Stories from Wednesday, January 23, 2013

Name: Kevin Gleason Title: USD 235 Uniontown High School agriculture teacher How did you end up being an educator and why? "I grew up in 4-H and FFA. I went to K-State and started in agricultural engineering. The ag ed professor, Howard Bradley, asked me if I was interested in ag ed I realized in college that engineering wasn't for me. I liked ag ed, and I like youth. It was a natural fit."...

A critical date is quickly approaching for landowners who wish to terminate their leases with their tenants. According to the Kansas Farm Lease Law, notice to terminate a farm lease must be given in writing at least 30 days prior to March 1 and must fix the termination date of the tenancy of March 1. This applies to both pasture and crop leases...

Four candidates have filed for three Fort Scott City Commission spots -- including two incumbents. Commissioner Samuel I. Mason and Mayor Jim Adams have filed, as have newcomers Lucas B. Cosens Sr. and Jolynne Stainbrook. The general election will be held Tuesday, April 2. The top two vote-getters will earn four-year terms and the third-place finisher will receive a two-year term...

The list of candidates for April's general election for the Fort Scott Community College Board of Trustees and USD 234 and USD 235 school boards was finalized Tuesday after the noon deadline for filing passed at the Bourbon County Courthouse. Three positions are at stake in 2013 spring school board elections at USD 234 in Fort Scott and USD 235 in Uniontown. Three seats also come up on Fort Scott Community College's six-member Board of Trustees...

Lowell Milken Center on Saturday night held a fundraiser featuring the Pittsburg duo the Wayward Bettys. The Crooner's Lounge in downtown Fort Scott was filled with about 65 people. "Every seat was taken," LMC Executive Director Norm Conard said. Funds will go toward the development of unsung hero projects which are role models for students around the world "and certainly in Bourbon County as well," Conard said...

Residents of Presbyterian Manor and members of the media were treated to a five-Crock Pot selection of various chilis, ranging from chicken to cheesy during the manor's chili cook-off on Tuesday. It wasn't your typical chili cook-off, though. In addition to determining a winner, the cook-off also gave administrators a chance to get an idea of what their residents might like served at the facility...

Fort Scott City Commissioners on Tuesday approved allocating $1,000 to General Public Transportation to help keep its wheels turning -- if it is unable to obtain support from other sources. General Public Transportation needs about $9,000 by June 30 to meet a local matching grant, or the service will most likely face closure. Other than the grant, the service is also funded by an investment, Bourbon County and the United Way of Bourbon County...

An open house for Bradbury Therapy Consultants LLC, 323 E. Wall St., was held Tuesday. Bradbury Therapy Consultant is owned by Katricia Bradbury, a Fort Scott native. She has been providing services on-site to schools, homes, and senior care facilities. ...

Tammy Sue Merriman, 50 year old female, Fort Scott, was arrested on 1-8-13 at 1:23 p.m. by Bourbon County Corrections Office for two county warrants for driving under the influence, driving while suspended and possible stolen property and is still being held at this time...

Michael David Jacobson, age 62, former Fort Scott resident, and more recently of Osawatomie, Kan., died Friday, Jan. 18, 2013, at his home in Osawatomie. He was born January 23, 1950, in Fort Scott, Kan., the son of Carl Elmer Jacobson and Dorothy Eugenia Lowry Jacobson. ...

Nina Mary Terrill, age 84, a resident of Fort Scott, Kan., died early Tuesday, Jan. 22, 2013, at the Fort Scott Manor. She was born Sept. 27, 1928, in Hiattville, Kan., the daughter of Frank Stevenson Rich and Eva Richardson Rich. Nina married Jessie Junior Terrill on Sept. 10, 1965, in Fort Scott. He preceded her in death on March 21, 1987...

Children attending Sunbeam Christian Preschool are collecting donations for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. Anyone wishing to contribute may drop donations by First Baptist Church, 123 Scott Ave., Fort Scott.

The Golf Course Advisory Board will meet on Tuesday, Jan. 29, at 1:30 p.m. at Woodland Hills Golf Course. The meeting is open to the public.

Engineer Frank Young believes dams being built in the county are preventing catastrophic floods. "I think the dams have definitely shown we've helped with the flood amounts," he told the members and friends at the annual Marmaton Watershed Joint District No. 102 meeting on Jan. 17...

100 YEARS AGO (1913) The Cowan family at Uniontown has the distinction of being represented by persons of five generations distinction which is very infrequent indeed, and doubtless does not have a parallel in this county, if indeed in this section of the state. ...

While at Walmart recently, someone offered a warm fuzzy. The man asked me if I was the one who walked on the highway (going toward Nevada and back) and said he admired the long distances I walk. I don't know how he recognized me; maybe it was the battered (used to be) navy Nike hat and raggedy green turtleneck I was sporting?...

UNIONTOWN -- Uniontown's girls made just 6 of 36 field-goal attempts Tuesday night as the Eagles dropped a 46-19 verdict to Jayhawk-Linn in Three Rivers League play at the West Bourbon Elementary gymnasium. The Eagles (0-3 TRL, 3-10 overall) were outscored 12-1 in the first quarter as they missed all eight field-goal attempts in the period...

UNIONTOWN -- Uniontown's boys shut out Jayhawk-Linn in the first quarter of a Three Rivers League contest at West Bourbon Elementary's gym here Tuesday night and went on to hold off the Jayhawks by making 10 of 12 fourth-quarter free throws in a 51-40 victory...