Stories from Wednesday, October 6, 2010

GARNETT -- Fort Scott High School's golf team finished in fourth place at the 18-hole Anderson County Invitational here Monday in their final regular-season tournament before next Monday's Regional at Chanute. This tournament also served as the final tournament to determine All-SE-KAN area honors. ...

When the seventh-ranked Nebraska Cornhuskers and the undefeated Kansas State Wildcats meet this Thursday night in Manhattan, there will be several familiar faces and names on both sidelines. Eight former Fort Scott Community College Greyhounds will be in uniform for the nationally-televised Big 12 clash of unbeatens which could make a big statement of who wins the Big 12 North Division. Both teams go into Thursday night's game with identical 4-0 records...

MinniePearl Foster, age 68, a resident of Fulton, Kan., died Monday, Oct. 4, 2010, at the Freeman Hospital West in Joplin, Mo. Since November 2009, MinniePearl had made her home at the Moore-Few Care Center in Nevada, Mo. She was born March 19, 1942, at Pueblo County, Colorado, the daughter of Joseph August Henjes and Blanche Elizabeth Nicholson Henjes...

Lindsey Huseman has been named as the 2010 state winner of the Outstanding New Career and Technical Teacher award from the Kansas Association for Career and Technical Education (K-ACTE). The awards ceremony took place during the Summer Conference of the K-ACTE on Aug. 2, in Overland Park...

The September meeting of the Uniontown 4-H club was called to order by President Holli Mason. Thirteen members answered roll call by telling their "favorite school subject." Jana and Kelli Wilkinson led the pledges. Caitlin Jackson, club secretary, read the minutes of the August meeting. Amber Bartlett gave the treasurers report and Cole George gave the reporters report. Drew George and Seth Bartlett reported on the council meeting...

LARRABEE -- Marie and Micheal Larrabee, Fort Scott, and big sister Mackinzie, are proud to announce the birth of their son and brother, Mikeal Louis Larrabee. Mikeal was born at 2:53 p.m., Sept. 27, 2010 at Mercy Health Center in Fort Scott. He weighed 7 pounds, 7.5 ounces at birth...

CAMPBELL -- Brett and Kayla Campbell, Pittsburg, are proud to announce the birth of their daughter, Brecken Caylor Campbell. Brecken was born at 12:32 p.m., Oct. 5, 2010 at Mercy Health Center in Fort Scott. She weighed 7 pounds, 4 ounces at birth. Maternal grandparents are Donnie and Donna Griffiths, Bronson...

DeMOTT -- Trevor and Sarah DeMott, Fort Scott; and siblings Kaden, Garen and Jaxen, are proud to announce the birth of their son and brother, Tasen Dale DeMott. Tasen was born at 11:46 a.m., Oct. 4, 2010, at Mercy Health Center in Fort Scott. He weighed 7 pounds, 11 ounces at birth...

David and Patricia (Jennings) Mullies will be celebrating their 50th Wedding Anniversary on Oct. 15. They were married at The Christian Church in Rich Hill, Mo., in 1960. David and Patricia have two children: Lisa (and Rich) George of Elmhurst, Ill.; and John (and Carrie) Mullies of Olathe...

Tribune Michael Richardson, chef and author of "The Best of Cottey Cooking," will sign books and talk about his culinary experiences from 4 p.m.-7 p.m. Oct. 12 at life + style, 22 N. Main St., Fort Scott. Richardson has cooked thousands of meals in his 18 years at Cottey College, including breakfasts, lunches, dinners and for many special events. He has been called "an artist who expresses his talents through the preparation and presentation of food," a news release said...

More than 100 residents pulled up to the front doors of the First United Methodist Church to get a shot in the arm. Bourbon County Public Health Nurse Alice Maffitt said that the approximately 130 residents who participated in Wednesday's annual drive-thru flu shot clinic signified a great turnout. The clinic was sponsored by the Southeast Kansas Multi-County Health Department...

USD 234 Superintendent Rick Werling is calling a recent reported incident involving a local first-grader's art project a "misunderstanding" and "unfortunate." On Monday, Dallas Smith, a 6-year-old student, who is black, came home from school wearing a white, cone-shaped mask he made in art class at Winfield Scott Elementary School. This upset his parents who thought the mask resembled a Ku Klux Klan hat, according to a report Wednesday by NBC Action News reporter Larry Seward...

KSEK-FM Radio (99.1) will broadcast selected Fort Scott Community College men's and women's basketball games during the 2010-11 season. A total of 11 conference doubleheaders -- including all nine played at Arnold Arena -- will be broadcast this season...

Phil S. Dixon will be appearing at Books & Grannies, 11 N. Main, from 1 to 3 p.m. Saturday to talk about the Kansas City Monarchs and his new book on the team "Wilber 'Bullet' Rogan and the Kansas City Monarchs". The book both a biography of Rogan and a history of the Monarchs teams he played for between 1920 and 1938...

PLEASANTON -- Uniontown's volleyball team, ranked No. 5 in Class 3A by the Kansas Volleyball Association, swept Pleasanton and Crest in a Three Rivers League triangular here Tuesday night while the host Blu-Jays were able to salvage a split by defeating Crest...

Fort Scott Community College's volleyball team played perhaps its best set of the season during a Jayhawk Conference-Eastern Division match with Butler at Arnold Arena Wednesday night. But the Greyhounds' inconsistency in the other four sets allowed the Grizzlies to escape with a 3-2 verdict...