Stories from Friday, June 22, 2007

There will be a Community Wedding Shower for Meaghan Jackson and Matt Russell at 2 p.m. Saturday at the First Missionary Baptist Church in Uniontown. This is hosted in conjunction with the Uniontown United Methodist Church. Please bring a pantry item and a favorite recipe...

There will be a special board meeting to take place at 9 a.m. Saturday in the library of Uniontown Junior Senior High School. The Board will discuss issues of mutual concern and effective governance. According to the printed agenda, the meeting will be for the purpose of conducting a New Board Member Boot Camp, " where those attending will learn "Ten lessons new board members should learn and veteran board members should bear in mind." They will learn what constitutes an effective board meeting, and will look at a model of board/administrator relations. ...

During a special meeting on Thursday, USD 234 Board of Education members voted to approve the employment of four staffers and five bids for services through 2008. The board approved the employment of Michael Johnson as the high school assistant debate and forensics coach, Nicole Pellett as Eugene Ware fifth grade teacher, Andrea Scott as early childhood special education teacher, and Rajean Parsons as a part-time music teacher's aide at the middle school...

James Harry Guffey passed away at his home in Chanute, Kansas on June 20, 2007, he was 79. James was born in Blue Mound, Kansas on October 18, 1927, the son of Benjamin Franklin Guffey and Mabel Estella Smethers Guffey. He attended Blue Mound schools until his graduation. James served our country in the United States Army. James married Nada Miller on February 1, 1946 in Iola, Kansas. They moved to Chanute in 1951...

RILEY -- Maddox Jarros Riley, a boy, was born at Mercy Health Center to Micha Stine and Jeremy Riley , Fort Scott, at 3:57 p.m. Tuesday, June 19, 2007. He weighed 8 pounds, 13.6 ounces at birth and was 21 inches long. He joins sibling Mackenzie Wools. Maternal grandparents are Don and Michelle Stine, Redfield. Paternal grandparents are Bary Bosley and Rance and Connie Oliver, all of Fort Scott...

ZIBERT -- Abigail Rae Zibert, a girl, was born at Mercy Health Center to Linda LaRue and Kevin Zibert of Girard, at 8:12 p.m. Tuesday, June 19, 2007. She weighed 9 pounds, 4 ounces at birth and joins sibling Bryson. Maternal great-grandparents are Joe and Marybelle Hall, Bronson. Maternal grandparents are Steve and Mary Jo LaRue, Bronson. Paternal great-grandmother is Adeline Tulip, Frontenac. Paternal grandparents are Bill and Carole Zibert, Arma...

The public is invited to the kick-off of a series of free Friday night concerts starting at 7:30 p.m. at Heritage Park in downtown Fort Scott in which local musicians will perform old-time music. A group of local musicians, each with an individual style, will perform at the park, located at the corner of First and Main streets...

100 YEARS AGO (1907) The Kansas City Southern road was the cause of the Frisco and Missouri Pacific lowering their rates between Kansas City and this point. A slash of rates on the Southern made it necessary for the other two companies to cut a slice off their old established rates...

Molly Foster Berry Daughters of the American Revolution had no meeting in May, but the regent represented the DAR at U.S. National Cemetery No. 1 for the observance of Memorial Day. At the June 15 meeting, the regent held a brunch. Following the brunch, the meeting was opened with the ritual, the Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag, and the recitation of the American's Creed. ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- Kansas State senior Kyle Lancaster, a 2002 graduate of Fort Scott High School, finished fourth in men's high jump at the 2007 NCAA Track and Field Championships here last Friday. Lancaster, a redshirt senior, became the first Kansas State athlete to receive All-America honors in the same event four times and just the third in school history to earn such recognition four times. The only other men to do so were Kenny Harrison from 1986-88 and Rollin Parker in 1948 and 1949...