Stories from Thursday, October 29, 2009

Tribune Staff Report The Photos for Food Halloween Portrait Event is scheduled to take place from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday at Memory Lane Photography, 1216 S. Burke St. During the event, local residents can bring family members, kids or pets to be photographed in their Halloween costumes. The event is for a good cause as well, as food items may be donated to help needy families in Fort Scott and Nevada, Mo...

Some culling of beef cows occurs in most herds every year. The Beef Audits have generally shown that cull cows, bulls, and cull dairy cows make up about 20 percent of the beef available for consumption in the United States. About half of this group (or 10 percent of the beef supply) comes from cull beef cows...

Trying to get some things done to the outside of my house this fall is causing me to feel empathy for area farmers trying now to harvest crops. By definition, empathy is " the action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another" I am not trying to harvest a crop, but simply wanting to put some paint on one side of my house. ...

Marty Ray Lord, age 48, resident of Uniontown, Kan., went to join his son, Austin, in heaven on Oct. 27, 2009, at his home in Uniontown, following a short illness. He was born September 17, 1961, at Alva, Okla., the son of Earnest M. and Hazel Mae Bergen Lord...

Emma Jean "Jimmy" Graham, age 86, former resident of Uniontown, Kan., died Tuesday morning, Oct. 27, 2009, at the Heritage Nursing Home in Girard, Kan.. She was born May 31, 1923, in Fowler, Colo., the daughter of Christian and Belle Weeks Sinding. She eloped with Forest Graham in 1940 in Raton, New Mexico...

Please note the change in time for the funeral services of Cynthia Stringer. Rev. Alan Johnson will conduct funeral services at 10 a.m., Friday in the First Church of the Nazarene in Rogers, Ark. The family will receive friends from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Thursday at the church...