You’ll see side window panels this summer at Columbia’s tallest parking garage, which has been the site of numerous suicides since 2011. Columbia’s city council has approved a $504,000 project to install side window panels at the Fifth and Walnut garage downtown. Jonathan White, who led the citizen’s petition for more suicide prevention barriers at the …
Columbia’s City Council to vote on window panels for downtown parking garage that’s seen several suicides
Efforts to prevent self-harm and suicides at Columbia’s tallest parking garage will be addressed by the city council on Monday night. The city has finished a $489,000 project to install fencing on the top level of the Fifth and Walnut garage downtown, which opened in 2011. The city council will vote tonight on a bill …
Suicide prevention fundraiser is planned for Monday evening in Columbia
A suicide prevention fundraiser will be held in Columbia Monday night to honor a 23-year-old woman who died in September at the Fifth and Walnut parking garage. The event begins at 7 at Rose Music Hall, and is called HavenFest. It will honor Haven Thomason. Event organizer Josie Martin, a 2015 Hickman graduate, has lost …