Stories from Wednesday, April 9, 2008

KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Fort Scott Community College's baseball team swept a doubleheader from the Rockhurst College junior varsity here Monday, winning game one 10-3 and taking the second game, 5-3. Lions Field was too wet, especially in the outfield, to play Tuesday's scheduled Jayhawk Conference-Eastern Division doubleheader with Independence. The teams will try to play this afternoon at 2 p.m. Thursday, the Greyhounds (21-16) go to Highland for another conference doubleheader...

100 YEARS AGO (1908) Some of the Reverend Mackenzie's ministerial friends are laughing over a predicament in which he found himself today. He brought his Sunday trousers downtown and had them nicely pressed. On the way back home he stopped at Planck's Hardware Store and asked to leave the bundle there for a time. ...

Dear Editor: Using the term "clean coal" is like saying "non-addictive nicotine" or "sweet smelling hog manure." There just isn't any such. Coal trains pass through Southeast Kansas every 15 minutes on their way to coal fired plants at Riverton, just across the state line in Oklahoma and Missouri. ...

Acne, cough due to a cold, athlete's foot, hemorrhoids, itching from insect bites, and minor aches and pains of muscles and joints -- these are among the conditions that people treat by applying over-the-counter (OTC) creams and ointments to their skin. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) urges consumers to keep safety in mind when using such treatments...

The March 21, 2008 meeting of the Molly Foster Berry Chapter NSDAR was held at the DAR Room in Memorial Hall. The meeting was called to order by the Regent, Mary Ann French with the opening ritual, Pledge of Allegiance, and the Americans Creed. The President General's Message was read by the Regent, National Defense Report was given by Nolene Whiteside. ...

The Senior Swingers at the Monday Night dance at Buck Run Community Center were in real good condition and ready to do their best for the dancers. It rained a little and no doubt, a few people stayed home on account of the weather that was predicted...

Erma Eastwood and Rosanna Broughton were hostess April 1, eight members answered roll call telling of an April fool prank. Pres. Retta Smith called for Sec. and Treas. reports. Julia Ann Rhoton led the Flag Salute and Ednamarie the collect. A card was signed and sent to ill member Elizabeth Lundberg. The club will have the quilt show May 24 at the city hall at 9:30 until 12:30. Pick up quilts by 12:30. The club will participate in games for the kids...

Rhoades Stewart earned State Championship honors (first place) at the 2008 USA Kids Kansas State Wrestling Championship Tournament. This was held March 28-30 held at the Kansas Expocenter in Topeka, Kansas. USA Wrestling divides Kansas into four districts and the top four wrestler's in each district are invited to compete at this state championship tournament. ...

Area law enforcement officers will conduct a sobriety checkpoint this weekend in the Fort Scott area. In a joint effort, the Kansas Highway Patrol, the Fort Scott Police Department and the Bourbon County Sheriff's Office plan to conduct the check point starting on Saturday...

HULL-- Zoey Elizabeth Hull, a girl, was born at Mercy Health Center in Fort Scott, at 5:57 a.m. Monday, April 7, 2008, to parents Joe Dean Hull III and Tiffani Lynn Hull, Fort Scott. She weighed 8 pounds at birth. She joins one sibling, Camryn Paige Davis, a sister. ...

Lenora Bell "Toby" Smith Van Vlack of LaCygne, died Sunday, April 6, 2008, at her home in LaCygne. Toby was born Dec. 27, 1934, to Joe and Lenora "Peachy" Smith. She was one of six children. She grew up in Louisburg. Funeral services will be held 1 p.m. Friday, April 11, 2008, at the LaCygne United Methodist Church. Burial will be in the Jingo Cemetery...

Tribune Staff Report _ Students in the nursing program at Fort Scott Community College have been awarded a letter and certificate for their outstanding test scores on the National Council Licensure Examination, FSCC officials said. The NCLEX-RN is administered by the National Council of State Boards of Nursing, which recognizes those schools whose students have achieved pass rates that are above the national average...

Double K Construction Co., Mound City, is finishing the upstairs area of the new east side fire station that will provide a training room for city emergency personnel. On Friday, the Fort Scott City Commission unanimously approved a contract change order for around $60,000 to finish the upstairs...

Next month, the race is on in Fort Scott. Buck Run Community Center, the Fort Scott Area Chamber of Commerce, the Fort Scott Historic Preservation Society, the Scottish Knights of Saint Andrew and the Scottish Rite Masons have teamed with the Disney Corporation and other local businesses to bring the "Race for the Hidden Treasures of Fort Scott" to the public. The city-wide race is scheduled to start at 11 a.m. Saturday, May 24, at BRCC, 735 Scott Ave...

A group of local junior high students recently learned, through the life of a Holocaust survivor, about the systematic persecution and murder of Jews that took place in Europe under the German Nazi regime from 1941 to 1945. Fort Scott Christian Heights Junior High School students Theresa Schafer, Elizabeth Wallace and David Cox, with the help of their teacher Karen Schellack and the Lowell Milken Center, created and performed a skit about the life of Holocaust survivor Bronia Roslawowski on March 1 at the district Kansas History Day competition conducted at Fort Scott Community College.. ...

PARSONS -- Fort Scott High School's tennis team took third place in Labette County High School's five-team tournament here Tuesday. Weather permitting, the Tigers will return here today for a tournament hosted by Parsons High School. "It was nice to get this one in with all the rainouts we had last week," Fort Scott head coach Lynn Barr said. ...

CHICOPEE -- Fort Scott High's golfers won their first tournament title of the season at Crestwood Country Club here Tuesday, shooting 323 as a team to take the Pittsburg Invitational. Pittsburg finished just three strokes back at 326. Nevada was third at 335...

Fort Scott Community College and Independence beat Wednesday's thunderstorm long enough to get in one game of a scheduled Jayhawk Conference-Eastern Division doubleheader at Lions Field Wednesday afternoon. "It was nice to win one of those at the end," Fort Scott head coach Chris Moddelmog said. "We haven't done that in a while."...