Stories from Friday, October 6, 2006

Residents living on Broadway Thursday voiced their opinions on what the city should do to improve the safety of that city street. About 25 neighbors of the street assembled inside the First Church of the Nazarene in what resembled a townhall-style meeting where they expressed opinions to city staff and three attending city commissioners...

Toni Parks Parsons looked up to her father, and for everyone who knew him, it was clear why. The daughter of the late Fort Scott native, who was born here in 1912, spoke to a group of about 30 people Thursday in the Gordon Parks Center for Culture and Diversity at Fort Scott Community College...

An aerobatics pilot who performed at an air show in Fort Scott last month died Wednesday when the his airplane crashed during a New Mexico airshow. Dr. Guy Baldwin, 60, was killed when he apparently lost control of a single-engine German-made Extra 300L plane while performing a loop maneuver, according to newspaper articles in The Tulsa World and the Quay County Sun, which covered the crash. ...

The Uniontown Methodist Church is cooperating with a Congregational Health Ministry. Cathy Stockard, RN., Health and Wellness Ministry, Pittsburg, spoke to the members of the Church Sunday, following the Sunday School hour, to explain the benefits to the congregation, which are: l. ...

100 YEARS AGO (1906) They say that Orlando Cheney will make a good mortician. He isn't afraid of a dead man and he is in love with his business. When a man's heart and mind work together there is success. Few people know it but Orlando is the oldest son of Judge and Mrs. O.A. Cheney. He has been working around with Charley Goodlander for a year or so, watching him embalm bodies and assisting in the work. Then one day he slipped up to Topeka and took the examination...

To the Editor, Our 9th Annual Airport Day was a grand success. The weather was good, there was a very good crowd and there were numerous static displays, aerobatic performances, and plenty to eat. The day started off with biscuits and gravy provided by the Kiwanis Club. ...

Fort Scott High's volleyball team broke a 19-match losing streak to start the day off Thursday but fell to Southeast Kansas League leader and rival Pittsburg in the final match of a triangular at the FSHS gymnasium Thursday. The Tigers, who were 3-3 when the streak began, got their first SEK win of the year by beating Columbus in three games, 25-21, 17-25, 25-17. Pittsburg beat Columbus in the middle match, 25-16, 25-12, and downed the Tigers in the finale, 25-18, 25-10...

Fort Scott High's soccer team broke a four-game winless streak (three losses and one tie) when the Tigers defeated Columbus, 6-0, in Southeast Kansas League play at Ellis Park Thursday afternoon. The Tigers are 4-8-1 overall with three of the victories coming over the Titans. Fort Scott has outscored Columbus by a combined 12-2 in those four games...