Stories from Friday, February 12, 2010

Members of the Future Business Leaders of America organization at Fort Scott High School attended district contests to compete against 16 other schools on Feb. 4 at Cherryvale High School. FSHS students who placed at the contest and the events they competed in include Jimmy Cox, who finished first in computer problem solving, first in cyber security and first in technology concepts; Alex Pemberton, who placed first in economics, first in business calculations, first in personal finance and third in business law; Matt Carrillo, who finished first in impromptu speaking; Tony Jackson, who placed first in sports management, fourth in business communications and fourth in business procedures; Kenzie Heatherly, who placed second in introduction to business and sixth in sports management; Colton Grillott, who finished fourth in sports management and fifth in business calculations; Libby Halsey, who placed fourth in business procedures; Dillon Peel, who finished fifth in business procedures; and Ben Bristley, who placed fifth in personal finance and fifth in business communications.. ...

Mercy Health System of Kansas is climbing on board the effort to provide relief in Haiti. On Saturday, a plane loaded with $55,000 worth of medical supplies departed from the Spirit of St. Louis Airport near St. Louis, Mo., for Hopital Sacré Coeur, a hospital in Milot, Haiti. ...

WASHINGTON -- U.S. Senators Sam Brownback, R-Kan., and John Cornyn, R-Texas, announced Thursday the introduction of legislation to support efforts by Iranian opposition groups to remove the abusive and destabilizing government regime in Tehran, which is headed by Supreme Leader Ali Hoseyni Khamenei and President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. ...

After nearly a year, the female inmates at the Southeast Kansas Regional Correctional Center are being sent back to another correctional facility. According to SEKRCC Director of Security Jimmy Nichols, a growing male population led to Bourbon County Sheriff Ron Gray's decision to send the 15 female inmates back to Cherokee County...

Holiday celebrated in different ways among families

Margaret Louise Nevius, age 71, of Fort Scott, passed away on Sunday, Feb. 7, 2010. Margaret was born on March 14, 1939 the daughter of Hazel and Walter Homes. She is survived by four siblings: Kelley Holmes, Fort Scott, Norman Coureton, Overland Park, Maxine Berneck, Cortez, Colo., and Carol Nichols, Parker. She is also survived by three children: Leroy Porter, Joplin, Jolene Carpenter, Rhode Island, and Kimberly Hogan, Lexington, Mo., 10 grandchildren and one great-grandchild...

Lucille Jewsbury, age 76, resident of rural Fort Scott, died unexpectedly Thursday, Feb. 11, 2010, at Mercy Health Center. She was born on Feb. 23, 1933, the daughter of Tella Andrew "Andy" and Maude Fern Feezell Toler. She married Charles Jewsbury on Aug. 18, 1952, in Gravette, Ark...

MILBURN -- Jeremy and Alison Milburn are proud to announce the birth of their son, Kooper Douglas Milburn. Kooper was born at 8:10 a.m., Thursday, Feb. 11, 2010 at Mercy Health Center in Fort Scott. He weighed 7 pounds, and was 20 1/2 inches in length at birth...

OGRAN -- Jodi Hardin and Maxwell Ogran, Fort Scott, are proud to announce the birth of their son, Lukas Lee Ogran. Lukas was born at 3:46 p.m., Wednesday, Feb. 10, 2010 at Mercy Health Center in Fort Scott. He weighed 6 pounds, 15 1/2 ounces at birth...

LANCE -- Katie and Hank Lance, along with their parents John and Cara Lance, of Leavenworth, are proud to announce the birth of a sister and daughter, Maggie Kaiya Lance. Maggie was born on Feb. 2, 2010 at Shawnee Mission Medical Center, Overland Park...

Lavon Hazledeene Coleman, 88, died Thursday morning, Feb. 11, 2010 at the Prescott Country View Nursing Home. Funeral arrangements are incomplete and will be announced by the Konantz-Cheney Funeral Home.

Dorothy Clarice Leavell, 88, Lamar, Mo., passed away Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2010 at 5:52 a.m. at the Barton County Memorial Hospital in Lamar, Mo. Services will be Friday, Feb. 12, 2010 at 2 p.m. at the Sheldon Baptist Church in Sheldon, Mo., with burial in the Sheldon Cemetery. Pastor Jerod Lamb will officiate...

During the Civil War, "Robbing & Plundering" were common place and were committed by soldiers in both Blue and Gray, Guerrillas, Redlegs, Jayhawkers, Bushwhackers, Civilian Vigilantes and Outlaws in Kansas and Missouri. This of course complicated and frustrated the Union peace keeping forces in the Jayhawker state of Kansas and the Bushwhacker state of Missouri. ...

Socrates once said, "The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be." Wouldn't it be wonderful if we were as nice and loving every day as we try to be on Valentine's Day? If we couldn't wait to make someone else smile, if hearts were shared and not broken, and if it were all about the OTHER person instead of about us?...