Stories from Thursday, July 12, 2012

Tony Pino, president and chief operating officer of Cobalt MedPlans, received the 2012 Mentor of the Year award from the College of Business Administration at Kansas State University where he is an executive leadership mentor teaching students important aspects of professional life, including attitude, professionalism and work ethic...

The Bourbon County Fair is coming up next week, the swim team has already completed all four of its scheduled meets in the new pool complex, most of the local baseball/softball leagues are in the final few weeks of league play and the hot and dry reality of 2012 blasts through another week. Another memorable summer for sure...

Growing conditions that are conducive to nitrate or prussic acid poisoning occur often in Kansas. Both poisonings are associated with forage and grain sorghums, sudan grass and sorghum-sudan hybrids. Both conditions are more likely in stressed plants and result in asphyxiation of the animal. Distinct differences do exist, however, and need to be understood to prevent or manage problems...

Esther Secrest will be celebrating her 95th birthday. Help her celebrate this special day July 15 from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. at Medicalodges. Birthday wishes and cards may be sent to Medicalodges, c/o Esther Secrest, 915 S. Horton, Fort Scott, Kan., 66701...

Tambria Lea Thompson, 44, Fort Scott, was arrested at 10:41 p.m. Tuesday by the Bourbon County Sheriff's Office for criminal trespass and obstructing the legal process and is still being held at this time. Sally Ruth Jones, 42, Fort Scott, was arrested at 10:44 a.m. Tuesday by the Kansas Highway Patrol for driving while suspended and was released at 1:56 p.m. Tuesday on a $1,250 bond...

100 YEARS AGO (1912) A number of residents of the West Liberty neighborhood spent yesterday afternoon in Fort Scott raising funds for the employment of the Fort Scott Band at the candidates' picnic to be held at West Liberty on the 25th. The necessary amount was raised within a short time and the band has been employed for the day. ...

A breakfast club for Alzheimer's caregivers will meet at 9 a.m. July 18 in the Xavier Room at Mercy Hospital. The breakfast club offers a chance to talk with individuals who share similar issues while enjoying a free breakfast. Anyone may attend who serves as a caregiver to someone with a dementia like Alzheimer's...

A Fort Scott man was transported via medical helicopter to Joplin, Mo., following a two-vehicle accident Tuesday evening on U.S. Highway 69, Kansas Highway Patrol officials said. Eddie Harrison, 38, of Fort Scott, was taken to Freeman Hospital after the 1991 Chevy pickup he was driving northbound on U.S. 69 drifted into the southbound lane and struck the driver's side of a 2007 Peterbilt semi-trailer that was headed south on the highway...

The Fort Scott National Historic Site is helping to promote a nationwide student art contest in commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the issuance of a historic executive order. The National Park Service, in partnership with the National Park Foundation's African-American Experience Fund, recently launched "Expressions of Freedom," a nationwide artistic competition to mark the sesquicentennial of the Emancipation Proclamation, an executive order issued by President Abraham Lincoln on Jan. ...

Eighteen years ago, Joey Michels was diagnosed with systemic idiopathic rheumatoid arthritis, ending any hopes for a pain-free future for the then 3-year-old Wisconsin native. Michels, now 21, says it's time to "push past the pain and live with it."...

Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback, Secretary of Agriculture Dale Rodman and Water Office Director Tracy Streeter welcomed an announcement that 82 Kansas counties -- including Bourbon -- will be declared federal disaster areas by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, making agricultural producers eligible for disaster assistance programs...

Wes Dancy and Geneane Montogomery are proud to announce the engagement and upcoming marriage of their daughter Kalia Dancy to Christopher Lamb II, son of Chris Lamb and Shanna Baldwin. The couple's wedding will be held at First Christian Church on Aug. 4, 2012...