Stories from Thursday, October 11, 2012

100 YEARS AGO (1912) The high school students are showing more enthusiasm and spirit this year than they have managed in several years. Basketball games will be played this winter and a literary contest will be held sometime prior to the Iola contest. In the spring, an old- fashioned track meet will be held to place the boys in good enough physical condition to enter the Southeastern Kansas meet...

Alfred "Al" Leroy Hanan, 72, of Mound City, Kan., passed away on Oct. 9, 2012, at the Kansas City Hospice House in Kansas City, Mo. A memorial service will be held at 1 p.m. Friday, Oct. 12, 2012, at the First Baptist Church in Mound City. Visitation will be held from 4 p.m. ...

Wayne Leek, 97, of Fort Scott, died Wednesday morning, Oct. 10, 2012, at Mercy Hospital. Services will be 1:30 p.m. Monday, Oct. 15, 2012, at the Konantz-Cheney Funeral Home with visitation prior to services beginning at 12:30 p.m. A full obituary will appear in the Friday edition of the Tribune...

Kathleen Price passed away Oct. 9, 2012, at Kansas City Hospice House after a long bout of cancer. She was born Dec. 10, 1939, in Fort Scott, Kan., to Thomas R. and Marianne C. Porlier Cooney. She was a Catholic and attended St. Mary's Grade School and graduated from Fort Scott High School in 1957. ...

Denver Lee Reagan Sr., age 60, of Blue Mound, Kan., died Tuesday, Oct. 9, 2012, at his home. He was born of April 18, 1952, at Wheaton, Kan., the son of Curtis and Lily Laney Reagan. Denver married Lori Marker on Feb. 15, 1974, in Bronson, Kan. He owned and operated Reagan Logging Co. He is preceded in death by his parents, a brother Roger Reagan, and a sister Mary Eaggleston...

Boyd Eugene "B. E." Eichhorn II was born Feb. 19, 1963, in Oswego Hospital, Oswego, Kan., to Parents Boyd and Donna (Gilbreath) Eichhorn. He died Oct. 9, 2012, at Freeman Hospital in Joplin, Mo., after suffering a heart attack. B.E. grew up on the family farm east of Altamont, Kan., and attended school in the 506 District. He graduated from Labette County High School in 1981...

Tiger James Yukawa, 27, Burlington, Kan., was arrested by the Fort Scott Police Department at 6:06 p.m. Tuesday on a warrant out of Shawnee County for failure to appear. He posted a cash bond of $50 and was released at 8:23 p.m. Tuesday. Frank Lynn Miller, 36, Fort Scott, was arrested by the Kansas Highway Patrol at 9:08 p.m. Tuesday on a Bourbon County warrant for nonsupport of a child. He posted a $500 cash bond and was released at 10:15 p.m. the same day...

The Arcadia High School class of 1945 had a very special mini-reunion on Oct. 1. This class had 19 graduates and nine are still alive. Amazingly, eight of the nine live in Southeast Kansas between Redfield and Pittsburg. The other one lives in Michigan...

Aspire to be a fashionista? Have your kids just convinced you to get a pet? Do your kids want to garden but you have a brown thumb? Life's little questions aren't meant to be answered alone. Join 4-H, the club of families who share in teaching kids practical things like pet care, growing gardens or designing clothing and important values like responsibility. ...

Adrian J. Polansky, state executive director of U.S. Department of Agriculture Farm Service Agency in Kansas, announced last week that drought assistance could become available for livestock producers affected by drought in all Kansas counties except Republic. ...

Cobalt Medplans recently announced several promotions within the company's management team. Dustin McClure has been promoted to director of information technology and security. He began employment as the manager of information technology and security with Cobalt Medplans on July 5, 2011, when the office first opened in Fort Scott. Dustin brings more than 15 years of experience in IT and the health claims industry to the Cobalt team...

Fort Scott Community College's volleyball team trailed Butler, the NJCAA's No. 5-ranked team in Division II, two sets to one in their Jayhawk Conference-Eastern Division match at Arnold Arena Wednesday night but had been managing to keep pace with the Grizzlies...

Gordon Parks' legend extends beyond Fort Scott and spans worldwide, panelists at the ninth celebration in his honor agreed Saturday. Local historian Arnold Schofield, Life Books Director of Photography Bobbi Baker Burrows, and Parks' son and daughter, David and Toni discussed the late Fort Scott native's talents, attributes and what he was like as a father during "1912-2012-The Legacy of Gordon Parks" at the Gordon Parks Museum on the Fort Scott Community College campus Saturday...

Fort Scott Community College will host the fourth annual Careers in Construction Week from Tuesday, Oct. 30-Friday, Nov. 2. Eighth-graders from Bourbon, Crawford and Cherokee counties will join instructors Nacoma Oehme and Kim Coates for interactive demonstrations in carpentry and masonry...

Fort Scott Police Department officers took two suspects into custody for drug-related offenses during a narcotics investigation Tuesday morning at a local residence. A news release said that David Joe Wyatt, 54, and Robert Ryan Wyatt, 25, were taken into custody about 9:30 a.m. Tuesday, and a third subject at the residence was questioned and released without being taken into custody...

Organizers of a volunteer effort centered around cleaning up trash and other debris throughout the community are currently working to resurrect the project. Clean Sweep, which last took place in 2008, is a program sponsored by the city to clean up areas of Fort Scott. First developed by the city codes department, the effort involves city staff and other community members scouring the town collecting trash and debris in trash bags...

UNIONTOWN -- West Bourbon Elementary students have taken something sweet and turned it into something both students and teachers at the school believe is even sweeter. For about 10 years, approximately 250 students at the school have been selling cookie dough and other items through Fundraising Works, of Joplin, Mo., to raise money for equipment for the school. ...

Bourbon County Republicans acted swiftly in naming a nominee to fill the vacancy created by outgoing Bourbon County Clerk Joanne Long during a convention of committee members on Wednesday night in the Heritage Room of the administration building at Fort Scott Community College...

Jarrett Lyon's enjoyment of competing against adults in precision aerobatic pattern contests has yielded a first-place certificate for the Fort Scott Middle School student. His win came at a Bourbon County RC Flyers radio control model airplane club event held at Fort Scott Airport...

Surrounded by numerous novelty items and other decorative and unusual merchandise, Trista Miller, co-owner of The Vintage Junk Trunk, got a chance to talk about the new downtown store during the Fort Scott Area Chamber of Commerce Coffee Thursday morning...