Stories from Tuesday, January 18, 2011

ARKANSAS CITY -- Fort Scott Community College's basketball team were swept by Cowley College in a Jayhawk Conference-Eastern Division doubleheader here Saturday night. Fort Scott's women lost to Cowley, 68-47. Greyhound men lost to the Tigers, 66-54...

BASEHOR -- Three members of Fort Scott High School's wrestling team earned medals at the always-tough Basehor-Linwood Bobcat Classic here over the weekend. The Tigers finished 17th out of 34 schools. However, each of the top seven finishers and 12 of the teams present are ranked by their respective state's associations...

A Breakfast Club for Alzheimer's Caregivers will meet in Fort Scott at 9 a.m. Wednesday, Jan. 19 in the Xavier Room at Mercy Hospital. The breakfast club offers an opportunity to talk to individuals who share similar issues while enjoying a free breakfast...

The 2011 annual meeting of the Bourbon County Conservation District will be held Saturday, Jan. 22 at the Uniontown High School commons area. Registration begins at 6 p.m. and dinner will be served at 6:30 p.m. The program will consist of a short business meeting to elect two supervisors and presentations of awards to students winning the poster, essay and limerick contests. ...

Plans for the Feb. 5 Take Charge Challenge kick-off -- titled Super Bulb Party -- are coming together. The theme ties in with the Super Bowl, scheduled for Feb. 6. The Take Charge Challenge is a contest between 16 communities in four regions of Kansas to see who can achieve the greatest reduction in residential and small-business energy use from January to October...

By Ruth Campbell The Fort Scott Tribune Spirituals, readings, praise dancing with history sprinkled in made up the evening celebration of Martin Luther King Day at Fort Scott Community College Monday. An estimated 70-100 people turned out for the program titled "I Rise: A estimony of Commitment and Sacrifice for Civil Rights" performed at the Danny and Willa Ellis Family Fine Arts Center on campus. ...

With winter weather setting in, it is important for residents to be aware of the common causes of structure fires. Fort Scott Fire Chief Paul Ballou said residents should make a habit of checking and cleaning heaters each year to prevent any build up of dirt and lint in the system. He added residents who use wood-burning furnaces should make sure to clean the flue every year to prevent build-up which could lead to a fire...

A special version of Old Glory will be making its way to Fort Scott later this month. The Patriot Flag, a 30-by-58-foot, 60-pound United States flag, is scheduled to arrive in Fort Scott and be displayed at the Fort Scott National Historic Site the weekend of Jan. 29-30, when the site will be conducting a series of events to celebrate the 150th anniversary of Kansas statehood and the start of the Civil War...

Dorothy Lorene McCoy Gaston, age 87, Amoret, Mo., died Saturday, Jan. 15, 2011 at Pershing Hospital in Brookfield, Mo. Funeral services will be held 2 p.m., Thursday, Jan. 20, 2011 at the Amoret Christian Church. Burial will be in the Benjamin Cemetery...

Herman W. Tyler, 89, of Arcadia, died at 4:08 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 16, 2011 at Via Christi Hospital at Pittsburg, Kan. Mr. Tyler was born Oct. 23, 1921 at El Dorado Springs, Mo., the son of Fred and Grace Myers Tyler. Herman worked for Dunton's Furniture Store in Arcadia and later as a truck driver for Crawford County Highway Department...

One snowy day last week a group of individuals who help in planning the Walk Kansas program met with me to make plans for the 10th annual fitness challenge sponsored by Kansas State University Research and Extension. While the weather hasn't been good for outdoor activity, planning for Walk Kansas means spring can't be far away...

I hadn't meant for my column this week to be a continuation of last week's "men's shopping" but it just sort of happened. When I go shopping I would much rather go by myself than with Bob. To digress a bit, before Bob retired I would be shopping and see all of these women and their husbands shopping, especially grocery shopping and I would think to myself, "Isn't that nice I can hardly wait 'til Bob retires so he can go shopping with me."...

During the holiday season, Mr. and Mrs. John Parrish of Pittsburg with their son Wayne Parrish, rural Arcadia and daughter, Janet and Mark Vanleeuwen of St. Paul, Kan., drove to Tulsa, Okla., and attended the wedding of Brian and Rachael Gaines. The groom is the son of Donnetta and Walter Parrish from Texas. Walter is the son of John and Vera Parish...

Margaret Louise Hart, age 69, a former resident of Fort Scott, Kan., and Omaha, Neb., and more recently of Sun City West, Ariz., died Wednesday, Jan. 12, 2011, at the Del E. Webb Memorial Hospital in Sun City West. She was born Oct. 30, 1941, in Fort Scott, Kan., the only child of Mellon Stell and Wanda Marie Partee Stell...

Michael G. Colvin, age 45, resident of Garland, Kan., died early Sunday, Jan. 16, 2011, at St. John's Regional Medical Center in Joplin, Mo. He was born Dec. 12, 1965, in Fort Scott, the son of Jack Colvin and Shirley Richmond Colvin. Mike was a 1984 graduate of Fort Scott High School...