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<h2 style="font-size: 200%;">MEDIA ADVISORY</h2>
<p style="font-size: 120%; margin-top: -5px; font-weight:bold;">December 20, 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;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">City offices will be closed Monday, Dec. 26, in observance of Christmas Day. Offices will reopen Tuesday, Dec. 27.</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"><br /></span><span style="font-weight: 400;"><br /></span><span style="font-weight: 400;">This year the solid waste collection employees requested to work on the observed City holiday so the Columbia Utilities Department will be collecting trash and recycling according to the normal schedule the week of Monday, Dec. 26.</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"><br /></span><span style="font-weight: 400;"><br /></span><span style="font-weight: 400;">COMO Connect will have limited service on Saturday, Dec. 24 with fixed routes ending at 6:10 p.m. Bus routes will not run on Monday, Dec. 26. To see the limited schedule on Dec. 24, visit <a href="http://www.comoconnect.org/" target="_blank">comocon
nect.org</a>. Tiger Line shuttles are observing the University of Missouri's winter break and ended service on Friday, Dec. 16 at 6 p.m. Limited service will resume at 10 a.m. on Wednesday, Jan. 11. with full services resuming on Monday, Jan. 14. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;"><br /></span><span style="font-weight: 400;"><br /></span><span style="font-weight: 400;">The sanitary landfill will be open on Dec 26. Parking meter regulations will not be enforced on the observed holiday. Although administrative offices for both the police and fire departments will be closed, all other emergency services will be available.</span></p></div>
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