Stocking Up
What to know before investing in the stock market. Investing your hard-earned money into the stock market is an investment toward your future. While it may take some experience to…
Alternative Education
Options to consider when charting a learning path. You’ve helped your child learn from the day they were born. You taught them to eat, sleep, sit, crawl, and speak, crossing…
Future Tech Heads
Our community could benefit from having more tech jobs available, as well as more qualified people to fill them. These jobs continue to become a more important component of every…
The New Side Gig
The economy is changing, and while the typical 9-to-5 jobs persist, more and more work is shifting to the gig economy. The gig economy is full of freelancers and independent…
Communication & Connection
JC locals discuss how good communication provides them with more meaningful relationships. When you were a child, your social skills may have been graded on how well you played with…
Creativity in Crisis
Help the Helpers ‘seamsters’ quietly develop sustainable personal protective equipment for medical personnel in the wake of COVID-19. Quietly working within her sewing room located in rural St. Martin, Missouri,…
In With the New
See how visionaries are breathing new life into River Park. As a kid, the JCD Building sometimes served as Charlie Christiansen’s indoor soccer field. He’d spend breaks from local tournaments…
The Taste of Success
A local culinary arts program trains the next generation of gourmet chefs. High schoolers in Mid-Missouri interested in the food service industry have the opportunity to train in various areas…
2020 Vision
Looking forward to finish strong financially going into the new year. As we look to the holidays, our thoughts are often hurried and scattered, trying in desperation to keep pace…
The Competitive Spirit
Candid feedback changed Jeanie Moore’s life for the better. When working for the state back in 1975, she worked with Modern Litho Printing on a printing project for a book.…