
within two months from the date it was
mailed or served, whichever is later, or
be forever barred to the fullest extent per-
missible by law. Such sixmonth period
and such two-month period do not extend
the limitation period that would bar claims
one year after the decedent's death, as
provided in Section 473.444, RSMo, or
any other applicable limitation periods.
Nothing in Section 473.033, RSMo, shall
be construed to bar any action against a
decedent's liability insurance carrier
through a defendant ad litem pursuant to
Section 537.021, RSMo.
Date of the decedent's death:
09-JUN-2020
Date of first publication: AUGUST 20,
2020
Christie Murray,
Clerk
Receipt of this notice by mail should not
be construed by the recipient to indicate
that the recipient necessarily has a bene-
ficial interest in the estate. The nature
and extent of any person's interest, if any,
can be determined from the files and rec-
ords of this estate in the Probate Division
of the above referenced Circuit Court.
INSERTION DATES: August 20, 27,
September3, 10, 2020
IN THE 13TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT
COURT, BOONE COUNTY, MISSOURI
Judge or Division:
PROBATE
Case Number:
20BA-PR00312
In the Estate of LINDA ANN BENNETT,
Deceased.
Notice of Letters of
Administration Granted
(Independent Administration)
To All Persons Interested in the Estate of
LINDA ANN BENNETT, Decedent:
On AUGUST 14, 2020, the following indi-
viduals was appointed the personal rep-
resentative of the estate of LINDA ANN
BENNETT, decedent, by the Probate Di-
vision of the Circuit Court of Boone
County, Missouri. The personal repre-
sentative’s business address and phone
number is: HILLARY TOWNSEND, 3415
SIERRA MADRE, COLUMBIA, MO
65203
The personal representative may admin-
ister the estate independently without ad-
judication, order, or direction of the Pro-
bate Division of the Circuit Court, unless
a petition for supervised administration is
made to and granted by the court.
The personal representative’s attorney’s
name, business address and phone
number is: NATHAN A JONES, 2412
FORUM BLVD, SUITE 101, COLUMBIA,
MO 65203, 573-874-1122.
All creditors of said decedent are notified
to file claims in court within six months
from the date of the first publication of
this notice or if a copy of this notice was
mailed to, or served upon, such creditor
by the personal representative, then
within two months from the date it was
mailed or served, whichever is later, or
be forever barred to the fullest extent per-
missible by law. Such six-month period
and such two-month period do not extend
the limitation period that would bar claims
one year after the decedent's death, as
provided in Section 473.444, RSMo, or
any other applicable limitation periods.
Nothing in Section 473.033, RSMo, shall
be construed to bar any action against a
decedent's liability insurance carrier
through a defendant ad litem pursuant to
Section 537.021, RSMo.
Date of the decedent's death:
05-FEB-2020
Date of first publication: AUGUST 20,
2020
Christie Murray,
Clerk
Receipt of this notice by mail should not
be construed by the recipient to indicate
that the recipient necessarily has a bene-
ficial interest in the estate. The nature
and extent of any person's interest, if any,
can be determined from the files and rec-
ords of this estate in the Probate Division
of the above referenced Circuit Court.
Insertion Dates: AUGUST 20, 27, SEP-
TEMBER 3, 10, 2020.
CLASSIFIED
NOTICE OF TRUSTEE'S SALE
For default in the payment of debt se-
cured by a deed of trust executed by
Sabrina Andrade-Saavedra and Lorena
Andrade, dated January 22, 2019, and
recorded on January 28, 2019, Docu-
ment No. 2019001285, in Book No.
4984, at Page 22 in the Office of the Re-
corder of Deeds, Boone County, Mis-
souri, the undersigned Successor Trus-
tee will on August 28, 2020, at 12:30 PM,
at the Front Door of the Boone County
Courthouse, Columbia, Missouri, sell at
public vendue to the highest bidder for
cash:
Lot Twenty-three (23), except the south
seven (7) feet thereof, of University Park
Subdivision in the City of Columbia,
Boone County, Missouri, as shown by the
plat thereof recorded in Plat Book 7,
Page 36, Records of Boone County, Mis-
souri, commonly known as 1306 Brad-
shaw Ave, Columbia, MO, 65203
subject to all prior easements, restric-
tions, reservations, covenants and en-
cumbrances now of record, if any, to sat-
isfy the debt and costs.
SouthLaw, P.C. Successor Trustee
First Publication: July 16, 2020.
For more information, visit
www.southlaw.com
NOTICE
Pursuant to the Fair Debt Collection
Practices Act, 15 U.S.C. §1692c(b), no
information concerning the collection of
this debt may be given without the prior
consent of the consumer given directly to
the debt collector or the express permis-
sion of a court of competent jurisdiction.
The debt collector is attempting to collect
a debt and any information obtained will
be used for that purpose (Casefile No.
225701-931734).
Insertion Dates: July 16, 17, 19, 21, 22,
23, 24, 26, 28, 29, 30, 31, August 2, 4, 5,
6, 7, 9, 11, 12, 13, 14, 16, 18, 19, 20, 21,
23, 25, 26, 27, 28, 2020
CLARK LANE TRANSPORTATION
DEVELOPMENT DISTRICT
REQUEST FOR BIDS AND
NOTICE OF BID OPENINGS
FOR PROPOSED DISTRICT
TRANSPORTATION PROJECT
BIDS TO BE RECEIVED
NO LATER THAN
SEPTEMBER 11, 2020 – 5:00 P.M.
SEALED BIDS FROM QUALIFIED BID-
DERS ON THE FOLLOWING PROJECT
ARE HEREBY REQUESTED: ST.
CHARLES & CLARK LANE. TDD BIDS
SHOULD BE ADDRESSED TO THE
CLARK LANE TRANSPORTATION DE-
VELOPMENT DISTRICT, COLUMBIA,
MISSOURI (THE “DISTRICT”), AND EN-
DORSED “BID FOR CONSTRUCTING
TRANSPORTATION PROJECT OF THE
CLARK LANE TRANSPORTATION DE-
VELOPMENT DISTRICT, COLUMBIA,
BOONE COUNTY, MISSOURI.” SAID
BIDS WILL BE RECEIVED BY THE DIS-
TRICT UNTIL 5:00 P.M. CDT ON SEP-
TEMBER 11, 2020, AT THE VAN MA-
TRE LAW FIRM, P.C. 1103 EAST
BROADWAY, COLUMBIA, MISSOURI
65201 (“LEGAL COUNSEL”). SAID BIDS
WILL BE PUBLICLY OPENED AND
READ SEPTEMBER 16, 2020 AT THE
VAN MATRE LAW FIRM, P.C. 1103
EAST BROADWAY, COLUMBIA, MIS-
SOURI 65201 AT 1:00 P.M. CST.
THE TRANSPORTATION PROJECT TO
WHICH THE REQUESTED BIDS WILL
RELATE ARE DESCRIBED IN CON-
STRUCTION PLANS AND BID PACK-
AGE WHICH HAVE BEEN PREPARED
BY THE DISTRICT AND WHICH WILL
BE FURNISHED TO PROSPECTIVE
BIDDERS UPON PAYMENT FOR
SAME.
BEGINNING AUGUST 28, 2020 AT 3
P.M., PLANS AND BID PACKAGES
WILL BE AVAILABLE AND MAY BE
PURCHASED OR INSPECTED AT
AMERICAN DOCUMENT SOLUTIONS,
(“PLAN HOLDER”), 1400 FORUM BLVD,
SUITE 7A, COLUMBIA, MO 65203. NO
BIDS WIL BE ACCEPTED FROM CON-
TRACTORS WHO ARE NOT ON THE
PLAN HOLDER’S LIST.
EACH BID MUST BE ACCOMPANIED
BY A CERTIFIED CHECK OR CASH-
IER’S CHECK DRAWN ON ANY BANK
OR TRUST COMPANY AND PAYABLE
TO “TREASURER, CLARK LANE
TRANSPORTATION DEVELOPMENT
DISTRICT” (OR ACCOMPANIED BY A
BID BOND ON A FORM FURNISHED
BY THE DISTRICT, EXECUTED BY
THE BIDDER, AND CORPORATE
SURETY, AND NAMING THE “CLARK
LANE TRANSPORTATION DEVELOP-
MENT DISTRICT,” AS OBLIGEE) FOR
AN AMOUNT (OR PENAL SUM) EQUAL
TO FIVE PERCENT (5%) OR MORE OF
THE BID, WHICH CHECK OR BOND
SHALL BE DEPOSITED WITH THE
DISTRICT AS A GUARANTY AND FOR-
FEITED IN THE EVENT THE BIDDER
IS FOUND TO BE THE SUCCESSFUL
BIDDER BUT FAILS TO COMPLY WITH
THE TERMS OF THE REQUEST FOR
BID. ON EXECUTION AND DELIVERY
BY THE SUCCESSFUL BIDDER OF
THE CONTRACT, CONTRACT BOND,
AND EVIDENCE OF INSURANCE PRO-
TECTION IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE
REQUEST FOR BID, SAID BIDDER’S
CHECK OR BID BOND WILL BE RE-
TURNED. ALL CHECKS OR BID
BONDS OF THE UNSUCCESSFUL BID-
DERS WILL BE RETURNED TO THEM
IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE TERMS
OF THE BID PACKAGE.
THE BIDDER TO WHOM THE CON-
TRACT FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF
THE PROJECT DESCRIBED ABOVE IS
AWARDED MUST EXECUTE THE DIS-
TRICT’S APPROVED CONTRACT
FORM AND POST A COMPLETION SUDOKU PUZZLE
BOND CONSISTENT WITH THE RE-
QUIREMENTS FOR SAME THURSDAY,
SPECIFIED AUGUST 27
IN THE BID PACKAGE.
THE CONTRACTOR AND ANY OF ITS
SUBCONTRACTORS SHALL ONLY
HAVE EMPLOYEES THAT HAVE COM-
PLETED A TEN HOUR OCCUPA-
TIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH ADMIN-
ISTRATION (“OSHA”) CONSTRUCTION
SAFETY PROGRAM WHICH IN-
CLUDES A COURSE IN CONSTRUC-
TION SAFETY AND HEALTH AP-
PROVED BY OSHA OR A SIMILAR
PROGRAM APPROVED BY THE MIS-
SOURI DEPARTMENT OF LABOR AND
INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS PURSUANT
TO THE REQUIREMENTS OF RSMO.
SECTION 292.675. SHOULD THE CON-
TRACTOR FAIL TO COMPLY WITH
THE FOREGOING REQUIREMENTS, IT
SHALL FORFEIT, AS A PENALTY TO
THE ROCK BRIDGE CENTER TRANS-
PORTATION DEVELOPMENT DIS-
TRICT, $2,500.00 PLUS $100.00 FOR
EACH EMPLOYEE EMPLOYED BY THE
CONTRACTOR OR SUBCONTRAC-
TOR FOR EACH CALENDAR DAY OR
PORTION THEREOF THAT SUCH EM-
PLOYEE IS EMPLOYED WITHOUT
THE FOREGOING, REQUIRED TRAIN-
ING.
THE CONTRACTOR AWARDED THE
CONTRACT FOR THE CONSTRUC-
TION OF THE PROJECT DESCRIBED
ABOVE WILL BE LIABLE FOR LIQUI-
DATED DAMAGES IN THE AMOUNT
OF ONE THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED
DOLLARS ($1,500.00) PER DAY FOR
EACH CALENDAR DAY SUBSEQUENT
TO THE DATE STIPULATED IN THE
HOW DOFOR YOUCOMPLETION
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NO BIDDER WHO SUBMITS A BID
column TO
PURSUANT andTHIS
every 3x3 box contains the
SOLICITATION
WILLdigits
1 through 9. AGAINST
BE DISCRIMINATED
ON THE BASIS OF RACE, COLOR, RE-
■ There’s
LIGION, no math
CREED, involved.
SEX, AGE, ANCES-The grid has
TRY,numbers,
OR NATIONAL but ORIGIN.
nothing has to add up to
THE DISTRICT RESERVES THE
anything
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TO REJECT YouORsolve the puzzle with
ALL BIDS
FORreasoning
ANY REASON. and logic.
ONLY QUALIFIED BIDDERS MAY SUB-
■ Solving
MIT time is TO
BIDS PURSUANT typically from 10 to 30
THIS SOLIC-
minutes,
ITATION. ALL depending
PROSPECTIVE on your
BID- skill and
DERS MUST FILE WITH THE DIS-
experience.
TRICT’S LEGAL COUNSEL (THE VAN
MATRE LAW FIRM, P.C., 1103 EAST
BROADWAY, COLUMBIA, MISSOURI
65201) A STATEMENT RECITING SAID
BIDDER’S QUALIFICATIONS TO BID
ON THE PROJECT DESCRIBED
ABOVE. SUCH STATEMENTS OF
QUALIFICATIONS MUST ON FILE NO
AND EVIDENCE OF INSURANCE PRO-
TECTION IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE
REQUEST FOR BID, SAID BIDDER’S
CHECK OR BID BOND WILL BE RE-
TURNED. ALL CHECKS OR BID
BONDS OF THE UNSUCCESSFUL BID-
DERS WILL BE RETURNED TO THEM
IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE TERMS
OF THE BID PACKAGE.
THE BIDDER TO WHOM THE CON-
TRACT FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF
THE PROJECT DESCRIBED ABOVE IS
AWARDED MUST EXECUTE THE DIS-
TRICT’S APPROVED CONTRACT
FORM AND POST A COMPLETION
BOND CONSISTENT WITH THE RE-
QUIREMENTS FOR SAME SPECIFIED
IN THE BID PACKAGE.
THE CONTRACTOR AND ANY OF ITS
SUBCONTRACTORS SHALL ONLY
HAVE EMPLOYEES THAT HAVE COM-
PLETED A TEN HOUR OCCUPA-
TIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH ADMIN-
ISTRATION (“OSHA”) CONSTRUCTION
SAFETY PROGRAM WHICH IN-
CLUDES A COURSE IN CONSTRUC-
TION SAFETY AND HEALTH AP-
PROVED BY OSHA OR A SIMILAR
PROGRAM APPROVED BY THE MIS-
SOURI DEPARTMENT OF LABOR AND
INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS PURSUANT
TO THE REQUIREMENTS OF RSMO.
SECTION 292.675. SHOULD THE CON-
TRACTOR FAIL TO COMPLY WITH
THE FOREGOING REQUIREMENTS, IT
SHALL FORFEIT, AS A PENALTY TO
THE ROCK BRIDGE CENTER TRANS-
PORTATION DEVELOPMENT DIS-
TRICT, $2,500.00 PLUS $100.00 FOR
EACH EMPLOYEE EMPLOYED BY THE
CONTRACTOR OR SUBCONTRAC-
TOR FOR EACH CALENDAR DAY OR
PORTION THEREOF THAT SUCH EM-
PLOYEE IS EMPLOYED WITHOUT
THE FOREGOING, REQUIRED TRAIN-
ING.
THE CONTRACTOR AWARDED THE
CONTRACT FOR THE CONSTRUC-
TION OF THE PROJECT DESCRIBED
ABOVE WILL BE LIABLE FOR LIQUI-
DATED DAMAGES IN THE AMOUNT
OF ONE THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED
DOLLARS ($1,500.00) PER DAY FOR
EACH CALENDAR DAY SUBSEQUENT
TO THE DATE STIPULATED IN THE
CONTRACT FOR COMPLETION OF
THE PROJECT.
NO BIDDER WHO SUBMITS A BID
PURSUANT TO THIS SOLICITATION
WILL BE DISCRIMINATED AGAINST
ON THE BASIS OF RACE, COLOR, RE-
LIGION, CREED, SEX, AGE, ANCES-
TRY, OR NATIONAL ORIGIN.
THE DISTRICT RESERVES THE
RIGHT TO REJECT ANY OR ALL BIDS
FOR ANY REASON.
ONLY QUALIFIED BIDDERS MAY SUB-
MIT BIDS PURSUANT TO THIS SOLIC-
ITATION. ALL PROSPECTIVE BID-
DERS MUST FILE WITH THE DIS-
TRICT’S LEGAL COUNSEL (THE VAN
MATRE LAW FIRM, P.C., 1103 EAST
BROADWAY, COLUMBIA, MISSOURI
65201) A STATEMENT RECITING SAID
BIDDER’S QUALIFICATIONS TO BID
ON THE PROJECT DESCRIBED
ABOVE. SUCH STATEMENTS OF
QUALIFICATIONS MUST ON FILE NO
LATER THAN 5:00 P.M. ON SEPTEM-
BER 11, 2020, IN ORDER FOR SAID
BIDDER’S BID TO BE CONSIDERED.
THE DISTRICT RESERVES THE
RIGHT TO DETERMINE WHETHER
THE DISTRICT BELIEVES A BIDDER
HAS THE ABILITY TO COMPLETE THE
PROJECT IN THE MANNER RE-
QUIRED BY THE PLANS AND BID
PACKAGE.
EACH BIDDER WHO SUBMITS A BID
PURSUANT TO THIS SOLICITATION
WILL BE DEEMED TO HAVE CARE-
FULLY REVIEWED THE PLANS AND
BID PACKAGE AND TO HAVE UNDER-
STOOD THE CONTENTS THEREOF.
ANY QUESTIONS CONCERNING THE
PROJECT AND BID DOCUMENTS
SHALL BE DIRECTED TO MR. ROB-
ERT GREEN, THE DISTRICT’S REP-
RESENTATIVE, AT (573) 449-8323.
*** NOTICE TO ALL BIDDERS ***
YOUR ATTENTION IS DIRECTED TO
SECTION 292.630 RSMO. THIS STAT-
UTE REQUIRES THAT IN ALL CON-
STRUCTION PROJECTS WHERE
TWENTY OR MORE WORKERS ARE
ENGAGED IN THE PERFORMANCE OF
WORK THE PRIMARY CONTRACTOR
MUST PROVIDE AT LEAST ONE
PORTABLE TOILET FOR EACH
TWENTY WORKERS.
THE SUCCESSFUL BIDDER TO
WHOM THE CONTRACT FOR THE
CONSTRUCTION OF
ABOVE-DESCRIBED PROJECT IS
AWARDED MUST COMPLY WITH AND
PAY THE PREVAILING HOURLY RATE
OF WAGES. FOR THIS PURPOSE,
THE PREVAILING HOURLY RATE OF
WAGES AND THE GENERAL PRE-
VAILING RATE FOR LEGAL HOLIDAYS
AND OVERTIME WORK IS SET FORTH
IN THE MISSOURI DIVISION OF LA-
BOR STANDARDS ANNUAL WAGE
ORDER NUMBER 27 (A COPY OF
WHICH IS IN THE BID PACKAGE). NOT
LESS THAN SAID PREVAILING
WAGES MUST BE PAID TO ALL
WORKERS REQUIRED TO PERFORM
THE WORK PURSUANT TO THE CON-
TRACT WHICH IS AWARDED PURSU-
ANT TO THIS BID SOLICITATION. THE
CONTRACTOR WILL FORFEIT A PEN-
ALTY TO THE STATE OF MISSOURI
OF $100 PER DAY (OR PORTION OF A
DAY) FOR EACH WORKER THAT IS
PAID LESS THAN THE PREVAILING
RATE FOR ANY WORK DONE UNDER
THE CONTRACT BY THE CONTRAC-
TOR OR BY ANY SUBCONTRACTOR.
INSERTION DATES: AUGUST 27, 28,
30, SEPTEMBER 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 9, 2020
Answer to
WEDNESDAY’S
puzzle
www.sudoku.com
COLUMBIA MISSOURIAN
STRICTLY UNCLASSIFIED
CROSSWORD PUZZLE
THURSDAY, AUGUST 27
ACROSS 42 That senora Answer to WEDNESDAY’S puzzle
1 Family 43 Eur. airline
members 46 Pastures
6 Feinted 48 Wearing a
11 Ordinary cowl
language 50 One of two
12 City in 54 Eschew
New York 55 Lessen the
13 Tough it out force of
15 Cheap 56 Bird homes
16 Close 57 Typed in
18 Distress
call DOWN
19 Grazing area 1 Tarzan’s
21 Cote murmur nanny
22 Be footloose 2 40-cup
23 Attila’s brewer
subjects 3 Head
25 Bobby — movement 17 Casino 39 Garage
28 Pungent 4 Earthquake game event
30 Garland wave 19 Provincial 43 Genghis —
31 Thoughtful 5 Parched 20 Deserves 44 Valentine
murmur 6 Judge’s panel 22 Hindu prince word
32 Snowy mo. 7 Tony-winner 24 Perch 45 Heifers’
33 Make a — Hagen 25 Jumps away hellos
hole-in-one 8 Hug’s 26 “— vincit 46 Govt. agents
35 Wrapping companion amor” 47 Data storage
material 9 Mountain 27 Comic book device
37 Gore and refrain heroes 49 Telegraph
Capone 10 Calendar (hyph.) signal
38 Tree products units 29 Newscaster 51 Feed for
40 Horse’s 14 Apiece — Rather horses
brake 15 Carnivore’s 34 Valentine 52 Barely
41 Educational delight decor get by
org. (hyph.) 36 Grapple 53 Lipstick color
ASTRO-GRAPH
THURSDAY, AUGUST 27
YOUR BIRTHDAY TODAY: cause or your community to boost
Slow down. Keep your plans mov- your confidence and reputation.
ing at a steady and practical pace. PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20) —
Your reliability will be crucial when
Take hold of whatever situation
it comes to progress and advance-
you find yourself in, and you will
ment this year. Stretch your mind,
learn new skills and be open to gain the respect of your peers.
A personal change will turn out
trying something different.
better than anticipated. Romance
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) — Be is on the rise.
rational. If you let your emotions
take the reins, you will make poor ARIES (March 21-April 19) —
decisions. Aim to lower stress by Complete unfinished projects
before you move on to something
eschewing no-win situations.
new. Don’t let emotions interfere
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) — Take with your progress. It’s up to you
care of matters that others have
to avoid confrontations. Stick to
THE ignored. Refuse to let others put your plans.
demands on you without offering
something substantial in return for TAURUS (April 20-May 20)
— Time is on your side. Don’t
your efforts. Pick up the pace.
feel the need to accommodate
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) — someone pressuring you to make
Ask for help, and you will get what
a snap decision. Taking your time
you want. Schedule something is in your best interest.
special for yourself and someone
you love to encourage a closer GEMINI (May 21-June 20) —
Keep your opinions to yourself.
bond. Personal growth and enlight-
The less others know about your
enment are featured.
beliefs, the better. Gather informa-
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) tion that will help you assess
— Prepare for the unexpected.
important relationships. Leave
You’ll have to be quick on your
nothing to chance.
feet if you want to avoid a situa-
CANCER (June 21-July 22) —
tion riddled with uncertainty. You
are ready to do your own thing, so Look for financial opportunities,
act like it. and don’t be afraid to do things
differently. Focus on the positive
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19)
— Go after your dreams. Take ad- and be willing to compromise if
you want to receive the help you
vantage of an offer that can help
you get ahead. Refuse to get in- need.
volved in a no-win situation. Wheel LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Look for
and deal to come out on top. the good in every situation, and
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) — you will be an inspiration to oth-
ers. Joint ventures will work only
Don’t get caught in a backlog of
paperwork. Take care of respon- if everyone plays fair. Don’t get
caught in someone else’s fight.
sibilities and bureaucratic issues.
Find a way to contribute to a — Eugenia Last
BRIDGE
THURSDAY, AUGUST 27
RUNNING TO THE
BRIDGE TABLE
Michel de Montaigne, who
was a 16th-century essay-
ist and philosopher, wrote,
“When I am attacked by
gloomy thoughts, nothing
helps me so much as running
to my books.”
For a bridge player, noth-
ing helps so much as turning
to a deck of cards. But you
need to think clearly to play
well. Just pulling the card
nearest your thumb will
rarely work.
This deal was declared
thoughtfully by Ilana
Barness from Israel. How spade king, East dropping
did she plan to make four the jack. Barness knew
spades after a club lead? that this was more likely
What was West’s more effec- to be a singleton than from
tive opening salvo? the doubleton queen-jack.
That South hand had only So she abandoned trumps.
four high-card points, but Instead, she cashed dum-
it included two five-card my’s diamond ace, ruffed a
majors and a void. Barness club, ruffed a heart, ruffed
realized that if she could a club and ruffed a heart.
find a good fit with her part- There were three cards left,
ner, she would win a lot of West having only trumps.
tricks. Declarer led a diamond from
Declarer knew that when
the dummy and discarded
you have a two-suited hand, her winning heart 10. West
you should play on the side ruffed but had to lead away
suit first. So, after discard- from her spade queen-nine
ing a diamond on dummy’s into declarer’s ace-10.
club king, Barness continued The only winning opening
with the ace and another
lead was the diamond king,
heart. East returned a club, but how could West have
declarer pitching a second
found that?
diamond. Now came the — Phillip Alder
COLUMBIA MISSOURIAN Thursday, August 27, 2020 — Page 5B

Couple planning wedding want to keep haters away
DEAR ABBY: My fiance and I have
begun planning our wedding for next
year. We have both been married
before, so family doesn’t think we
should have a “big” celebration. Mom
actually told me that it can’t be as
special as my first one.
While lying in bed the other night, we
were discussing how to address people’s
opinions because we don’t want our
wedding day to be full of people com-
plaining about being there, choices we
made regarding our celebration and
thinking they need to give us a gift. We
would like to include a “disclaimer”
saying something like, “If you’re not
truly happy for us, stay home!” I realize
that etiquette would not allow us to do it.
Do you have any suggestions for our
situation? — Our “Big Day”
TIME OUT
DEAR “BIG DAY”: Many couples today
have been married more than once.
Your mother was correct when she told
you this second wedding should be more
low-key than the first. Rest assured that
no one will attend your wedding who
doesn’t want to be there because
attendance is not compulsory.
I’m glad you recognize that the
“disclaimer” would be inappropriate. If
you prefer your guests forgo giving you
a gift, convey that by having someone
else deliver it VERBALLY — such as
your mother or members of your
wedding party — when guests call to
ask where you are registered. The
wording should be: “They only want you
to share in their happiness on this
special day. No gift is expected or
required.”
DEAR ABBY: I have been married
more than 40 years. We are now retired
and moved to a small town a few years
ago. My problem is my husband does
almost nothing to help out around the
house. I do the housekeeping, shopping,
cooking, bill paying and most of the
extensive outdoor upkeep. Although I
was the primary breadwinner during
our marriage, my husband thinks his
“work” is now over.
He watches TV all day long, but when
he does want to get out and do some-
thing, it must always include me. I’m
sick of his face at this point. I’m sure
I’m short-tempered at times because
everything falls on my shoulders. When
I ask him to do something or offer my
“two cents,” he accuses me of nagging
and won’t talk to me for days.
I hate this life! I don’t think he would
go to a marriage counselor because he
feels I’m the problem. I think I want a
divorce, but I don’t want this lazy bum
to get half of everything I’ve earned
and saved. Help! — Irked in Idaho
DEAR IRKED: You have my sympathy,
but you created this “monster” by
tolerating your husband’s laziness and
controlling nature all these years.
Because he won’t talk to a marriage
counselor doesn’t mean that you
shouldn’t. It’s important you learn
coping skills to deal with his passive
aggression, which is what the silent
treatment is. If a licensed therapist
can’t help to relieve the pressure on
you, then make an appointment with a
lawyer to discuss what options you may
have short of divorce.

GRAND AVENUE BY STEVEN BREEN WUMO BY WULFF & MORGENTHALER

JUMP START BY ROBB ARMSTRONG OVER THE HEDGE BY MICHAEL FRY & T. LEWIS

THE WIZARD OF ID BY JEFF PARKER LIO BY MARK TATULLI

FRAZZ BY JEF MALLETT SHOE BY CHRIS CASSATT & GARY BROOKINS

ARLO AND JANIS BY JIMMY JOHNSON FOR BETTER OR FOR WORSE BY LYNN JOHNSTON

BIZARRO BY WAYNO & PIRARO BEETLE BAILEY BY MORT WALKER FAMILY CIRCUS BY BIL KEANE

FRANK AND ERNEST BY BOB THAVES

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The smart way Glad to have you back!
to get aroud
We’re happy to have everyone back expansion and cancellation of the city’s
in Columbia this fall to resume college recycling program.
life. Once you’re back in the rhythm of
This section is designed to help you campus life, expect to have a wonder-

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catch up with the news you might have
missed during the summer.
If you’ve been away, a lot has hap-
pened in Columbia — from announce-
ments about the COVID protocols
and the SEC football schedule to the
primary election, passage of Medicaid
ful experience at MU.
If everyone follows the best health
practices, no matter how tedious, the
chance of returning to normal is great-
ly increased.
So, it’s bound to be a year you’ll never
forget.

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entire semester 21 Custodial staff to remain, for now
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TO BE BACK!
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excited than ever to see you back at
Mizzou. (We missed you!) Together,
we’ll ensure a safe and successful
return to campus this year. Support
your fellow Tigers: social distance,
wear a face covering, wash your
hands and monitor your
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What to expect on campus during the fall

BY GALEN BACHARIER news@columbiamissourian.com

M
U has developed public
health and safety guidelines
for the fall semester that
outline a plan dramatically
changes the way campus normally
operates.
Called the “Show Me Renewal” plan,
it will significantly impact student life
at MU.
The university’s 22-page plan lists a
number of new measures and recom-
mendations for nearly every aspect of
the student experience, from housing
and dining to clubs, activities and sim-
ply navigating campus.
“Precautionary changes will impact
nearly every aspect of campus life —
how we live, study and work,” Interim
MU Chancellor Mun Choi said in a
letter to students, faculty and staff
in June. “Our success will depend on
everyone in our community sharing
responsibility in our collective health
and well-being.”
Choi’s letter summarized public
health measures such as isolation hous-
ing, face masks and “blended” hybrid
classes that MU will institute for the
fall semester.

Under the plan

• Students in campus housing must
sign a “risk acknowledgement of the
associate risk and precautions” prior
to move-in. They will not be able to
change rooms for the first three weeks
of classes, which “supports a 14-day,
symptom-free window for late arriv-
als.” Visitors and non-essential staff
will be prohibited from entering stu-
dent halls and apartments.
• Common areas within these build-
ings, such as study halls and lounges,
will also be modified to encourage
social distancing, and common “touch-
points” in those areas will be more fre-
quently cleaned.
• Restrooms in community-style res-
idential halls, which are shared among
a floor’s residents, will be cleaned
twice daily during the week and
daily on weekends. Private suite-style
restrooms won’t be cleaned by univer-
sity staff to prevent unnecessary entry,
but suites will have labeled caddies to
clean and sanitize the bathrooms.
• Residential halls will not have an
altered capacity for students. As the
situation around COVID-19 changes,
MU Residential Life may allow more
room changes or expand visitor privi-
leges.

Campus dining
Dining locations on campus will be
open in the fall, albeit with a number of
new public health measures in place.
Floor markers and a limited num-
ber of students per location based on
space will enforce social distancing, ELIZABETH UNDERWOOD/Missourian
Volunteers sit at tables in the MU Student Center to demonstrate how the university will adhere to social distancing.
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according to MU’s plan. Cash will
not be accepted at dining locations,
only payment via MU student ID or
debit and credit cards. Takeout options
will also be available.
A number of other precautions will
be imposed at dining locations:
• Campus dining staff will wear face
coverings during shifts.
• Straws, cutlery and coffee stirrers
will be individually wrapped.
• Condiments and napkins will be
available in a central location rather
than placed at tables.
• Shared machines, such as ice
cream and beverage machines, will be
sanitized every hour.
Classes
Fall coursework will be organized
into several formats, including fully
online, face to face and “blended”
hybrid. That variety has implications
for attendance, social distancing and
how students interact with instructors.
Those enrolled in face-to-face
classes are still expected to attend in
person unless they are experiencing
COVID-19 symptoms or other health
concerns. Those who are not feel-
ing well should not attend class, and
“instructors will be flexible on atten-
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dance policies.”
Faculty will alter office hours,
according to the plan. Options include
virtual meetings, holding meetings in
a larger classroom for social distanc-
ing or meeting directly after class.
Larger spaces for classes, such as
Jesse Auditorium have been explored
as a possibility by MU, which would
allow larger lectures to meet while
maintaining social distancing. Seats
not being used in classrooms have
been shrink-wrapped. Some labs
and studio classrooms may require
enhanced face coverings, in which
cases social distance measures will be
reduced to 3 feet.
ELIZABETH UNDERWOOD/Missourian
Popular campus spots
Volunteers sit at computers in Strickland Hall on the MU campus to demonstrate how lab classes
Memorial Student Union and the MU have been set up for the semester.
Student Center will be open in the fall,
including all entrances, according to off, and those seeking water on cam- Campus activities
the plan. Any dining locations or lines pus will be able to use bottle-filling Social distancing, enforced by MU
will have floor markers, and furniture stations, which will remain on. staff, will be in place regardless of
will be spaced out or removed entirely MizzouRec will be open but with venue, according to the plan. Events
for social distancing. greatly reduced capacity, some are encouraged to be decentralized
Sitting on the floor of these build- spaces and equipment off limits and and use outdoor spaces and virtual
ings is prohibited, and sleeping is increased cleaning practices. Extra options. All those attending cam-
discouraged — a policy resulting from staff, hand sanitizer and gym wipes pus-sponsored events must provide
the student center’s basement being a will be on-hand at all times. The facil- their contact information or swipe
common nap locale. ity will adjust its recreational sports with their student ID for contact trac-
All drinking fountains will be turned offerings. ing purposes.

WELCOME TO
COLUMBIA
We are ready to safely welcome you.
Time and time again, visitors are delightfully surprised by what Columbia
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KeShon Russell recounts COVID-19 safety measures in place in North Hall on the MU campus. Russell is a sophomore studying accounting and economics and started as a resident assistant in the
spring semester. Russell said resident assistants have gone through a lot of training to ensure they understand the expectations for student conduct and interaction.

Plans for testing, isolation and contact tracing

BY GALEN BACHARIER news@columbiamissourian.com

M
onitoring, testing, isola-
tion and contact tracing
procedures will all be in
place at MU this fall in
the hope of slowing the virus’ spread
on campus and maintaining in-person
operations and classes.
Full details and updated informa-
tion are provided on the MU Show
Me Renewal website. Here’s a look at
the key points of MU’s containment
plan:
Monitoring
MU’s plan requests everyone on
campus consult a symptom checklist
daily. If any of the symptoms apply,
6 // Columbia Missourian // August 27, 2020
people should stay home and con-
tact either the MU Student Health
Center or their health care provider.
Students should not attend classes
or visit any public areas and should
practice good hygiene.
If students present with symptoms
and receive a virus test, they should
continue to monitor those symptoms
and separate themselves from others.
Testing
MU has the ability to test “any stu-
dent who shows symptoms of COVID-
19,” according to the plan. Those test-
ed will receive a PCR, or virus test,
and possibly an antibody test.
The university does not intend to
do widespread testing of asymptom-
atic individuals due to concerns sur-
rounding false positive and negative
tests, as well as what the plan charac-
terized as the “low prevalence of the
virus in Boone County.”
Under the plan, the MU Student
Health Center or health care pro-
viders will notify those tested of the
results within 24 hours. Until then,
people who have been tested are
urged to stay home.
Notification
MU students, faculty and staff are
required to notify the university if
they test positive for COVID-19 under
new guidelines recently issued.
Students who test positive must
notify the MU Student Health Center
of that result within four hours of
receiving it. They will do so through
a secure online form. The student
will provide details on their activities
and whereabouts on campus since
two days before their testing, as well
as if they live on or off campus.
Students must also notify their
instructors that they will miss class-
es within that same four-hour time
frame in order to make any possi-
ble remote learning arrangements,
according to the new guidance.
Faculty, staff and student employ-
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ees should email their supervisors,
as well as their dean or division lead-
er, according to the email.
Positive case information will be
kept confidential under educational
and health privacy laws. Information
regarding those cases will be used
to inform next steps by both MU
and local health officials in cleaning
surfaces, arranging remote work and
contact tracing.
The new guidance is a reversal
from MU’s original policy, in which
students who test positive would not
be required to inform the universi-
ty, though their tests would still be
reported to the local health depart-
ment.
Isolating
Students who test positive must
self-isolate, according to MU’s plan,
but the process differs depending on
whether they live on- or off-campus.
On campus
Students who live in campus hous-
ing, including residential halls and
apartments leased by MU, will have
a 10-day isolation period, “until you
are three days with no fever, your
symptoms have improved and it has
been 10 days since symptoms first
appeared,” according to the plan.
An MU Residential Life staff mem-
ber will contact on-campus students
at the start of the isolation period to
discuss next steps, ask to reach out
to family and roommates and assist
in relocating students to the isolation
housing options.
During isolation, a member of the
Care Team — a group under the MU
Office of Student Accountability
and Support — will be in contact
daily with isolated students, let their
instructors know what’s going on,
coordinate make-up work and help
monitor recovery.
Meals will be delivered to stu-
dents’ doors at 8:30 a.m., 12:30 p.m.
and 4:30 p.m. Weekend meals will
be delivered at 4:30 p.m. Friday.
The meals will be deducted from
dining plans or Tiger and Gold Cash
accounts.
Students in isolation will have their
location provided to MU Police for
awareness and “appropriate response
if needed,” according to the plan.
Once isolation is over, MU Resi-
dential Life staff will assist students
in moving back into their rooms.
Students will need to show a copy of
their public health release statement
to the MU Care Team member who
has been in contact with them daily.
Off campus
Students living off-campus will be
contacted by staff from the Office of
the Dean of Students to review isola-
tion plans, ask to contact family and
encourage “establishing an account
with a local grocer for food delivery,”
according to MU’s plan.
Public health contact investigators The human-health path to
from Columbia/Boone County Pub-
lic Health and Human Services will
reach out to all students who test
med, PA and dental school
positive.
Once off-campus students are
released from isolation, they will
need a public health release state-
ment to return to campus activities.
Contact tracing
MU will partner with local city and
county contact tracing teams to track
the spread of the virus, according to
MU’s plan.
The combined teams will operate
in accordance with HIPAA, FERPA
and other laws and use the Research
Electronic Data Capture, or REDCap,
system. MU’s team will report to the
MU Student Health Center.
Students who test positive will
be contacted by a Columbia/Boone
County public health investigator to
begin the tracing process.
The students will be asked to iden-
tify everyone with whom they had
close contact 48 hours before the
positive test, and that list will be for-
warded to a contact tracer.
These tracers will not be given the
name of the positive student and will
warn all potential contacts by phone
or email.
Close contacts are defined under “We were learning about diabetes and those hot
MU’s plan as “a person who has had
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contact of 15 minutes or more and
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Those contacted by a tracer will
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MU Police name interim chief to
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BY GALEN BACHARIER news@columbiamissourian.com

M
U Police Chief Doug
Schwandt is retiring after
20 years in the position.
Brian Weimer, major of
operations with MU Police, will serve
as interim chief effective Aug. 3.
Weimer, who joined the department
in 1992, currently oversees the patrol
division, the crime prevention unit,
the investigation division and staff
services, according to a Monday
news release. He is also responsible
Missourian.
A national search for a new perma-
nent chief is being planned by Ward.
Weimer said the department should
reflect “the diversity of the commu-
nity it serves.”
“Our officers interact with all
members of our community and work
to meet their needs and to ensure
they feel safe and included,” he said.
Weimer’s annual salary in the
interim position will be $125,160,

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“Applications will still be thor-
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System president and MU chancellor.
Those applicants choosing not to
submit a standardized testing score
will be reviewed based on GPA, class
rank, academic course load, rigor
of coursework, extracurricular and
leadership activities, letters of rec-
ommendation and personal essays,
according to the release.
The requirement of the minimum
standards,” said Steve Graham, the
senior associate vice president for
academic affairs.
“It will also provide meaningful
data to our universities to consider in
regards to our formal admissions pol-
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UM restructures leadership team with permanent roles

BY GALEN BACHARIER news@columbiamissourian.com

U
M System President and
Interim MU Chancellor Mun
Choi announced a slew of
internal leadership changes
at the system and campus levels.
The changes, which include filling
permanent roles and interim posi-
tions, involved no external recruit-
ment and thus “minimal additional
expenses,” according to the MU News
Bureau, while UM System positions
oversee all four campuses.
■  Beth Chancellor was named
permanent MU chief information
officer and permanent UM vice pres-
ident for information technology. She
had held the interim MU role since
September 2019.
■  Kamrhan Farwell was named
MU vice chancellor for marketing
and communications and UM chief
marketing and communications offi-
cer. She had led MU and UM’s Joint
Office of Strategic Communications
and Marketing since July 2018.
■  Bill Stackman was named MU
vice chancellor for student affairs.
He has served as vice provost for stu-
dent affairs at MU since July 2019.
■  Wendy Reinke was named
MU associate vice chancellor for
research, with emphasis in arts,
Changes involved no external
recruitment and thus ‘minimal
additional expenses,’ according
to the MU News Bureau
humanities, social and behavioral
sciences disciplines. She has been an
MU professor of educational, school
and counseling psychology since
2007.
■  Bill Turpin was named perma-
nent MU associate vice chancellor
for economic development after serv-
ing in the interim role since Septem-
ber 2018.
■  Tom Spencer was named
MU associate vice chancellor for
research, with emphasis in STEM
disciplines. He has been an MU
professor of animal sciences since
2015, and his appointment was first
announced in April.
■  Todd McCubbin was named
interim MU vice chancellor for
advancement, effective July 1. He
serves now as the Mizzou Alumni
Association’s executive director.
■  MU Executive Vice Chancellor
for Health Affairs Richard Barohn
will now oversee the Thompson Cen-
ter for Autism & Neurodevelopmental
Disorders.
“I believe these changes will con-
tinue to strengthen Mizzou and help
carry us through this challenging
time,” Choi said.

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Jefferson statue to remain on Francis Quadrangle

BY GALEN BACHARIER news@columbiamissourian.com

O
n May 4, 2001, a group of
young men clad in 19th-cen-
tury-style red wool coats
marched through MU’s
Francis Quadrangle, led by three
flag-bearers in blue. The men made
up the Lewis & Clark Fife and Drum
Corps, and they were on campus for
the unveiling ceremony of a bronze
statue of Thomas Jefferson.
Former MU Jefferson Club Chair
John Cook, in his unveiling speech,
called the statue “breathtaking” and
“magnificent” and said it would be “a
wonderful addition to the university
quadrangle.”
“I just think you’re all going to
love it,” he told the crowd assembled
under a white tent.
Nearly two decades later, on May
31, 2020, as protesters gathered on
the quad, someone stuffed a black
plastic bag over the statue’s head.
Dozens of others began to call for its
removal online.
“It has never sat right with me,”
MU sophomore Roman Leapheart
said. “I’ve known it was there since
before I was a freshman. It’s felt like
a sore thumb.”
As the world reckoned with racism
and police brutality through weeks of
protests, MU students demanded the
university remove the statue. Hours
after protesters marched through
campus and downtown Columbia May
31 decrying the killing of George
Floyd, Leapheart created a change.
org petition, addressed to UM System
President Mun Choi, calling for the
“Removal of Thomas Jefferson from COURTESY OF HUNTER PENDLETON
Mizzou’s Campus.”
A black plastic bag covers the head of the statue of Thomas Jefferson on May 31 at MU’s Francis Quadrangle.
“Mizzou has no room for a racist
slave owner on our campus, in the Leapheart said he and other stu- think they’re listening now. You gotta surrounding the nation’s third pres-
Quad, where thousands of black stu- dents felt they were frequently spo- make them listen, some way or anoth- ident and other figures of American
dents pass by everyday, forced to ken over and weren’t satisfied by er.” history.
deal with imagery of the past in the leadership’s response. But Leapheart and those backing “We have seen slavery become
future where we should be promoting “I was told explicitly that they his petition aren’t planning to let MU something of a litmus test,” MU his-
equality, diversity and inclusion,” don’t want to remove the statue, that have the last word. In fact, he said tory professor Jeff Pasley said. “One
Leapheart’s petition read. they will put it to a vote, but they words are no longer enough. of the reasons why (John) Adams
Within 24 hours, it had 1,000 signa- mainly want to have conversations,” “One thing Mizzou seems to do and (Alexander) Hamilton were a
tures. Days later, it had almost 3,300. Leapheart, a Kansas City native, said very well — it seems to love its con- big deal was because they were not
But MU’s plan is to leave the versations,” Leapheart said. “Folks slave owners. You could treat them
Thursday evening. “Because if we
bronze Jefferson right where he sits are tired of conversations, frankly. ...
remove a statue, we don’t address the as anti-slavery figures. But if you go
on a concrete bench by the Chancel- But if Mizzou doesn’t take the statue
bigger picture, but the bigger picture into Jefferson’s biography, there are
lor’s Residence. down, someone else will.”
can’t be addressed overnight. We problems there.”
“After further discussion with
have to start somewhere.” Leapheart has called MU’s decision Leapheart, in pushing for the stat-
other curators, the university decided
In the meeting with Choi, “frustrating” and said he was “going ue’s removal, said he is also seeking
not to remove the Jefferson statue,”
Leapheart said, there was a “shared to keep fighting.” justice for Sally Hemings. Hemings
Choi, also MU chancellor, said in a
statement. statement” directed at him and was one of the few enslaved people
“We learn from history. We con- other protesters that “they” were About Sally Hemings under Jefferson who was freed after
textualize historical figures with “tired of hearing the past repeated.” Leapheart’s case against the statue his death, and historical consensus
complex legacies. We don’t remove Leapheart declined to say who spe- is twofold. has determined he was the father of
history.” cifically expressed that sentiment. Jefferson was a known slave owner, several of her children. Many, includ-
Leapheart said he, along with sev- “Well, I’m going to keep bringing and more than 200 enslaved people ing Leapheart and others supporting
eral members of the Legion of Black it up, because (they’re) not listen- were sold from his estate after his the removal efforts, view such a rela-
Collegians, MU’s black student gov- ing,” Leapheart said. “I’m going to death, according to the Thomas Jef- tionship as inherently nonconsensual,
ernment, met privately with Choi and keep being that sore in your foot. ferson Foundation, an organization though historians still disagree on
other campus leaders, including “sev- I’m going to be that pain. Because that oversees his estate. That fact has how to qualify the dynamic.
eral” UM curators. you didn’t listen (in 2015), and I don’t changed the legacy and conversations Recent decades have seen the
14 // Columbia Missourian // August 27, 2020

Senior Bryant Hill was one of several students who pushed for removal of the Thomas Jefferson
statue in 2015. This year, another group of students protested but to no avail.
dynamic.
Recent decades have seen the
emergence of popular biographies
detailing the lives of American fig-
ures, especially the founding fathers,
Pasley said. Although historian David
McCullough wrote definitive books
on George Washington and Adams
and the musical “Hamilton” put Ron
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Chernow’s book onstage, one of the
most prominent accounts of Jefferson
was “Thomas Jefferson and Sally
Hemings: An American Controversy”
by historian Annette Gordon-Reed.
As a result, Pasley said, two of the
most commonly known traits of Jef-
ferson by young people is his owning
of slaves and the story of Hemings.
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Leapheart sees Hemings’ story —
one he believes was characterized by
subjugation and force — echoed in
women today, expressed in a recent
Twitter hashtag, #WhyIDidntReport.
Scrolling through, one can read
about countless experiences with
sexual assault and why victims didn’t
report them. A number of women
who attended or graduated from MU
participated in the trend, recounting
their experiences with assault on
campus or while a student.
“Seeing that was a slap in the
face — to see all these black women
who hadn’t been taken care of and
protected, who had been failed by
the university who swore to protect
them,” Leapheart said. “It’s a slap in
the face to them, to any other sexual
assault victim.”
Those who believe in the statue’s
value often remark that Jefferson’s
accomplishments, including drafting
the Declaration of Independence,
must be weighed in any evaluation of
his depiction or description.
Leapheart doesn’t agree.
“That’s an argument that the (UM)
curators are very strong about,” he
said. “It eliminates the possibility of
holding folks accountable, which is a
fact that I pushed back against and
LBC pushed back against. ... I don’t
want to tarnish anyone’s reputation,
but Sally Hemings deserves justice.
If I have to step on a few toes to get
there, ... consider me stepping.”
A national zeitgeist
Leapheart isn’t the first MU stu-
dent to make a run at getting the
statue off campus. In 2015, while
Concerned Student 1950 made nation-
al headlines protesting campus rac-
ism and demanding action from the
university, students created a petition
similar to Leapheart’s.
It didn’t gain the same traction,
but it did prompt a mass of sticky
notes to be plastered onto the statue,
labeled “racist,” “rapist” and “slave
seller,” among other terms, while
defenders of Jefferson periodically
removed the sticky notes and draped
an American flag around the statue.
Leapheart said he has spoken with
one student behind the 2015 effort,
Maxwell Little, about the new peti-
tion. Leapheart said Little told him
he’ll get pushback from the universi-
ty but to keep on pushing.
But a lot has changed since Little
and other students’ campaign in
2015, especially on campuses. After
2017’s violent white supremacist rally
in Charlottesville, Virginia, Duke
University and the University of
Texas-Austin removed Confederate
statues from their grounds. A year
later, protesters at the University of
North Carolina-Chapel Hill tore down

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the “Silent Sam” Confederate stat-
ue. Columbia Public Schools renamed
Robert E. Lee Elementary in 2018,
now called Locust Street Expressive
Arts Elementary School.
The University of Virginia, which
Jefferson founded and had inscribed
on his tombstone, has seen its stu-
dents repeatedly deface his statue
there.
Now, the killing of George Floyd by
Minneapolis police has sparked mass
protests, a new national conversation
around race and a critical exam-
ination of historical figures, from
Confederate generals to Christopher
Columbus and the Founding Fathers,
including Jefferson.
Prominent national figures like the
Rev. Al Sharpton and former Con-
gressional Black Caucus Director
Angela Rye have spoken on the sub-
ject, calling for the removal of stat-
ues depicting the Founding Fathers
and the Jefferson Memorial in Wash-
ington.
Such examinations also come with
detractors, including from the coun-
Report: MU makes progress on diversity efforts
A
new report evaluating diversi-
ty, inclusion and equity efforts
at MU observed progress in
recent years but acknowledged
further steps and transparent leadership
were needed to fully heal the campus’
divides.
The report, “Leading After a Racial
Crisis: Weaving a Campus Tapestry of
Diversity and Inclusion,” is the second
from the American Council of Education
examining how MU’s on-campus efforts
have evolved since 2015 student protests
about racism. The protests resulted in
the resignations of the top leaders at MU
and the University of Missouri System.
The first report was published in 2018
after MU invited the council to come to
campus and provide an outside perspec-
tive.
MU’s “capacity” to effectively respond
to issues of diversity, inclusion and
equity was rated as solidly “moderate,”
according to the report, up from “low” at
the “height of the crisis” in 2015.
Researchers’ evaluation of campus in
February 2019 found confidence in lead-
ership, a strategic approach and learning
opportunities for the campus communi-
ty resulted in a higher evaluation.
“We have been pleased to see the prog-
ress that the ACE researchers found,
and we’re taking note of the areas where
they are suggesting further improve-
ment,” MU spokesman Christian Basi
said.
“We, like other universities around the
country, recognize that there is more
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try’s highest office. In the aftermath
of Charlottesville in 2017, President
Donald Trump suggested the removal
of Confederate statues would result
in a slippery slope, in which figures
such as Washington and Jefferson
are removed (though historians
disagreed with the nature of the
remarks).
Leapheart doesn’t view it as such,
but rather as a movement in which
“regardless of accomplishments, we
can hold people accountable.” For
him and those backing the removal of
the statue, there is no better time to
revive the cause.
“This is a very deciding time in the
country right now,” Leapheart said.
“I know at Mizzou, given CS1950 and
its history, that’s a hard thing to do.
But it’s something we had to do. We
need to make a stand.”
Jefferson’s ties to MU
There is no retelling of MU’s his-
tory that does not, in some capacity,
mention Thomas Jefferson. It was
BY GALEN BACHARIER news@columbiamissourian.com
work to be done to achieve our goals in
inclusive excellence.”
Notable among MU’s steps in recent
years is the implementation of the
Inclusion Excellence Framework, aimed
at creating a more equitable campus
through a variety of dimensions. The
campus adopted the framework in June
2017.
That framework frequently impacts
the work done within administrative
units, but its priority on the micro level
depends on the unit, said MU Faculty
Council chair Clark Peters.
“With any big initiative, it takes awhile
to get down to the ground level, where
students and faculty are going to feel
that the promise will be realized,” Peters
said. “Different units have made more
progress than others.”
However, there is still work to be done
building trust with people of color and
bridging together fragmented campus
perspectives, according to the report.
Race, access to information, time on
campus, decentralized structure and dif-
fering priorities all remain as challenges
to a shared vision, the report said.
Among those differing priorities was
the disparity between improving cam-
pus climate for students and improving
it for faculty.
“The campus prioritized improving
the racial climate for students as its first
priority,” the report stated. “Far less
attention has been focused on faculty cli-
mate. While the campus is hiring more
faculty of color, there has been little
the first university established on
the land known as the Louisiana
Purchase, which Jefferson’s adminis-
tration acquired from France in the
early 19th century.
Decades after Jefferson’s death, his
heirs planned to dedicate his tomb-
stone and had received countless
requests for it, including one from
MU. MU’s claim was strengthened
by both Jefferson’s fondness for
state-sponsored education and many
Boone County residents’ apparent ori-
gin in Virginia, where Jefferson lived
and died.
The tombstone was awarded to MU,
unveiled in 1885 and stood on cam-
pus for several years until its plaque
was removed and stored in Academic
Hall. In 1892, Academic Hall burned
to the ground — the columns are
all that’s left of the hall — and the
plaque was damaged. It was later
restored and is now stored in Jesse
Hall. A more complete retelling of
the tombstone’s saga, written by the
late William Peden, has been digi-
tized in the university archives.
attention to, for example, curriculum or
pedagogy.”
Peters acknowledged he could under-
stand that perception but said, “That ten-
sion is always going to be there,” regard-
less of which groups take priority.
MU stakeholders were also divided on
how baked into the campus structure
efforts of diversity, equity and inclusion
had to be, according to the report.
Some expressed concern that campus
efforts would be “surface-level” and
would dissipate over time rather than
result in “culture change.”
Researchers led by Adrianna Kezar
of the University of Southern California
and Sharon Fries-Britt of the University
of Maryland identified a “weaver-lead-
er” model as a goal for MU leadership.
The model relies on constant com-
munication and relationship building to
create shared expectations throughout
campus, according to the report.
Those at MU who participated in the
report praised former UM Chief Diver-
sity Officer and MU Vice Chancellor
for Inclusion, Diversity and Equity
Kevin McDonald and former Director
of Administration and Deputy Title IX
Coordinator Emily Love as examples of
effective communicators.
McDonald and Love both left their
positions at MU in July 2019, as McDon-
ald accepted a similar position at the
University of Virginia and Love enrolled
in MU’s law program.
MU hired Maurice Gipson, an admin-
istrator from Arkansas State University,
The monument itself is on the quad
near the Chancellor’s Residence, new
and improved with a replica tablet,
alongside the bronze statue. The stat-
ue was purchased in 2001 from artist
George Lundeen by MU’s Jefferson
Club, a donor club of alumni and
friends of the university who each
donate over $25,000. It cost $45,000.
Reached Friday, Lundeen said
that for some people, the Founding
Fathers have committed unforgivable
sins.
“I think we can all see the argu-
ments, when you see how several
minorities have been treated in the
United States, firstly the American
indigenous peoples,” the Colorado
sculptor said. “It’s been a fight, and I
don’t blame those people for fighting.
It’s an honorable mission they have,
and hopefully they can do it without
violence.
“Tell ( MU), if they want to sell or
give away that sculpture,” he said,
“put it back on a truck, and I’ll come
and get it.”
to be the next vice chancellor for inclu-
sion, diversity and equity.
The report also encouraged leaders to
communicate proactively, invite campus
stakeholders to relevant meetings and
publicly recognize steps and initiatives
on campus.
Those suggestions come as MU
leadership is under fire from students
and alumni alike after deciding not to
remove a bronze statue of Thomas Jef-
ferson.
In its conclusion, the report emphasiz-
es the importance of building trust and
being attentive to emotions as MU walks
the path of recovery.
“To overcome racist and exclusionary
culture embedded in our campuses,” the
report said, “leaders must be willing to
stay the course and regularly engage
with the community to ensure that they
have a pulse of the campus and the
needs at every stage.”
The stage MU faces now is one of
uncertainty, dealing with the pandemic
and its resulting budget cuts. But Peters
said he had been told inclusion, diversi-
ty and equity would remain a priority
by campus leadership, including MU
Chancellor Mun Choi and Provost Latha
Ramchand.
“They’re admirably strident in rein-
forcing that this is not going to be set
aside,” Peters said. “We’re not going to
slow progress even as we deal with this
crisis.”
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MU taps Arkansas State vice chancellor for diversity role

BY GALEN BACHARIER news@columbiamissourian.com

M
U has hired an Arkansas began with just himself and an Oklahoma. He is expected to receive for the department at MU since July
State University admin- administrative assistant and grew to a doctorate in history from the Uni- 2019.
istrator to serve as its 60 members, he said in his virtual versity of Mississippi in December in Davis will return to her previous
next vice chancellor for interview with MU in May. addition to his other degrees, includ- position as executive director of
inclusion, diversity and equity, UM He oversaw multiple offices, includ- ing a master’s degree from Missouri MU’s Access & Leadership Develop-
System President and Interim MU ing one dealing with faculty diversity State University. ment Unit, according to MU’s news
Chancellor Mun initiatives. Gipson’s annual salary will be release.
Choi announced. Overall minority student enroll- $225,000, MU spokesperson Christian Choi thanked her for her work in
Maurice Gip- ment at Arkansas State grew for Basi said. the interim role and said he appreci-
son, vice chan- three consecutive years under Gip- He entered the position at what is ates “her insight and support of our
cellor for diver- son, according to MU’s news release, arguably the most tense period at MU students, faculty and staff during
sity and commu- and the campus developed “strategic since fall 2015, as students continued this important time.”
nity engagement partnerships” with 10 historically to protest through social media and Minor came under fire at Albany
at the Jonesboro black colleges and universities. by email after a decision was made to after she released a statement two
campus started In his virtual interview, Gipson keep a bronze statue of Thomas Jef- weeks ago responding to two inci-
in the role July emphasized face-to-face connections ferson on campus. dents of racism among students,
15. with students to understand their The other finalists were: Tamra which many viewed as inadequate.
In his five experiences and said he sat in the Minor, assistant vice president for A link to the petition calling for
years at Arkan- campus’ student union for two hours the office of diversity and inclusion a stronger response was emailed to
sas State, he every week to talk with students. and chief diversity officer at the Patricia Okker, dean of the College
founded the Prior to Jonesboro, Gipson held State University of New York at Alba- of Arts and Science and co-chair of
MAURICE GIPSON‌
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UM System president and MU chancellor merge
T
he UM System Board of Cura-
tors voted to combine the
roles of University of Missou-
ri System president and MU
chancellor, approving a new govern-
ing structure that aims to centralize
authority and reduce costs.
Mun Choi
will serve in
the combined
chief executive
role, granting
him authority
unprecedented
since the UM
System’s cre-
ation in 1963.
The curators
extended his MUN CHOI
contract by two
years — to June 30, 2026 — but his
pay remains the same.
The vote confirms Choi as perma-
nent MU chancellor. He will directly
oversee all operations at the Colum-
bia campus while supervising the
campuses in St. Louis, Kansas City
and Rolla.
The resolution detailing the new
structure, unanimously approved by
the board, also creates a Council of
Chancellors. This council, chaired by
Choi with the other three campuses’
chancellors as members, will meet
monthly to discuss challenges and
opportunities, exchange information
and collaborate between campuses.
Curators said during the meeting
they believed the council, as well as
the board, would provide sufficient
oversight and prevent any potential
conflicts of interest given Choi’s dual
role.
A committee comprised of two rep-
resentatives from each of the four
universities will advise the Council
of Chancellors on matters specific to
their campuses, according to the res-
olution. Members on that committee
are required to attend at least two
Board of Curators meetings per year
and will provide the board updates
on how the new governing model has
impacted their campuses.
The new governing structure
underlines a desire by the board to
more clearly define both the purpose
of the system — and how it interacts
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BY GALEN BACHARIER
with and impacts its four campuses
— and the role of system president.
The resolution instructed the Council
of Chancellors to provide feedback
on the following questions within 120
days:
• What role and services should the
UM System provide?
• What should be the role of the
president?
• What should be the role of the
chancellors?
• What will be the scope of the
council and how should it function
within the parameters set forth here-
in?
• What will the campus advisory
committee advise on, how frequently
will it meet with the council, and who
will serve on it?
In the weeks prior to Tuesday’s
vote, faculty at three of the system’s
four campuses publicly opposed
the decision. Councils representing
faculty at the Missouri University
of Science and Technology, the Uni-
versity of Missouri-Kansas City and
the University of Missouri-St. Louis
Curators approved plan for Mun
Choi to serve in the combined
chief executive role, granting him
unprecedented authority since the
UM System’s creation in 1963
expressed concerns about potential
conflicts of interest and undermin-
ing of their campuses’ authority and
funding.
Curators have met with over 300
constituents and groups — includ-
ing faculty, staff, students, trustees,
community leaders and elected offi-
cials — about the decision, Chair
Julia Brncic said in an email to all
four campuses notifying them of the
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meeting.
Brncic and Curator Michael Wil-
liams said in letters responding to
the three campuses’ faculty bodies
that they would address those con-
cerns within the resolution and as the
new structure was implemented. The
board repeatedly emphasized their
goal of empowering the system’s
chancellors.
“We have four really good chan-
cellors,” Williams said. “I think they
have the knowledge, the wherewithal
to know which jobs can be spread out.
I propose we do new job descriptions
for all four. The chancellors would
enjoy the chance to run their campus
while still looking at what is in the
best interest of the university.”
The MU Faculty Council did not
take any formal action about the
pending decision at their meeting,
but Chair Clark Peters said he had
received over 12 pages’ worth of
comments on the decision from fac-
ulty that he planned to send to the
board prior to their vote.
However, MU faculty did challenge
Choi, himself, on recent comments
and actions in that meeting, con-
demning his remarks discouraging
internal dissent and refusal to move a
Thomas Jefferson statue on campus.
Several said those comments and
actions had bred a culture of intim-
idation among university employees
and furthered concerns leading up to
his confirmation as permanent chan-
cellor.
Choi disagreed with that assess-
ment, repeating that he worked for
the best interest of the university and
to be transparent in communicating
with all university stakeholders.
Brncic said the board backed Choi
in his decision-making and were
confident with him as head of the
university.
“The board has been behind Presi-
dent Choi lockstep, has approved all
the actions he has taken,” she said in
a news conference Tuesday. “We’re
very much aware of the situation and
we have the utmost ability in him to
lead.”
Brncic said she “didn’t agree with
some of the allegations” made about
Choi and how people have framed
interactions with him.
“The reason a lot of folks have rein-
vested in the UM System is because
they believe in President Choi’s lead-
ership,” she said.
TITLE IX
The board also discussed and
approved changes to the universi-
ty’s Collected Rules and Regula-
tions related to Title IX, bringing
them into compliance with federal
changes released in May. UM and all
other public U.S. universities were
required to do so before Aug. 14.
UM had already been in compli-
ance with several of the changed
guidelines, Williams said. All univer-
sity employees will remain mandated
reporters under the new guidelines,
and mandated reporting require-
ments were extended to include dis-
crimination and harassment.
MU Health Care will follow an
alternate Title IX process rather than
the usual hearing process set out for
academic medical centers, which is
allowed under the new federal guide-
lines.
That process involves a single
decision maker but retains most of
the rights of both parties, said Kathy
Bunn, general counsel for the system.
The hospital’s Title IX process will
be done differently than campuses to
maintain patient privacy and follow
HIPAA.
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Chval no longer dean of
MU College of Education
BY GALEN BACHARIER news@columbiamissourian.com
M
U’s College of Education
dean, Kathryn Chval, no
longer serves in the posi-
tion.
Erica Lembke,
chair of the col-
lege’s Depart-
ment of Special
Education, will
serve as interim
dean, Provost
Latha Ram-
chand said in
an email to fac-
ulty, staff and
students at the
college. Chval KATHRYN CHVAL‌
will return to
teaching and research.
Ramchand did not provide any
explanation in the email for the
change in leadership.
Chval emailed a statement to The
Missourian.
”I served as a leader in the College
of Education for the past 9 years, and
I’m proud of what our team accom-
plished during that time,” she said.
“Our faculty, professional staff, and
students were leaders on our campus
in 2015 and continue to speak out
when injustices occur. I know that
they will continue to have a tremen-
dous impact at Mizzou and around
the world. I am grateful for their ded-
ication and commitment to make our
community, state, and world a better
place. Our alumni, donors, and sup-
porters made countless investments
to transform educational opportuni-
ties for so many. I will treasure my
interactions with them.”
Chval served as dean for the
college since March 2016. She has
Erica Lembke, chair of the
college’s Department of Special
Education, is now interim dean
after a decision that Chval
would no longer hold the position
worked at MU since 2003. Her
interim replacement, Lembke, has
also been at MU since 2003 and has
served as chair of the Department of
Special Education since 2015.
“I look forward to the College of
Education’s future success and will
do everything I can to help the col-
lege succeed,” Ramchand said in the
email.
In 2018, Chval was one of four can-
didates vying for the position of pro-
vost, during which she emphasized
her focus on diversity and inclusivity
at MU.
Her vision of diversity would be “a
collection of people, experience and
expertise that complements, com-
pletes one another and, hopefully,
intentionally and strategically grows
over time,” according to previous
Missourian reporting. She said it
would build on her strategies utilized
at the College of Education.
Ramchand was chosen over Chval
for the position.
As dean, she developed The Bridge
— a group for faculty, staff and fac-
ulty at the college to meet weekly
and “develop and expand their mul-
ticultural knowledge, awareness and
skills.” She also held monthly open
houses with faculty, staff and stu-
dents.
Lembke, in addition to her position
chairing the Department of Special
Education, has served on several col-
lege and campus community commit-
tees, according to Ramchand’s email.
She was president of the national
board for the Division for Learning
Disabilities and editor for Assess-
ment for Effective Intervention.

MU postpones outsourcing custodial staff
M
U has decided not to out-
source custodial jobs, at
least through the 2020-21
academic year, the univer-
sity announced.
The university in May began
accepting bids from companies to
outsource those jobs, which would
have resulted in firing over 250 MU
employees.
The decision comes after over
a month of controversy, including
demonstrations on campus; a letter
from MU faculty, staff and students
supporting custodial staff; and resis-
tance from Laborers Local 955, a
chapter of LiUNA, the union repre-
senting custodial staff.
“We are very grateful to the faculty
members and community members
that rallied alongside the workers
fighting against privatization,” said
Andrew Hutchinson, the mid-Missou-
ri organizer for Jobs with Justice and
BY WILLIAM SKIPWORTH
a field representative for Laborers
Local 955.
“We know there’s a long road ahead
in terms of bargaining over cuts,
but this is a clear indication of when
communities and workers stand
together to fight, they win.”
MU officials said the attempt to
outsource custodial work was a result
of the economic difficulties the uni-
versity suffered due to the corona-
virus pandemic and loss of funding
from the state.
Since the onset of the pandemic,
MU lost about $35 million in state
revenue, according to the press
release. MU also had to provide mil-
lions of dollars in refunds to students
for room and board and other fees
when the pandemic forced students to
leave campus in March.
More than 170 MU employees have
been laid off, nearly 3,600 have been
placed on furloughs lasting between
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one week and three months pay, and
more than 2,300 have experienced a
reduction in their salaries, the press
release said.
“The University of Missouri has
experienced tremendous budgetary
shortfalls in the economic fallout
of COVID-19, and we’ve had to take
a hard look at every corner of our
finances,” UM System President and
Interim MU Chancellor Mun Choi
said in the release.
“Our primary goal is to protect the
teaching, research and service mis-
sions of the University. We look for-
ward to engaging our employees and
the LiUNA representatives to find a
way to support our custodians.”
During the bidding process, MU
learned that it could save as much as
$3 million if it decided to outsource
to a proven firm, the press release
asserted.
However, resistance from those
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who wanted to protect the employ-
ees that would have lost their jobs
prompted MU to postpone a decision
at this time.
MU officials said they will work
with union representatives to identify
other cost-saving measures.
If MU is unable to achieve simi-
lar savings, officials could move to
outsource the service, but any final
decision would not be made before
the 2021-22 academic year, according
to the release.
“We want to thank our dedicated
staff and appreciate the work they
have done during these challenging
times,” said Gary Ward, MU’s vice
chancellor for operations.
“We look forward to working with
them over the next academic year
for ways to reduce costs and provide
savings that will protect the mission
of the university.”
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demonstrates the use of dies in
MU’s Lafferre Hall. For more than
three months, the college had
been cranking out face shields,
testing swabs and ethanol-based
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Two construction workers finish placing the final steel beam for the NextGen Precision Insititute’s building this summer.
State funding for NextGen facility unlikely
W
hile higher education
saw its state funding
slashed for the new fis-
cal year, leaders at the
University of Missouri System could
take solace in one bright spot: $10
million in approved funding for its
NextGen Precision Health Institute.
Now, that funding may not come
anytime soon.
The $220 million research facility,
which the UM System has called its
”top priority” and well before that
has seen its progress largely unde-
terred despite COVID-19’s massive
impact on the system.
But the facility’s planned state
funding, which would come from an
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BY GALEN BACHARIER
account that stores special federal
aid, will be delayed, State Budget
Director Dan Haug said. Whether it
comes at all will depend on how the
fiscal year and the pandemic play
out.
“(NextGen) is still a priority of the
governor,” Haug told the Missourian.
“There’s no funding right now, but
if the economy turns around, if we
get more federal money, we could
put some of that in there. … We rec-
ognize that (the facility) can have a
significant impact on the health of
Missourians in the future.”
Haug called Missouri’s budget sit-
uation fluid and said that it would be
more than a quarter or six months to
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get a more clear image on Missouri’s
2021 revenues, which he said he mon-
itors daily.
Haug told the Springfield
News-Leader that “we’re assuming
that (NextGen)’s not going to be fund-
ed.”
Although the research facility’s
funding is delayed, its funding is not
permanently cut. UM spokesperson
Christian Basi said university leaders
“remain very pleased that the gov-
ernor did not cut the funding for the
project in any way.”
“We’ll continue to look forward to
having additional discussions about
the Precision Health Institute with
our elected leaders in the future,”
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Basi said.
Gov. Mike Parson signed bills
approving the fiscal year 2021 bud-
get this summer, which included that
$10 million for the NextGen facility
at issue. UM System President Mun
Choi thanked him and state leaders
for “continued support” for the proj-
ect.
Parson also announced $448 million
in withholdings for the 2021 fiscal
year as COVID-19 continues to take
a financial toll. Higher education
in Missouri will see $28 million in
restrictions from that total. The
four-campus UM System has taken
over $85 million in cuts from the
state since March, according to a
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to outsource about 250 custodial

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souri colleges and universities ahead of its start on July 1. Among
will receive $1,200 less from those restrictions were a $28 million
the annual Bright Flight schol- reduction in four-year higher educa-
arship for the 2020-2021 academic tion institutions and an almost $6.5
year. million reduction in the Bright Flight
MU Financial Aid notified student program.
recipients that the state program has In past years, the Bright Flight
been reduced from a $3,000 award program has been awarded to Mis-
to $1,800, citing the “current eco- souri residents entering college
nomic conditions of the state.” The based on their standardized testing
email stated students will receive scores and returning students who
a revised financial aid notice in the maintain certain academic standards
coming week. The fall semester at in subsequent semesters. It is offered
MU began Aug. 24. through the Missouri Department
“We regret to inform you of this of Higher Education and Workforce
change but wanted to communicate it Development.
to you as soon as possible,” the email MU is aware of the situation with
said. “Unfortunately, these circum- the program, spokesperson Christian
stances are beyond our control.” Basi said, and will be working with
PHOTOS COURTESY OF MICHAEL CALI The scholarship reduction notice students on an individual basis to
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Memorial Stadium’s south end zone begins to fill with people last fall in Columbia. Although fewer fans may be in attendance, Missouri is set to welcome Alabama, Vanderbilt, Kentucky, Georgia and
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T
he Southeastern Conference
has announced the final dates
for the Tigers’ matchups in fall
2020.
The Tigers’ schedule is as follows:
■  Week 1: Sept. 26 vs. Alabama.
■  Week 2: Oct. 3 at Tennessee.
■  Week 3: Oct. 10 at LSU.
■  Week 4: Oct. 17 vs. Vander-
bilt.
■  Week 5: Oct. 24 at Florida.
■  Week 6: Oct. 31 vs. Kentucky.
■  Week 7: Nov. 7 BYE.
■  Week 8: Nov. 14 vs. Georgia.
■  Week 9: Nov. 21 at South Car-
olina.
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BY ADAM COLE
■  Week 10: Nov. 28 vs. Arkan-
sas.
■  Week 11: Dec. 5 at Mississippi
State.
Alabama will travel to Columbia to
kick off the season Sept. 26. Missouri
last played Alabama in 2018, traveling
to Tuscaloosa for a 39-10 loss to the
then-No. 1 Crimson Tide.
Before that, the Tigers lost 42-10 the
last time Alabama traveled to Colum-
bia. The Tide was also ranked No. 1 in
that matchup in 2010. They also beat
MU 42-13 in 2014 in Tuscaloosa.
Eliah Drinkwitz will make his Mis-
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an Alabama team that finished 2019
ranked No. 8 in the final AP Poll and
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had an 11-2 record, with a 35-16 Citrus
Bowl win over Michigan to end the
year.
Before last year, the Crimson Tide
had made a College Football Playoff
appearance every year since its incep-
tion in the 2014-15 season.
The Tide was added to MU’s schedule
just 10 days before the announcement,
as well as LSU.
Missouri’s Nov. 28 matchup with
Arkansas, which was originally
scheduled to take place at Arrowhead
Stadium in Kansas City, is moving to
Columbia, both Missouri and the SEC
announced.
Missouri will allow fans at Memorial
Stadium for home games this fall. The
stadium will be at “no more than” 25%
DANIEL SHULAR/Missourian
capacity, a department spokesperson
confirmed to the Missourian.
At that rate, there would be no more
than about 15,655 fans allowed entry.
MU’s schedule was made nearly com-
plete in early August, after a series of
pandemic-related moves that included
the conference moving to a 10-game
conference-only schedule. That move
eliminated four matchups — Central
Arkansas, Eastern Michigan, BYU and
Louisiana — from the Tigers’ schedule,
leaving two new cross-division oppo-
nents to be added.
Times of the games are to be
announced, and the dates listed — all
Saturdays — may still be moved to a
different day each weekend.
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League will require face masks for fans in the stands

BY ADAM COLE news@columbiamissourian.com

T
he Southeastern Conference has announced
that member schools will decide on attendance
capacities this fall, but with one stipulation:
Fans will be required to wear masks.
Fans will be required to wear nose-and-mouth cover-
ings upon entry, exit and while moving throughout the
stadium. Stadium works and athletic staff will also be
required to wear masks.
Those are just two of several guidelines the confer-
ence announced.
To this point, Missouri is allowing no more than 25%
capacity at Memorial Stadium, meaning its usual 62,621
capacity will be about 15,655.
In an email to fans, Missouri athletic director Jim
Sterk said Memorial Stadium will be reseated based
on donor rank, both within club spaces and lower bowl
seating, this season. The department will also impose
ticket limits coinciding with Tiger Scholarship Fund
donor levels.
Sterk also said a full reduced capacity seating plan
will be released soon, although he did not specify a date.
Season ticket holders who do not feel comfortable
attending games in 2020 will be eligible to retain their
MADI WINFIELD/Missourian/
The South End Zone project last year added more seats to
Memorial Stadium, bringing capacity to 61,050.
season ticket locations in 2021, the email said, and any
fans who previously renewed their season tickets and
do not feel comfortable attending games can receive a
refund.
While the SEC is allowing schools to decide stadium
capacities, it’s asking that schools do so in accordance
with state and local guidelines, or Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention recommendations for physical
distancing.
To this point, Boone County has placed a limit on
attendance at sporting events. However, it does not
apply to facilities owned or operated by MU. Gov. Mike
Parson also moved the state into another phase of its
recovery plan last month that lifted all statewide orders.
Other announcements from the conference included
that member schools will decide whether or not fans
can tailgate; barriers will be installed at points-of-sale
for food and beverages; schools running shuttles to and
from stadiums maintain sufficient safety protocols;
those in premium seating (clubs and suites) will not be
allowed to “suite hop”; team walks are in accordance
with local and state health guidelines.
All SEC schools must also have a detailed outline
of how they will disinfect their stadiums, work with
attendees who may display symptoms of COVID-19 and
how they will communicate all procedures and proto-
cols to prospective guests.

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Bus, paratransit fares waived through September 2021
BY WILLIAM SKIPWORTH news@columbiamissourian.com

C
ity Council voted Aug. 17 to contin-
ue free bus and paratransit service
through Sept. 30, 2021, given the
support the city has received for trans-
portation services through the federal
Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic
Security Act.
At the beginning of the coronavirus
pandemic, the council waived fares for
the city’s buses in an effort to ease the
economic difficulties caused by the pan-
demic.
Public Works Director David Nichols
said bus service has stabilized over the
past several months, not only because of
free fares but also because routes had
not changed recently.
Both he and City Manager John Glas-
cock said it will be important to watch
whether the waning demand for para-
transit service, which serves people with
disabilities, rises too much during a peri-
od of free fares.
The council has also held public hear-
ings this summer on the capital improve-
ments plan for fiscal 2021. It detailed the
different infrastructure projects the city
plans to carry out in the coming fiscal
year. It includes:
■  $4.8 million worth of projects for
the electric utility.
■  $3.3 million for improvements to
government buildings.
■  $1.3 million in Parks and Recre-
ation Department projects, all funded by
dedicated parks sales taxes.
■  $1.1 million to replace a quint fire-
fighting apparatus.
■  $4.7 million in street maintenance
and construction, including $2.2 million
to extend Discovery Parkway from Gans
Road to New Haven Road.
■  $3.7 million in sewer upgrades.
■  $3.2 million in solid waste projects,
including $2 million for a new bioreactor PHOTOS BY XANDER NEGOZIO/Missourian
cell at the landfill. A city bus drives past Rice Road and McKee Street earlier this summer.
■  $2.4 million in stormwater projects.
■  $1.2 million to replace buses.
■  $21.8 million in water projects, which the council has approved before. lenges have delayed the work but that
including the treatment plant upgrade. Treece wondered if the work should be he’s confident it will be done this year,
Treece pressed David Sorrell, Colum- contracted out. using a combination of city staff and
bia’s utilities director, about why it has “Do you think your department is
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that out to someone that could do the Treece called it a “public safety issue”
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 Welcome Back 2020

Curbside recycling suspended indefinitely in Columbia

BY MIKAYLA EASLEY news@columbiamissourian.com

B
lue bags full of recyclables
will be absent from Colum-
bia’s curbsides for the fore-
seeable future.
After weeks of irregular services
and years of staffing problems, the
city suspended curbside recycling
collections and urged residents to take
recyclable paper, cardboard, bottles,
cans and plastics to dumpsters placed
at one of 11 locations throughout the
city.
The city decided to stop recycling
pickup mainly due to the challenge of
retaining employees, according to a
news release announcing the change.
Specifically, the city lacks enough
workers with commercial driver’s
licenses to complete both trash and
recycling routes five days a week.
The issue has been compounded by
the inability to sell recyclables, caus-
ing the city to lose money while pro-
viding incomplete service.
Columbia Sustainability Manager
Barbara Buffaloe said the city would
need a minimum of 13 qualified driv-
ers to run both routes every day. It is
consistently short by two or three, she
said.
Ideally, each truck would have two
drivers with commercial driver’s
licenses alternate driving and picking
up trash. But Buffaloe said that given
the lack of qualified drivers, the city
has been hiring temporary employees
to ride on the backs of trucks while
one person drives the entire route.
Columbia spokesperson Brian
Adkisson said the only way for the ZEPHYRUS LI/Missourian
city to resume curbside recycling Rachel Harper disposes of recycling bags near the Tenth Street parking garage.
would be to hire and retain more driv-
ers with proper commercial driver’s
license certification who can also Director David Sorrell projected at “I feel like we sorta keep dipping ke said she was shocked when she
physically do the job. the May work session that the city our toes in the water, and we keep moved to the city and learned she had
“It’s a very dangerous job,” Adkis- would spend $600,000 on temporary saying it’s costing us a ton for our to put her trash and recyclables on
son said, “because you’re not only out workers for the trash utility this fiscal trash guys, and we’re injuring them, the street. Feeling bad for the trash
in the elements — from the extreme year. but we’re not really addressing what collectors, she agreed that having roll
cold to the extreme heat like today — The job’s high rate of injury turns our other options are,” Peters said. carts would be a safer option.
you’re physically running along with many away and also costs the city Buffaloe said roll carts are an Klempke said her blue bags have
the truck and lifting and throwing hundreds of thousands in annual option. They can be emptied into gar- been collected only once. Now she
heavy materials into the back of the worker compensation claims. To bage trucks automatically, meaning drops off her recycling about once a
truck.” attract more full-time workers, refuse a driver and more than one trash col- week at the location near Providence
The lack of drivers means the city collectors were given a raise to at lector would not be necessary on each Road and Nifong Boulevard.
can’t run its eight trash and four recy- least $17 per hour after the previ- route. Adkisson said he expects the City
cling routes to full capacity, forcing ous year’s raise to $15 per hour. The “It doesn’t require as much getting Council during the coming budget
them to prioritize trash collection. efforts have not been fruitful, howev- off and on the truck,” she explained, process to continue having conversa-
Staffing city workers isn’t a new er. “and it definitely makes it a safer tions with the public about how trash
problem for Columbia, especially The situation is dire enough that working environment.” and recycling service should look.
refuse collectors. some city officials contemplated Recently, the City Council shot down The coronavirus pandemic also
It’s one of the only places in Missou- another round of debate on whether an effort to put another roll cart ini- affected the city’s recycling pickup.
ri that hires city workers to handle to use roll carts for trash collection — tiative on the ballot in November. Along with employees being exposed
recycling from beginning to end. This or even hiring a private company to Opponents of roll carts are stead- to COVID-19 in May, bans on certain
includes collection, sorting and selling provide the service. Sixth Ward Coun- fast, however. They used an initiative recyclables being sold overseas has
materials. cilwoman Betsy Peters at a May 18 petition to place a moratorium on any negatively impacted markets. Specif-
The Missourian previously reported budget work session asked city staff discussion of roll carts on the ballot ically, Buffaloe said it’s been hard to
that the lack of full-time refuse col- to compile a report comparing the in March 2016, and 54% of voters get rid of plastics #3 through #7, some
lectors was costing the city more in cost of those options with the current approved it. of the most difficult materials to sell.
hiring temporary employees. Utilities city service. Columbia resident Amber Klemp- “When we were doing recycling,

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Collection bins are filled with recycling material at 3601 S. Providence Road.
even maybe five years ago, we could
make even,” she said. “But now, with
recycling markets going down, it’s
costing us to run the trucks and we’re
not getting a full return on our invest-
ment.”
Columbia isn’t alone in struggling
with the declining market for recy-
clables. China dealt the recycling
MIKAYLA EASLEY/Missourian
industry a blow with its Operation
Sword mandate in 2017, through which
it stopped accepting recyclables from
other countries because of problems
with contamination such as greasy
pizza boxes or plastics with dirty
labels, according to a report by the
Manhattan Institute. The report con-
cluded that municipal governments
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should strongly consider getting out of
the recycling business, at least for the
time being.
Some Columbia residents have
wondered aloud whether the city will
reduce their monthly utility bills,
given that curbside recycling has
been suspended indefinitely. A Tues-
day news release from the city didn’t
address that question.
The rate the city charges residents
for solid waste collection is based on
the total volume of trash and recy-
clables throughout the city, Adkisson
said.
“It’s essentially how much material
goes to the landfill, either into a cell
or through the recycling facility,” he
said. “It’s not whether it’s curbside or
drop-off recycling.”
Adkisson said utility rates are
another topic the council will likely
discuss when budgeting for fiscal
2021. In May Sorrell proposed a 10%
increase for the utility.
Columbia resident Rebecca Schedler
said the city should charge residents
by the amount of trash they put out to
be collected, rather than charging a
flat rate.
“I’ve been recycling as long as I can
remember ... Every time I have to put
something in the trash, it makes me
mad,” she said, estimating she puts
only six bags of trash per year at the
curbside.
Schedler also worries the city’s
drop-off recycling containers will
always be full, given that more peo-
ple will be using them. That would
force them to stack recyclables on the
ground.
Buffaloe encouraged residents to
check inside recycling bins before
leaving their bags on the ground.
Sometimes the bins are stacked high
at the front and have more room
toward the back.
Columbia resident Leon Jovanovic
agreed and said that when recycling
containers are packed toward the
front, the arthritis in his shoulders
makes it difficult for him to lift mate-
rials into the containers.
Adkisson said some of the collection
sites are emptied daily, and he noted
that the city is considering adding
more drop-off sites, particularly north
of Interstate 70, where there is only
one site, at the Home Depot.
“I should emphasize that we still
highly encourage residents to recycle
materials,” Adkisson said, noting that
it is easier for crews to empty bins at
drop-off locations, and it’s possible
they’ll be able to do that more fre-
quently now.

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 Welcome Back 2020

EATWELL GROCERY
OPENS IN LUCKY’S SPOT
ZEPHYRUS LI • Missourian

EatWell, a natural food store owned by St. Louis-based

Schnucks markets opened in late July at 111 S. Providence
Road. EatWell offers natural, organic and freshly made food
to the university population and the community at large

ZEPHYRUS LI/Missourian
Some of the products for sale are seen at the EatWell grocery. EatWell is affiliated with the
Schnucks brand of stores.

ZEPHYRUS LI/Missourian
(ABOVE) Lindsay McEver checks her grocery list at the EatWell store. McEver was looking
for organic food products.
(BELOW) The new EatWell store, a Schnucks brand, opened in July on Providence Road.
EatWell is located at the site of the former Lucky’s Market and sells natural and organic
food items.

ZEPHYRUS LI/Missourian
Kayla Riel shops at the new EatWell store. As a regular customer of Lucky’s Market, she said she is
delighted to have a similar food store.
August 27, 2020 // Columbia Missourian // 33
 Welcome Back 2020
Regal, Forum movie theaters reopened in August
T
he Regal Cinemas and the
Goodrich Forum 8 movie the-
ater reopened in August with
new safety and health proce-
dures.
Goodrich Forum 8 movie theater
reopened Aug. 7.
The new ownership of the theater
— GQT Movies — previously had
announced plans to open earlier. Kelly
Nash, vice president of marketing, said
the delay was because the release of
several movies had been pushed back
or pulled.
An affiliated theater, Capital 8 in Jef-
ferson City, opened Aug. 14.
Goodrich Quality Theaters filed for
bankruptcy in early March, although
the theater remained open. The the-
ater closed in March because of stay-
at-home orders related to COVID-19,
according to the Forum 8 Facebook
page.
Mason Asset Management and
Namdar Realty Group purchased all
assets of Goodrich Quality Theaters
Inc., including most movie theaters,
according to a news release earlier this
month. They partnered with VIP Cin-
emas to operate 22 theaters, including
two in Missouri.
To ensure guests’ safety, GQT Mov-
ies has crafted a plan, referred to as
the 3Ss Plan: social distance, sanitize
and wash hands and safely follow rec-
ommendations, according to its news
release.
The release gave this information
about safety standards being put in
place at the theater:
Signs will be put in front of the facil-
ities to help guests know the require-
Hy-Vee offers drive-by flu shots through Oct. 31
H
y-Vee, Inc. announced this
summer that the flu vac-
cine is available inside its
pharmacy locations without
an appointment or prescription and
will be offered as a drive-up option
through Oct. 31.
The Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention recommends people
six months and older get a flu vac-
cine each year.
In a news release, the company
said it continues to follow CDC guide-
34 // Columbia Missourian // August 27, 2020
BY LARISSA GAO news@columbiamissourian.com
ments. For safe distancing, each audi-
torium has capacity restrictions and a
minimum of three-seat spacing will be
enforced between groups.
Social distancing decals will be
placed on the floor at the concession
and box office lines. Shields will be put
in the interface areas, such as the tick-
et booth.
In the lobbies and restrooms, sanitiz-
ing stations are provided. Employees
will use an electrostatic sanitizing
machine to sanitize seats and other
broad areas. They will allow extra time
between movies to sanitize the auditori-
ums properly.
Employees are required to wear
masks or face shields, and frequent
hand washing and sanitizing is expect-
ed. They will follow specific protocols
on serving concessions to protect
customers. They will also be required
to finish a wellness check, including
taking temperature and filling out a
questionnaire.
Guests who are sick will not be
allowed to enter but can return when
feeling well. They must follow the 3Ss
Social distancing decals will be
on the floor for concession and
box office lines, and employees
will sanitize seats between films
BY MISSOURIAN STAFF news@columbiamissourian.com
lines for COVID-19 safety, includ-
ing enhanced cleaning regimens,
social-distancing protocols and Plexi-
glas shields at registers and customer
service counters.
Hy-Vee said it has implemented
steps to ensure the safe administra-
tion of immunizations for patients
and pharmacy team members:
■  All Hy-Vee pharmacy team mem-
bers are required to wear face masks
at all times.
■  Any patient with COVID-19-like
plan in the theater and wear masks in
common areas, such as lobby, hallways
and concession areas. To avoid reuse
of drink cups or tubs, customers need
to come to the concession counter for
refills to retrieve new ones.
The procedures are based on guide-
lines from the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention and feedback
received from employees and custom-
ers, according to Regal Movies’ web-
site.
Greeters will be in the lobby to assist
customers with new procedures.
The Regal’s website gave this infor-
mation about specific procedures at its
theaters:
Employees must wear masks all the
time and wash their hands at a mini-
mum every 30 to 60 minutes. They will
have daily health screenings, including
temperature checks where required.
Customers will be required to wear
face masks at all times while in the
lobby, hallways and restrooms. They
also must wear masks in the auditori-
ums if they are not eating or drinking.
cEmployees will monitor auditoriums
symptoms or who has had prolonged
exposure to a positive case is asked to
wait the appropriate amount of time
before receiving a vaccine.
■  Patients must wear a face cover-
ing.
The release said drive-up flu vac-
cines will be offered during these
times each week between through
Oct. 31 in the parking lot of Hy-Vee
pharmacy locations :
■  Monday: 7-11 a.m.
■  Thursday: 3-7 p.m.
throughout every performance. People
who don’t comply with the rules will
be asked to leave but are welcome to
return once they are compliant.
To keep social distancing, every
other register will be closed. The reser-
vation system will maintain two empty
seats between groups, while customers
are requested to leave two seats dis-
tance at theaters where performances
are non-reserved.
The capacities of each auditorium
will be reduced to 50%.
Customers are encouraged to enter
their auditorium as soon as possible
and leave the theater quickly at the end
of their movie.
The cinema also provides new con-
tactless payment options to decrease
in-person contacts. Customers can pur-
chase concession items from the app.
Self-service condiment stands and
arcade games are closed. Vending
machines, water fountains, refills on
large drinks and popcorn, and services
in locations featuring diners, restau-
rants and in-theatre ordering will be
suspended.
Locations with bars will stay open for
walk-up service only.
Wall-mounted sanitizer dispensers
will be available on either side of the
main entrance. Employees will sanitize
every auditorium and seat after each
movie by using ULV foggers, new elec-
trostatic ‘fogger’ equipment, which is
highly effective in disinfecting materi-
als with a non-toxic formula that is fast
drying.
More information about reopening
can be found on Regal’s website.
■  Saturday: 10 a.m.-2 p.m.
Customers are advised to check
local stores for vaccine availability.
Flu vaccines are available at
Hy-Vee pharmacies without a pre-
scription as allowed per state law —
in Missouri, for those age 7 and older,
the release said.
Medicare and most insurance plans
may cover the flu vaccine and other
immunizations at no charge.
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Columbia College embraces
a new instructional mode
BY CLIVIA LIANG news@columbiamissourian.com
C
olumbia College has offered
online education for 20 years and
virtual classes for five.
Now, because of the pandemic,
the college is offering students a flexible
teaching model for the fall semester.
The High-Flex program will allow stu-
dents to choose each day how they want
to attend classes, in-person or virtually.
That means they can choose to attend
in-person classes on a particular day and
switch to virtual learning whenever they
like.
“We plan to provide an excellent edu-
cation to our students and want to keep
people safe,” said Piyusha Singh, provost
and senior vice president of Columbia
College.
Singh said the approach gives students
the flexibility they need to take care of
their own needs.
Singh highlighted the difference
between virtual learning and online
learning. “Online classes are asynchro-
nous, while the instruction of virtual
classes is happening between the teach-
ers and students at the same time.”
Singh said the college has offered mul-
tiple training opportunities on teaching
virtually that included information on
technology and the pedagogical require-
ments of teaching remotely.
The college has more than 800 under-
graduate courses offered through the
online program, along with 29 online
degrees and more than 4,702 online pro-
gram students nationwide, according to
data on its website.
The college also gets a lot of transfer
students.
The numbers haven’t changed much
since the pandemic began, Singh said,
30 employees laid off in budget
trimming at Stephens College
BY ABBY ORF news@columbiamissourian.com
S
tephens College cut its annual
operating budget by $1.2 million
with the layoffs of 30 employees.
The cuts were made across all
departments and programs, the school
said in a news release.
“Stephens worked energetically to
retain its workforce over the past several
months, even as many institutions moved
more quickly to layoffs and furloughs,”
college President Dianne Lynch said.
“But the pandemic continues to present
extraordinary challenges for all of us.
After reducing expenses through other
means to the extent possible, it became
The human-health path to
med, PA and dental school
as enrollment in its online programs has
remained steady. Only time will tell if
new students will gravitate to its online
program once they decide whether or not
to return to other universities in August.
She said the college has drawn on
its experience with online and virtual
programs to make instructional plans
during the pandemic.
“We’re just taking the things we’ve
done together before and putting them
together differently,” she said.
Carli Buschjost, a senior majoring in
biology at Columbia College, said the new
teaching model can benefit both profes-
sors and students.
“Professors can teach in different
ways, and students can choose their ways
to learn. I think it will bring up more
opportunities and keep everyone safe
and comfortable ,” Buschjost said.
Columbia College has been prepar-
ing for in-person classes in the fall.
Classrooms and dining halls have been
restructured to ensure students maintain “The human interaction is awesome. A lot
6 feet of social distance.
“If there’s a classroom that can’t have of the people in the research labs are
more than 10 students at social distance, undergrads who get to run test results or
we will lower the class capacity,” Singh
said. go over the research protocols with study
Students will also be required to wear subjects before their research sessions.”
masks to attend in-person classes.
The changes aren’t over, Singh said. — Caleigh Smith, Mizzou class of 2018
“We all need to learn to respond to the
accelerated pace of change,” she said.
“And I really think that Columbia Col-
lege is modeling that for our students.
We’re in a very intense situation, and Mizzou’s undergraduate program in Human
rather than just do the same old thing, Physiology & Translational Sciences takes
we’re using a crisis to see where we can
innovate and how we can support our students to the forefront of medical research.
students in different ways.” Coursework delves into critical analysis of
research methods, evaluation of scientific
publications and instruction on how to write
research grants. And students can get hands-
on undergraduate research experience in the
lab, in the clinic and in the field.
nep.missouri.edu
clear that these workforce reductions
still were necessary.” (573) 882-4288
Each of the employees has been
offered a severance package. Twitter: @Mizzou_NEP
As Stephens College began to reopen, Instagram: @mizzou_nep
staff started a staggered return to cam- Facebook: @NutritionandExercisePhysiology
pus. Students began returning to campus
Email: Dr. Catherine Peterson,
Aug. 16.
Stephens will require daily health NEP Director of Undergraduate Studies,
screenings of employees, students and petersonca@missouri.edu
visitors. Other precautions Stephens
College will enforce include adhering to
social distancing guidelines and requir-
ing face coverings.
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 Welcome Back 2020

A Band of Brothers plays downtown on weekends

BY LEANNE TIPETT MOSBY news@columbiamissourian.com

I
f you have had the occasion to stroll down Broadway
on any given Saturday in March through November,
chances are you have heard the Band of Brothers. A
busker band, with somewhat fluid membership, the
core of the band is made up of brothers Lionelle and Mike
Miller, and Mike del Rosario.
The Miller brothers got started after Lionelle saw some
other people playing on the street. “It looked like a lot of
fun, so one night I just grabbed my keyboard and came out
and tried it. I had a blast. I’ve been hooked on it ever since,”
Miller said. Del Rosario joined them about a year later.
Remarkably, Lionelle Miller estimates that the band has
played in downtown Columbia nearly every weekend for
six years and has missed only six or seven weekends, not
counting the period of tighter COVID-19 restrictions this
spring. Their dedication has allowed them to build a loyal
fan base. “We have people who regularly come by, who
have been coming by to see us play for years,” said Miller.
“I think with all of the craziness going on, especially now,
it kind of takes them away from everything that’s going
on in their lives,” he said. “It’s just a time to sort of enjoy
music or hear their favorite song. It’s a time to get away.”
Mike and Lionelle have both been playing music for about
30 years and are multi-instrumentalists. Lionelle plays
keyboard when busking, but also plays guitar, violin, viola,
cello, bass and the drums.
Mike Miller plays electric guitar and sings for Band of
Brothers, but can also play piano, bass, violin, harmonica
and the drums. Del Rosario plays acoustic guitar. While
this trio represents the typical makeup of the band, Lionelle
Miller says they regularly welcome “brothers from other
mothers and sisters from other misters.”
Originally from St. Louis, the Miller brothers moved to
Columbia with their mother in 1985. Mike has a degree in
theater from MU. Lionelle has been in the information tech-
nology field for about 30 years and currently works for MU. LEANNE TIPPETT MOSBY/Missourian
Del Rosario, who works as a med tech, also came to Colum- From left, brothers Mike Miller and Lionelle Miller busk July 4 on Broadway at Ninth Street. Known as the Band of Brothers,
bia from St. Louis. they have been playing downtown during the months of March through November nearly every weekend for six years.

LEANNE TIPPETT MOSBY/Missourian

Mike del Rosario’s tablet sits atop his speaker in downtown Columbia. Del Rosario uses the tablet
LEANNE TIPPETT MOSBY/Missourian
with an app called Musician’s Notebook to record chord changes while learning a new song.
From left, Lionelle Miller and Mike del Rosario work out the chord
changes for “Georgia on my Mind” on July 12 in downtown Columbia.
36 // Columbia Missourian // August 27, 2020
 Welcome Back 2020
Parson signs new law making
motorcycle helmets optional
BY MIKAYLA EASLEY news@columbiamissourian.com
G
ov. Mike Parson gave his seal
of approval to several new laws
in July, including removing pro-
visions for motorcycle helmets,
limiting some medical marijuana sales
and streamlining testing of sexual assault
kits.
This year’s hectic and shortened legis-
lative session caused many lawmakers to
curtail or forgo several pieces of legisla-
tion. In several cases, lawmakers relied
on creating massive omnibus bills tacked
with amendments, many of which Parson
signed. At the same time, he vetoed House
Bill 1854 and said several of the bill’s
provisions did not relate to its original
purpose.
“This year’s legislative session was very
challenging for obvious reasons,” Par-
son said in a statement about the bills he
signed. “However, the General Assembly
pushed through these challenges and con-
tinued to work for the people of Missouri.
We appreciate their efforts to get several
important pieces of legislation across the
finish line despite the unprecedented cir-
cumstances of COVID-19.”
The complete list of legislation signed
by Parson can be found on the governor’s
website.
Helmets no longer required
Under House Bill 1963, motorcyclists
over the age of 26 will no longer be
required to wear a helmet, so long as they
can provide proof of health insurance.
Parson vetoed a similar bill in 2019,
which would have allowed motorcyclists
over 18 to ride without helmets.
Motorcyclists are required to have a
health insurance policy that covers the
medical costs of injuries from motorcycle
accidents. While police will be able to ask
to see insurance, they cannot stop drivers
just to see if they are following the law.
In addition, local governments will not
be able to enforce their own laws that
require helmets.
Maureen Cunningham, executive direc-
tor of the Brain Injury Association of Mis-
souri, said in a statement that the repealed
law will cost the state in lives lost and
additional health care costs.
“It is unfortunate that Gov. Parson
chose to ignore calls, emails and letters
from organizations and individuals,” Cun-
ningham said. “Instead, he decided to add
to the Missouri Budget shortfall, allow
higher costs to Missouri taxpayers and
increase waiting lists for services for indi-
viduals with brain injury.”
The original legislation with the helmet
change was related to identifying funding
for a testing facility for the hyperloop
transportation system. HB 1963 also cre-
ates new restrictions for flying drones
over prisons, mental health facilities and
sports stadiums.
The bill will go into effect Aug. 28.
Reining in medical marijuana
While several pieces of legislation
regarding Missouri’s controversial med-
ical marijuana licensing process came to
a stop during the COVID-19 pandemic,
lawmakers were able to pass House Bill
1896. The law has new rules about how
marijuana can be marketed and sold.
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 Welcome Back 2020

Medicaid expansion prevails in a tight statewide race

BY MIKAYLA EASLEY news@columbiamissourian.com

A
fter years of Republican opposi-
tion, Missouri on Aug. 4 became
the 38th state to expand Medic-
aid as voters approved Constitu-
tional Amendment 2.
The final vote was 672,967 Missouri
voters who approved, or 53.3%, with
590,809 opposed, or 46.7%.
Voters in Boone County voted in favor
of expansion by a large margin. With all
49 precincts reporting, 23,697 — or 67%
— voted “yes,” according to the county
clerk’s website.
Only seven of Missouri’s 114 coun-
ties approved Medicaid expansion. In
addition to Boone, they included Greene
(Springfield), Clay and Jackson (Kansas
City suburbs), Platte, St. Charles (a St.
Louis suburb) and St. Louis County. The
city of St. Louis, which isn’t a county,
also approved.
“Access to health care has never been
more important than it is right now.
Today’s historic victory for Amendment
2 highlights that when it comes to the
care of our neighbors and the health of
our ailing economy, Medicaid expansion
uniquely unites Missourians,” A.J. Bock-
elman, the campaign manager for Yes
on 2: Healthcare for Missouri, said in a
statement.
Medicaid will now expand under the
provisions of the 2010 Affordable Care
Act. The expansion is expected to offer
health care to as many as 230,000 Mis-
sourians between the ages 19 and 65 and
create over 16,000 jobs.
When implemented, 90% of the health
care coverage for new Medicaid enroll-
ees under expansion are paid for by the
federal government. Amendment 2’s fis-
cal note created by the state auditor pre-
dicts that, if passed by voters, it would
cost $2 billion per year between the state
and federal government. Missouri’s 10%
responsibility would be an additional
$200 million.
Medicaid expansion has been a key
issue among Missouri’s lawmakers as
well — particularly in the state race for
governor. During a virtual election night
rally, State Auditor Nicole Galloway, who
won the Democratic nomination for gov-
ernor, said she would implement expan-
sion at no cost to Missouri taxpayers.
“I’ve said all along that Medicaid
expansion brings billions to Missou-
ri — the best economic development
deal we’ve ever seen — and that we can
expand health care without raising taxes
or cutting other programs,” Galloway
said.
After years of Republican opposition in
the state legislature, supporters of Med- ZEPHYRUS LI/Missourian
icaid expansion turned in nearly twice as Laura Wells puts an “I Voted” sticker on her T-shirt Aug. 4 at the Columbia Public Library.
many petition signatures in May to place
the initiative on the ballot. so the state could sooner understand fiscal year 2021, about 25% of the state’s sion itself drew many voters to the ballot
Shortly afterward, Gov. Mike Parson, its financial situation moving forward general revenue budget. boxes Tuesday, according to those who
who had been against Medicaid expan- during the COVID-19 pandemic. The issue appeared on the ballot spoke with Missourian reporters.
sion, announced that the initiative would Prior to the Aug. 4 vote, Medicaid costs alongside nominees for state, county and “I think (Medicaid expansion) is a
appear on the primary election ballot to the state represented $2.5 billion in congressional offices. Medicaid expan- great option for us and should be good
38 // Columbia Missourian // August 27, 2020

boxes Tuesday, according to those who
spoke with Missourian reporters.
“I think (Medicaid expansion) is a
great option for us and should be good
for revenue for hospitals, so they are
not always getting the bailouts,” said
Brandon Blalock, 25, while voting at Uni-
tarian Universalist Church of Columbia.
“People can actually seek health care
when they necessarily couldn’t afford it
otherwise. I know some people don’t go
to the doctor because they don’t have any
money.”
Missouri’s Medicaid program cur-
rently does not offer health care to most
adults without children and has a low-in-
come eligibility threshold for parents, a
group known as the healthcare coverage
gap. When expansion is fully implement-
ed, the program will offer coverage to
Missourians earning up to 138% of the
federal poverty level, about $18,000 for
single adults or $30,000 for a family of
three.
Because Medicaid expansion was on
the ballot as a constitutional amendment,
lawmakers are not able to make changes
to the provision unless they are approved
by voters in the future.
Voter Jefferson Daubitz, 21, said he
was concerned about how the initiative
was presented.
“I support this idea, but I am person-
ally not for constitutionally mandating
Medicaid expansion,” Daubitz said. “I
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but I don’t think that it should be written rians for approving the ballot initiative. but especially those hardworking, yet
into the Constitution. You are not able to Throughout its campaign, Medicaid low-income individuals caught in the cov-
go in there to change the budget if you expansion received support from orga- erage gap. However, today’s affirmation
run out of money. We don’t have $200 nizations such as the American Heart
million to do this right now.” of Medicaid expansion by voters, marks
Association, the Missouri Hospital Asso-
The cost of Medicaid expansion has ciation and the Missouri Chamber of a beginning rather than an end,” said
troubled others who oppose it as well. Commerce. Herb Kuhn, president and CEO of the
Opponents of Medicaid expansion have “This is a victory for all Missourians, Missouri Hospital Association.
repeatedly said the only way the state
can afford to pay for new enrollees is by
shifting money from other resources,
such as education or public safety.
Missouri State Treasurer Scott Fitzpat-
rick agreed. He said the General Assem-
bly wouldn’t want to raise taxes to pay
for the program, and money would likely
need to be shifted from elsewhere.
“The only other area really large
enough that you can go to and really cut
a good chunk of money is education,”
Fitzpatrick said.
However, evidence from other states
shows that states with expanded Medic-
aid programs have actually saved money
through less uncompensated care, more
jobs, increased economic activity and
other measures.
A fiscal analysis by the Center for
Health Economics and Policy at Wash-
ington University in St. Louis predicted
expansion would save the state up to $39
million after implementation costs.
Supporters also said the additional
funds would stabilize the state’s strug- ZEPHYRUS LI/Missourian
gling rural hospitals and clinics. John Fifield walks toward a voting station Aug. 4 at the Roger B. Wilson Boone County Government
Several organizations praised Missou- Center. Fifield has lived in Columbia for two and a half years and seldom misses any elections.
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Locals react Biden says U.S. delivered ‘a clear victory’ Henry

to Biden’s
election
BY SKYLAR LAIRD,
ADAM JACKSON
AND MARK OSSOLINSKI
news@columbiamissourian.com
Cheers erupted Saturday
throughout downtown Colum-
bia as a small white car with a
giant cutout of President-elect
Joe Biden’s face sticking out
of its sunroof drove through
the streets.
Media outlets projected
Biden as the 46th president
Saturday morning after his
victory in Pennsylvania put
him over the 270 electoral
votes needed to win the White
House. Biden supporters
in Columbia were relieved,
while Trump supporters were
upset. All agreed, however,
that nothing was over just yet.
The election formally
continues as states tally the
last of their ballots. Trump’s
Please see REACTION,
Page 6A
BY JONATHAN LEMIRE,
ZEKE MILLER
AND WILL WEISSERT
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Dem-
ocrat Joe Biden defeated
President Donald Trump
to become the 46th presi-
dent of the U.S. on Satur-
day and offered himself to
the nation as a leader who
“seeks not to divide, but to
unify” a country gripped
by a historic pandemic
and a confluence of eco-
nomic and social turmoil.
“I sought this office
to restore the soul of
America,” Biden said
in a prime-time victory
speech not far from his
Delaware home, “and to
make America respected
around the world again
and to unite us here at
home.”
Biden crossed the win-
ning threshold of 270
Electoral College votes
with a win in Pennsyl-
vania. His victory came
after more than three
days of uncertainty as
election officials sorted
ANDREW HARNIK/The Associated Press
Vice President-elect Kamala Harris and President-elect Joe Biden
greet the crowd from the stage Saturday in Wilmington, Del.
through a surge of mail-in
votes that delayed process-
ing.
Trump refused to con-
cede, threatening further
legal action on ballot
counting. But Biden used
his acceptance speech as
an olive branch to those
who did not vote for him,
telling Trump voters that
he understood their dis-
appointment but adding,
“Let’s give each other a
chance.”
“It’s time to put away the
harsh rhetoric, to lower
the temperature, to see
each other again, to listen
to each other again, to
make progress, we must
stop treating our oppo-
nents as our enemy,” he
said. “We are not enemies.
Kirklin gets
We are Americans.”
Biden, 77, staked his
candidacy less on any
overdue
recognition
distinctive political ideol-
ogy than on galvanizing a
broad coalition of voters
around the notion that
BY DREW HOFBAUER
Trump posed an existen-
tial threat to American news@columbiamissourian.com
democracy. The strate-
Born enslaved, Henry
gy, as well as an appeal
Kirklin became one of the
to Americans fatigued
best-known plant authorities
by Trump’s disruptions
of his era.
and wanting a return to
In time, he earned an
a more traditional pres-
enduring reputation as a
idency, proved effective
gardener, entrepreneur, inter-
and resulted in pivotal
nationally recognized horti-
victories in Michigan and
culturist and perhaps the first
Wisconsin as well as Penn-
Black instructor at MU.
sylvania, onetime Dem-
When he died in 1938, he
ocratic bastions that had
flipped to Trump in 2016. was buried in the Columbia
Biden’s victory was a Cemetery, where his grave
repudiation of Trump’s remained unmarked for 82
years. Until this week.
divisive leadership and
the president-elect now During a celebration Fri-
day, the long-awaited mark-
inherits a deeply polarized
nation grappling with er was placed on Kirklin’s
grave by his admirers from
foundational questions
of racial justice and eco- the Boone County Historical
Society; Columbia Center for
Please see BIDEN, Urban Agriculture; Friends of
Page 4A the Historic Columbia Cem-
etery; Sharp End Heritage
Committee; and MU College
of Agriculture, Food and

County dashboard states ‘no issues,’

TODAY’S WEATHER Please see KIRKLIN, Page 3A
SUNNY
74/61

INDEX
Abby10B
despite COVID-19 inpatient increases
Classifieds8B BY KATHERINE REED
Obituaries2A news@columbiamissourian.com
Opinion7A
People who’ve been watch-
Sports1B
ing Boone County’s COVID-
Sudoku9B
19 dashboard during the pan-
TV schedule 10B
demic have seen the “hospital
situation” stay green. As in,
it’s a go. Nothing to see here,
Our 113th year/#38 folks.
2 sections For all of the metrics —
20 pages floor, ICU and step-down
beds, PPE, staffing, blood
products and ventilator avail-
ability — the message has
been, “no issues.”
Yet for months, and espe-
6 54051 90850 3 cially in the past few weeks,
the number of inpatients in
Boone County hospitals has
risen. A number that had just
barely broken into double
digits in late spring has now
passed 100.
A major contributor has
been the increase in infec-
tions in rural counties,
including several around
Boone where there are no
mask mandates and no social
distancing rules.
To better reflect the actual
situation in the hospitals —
Truman Veterans’ Hospital,
Boone Hospital Center and
University Hospital — med-
ical directors are talking to
Columbia/Boone County Pub-
lic Health and Human Ser-
vices to come up with metrics
that more accurately indicate
the capacity for patients in
the hospitals.
“We were hearing that the
situation in the hospitals is
worse than what our metrics
would indicate,” said Health
Department Assistant Direc- STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF MISSOURI
Henry Kirklin stands in his garden
tor Scott Clardy.
with his grandson, Lorenzo Robert
“We have hospitals that are
going on diversion at differ- Kirklin, in about 1914, according
to the Friends of the Historic
Please see COVID, Page 3A Columbia Cemetery.
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WEATHER
More elementary schools to return to remote learning
BY CEY’NA S SMITH
news@columbiamissourian.com
Locust Street Expressive
Arts Elementary School and
Cedar Ridge Elementary
SUNDAY’S School are the latest schools
FORECAST: to return to remote instruc-
tion because of student
HIGH 74° LOW 61° illness and staffing issues
related to the pandemic as of
Mostly sunny and warm. Wednesday.
In the past week, seven
Sunrise 6:44 a.m. Columbia Public Schools
Sunset 5:01 p.m. have transitioned back to
virtual learning.
MONDAY Students at West Bou-
High 76° Low 61° levard, Ridgeway, Derby
Mostly sunny, with a 30% chance Ridge and Alpha Hart Lewis
of rain overnight. elementary schools and the
preschool classrooms at
TUESDAY the Center for Early Learn-
High 65° Low 33° ing-North have all switched
Rain likely, with temperatures back to learning remotely
dropping. for a limited period of time.
Each school transitioned to
WEDNESDAY remote learning because of
High 55° Low 35° staffing shortages because
Sunny and cool. of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Both Locust Street
Expressive Arts Elementary
Data for NOV. 7, 2020
and Cedar Ridge Elementa-
ry schools have been shar-
HIGH LOW ing the Cedar Ridge school
74° 47° building because of con-
58° Normal 39° struction at Locust Street
Expressive Arts.
83° Record 5°
(1915) (1991)
40° Year ago 22°
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Cedar Ridge Elementary
School will learn virtually
Monday through Wednesday
to allow for cleaning of the
building. Cedar Ridge students
are expected to return for
in-person learning Thursday.
Locust Street Expressive
Arts Elementary School will
transition from in-person
learning to virtual learning
beginning Monday. Students
are expected to return for
in-person learning Nov. 17.
West Boulevard, Derby
Ridge and Alpha Hart Lewis
students can report back Nov.
17, while preschool students
at the Center for Early Learn-
ing-North can return Nov. 19.
The date of return for Ridge-
way students is Thursday.
As of Saturday, 23 district
employees are currently iso-
lating after testing positive
for COVID-19, and 124 are in
quarantine after reporting
close contacts, according to
the district tracker.
While the superintendent
and district administrators
can make decisions for short-
term closures, the Columbia
School Board makes the deci-
sion to return to full in-per-
son classes or full virtual
education.
Parents scramble after schools abruptly go virtual
BY PILI SWANSON
news@columbiamissourian.com
Seven elementary schools
in Columbia transitioned
to remote learning in the
past week because of
COVID-19-related staffing
issues.
That has caused parents
to scramble to make alter-
native plans for themselves
and their children. While
they understand the need
for schools to remain safe,
it can be jarring to their
schedules.
Megan Weirich, parent
to fifth and second grade
students at West Boulevard
Elementary School, always
thought her children would
be learning virtually at
some point during the school
year.
“But I didn’t expect it to
be so soon, and for it to be
the whole school,” she said.
“I do understand that it was
because of staffing issues,
which is a problem.”
West Boulevard Elementa-
ry School switched to virtual
education Thursday after
Ridgeway, Derby Ridge
and Alpha Hart elementary
schools made the transition
Clark Edgar Dalton,
Sept. 28, 1933 — Nov. 5, 2020
Clark Edgar Dalton, 87, of
Columbia died Nov. 5, 2020, at
University Hospital.
He was born Sept. 28, 1933,
in Leadington, Missouri, to
Carl and Viola (Dillard) Dalton.
Clark graduated from high
school in Esther, Missouri,
and enlisted in the U.S. Army,
where he
served his
country in
the Kore-
an War.
He mar-
ried the
love of his
life, Alleta
Wampler,
Feb. 18,
1956, in
CLARK DALTON‌ Flat River,
Missouri.
Clark was employed as a
salesman for Singer Sewing
Machines, Ford Motor Com-
pany and retired from Plaza
Tire, where he had worked
for over 30 years. He even
continued to work part time
after retirement. Clark was a
member of Dripping Springs
Christian Church.
His nickname was “Cow-
boy” because of his love for
horses. He loved the Lord,
horses, trail rides, singing
West Boulevard Elementary School is one of seven schools that transitioned to remote learning during the past
week because of COVID-19-related staffing issues.
earlier in the week. Preschool
classrooms at the Center for
Early Learning-North also
pivoted to remote learning.
On Friday, the school dis-
trict announced that Locust
Street Expressive Arts and
Cedar Ridge elementary
schools would be the latest to
return to remote instruction.
The change is expected to
be short term, according to
the district, with students
able to return to their class-
rooms later this month.
West Boulevard, Derby
Ridge, Alpha Hart Lewis and
Locust Street Expressive Arts
students are due to return
Nov. 17, while preschool stu-
dents at the Center for Early
Learning-North may return
Nov. 19. The expected return
date for Ridgeway and Cedar
Ridge students is Thursday.
Weirich, a stay-at-home
mom, said the situation
wasn’t the strain on her fami-
ly it might be for others. Still,
she said her children were
upset about the news.
“When I went to pick them
up from school yesterday,
they opened the car and the
first thing they said was
‘Zoom,’’’ Weirich said.
FAMILY SUBMITTED OBITUARIES
and, most of all, family. He
was everyone’s favorite
uncle. Clark was also one of
the largest fundraisers for
St. Jude Children’s Research
Hospital.
Left behind to miss him
is his wife, Alleta Dalton, of
the home; daughters Robin
(Russell) Shay and Renatta
Jeffries, all of Columbia; sis-
ter Betty Neff of Park Hills;
brother Garry Dalton of
Deloge; grandchildren Jere-
my, Beth Ann, Aimee, Jenny,
Jessica, Kristen, Amanda
and Ryan; 15 great grand-
children; and many nieces,
nephews and other family
members. He was preced-
ed in death by his parents;
daughter Sherry Dalton;
brothers Leroy Dalton and
Delmar Dalton; brother-in-
law Don Neff; and son-in-law
Allen Jeffries.
Services will be held pri-
vately for the family. A Cel-
ebration of Life will be held
at a later date.
Memorials may be made in
his honor to Dripping Springs
Christian Church or St. Jude
Children’s Research Hospital.
Arrangements are under
the direction of Nilson
Funeral Home.
COLUMBIA MISSOURIAN
“They, of course, were not
happy that they would be
back home again.”
One of Weirich’s children
prefers a set routine, and the
back and forth is difficult for
him, she said.
She had an inkling of the
change Thursday, she said,
after a comment was made by
one of her children’s teachers.
That afternoon she received
an email announcement.
“It was a half day’s notice
that the next morning they
wouldn’t be at school but at
home,” she said.
Another West Boulevard
parent, Katie Barnes, has two
children, one in kindergarten
and another in second grade.
Barnes, a seasonal wedding
photographer, has been work-
ing from home.
“I think already having
done a bunch of online, it is
not such a drastic shift to go
back to it now,” Barnes said.
“(My children) are doing well
because of their teachers.
The teachers have been phe-
nomenal at dealing with the
back and forth.”
Barnes said both her chil-
dren’s teachers had already
touched base with her.
Alex Edward Palmer Sr.,
Nov. 2, 1942 — Nov. 2, 2020
Alex Edward Palmer Sr.,
78, of Columbia died Nov. 2,
2020, at his home.
A graveside service will
be conducted 2 p.m. Thurs-
day, Nov. 12 at Memorial
Park Cemetery.
Alex was born Nov. 2,
1942, in Warrensburg, the
son of
John
Stewart
and Lula
Eaton
Stewart,
who
both
preced-
ed him
in death.
ALEX PALMER‌
At a
young
age, Alex was blessed with a
stepfather, Rienzo Palmer.
Alex was united in mar-
riage to Harri Anne Palmer,
who preceded him in death
in 1996.
Alex was a long term resi-
dent of Columbia, attending
Hickman High School. After
graduation, he joined the
U.S. Air Force. Later he
would work in construction,
where he helped construct
many large commercial
Armin William Kable Jr.,
Nov. 10, 1930 — Nov. 4, 2020
Armin William Kable Jr.,
89, of Sturgeon died Wednes-
day, Nov. 4, 2020. He was
born Nov. 10, 1930. There will
be no services.
He was preceded in death
by a son, Robert Kable, in
2019.
Survivors include one
ERIN QUINN/Missourian
“First and foremost, my
concern is for the health
and safety for our kids, our
teachers and our community,”
Barnes said. “Even before the
decision was announced, my
husband and I were watching
the cases go up.”
Barnes said she had antici-
pated going remote based on
the district’s 14-day tracker
numbers Wednesday. She said
she was surprised not to get
an email until Thursday.
Shannyn North, whose son
attends Paxton Keeley Ele-
mentary, said she believes
the district should fully
switch to remote learning.
“We should all have seen
this was coming in the past
week,” she said.
As of Saturday evening, a
total of 23 district employees
were isolating after testing
positive for COVID-19, and
124 have been quarantined
after reporting close con-
tacts, according to the dis-
trict tracker. Of those district
employees, 10 had tested pos-
itive, and 60 were in quaran-
tine from elementary schools.
The Columbia School Board
is scheduled to meet for its
regular session Monday.
buildings in mid-Missouri.
Alex also worked as a
millwright. He worked for
Ameren Missouri at the
nuclear power plant in reform
on the refueling team. He
spent many years working at
the MU Power Plant, as well.
He had many talents and
used them to earn a living, as
well as help his friends and
family in many ways.
In his younger days, he
enjoyed scuba diving and rid-
ing motorcycles. In his later
years, he enjoyed the time
he spent with his friends and
family. He also loved his four-
legged friends.
Alex is survived by his chil-
dren, Pam Kroeger (Steve)
and Alex Palmer (Linda);
brother Rienzo Palmer Jr;
four grandchildren, Nick
Kroeger (Amy), Sam Kroeger
(Hayley), Dakota Palmer,
Arrianna Palmer; and a host
of cousins, nieces and neph-
ews.
In addition to his parents
and wife, Alex was preceded
in death by sister Gladman
Palmer and his brother Rich-
ard Palmer.
In lieu of flowers memo-
rials may be made to the
donor’s choice.
son, John Kable; grandson
Ian (wife Rachel) Kable;
great-grandson Logan; and
great-granddaughter Gene-
vieve.
Online condolences may be
left for the family at nilsonfu-
neralhome.com.
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One of the first Black MU instructors receives headstone

KIRKLIN from Page 1A
Natural Resources.
They had started a GoFund-
Me campaign in July 2019
that eventually raised $8,000
from at least 100 donors.
During the ceremony,
James Whitt, chairman of the
Sharp End Heritage Commit-
tee, noted Kirklin’s influence
in horticulture and agricul-
ture within the context of his
background and education.
“Kirklin believed that no
matter what your educational
level was, based on your pas-
sion, from the work that you
want to do, you can be suc-
cessful,” he said.
Chris Campbell, executive
director of the Boone County
Historical Society, appealed
to the community to continue
recognizing Kirklin’s pioneer-
ing achievements.
“Let us all commit to doing
more in this community,” he
said. “Keep Henry Kirklin’s
legacy alive.”
Kirklin was born to a slave
mother in 1858 on the old
James Bowling farm, 9 miles
east of Columbia. After his
mother “fetched” him out of
slavery in 1863, he spent the
rest of his life in Columbia as
a free man.
He was introduced to plants
as a boy, working for J.B.
Douglas, a local nurseryman,
for 30 cents a day. The next
year he earned 40 cents,
then 75 cents and finally $1 a outdoors. He often described an acre on what was then
day six years later.
For several years, he
worked under two German
gardeners who were experts
in their field but severe task- charge of a division of the
masters. At night, Kirklin
would return after supper to
review work he was afraid
wouldn’t meet their approval. dreds of students learned the and seedlings to Columbia
Leaving that job at age
23, he became a greenhouse
supervisor for the MU Hor-
ticulture Department, where called his knowledge of nurs- door with baskets on each
Nancy Thomas speaks to the public at the Henry Kirklin memorial Friday in Columbia. Kirklin, a former slave, was the first Black instructor at MU.
his ability was quickly recog- ery work “unlimited.”
nized and he began to teach In 1880, Kirklin married
lab classes. Martha “Mattie” Moss, and
This was when the univer- they had two daughters and
sity was segregated, so Kirk- raised two nieces. Three
lin had to teach plant propa- years after they married,
gation to his white students the Kirklins purchased half
himself as “the only negro the outskirts of Columbia to
who ever taught at the Uni- start a commercial fruit and
versity of Missouri.” vegetable farm.
Eventually, he was put in Their house on West Swit-
zler Street became home to
Horticultural Experiment Kirklin’s prospering garden-
Station at the university. ing business, where he grew
Under his supervision, hun- and sold fruits, vegetables
art of pruning and grafting. residents.
A clipping from the Columbia He pushed a wheelbarrow
Evening Missourian in 1919 or peddled produce door-to-
Rodney Sheley reacts as he listens
to the other speakers present at
the Henry Kirklin memorial on
Friday. Sheley, an actor, portrayed
Kirklin as a character at the History ried daughter. The next year,
Comes Alive performance last year. he built another house from
PHOTOS BY BLYTHE DORRIAN/Missourian
arm, eventually crossing
town in a horse-drawn wagon.
“Uncle Henry,” as he was
known, recorded every trans-
action and built a reputation
for fair dealing with his
meticulous book-keeping.
His garden production was
legendary. One year, he plant-
ed 2,300 lettuce heads; 700
cabbage plants; up to 3,000
sweet potato plants; rows of
beets, spring onions, radishes,
sweet and hot pepper plants;
and tomatoes. Another year,
he raised 14,000 quarts of
strawberries on a three-quar-
ter acre plot, earning enough
to build a house for one mar-
his strawberry proceeds for
the second daughter.
Kirklin took pride in the
quality of his plants. “There’s
no humbuggery here,” he said
in an article published in the
Missourian.
He shrewdly saved seeds
and selected only the best to
start the next crop. During
the winter, he studied seed
catalogs and gardening books
to learn the newest methods.
One was overhead spray irri-
gation, which he adapted for
his property in Columbia.
His ingenuity attracted
the attention of farm journal
editors all over the country,
and he was often compared
to Booker T. Washington, the
Missourian reported.
William L. Nelson, a fel-
low farmer and state politi-
cian serving several terms
between 1919 and 1943, said
this about Kirklin: “While
denied the privilege of much
book learning, Henry Kirklin
is yet an educated man. The
school in which he was edu-
cated gives no diplomas, but
its course is thorough and the
work exacting.”
Friday afternoon, Billy
Polansky, executive director
of the Columbia Center for
Urban Agriculture, described
Kirklin’s gardening ability
as unparalleled. “I don’t want
this headstone to mark the
end of Mr. Kirklin’s recog-
nition in this community,”
Polansky said. “I want to see
his name on street signs and
on buildings.”
The center has started the
Henry Kirklin Black Farmer
Scholarship Fund to support
aspiring farmers who want to
start their own businesses.
“I want kids to learn about
Henry Kirklin in school,”
Polansky said, “and I want
this headstone to be the begin-
ning of a wave of recognition
of his accomplishments.”

Despite no immediate danger, health officials worry about beds

COVID from Page 1A
“We have hospitals that are going on diver-
MU HEALTH CARE'S
sion at different times of the day, taking
patients from other places,” Clardy said.
CATCHMENT AREA
According to University Hospital, a diversion MU Health Care doesn’t just serve residents of
is when it cannot accept a patient from another Boone County, but also people living in
facility, either because the hospital doesn’t have mid-Missouri and outside the state.
the specific kind of bed available at the specific Counties whose residents
time the patient needs it, or because the patient use MU Health Care’s
requires a service the hospital can’t provide, catchment area
such as a lung or heart transplant. Non use counties
Diversions have occurred on and off for sev- Boone County
eral years at MU Health Care, depending upon Use counties
bed availability to maintain flexibility to take
care of patients with urgent, life-threatening
illnesses, said Dr. Stevan Whitt, chief clinical
officer for MU Health Care and a critical care
and infectious diseases specialist.
What is needed on the county’s COVID-19
dashboard is something that conveys: “Look,
folks, hospitals are getting full,” Whitt said. “If
there’s something you can do right now, please Source: MU Health Care RALPH CHAPOCO/Missourian
do it, to keep down the numbers of COVID-19
down.”
It could be more than hospitals can bear. So
‘We’re worried’ far, the signs from the southern hemisphere are
Missouri is one of 13 states in the U.S. that that it might not be a terrible year for flu, said
doesn’t have a statewide mask mandate. Boone Ted Willmore, an emergency physician at St.
County has no such mandate, while the city of Mary’s Hospital in Jefferson City.
Columbia does, along with several other regu- But much depends on whether people will
lations designed to reduce infections and, ulti- wear masks.
mately, hospitalizations and deaths. As it is, he said, “bed holds” are getting com-
The impact of growing case numbers around mon when he’s looking for somewhere to send
the county on local hospitals and everyone who a patient for intensive care in Boone County.
works in them is growing. A “bed hold” means there’s no available bed of
“We’re worried,” Whitt said. “There’s nobody the type needed to transfer a patient. These can
not getting care right now, and there’s no happen in a bad seasonal flu year, and often do.
immediate danger (of that happening).” “Even with just regular flu, probably every
But, Whitt said, the hospital is being contact- other year ... it can be hard to find a bed any-
ed by health care facilities “farther away than where,” Willmore said.
normal.” He and his colleagues’ biggest concern right
The hospital has always taken patients from now is what the holidays will bring. People
outside the state. Plus, its “catchment area” want to go see their families for Thanksgiving
includes an hourglass-shaped region of central and Christmas. But, he said: “Someone there
Missouri not served by Springfield, Kansas might have COVID and not know it and spread
City or St. Louis hospitals. The cities all have it, and that’s how it happens.”
robust health care systems, Whitt noted. Whitt said he’s been encouraged by how
(tncms-asset)5e534ca0-2077-11eb-b107-d355c- many people have already been immunized for
2c8af70[1](/tncms-asset) the flu.
Not so much in more rural counties, some no MU Health Care administered roughly
longer served by a hospital. Forty-four of the 33,000 shots between July 1, 2019, and June
state’s 114 counties do not have a hospital. 30, 2020. Since July 1 this year, the system has
Alongside that problem, county health direc- given 34,500 flu shots — already exceeding last
tors in Missouri are not required to have a med- year’s total.
ical background, Whitt said. So they may lack That’s the best uptake in the flu shot the hos-
the “clinical knowledge” a medically trained pital has seen in a decade, Whitt said, adding
public health director leans on in decision-mak- that MU students were lined up this week to
ing and working on a coordinated response. get the shot.
MU Health Care has tried to get the mes- He urged people to keep taking precautions
sage out beyond the county’s borders through because we have a long way to go. “People
public service announcements and via social are whupped,” he said. “And we’re not even
media to try to raise awareness about the through the worst part of this.”
importance of mask-wearing, hand-washing It’s not just the doctors and nurses, he said;
and social distancing. it’s housekeepers, secretaries and nutrition
“I know the message has been delivered and workers. MU Health Care is grateful for what
heard,” Whitt said. “And not always listened to.” Boone County residents are doing to help avert
a crisis, Whitt said.
Meanwhile, the flu Clardy said he hoped the new hospital
The looming worry, as Missouri set a trou- status tab would be active next week so the
bling record Thursday of 1,774 COVID-19 inpa- Health Department can share the informa-
tients, is the impact a bad flu season could have. tion with the public.
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2020 ELECTION
Harris pays tribute Biden’s goal:
to Black women in ‘Restore the soul
first speech as VP of America’
BY KATHLEEN RONAYNE BIDEN from Page 1A
The Associated Press
nomic fairness while in the grips of a virus that
Vice President-elect Kamala Harris on Sat- has killed more than 236,000 Americans and
urday paid tribute to the women, particularly reshaped the norms of everyday life.
Black women, whose shoulders she stands on Kamala Harris made history as the first
as she shatters barriers that have kept mostly Black woman to become vice president, an
white men entrenched at the highest levels of achievement that comes as the U.S. faces a
American politics for more than two centuries. reckoning on racial justice. The California
JULIO CORTEZ/The Associated Press MARK MULLIGAN/The Associated Press JOHN LOCHER/The Associated Press
“Tonight, I reflect on their struggle, their senator, who is also the first person of South
Supporters of incumbent President Donald Trump unfurl an enormous American flag Ray Brackens dances during a celebratory rally and count the vote event hosted by Victoria Giampa, a supporter of Donald Trump, waves a Trump flag to protest the
determination and the strength of their vision to Asian descent elected to the vice presidency,
Saturday outside the State Capitol in Harrisburg, Pa. local activist groups Saturday at Emancipation Park in Houston. Nevada vote in front of Clark County Election Department on Thursday in Las Vegas.
see what can be unburdened by what has been,” will become the highest-ranking woman ever to
Harris said, wearing a white suit in tribute to serve in government, four years after Trump
women’s suffrage. President-elect Joe Biden had defeated Hillary Clinton.
the character and audacity “to break one of the Harris introduced Biden at their evening
most substantial barriers that exists in our coun- victory celebration as “a president for all Amer-
try, and select a woman and his vice president,” icans” who would look to bridge a nation riven
she added. with partisanship and she nodded to the historic
“While I may be the first woman in this office, nature of her ascension to the vice presidency.
I will not be the last,” Harris said in her first “Dream with ambition, lead with conviction
post-election address to the nation. and see yourselves in a way that others may not
simply because they’ve never seen it before,”
Harris told Americans. “You chose hope and
unity, decency, science and, yes, truth ... you
ushered in a new day for America.”
After he spoke, the cars at the drive-in rally
— a pandemic campaign invention — began
to honk their horns and a fireworks display lit
up the night sky. Biden was on track to win the
national popular vote by more than 4 million, a
margin that could grow as ballots continue to be
counted.
Nonetheless, Trump was not giving up.
Departing from longstanding democratic
tradition and signaling a potentially turbulent
transfer of power, he issued a combative state-
ment saying his campaign would take unspec-
ified legal actions. And he followed up with a
bombastic, all-caps tweet in which he falsely
declared, “I WON THE ELECTION, GOT
ANDREW HARNIK/The Associated Press 71,000,000 LEGAL VOTES.” Twitter immediate-
Vice President-elect Kamala Harris smiles before speaking Saturday in ly flagged it as misleading.
Wilmington, Del. She had been a rising star in Democratic politics. Trump has pointed to delays in processing the
The 56-year-old California senator, also the vote in some states to allege with no evidence
that there was fraud and to argue that his rival
first person of South Asian descent elected to the
was trying to seize power — an extraordinary
vice presidency, represents the multiculturalism
charge by a sitting president trying to sow doubt
that defines America but is largely absent from
about a bedrock democratic process.
Washington’s power centers. Her Black identity
has allowed her to speak in personal terms in
a year of reckoning over police brutality and
systemic racism. As the highest-ranking woman
ever elected in American government, her victo-
ry gives hope to women who were devastated by
Hillary Clinton’s defeat four years ago.
Harris told little children to “dream with
ambition, lead with conviction, and see your-
selves in a way that others may not simply
because they’re never seen it before.” After
Biden’s speech, she was joined on stage by her
family, including her two grandnieces who wore
white dresses.
A rising star in Democratic politics for much
of the last two decades, Harris served as San
Francisco’s district attorney and California’s
attorney general before becoming a U.S. sena-
tor. After she ended her own 2020 Democratic
presidential campaign, Joe Biden tapped her as ALEX BRANDON/The Associated Press
his running mate. They will be sworn in as pres- People gathered in Black Lives Matter Plaza react to the presidential race
ident and vice president on Jan. 20. being called in Joe Biden’s favor Saturday in Washington.
Biden’s running mate selection carried added
significance because he will be the oldest presi- Trump is the first incumbent president to lose
dent ever inaugurated, at 78, and hasn’t commit- reelection since Republican George H.W. Bush
ted to seeking a second term in 2024. in 1992.
Harris often framed her candidacy as part of He was golfing at his Virginia country club
the legacy of pioneering Black women who came when he lost the race. He stayed out for hours,
REBECCA BLACKWELL/The Associated Press
before her, including educator Mary McLeod stopping to congratulate a bride as he left, and
Rolf Sturm, left, and Leese Walker perform “Delivering democracy,” a street theater performance outside the Pennsylvania Convention Center where votes are being counted Friday in Philadelphia. Pennsylvania was called for former Vice President Joe Biden on Saturday. his motorcade returned to the White House to a
Bethune, civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer
and Rep. Shirley Chisholm, the first Black candi- cacophony of shouts, taunts and unfriendly hand
date to seek a major party’s presidential nomina- gestures.

Transition challenges await Biden ‘This isn’t over,’ Trump supporters say
tion, in 1972. In Wilmington, Delaware, near the stage that,
She paid tribute to Black women “who are too until Saturday night, had stood empty since
it was erected to celebrate on Election Night,
often overlooked but so often prove they are the
people cheered and pumped their fists as the
backbone of our democracy.”
news that the presidential race had been called
Despite the excitement surrounding Harris, for the state’s former senator arrived on their
she and Biden face steep challenges, including a BY WILL WEISSERT, ZEKE equally vast institutional knowl- on Jan. 20 will be building a BY ANITA SNOW, DAVID Biden held a slim lead in Geor- icans have a voice in the elec-
MILLER, ALEXANDRA JAFFE cellphones.
pandemic that has taken a disproportionate toll edge. staff and assembling the pieces GOLDMAN AND LISA MARIE PANE gia, which hasn’t gone for a tion.”
AND AAMER MADHANI On the nearby water, two men in a kayak
on people of color, and a series of police killings “The Biden team is the most needed to tackle the coronavirus The Associated Press Democrat since 1992. He planned to make the
The Associated Press yelled to a couple paddling by in the opposite
of Black Americans that have deepened racial experienced, most prepared, pandemic. Jordan Kelley, a 29-year-old 10-hour trip to Washington next
Chanting “This isn’t over!” direction, “Joe won! They called it!” as people
tensions. Harris’ past work as a prosecutor has WILMINGTON, Del. — Joe most focused transition team Biden is likely to move quickly from Murfreesboro, Tennessee, week to demonstrate on the
and “Stop the steal,” supporters on the shore whooped and hollered. Harris, in
prompted skepticism among progressives and Biden just won the presidency. ever, commensurate with the in announcing Cabinet picks and drove three-plus hours to Atlan- steps of the Supreme Court, workout gear, was shown on video speaking to
top aides central to his pandem- of President Donald Trump where Trump and his lawyers
young voters who are looking to her to back That may turn out to be the easy challenges that Biden will face” protested at state capitols across ta to attend the pro-Trump rally. Biden on the phone, exuberantly telling the pres-
sweeping institutional change over incremental part. ic response, including leaders have vowed to eventually make ident-elect “We did it!”
of the departments of the Trea- the country Saturday, refusing his case.
reforms in policing, drug policy and more. The president-elect already to accept defeat and echoing Across the country, there were parties and
Jessica Byrd, who leads the Movement for was braced to deal with the sury and Health and Human Underscoring the hard feel- prayer. In New York City, spontaneous block
Services, and a National Eco- Trump’s unsubstantiated allega- ings on both sides of the nation’s
Black Lives’ Electoral Justice Project and The worst health crisis the nation tions that the Democrats won by parties broke out. People ran out of their
has seen in more than a century nomic Council director. That’s deep political divide, anti-Trump buildings, banging on pots. They danced and
Frontline, a multiracial coalition effort to gal- fraud.
and the economic havoc it has according to people involved in protesters in Washington booed, high-fived with strangers amid honking horns.
vanize voters, said she plans to engage in the From Atlanta and Tallahassee
wreaked. transition planning who spoke yelled obscenities, shouted “Loser! Among the loudest cheers were those for pass-
rigorous organizing work needed to push Harris to Austin, Bismarck, Boise and
Now, he has to build a govern- on condition of anonymity to Loser!” and gave the finger to ing U.S. Postal Service trucks.
and Biden toward more progressive policies. Phoenix, crowds ranging in size
ment while contending with a discuss private conversations. Trump’s motorcade as the presi- People streamed into Black Lives Matter
“I deeply believe in the power of Black wom- from a few dozen to a few thou- dent returned to the White House
Senate that could stay in GOP Biden’s campaign declined to Plaza near the White House, near where Trump
en’s leadership, even when all of our politics comment. sand — some of them openly from a golf outing Saturday.
don’t align,” Byrd said. “I want us to be com- hands, a House sure to feature had ordered the clearing of protesters in June,
A key member of Biden’s carrying guns — decried the Two signs posted in front
mitted to the idea that representation is exciting fewer Democratic allies and a waving signs and taking cellphone pictures.
public that includes more than inner circle who is thought to be news of Joe Biden’s victory after of Trump’s Washington hotel
and it’s worthy of celebration and also that we more than three suspense-filled In Lansing, Michigan, Trump supporters and
70 million people who would a frontrunner for chief of staff read “Don’t be a sore loser” and Black Lives Matter demonstrators filled the
have millions of Black women who deserve a is Ron Klain, President Barack days of vote-counting put the “Face Reality.”
prefer that President Donald Capitol steps. The lyrics to “Amazing Grace”
fair shot.” Obama’s Ebola response “czar” Democrat over the top. Skir- Contrary to the claims of
Trump keep the job. began to echo through the crowd, and Trump
Harris is the second Black woman elected to There also is the looming during the outbreak of that dis- mishes broke out in some cities. Trump supporters, there has supporters laid their hands on a counter protest-
the Senate. Her colleague, Sen. Cory Booker, question of whether Trump, ease in the U.S. in 2014. In Atlanta, outside the state been no evidence of any serious er, and prayed.
who is also Black, said her very presence makes who has claimed the election Ted Kaufman, who briefly was Capitol in the longtime Repub- vote fraud. And some Repub- Americans showed deep interest in the pres-
the institution “more accessible to more people” was being stolen from him, will REBECCA BLACKWELL/The Associated Press appointed senator after Biden lican stronghold of Georgia, REBECCA BLACKWELL/The Associated Press
lican elected officials around
A demonstrator supports President idential race. A record 103 million voted early
and suggested she would accomplish the same cooperate. Traditionally, the Grace Gardner holds a rose outside the became vice president in 2008, chants of “Lock him up!” rang the country began to distance
Pennsylvania Convention Center Friday. Donald Trump on Friday in Philadelphia. themselves from Trump and this year, opting to avoid waiting in long lines at
with the vice presidency. transition process relies on the is directing the transition. He’s out among an estimated 1,000
polling locations during a pandemic. With count-
Harris was born in 1964 to two parents active outgoing administration working working closely with Jeff Zients, Trump supporters. Others urge him to accept the outcome ing continuing in some states, Biden had already
Jan. 20, said David Marchick, who held various Obama admin- chanted, “This isn’t over! This “There’s election fraud going gracefully.
in the civil rights movement. Shyamala Gopalan, closely with the incoming one, received more than 75 million votes, more than
from India, and Donald Harris, from Jamaica, even if they are from different director of the Center for Pres- istration roles, including acting isn’t over!” and “Fake news!” on here,” said Kelley, claiming A couple of thousand Trump
idential Transition at the non- that voters in Georgia, a state any presidential candidate before him.
met at the University of California, Berkeley, parties. director of the Office of Man- The streets were awash with supporters gathered at the Penn- Trump’s refusal to concede has no legal impli-
then a hotbed of 1960s activism. They divorced A senator for decades and vice partisan Partnership for Public agement and Budget; Yohannes American flags and Trump ban- with a GOP governor and sec- sylvania Capitol in Harrisburg. cations. But it could add to the incoming admin-
when Harris and her sister were girls, and Har- president for eight years, Biden Service. The center advises Abraham, who was an Obama ners. retary of state, had improperly Pennsylvania played a crucial istration’s challenge of bringing the country
ris was raised by her late mother, whom she con- has a deep personal understand- presidential candidates on the senior adviser to the National No immediate violence was counted the ballots to put Biden role in Biden’s victory. together after a bitter election.
siders the most important influence in her life. ing of the workings of govern- transition. Economic Council; and former reported, though at one point, ahead. “Even though I live in About two dozen heavily Biden received congratulations from dozens
“When she came here from India at the age ment, and he’s surrounded by a Their top priority in the 10 Obama White House Communi- police moved to separate Trump Tennessee, I’m an American, armed men, some wearing cam- of world leaders, and his former boss, President
of 19, she maybe didn’t quite imagine this small group of top advisers with weeks before Inauguration Day cations Director Jen Psaki. opponents from supporters. and I want to make sure Amer- ouflage, joined the rally. Barack Obama, saluted him in a statement,
moment. But she believed so deeply in an declaring the nation was “fortunate that Joe’s
America where a moment like this is possible,” got what it takes to be President and already
Harris said Saturday night. carries himself that way.”
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Shakespeare’s Pizza aires Joe Biden speaking for the first time as president-elect Saturday evening in downtown Columbia. In his speech, Biden emphasized nation-wide unity and his plan to “restore the soul of America.”
REACTION from Page 1A
campaign has also began to
request recounts and issue
lawsuits in close swing states,
including Pennsylvania, Mich-
igan and Georgia.
The work also continues
for those fighting for social
equity. Traci Wilson-Kleeka-
mp, president of the nonprofit
Race Matters, Friends, said
the election is “a small frac-
tion of what’s necessary to
realize social equality and
racial equity.”
“I think we need to be bru-
tally honest about America
and what she is and what she
is not,” Wilson-Kleekamp
said. “She is not progress; she
is an illusion of performative
progress undermined repeat-
edly by the past and the pres-
ent. President-elect Biden and
Vice President-elect Kamala
Harris cannot fix it alone. It’s
a huge chasm over the coun-
try that we’ve invested in for
decades, since the beginning.”
She echoed the sentiment
on her Facebook page, add-
ing that she calls the feeling
“painful hope.”
Some people spending the
afternoon downtown were
more optimistic. Mike Davis
said it was “incredibly awe-
some,” and, after spending
three days closely follow-
ing election results, he was
relieved to see Trump would
be leaving office.
“The last four years have
felt like 40 years,” Davis said.
He sat with Amber Seater,
who agreed. She was also
excited for the historic elec-
tion of Vice President Kamala
Harris, who will be the first
woman, first Black person and
first person of South Asian
descent to hold the office.
The two said their big-
gest concern now is getting
through the remainder of
Trump’s presidency, which
lasts until inauguration day
on Jan. 20.
“He just seems unhinged,”
Seater said.
“Now more than ever,”
Davis said.
Stephanie Romero found
out Biden was projected to
win Saturday morning while
working at Starbucks.
Her coworker returned
from a break saying, “Oh, my Harris,” Brown said. “And
God; oh, my God.” Romero
asked what was happening,
and the coworker told her
Biden had won Pennsylvania.
Too busy getting out drinks about the former vice presi-
to realize the significance,
Romero responded, “Okay,
that’s nice.” Once the store
finally calmed a bit, it hit her. Cori Bush in St. Louis.
“I was like, ‘Wait, what?’”
she said. “I started tearing up. choice of candidate, but I’m
I got very emotional.”
She and her roommate, Lily Trump out,” Brekhus said.
Hunter, have been watching
the results come in for days.
Hunter said she lost track of
A supporter of President Donald Trump yells at a passing car whose driver flipped off protesters at the end of the “Stop the Steal” protest Saturday in
Jefferson City. The protests were in response to unfounded claims, made by President Donald Trump, of illegal votes in the 2020 general election.
what day it was, as the whole
week felt like Election Day.
She was also relieved.
“I’m disabled,” Hunter said.
“It’s been hard to be different
and watch the last four years. tion Day. She got the email
I’m also 30, and I’m getting
out of college in a semester . and to argue that his rival
A nd, I mean you could ask
my mother, I’ve been terri-
bly worried about my entire
future. Today, I feel like I’ve
got it.”
A number of Biden support- need to vote.”
ers also gathered Saturday
afternoon outside Daniel
Boone City Building and were results were “sickening” and
waving signs as cars drove
by and honked. Abbie Brown, “uneducated youth.”
a librarian at MU, wore
rainbow face makeup, a blue
dress with red sleeves and a
colonial-style white wig. She
said she was as pro-Biden as
she was anti-Trump.
“I’ve been a fan of Biden’s
for a long time, and I’m very,
very excited about Kamala
just in terms of kindness and
decency and honesty.”
Rachel Brekhus, also an MU
librarian, was less enthusiastic open-minded.
dent, instead praising figures
like Stacey Abrams in Georgia
and Congresswoman-elect
“(Biden) wasn’t my first
mostly just so relieved to have agreed they needed to accept
Bridgette Jackson has been
no stranger to stress this past office, we will pray for that
week. Hers began even before party and that person that
2020 ELECTION
Election Day, as she tried to
vote absentee in her home
state of Pennsylvania.
Her ballot was lost in the
mail, finally arriving on Elec-
Friday that her ballot arrived
in time, as she watched Penn-
sylvania turn from red to blue.
“I was like, ‘I need to vote,’”
she said. “It’s my first time
voting in a presidential thing,
the most important one. I
Not everyone was excited.
Debbie Haley said she felt the
attributed Biden’s win to the
“Uneducated elders,” her
daughter Hannah Haley
retorted.
While Debbie Haley didn’t
pay much attention to the
results as they came in, her
other daughter , Lauren Haley ,
said she was surprised to
see states like Georgia turn
blue. And while she wasn’t
as enthusiastic as Hannah
about a Biden term, she was
“We’ll see what (Biden) has
in mind,” Lauren Haley said.
“I’m sure it’ll be better than ebration with his son, sought
the last four,” Hannah Haley
said.
Although the family was
split in its views, the group
whoever won.
“Like any president in
A supporter yells into a microphone while driving by a rally celebrating
President-elect Joe Biden’s win Saturday in Columbia. The car made
multiple passes by City Hall, honking and yelling in support of Joe Biden.
the Lord will help them do
great things and hope that it
happens,” Debbie Haley said.
“That office deserved respect, Trump protesters
and we’ll give it that.”
Ben Falby, an adult educa-
tion and literacy instructor
who attended the city hall cel-
one thing in particular from a Capitol, Zach Diggs tried
Biden presidency — unity.
“I’m rooting for Biden,”
Falby said. “I am rooting for
him to bring some consensus of the presidential election.
feeling to the country. I don’t
expect everyone to agree, but said. “A lot of people standing
it would be nice to feel like
there aren’t two different
COLUMBIA MISSOURIAN
DANIEL SHULAR/Missourian
OWEN ZILIAK/Missourian
American realities compet-
ing with one another.”
gather at the capital
Planted at the corner of W.
High Street and Broadway
in front of the Missouri State
making sense of his loss as he
watched a few hundred Trump
supporters protest the results
“Looks like a lot of love,” he
up for something.”
A friend of Diggs texted
OWEN ZILIAK/Missourian
him about a “Stop The Steal”
rally Saturday morning in
Jefferson City. He made
the drive from Montgom-
ery County with his father
because “it sounded like fun.”
News of the rally was dis-
seminated online and through
word of mouth over the past
two days, attendees said. An
assortment of grief-stricken
Trump supporters gathered
from several counties across
the state, part of a broader
effort to contest the integrity
of the voting process.
Flowing Trump flags and
signs donning phrases such as
“Stop The Steal,” “Fight For
Your Rights” and “Peaceful
Protest” amplified President
Donald Trump’s refusal to
concede to President-elect Joe
Biden.
Biden’s victory came after
more than three days of
uncertainty, as election offi-
cials sorted through a surge
of mail-in votes that delayed
results. Biden crossed the
winning threshold of 270 elec-
toral votes with a projected
win in Pennsylvania.
Departing from long-stand-
ing democratic tradition and
signaling a potentially turbu-
lent transfer of power, Trump
issued a combative statement
saying his campaign would
take unspecified legal actions,
and he would “not rest until
the American People have
the honest vote count they
deserve and that Democracy
demands.”
He has pointed to delays
in processing the votes in
some states to allege with no
evidence that there was fraud
was trying to seize power —
an extraordinary charge by a
sitting president attempting
to sow doubt about a bedrock
democratic process.
“I don’t know if that’s true,
but sounds like it,” Diggs said.
Protesters eventually drift-
ed toward the governor’s
mansion, chanting “Stop The
Steal” and “Where’s Mike
Parson?” in rhythmic fashion.
Dylan Kelly of Camdenton
said he still “110%” believes
the election was illegitimate.
When asked how to move
forward when Joe Biden takes
the executive seat, he said,
“We go to work. We fight the
peaceful way, the American
way. We do not want violence.
Nobody wants violence.”
The Rev. Jeremy Secrist
stood in front of the St. Peter
Church, across the street
from the Missouri State Cap-
itol. If the church could talk,
he said, it could tell more pro-
test stories than him.
“There are protests here at
the Capitol for a garden-va-
riety (of) reasons,” he said,
“and one of the great things
about our country is if we
don’t like something, we can
protest. I just hope this one’s
safe.”
COLUMBIA MISSOURIAN
WHAT OTHERS SAY
Change needed
in Mo. Health
Department
No one is ever going to mistake the Missouri
Department of Health and Senior Services for
a transparent and public-minded organization.
The latest shadow fell over this agency
following questions about whether it and the
Missouri attorney general’s office have been
forthcoming with doc-
THE JOPLIN uments regarding the
GLOBE launch of medical mari-
juana in Missouri.
The launch was bound
to be controversial, with winners and losers.
A Sarcoxie family, the Callicoats, want to
know more about the decision to deny their
request to grow medical marijuana. To that
end, they have requested records from the
Missouri Department of Health and Senior
Services and are now alleging, as part of their
lawsuit, that the agency and the AG’s office
concealed documents that are subject to the
laws of discovery and that the Missouri Sun-
shine law, which governs open records and
open meetings, was violated.
The Callicoats and their attorneys argue:
“All of this behavior appears aimed at the
same goal: to prevent anyone, especially this
court, from being able to examine the rules
of the medical marijuana program in the full
light of day, to prohibit plaintiffs access to
the public records the defendants are legally
obligated to provide, and to do all they can to
delay the hearing on this matter on October
29, 2020.”
The courts will have to sort this out, but
it appears something was amiss because on
June 15, the Missouri Department of Health
and Senior Services provided the Missouri
House of Representatives with roughly 37,000
records outlining their contacts with people in
the industry, documents that help explain how
decisions were made.
At that same time, the Callicoats and their
attorney were also seeking these kinds of doc-
uments from the department, but they claim
that it took until August to receive only 15,000
records. They had to file a separate Sunshine
request with the House to get the rest of the
documents.
Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt’s
office has called the allegations that his office
and the Missouri Department of Health and
Senior Services withheld records and violat-
ed Missouri’s Sunshine Law “frivolous” and
“baseless.”
We’ll wait and see.
What doesn’t appear to be in dispute,
according to the lawsuit, is that Randall Wil-
liams, director of the Missouri Department of
Health and Senior Services, conducted state
business on his personal cellphone.
The suit alleges, “Dr. Williams further
acknowledged that he never took any steps to
save his text messages discussing state busi-
ness to a state computer, even though that is
expressly required under the Sunshine Law.”
Former Missouri Attorney General Josh
Hawley was unambiguous in his interpreta-
tion of Missouri law: “Text messages should
be treated like, and subject to, the same analy-
sis as emails,” Hawley said in 2017. It does not
matter whether the messages are sent on a
state-owned phone or on a personal cellphone
— texts and phone calls of public officials con-
ducting public business belong to the public.
Given the difficulty the media and the public
have had getting records from the Missouri
Department of Health and Senior Services,
given the agency’s history of being uncooper-
ative and concocting road blocks to releasing
public records, and given the Missouri Depart-
ment of Health and Senior Services was just
fined $12,000 in April for multiple violations of
state law governing open records, we think it’s
time for new public-minded and transparent
leadership at the agency.
This was originally published Oct. 27 in
The Joplin Globe and was distributed by The
Associated Press.
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Ten takeaways from the
Trump-Biden election
W
ith national, statewide and con-
gressional district elections
being decentralized and can-
didate-centric, it is difficult to
find a unifying theme for the 2020 elections.
President Trump has been defeated,
although he has not conceded, but the elec-
tion was not the massive repudiation that
many of his critics expected.
Looking at Senate and House races across
the nation shows that Republicans did rath-
er well and are poised to move on without
Trump.
Here are my top takeaways from the 2020
general election.
1. The presidential race was a bit closer
than I expected, with Joe Biden apparently
winning at least 270 electoral votes, after
counts in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wis-
consin — all states Hillary Clinton lost in
2016. Biden added Georgia to his count but
not North Carolina as I had predicted.
There is a strong sentiment on social media
that “it should not be this close after four
years of presidential chaos.” COVID-19 is
important to people but not to their vote. 2020
looks a lot like other presidential elections.
Biden did a little better than Hillary Clin-
ton in 2016 all across the country, except for
Miami-Dade County, Florida.
2. With all the attention understandably
directed at the Electoral College, it will be
easy to overlook that Biden won the popular
vote with 50.5% to 47.8% for Trump.
That 3-point margin compares well with
victories by George Bush and Barack
Obama in recent years.
The third-party vote totals about 1.5%,
compared to 5% in 2016. Third-party can-
didates’ percentages could have changed
results in Georgia and Nevada.
3. Missouri is a solid red state — no sur-
prise, just confirmation. The single best
indicator that Republicans are strong in
Missouri may be in the 2nd Congressional
District where Republican incumbent Ann
Wagner kept her seat against Democratic
challenger Jill Schupp by 52% to 45%.
This St. Louis County race was watched
nationally to see if white suburban women
would vote Democratic. Evidently, not
enough did.
4. Turnout is up across America but
actual numbers are preliminary. Evidently
the summer of street protests and corpo-
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DAVID WEBBER
The long 2020 campaign is over.
Now it is on to a peaceful and
dignified transition of power.
rate campaigns calling for everyone to
vote had an impact.
The two major party candidates increased
their totals by at least 12%, with votes still
being counted out West. The number of
votes cast in Missouri and in Boone County
increased by more than 7% since the 2016
election.
5. Republicans likely keep control of the
U.S. Senate. A surprise, even with two Sen-
ate seats in Georgia scheduled for a runoff
election Jan. 5, Republicans will likely stay
the majority.
The biggest surprises are Maine Republi-
can Sen. Susan Collins, elected to her fifth
term, and North Carolina Republican Thom
Tillis keeping his Senate seat.
Surprisingly, Republicans picked up eight
seats in the House of Representatives. Sim-
ilarly, while it is still too early to know for
sure, state legislative results are very stable.
Only New Hampshire House and Senate
have flipped party control from Democrat
to Republican.
Overall, 61 legislative chambers are con-
trolled by Republicans and 37 chambers
controlled by Democrats, with the Alaska
House being equally divided.
6. In Missouri, Amendment 1, extending
term limits to other statewide offices, was
defeated; Amendment 3, reversing 2016’s
“I believe that the public journal is a public trust; that all connected with
it are, to the full measure of their responsibility, trustees for the public;
that acceptance of a lesser service than the public service is betrayal of
this trust. I believe that clear thinking and clear statement, accuracy and
fairness are fundamental to good journalism.”
WALTER WILLIAMS, FOUNDING DEAN,
MISSOURI SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM
redistricting and political reforms, passed
with 51%.
Really? I must not be seeing this right. To
me, Amendment 1 was a minor housekeep-
ing issue and Amendment 3’s defeat would
have made it less likely that the foxes are
guarding the chicken coop.
7. Boone County is an oasis of blue in
a sea of red. Republican Fred Parry was
defeated in his attempt for reelection. State
Sen. Caleb Rowden lost Boone County but
won Senate District 19 against Judy Baker
due to Cooper County, pretty much like he
did in 2016.
8. Inconsistent and incorrect polls add to
the chaos and increase cynicism. There are
too many polls that too many media report
because it’s easy reporting. Apparently,
there are “Hidden Trump voters” in many
states, e.g. Florida, that made it hard to esti-
mate actual voter preference.
9. Voting reportedly went well across
the nation. Some of the COVID-19 induced
changes to the voting process, such as easy
early voting and voting by mail, should be
refined and made permanent.
The state-by-state confusion about closing
times, counting deadlines and partial vote
announcements should be standardized via
voluntary cooperation of state secretaries
of state.
10. As expected, President Trump alleges
widespread voter fraud as the cause of his
defeat and threatens legal action. Fox News
and several Republican leaders, including
the Georgia Republican Secretary of State,
are skeptical.
Over the next month, Trump will have to
show real evidence in court, or he will be
dismissed as just a sore loser.
The United States is a centralist, moder-
ate nation. It is a mistake for either party to
try to become a permanent majority with
extreme positions. Voters in 50 states won’t
let that happen.
A common claim we hear every day is
that America is divided and polarized. The
political process is more divided and polar-
ized than are the citizens.
The long 2020 campaign is over. Now it
is on to a peaceful and dignified transition
of power.
David Webber joined the MU Political Sci-
ence Department in 1986 and wrote his first
column for the Missourian in 1994.
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HIGH SCHOOL CROSS COUNTRY

ELIZABETH UNDERWOOD/Missourian
Rock Bridge’s boys cross country team lifts the Class 5 championship trophy Saturday at Gans Creek in Columbia. This was Rock Bridge’s first state championship win since 2011.

Rock Bridge boys cross country wins

state championship; Hauser places 1st
BY WILSON MOORE
sports@columbiamissourian.com
Rock Bridge cross country coach Neal
Blackburn stood in front of his team. The
seven runners who had competed in Saturday
morning’s girls state championship gathered
around him in a semicircle, heads down. The
Bruins had just finished fourth, a banner
day for most teams in a race that featured 16
teams and 165 runners.
But Rock Bridge was disappointed in its
performance, finishing 38 points behind first-
place Lafayette.
Hours later, Blackburn stood with seven dif-
ferent runners, smiling and laughing as they
posed for pictures with the state championship
trophy. The Rock Bridge boys team had just
won its first state championship in nine years.
“It is a swing of emotions, but isn’t that this
whole fall?” Blackburn said. “Used to the emo-
tions changing and swinging. We have said,
‘Don’t be guided by your emotions in these
times.’ You just have to ask yourself if you’re
prepared, and if you believe that you are —
and we believe that our kids were — (then) you
just have to execute.”
Senior Matthew Hauser took home the indi-
vidual state championship and kept the Bruins
ahead of second-place St. Louis University
High. Hauser, Timberland senior Trevor Pei-
mann and Liberty North junior Ethan Lee all
stayed within around a second of each other
before Hauser pulled away in the final kilome-
ter to win by about six seconds.
“In the beginning, it was more sit and kick,
just trying to race smart,” he said. “It’s a
warm day out here, a little bit windy in certain
places. Just trying to race smart, and I think I
did that well. I left myself enough energy to go
for it at the end of the race.
“I started getting nervous as I always do
when I crossed the line, trying to see the rest
of my guys come through. Once I left the
chute, I looked at the scoreboard and saw Rock
Bridge on top. It brought tears to my eyes.”
Rock Bridge sophomore Ian Kemey, racing
for the first time in a month because of quar-
antine, finished seventh. Hauser’s brother,
Andrew, was 12th.
Hickman’s boys came in 10th, led by senior
Cale Littrell’s 28th place finish. It was enough
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H.S. CROSS COUNTRY MISSOURI BASKETBALL

Tolton boys MU basketball’s 2020-21 SEC schedule released amid uncertainty

cross country BY JOEL LORENZI
sports@columbiamissourian.com
host Liberty and Bradley.
Missouri’s final scheduled
noconference game comes against
ri’s highly anticipated showdown
with Illinois has been put on hold
for the time being. The Enterprise
As for conference play, Missouri
will play Arkansas, Ole Miss and
Texas A&M at both home and

wins state
After weeks of uncertainty
TCU in the SEC/Big 12 Challenge, Center has been ruled out as a away, per usual. Tennessee and
during what’s been a difficult
time for college basketball, which won’t be played until Jan. location for this year’s matchup, South Carolina are this season’s
Missouri and the Southeastern 30, when conference play will but the two teams are discussing additional home-and-away oppo-

championship
BY WILSON MOORE
sports@columbiamissourian.com
Behind four top-25 finishes,
Tolton boys cross country won the
Class 2 state championship Friday
afternoon with 92 points. Fresh off
of a second-place finish at the dis-
trict meet, junior Garrett Wilmes
was the Trailblazers’ top performer
with an eighth-place finish. He ran
the 5K in 16 minutes, 51 seconds. It
was the first state championship in
program history.
Senior Drew Freeman finished
18th. Freshman Owen Hartline,
senior Jarod Aholt and sophomore
Luke Robb were 34th, 35th and
38th, respectively, all crossing
the finish line within 10 seconds
of each other. Junior Zane Meyer
and freshman Scott Hargis also
put points on the board for Tolton
after finishing in the top 50 of the
168-runner race.
Steelville took second place, a dis-
tant 16 points behind the Trailblaz-
ers. Lexington finished third.
The win comes one day after the
Tolton girls team finished eighth
in the Class 3 championship. The
event concluded Saturday with
the Rock Bridge boys winning the
Class 5 championship as Hickman
finished 10th. The Rock Bridge
girls finished fourth.
Conference finally managed to
solidify a schedule for the 2020-21
men’s basketball season.
The SEC officially released its
full schedule for all men’s teams
Friday morning. In addition,
Missouri will play five nonconfer-
ence games at this point, four of
which are scheduled to be played
at Mizzou Arena. The Tigers’
season will begin by hosting Oral
Roberts on Nov. 25, and from then
up until conference play begins,
they’ll play at Wichita State and
HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL
Battle uses a strong fourth quarter to beat Rolla
BY EMILY LEIKER
sports@columbiamissourian.com
The Battle football team’s
defense needed a stop.
The Spartans had just regained
the lead against Rolla after trail-
ing by one point heading into the
fourth quarter. The Bulldogs were
looking to convert on third-and-5
at Battle’s 25-yard line and, hope-
fully, answer the Spartans’ touch-
down.
Rolla had already converted
three third downs in the game; on
already be underway.
The Tigers did leave room for
mystery, as a “multi-team event”
is listed as “to be determined” on
their schedule. Missouri has been in
ongoing talks for weeks about being
involved in some type of event out-
side of the SEC/Big 12 Challenge.
Its initial plans of an Orlando, Flor-
ida, bubble fell through some weeks
ago, along with other programs who
hoped to play there.
The annual Braggin’ Rights
game is up in the air, too. Missou-
all three, it had needed less than 5
yards.
But Battle’s defense was locked
in. After the game was tied 7-7 at
halftime, Battle had forced and
recovered a Rolla fumble on the
first play of the third quarter. So
when it needed a fourth-quarter
stop to give its offense some wig-
gle room, it got it — and more.
The ball popped loose for the
fifth time on the night — all while
Rolla was on offense — and Battle
senior Jarrett Lambert’s instincts
the possibility of still hosting the
game in Columbia or Champaign.
According to a team spokesperson,
there is “no word” on what location
the programs are leaning toward
as of Thursday night.
The Tigers won’t play their
annual Border War game against
Kansas, as the effects of COVID-
19 have postponed the start of the
renewed rivalry until the 2021-22
season. The game will mark the
first of six in a series that will
span through the 2026-27 season.
kicked in.
“I just saw the ball bouncing on
the ground,” he said. “I just had to
get there fast and scoop, score for
my team.”
Lambert’s defensive touchdown,
plus the extra point by Vojtech
Drda, gave the Spartans a two-
score lead that they would not look
back from. Battle eventually beat
Rolla 41-21 in the Class 5 District 4
semifinal for a shot at the district
title.
Most of the excitement of Fri-
nents. Missouri will also host LSU,
Vanderbilt, Kentucky and Alabama
and face Mississippi State, Auburn,
Georgia and Florida on the road.
The Tigers will begin confer-
ence play Dec. 30, when they host
Tennessee. Their final conference
game will come March 3, when
the team heads to Gainesville to
take on Florida. Missouri was 7-11
against conference opponents last
season before the coronavirus cut
its season short during the SEC
Tournament.
day’s game happened in the sec-
ond half, specifically the fourth
quarter. After scoring on the sec-
ond down of its first possession of
the game, Battle’s offense didn’t
see the end zone again until Gerry
Marteen Jr. punched in a 3-yarder
with 9:39 to go in the third quarter.
Coach Atiyyah Ellison said most
of the issues in the first half came
from being “a man short.” At half-
time, he emphasized the need for
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SOCCER
Saturday’s games At Memorial Park Golf Course
(8) Florida 44, (5) Georgia 28 Houston, Texas
Mississippi State 24, Vanderbilt 17 Purse: $7 million

improvement on second day Cougars

(7) Texas A&M 48, South Carolina 3 Yardage: 7,432; Par: 72
Arkansas 24, Tennessee 13 Third Round
This upcoming Saturday’s games Sam Burns 68-65-68—201 (-9)
(5) Georgia at Missouri, 11 a.m. (ESPN) Jason Day 67-68-67—202 (-8)

win it late
Vanderbilt at Kentucky, 11 a.m. (SEC Network) Carlos Ortiz 67-68-67—202 (-8)
(7) Texas A&M at Tennessee, 2:30 p.m. Sepp Straka 68-69-66—203 (-7)

of Liz Murphey Fall Classic in close

(ESPN)
(24) Auburn at Mississippi State, 3 p.m. (SEC
Network)
(2) Alabama at LSU, 5 p.m. (CBS)
Arkansas at (8) Florida, 6 p.m. (ESPN)
South Carolina at Mississippi, 6:30 p.m. (SEC
Network)
Dustin Johnson 72-66-66—204 (-6)
Aaron Wise 70-66-69—205 (-5)
Dawie van der Walt 70-66-69—205 (-5)
Hideki Matsuyama 70-70-66—206 (-4)
Michael Thompson 67-72-67—206 (-4)
Shane Lowry 69-69-68—206 (-4)
Tony Finau 69-69-68—206 (-4) BY MISSOURIAN STAFF Jefferson City defeats Match 1 saw the Cougars

game vs.
OTHER TOP 25 Patton Kizzire 69-67-70—206 (-4)
Friday’s games Russell Knox 69-71-67—207 (-3) sports@columbiamissourian.com Blue Springs in take on William Penn (13-7,
(11) Miami 44, N.C. State 11 Adam Long 68-70-69—207 (-3) 8-4 Heart of America Ath-
(9) BYU 51, (21) Boise State 17 Viktor Hovland 70-69-68—207 (-3) Missouri women’s golf Class 4 sectionals
letic Conference), located in

Wm. Penn
Saturday’s games Brooks Koepka 72-70-65—207 (-3) carded the second-lowest The Jefferson City boys
(13) Indiana 28, (23) Michigan 21 J.T. Poston 70-67-70—207 (-3) Oskaloosa, Iowa.
team score of the day Satur- soccer team (24-2) headed
(18) SMU 47, Temple 23 Tyrrell Hatton 71-70-67—208 (-2) Columbia took the first
(20) USC 28, Arizona State 27 Fabian Gomez 70-69-69—208 (-2) day in the second round of into its sectional match-
(22) Texas 17, West Virginia 13 Talor Gooch 68-69-71—208 (-2) set 25-13 in 38 rallies. Wil-
the Liz Murphey Fall Clas- up Saturday against Blue
(25) Liberty 38, Virginia Tech 35 Will Gordon 76-67-65—208 (-2) liam Penn took the next BY WILSON MOORE
(16) Marshall 51, Massachusetts 10 Cameron Tringale 70-70-69—209 (-1) sic in Athens, Georgia. Springs (14-9) having three sets 25-14, 25-22 and
(6) Cincinnati 28, Houston 10 Erik van Rooyen 71-69-69—209 (-1)
Jessica Yuen led the sports@columbiamissourian.com
(19) Oklahoma 62, Kansas 9 Francesco Molinari 70-68-71—209 (-1) only dropped two games 25-19 to come away with the
(14) Oklahoma State 20, Kansas State 18 Maverick McNealy 71-71-67—209 (-1) Tigers, shooting 2-under and geared to make it to 3-1 match victory. Junior A set play coming out of
(17) Iowa State 38, Baylor 31 Scott Brown 69-68-72—209 (-1) par, tying her for 10th the state quarterfinals. Sidney Branson and senior halftime had Joey Spotans-
(1) Clemson 47, (4) Notre Dame 40 (2OT) Corey Conners 69-67-73—209 (-1)
Ohio State 49, Rutgers 27 Russell Henley 69-72-69—210 (E) place, a jump from 19th on In a dominating 4-1 per- Jaqueline Silva led the way ki in position to give
(12) Oregon 35, Stanford 14 Denny McCarthy 69-72-69—210 (E) Friday. Brianne Bolden shot formance, Jefferson City on the attack for the Cou- Columbia (7-2) its first goal
(15) Coastal Carolina 23, South Alabama 6 Nate Lashley 73-68-69—210 (E)
1-under par, while Noelle gars with 11 kills apiece. of the game. Nick Brandt
Purdue at (10) Wisconsin, canceled Padraig Harrington 71-68-71—210 (E) accomplished exactly that.
Harold Varner III 67-71-72—210 (E) Beijer and Sophia Yoemans had a chance right in front
The Jays reeled in goals Silva also had 12 digs and
NFL Mackenzie Hughes 70-72-68—210 (E)
each moved up on the lead- of the net that was deflect-
AMERICAN CONFERENCE Charley Hoffman 71-69-71—211 (+1) from a deflection, a penalty three block assists. ed out of bounds. Shortly
East Brian Stuard 73-69-69—211 (+1) erboard, too. kick, a header and pacing Columbia started off slug-
W L T Pct PF PA Satoshi Kodaira 70-69-72—211 (+1)
“I’m really proud of our after, several Cougars
Buffalo 6 2 0 .750 198 199 Max Homa 74-68-69—211 (+1) the field against the Wild- gishly in Game 2 against arms went up in celebra-
Miami 4 3 0 .571 188 130 Scott Piercy 68-74-69—211 (+1) team and how they stayed cats’ defense. Benedictine (8-8, 5-6). tion thinking they were on
New England 2 5 0 .286 136 167 Graeme McDowell 69-73-69—211 (+1) consistent and mentally The Ravens took the first the board after a near-miss
N.Y. Jets 0 8 0 .000 94 238 Troy Merritt 74-68-69—211 (+1) Blue Springs never let up
tough for the entire round,” set 25-22, while the Cou- in the box.
South John Huh 73-69-69—211 (+1) despite falling behind. The
W L T Pct PF PA Adam Scott 68-69-74—211 (+1) coach Stephanie Priesmeyer gars took the second and “It’s coming,” goalkeeper
Indianapolis 5 2 0 .714 198 136 Jhonattan Vegas 73-70-68—211 (+1) lone goal for the Wildcats
said in a news release. “We third sets 25-21 and 25-20, Liam Gibbs shouted from
Tennessee 5 2 0 .714 208 184 Kramer Hickok 75-68-68—211 (+1) came from senior Dom
Houston 1 6 0 .143 166 217 Austin Cook 71-72-68—211 (+1) have struggled this fall to respectively. the opposite side of the
Jacksonville 1 6 0 .143 154 220 Mark Hubbard 69-71-72—212 (+2) Zubeck. As the season
put an entire round togeth- Benedictine then took the field after a whistle, “Don’t
North Justin Harding 72-68-72—212 (+2) closed out for Zubeck and
W L T Pct PF PA Brian Harman 71-69-72—212 (+2) er, and today felt really fourth set 25-20 to force a stop. Just keep working.”
Jamie Lovemark 73-69-70—212 (+2) the Blue Springs squad, the The near-misses kept up
Pittsburgh 7 0 0 1.000 211 142 good to have everyone in fifth, which Columbia even-
Baltimore 5 2 0 .714 203 132 Zach Johnson 73-70-69—212 (+2) Jays head to the quarters. for the Cougars. Spotans-
Cleveland 5 3 0 .625 206 237 Brandt Snedeker 65-71-76—212 (+2) the mix.” tually won 15-8. Silva kept
Cincinnati 2 5 1 .313 194 214 Greg Chalmers 68-73-72—213 (+3) While the Tigers per- the momentum going with a ki just missed a header.
West Kevin Chappell 70-71-72—213 (+3) Columbia volleyball Nathan Durdle had a run
formed well Saturday, they game-leading 18 kills and 16
W L T Pct PF PA Doc Redman 71-70-73—214 (+4)
only moved up one spot
splits matches at down the sideline on which
Kansas City 7 1 0 .875 253 152 C.T. Pan 72-69-73—214 (+4) digs. Branson also finished
Las Vegas 4 3 0 .571 187 203 Brice Garnett 74-68-72—214 (+4)
overall, to 11th from 12th.. Benedictine College the match with 14 kills.
he couldn’t capitalize as
Denver 3 4 0 .429 147 183 Kristoffer Ventura 69-69-76—214 (+4) the Cougars remained tied
L.A. Chargers 2 5 0 .286 179 185 Scottie Scheffler 67-75-72—214 (+4) After 36 holes, Missouri is Columbia College (10-2, The Cougars will look to
Lanto Griffin 72-71-71—214 (+4)
with William Penn (8-7)
NATIONAL CONFERENCE
Sean O’Hair 71-69-75—215 (+5)
21 strokes over par. 4-0 American Midwestern wrap up the season on a with under 15 minutes left
East
W L T Pct PF PA Chris Kirk 73-68-74—215 (+5) The Tigers will tee off for Conference) traveled Friday high note when they host in the game.
Philadelphia 3 4 1 .438 186 205 Isaiah Salinda 71-69-75—215 (+5) the final time this fall Sun- to Benedictine in Atchison, conference rival Missouri Finally, it came, just as
Washington 2 5 0 .286 133 165 James Hahn 71-71-73—215 (+5)
Dallas 2 6 0 .250 185 266 Scott Harrington 70-72-74—216 (+6) day in the final round of the Kansas, for a pair of non- Baptist (8-1, 4-0) on Thurs- Gibbs forecasted.
N.Y. Giants 1 7 0 .125 145 199 Sungjae Im 74-69-73—216 (+6) tournament. conference matches. day. With 11 minutes remain-
South Erik Barnes 71-72-73—216 (+6)
W L T Pct PF PA Matt Jones 69-72-77—218 (+8) ing, forward Parker Moon
Tampa Bay 6 2 0 .750 247 165 Cameron Davis 67-76-77—220 (+10) worked his way down the
New Orleans 5 2 0 .714 206 197
Carolina 3 5 0 .375 179 193 NASCAR MISSOURI FOOTBALL left sideline and into the
middle of the field. His

Drinkwitz, Tigers add to their 2021

Atlanta 2 6 0 .250 209 224 Cup Series
North Season Finale 500 shot deflected off of a
W L T Pct PF PA SUNDAY WPU defender, changing
Green Bay 6 2 0 .750 253 204
Chicago 5 3 0 .625 161 166
At Phoenix Raceway its direction and sending it

class in form of offensive lineman

Avondale, Ariz.
Detroit 3 4 0 .429 177 206 Lap length: 1 mile past goalie Rafael Martins.
Minnesota 2 5 0 .286 183 214 (Car number in parentheses) Much like their Quaker
West
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1. (9) Chase Elliott, Chevrolet. namesake, the Statesmen
2. (22) Joey Logano, Ford.
Seattle 6 1 0 .857 240 199 3. (2) Brad Keselowski, Ford. never threw a punch back,
Arizona 5 2 0 .714 203 146 4. (11) Denny Hamlin, Toyota. BY ANDERSON KIMBALL ma-Ogar will have four offensive lineman of the and Columbia held on for a
L.A. Rams 5 3 0 .625 193 152
San Francisco 4 5 0 .444 225 207
5. (12) Ryan Blaney, Ford. sports@columbiamissourian.com years of eligibility with season against Georgia next 2-0 win.
6. (88) Alex Bowman, Chevrolet.
Thursday’s score 7. (1) Kurt Busch, Chevrolet. Missouri. Ndoma-Ogar is week. “We stepped up our pres-
Green Bay 34, San Francisco 17 8. (18) Kyle Busch, Toyota. Eliah Drinkwitz added sure a little bit higher,”
Sunday’s games another piece to his 2021 the 20th recruit in Missou- Ndoma-Ogar will also
Baltimore at Indianapolis, noon
9. (14) Clint Bowyer, Ford.
ri’s 2021 class and is its sec- have an opportunity for Columbia coach John Klein
Carolina at Kansas City, noon
10. (10) Aric Almirola, Ford. recruiting class Friday with said. “We were looking for
11. (4) Kevin Harvick, Ford.
transfer offensive lineman ond offensive lineman. early playing time with
Chicago at Tennessee, noon 12. (21) Matt DiBenedetto, Ford. a spark out wide. Parker
Denver at Atlanta, noon
EJ Ndoma-Ogar. Ndoma-Ogar was a three- the possible departures of
Detroit at Minnesota, noon
13. (19) Martin Truex Jr., Toyota. came in and was effective.”
Houston at Jacksonville, noon
14. (20) Erik Jones, Toyota.
Ndoma-Ogar transferred star recruit out of Allen, senior Case Cook and grad- William Penn had one
15. (41) Cole Custer, Ford.
N.Y. Giants at Washington, noon 16. (42) Matt Kenseth, Chevrolet. from Oklahoma after opt- Texas, before committing uate transfer Mike Maiet- final chance to tie the game
Seattle at Buffalo, noon 17. (95) Christopher Bell, Toyota. ing out of the 2020 season to Oklahoma. The 6-foot-3 ti. Redshirt junior Larry minutes later. A cross gave
Las Vegas at L.A. Chargers, 3:05 p.m. 18. (3) Austin Dillon, Chevrolet.
Miami at Arizona, 3:25 p.m. 19. (6) Ryan Newman, Ford. and redshirting after only lineman and will add depth Borom could also leave Luke Andrews an opportu-
Pittsburgh at Dallas, 3:25 p.m. 20. (47) Ricky Stenhouse Jr., Chevrolet. playing four games in 2019. to a unit that has been deci- for the NFL Draft after a nity from the box, but his
New Orleans at Tampa Bay, 7:20 p.m.
Monday’s game
21. (8) Tyler Reddick, Chevrolet.
With the NCAA ruling that mated with injuries and opt- strong start to the season shot sailed high. Erik Rajoy
22. (13) Ty Dillon, Chevrolet.
New England at N.Y. Jets, 7:15 p.m. 23. (43) Bubba Wallace, Chevrolet. players won’t lose a year outs this season. Missouri before a lower leg injury provided the dagger for
Open: Cincinnati, Cleveland, L.A. Rams, Philadelphia Columbia on the next pos-
24. (37) Ryan Preece, Chevrolet. of eligibility in 2020, Ndo- will play its ninth different sidelined him.
MLS
25. (24) William Byron, Chevrolet. session with his first goal
26. (48) Jimmie Johnson, Chevrolet.
EASTERN CONFERENCE 27. (38) John Hunter Nemechek, Ford. of the season, capitalizing
COLUMBIA COLLEGE CROSS COUNTRY
W L T Pts PPG GF GA
x-Philadelphia 13 4 5 44 2.0 42 20
28. (32) Corey LaJoie, Ford. from close range off of a
29. (34) Michael McDowell, Ford. free kick.
x-Toronto FC 13 4 5 44 2.0 32 24

Both CC cross country teams in

30. (96) Daniel Suarez, Toyota.
x-Orlando City 11 3 8 41 1.86 38 22 31. (17) Chris Buescher, Ford. “That was really smart of
x-Columbus 11 6 5 38 1.73 34 20
x-New York City FC 11 8 3 36 1.64 33 22
32. (27) JJ Yeley, Ford. him,” defender Lesia Thet-
33. (66) Timmy Hill, Toyota. sane said. “He’s a smart
x-New England 8 6 8 32 1.45 26 23 34. (00) Quin Houff, Chevrolet.
x-New York 8 9 5 29 1.32 27 30 player. I was expecting that

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35. (15) Brennan Poole, Chevrolet.
x-Nashville SC 7 7 8 29 1.32 21 20
Montreal 7 13 2 23 1.05 30 41
36. (53) James Davison, Chevrolet. from him.”
37. (51) Joey Gase, Ford. The Cougars pushed the
Chicago 5 9 8 23 1.05 30 35 38. (77) Josh Bilicki, Ford.
Atlanta 6 12 4 22 1.0 22 28 39. (7) Garrett Smithley, Chevrolet. pace whenever they had

after AMC crowns in St. Louis

Inter Miami CF 6 13 3 21 0.95 23 34
D.C. United 5 11 6 21 0.95 23 38
the chance offensively.
TRANSACTIONS They tried to run off most
e-Cincinnati 4 14 4 16 0.73 11 34 FOOTBALL
WESTERN CONFERENCE
National Football League
changes in possession,
W L T Pts PPG GF GA
x-Sporting KC 11 6 3 36 1.8 36 25 BALTIMORE RAVENS — Promoted CB Terrell either with long passes
x-Portland 11 6 5 38 1.73 45 34
Bonds, OLB Tyus Bowser, S DeShon Elliot, LB down the middle of the
Patrick Queen and OLB Malik Harrison to the BY CAM DENMARK Kipainoi was named AMC with a time of 19:36.39 and
x-Seattle 10 5 6 36 1.71 40 22
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field or finding gaps to
x-FC Dallas 9 5 7 34 1.62 28 21
practice squad from reserve/COVID-19 list. Newcomer of the Year and was named AMC All-Con-
Placed LB L.J. Fort on injured reserve. dribble down the sideline.
x-Minnesota United 8 5 7 31 1.55 33 26 AMC All-Conference after ference. Sophomores Jada
x-Los Angeles FC 9 7 4 31 1.48 46 38
BUFFALO BILLS — Placed LB Matt Milano on The Columbia College “Our game plan with
injured reserve. placing second with a time O’Donnell and Grace Brink-
x-Colorado 7 6 4 25 1.47 30 27
CHICAGO BEARS — Activated QB Tyler Bray men’s and women’s cross them, we don’t want them
x-San Jose 7 8 6 30 1.36 34 47 country teams took over of 27:3.38. Junior Jerod Rot- mann were also named
and DL Danile McCullers to the active roster to play out,” Brandt said.
e-Vancouver 8 14 0 24 1.09 24 44 as COVID-19 replacements. Francis Park in St. Louis on tinghaus and senior Carter AMC All-Conference, plac-
e-LA Galaxy 6 11 4 22 1.05 27 43 “We want them to just
e-Real Salt Lake 5 9 7 22 1.05 25 33
CINCINNATI BENGALS — Placed DB Mack-
Friday with a pair of Ameri- Brocato placed eighth and ing fifth and ninth, respec- clear it and kick it and have
ensie Alexander and LB Jordan Evans on
e-Houston 4 9 9 21 0.95 29 38 reserve/COVID-19 list. can Midwestern Conference ninth, respectively, and tively. our back line win the ball.
NOTE: Three points for victory, one point for tie. DALLAS COWBOYS — Promoted QB Cooper championships. were named AMC All-Con- Both Dukes and junior We pressured them. We
x-Clinched playoff spot; e-Eliminated from playoff race.
Sunday’s matches
Rush and CB Saivion Smith from the practice
This is the men’s team’s ference. Daylin Huebotter were made adjustments at half-
squad to the active roster. Placed P Chris
New York City FC at Chicago, 2:30 p.m. Jones on injured reserve. seventh straight conference The women’s team named to the Champions of time to really fix them so
Atlanta at Columbus, 2:30 p.m. DETROIT LIONS — Activated QB Matthew title. Junior Alexander ran away with its fourth Character teams. they don’t control much in
Montreal at D.C. United, 2:30 p.m. Stafford from the reserve/COVID-19 list.
Cincinnati at Miami, 2:30 p.m. NDIANAPOLIS COLTS — Activated LB Matthew Dukes was named AMC straight conference title. With the wins, the Cou- the middle.”
Toronto FC at New York, 2:30 p.m. Adams from injured reserve. Placed WR Ash- Runner of the Year for the Senior Mikayla Sehlmeyer gars punched their tick- It translated into Colum-
Nashville at Orlando City, 2:30 p.m. ton Dulin on injured reserve. second straight year and to finished third overall with ets to the NAIA National bia’s first major scoring
New England at Philadelphia, 2:30 p.m. LOS ANGELES CHARGERS — Placed CB Bran-
Colorado at Houston, 5:30 p.m. don Facyson on the reserve/COVID-19 list. the AMC All-Conference a time of 19:35.15 in the 5K. Championships, scheduled chance late in the first half.
Portland at Los Angeles FC, 5:30 p.m. MINNESOTA VIKINGS — Activated Abdullah team after placing first Sehlmeyer was also named to begin April 9 after the Durdle’s low line drive
FC Dallas at Minnesota, 5:30 p.m. Anderson to active roster as COVID-19 with a time of 26 minutes, to the AMC All-Conference NAIA elected to move whistled just wide of the
Sporting Kansas City at Real Salt Lake, 5:30 p.m. replacement.
San Jose at Seattle, 5:30 p.m. WASHINGTON FOOTBALL TEAM — Activated 5.38 seconds in the 8K. team. Sophomore Emma fall championships to the net. William Penn had a
LA Galaxy at Vancouver, 5:30 p.m. WR Steven Sims from injured reserve. Sophomore Edwin Homfeldt placed fourth spring. few corner kicks and sub-
sequent opportunities near
the net in the first half, but
MISSOURI SWIMMING AND DIVING wasn’t able to capitalize.

Both MU teams now 2-0 after convincing wins

This game was a bounce-
back for the Cougars, com-
ing off their first loss since
early September. Columbia
has taken care of business
BY JOEL LORENZI limited opportunity to sched- lowing Missouri’s win against achieved multiple first-place “We’re gonna shave and all year in conference
sports@columbiamissourian.com ule matches this season, the TCU at the start of the sea- finishes, with wins in the 100- taper for Mizzou Invite,” Gre- play, but it’s these kinds of
Tigers have been prepared. son, and he’s been pivotal for meter butterfly and 100 free. vers said, “throw down our games — scheduled late
Though COVID-19 still lin- in the season against a
gers, the Missouri swimming Both the men’s and women’s the Tigers in their two wins. Thompson set a new personal best times and give ourselves
nonconference opponent —
and diving teams emerged sides swept their respective “Last season, I wasn’t real- best for the 100 fly with a some good seeds for (the SEC
Klein schedules to give the
from the water with their matches Saturday afternoon, ly sure what to expect from time of 52.65 seconds. Championships), and if there’s
Cougars a tune-up against
arms up in triumph. moving to 2-0 on the season. college diving,” Lopez said. Missouri will get to see an NCAA Tournament, we
someone they haven’t seen
“One of the foundations of The men’s team saw a dom- “I was still trying to find my Arkansas again in less than want to set ourselves up for before before the spring
our ‘Zou Style’ is that we take inant 193-92 win against Mis- groove last year, and this two weeks for the Mizzou that. I think today’s event was season and tournaments.
advantage of our opportuni- souri State. Sophomore diver year I feel a lot more confi- Invite. The event is big for a prequel for what’s to come.” “It shows that we can
ties,” coach Andrew Grevers Carlo Lopez continued his dent. I’m much more calm. I determining where the Tigers Missouri will get a better compete with Heart of
said. “I believe we have earlier success this season by can just focus on myself.” stand in the conference, and gauge of how good its pro- America (Athletic Confer-
enough opportunities this winning his lone two events, On the women’s side, the Grevers and his staff have gram is when it faces teams ence) teams,” Thetsane
year to sharpen this team up 1-meter and the 3-meter Tigers came away with a big made sure to start prepping such as Kentucky, Arkansas said. “If we compete with
for the postseason.” springboard. Lopez won 185.5-114.5 win over Arkan- as best as they can to defend and Louisville while hosting lots of Heart of America
Despite uncertainty and Men’s Diver of the Week fol- sas. Senior Sarah Thompson their pool. the Mizzou Invite on Nov. 19. teams, we can still do well.”
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COLLEGE FOOTBALL

Fighting Irish take down No. 1 Clemson in 2OT

The Associated Press
Kyren Williams had a 3-yard
touchdown run in the second over-
time and No. 4 Notre Dame shut
down top-ranked Clemson with a
couple of sacks to seal a 47-40 vic-
tory Saturday night in South Bend,
Indiana, the Fighting Irish’s first
victory over a No. 1 in 27 years.
Clemson had won 36 straight
games and had not lost to an Atlan-
tic Coast Conference team since
2017. The Fighting Irish (7-0, 6-0),
playing in the ACC only because of
the pandemic, snapped both streaks
and sparked fans to storm the field
in a celebration that most definitely
did not meet the CDC’s social-dis-
tancing guidelines.
After Williams gave Norte Dame
the lead on the first possession of
the second OT, the Irish pushed
Clemson back with back-to-back
sacks on DJ Uaigalelei by Adeto-
kumbo Ogundeji and Daelin Hayes
on the Tigers first two plays.
The big freshman quarterback
completed to passes after the sec-
ond-and-39, but the final one was
way short of the line to gain and a
couple of laterals didn’t help.
(3) Ohio State 49, Rutgers 27: In
Columbus, Ohio, Justin Fields threw
five touchdown passes and ran for
another score to help Ohio State
beat Rutgers.
Fields, a Heisman Trophy finalist
in 2019, added to his already gaudy
2020 resume, completing 24 of 28
passes for 314 yards.
Fields threw two touchdown pass-
es to Chris Olave, with Jameson
Williams, Garrett Wilson and Jere-
my Ruckert also recipients of scor-
ing passes as the Buckeyes (3-0 Big
Ten) played through some sloppi-
ness and held off a second-half push
by the Scarlet Knights (1-2).
(6) Cincinnati 38, Houston 10: In
Cincinnati, Gerrid Doaks rushed
for a career-high 184 yards and one
touchdown, Desmond Ridder ran for
three scores and threw for another
and Cincinnati rolled past Houston.
The Bearcats (6-0, 4-0 American
Athletic Conference) extended their
school-record home winning streak
to 18 games.
Doaks ran for the most yards by
a Bearcats player since Mike Boone
had 212 in 2014 against South Florida.
Ridder rushed for 103 yards and
threw for 162. He has accounted for
13 touchdowns (eight running, five
passing) in the past three games.
Doaks found a huge hole on a third-
and-1 play in the first quarter and
raced 72 yards, setting up his 2-yard
touchdown run two plays later.
Houston dropped to 2-3 overall
and 2-2 in the AAC.
(12) Oregon 35, Stanford 14:
In Eugene, Oregon, Tyler Shough
picked up where Justin Herbert
left off, throwing for 227 yards
and a touchdown and running for
another score to lead Oregon past
Notre Dame safety Shaun Crawford (20) celebrates after No. 4 Notre Dame defeated top-ranked Clemson 47-40 in two overtimes on
Saturday in South Bend, Ind. For the second straight game, the Tigers were playing without star quarterback Trevor Lawrence.
short-handed Stanford in the opener
for both teams.
(13) Indiana 38, (23) Michigan 21: In
Bloomington, Indiana, Michael Penix
Jr. passed for 342 yards and three
touchdowns and Indiana beat Michi-
gan for the first time in 33 years.
Penix helped Indiana (3-0) snap a
24-game losing streak in the series
— tied for the longest active skid
in the Football Bowl Subdivision.
It was the Hoosiers’ first victory
over the Wolverines since Oct. 24,
1987, just their second in 41 games
and only the second in the 21 games
played at Memorial Stadium.
The Wolverines (1-2) still don’t
have a top-15 road win since beating
Notre Dame in 2006. Their second
consecutive loss could turn up the
pressure on coach Jim Harbaugh in
his sixth season at Michigan
(14) Oklahoma State 20, Kansas
State 18: In Manhattan, Kansas,
Jason Taylor II returned a fumble
85 yards for a touchdown late in the
fourth quarter, and Oklahoma State
stopped Kansas State’s 2-point try
that would have tied it with 2:08 to go.
The Cowboys’ Spencer Sanders
was held to just 108 yards passing
without dynamic wide receiver Tylan
Wallace and with running back
Chuba Hubbard slowed by an inju-
ry. LD Brown helped to pick up the
load, running 15 times for 110 yards,
as Oklahoma State (5-1, 4-1 Big 12)
leaned on its defense to bounce back
from an overtime loss to Texas.
The Wildcats (4-3, 4-2) were
forced to try for a 2-point conver-
sion after Will Howard’s short TD
run because of their odd decision
to attempt a 2-point try to stretch a
12-0 lead in the first half. Howard
was incomplete on that one, and he
never got a pass off on the second.
Oklahoma State guided the ensuing
onside kick out of bounds and ran
some time off the clock before punt-
ing it back to the Wildcats, but How-
ard immediately threw an intercep-
tion with 1:47 to go to seal their fate.
(16) Marshall 51, Massachusetts
10: In Huntington, West Virginia,
Grant Wells threw three touchdown
passes, Brenden Knox ran for two
scores and Marshall pummeled
Massachusetts.
Marshall (6-0) continued to pro-
duce a season-long balance on
offense that keeps opponents guess-
ing. Knox scored on first-quarter
runs of 45 and 14 yards and got
nearly all of his 118 yards in the
first half. It was his fifth straight
game over 100 yards.
Massachusetts (0-2), in its fourth
season as a Bowl Subdivision inde-
pendent, has 22 true or redshirt
freshmen on its depth chart.
(17) Iowa State 38, Baylor 31: In
Ames, Iowa, Brock Purdy threw
three touchdown passes in the sec-
ond half after throwing three inter-
ceptions in the first, and Iowa State
rallied to beat Baylor.
The Cyclones (5-2) are 5-1 in con-
ference play for the first time in the
program’s 128-year history and are
MATT CASHORE/USA Today
first in the Big 12 by a half-game.
Baylor (1-4, 1-4) scored its first 24
points off Iowa State turnovers.
Iowa State linebacker Mike Rose
sealed the victory when he inter-
cepted Charlie Brewer’s pass in the
end zone with 57 seconds left.
(18) SMU 47, Temple 23: In Phil-
adelphia, Shane Buechele threw
four touchdown passes, two to Tyler
Page, and SMU broke away from
undermanned Temple.
The game was pushed back from
its original Thursday date while Tem-
ple dealt with virus-related issues.
The Owls were missing 15 players
who were in COVID-19 protocol.
SMU led 20-16 before Buechele
connected with Kylen Granson on a
24-yard TD pass on the first play of
the fourth quarter. The Mustangs
(7-1, 4-1 American Athletic Confer-
ence) scored four touchdowns in
the first 7½ minutes of the period.
Temple (1-4, 1-4) scored on the first
play of the game, with wide receiver
Randle Jones going 75 yards on a
screen pass from Trad Beatty.
(19) Oklahoma 62, Kansas 9: In
Norman, Oklahoma, Rhamondre
Stevenson ran for 104 yards and two
touchdowns and Oklahoma routed
winless Kansas.
Stevenson, in his second game
back from a suspension, also caught
four passes for 60 yards.
Spencer Rattler passed for 212
yards and a touchdown and ran for a
score to help the Sooners (5-2, 4-2 Big
12) win their fourth straight game.
It was Oklahoma’s 22nd consecutive
November win dating to 2014.
The Sooners got a scare when
Rattler left the game briefly in the
second quarter with what appeared
to be an injury to his left hip. He
ran for a touchdown and took a hard
shot right after he crossed the goal
line. Rattler returned and played
much of the third quarter.
Jalon Daniels completed 11 of 31
passes for 115 yards for the Jay-
hawks (0-7, 0-6).
(20) USC 28, Arizona State 27: In
Los Angeles, Drake London caught
a 21-yard touchdown pass with 1:20
to play, and No. 20 Southern Califor-
nia overcame a late 13-point deficit
to beat Arizona State in the Pac-12′s
long-delayed season opener.
Bru McCoy caught a deflected
26-yard TD pass with 2:52 left for
the Trojans, and McCoy recovered
the ensuing onside kick as well. On
fourth-and-9, Kedon Slovis fired a
pass down the middle to London,
and the two-sport athlete beat dou-
ble coverage to haul it in for an elec-
trifying score.
USC stopped Arizona State on
downs near midfield with 50 sec-
onds left to preserve an astonishing
comeback for perpetually embattled
coach Clay Helton’s team.
Until their rally, the Trojans were
struggling for poise and precision
in a game that began at 9 a.m. USC
agreed to its earliest kickoff in at
least 70 years for a national tele-
vision audience, but it looked like
another embarrassment for Helton
and his Trojans — before it abruptly
turned into a thrilling triumph.
(22) Texas 17, West Virginia 13: In
Austin, Texas, Texas stopped West
Virginia on fourth-down passes into
the end zone twice in the fourth
quarter, enabling the Longhorns to
escape.
Texas (5-2, 4-2 Big 12) overcame
an offense that produced nearly 100
yards and 27 points fewer than its
average.
Sam Ehlinger, typically the Long-
horns’ offensive star, completed just
15 of 31 passes for 184 yards, but he
connected with Brennan Eagles for
a 7-yard touchdown pass in the first
quarter and with Jake Smith for a
33-yard TD strike in the third. Fresh-
man Bijan Robinson rushed for 113
yards on 12 carries for Texas.
Jarret Doege was 35 of 50 for 317
yards for West Virginia (4-3, 3-3).
(25) Liberty 38, Virginia Tech 35:
In Blacksburg, Virginia, Alex Bar-
bir hit a career-long 51-yard field
goal with a second left to lift Liber-
ty past Virginia Tech.
Barbir had a 59-yard attempt
blocked with 8 seconds left, and
Virginia Tech’s Jermaine Waller
returned it to the end zone for what
appeared to be the winning score
for the Hokies (4-3). But officials
ruled Virginia Tech called a timeout
before the attempt.

SEC

Trask, No. 8 Florida upend No. 5 Georgia 44-28 in ‘Cocktail Party’

The Associated Press
Kyle Trask started jumping
up and down on the sideline.
His Florida teammates took it
to another level, running and
leaping into the stands.
Coach Dan Mullen wasn’t
going to be left out off the
fun. Mullen pulled himself
onto the edge of the front row
and celebrated wildly with
fans.
Mullen clearly understood
the magnitude of the victory.
Everyone did.
Trask had another
four-touchdown night, becom-
ing the first quarterback in
Southeastern Conference
history to accomplish the feat
in five consecutive games,
as the No. 8 Gators beat No.
5 and undermanned Georgia
44-28 on Saturday in Jackson-
ville, Florida.
“You’ve got to enjoy it,”
Mullen said. “I might be
48 years old, but I’m really
young on the inside so I’ve
still got to enjoy some of that
stuff.”
The Gators (4-1) ended a
three-game losing streak
in the rivalry known as the
“World’s Largest Outdoor
Cocktail Party” — it was Mul-
len’s most significant victory
in three years with UF — and
now have a stranglehold on
the SEC’s East Division.
The Bulldogs (4-2), who
entered the game as 3½-point
favorites, were likely elimi-
nated from College Football
Playoff consideration and
probably have a quarterback
competition moving forward.
Florida, meanwhile, has a
Heisman Trophy contender.
Trask completed 30 of 43
passes for a career-high 474
yards — 8 yards shy of Tim
Tebow’s single-game school
record — despite playing
much of the night without
standout tight end Kyle Pitts.
Pitts was knocked out of the
game in the second quarter
on Lewis Cine’s crushing hit
over the middle. Cine was
ejected for targeting, adding
to Georgia’s already-thin
defense.
The Bulldogs were without
nose tackle Jordan Davis
(elbow), safety Richard
LeCounte (motorcycle acci-
dent) and defensive tackle
Julian Rochester (knee) to
start the game.
Trask and the Gators took
advantage, burning Georgia
repeatedly with wheel routes
while overcoming a 14-0
deficit. Running backs Malik
Davis, Nay’Quan Wright and
Dameon Pierce combined to
catch 10 passes for 212 yards.
“Kyle Trask does a great
job,” Mullen said. “He’s not
going to force the ball. If
they’re going bracket and
take away and double people,
he’s going to go to who you’re
not doubling or covering.”
Once Trask and Florida
got going, the Bulldogs did
little to stop them. The Gators
scored on seven of eight pos-
sessions after a three-and-out
to open the game and finished
with 571 yards — the most
allowed in Georgia coach
Kirby Smart’s five seasons.
“We just can’t let this game
define us,” Dawgs receiver
Kearis Jackson said. “We’re
not in the situation we want
to be in right now, but we
still have games to be played.
There are still plays out there
to be made.”
Florida tight end Kyle Pitts (84) tries to get past Georgia defensive back Lewis Cine (16) after a reception during
the first half of the eighth-ranked Gators’ 44-28 victory over the No. 5 Bulldogs on Saturday in Jacksonville, Fla.
The Bulldogs had several
chances to make it a one-pos-
session game late, but D’Wan
Mathis kept overthrowing
open receivers. Mathis, who
started the season opener,
replaced Stetson Bennett in
the third quarter.
Bennett left the game brief-
ly in the first quarter with a
shoulder injury and was inef-
fective after returning. He
completed 5 of 16 passes for
78 yards, with a touchdown
and an interception.
Bennett was without his top
target, George Pickens (upper
body), and lost Marcus Rose-
my-Jacksaint to an apparent
broken right leg on a 32-yard
touchdown catch in the first
quarter.
Replays showed the severi-
ty of Rosemy-Jacksaint’s inju-
ry as team trainers rushed to
the end zone and quickly got
an air cast on his leg. He was
carted into the tunnel amid
a standing ovation. Florida
safety Brad Stewart hit Rose-
my-Jacksaint just before he
crossed the goal line.
The Dawgs led 14-0 after
the freshman’s first career
TD reception. Zamir White
scored on the game’s first
play from scrimmage, going
untouched for 75 yards.
It looked like it would be a
Georgia rout.
JOHN RAOUX/The Associated Press
It ended up being Florida’s
night to celebrate.
“I don’t make excuses,”
Smart said, pointing out his
team is 19-2 in its last 21 East
games. “I don’t look at it as
cause for concern. ... I’m not
going to say the sky’s falling
or everything’s coming down.
We’ve got to be better.”
Arkansas 24, Tennessee 13:
In Fayetteville, Arkansas,
Feleipe Franks threw three
touchdown passes in the third
quarter to lead Arkansas
in a come-from-behind win
against Tennessee.
The Razorbacks (3-3,
3-3) trailed 13-0 at half-
time before scoring on four
straight drives. Each touch-
down came faster than the
one before as Arkansas found
the end zone on 16-play,
3-play and 2-play consecutive
series.
Mississippi State 24, Van-
derbilt 17: In Starkville,
Mississippi, Will Rogers
threw for 226 yards and a
touchdown, and Mississippi
State’s defense combined for
five turnovers to narrowly
eke out a victory over visiting
Vanderbilt.
Mississippi State (2-4, 2-4)
finally won its first home
game under first-year coach
Mike Leach after losing their
first two attempts to Arkan-
sas and Texas A&M last
month.
Vanderbilt (0-5, 0-5) had
478 yards of total offense,
more than twice Mississippi
State’s total, but ultimately
couldn’t overcome its turn-
over woes.
(7) Texas A&M 48, South
Carolina 3: In Columbia,
South Carolina, Kellen Mond
threw four touchdown pass-
es to become Texas A&M’s
career leader, Isaiah Spiller
ran for 131 yards and the No.
7 Aggies routed South Caro-
lina.
Mond moved past Jerrod
Jefferson with the 68th touch-
down pass of his career, a
52-yarder to Devon Achane
in the third quarter with the
game long decided.
Mond also ran for a score to
help Texas A&M improve to
5-1 — all in the SEC — for its
best start since opening 6-0
in 2016. The Aggies are 7-0
against the Gamecocks.
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Friday Night Sights

ANOTHER STEP
FORWARD
After Week 2 of the playoffs, the competition has narrowed further.
For some, a district semifinal game is a stumbling block that ends
their season. But for the teams that win, it’s a steppingstone that
raises them closer to the district championships. With victories for
the Battle Spartans and Harrisburg Bulldogs and a loss for the
Westran Hornets, our visual journalists present ‘Friday Night
Sights’ — the magic and wonder of Friday night football.

BLYTHE DORRIAN/Missourian
Westran and Harrisburg football fans sit in the stands Friday in Huntsville. Social distancing and masks were not enforced at the game.

DANIEL SHULAR/Missourian
Battle senior Jordan Mayes celebrates with fans in the bleachers after the Spartans won a district semifinal game against the Rolla Bulldogs on Friday at Battle High School in Columbia. The Spartans beat the Bulldogs 41-21.

Battle coach Atiyyah

Ellison does pushups
with his team after
the Spartans beat
Rolla on Friday
at Battle High
School in Columbia.
The team did 21
pushups in total,
one for each point it
allowed.
DANIEL SHULAR/
Missourian

The Rolla football

team places the
belongings of each
player in 5-gallon
buckets to protect
players from the
COVID-19 pandemic
Friday at Battle High
School in Columbia.
DANIEL SHULAR/
Missourian

BLYTHE DORRIAN/Missourian DANIEL SHULAR/Missourian

Elby Meyer, 4, plays with sand during the halftime break Friday during the Westran-Harrisburg game in Huntsville. After playing, Meyer got some candy from the concession stand. Rolla senior Jackson Herdade stands with blood on his jersey Friday at Battle High School in Columbia. Rolla led 21-20 after three quarters but
gave up 20 points in the final quarter to eventually lose 41-21, seeing its season end.
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Battle junior Gerry Marteen Jr. dodges a tackle by Rolla senior Issac Hunter on Friday at Battle High School in Columbia.
DANIEL SHULAR/
Missourian
Battle senior Tommy
Atherton tries to pull
away from a tackle
by Rolla sophomore
Ben Tiddy on Friday at
Battle High School in
Columbia. Rolla gave
up three turnovers in
the first half.
HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL
Rock Bridge shut out, Chiefs’ Reid a big fan of Panthers RB McCaffrey
falls to Liberty North
in district semifinal
BY TYLER HOLLINS
sports@columbiamissourian.com
Rock Bridge football knew
it was an underdog, but that
still didn’t prepare it for the
shellacking offered by Liber-
ty North.
Across the board, Rock
Bridge didn’t live up to its
usual standard as the Bruins
were defeated by the Eagles
44-0 on Friday in the Class 6
District 4 semifinal.
This is the first time Rock
Bridge has been shutout since
2016 when it lost to Lee’s
Summit 36-0.
Liberty North (8-3) jumped
ahead early, scoring 23 points
in the first quarter. Running
back Zac Willingham-Davis
set the tone for the Eagles,
breaking multiple arm
tackles and punishing Rock
Bridge defenders on his way
to three rushing touchdowns.
Cayden Arzola chipped in
with two touchdowns on the
ground.
“They’re a good football
team,” coach Van Vanatta
said. “We didn’t match the
intensity early. We did some
good things but couldn’t
recover. The ball just didn’t
bounce our way tonight.”
Rock Bridge (6-4) couldn’t
handle the combination of
speed and power from Liber-
ty North. Whenever it looked
like the Bruins might get over
the hurdle, Willingham-Davis
or Arzola would make anoth-
er big run. Add two defensive
pass interferences to the mix
and the Eagles were on their
way to playing for a district
title.
While the Bruins’ defense
had its hands full, the offense
couldn’t bail it out as it had
all season. After each rush-
ing for over 100 yards in
Rock Bridge’s quarterfinal
matchup, quarterback Nathan
Dent and running back Bryce
Jackson struggled to gain
yardage.
With the run game bottled
up, the Bruins looked to the
arm of Dent, which didn’t
go much better, either. Dent
went 10-for-23 through the
air, mostly completing short
screen passes. The Bruins’
best opportunity for points
came on a 32-yard pass
attempt to Payton Messer
that just missed his hands.
Rock Bridge wouldn’t sniff
the end zone again as three
turnovers stalled any poten-
tial success.
“We just didn’t come out to
play early,” Vanatta said. “We
just couldn’t put it together.
Couldn’t move the football
early and put our defense in a
bad situation.”
The Bruins even struggled
on special teams. Liberty
North opened the game with
a 60-yard kickoff return.
Later in the first quarter,
down 14-0 and punting
from its own territory, Rock
Bridge mishandled a snap
and was tackled in the end
zone for a safety.
“The farther you go, the
harder it gets,” Vanatta said.
“We’re a young team. We’ve
had a lot of guys out this year
and we’ve been able to figure
it out. We won six games.
All in all, it was a more suc-
cessful season than a bad
season.”
The loss marks the final
game for numerous seniors,
including Jackson. In his
four years at Rock Bridge,
Vanatta has seen these spe-
cific players transition from
freshmen to seniors. Vanatta
thanked them for their time
as Bruins.
“I couldn’t be more proud
of those kids,” Vanatta said.
“They came here when I
came here. They fought hard.
I couldn’t ask for anything
more from those kids.”
Liberty North will take on
Liberty on Friday in the dis-
trict championship.
CHIEFS
BY DAVE SKRETTA
The Associated Press
KANSAS CITY — The
innovative mind of Chiefs
coach Andy Reid can’t help
but envision how certain
players would fit into his
offense.
Christian McCaffrey is a
prime example.
To be a running back in
Reid’s system, you must be
able to do just about every-
thing: run hard between the
tackles and have the speed
to get outside, pick up blitzes
in the pass game and catch
the ball out of the backfield.
And that rare versatility is
exactly what has made the
Panthers running back one
of the best in the NFL over
the past couple of seasons.
“Sure, he would’ve fit in
the offense well. I think
probably every coach would
say that in this league,” said
Reid, whose defense could
be faced with stopping him
Sunday.
McCaffrey has been out
since Week 2 because of a
high-ankle sprain, but he
looked good in practice this
week and could be active for
Carolina’s trip to Arrowhead traded up to 10th and took
Stadium.
“He was a heck of a college ly led the franchise to its
player and he’s doing a nice
job in the NFL, so we’ll have decades last season.
to make sure we know what’s
going on with him,” Reid
said. “Their other running
back (Mike Davis) is doing
very well, too, filling in for he runs the ball so well. He’s
him.”
Carolina coach Matt Rhule can run between the tackles. from a two-game stint on
said there’s a chance Davis
could start in the backfield,
but that McCaffrey would
get his touches.
“Christian brings elite
production,” Rhule said. “On Christian’s comps
days when you’re not great
on third down, he’s a tremen- got their McCaffrey-style
dous third-down matchup.
Explosive runs. He can catch picked Clyde Edwards-He-
the ball out of the backfield. laire out of LSU in the first
He’s one of the best in the
National Football League.
Like any great player, you
feel better about your chanc- weeks ago, it suddenly left
es when he’s there than what the high-octane Kansas City
he’s not.”
Reid never really got a
chance to land McCaffrey,
of course. He was chosen by
DANIEL SHULAR/Missourian
Kansas City Chiefs head coach Andy Reid, center, walks along the sideline during a game against the New York
Jets last Sunday in Kansas City. Reid said he was a big fan of the Carolina Panthers’ Christian McCaffrey.
the Panthers out of Stanford
with the eighth overall pick
in the 2017 draft. But the
Chiefs turned out OK — they up-tempos the competition,
Patrick Mahomes, who mere- and day-out. Off the field,
first Super Bowl title in five
“I mean, he’s a guy that
can do it all,” Mahomes
“He can catch the ball as
well as he runs the ball, and
a mismatch for defenses. He
He has the speed to beat
guys outside, and he’s such
a talented receiver as well.
Super talented guy.”
The Chiefs eventually
running back when they
round of April’s draft. And
when they added two-time
All-Pro Le’Veon Bell a few
offense with one of the best
backfields in the NFL.
“The biggest thing is
how he practices. Le’Veon
COLUMBIA MISSOURIAN
Rolla gives up the
ball seven times;
Battle will play for
district title Friday
FOOTBALL from Page 1B
his team to play as a single
unit rather than individual
players — or even an offense
and defense.
“I just challenged them
to play together,” Ellison
said. “Some of them were
griping about calls and dif-
ferent things. I said, ‘Make
us right.’ There is no magic
call, you got to make us right
sometimes.”
The thought of elimina-
tion, of their season ending
before they were ready,
served as another motivator.
“It’s win or go home,”
Lambert said. “I think that
hit us in the fourth quarter.”
Lambert’s fumble recov-
ery, and an interception
shortly after, accounted for
two of Battle’s seven forced
turnovers against Rolla,
by far its most this season.
Before Friday, the Spartans’
season-high was against
Smith-Cotton, when they
had one interception and one
fumble recovery.
The Spartans scored on
two of the seven ensuing
possessions, once in the
third quarter and once in
the fourth. Most of Battle’s
offensive momentum was
gained by its defense.
“Without that, it’s a differ-
ent game,” Ellison said of his
defense’s performance.
In fact, Battle’s biggest
offensive play of the night
came on the drive following
Rolla’s fifth fumble. Marteen
and quarterback Khaleel
Dampier exchanged turns
with the ball for six plays,
moving the chains from Bat-
tle’s 40 to Rolla’s 35 before a
false start penalty stranded
them at fourth-and-8.
Though Dampier had been
came in and he just brought
in a little different pep,”
Edwards-Helaire said. “It
the way we compete day-in
friends; on the field, doing
anything in our power to get
on the field and compete.”
said. Douglas’ return
The Panthers secondary
will get some much-need-
ed help with cornerback
Rasul Douglas returning
the COVID-19/reserve list.
Claimed off waivers before
the start of the season,
Douglas has been a pleasant
surprise, becoming the Pan-
thers’ most reliable cover
man — especially as cor-
nerback Donte Jackson has
struggled with injuries.
Speaking of returns
The Chiefs could have wide
receiver Sammy Watkins
back from his ailing ham-
string, which has kept him
out the past three games,
along with fullback Anthony
Sherman, who has been on
the COVID-19 protocol list
unsuccessful through the air
for most of the night, Ellison
called up a passing play to try
and convert. None of Battle’s
plays are drawn up with a
particular person in mind —
“you’re just gonna stare that
person down,” Ellison said
— so Dampier’s target would
just be whoever was open.
That person was junior
Donnie Hicks.
“My route, the ball was
a little off, but we practice
getting in front of the ball,
so I made that catch,” Hicks
said. “Then on the run, I saw
a little gap. We have to make
something work, so I just
went for it.”
The touchdown was Hicks’
first of his career after join-
ing the team this season at
the behest of his twin broth-
er, Hayden, and Ellison.
“He got open and made a
huge play for our team,” Elli-
son said. “That just changed
the whole momentum.”
Battle’s other touchdowns
came on a 68-yard run from
Dampier in the first quarter,
a 2-yarder by Dampier in the
third and a 59-yard run from
Marteen in the fourth.
As Battle (7-1) was beat-
ing Rolla (5-4), a very sim-
ilar game was happening
between the other two teams
left in Class 5 District 4.
Washington and Camdenton
were tied through the start
of the fourth quarter before
the Blue Jays pulled away
for a 28-21 win.
No. 2 Battle will play at
No. 1 Washington for the
district title at 7 p.m. this
upcoming Friday.
“I’m just excited to be
playing next week,” Ellison
said. “It’s a one week season.
I’m just excited to be having
this conversation.”
CHARLIE RIEDEL/The Associated Press
because of suspected contact.
Ball control woes
While one of the keys to
beating the Chiefs is keeping
Mahomes off the field, ball
control has been an issue
for the Panthers this season.
Opponents have run 135
plays to their 95 over the past
two games, a huge gap large-
ly due to Carolina’s inability
to win on third downs. Car-
olina was 2 of 12 on third-
down conversions in its Week
8 loss to the Falcons.
Protecting Bridgewater
Teddy Bridgewater has
spent the past two games
under pressure, forcing him
to take sacks or throw the
ball away. The Panthers hope
to get veteran left tackle Rus-
sell Okung back from a two-
week calf injury, and that
would certainly help.
“When Teddy is upright,
he’s playing like one of the
best quarterbacks in the
National Football League,”
Rhule said. “When the quar-
terback’s been under duress,
we haven’t been the offense
that we want to be in.”
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Rock Bridge’s runners hustle away from the starting line in the MSHSAA boys cross country championships Saturday at the Gans Creek Cross Country Course in Columbia.

HIGH SCHOOL CROSS COUNTRY

Rock Bridge cross country’s

season, marred by COVID,
finds successful conclusion
BY WILSON MOORE
sports@columbiamissourian.com
From the starting gun to the finish line,
Rock Bridge cross country’s season was
defined by COVID-19.
Both Rock Bridge teams quarantined at
points during the fall, which led to a sig-
nificant gap in their schedules. Junior Ian
Kemey, who finished seventh in the state
meet, was coming off a month-long layoff not
having raced at districts the week before.
While impossible to know the true impact,
Bruins coach Neal Blackburn speculated that
whether or not the runners attending school
in person might have impacted the race.
“Having to navigate being in an all-virtual
world educationally, which probably had the
greatest impact on our teams just because
our kids have a hard time with that,” he said.
“It definitely effected our girls team more
than our guys. I think our girls are a little
more of that tighter bond in person, whereas
our guys can connect in almost any way.”
Hermann finishes sixth
as only representative from CIS
Thirty-nine runners from Columbia high
schools competed over the weekend. Tolton
and Rock Bridge had 14 apiece. Nine came
from Hickman. The final runner was Quentin
Hermann, a sophomore from Columbia Inde-
pendent School. He qualified after winning
the District 4 Class 1 meet last week and fin-
ished sixth at the state meet.
“It’s great to be able to come out and repre-
sent my school,” he said. “Me being the only
runner, I’d like to grow the cross country pro-
gram, but it’s definitely nice to come out and
represent CIS.”
Jefferson City’s Calvary Lutheran took
home the team title in Class 1 with a score of
90.
Arnold defends Class 1 title
In winning the Class 1 girls state champion-
ship Saturday, Blue Eye junior Riley Arnold
found herself in an unusual situation: some-
one else was near her.
The two-time defending champion never
trailed during the race and beat second-place
Riley Bryan by 10 seconds, but even that was
closer than anyone typically gets to Arnold.
“Most of the races this year haven’t had
that,” Arnold said. “It really pushed me and I
knew I had to perform.”
Arnold’s time of 18 minutes, 45.2 seconds
broke the Class 1 course record she set at
Gans Creek in the 2019 championships.
“Still surprises me every time,” she said. “I
still get so nervous right before a race. Love
ELIZABETH UNDERWOOD/Missourian
the feeling (of) running across that finish
Rock Bridge senior Olivia DeClue, right, hugs junior Maci Steuber at the MSHSAA girls cross country
line.” championships in Columbia. DeClue and Steuber placed 68th and 47th, respectively.

Rock Bridge girls place fourth;

Ford not satisfied with results
CHAMPIONSHIP from Page 1B
for coach Rachel Korte whose
goal for the team was a top-10
finish.
“They packed up and ran as
a team well,” she said. “They
raced well, they finished well.
So I think, all in all, that’s
exactly what we wanted them
to come out here and do.”
Many of the Rock Bridge
girls’ hopes rested on the
shoulders of defending
state champion sophomore
Carolyn Ford. Ford had run
sub-18 minutes earlier this
year, one of the best times
in Missouri history, and led
after 1000 meters in the state
meet before faltering down
the stretch, winding up in a
15th-place finish and a time
of 19:07.
“Carolyn knows she’s better
than that,” Blackburn said.
“We know that she’s better
than that, but today Carolyn
was 15th, and we own it. First
thing she did when she was
done with the tears, she was
like ‘I’m ready to get back
after it. I know what I need
to do.’”
Rock Bridge also got top-50
performances from juniors
Brooke Walker and Maci
Steuber and freshman Ava
Beary, who came in 31st, 47th
and 42nd, respectively.
Hickman’s girls team didn’t
qualify for the meet, but
senior Peri Welch cracked the
top 25 as an individual, finish-
ing 14th.
“She has just been get-
ting stronger and stronger
throughout the season,” Korte
said. “She just continues to
prove that she can play at ELIZABETH UNDERWOOD/Missourian
that same level, and she’s had Hickman senior Cale Littrell runs down the course followed closely by St. Louis University High’s Ryan
an extraordinary season.” Kramer on Saturday at the Gans Creek Cross Country Course in Columbia.
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NASCAR

Hamlin faces tough field for elusive 1st NASCAR title

BY JENNA FRYER
The Associated Press
AVONDALE, Ariz. —
Denny Hamlin is 0-for-3
in championship chances,
his shot at an elusive first
NASCAR crown ending just
short each time.
It’s his turn again, without
rival Kevin Harvick in his
way and his Toyota team-
mates all eliminated. Hamlin
on Sunday will try to close
his own career-defining
season with the Cup title in
NASCAR’s season finale at
Phoenix Raceway.
Hamlin will be racing
with Joey Logano and Brad
Keselowski, Ford teammates
from Team Penske, as well as
NASCAR’s most popular driv-
er. Chase Elliott last week
drove Chevrolet and Hen-
drick Motorsports back into
the championship race for the
first time since 2016.
Elliott’s win at Martinsville
put him on NASCAR’s big-
gest stage for the first time
in his career, but the upset
also bounced Harvick out
of the finale. Harvick won a
Cup Series-high nine races
and was the regular-season
champion, and Harvick and
Hamlin went head-to-head
nearly all summer in a rival-
ry worthy of NASCAR’s gold-
en days.
Harvick’s elimination the-
oretically made Hamlin the
favorite. He won seven races
this season and the title for
the first time is being decided
at Phoenix, where Hamlin is
a two-time winner including
last November when he raced
his way into the champion-
ship four.
The Cup is now his, right?
“I think it’s unlikely anyone
Denny Hamlin waits to qualify prior to the NASCAR Cup Series auto race May 24 at Charlotte Motor Speedway in
Concord, N.C. Hamlin is 0-for-3 in championship chances, his shot at a first NASCAR crown ending just short of
the finish line all three times he’s been close. It’s his turn again in Sunday’s season finale at Phoenix Raceway.
considers us an underdog,
especially our competition,”
said Hamlin.
All four of the finalists are
confident they will take the
winner-take-all showcase of
a grueling season. NASCAR
was among the first series
to resume racing during the
pandemic, returning in May
with a rebuilt schedule as
NASCAR worked to get ven-
ues open across the country.
It took doubleheaders,
midweek races and one-day
shows to get to Phoenix,
where the highest finisher
of the final four wins the
championship. The champion
has also won the race — at
Homestead-Miami Speedway,
however — every year since
this format debuted in 2014.
Harvick is a nine-time win-
ner at Phoenix. Yet all four
remain convinced they will
win the race.
Logano won Phoenix in
March, the final race before
the 10-week shutdown. He
has zero friends on the race
track and on Sunday that will
include his Penske teammate.
Logano has made it to the
championship race four times
and is the only one of this
GERRY BROOME/The Associated Press
year’s finalists to win the title
in this format, in 2018 when
he won Homestead and the
title.
Keselowski won the 2012
title under a different format
and has been to the final
four only once. He brought
to Phoenix the tall beer glass
he chugged from on TV after
his first championship, when
he accidentally caught a buzz
while celebrating post-race.
Logano and Keselowski this
year adjusted to new crew
chiefs after Roger Penske’s
offseason three-team swap.
They’ve done it without prac-
tice or qualifying, and many
remote meetings. Keselows-
ki was in a contract year,
earned a one-year extension
and a title could lead to a
renegotiation.
Penske likes his two chanc-
es.
“We don’t have any
team orders,” Penske said.
“They’re going to race their
hearts out. We’re going to
execute in pit lane. The best
driver is going to win out of
the two.”
Then there’s Elliott, ready
to prove he can deliver on
the track. The 24-year-old is
statistically enjoying his best
Cup season and advanced
to the final four after three
previous failures. Just getting
into the finale checks multi-
ple boxes for Elliott, who car-
ries the weight of Hendrick
and Chevrolet’s long drought.
He’s leaning on his father,
Bill Elliott, a NASCAR Hall
of Famer and the 1988 Cup
champion, for advice on rac-
ing for the biggest trophy.
“My dad obviously has had
great success over the years,
has been around this deal
for a long time,” Elliott said.
“The big thing from talking
to dad ... is just enjoy these
moments, because these
aren’t things you can take for
granted.”
Hamlin has been here
before. He coughed away a
title to Jimmie Johnson in
2010 when Johnson won for a
record fifth consecutive time,
then lost because of late race
strategy screwups in 2014
and 2019.
Last season was particu-
larly brutal: Hamlin was in
contention until a late pit stop,
when his Joe Gibbs Racing
team slapped a huge piece of
tape across the front of his
Toyota in a misguided aero-
dynamic adjustment. Hamlin
has been close enough to suf-
fer heartbreak but insists he’s
handled the disappointments
much better than he did in
2010, when he used a sports
psychologist to deal with the
defeat.
“All I can do is control
what I can control, and I’ll
live with the result no matter
what that is,” Hamlin said.
Hamlin turns 40 exactly
10 days after Sunday’s title
race and has matured greatly
the last several seasons. He
opened this year with his
third Daytona 500 win and
took an active role in the
online iRacing that carried
NASCAR through its shut-
down.
He’s already thinking about
his future in NASCAR and in
September announced that
he partnered with Michael
Jordan to field a race team
next season for Bubba Wal-
lace. Winner of 44 career
Cup races, he and Mark Mar-
tin are considered the best
NASCAR drivers without a
title.
Martin, a Hall of Famer
and winner of 40 races, fin-
ished second in the champion-
ship hunt four times.
“I never would consider any
comparison to Mark Martin
an insult. I’ll take those com-
parisons all day, because the
guy is a ... driver that nobody
wanted to face,” Hamlin said.
“Championships, I get it, it’s
very, very important. But I
also know that my competitors
will probably say that I’m one
of the toughest competitors
and toughest guys to beat.”

HORSE RACING

Authentic goes wire-to-wire to win Breeders’ Cup Classic

BY STEPHEN WHYNO
The Associated Press
From start to finish, Authentic left
no doubt he was the horse to beat in
the Breeders’ Cup Classic.
His dominant performance on
another big stage should also end
the debate about this year’s top
3-year-old, strange as the season
has been because of the coronavirus
pandemic.
Authentic won the Classic in the
same fashion he took the resched-
uled Kentucky Derby two months
ago, going wire-to-wire for a
2¼-length victory over Improbable
that gave trainer Bob Baffert a 1-2
finish on a warm, sunny fall Satur-
day at Keeneland.
And perhaps erased Baffert’s
regret over Authentic’s narrow
runner-up finish to filly Swiss Sky-
diver in last month’s Preakness, also
shifted to the fall because of the
pandemic.
“He just struggled that day,” Baf-
fert said, “but we got him back, and
I’ve got a great team, and we just
tightened the screws on him.
“He’s just matured. He’s maturing
John Velazquez (9) rides Authentic to victory in the Breeder’s Cup Classic on Saturday
at Keeneland Race Course in Lexington, Ky.
right now, and this ... is the time of
the year they catch up.”
There wasn’t any catching up
to Authentic on Sautrday as he
broke quickly out of the No. 9 gate
between stablemates and set the
MICHAEL CONROY/The Associated Press
pace for the 10-horse field to fol-
low. Maximum Security, last year’s
3-year-old champion, pursued for a
while before Global Security over-
took him and then was passed by
Improbable entering the stretch.
Authentic, at 9-2, never let up with
John Velazquez aboard and extend-
ed his lead by the end.
“I didn’t think it was that much
speed in the race, other than the
other horse that Bob had on out-
side,” said the Hall of Fame jockey,
referring to Maximum Security.
“And I thought we were going to be
quicker than him anyway.
“Once we got in front and I passed
the wire for the first time, I mean, it
was pretty easy from there, yeah.”
Authentic earned his fifth win
with two seconds in seven starts
this year, strengthening his case as
the year’s top 3-year-old. The victo-
ry bookended a successful day for
Baffert, whose filly Gamine opened
the $31 million season-ending world
championships with a dominant,
record-setting win in the $1 million
Filly and Mare Sprint.
Both horses will certainly be
named in any Eclipse Award discus-
sion, and Baffert’s bias for Authen-
tic was obvious.
“There was a lot on the line,” he
said. “What he did today was pretty
amazing.”
Authentic covered 1¼ miles in
1:59.19 in the $6 million marquee
event and paid $10.40, $5.40 and
$4.20. Improbable returned $4.80
and $3.30 while Global Campaign
paid $8.80.
As for Gamine, she beat retiring
great Serengeti Empress by 6¼
lengths and clocked a track-record
1:20.20 over seven furlongs to top
Taris’ old mark of 1:21.32 on Oct. 18,
2014. Her fourth victory this year
comes after a tumultuous year in
which she tested positive for lidocaine
in May and for betamethasone, a reg-
ulated corticosteroid, in September.
Baffert is appealing a suspension
in the first case, while results are
pending from a split-sample test in
the second. He wasn’t necessarily
seeking vindication but got it any-
way with the win and gushed over
his filly.
“She showed what a wonderful
filly she is, and there was no doubt
today,” Baffert said.
There was tragedy just before the
nine-race card began, when colt Abso-
lutely Aiden had to be euthanized fol-
lowing an injury that occurred during
a scary chain-reaction incident in the
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during the meeting, will also be submitted
to each bidder by written addendum.
There will be no future provisions or time
allotted for those parties not present at
this mandatory pre-bid to access areas.
Bidders that do not attend the pre-bid
meeting will not be allowed to submit a
Something New
bid.
All Contractors and Subcontractors shall
Everyday
conform to the State of Missouri, Division
of Labor Standards, Annual Wage Order
No. 27, Section 010, Boone County, in
accordance with Section 290.262 CUM.
Supp. RSMo 2000. All Contractors and
Subcontractors shall conform to the Mis-
souri Prevailing Wage Law Sections
290.550 to 290.580 Public Works during
Excessive Unemployment, if applicable
to this Project.
The Owner reserves the right to reject
any or all Bids and to waive informalities
or irregularities in the bidding.
Insertion dates: November 8 & Novem-
ber 15, 2020
addendum.
A mandatory pre-bid meeting is sched-
uled for 10:00 a.m., Tuesday, November
17, 2020. Contractors must meet at
Lange Middle School, Front Office, 2201
Smiley Lane, Columbia, MO 65202. Any
clarifications, changes, etc. discussed
during the meeting, will also be submitted
to each bidder by written addendum.
There will be no future provisions or time
allotted for those parties not present at
this mandatory pre-bid to access areas.
Bidders that do not attend the pre-bid
meeting will not be allowed to submit a
bid.
All Contractors and Subcontractors shall
conform to the State of Missouri, Division
of Labor Standards, Annual Wage Order
No. 27, Section 010, Boone County, in
accordance with Section 290.262 CUM.
Supp. RSMo 2000. All Contractors and
Subcontractors shall conform to the Mis-
souri Prevailing Wage Law Sections
290.550 to 290.580 Public Works during
Excessive Unemployment, if applicable
to this Project.
The Owner reserves the right to reject
any or all Bids and to waive informalities
or irregularities in the bidding.
Insertion dates: November 8 & Novem-
ber 15, 2020
NOTICE OF REQUEST
FOR PROPOSALS
Sealed proposals will be received by the
City of Columbia, Missouri until 5:00 p.m.
on
the dates indicated below, to furnish the
following services:
Bid No: 22/2021
Item: Sewer and Storm Water Rehabilita-
tion and Cleaning Services – Multi Year
Closing Date: 11/24/2020
Request for Proposal forms and specifi-
cations may be obtained by accessing
City of Columbia bidding website at
columbia.ionwave.net or contacting the
City of Columbia, Purchasing Division at
(573)874-7376
Cale Turner
Purchasing Agent
INSERTION: November 8, 2020
NOTICE TO BIDDERS
Sealed bids will be received by the City
of Columbia, Missouri until 2:00 p.m. on
the dates indicated below, to furnish the
following services:
Bid No: 5/2021
Item: Recapped Tires - Multi Year
Closing Date: 11/24/2020
Bid No: 13/2021
Item: Miscellaneous Lighting and Electri-
cal Services – Multi Year
Closing Date: 11/24/2020
Request for Quotation forms and specifi-
cations may be obtained by accessing
City of Columbia bidding website at
columbia.ionwave.net or contacting the
City of Columbia, Purchasing Division at
(573) 874-7376
Cale Turner
Purchasing Agent
INSERTION: November 8, 2020
BID
SOLICITATION
REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL
NO. C-21027
ADVERTISEMENT FOR BID
Sealed bids will be received by the Pur-
chasing Agent, Columbia Public School
District, Columbia, Missouri, until the time
and date stated below for the following
project:
RFP C-21027 EXECUTIVE SEARCH
FIRM
3:00 P.M., MONDAY, NOVEMBER 23,
2020
Information regarding instructions and re-
quirements for procuring bidding docu-
ments may be viewed & downloaded
online at https://www.cpsk12bids.com/.
All Documents must be obtained by the
Bidder from this site to be an Eligible Bid-
der.
Dana Reynolds
Purchasing Agent
INSERTION DATES: November 1, 4 & 8,
2020
BID
SOLICITATION
REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL
NO. C-22001
ADVERTISEMENT FOR BID
Sealed bids will be received by the Pur-
chasing Agent, Columbia School District,
Business Services –Purchasing Dept.,
1818 Worley, Columbia, Missouri 65203,
until the time and date stated below for
the following project:
RFP C-22001 EMPLOYEE SEASONAL
FLU VACCINE ADMINISTRATION
3:00 P.M., MONDAY, NOVEMBER 30,
2020
Information regarding instructions and re-
quirements for procuring bidding docu-
ments may be viewed & downloaded
online at https://www.cpsk12bids.com/.
All Documents must be obtained by the
Bidder from this site to be an Eligible Bid-
der.
Lisa Ozanich
Assistant Purchasing Agent
INSERTION DATES: November 1 & 8,
2020
NOTICE OF TRUSTEE'S SALE
For default in the payment of debt se-
cured by a deed of trust executed by
Jean A Talkington, dated May 5, 2003,
and recorded on May 5, 2003, Document
No. 2003017234, in Book No. 02204, at
Page 0369 in the Office of the Recorder
of Deeds, Boone County, Missouri, the
undersigned Successor Trustee will on
November 13, 2020, at 3:00 PM, at the
Front Door of the Boone County Court-
house, Columbia, Missouri, sell at public
vendue to the highest bidder for cash:
UNIT SIX F (6F) OF EDGEWATER
CONDOMINIUMS II AS SHOWN BY
DECLARATION OF CONDOMINIUM,
BYLAWS AND INDENTURE OF EDGE-
WATER CONDOMINIUMS II, A CON-
DOMINIUM, RECORDED, IN BOOK
651, PAGE 16, RECORDS OF BOONE
COUNTY, MISSOURI, commonly known
as 1887 Waterfront Dr N Apt F, Colum-
bia, MO, 65202
subject to all prior easements, restric-
tions, reservations, covenants and en-
cumbrances now of record, if any, to sat-
isfy the debt and costs.
SouthLaw, P.C. f/k/a South & Associ-
ates, P.C. Successor Trustee
First Publication: October 16, 2020.
For more information, visit
www.southlaw.com
NOTICE
Pursuant to the Fair Debt Collection
Practices Act, 15 U.S.C. §1692c(b), no
information concerning the collection of
this debt may be given without the prior
consent of the consumer given directly to
the debt collector or the express permis-
sion of a court of competent jurisdiction.
The debt collector is attempting to collect
a debt and any information obtained will
be used for that purpose (Casefile No.
226390-938767).
INSERTION DATES: October 16, 18, 20,
21, 22, 23, 25, 27, 28, 29, 30, November
1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 10, 11, 12, 13, 2020
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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 9
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■ Fill in the grid so that every row, every
column and every 3x3 box contains the
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■ There’s no math involved. The grid has
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reasoning and logic.
■ Solving time is typically from 10 to 30
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ASTRO-GRAPH
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 8
YOUR BIRTHDAY TODAY: people who don’t share your be-
Think before you act. Don’t make
assumptions or jump to conclu-
sions. Take your time and study
the facts, and focus on truth,
justice and fair play. Show com-
passion and understanding, and
you will be offered respect and
admiration in return.
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22)
— Don’t let yourself be taken
advantage of by someone who is
emotionally manipulative. Call
the shots instead of letting
others put you in a compromis-
ing position. Personal growth is
favored.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec.
21) — Nurture your way to tiptop
shape. Work on home improve-
ments to ease stress and accom-
modate your needs. Romance is
featured. Focus on personal gain
and contentment.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19)
— A change will lift your spirits.
Steer clear of friends and relatives
who are argumentative or who
don’t share your lifestyle or be-
liefs. Concentrate on what makes
you happy.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) —
Go over the ups and downs of a
pending situation. Being prepared
will help you engage in talks that
are useful, factual and productive.
Romance looks promising.
PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20) —
What you do for others will make
you feel good about yourself. Work
hard to make a difference. A finan-
cial boost is apparent. Your skills
can be put to good use.
ARIES (March 21-April 19) —
Don’t labor over something you
cannot change or worry about
Turn over
a new leaf,
everyday.
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liefs or values. Self-improvement
projects are favored. Romance is
on the rise.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20) — Not
everyone will agree with you today.
An emotional situation will arise
if you or someone close to you
feels insecure or jealous. Keep
the peace.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20) —
Improve your surroundings. Make
the most of whatever situation you
face, and work hard to better your
prospects. Comfort and enjoyment
should be priorities.
CANCER (June 21-July 22) — Pay
closer attention to details. Update
documents that are in need of it,
review contracts and your financial
situation, and confirm upcoming
appointments. Leave nothing to
chance.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) — Get
ready to conquer whatever comes
your way. Refuse to let others
tempt you to act frivolously or
behave excessively. Make
romance and love priorities, and
self-improvement your stress
reliever.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) —
Don’t hide your feelings. Honesty
will help solve problems; being
evasive will not. Offer solutions
and compromises, and be willing
to work toward a better future.
Moderation is mandatory.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) —
Don’t stick around if you aren’t
appreciated. Size up your situation
and make your grievances known.
Help a likeminded person or a
cause you believe in. Romance is
encouraged.
— Eugenia Last
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14 Ontario 55 Curie
neighbor daughter
15 — — -foot 56 James
pole Bond’s
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22 Snack network
23 Bullring yell
24 Indira’s dad DOWN 21 Canute’s foe 39 Grandson,
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31 Red meat
32 Wet dirt
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42 “Star Wars”
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37 Appraise
39 “Ghosts”
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down
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university
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in two
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48 Oodles
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ASTRO-GRAPH
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 9
YOUR BIRTHDAY TODAY: to the problems that have been
Keep an open mind. Don’t be bothering you.
afraid to take a different path. TAURUS (April 20-May 20) — If
Learning as you go will be mentally you reach out to youngsters, close
stimulating and instrumental in friends, relatives and loved ones,
helping you figure things out. If
you channel your energy wisely, it you’ll come up with new ways to
will lead to enlightenment. remain close and connected, re-
gardless of distancing regulations
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) — put in place.
Do your best to improve meaning-
ful relationships. Communication GEMINI (May 21-June 20) —
is vital if you’re going to gain Show compassion when dealing
with emotional issues. Self-
support. Present what you have
to offer. improvement projects are favored.
Offer love and understanding over
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. criticism and discord.
21) — Embrace change, be open
to learning something new and up- CANCER (June 21-July 22) —
Make positive changes at home.
date your skills to reflect current
trends. Self-improvement will lead Keep your money and posses-
to compliments and boost your sions in a safe place. Choose to
ego. Romance is on the rise. do your own thing, and budget
wisely. Keep the peace, but don’t
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19)
give in to peer pressure.
— Address money matters, and
implement a plan to lower your LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) — A
overhead. Shared expenses could change to how you earn your living
may pan out as you had hoped.
turn into a problem. Do your best
to keep the peace. Consider a new way to improve
your resume and pick up skills and
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) — knowledge to help you head in a
Don’t let someone distract you.
more suitable direction.
It’s essential to stay on top of your
responsibilities. Moderation will VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) —
be necessary financially, emotion- Look at all angles of every situ-
ation, and you’ll come up with a
ally and physically.
diplomatic plan that will gain you
PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20) — A
change of pace will give you time much-needed support. Romance
is featured.
to figure out your next move.
Strive to protect yourself from LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) —
someone trying to take advantage Problems will mount if you don’t
of you. make lifestyle adjustments.
ARIES (March 21-April 19) — Indulgence will lead to criticism
and opposition. Stop procrastinat-
Don’t fold under pressure or give
in to unfair solutions. Initiate ing; align yourself with like-minded
plans that will lead to better days people and get moving.
ahead. You can find solutions — Eugenia Last
BRIDGE
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 9
WATCHING YOURSELF
PLAYING BRIDGE
Like most bridge players,
over the last few months, I
have spent a fair amount of
time playing at Bridge Base
Online. I like to look at other
tables, and it is clear that
some players are logging in
under two usernames. One
plays and the other kibitzes,
so the player can see all four
hands.
One player who has caught
my eye has a Bulgarian
name but says that he lives
in England. He is an expert
who will play for pay with
less experienced players.
I hope no one contacts him.
Look at today’s deal. What do top hearts, played a club to
you think of the auction, and his ace, cashed the heart
how would you play in six king, then led a diamond to
dummy’s jack!
hearts after West leads the
diamond four? When the finesse won,
How could South jump to declarer claimed an over-
six hearts? Only if he knew trick for a cold top. However,
his partner’s hand. note that if the diamond
finesse had lost, the defend-
Then we get to the play.
The contract appears to be ers could have cashed the
laydown. Declarer can win spade ace to defeat the slam.
with dummy’s diamond king, When was making a slam
cash the heart ace-queen, ever a bad score? Once
cross to the club ace, return every pandemic! (In this
to the diamond ace, discard session, seven pairs bid six
the third diamond on the hearts, and nine missed it.)
club king and concede one Finally, note that South
spade trick. was not playing for match-
But how did our villain
play it? He won with the
points or money. What was
his motivation?
diamond ace, took dummy’s — Phillip Alder
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Health scare reveals cracks in relationship
DEAR ABBY: I’ve been dating
“Karl” for five years. We live
separately. I thought our relation-
ship was pretty solid until a
recent health scare. A few days
ago, I had a severe allergic
reaction to something I ate at
dinner. When I realized how
serious it was, I immediately
rushed to the ER. (I had taken an
antihistamine instead of calling
the paramedics.)
I quickly messaged Karl that I
was having a medical emergency.
The doctor said these reactions
can be fatal and will become
increasingly worse after each
reaction. Karl was working and
said he couldn’t leave work.
He didn’t make sure I got home
safely or even come to the house
TIME OUT
could have died on the way. Karl’s
reaction to your crisis was incred-
ibly callous. Please think very
carefully about a future with this
person because he isn’t going to
change. Start compiling a list of
people you CAN depend upon
should the need arise. Karl
definitely isn’t one. If you were
counting on him to be your life
partner, change your mind now
because, if you don’t, it could cost
you your life.
DEAR ABBY: When I was a kid, I
was called a “chatterbox,” and it
continued until my mid-30s.
Somewhere I came across the
saying that it’s better to be silent
and be thought a fool than to open
your mouth and remove all doubt.
It made sense to me, so I shut up.
dominating a conversation, pause,
ask questions and listen to the
answers. For those who say you
don’t hold up your end, consider
making a list in advance of topics
you consider safe (excluding sex,
politics and religion) and refer to it
if you feel stuck. And, if you don’t
know how to begin, lead off with a
compliment.
DEAR ABBY: I am engaged to a
wonderful man I’ll call Jesse who
loves my daughter and me. Howev-
er, one of my brothers seems not to
be happy for me. Because of this,
Jesse doesn’t want to invite him to
our wedding, but I’m worried
about how excluding him will
affect my family. Any advice you
could give would be greatly
appreciated. — Melancholy in
has gone from my boyfriend, to
fiance, back to boyfriend, to
friend, to “I don’t know what he is
now.” He showers me with gifts
and material things, which really
don’t mean a lot to me. I thank him
often for the things he does, and I
reciprocate them.
What matters more to me are
simple gestures like checking to visiting family members’ graves
make sure I get home safely, each year for many years. In the
accepting and acknowledging my past she placed cut flowers on the
friends, acknowledging me on graves, but recently she has begun
Mother’s Day, asking how my day leaving live potted flowers. What I
was, taking me out from time to learned recently is, the day after a
time instead of always saying he major holiday she and her friend
doesn’t want to go. return to the cemetery, remove
I have explained to him time and them and take them home. When I
time again how I want to be asked her why, her response was,
treated, but it goes in one ear and “If I don’t take them, someone else
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Theory Å Theory Å ’Å ’Å Standing ’ Standing ’ ’ Å ’Å

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(N) ’ Å (N) ’ Å secret mission. (N) ’ Å It Anyway? It Anyway? Dinner Party” parolees are given an offer they can’t refuse. Å
A&E 41 265 118 34 166 “JACK REACHER” Movie: ›› “THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN” (2016) Denzel Washington, Chris Pratt. ’ Å Court Cam ’ Court Cam ’ (:03) Movie: ›› “THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN” (2016) Denzel Washington. ’ Å
BBC Am. 162 264 135 198 188 “THE DARK KNIGHT RISES” Top Gear (N) Å Movie: ››› “THE DARK KNIGHT RISES” (2012, Action) Christian Bale. Batman faces a masked villain named Bane. Å Movie: ›› “HANCOCK” (2008, Action) Will Smith. Å
Bravo 68 273 129 72 181 Housewives/Potomac Housewives/Potomac Housewives/Potomac Watch What Chat Room Housewives/Potomac Don’t--Tardy Don’t--Tardy Don’t--Tardy Don’t--Tardy Don’t--Tardy Chat Room
Comedy 54 249 107 69 140 GROWN UPS Movie: ›› “STEP BROTHERS” (2008) Will Ferrell, John C. Reilly. Å Movie: › “GROWN UPS” (2010, Comedy) Adam Sandler, Kevin James. Å South Park South Park South Park South Park South Park
E! Ent. 55 236 114 65 134 (5:30) Movie: ››› “HARRY POTTER AND THE HALF-BLOOD PRINCE” (2009) Å (DVS) Movie: ››› “HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS: PART 1” (2010, Fantasy) Daniel Radcliffe. “HARRY POTTER AND DEATHLY”
Food 52 231 110 62 452 Holiday Baking Holiday Wars (N) Å Kids Baking Championship Holiday Baking Championship “Holiday Style” Å Kids Baking Championship Holiday Baking Championship “Holiday Style” Å
FX 37 248 137 77 128 FURIOUS Movie: ››› “JUMANJI: WELCOME TO THE JUNGLE” (2017) ’ Å Fargo “The Nadir” (N) Å Fargo “The Nadir” ’ Å Fargo “Lay Away” ’ Å Fargo “The Nadir” ’ Å Mike & Molly FXM Presents
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Lifetime 29 252 108 29 360 “WELCOME CHRISTMAS” Movie: “A VERY CHARMING CHRISTMAS TOWN” (2020) (:03) Movie: “A STORYBOOK CHRISTMAS” (2019) Å (:01) Movie: “A VERY CHARMING CHRISTMAS TOWN” Å “A STORYBOOK”
Oxygen 66 251 127 61 367 Real Murders-Orange County Real Murders-Orange County Snapped “Betty Broderick” Snapped “Suze Adams” Real Murders-Orange County Real Murders-Orange County Injustice With Nancy Grace Buried in the Backyard Å
PARMT 60 325 168 71 145 Movie: ›› “ROCKY IV” (1985) Sylvester Stallone. ’ Å Movie: › “ROCKY V” (1990, Drama) Sylvester Stallone, Talia Shire. ’ Å Movie: ››› “ROCKY BALBOA” (2006, Drama) Sylvester Stallone. ’ Å Movie: ››› “CREED” ’
SYFY 67 244 122 73 151 (5:45) Movie: ››› “JOHN WICK: CHAPTER 2” (2017) Keanu Reeves. Movie: ›› “HUNTER KILLER” (2018, Action) Gerard Butler, Gary Oldman. (:07) Movie: ›› “G.I. JOE: RETALIATION” (2013, Action) Dwayne Johnson. NIGHTMARE
TBS 46 247 139 51 112 (:15) Movie: ››› “DUMB & DUMBER” (1994) Jim Carrey. Å (DVS) Big Bang Big Bang Big Bang Movie: ››› “DUMB & DUMBER” (1994) Jim Carrey. (12:15) Movie: ›› “FUN WITH DICK AND JANE” (2005)
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TNT 38 245 138 49 108 “TRANSFORMERS” Movie: ››› “READY PLAYER ONE” (2018) Tye Sheridan, Olivia Cooke. Å (DVS) Movie: ›› “THE ISLAND” (2005, Action) Ewan McGregor, Scarlett Johansson. Å (DVS) Charmed “Witch Way Now?”
Tru TV 36 203 204 63 48 Imp. Jokers Imp. Jokers Imp. Jokers Imp. Jokers Imp. Jokers Imp. Jokers Imp. Jokers Imp. Jokers Secret Videos Secret Videos Inside Jokes Inside Jokes Misery Index Misery Index Inside Jokes Inside Jokes
USA 62 242 105 28 124 Law & Order: SVU Law & Order: SVU Law & Order: SVU Law & Order: SVU Mod Fam Mod Fam Mod Fam Mod Fam Mod Fam Mod Fam Law & Order: SVU
WGN-A 15 - 239 23 180 Last-Standing Last-Standing NewsNation (N) (Live) Å NewsNation (N) (Live) Å NewsNation (N) (Live) Å NewsNation Å NewsNation Å NewsNation Å Person of Interest ’ Å
CNBC 35 355 208 46 216 Shark Tank ’ Å Shark Tank ’ Å Shark Tank Å (DVS) Shark Tank Å (DVS) Shark Tank ’ Å Shark Tank ’ Å Shark Tank ’ Å Paid Program Paid Program
CNN 42 202 200 38 202 CNN Newsroom Situation Room With Wolf Situation Room With Wolf Situation Room With Wolf State of the Union CNN Newsroom Live (N) CNN Newsroom Live (N) CNN Newsroom Live (N)
CSPAN 18 350 210 3 230 (2:00) Washington This Week Q & A Å Prime Min. (:40) Public Affairs Events ’ Å Q&AÅ Prime Min. (:40) Public Affairs Events ’ Å
FNC 33 - - 48 210 Fox News Sunday Life, Liberty & Levin (N) The Next Revolution With The Greg Gutfeld Show Life, Liberty & Levin Å The Next Revolution With The Greg Gutfeld Show Fox News Sunday
MSNBC 34 356 209 47 215 Voices-Alicia Menendez Week-Joshua Johnson Week-Joshua Johnson Voices-Alicia Menendez Week-Joshua Johnson Week-Joshua Johnson Dateline “Unraveled” Å Dateline “Scorned” ’ Å
ESPN 30 206 140 35 27 SportsCenter (N) (Live) Å SportsCenter Boxing Top Rank Boxing: All-Access Top Rank Boxing: All-Access SportsCenter (N) (Live) Å SportsCenter W/Van Pelt SportsCenter (N) (Live) Å SportsCenter
ESPN 2 31 209 144 36 28 E60 E60 X Games To Be Announced American Game
Fox M.W. 32 647 418 37 748 Tennis World Poker World Poker Shogun Fights World Poker World Poker To Be Announced
FS1 408 219 150 43 620 (5:30) MLS Soccer Teams TBA. (N) (Live) Å Postgame Boxing PBC: Luis Ortiz vs. Alexander Flores. Å PBA Bowling Playoffs: Round of 8. Å PBA Bowling Playoffs: Final Four. Å
Golf 165 605 401 44 641 Golf Central PGA Tour Golf Houston Open, Final Round. Å PGA Champions Golf Central Golf Central PGA Golf
NBCSN 404 608 151 54 640 NASCAR-Post iRacing Series Phoenix. Speedwys Speedwys MotoGP Race Proving Grounds (N) Monster Jam Mecum Mecum Mecum Mecum
Outdr Ch 406 - 153 232 680 Live 2 Hunt Lee & Tiffany Hunt Adv Hunt Masters Outdoors Bone Collect Bushman Truth Hunting Pat & Nicole Addicted Spirit of Wild Drop Zone Lindsey Way Lee & Tiffany Live 2 Hunt Legends
SEC 51 611 408 18 607 To Be Announced
BET 56 329 124 68 155 “BOO! A MA” Movie: ›› “THE FIVE HEARTBEATS” (1991) Robert Townsend. Five guys mix singing and dancing and find R & B fame in the 1960s. Martin Å The Parkers The Parkers The Parkers The Parkers
CMTV 59 327 166 40 525 (4:30) Movie Å Movie Å Movie Å Steve Austin’s Broken Skull
MTV 57 331 160 42 502 2020 MTV EMA (N) ’ Å Ridiculous. Ridiculous. Ridiculous. Ridiculous. Ridiculous. Ridiculous. Ridiculous. Ridiculous. Ridiculous. Ridiculous. Ridiculous. Ridiculous.
VH-1 58 335 162 41 518 “WHY DID I GET MARRIED?” Movie: ›› “MADEA’S FAMILY REUNION” (2006) Tyler Perry. ’ Å Movie: ›› “DIARY OF A MAD BLACK WOMAN” (2005) Kimberly Elise. ’ Movie: “TYLER PERRY’S I CAN DO BAD ALL BY MYSELF”
Animal 49 282 184 58 252 North Woods Law ’ North Woods Law North Woods Law (N) ’ (:01) North Woods Law ’ (:01) North Woods Law ’ North Woods Law ’ North Woods Law North Woods Law ’
Cartoon 47 296 176 45 325 Wrld, Gumball Wrld, Gumball Wrld, Gumball Regular Show American Dad American Dad Rick, Morty Family Guy Family Guy Primal Tigtone Å YOLO Crystal Primal Rick, Morty Family Guy Family Guy
Discovery 70 278 182 33 120 Alaska: The Last Frontier Alaska: The Last Frontier “Emergency!” (N) ’ Å (:02) Terrorism Close Calls Alaska: The Last Frontier ’ Alaska: The Last Frontier “Emergency!” ’ Å (:02) Terrorism Close Calls
Disney 64 290 172 52 302 “ALVIN-CHIPMNK” Fam Jam Fam Jam Fam Jam Fam Jam Fam Jam Fam Jam Bunk’d Å Bunk’d Å Jessie Å Jessie Å Bunk’d Å Raven Raven Cali Style
DLC 222 368 - 157 466 My 600-Lb. Life ’ Å My 600-Lb. Life Destinee seeks approval for transition. ’ My 600-Lb. Life ’ Å My 600-Lb. Life ’ Å My 600-Lb. Life Destinee seeks approval for transition. ’ My 600-Lb. Life ’ Å
Freeform 45 311 180 50 178 (5:55) Movie: ›› “DESPICABLE ME 3” (2017) Å Movie: ››› “ZOOTOPIA” (2016) Voices of Ginnifer Goodwin. ’ Å Movie: ›› “A WRINKLE IN TIME” (2018) Storm Reid. Premiere. ’ Å Paid Program Paid Program
Hallmark 65 312 - 165 175 (5:00) Movie: “CHRISTMAS Movie: “CHRISTMAS WITH THE DARLINGS” (2020, Romance) Movie: “ONE ROYAL HOLIDAY” (2020) Laura Osnes. Anna Movie: “CHRISTMAS IN EVERGREEN: LETTERS TO SANTA” Movie: “LOVE YOU LIKE
AT THE PLAZA” (2019) Å Katrina Law, Carlo Marks. Premiere. Å offers a mother and son shelter from a blizzard. Å (2018, Drama) Jill Wagner, Mark Deklin. Å CHRISTMAS” (2016) Å
HBO Fam. 554 507 305 504 806 “JOURNEY 2: THE MYSTERIOUS ISLAND” (:35) Movie: ››› “X-MEN: FIRST CLASS” (2011) James McAvoy. Å (9:47) Movie: ››› “GET ON UP” (2014) Nelsan Ellis Å (12:07) Movie: ››› “INNERSPACE” (1987) Dennis Quaid.
HGTV 53 229 112 30 450 Good Bones Å Renovation Inc (N) Å (:01) Windy City Rehab Å (:02) Windy City Rehab Å (:02) Windy City Rehab Å Windy City Rehab Å (12:01) Windy City Rehab (:01) Windy City Rehab Å
History 69 269 120 56 270 American Pickers ’ American Pickers ’ (:02) American Pickers ’ (:05) American Pickers ’ (:05) American Pickers Å (:03) American Pickers ’ (12:05) American Pickers ’ (:06) American Pickers ’
ION 19 255 181 79 194 NCIS: Los Angeles NCIS: Los Angeles ’ Chicago P.D. “Mercy” ’ Chicago P.D. Å (DVS) Chicago P.D. Å (DVS) Chicago P.D. “Reckoning” ’ Law & Order ’ Å Paid Program Paid Program
Learning 50 280 183 55 250 90 Day: Other 90 Day Fiancé: The Other Way “Fight or Flight?” (N) ’ I Love a Mama’s Boy (N) ’ 90 Day: Other 90 Day Fiancé: The Other Way “Fight or Flight?” ’ I Love a Mama’s Boy ’
Nickel. 48 299 170 32 314 SpongeBob SpongeBob Movie ’ Å Friends Å Friends Å Friends Å Friends Å Friends Å Mom Å Mom Å Mom Å Mom Å Full House ’
NKJR 120 298 169 119 320 PAW Patrol Bubble Bubble Blue’s Clues Peppa Pig ’ Peppa Pig ’ Peppa Pig ’ Peppa Pig ’ Bubble Bubble Peppa Pig ’ Peppa Pig ’ Peppa Pig ’ Peppa Pig ’ Blaze Blaze
Travel 51 233 215 64 254 Paranormal Caught- Camera Paranormal Caught- Camera Paranormal Caught- Camera Monster of the Loch Loch Ness monster boat rumors. (N) Paranormal Caught- Camera Paranormal Caught- Camera Monster of the Loch Å

AMC 61 254 130 31 114 (3:46) Movie: ›› “WHITE
Cinemax 575 512 310 515 832
HBO 550 501 300 500 802
HBO Plus 552 502 301 502 804
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(6:46) Fear the Walking Dead Fear the Walking Dead (:12) The Walking Dead: World Beyond A (:18) Fear the Walking Dead The Walking Dead: World (:36) Fear the Walking Dead “Honey” Dwight
HOUSE DOWN” (2013) Å Dorie investigates a death. “Honey” (N) Å newcomer reveals information. (N) Å “Honey” Å Beyond “Shadow Puppets” and Sherry clash with Morgan. Å
(5:25) Movie: ›› “CODE 46” Movie: ›› “THE PUNISHER” (2004) Thomas Jane. An FBI (:05) Movie: › “PUNISHER: WAR ZONE” (2008, Action) Ray (10:50) Movie: ›› “RAMBO” (2008, Action) (:25) Movie: ›› “LIVE BY NIGHT” (2016) Ben
(2003) Tim Robbins. ’ agent seeks revenge for the murder of his family. Å Stevenson, Dominic West. Premiere. ’ Å Sylvester Stallone, Julie Benz. ’ Å Affleck, Zoe Saldana. ’ Å
(5:40) Movie: ›› “BATTLESHIP” (2012) Taylor Kitsch. Earth The Undoing “Do No Harm” The Undoing “Do No Harm” Last Week The Undoing “Do No Harm” Last Week Movie: › “THE KITCHEN” (2019) Melissa Last Week
comes under attack from a superior alien force. ’ Jonathan tells Grace his side. Jonathan tells Grace his side. Tonight-John Jonathan tells Grace his side. Tonight-John McCarthy, Tiffany Haddish. ’ Å Tonight-John
(:10) The Undoing Murder (:05) The Undoing Detectives Movie: ›› “DICKIE ROBERTS: FORMER (:45) Movie: ›› “GOOD BOYS” (2019) Jacob (:15) Movie: ›› “BEAVIS AND BUTT-HEAD (:40) Movie: ›› “IDIOCRACY” (2006, Comedy)
pushes Grace to the limit. ’ pose questions to Grace. ’ CHILD STAR” (2003) David Spade. Å Tremblay, Keith L. Williams. Å DO AMERICA” (1996) Voices of Mike Judge. Luke Wilson, Maya Rudolph. Å
(5:10) “THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON” (2008) Movie: ››› “THE DESCENDANTS” (2011) ’ Å “NEVER RARELY SOMETIMES ALWAYS” ’ (:45) Movie: ››› “BLINDED BY THE LIGHT” (2019) ’ CONTAGION
(5:00) “TRANSPORTER 2” Movie: ››› “JOHN WICK” (2014) Keanu Reeves. Å (:15) Movie: ››› “JOHN WICK” (2014, Action) Keanu Reeves. Å Movie: ››› “BRAVEHEART” (1995) Mel Gibson, Sophie Marceau. Å
(5:00) Movie: ›› “COLD Warrior Å (:45) Movie: ››› “8 MILE” (2002) Eminem, Kim Basinger. A (:40) Movie: ›› “VALKYRIE” (2008) Tom Cruise. Premiere. Col. (:40) Movie: ››› “DODGEBALL: A TRUE (:15) Movie: › “DISASTER
PURSUIT” (2019, Action) Å Detroit man tries to achieve success as a rapper. Å Claus von Stauffenberg attempts to assassinate Hitler. UNDERDOG STORY” (2004) Vince Vaughn. MOVIE” (2008) Matt Lanter.
(5:20) Movie: ›› “CHLOE” Movie: ››› “JULIE & JULIA” (2009) Meryl Streep. ’ (:05) Movie: ››› “SUNSHINE CLEANING” (:40) Movie: ›››› “SCHINDLER’S LIST” (1993) Liam Neeson, Ben Kingsley. Premiere. ’ Å
The Good The Circus: Inside the Our Cartoon The Good Lord Bird “Jesus Is The Circus: Inside the Moonbase 8 The Circus: Inside the The Good (12:15) Moon- (:45) The Good Lord Bird Moonbase 8
Lord Bird ’ Craziest Political Campaign President Walkin”’ (N) ’ Å Craziest Political Campaign “Dry” Å Craziest Political Campaign Lord Bird ’ base 8 “Dry” “Jesus Is Walkin”’ ’ Å “Dry” Å
(5:00) Movie: ››› “APOLLO 13” (1995) Tom The Circus: Inside the Movie: ››› “THIRTEEN DAYS” (2000) Kevin Costner, Bruce Greenwood. Moonbase 8 Our Cartoon Movie: ›› “CABIN FEVER” (2002, Horror) “CABIN FEVER
Hanks, Bill Paxton. ’ Å Craziest Political Campaign Americans and Soviets teeter on the brink of war in 1962. ’ Å “Dry” Å President Jordan Ladd, James DeBello. ’ Å 2”
(:04) The Spanish Princess (:04) The Spanish Princess (:04) Seduced: Inside the NXIVM Cult (N) ’ (:27) The Spanish Princess (:27) Seduced: Inside the NXIVM Cult Å (11:50) The Spanish Princess Seduced: Inside NXIVM
SAVING SIL (:18) Movie: “DRIVING MISS DAISY” (1989) Movie: ›››› “DANCES WITH WOLVES” (1990) Kevin Costner, Graham Greene. ’ Å (:06) Movie: ›› “SPACEBALLS” (1987) Mel Brooks. ’ (12:46) “THE AVIATOR” ’
(4:45) Movie: ››› “THE Movie: ›› “THE SHAKIEST GUN IN THE WEST” (1968, Movie: ››› “THE PALEFACE” (1948) Bob Hope. Calamity Jane Movie: ›› “THE CIRCLE” (1925, Drama) Eleanor Boardman, Movie: “LA TÊTE D’UN
YELLOW ROLLS-ROYCE” Western) Don Knotts, Barbara Rhoades, Jackie Coogan. wins the heart of a mild-mannered dentist. Å Malcolm McGregor, Eugenie Besserer. HOMME” (1932) Gina Manès.
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 DAWN WELLS DIES TOP-15 LETDOWN
The Stephens College alum and actress Against No. 7 Tennessee on opening
behind the beloved character Mary Ann night of SEC action, No. 12 MU was
on “Gilligan’s Island” died from COVID-19 outshot, outrebounded, outworked and
related complications, her publicist says outplayed. The Tigers fell to 6-1.
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THE YEAR IN PICTURES Sen. Hawley

contesting
Biden’s win
of Electoral
College
BY MARY CLARE JALONICK
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Sen. Josh
Hawley, R-Mo., said Wednesday
he will raise objections next week
when Congress meets to affirm
President-elect Joe Biden’s victo-
ry in the election, forcing House
and Senate votes that are likely to
delay — but in no way alter — the
final certification of Biden’s win.
President Donald Trump has,
without evidence, claimed there
was widespread fraud in the elec-
tion. He has pushed Republican
senators to pursue his unfounded
charges even though the Elector-
al College this month cemented
Biden’s 306-232 victory and mul-
tiple legal efforts to challenge the
results have failed.
A group of Republicans in the
Democratic-majority House have
already said they will object on
Trump’s behalf during the Jan. 6
count of electoral votes, and they
had needed just a single senator to
go along with them to force votes
in both chambers.
Without giving specifics or evi-
dence, Hawley said he would object
ELIZABETH UNDERWOOD • Missourian because “some states, including
notably Pennsylvania” did not follow
their own election laws. Lawsuits
Columbia was forced to adapt when the pandemic disrupted every corner of life. In April, challenging Biden’s victory in Penn-
sylvania have been unsuccessful.

then-high school seniors, from left, Madi Polnika, Kennedy Robbins and Joseph Gard “At the very least, Congress
should investigate allegations of
voter fraud and adopt measures
chatted through open car windows in the parking lot at Rock Bridge High School. The car to secure the integrity of our elec-
tions,” Hawley said in a statement.
culture cultivated during the previous century — from drive-ins to drive-thrus — helped He also criticized the way Face-
book and Twitter handled content
related to the election, characteriz-
prepare us to for the car culture of the pandemic. ing it as an effort to help Biden.
Biden transition spokesperson Jen
Psaki dismissed Hawley’s move as
This photo is one of about 250,000 photos from our staff photographers this year. In today’s “antics” that will have no bearing
on Biden being sworn in on Jan. 20.
special section you’ll see more of these moments that show how you responded to the stories “The American people spoke
resoundingly in this election and

of our time. Please see The Year in Pictures 2020 in today’s Missourian.
81 million people have voted for
Joe Biden and Kamala Harris,”
Psaki said in a call with reporters.
She added: “Congress will certify
the results of the election as they
do every four years.”

Parson applauds progress of COVID-19 vaccinations

BY GRACE NIELAND
news@columbiamissourian.com
Gov. Mike Parson announced
more than 66,000 Missouri res-
idents have received an initial
dose of the COVID-19 vaccine at a
Wednesday news conference.
He also celebrated a collaboration
with Walgreens and CVS to begin
vaccinating long-term care facility
residents and staff and announced
additional child care funding.
Missouri is still in the first
phase of its three-phase vaccine
rollout. This phase focuses on
health care workers and those
working and living in long-term
care facilities. Tens of thousands
of Missouri residents in that cate-
gory still require vaccinations.
A partnership with CVS and
Walgreens that began Monday
has allowed COVID-19 vaccines to
begin being widely distributed to
long-term care facilities.
Randall Williams, director
of the Missouri Department of
Health and Senior Services, said
about 50% of vaccines Missouri
has received so far have been
reserved for those facilities.
“It’s just a joyous occasion to
be able to deliver the vaccines to
those people who are the most vul-
nerable,” Williams said.
Parson said vaccinating facili-
ties across the state will receive
Please see PARSON, Page 3A
When Congress convenes to cer-
tify the Electoral College results,
any lawmaker can object to a
state’s votes on any grounds. But
the objection is not taken up unless
it is in writing and signed by both
a member of the House and a
member of the Senate.
When there is such a request,
then the joint session suspends
and the House and Senate go into
separate sessions to consider it. For
the objection to be sustained, both
Please see ELECTION, Page 3A

As pandemic continues, musicians wait in the wings

TODAY’S WEATHER
WINTRY MIX
36/29

BY GRACE COOPER
INDEX
news@columbiamissourian.com
Abby5B
Classifieds3B The Bel Airs spend a lot of
time on the road, but the band
Nation6A
usually plays New Year’s Eve
Obituaries2A
at home in Columbia. That
Opinion5A
won’t happen this year.
Sports1B
Michael Cherry, 63, has
Sudoku4B
been the drummer for
TV schedule 6B the Columbia-based rock,
rhythm and blues band for
Our 113th year/#77 25 years. “And I’m the new
2 sections guy,” he said.
12 pages While some musicians lost
a hobby or a side business
with the pandemic, Cherry
lost a living.
Since The Bel Airs went
their separate ways when
6 54051 90850 3 the pandemic hit in March,
Cherry has been doing a
hodgepodge of handyman
work and spending time at
home caring for his mother
who has dementia.
“My life completely
changed immediately,” he
said. “I can’t identify what I
do, really, anymore.”
As the pandemic heads
into its fourth season, local
groups in Columbia have
had to get creative about
performing “live” under
social distancing guidelines.
Besides navigating the new
logistics of live shows and
livestreams, some artists
have used this time to create,
while for others the pandem-
ic has been a time to step
back from performing — and
music — altogether.
A study published by the
Metropolitan Policy Program
at Brookings on the effect
of COVID-19 on the creative
economy estimated that the
creative arts economy in the
U.S. lost 2.3 million jobs —
totaling an average $74 billion
earnings monthly — because
of COVID-19. The creative
economy includes musicians,
designers, performers, etc.
Columbia was no excep-
tion, as music events like the
annual Roots N Blues Festival
were canceled and concert
venues, including Rose Music
DANIEL SHULAR/Missourian
Please see MUSIC, Page 3A Liv Burney, 15, plays electric guitar Dec. 17.
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Anna Donelson speaks with a patient at a drive-thru COVID-19 testing site March 18 at Boone Hospital Center. Patients were required to talk to a doctor before being tested. Columbia’s first confirmed case of
COVID-19 was announced March 17. There have been more than 13,000 cases and 50 deaths in Boone County, according to Columbia/Boone County Department of Public Health and Human Services.
MARCO POSTIGO STOREL/Missourian

SCENES
FROM A YEAR
WE’LL NEVER
FORGET
BY THE MISSOURIAN PHOTO STAFF
SAMANTHA WAIGAND/Missourian
Father Francis Doyle performs Palm Sunday Mass in front of empty pews April 5 at Sacred Heart Catholic Church.
This year will be remembered most for the pandemic, He used a smartphone to record Mass and later uploaded the video to YouTube for parishioners to watch from home.
COVID-19 forced religious institutions to get creative with the way they performed services. “It’s a bit ironic,” Father
but 2020 was too complex to be boiled down to one Doyle said. “Before, these electronic devices isolated people, but lately, this technology has been means of uniting us.”
disruptive virus. The topics were layered.
With all that we’ve been forced to handle, the
most visceral review of 2020 may come from the
local photographs of the Columbia Missourian staff
photographers.
These six pages represent a fraction of the nearly
250,000 photos our staff made this year. We knew it was
a year like no other.
Normally, we’re consumed by high school and college
athletics. This year, the number of sports images
decreased, with fewer events to cover and no access to
Mizzou football games.
We were able to provide a glimpse of what online
learning looked like, thanks to individuals who let us into
their homes or peer through their windows.
Schools had limited access, while medical facilities
were even tighter. Therefore, there was a gap in what
you got to see and learn about the frontline workers and
their sacrifices.
The Black Lives Matter movement, featured in the
cover photo of the Black Student Athlete Association’s
March with Mizzou, was a prominent subjrct that
spurred other, deeper stories about how we see each
other.
And then, there was a presidential election.
These are just a few of the eyewitness accounts from
the masked Missourian staff photographers as the year
unfolded. ELIZABETH UNDERWOOD/Missourian
The sun sets as the opening credits to the 1993 romantic comedy “Groundhog Day” begin May 8, the first
— Brian Kratzer, director of photography, with photo night of the reopening of the B&B Moberly 5 and Drive. The drive-in theater had been closed beacuse of COVID-19.
editing by Jacob Moscovitch, Elizabeth Underwood and Although the pandemic put a halt to indoor entertainment experiences, drive-in theaters across the country
Ethan Weston gained popularity as people began to venture out of their homes for safe, outdoor activities.
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SPRING & SUMMER

“HOPEFULLY, THE CURRENT

SENIORS WILL HAVE A FULL
SENIOR EXPERIENCE. I DON’T
WANT THEM TO MISS OUT
ON ANYTHING LIKE WE DID.”
JAHDILYAH ENCARNACION, BATTLE HIGH GRADUATE

LEANNE TIPPETT MOSBY/Missourian

Battle senior Jahdilyah Encarnacion, center, listens to a videotaped address by graduate William Henderson Aug. 2 during the Battle High
School graduation ceremony. “Whatever you go and do, there is no doubt in my mind that every single person sitting in these seats today
has the power to live the life that they want to live,” Henderson said. Graduates walked across the stage at the school’s performing arts
center to receive their diplomas and congratulatory elbow bumps from school officials. The school split graduates and their guests into
groups to allow space for social distancing. Everyone wore masks inside the building to reduce the spread of COVID-19.

MADI WINFIELD/Missourian
Pavan Rao celebrates the Chiefs’ final touchdown at a Super Bowl watch party in Kansas City. The Chiefs came back from a 10-point deficit to win their first Super Bowl in 50 years. The Power & Light district’s KC Live! venue opened at
9 a.m., and by 11 a.m. thousands had arrived for the 5:30 p.m. kickoff. The party was hosted by Kansas City sports broadcasters Nate Bukaty and Aly Trost. “Look around,” Bukaty told the crowd. “Remember this. Because this is historic.”

“ONE YEAR AGO WE WERE

ALL SAYING ‘2020 VISION’ —
BUT THEN THERE WERE THE
WILDFIRES IN AUSTRALIA
AND THEN KOBE BRYANT.”
PAVAN RAO, CHIEFS FAN
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Members of Alpha Phi decorate

Yellow Dog Book Shop on Oct.
15 in downtown Columbia.
Despite MU’s Homecoming
football game against Vanderbilt
being postponed, students still
participated in Decorate the
District; a Homecoming tradition
where MU student organizations
paint the windows of businesses.
GRACE NOTEBOOM/Missourian

HANA KELLENBERGER/Missourian
Mike Zweifel, a member for the Boone County Republican Committee, watches the presidential election Nov. 3 at the Stoney Creek Hotel. “We actually had a watch party, which was pretty amazing,” he said. Some Columbia residents
gathered to watch election results, while most residents turned to TVs and phones as ballots were counted. Around 9:30 p.m., Donald Trump won Missouri. Ultimately, Joe Biden won the election after getting 306 electoral votes.

DANIEL SHULAR/Missourian
Battle Spartans celebrate a win against the Washington Blue Jays Nov. 13 while posing for
photos with their Class 5 District 4 first-place trophy in Washington, Mo. The Spartans won
27-7, claiming their sixth district title in seven years. Atiyyah Ellison saw his first quarterfinal
win as head coach at Battle High School. Battle’s postseason ended Nov. 20 in the state
quarterfinal game against the Fort Zumwalt North Panthers.

“IT WAS LIKE A

BOMB HAD GONE
OFF. I HAD A
MOMENT OF SHOCK
AND CALLED 911.
I DIDN’T KNOW ETHAN WESTON/Missourian
Foam sprays out of a gash as Firefighters from the Boone County Fire District work
WHETHER TO CRY, to cool off the inside of the big bur oak tree after it was struck by lightning on the
morning of Oct. 23. The tree, which is estimated to be between 300 and 400 years
YOU KNOW?” old, was hit on its north side and splintered. Columbia resident Cody Spencer was
the first person to find the tree that morning. Ann Koenig, an urban forester with the
Missouri Department of Conservation, said the tree’s health is based on the damage
CODY SPENCER, COLUMBIA RESIDENT to its cambium, the growth tissue located just beneath the bark.
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FALL & WINTER

Trump supporters gather Nov. 7 in

front of the Missouri State Capitol.
Supporters traveled to Jefferson City
to protest in favor of President Donald
Trump, who lost the 2020 presidential
election. The protest, which mirrored
“Stop The Steal” events across the
country, was prompted by unfounded
claims made by Trump via Twitter.
Some demonstrators were armed.
MARCO STOREL/Missourian

DANIEL SHULAR/Missourian
Drew Jett, MU Health Care acute care pharmacy manager, pushes a cart with the first batch of Pfizer COVID-19 vaccines up a walkway Dec. 15 at University Hospital. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommended
that both the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines be allocated first to health care personnel and long-term care facility residents. MU hospital began administering 900 doses of the vaccine to workers Dec. 16.

“DOCUMENTING
THE VACCINE
COMING IN WAS ONE
OF THE FEW THINGS
I COVERED THIS
YEAR THAT GAVE ME
ANY SORT OF HOPE.”
DANIEL SHULAR, MISSOURIAN PHOTOGRAPHER

TRENTON ALMGREN-DAVIS/Missourian
Susie Adams holds up a book made by her grandson for her Zoom class Nov. 16. Adams, who co-teaches AP U.S. history and AP language, is one of
about 1,500 classroom teachers in Columbia Public Schools pouring their energy and empathy into connecting with students online.