Stories from Sunday, May 20, 2007

Special to the FORT SCOTT, Kan. -- The Fort Scott FFA Chapter conducted its annual Parent Member Banquet on the night of Friday, May 11. Members receiving their Greenhand Degrees include Austin Arnold, Blake Bolden, Lindsey Brown, Dalton Chadd, Clint Cowan, Jimmy Cox, Dustin Cutler, Monica Dikeman, Frankie Embry, Hannah Gander, Dakota Gillen, Josh Grant, Opal Heckman, Josh Hawkins, Tyler McDermed, Reece McKinney, J. ...

UNIONTOWN, Kan. -- Uniontown High School baseball boosters will host a youth baseball tournament June 1- 3 as a fund-raiser for the new baseball program that will begin play next spring. The tournament is for players 11 to 14 years old. Under these rules, a player can not turn 15 before May 1. There is a three-game guarantee under USSSA rules. The tournament is open to the first eight teams with an entry fee of $175. Medals will be awarded to the first and second-place teams...

FORT SCOTT, Kan. -- Area resident Theresa Davenport will celebrate her fifth year as a cancer survivor this fall. The Farlington, Kan., resident was first diagnosed with a Stage-3 type melanoma in September 2002, when she discovered a tennis ball-sized growth in the lymph nodes in her neck. She visited Mercy Health Center in Fort Scott, where a surgeon there ran tests and informed her that she had cancer...