Stories from Tuesday, September 14, 2010

PITTSBURG -- Pleasanton's volleyball won 1 of 3 matches at the Colgan Tournament here Saturday. The Blu-Jays lost to Liberal (Mo.) 25-7, 25-13; defeated Colgan 25-19; 25-17; and lost to Baxter Springs, 25-14, 25-23. According to Pleasanton coach Danny Looney, this was the first time a Blu-Jay girls' team has defeated Colgan in any sport in 10 years. Megan Lowe had 10 kills in that match...

TOPEKA -- The Democratic Kansas Gubernatorial Nominee was informed Thursday that his chances to win this November could be much more difficult. Democratic candidate Tom Holland and running mate Kelly Kultala heard from the national Democratic Governors Association that they will be on their own in their election effort this fall...

Family Career and Community Leaders of American members from across the state recently came together to learn how to be active and involved members and officers at the Take Active Involved Members (AIM) Leadership Conference. The conference took place Aug. 29-30 at Webster Conference Center in Salina. Representing the Fort Scott High School FCCLA chapter at the event were four FCCLA members and chapter adviser Rita Nienstedt...

Members of the Fort Scott Community College jazz band plan to spend this fall and winter lending a helping hand in the community. The FSCC band is once again sponsoring the Rend-A-Kid program, a fundraiser in which students raise money for educational travel expenses and the music department. In the program, band members rent themselves out to the community to perform basic chores for minimum wage. Local residents can rent a band student through March 2011...

According to a report by Nadia Ramdass of KENS 5, a television station in San Antonio, Texas, a local man was arrested after abandoning a trailer holding seven horses in San Antonio. According to the San Antonio Police Department, Justin Harvey, 41, of Fort Scott was arrested Sept. 2 and charged with cruelty to livestock. He later posted $5,000 bond...

Opal E. Wimmer, age 96, a resident of Fort Scott, Kansas, died Monday, September 13, 2010, at the Freeman West Hospital in Joplin, Missouri. Funeral services will be announced by the Cheney Witt Memorial Chapel, 201 S. Main, Fort Scott, Kansas.

MIZE -- Nicollette Greenway and Bryan Mize Jr., Uniontown, are proud to announce the birth of their son, Bentley Alexander Orlando Mize. Bentley was born at 5:50 p.m., Sept. 8, 2010 at Mercy Health Center in Fort Scott. He weighed 7 pounds, 2 ounces and was 20 inches in length at birth...

KOPPA -- Derek Koppa and Randi Shaw, Fort Scott, are proud to announce the birth of their daughter, Brylynn Renae Koppa. Brylynn was born at 9:09 p.m., Sept. 10, 2010 at Overland Park Regional Medical Center, Overland Park, Kan. She weighed 6 pounds, 14 ounces and was 18 inches in length at birth...

SCHARENBERG -- Dan and Christy Scharenberg, Auburn, Calif., and siblings Joel, Serenity, and Klaus, are proud to announce the birth of their son and baby brother, Sasha Oliver Scharenberg. Sasha was born at 3:52 a.m., August 30, 2010 at Sutter Auburn Hospital, Auburn, Calif...

Eunice L. Russell, age 95, a resident of rural Redfield, Kan., died Saturday, Sept. 11, 2010, at her home. She was born Oct. 17, 1914, in Rich Hill, Mo., the daughter of Ulysses Simpson Grant Stine and Leona King Stine. Eunice graduated from Uniontown High School in 1933...

Communities and governments routinely plan and prepare for disasters which might happen. Families also need to have a plan for dealing with anything from a spring tornado, winter ice storm, an extended power outage, or a fire. September is National Preparedness Month, designated by the U.S. ...

The following story was sent to me by a friend. It reminded me so much of my Grandma Coleman. She, too, used her apron for many of the things mentioned in this story. It brought back a lot of memories for me and thought you all (especially you ole timers) might enjoy it, too...

Lou and Betty Dehn took their twin grandsons, Lance and Landon Long of Marshall, Mo., to visit their great -grandparents, Earl and Ollie Hill in Versailles, Mo. The elder couple celebrated their 54th Wedding Anniverary on the first of September. In the 1935 news column via Nell Dikeman, The Fort Scott Tribune, the lucky winner of the $40 drawing 75 years ago was Ward Lakin, a former resident of Arcadia. This was awarded in the Liberty Theater in Fort Scott...

Tickets for the Second Annual Ropin' and Rockin' for Pennies for the Park are now on sale. The event hosted by the Arizona Diamondbacks first basemen Adam LaRoche and family, with the help of the Youth Activities Team, is set to feature Capitol Records artist Luke Bryan. The concert will begin at 7 p.m., Nov. 13. General admission tickets are $26 for advance purchase and $36 for tickets purchased at the gate the day of the event...

Nick Woods' 9-yard touchdown run early in the fourth quarter gave Fort Scott Community College the lead and the Greyhounds were able to hold off Independence by a 14-12 score in Jayhawk Conference play at Frary FIeld Saturday afternoon. The first victory of the season was the 30th at FSCC for head coach Jeff Sims, who became just the fourth coach to reach that mark here. Warren Littrell (1931-36) and Jack Welch (1987-92) each won 36 games and Harold Mahanes (1961-65) also won 30 games...

The Mercy Health Center Foundation will begin a $250,000 campaign to benefit the expansion of Mercy's Cancer Care center with a special event on Saturday, Oct. 2, at the Liberty Theatre, 113 S. Main St. The event will feature live music from Disco Dick and the Mirrorballs, a Kansas City-based band specializing in music from the 1970s and 80s. The Cancer Center of Kansas and the Liberty Theatre are co-sponsors of the event...

Fresh off the success of last weekend's Airport Day activities, the Fort Scott Municipal Airport will be full of aircrafts for four more days. After four years of planning, Fort Scott Municipal Airport Manager Kenny Howard and staff will host the Red Star Pilot Association's formation training clinic. ...

Fort Scott High's junior varsity tennis team finished third in its home tournament Monday with Independence claiming first place and Pittsburg finishing second. Fort Scott coach Lynn Barr had a regular four-entry team, which was dubbed Fort Scott Red, and two extras for Fort Scott White. Chanute and Labette County also brought extra players, which allowed each division to have six entries...

Last week, an 0-2 record was not enough to knock Fort Scott Community College's football team out of the NJCAA/ jcfootball. com Top 20 poll. This week, a victory over Independence wasn't enough to keep the Greyhounds in it. The Greyhounds' 14-12 victory gave them their first victory of the season after losses to No. 1 Blinn and No. 6 Butler (the teams' rankings at the time they faced FSCC)...

The Kansas Department of Health and Environment's Bureau of Oral Health was recently awarded more than $1.2 million in federal grants for this year. "We're delighted to be able to begin new initiatives in Kansas," KDHE Secretary Roderick Bremby said in a news release. "These resources will give us the opportunity to ensure that our youngest Kansans have excellent oral health."...