The Missouri State Fair Foundation announced Wednesday night that MFA Oil Company, of Columbia, is donating $200,000 toward the construction of a covered annex for the fairgrounds Coliseum.
Lowell Mohler, a member of the foundation’s board, told the crowd assembled for the sixth annual “Building the Future” banquet that such projects “need a bell ringer to start things off.”
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