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Ground is broken for new Columbia DQ

By Linda Waggener

It was a proud moment for Mayor Pam Hoots and the City of Columbia as ground was broken in a Friday, July 31, 2020 ceremony to welcome the new Dairy Queen. The site on Jamestown Street is tentatively scheduled to open for business in early/mid-November 2020.

Representatives of Dairy Queen, owned by Fourteen Foods, were present to say how proud they are to join the business community in Adair County. They have DQs in both Green and Taylor Counties where they said, "the people have been good to us there and we look forward to being next door."



The company is a multi-unit owner of 230+ DQ(R) franchises in the U.S. They are located in 13 states and operate more than 40 locations within Kentucky. With a strong faith-based and community centric foundation, Fourteen Foods brings a genuine commitment to those they serve and works to amplify local community efforts, "one red spoon at a time".

Representing Fourteen Foods at the Groundbreaking were: Mike Root, Vice President of Operations; Jim Vavrek, Director of Operations; Ted Wells, Development Consultant; and Heather Mason, Community Growth Ambassador.


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Preparing for groundbreaking



2020-08-03 - Columbia, KY - Photo by Linda Waggener, ColumbiaMagazine.com.
Ground was prepped for the ceremony officially welcoming the Dairy Queen team to what will be the site of the new building scheduled to open in November 2020. The site is the former location of C.J. Holt's service station at the corner of Jamestown Street, Tutt Street and Curry/Bomar Heights Street in Columbia. Mayor Hoots said a recent check of traffic shows that between 14,000 and 15,000 vehicles pass this way each day.

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New jobs start here



2020-08-03 - Columbia, KY - Photo by Linda Waggener, ColumbiaMagazine.com.
The new Dairy Queen of Columbia ground was broken Friday and announcement of up to 80 new jobs was made by the managers at the site. Pictured from left are: Heather Mason, Community Growth Ambassador; Jim Vavrek, Director of Operations; Mike Root, Vice President of Operations; Ted Wells, Development Consultant; City of Columbia Mayor Pamela Hoots; Mike Paradee, local manager, Brian Murrell and Samantha Porter Wooten.

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Local leaders welcome DQ management



2020-08-04 - Adair County, KY - Photo by City of Columbia.
At Friday's groundbreaking ceremony for the new Dairy Queen of Columbia, local leaders took turns after DQ managers lifted the first shovels. From left are: City Council member Linda Waggener, Adair County Judge Executive Gale Cowan, Council member June Parson, Mayor Pamela Hoots, Magistrate Harold Burton, Economic Development Authority Director Bobby Morrison, City Council members Sharon Payne and Dr. Ronald Rogers and Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Ellen Zornes.

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Doyle Lloyd's bank is closest business neighbor



2020-08-04 - Columbia, KY - Photo by Linda Waggener, ColumbiaMagazine.com.
Doyle Lloyd, Branch Manager of Community Trust Bank, 1005 Jamestown Street in Columbia, is the closest business neighbor to the new Dairy Queen. He is pictured at the groundbreaking ceremony Friday, July 31, 2020. Even though the event was outdoors, everyone in attendance wore masks per the governor's recommendations to help curb the spread of the Coronavirus.

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Foundation in progress at new DQ



2020-08-08 - Columbia, KY - Photo by Linda Waggener, ColumbiaMagazine.com.
From Monday to Friday, August 3 to 7, 2020, ground was broken and worked so that at the end of this week the foundation of the new Dairy Queen is outlined toward a planned opening in November. The site is the former location of C.J. Holt's service station at the corner of Jamestown Street, Tutt Street and Curry/Bomar Heights Street in Columbia.

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