Stories from Wednesday, May 5, 2010

INDIANAPOLIS -- JW Meech, a 2010 graduate of Fort Scott High School, has been awarded a $1,000 scholarship by Shepherd Team Auto Plaza and Ford Motor Company. Meech's parents are Jim Meech and Marita Meech of Fort Scott. Meech plans to study Equine Science at Northeast Oklahoma A&M...

By Katie Hueston The Fort Scott Tribune _ Area residents interested in collecting rain water for the purpose of conserving water attended a Rain Barrel Make & Take workshop, Thursday, April 22, at the Bourbon County Fair grounds. The workshop, hosted on Earth Day by the Extension Councils, Conservation Districts and Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) Offices of Bourbon and Linn Counties, had more than 60 people in attendance...

The Uniontown High School Fellowship of Christian Athletes will conduct the annual Baccalaureate Service at 5:45 p.m., Tuesday, May 11, at the West Bourbon Elementary Gymnasium. This year's speaker is Joe Banker. Joe graduated from high school in Miami, Okla., in 1999, from NEO A&M College in 2001 and from Ozark Christian College, Joplin, Mo., in 2004 with a Bachelor's in Biblical Literature. ...

The graduating class of 2010 of the Fort Scott High School would like to announce that it will be holding a Baccalaureate service on Saturday, May 15, at 4 p.m. The service will be held at the FSHS gymnasium. The speakers this year will be members of the graduating class...

Marvin Wilbert Cole, age 93, LaCygne, Kan., died Monday, May 3, 2010 at Life Care Center in Osawatomie, Kan. He was born on Aug. 5, 1916 at Paola, Kan., the son of Pete and Clara Loftis Cole. He married Alta Bergman on April 1, 1936 at Paola, Kan. He worked as a car man for the Missouri Pacific Railroad before retirement...