The Cole County Bicentennial Committee is continuing its efforts to raise funds to help commemorate the 200th anniversary of the county.
A number of commemorative items are still for sale, Cole County Presiding Commissioner Sam Bushman said. This includes a brass bicentennial coin, which can be purchased for $10 at Central Bank's motor bank on Madison Street, main bank at the corner of High and Madison streets, and west bank on Country Club Drive.
Other items include 200 pure silver numbered coins for $100 each; 200 raffle chances on a Bicentennial Henry Rifle Proof at $50 a ticket; 200 bottles of small-batch, numbered Cole County bourbon from Blacksmith Distillery of Lohman at $55 a bottle; and 200 numbered cans of bicentennial beer, made with two centennial hops, at Prison Brews.
For more information about these items, call Bushman at 573-634-7267.
"With the funds we raise from the sale of these items, the committee plans to use those to put permanent markers in each of the county's communities so there will be a commemoration of the bicentennial all across the county," committee Chairman Marc Ellinger said.
This article was updated at 1:10 p.m. Aug. 15, 2020, to correct Sam Bushman's phone number.