Stories from Monday, October 8, 2007

Fort Scott Community College's football team, ranked No 15 in the NJCAA, is apparently good enough that it can even overcome itself. Greyhound head coach Jeff Sims said after Saturday's 38-17 victory over Air Force Prep at Frary Field that his team didn't have a good week of practice and it carried over into the game...

Irena Sendler has officially been designated a national hero in Poland. Schools across Germany and Poland are named in her honor. Annual Irena Sendler days are celebrated throughout Europe and the United States. And on Friday, the 97-year-old Sendler, who currently lives in Warsaw, might possibly earn another distinction. On that day, she will learn if she is a recipient this year of the famed Nobel Peace Prize...

Local Fort Scott High School freshman Christian Sellers has spent many hours serving others. Sellers was awarded the Kansas PRIDE Youth Community Service Award during an awards luncheon at the Kansas PRIDE Day 2007 in Junction City on Sept 29. The award was given based on the PRIDE Projects that Sellers completed during her eighth grade...

Kevin W. Broyles, 46, of Blue Mound, Kansas, passed away Friday afternoon October 5, 2007 at the Allen County Hospital in Iola, Ks. He was born on June 10, 1961 in Iola, Ks., the son of Allen and Wilma Hull Broyles. He married Connie Bolin on July 25, 2005 in Miami, Oklahoma. She survives of the home...

OSBORNE -- Tucker Michael Osborne, a boy, was born at 11:11 a.m. Tuesday, Sept. 25, 2007, at his home in Kansas City, Mo., to parents Noel and Jennifer Osborne. He weighed 8 pounds 11 ounces at birth. Maternal grandparents are Michael and Joyce (Tucker) Lundeen, Fort Scott. Paternal grandparents are Greg and Penny Osborne, Mound City. Paternal great-grandfather is Albert Beadell, Fort Scott...

"How Are You Doing? A Financial Check-Up," is a K-State Research and Extension program to be presented at 11 a.m. Thursday, October 11 at the Shirley Yeager Memorial Building on the Bourbon County Fairgrounds, 2109 Horton. A financial check-up can be as important as a physical check-up to improve one's financial health and screen for potential problems. ...

From California, Texas, Illinois, Arkansas, Missouri, and Kansas, descendants of Charlie and Cora Wood gathered in Fort Scott, for a two-day family reunion on Aug. 4-5. Charlie and Cora watched several of their grandchildren grow up in the Hammond community, and assisted in the family farms of two of their children, Clarence Wood and Mae Peters. All five siblings and their spouses of Clarence and Lena Wood were in attendance for the 2007 Wood Family Reunion...

The Fort Scott PRIDE organization announces the annual PRIDE Halloween parade and downtown trick-or-treating event scheduled for Saturday, Oct. 27. Youngsters who are fifth grade and younger may line up at 1 p.m. that day for costume judging in the south parking lot of the Fort Scott Public Library, 201 S. ...

The Fort Scott Nile Club met Monday Sept. 17,2007 at the home of Berniece Buell with Rosie Ewald as co-hostess. Bemita Hill President opened the meeting with the flag salute. Jeannie Seal Chaplin gave the devotions Luke 9 verses 57-62 2nd Corinthians 5 verse 19...

Sixteen members and two guests of the Bronson Ruritan Club met at the greenery in Iola for its Sept. 24 meeting. Julia Ann Rhoton led the song "America" and Geri Reeder gave the prayer. President Leroy Fuhrman called for the August minutes. The club reported on the Middle America District meeting held at Redfield with their club serving the evening meal. ...

100 YEARS AGO (1907) While binding corn last Friday, Robert Caldwell, of near Bronson, had the misfortune to break his arm. Robert bore the accident bravely and while Phillip Moss went for a buggy to take him to the house, Robert, finding himself too weak to mount a horse, walked quite a distance toward home. But finally he gave out and sank to the ground. Dr. Cummings was summoned to dress and set the injured arm and it is doing well. Robert started to school in Bronson Monday...

The regular monthly meeting of the Hiattville 4-H club met Oct. 3. The meeting was called to order by President Bethany Ericson. Roll call was answered by your favorite holiday, 12 members and 5 leaders were present. Katelyn Vincent gave a secretaries report, and David Ericson gave a reporters report...

The Fort Scott Fire Department has been awarded a $29,210 federal grant that will fund a diesel exhaust removal system inside the fire station. The Federal Emergency Management Agency, under the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, awarded the money through its grant called the Assistance to Firefighters...