Stories from Thursday, October 5, 2006

TURNEY -- Jason Leland Turney, a boy, was born at 3:31 p.m. on Monday, October 2, 2006, at Mercy Health Center, Fort Scott, to parents Gerald Turney and Martha Coulter, Pittsburg. He weighed 7 pounds at birth. Maternal grandparents are Mike and Virginia Coulter, Mulberry. Paternal grandparents are Daniel Turney, Marion, Ind. and Pam Watkins, Peru, Ind...

The efficiency and enjoyment that was displayed at the Taste of Home Cooking School on Tuesday at Memorial Hall made it hard to believe that it was the first time the nationwide program had visited Fort Scott. That was the thought expressed by guests in attendance at Memorial Hall and those who took part in the program...

Joseph Taban Rafino's life changed when he turned 9 years old. Rafino and thousands of boys, mostly under 12, fled from explosions and gunfire by radical Muslims. They walked mile after mile, week after week, until coming to refugee camps in Ethiopia, where they learned their families were murdered, the women either killed or sold into slavery...

USD 235 officials are set to discuss the possible implementation of two new athletic programs in the Uniontown district. During the regular Monday meeting, the USD 235 Board of Education is scheduled to hear a report from Uniontown Junior Senior High School Principal Tracy Smith on costs and possible procedures associated with adding both a baseball program and a softball program to the small Bourbon County district...

Roger Lloyd Stevens, age 58, formerly of Fort Scott and more recently of Grandview, Mo., passed away Monday, Oct. 2, 2006 at his home. He was born Sept. 4, 1948 in Rapid City, S.D. the son of Harold George and Dorothy Mae Ann (Kirkpatrick) Stevens. Roger graduated from Oak Park High School in 1967. ...

As you read this, Fort Scott Community College's football team is on its way to Colorado Springs, Colo. for a Friday game against Air Force Prep. This will be just the third meeting between the schools, according to records provided by Tom Goddard. The teams met in consecutive seasons, 1992 and 1993, with the Greyhounds winning each time. FSCC won the '92 game 24-2 and the '93 meeting 36-3...

100 YEARS AGO (1906) Lloyd Hall, the little grandson of D.A. Hall of Devon who has been sick with typhoid fever for several months, is gradually improving. W.E. Brooks' new brick block on East Wall Street is about completed. All it needs is the finishing touches to be ready for occupancy and Mr. ...