Stories from Wednesday, July 16, 2008

Summer is here and the temperature is rising, which must mean it's time for the county fair! Kansas weather in July and August tends to be on the hot side. Heat can not only be uncomfortable; it can be deadly. According to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), each year more people die from "excessive heat events" than from hurricanes, lightning, tornadoes, floods, and earthquakes combined...

We had a very pleasant evening for the senior citizen Monday night dance at Buck Run Community Center. The count was a few less than the last week, but, the music and singers were good. The band entertained at the Gazebo last Friday and the report was good. They were asked to come back again this fall...

The Tucker Family will be performing Friday night, 7:30 p.m., at the Pavilion. Jimmy and Carolyn first met at a concert and were later married in 1980. Music ministry in diverse venues has always been a part of their lives together. Jimmy, a preacher's son, has sung sacred music since childhood...

The Bourbon County Chapter of the American Red Cross announces a new program, The Westar Energy Fan Program, to help qualifying families and individuals in the Bourbon County Area. The program offers free fans to be disbursed to qualifying families and individuals, based off of qualification guidelines...

Arrest Reports Police Reports...

100 YEARS AGO (1908) TOPEKA -- Twenty-one of Topeka's business men, including the proprietors of cigar stores, confectionery stores and Sunday newspaper men, are to be arrested today charged with violating the Sunday labor laws. Theatrical managers, whose houses had been closed, swore to the complaints. The city council today met and declared ice cream, cigar and soda water sales before 9 o'clock on Sundays are not labor law violation...

"It's kind of fun to do the impossible," -- Walt Disney (1901-1966) -- Entrepreneur, movie producer and showman. As if by magic I received this quote this morning. I've been wondering how to begin this editorial regarding the huge success recently attained by the Fort Scott community and the Youth Activities Team (YAT). When I saw this quote I knew I had my start...

SEK, Inc., the Business & Technology Institute at Pittsburg State University and the Southeast Kansas Prosperity Foundation, are currently seeking applications for the Regional Leadership Academy. The Regional Leadership Academy (RLA) is a concept that is designed to address the need for community leaders. ...

The 2008 Four State Farm Show is soon to be off and running on a fast track. Set for July 18,19 and 20, just south of Pittsburg, the area's premier agricultural event heads into its 34th year with another huge show in the making. The 25-acre Farm Show site is expected to overflow with a vast array of farm equipment, seed, feed, agrichemicals, livestock, farm buildings, grain and feed bins, livestock handling equipment, tires, tools, trailers and much more. ...

Area residents who wish to vote in the upcoming primary election are running out of time to register to vote. According to Bourbon County Clerk Joanne Long, new voters and anyone who has moved or changed their name must register to vote. Registrations must be completed by no later than 4:30 p.m., Monday, July 21, in order to vote in the primary election which takes place Tuesday, Aug. 5...

Although several of Fort Scott's downtown roads are impassible due to construction, the inconveniences that downtown business owners and passing motorists must endure are expected to fade when the Phoenix Downtown Redevelopment Committee's StreetScape Project is complete...

An upcoming show in the local Christian Concert Series will benefit the continuing "Pennies for the Park" fundraiser, concert organizers said. Downhere, an award-winning Christian rock group from Canada, will perform several of their popular songs during a concert scheduled for 7 p.m. Friday, July 25 at Memorial Hall, 1 E. Third St. The concert is sponsored by the Christian Concert Series and the Fort Scott Nazarene Church...