Stories from Friday, April 11, 2008

100 YEARS AGO (1908) City Clerk Brown wants to see the alley near Odd Fellows Hall cleaned up before the Odd Fellow meeting, the 25th. The alley there is a dumping ground for a festering lot of accumulations and the clerk wants the place cleaned as, the hundreds of visitors who will be here for the reunion, will have to pass by this place many times...

To the Editor, The Phoenix Project sounds good, but what about the repairs the buildings need. Before we put in new street lights and repair the sidewalks and streets, we need to remodel the buildings and put in fire alarms and burglar alarms. We need to bring the buildings up to code and the 21st century. ...

OUR RESPONSE: What are you doing about it? By Tabatha Goodwin Special Projects Manager The Nevada Daily Mail The Fort Scott Tribune I hear it time and time again. "Why are people doing this to the community? Why don't they do this instead? This is more important."...

Native American culture will be the highlight of a special performance next week at Fort Scott Community College. The Fast Horse family, a Native American family of performers from Minnesota, will bring their entertaining show to Fort Scott with a performance scheduled for 7 p.m. ...

A group of local fifth graders will endeavor to prove to area residents that they are smarter than local health care professionals. Mercy Health Center will sponsor its third 2008 Spirit of Women event, "Are You Smarter than a Fifth Grader?" at 6:30 p.m. April 17, at the Liberty Theatre, 113 S. Main St. The event, which is also referred to as "Get Stronger, Get Smarter," is Mercy's latest endeavor to help women become more knowledgeable about their health and that of their families...

Area students have until May 1 to enter the second annual Echoes of the Trail cowboy/cowgirl poetry contest. Winners will be announced during the 12th annual Echoes of the Trail Cowboy Poetry Gathering and Celebration of the West at Fort Scott Community College, June 13-15. Any child in the fifth or sixth grade in a five-county area can enter the contest with an original western poem...

The Youth Activities Team will be accepting donations from the community to sell at their "Pennies for the Park" garage sale Saturday, April 12. Donations can be dropped off at Buck Run Friday, anytime after noon. On Saturday, most items, with the exception of larger items, will be sold by free-will donations to the Ellis Park Project. ...

Fort Scott Christian Heights senior high school students will be performing "The Old Faith, Hope and Charity," written by Pat Cook, at 7 p.m. on Friday, April 11 and Saturday, April 12, in the Fort Scott Christian Heights gymnasium, 1101 S. Barbee.The two-act play tells the story about an elderly country doctor, who plays an important role in a small town. ...

Military members from all branches of service, their dependents and military retirees in southeast Kansas who are in need of Identification Common Access Cards will be afforded an opportunity to obtain one without the need to travel to Topeka, Leavenworth or Wichita...

ALBRIGHT -- Annabel Rae Albright, a girl, was born at Iowa Methodist Medical Center in Des Moines, Iowa, at 9:51 p.m., Wednesday, April 9, 2008, to parents Ronald F. "Chip" and Jennifer Albright, Des Moines, Iowa. She weighed 9 pounds, 4.5 ounces at birth. ...

The public is invited the week of April 13-18 to attend a meeting with the church of Christ that meets at 1900 S. Margrave, located one block south of the National Cemetery in Fort Scott. A series of basic Bible lessons on the subject of the New Testament church will be presented. ...

Continuous rounds of thunderstorms that have dumped torrential rainfall for several days in Southeast Kansas have created the threat for major flooding. In Bourbon County, the flooding situation isn't severe, yet. "We're not in big-time trouble yet, but the rivers are coming up," Sheriff Harold Coleman said...