Stories from Friday, March 16, 2007

The Bourbon County Arts Council has announced the winners of the 15th Annual Fine Arts Exhibit. The winner of the Two Dimensional Best of Show category was Carolynn Burns of Pittsburg. The prize sponsor was Valu Merchandisers. Pittsburg resident Al Letner won first place in the Three Dimensional Best of Show category. The sponsor for that prize was UMB Bank...

Cliff Patterson's first venture into the world of art was a success. Patterson was one of 10 local artists who received first place honors during the 15th Annual Bourbon County Arts Council Fine Arts Exhibit, which continues through Friday evening at the Scottish Rite Temple, 110 S. Main St...

RAPP -- Delainey Kay Rapp, a girl, was born at 8:20 a.m. on Thursday, March 15, 2007 at Mercy Health Center, Fort Scott to parents Matthew and Christina Rapp, Horton, Missouri. She weighed 7 pounds, 2.75 ounces at birth. She joins two siblings, Harleigh, age 6 and Logan, age 2. Maternal grandparents are Cindy and Mike Parris, Pleasant Hill, Missouri and John and Cherie Ash, Blue Springs, Missouri. Paternal grandparents are David and Deanna Rapp, Rockville, Missouri...

Ernest Edward Hyatt, Iola, Kansas, died Thursday, March 15, 2007, at the Allen County Hospital in Iola. He was born in Opp, Alabama, just north of Pensacola, Florida, on Armistice Day, November 11, 1921. His parents, Monroe Eliege and Clara Mae Stewart Hyatt divorced when he was 6 years old. ...

Nola Williams, formerly of Mound City, Kansas, most recently of the Medicalodge in Fort Scott, passed away March 15, 2007. She was born to Edgar D. and Lela Darcus McKay on December 27, 1911, at Oscar, Oklahoma. Nola was preceded in death by her husband John Williams in 1977, and children James T. ...

Friday, Feb. 23, was Mary Lee Payne's birthday. Her four daughters, Cindy, Kelly, Sherry and Amy showed up on her front porch about mid-morning to surprise her. They then took her to lunch at Chatters in Pittsburg with husband Jack joining them. After lunch, they treated her to a trip to the spa, a movie and some shopping. ...

100 YEARS AGO (1907) The work of the YMCA building fund is progressing in a most satisfactory manner. At 4 o'clock this afternoon the fund had reached $2,500. There have been numerous demonstrations in the way of whistle blowing. This afternoon at 3 o'clock a cannon was borrowed from Arch Davenport's arsenal and taken down on the vacant lot near Convention Hall where it was fired off. This was distinctively heard over the business end of the city...

Joe Banker now has a chance to work with teenagers, a group he believes he can help encourage in their christian beliefs. Banker is the new youth minister at Community Christian Church in Fort Scott. He started on Feb. 19. The 25-year old, his wife, Kelsey, and their 6 month-old daughter, Kinsley, moved to Fort Scott from Oklahoma City, Okla., where he served as a youth minister at a church there...