Stories from Tuesday, November 13, 2007

WICHITA -- Perhaps the best way to say what happened in the Region VI Football Championship Game at Cessna Stadium here Sunday is that Fort Scott Community College's team showed up to play. But Butler, the defending champion and the No. 2 team in the nation, showed up to win a championship. And that little difference in attitude made the difference in the game...

COLBY -- Fort Scott Community College's men were 0-3 here over the weekend as they opened their season at the Colby Ambassador Classic. The Greyhounds lost to McCook, Neb., 88-72, Thursday despite a 25-point performance from sophomore Arsenio Williams -- Fort Scott's only returning starter -- who made 10 of 12 shots from the field. ...

'Hounds play short scrimmage for fans who expected to see home opener

Eleven members of Fort Scott High's football team received All-Southeast Kansas League honors as the all-league team was released Monday. Under league policy, all-SEK teams are not released until the last league team is eliminated from the post-season. That happened when Columbus lost to Baldwin in the Class 4A Sectional playoff round...

Fort Scott Middle school students took time out of their day to honor area veterans, who have helped to ensure the freedoms of all Americans. On Monday afternoon, area veterans assembled at the school for a program that was designed to honor those who have made sacrifices in order that Americans can have the freedoms that they deserve...

A group of young thespians at Fort Scott High School will soon take the stage to perform a play that includes everything --music, war, romance and adventure. FSHS choir teacher Pat Harry and FSHS English teacher Don Parsons have worked tirelessly with a group of students in order to bring Rodgers and Hammerstein's "The Sound of Music" to the FSHS stage...

Claudia Ann Harrison, age 71, a former resident of Bronson, Kansas, and more recently of Mohave Valley, Arizona, died Wednesday, Nov. 7, 2007, at the Sunrise Hospital and Medical Center in Las Vegas, Nevada. She was born March 5, 1936 in Bronson, Kansas, the daughter of Claude I. Welch and Vera Dawson Welch. She married Elvis Harrison on Oct. 13, 1956, in Topeka, Kansas...

Hettie Mae Helton, age 89, formerly of rural Fort Scott, more recently of Country View Nursing Home in Prescott, Kan., died Sunday, November 11, 2007, at the nursing home. She was born September 10, 1918, in Stratton, Colo., the daughter of Frank Louis Beattie and Daisy Pugh Beattie. ...

FULK -- Bryson Joseph Fulk, a boy, was born on Saturday, Nov. 10, 2007 to parents Kim Leon and Joe Fulk of Independence, Kan. He weighed 6 pounds 6 ounces at birth. Paternal grandparents are Lori and Dwayne Craig and Robert Fulk of Fort Scott. Paternal great grandparents are Bill and Phyllis Cambers of Hidden Valley Lake of Mapleton and Eugene Fulk of Moran. Paternal great great grandparents are Lelia and the late V.J. "Bud" LaForge of Girard...

Visitors welcomed at worship Nov. 4 were Mr. and Mrs. Keith Brown and new daughter Lillian, and Shelby Vender and her friend. Pastor Andy Smith's sermon was titled "Remember The Blessing." Scripture was read from Ephesians 1:11-23 and Luke 18:9-14. Worship assistants for the month of November are Liturgists David and Cindy Schwalm; Greeters Cassie and Zack Schwalm; and ushers Ron and Beverly Brown...

The Cato tour, Nov. 3, was a great success with near 100 attending the Annual fall tour. The historic Christian Church edifice built in 1915, was overpacked with visitors wanting to see a performance of 1800s Style music by the Fort Scott musical duo, Fuss and Feathers,  that features Ralph Carlson nd James "Red" Stradley. ...

The Senior Swingers Monday Night dance at Buck Run Community Center was well attended and there was a lot of action at 5:30 p.m. when a nice group started putting up the tables and chairs and the floor was soon ready for dancing. The piano is rolled out and Lorna does her "thing," getting the music ready and helping with the equipment on the stage. ...

100 YEARS AGO (1907) W.W. Patterson, president of the City State Bank of Fort Scott, who is also president of the Bourbon County Bankers Association, last night was chosen president of Group No. 3 of the Kansas Bankers Association in its annual meeting at Pittsburg. ...

Caring for loved ones in declining health can begin to take a toll on the health of caregivers, causing those who are healthy to decline in health as well. According to an American Association of Retired Persons (AARP) online bulletin, "About 40 percent of people over 60 and 1.9 million caregivers share the burden of providing home care for older or disabled Americans."...

PITTSBURG -- Both of Fort Scott High's basketball teams were picked to finish in second place in polls of Southeast Kansas League coaches released here at the ESPN 1340 SEK Basketball Media Conference at Watco Industries here Monday. Fort Scott's boys, the 2007 Class 4A State runners-up, got four first-place votes as head coaches couldn't vote for their own teams. ...