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<h2 style="font-size: 200%;">FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE</h2>
<p style="font-size: 120%; margin-top: -5px; font-weight:bold;">November 18, 2016</p>
<p style="float:right; font-weight:bold; margin-bottom: 75px; font-size: 120%; text-align:right;">CONTACT: Sara Humm
<br />Community Relations
<br />573-874-7240</p>
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<div class="content"><span style="padding-left: 50px;">(COLUMBIA, MO)</span> - <p style="display:inline;">City offices will be closed Thursday, Nov. 24, in observance of Thanksgiving. Offices will reopen Friday, Nov. 25.</p>
<p>Residential refuse and recycling collection will not be made on Thanksgiving and will be delayed until Friday; Friday's collection will be delayed until Saturday. </p>
<p>Tiger Line shuttles will observe the University of Missouri's Thanksgiving break and end service on Friday, Nov. 18 at 6 p.m. Service will resume at 12 p.m. on Sunday, Nov. 27. COMO Connect will not be in service on Thursday, Nov 24. On Friday, Nov 25, routes will run on the Saturday schedule with service starting at 10 a.m. With the MU football game on Friday, COMO Connect will run the downtown and hotel routes. Kickoff is at 1:30 p.m.</p>
<p>The sanitary landfill will be closed and parking meter regulations will not be enforced on Thanksgiving. Although administrative offices for both the police and fire departments will be closed on Thanksgiving, all other emergency services will be available.</p></div>
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