Columbia Today: Jan. 29, 2010
Today’s News
Boone County commissioners and municipal leaders plan to construct a new distribution of road tax revenue. Check out the story at the Columbia Tribune.
Regional coordinator of the Salvation Army-Columbia, Major K. Kendall Mathews, will be deployed to Haiti. Find out more from the Columbia Missourian.
West Boulevard Elementary responded positively to the boost it received from the district, raising its test scores and lowering social segregation. Get the full story at the Columbia Tribune.
What’s Happening
Nalini Nadkami, author, National Geographic Society speaker and Evergreen State College Scientist, will present Saturday Morning Science talk about life in treetops and forest canopies. The event will take place from 10:30 a.m. until 11:30 a.m. Saturday in the Bond Life Sciences Center’s Monsanto Auditorium.
The International Welcome Party will run from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. Sunday in Memorial Union’s Stotler Lounge. To welcome new students, the MU international community will offer food, music and entertainment.