Stories from Monday, February 11, 2008

One local facility understands the importance of women taking a proactive approach to not only their health care, but also the health care of their families. In conjunction with the Spirit of Women campaign, Mercy Health Center, Fort Scott, will be hosting a Day of Dance from 11 a.m. to 3. p.m. Saturday, Feb. 23. The Day of Dance, which is a national women's health and wellness event, will promote the cardiovascular benefits of dance...

A major part of Gordon Parks' creative legacy will now be housed at Wichita State University, WSU officials announced Thursday. Within about seven to 10 days, the university will receive a collection of nearly 150 boxes of private papers, manuscripts, personal items, and other material from Parks, the late Fort Scott native and famed photographer, filmmaker, composer and author who died in March 2006 in his New York home...

Grayson Matthew Servos, a boy, was born at 4:30 a.m. Friday, Feb. 8, 2008 at Mercy Health Center to parents Justin and Sara Servos, Nevada, Mo. He weighed 9 pounds, 10 ounces at birth. He joins three siblings; Mickayla, Austin and Jaci. Maternal grandparents are Dan and Susan Larimore, Nevada, Mo., and Martin and Donna Bonine, Sherman, Texas. Paternal grandmother is Jonalee Stanart, Nevada, Mo...

100 YEARS AGO (1908) The Tribune-Monitor has made a change in its circulation department. Mr. Clarence Mahler, who has so ably represented this department of the business for years, has resigned and the business has been disposed of to Mr. Mark Pinkston, a well known and popular young man who will have complete charge of that department in the future. ...

INDEPENDENCE -- Fort Scott Community College's basketball teams were swept in a Jayhawk Conference-Eastern Division doubleheader here Saturday afternoon. Independence's women took a 61-48 win while Pirate men, ranked No. 18 in NJCAA Division I, rolled to a 98-66 victory...