Stories from Wednesday, July 25, 2007

The Fort Scott Recreation Department will hold a home run derby at 5:30 Monday night on the south diamond at Fisher Park. There will be divisions for 9-, 10-, 11- and 12-year-olds. There will be separate division for boys and girls if there are enough entries...

Fort Scott High School athletic program parent meetings.

Much confusion surrounds the USD 234 preschool program. When school district officials were notified by the federal government that the early childhood programs practiced in the school were not compliant with the federal Office of Special Education Program (OSEP), they began planning a restructuring that would bring them into compliance...

UNIONTOWN -- The USD 235 Board of Education will have nearly $4 million to work with in its budget for the 2007-08 school year, according to U-235 financial documents. The proposed general fund budget contains a little more than $3.9 million in expenses, nearly $200,000 more than the district spent last year, when it received about $138,000 in new money from a Kansas Legislature-approved three-year, $466 million state school finance plan that is financed by state revenues. ...

Earl Dean Pulliam, age 46, resident of 406 State Street, Bronson, Kan., died Tuesday, July 24, 2007, at the Allen County Hospital in Iola, Kan. He was born June 26, 1961 in Fort Scott the son of Russell M. Pulliam and Florence Sweet Pulliam. Earl attended the Hepler and Girard Schools. ...

Lawrence Thomas Daly, 86, formerly of Fort Scott, passed away Monday, July 23, 2007 at the Golden Years Nursing Home in Harrisonville, Mo. He was born Dec. 26, 1920 in Fort Scott, Kan. the son of Cleveland Robert and Opal (Robinson) Daly...

Freddie Lyle Black, 75, died Thursday, July 12, 2007 at Ransom Memorial Hospital in Ottawa, Kan. He was born in Linn County, Kan., to Hugh U. Black and Margaret (Norbury) Black on Dec. 18, 2007. He grew up in Linn County and moved to Garnett in 1956 and Ottowa in 1960...

BROWN -- Daniel Sebastian Kelley Brown, a boy, was born at Mercy Health Center in Fort Scott, on Monday, July 23, 2007 at 2:05 p.m. to Anita Louise Brown, Fort Scott, and Brandon Lee Shannon, Adrian, Mo. He weighed 6 pounds and 14 ounces at birth. He joins siblings Cameron Marquez Wrenn and Emily Diane Rose Shannon. Maternal grandparents are Marilyn McCutchen and the late Edward Brown both of Fort Scott...

WALKER -- Allandra Ellen Walker, a girl, was born at Mercy Health Center in Fort Scott, on Tuesday, July 24, 2007 to parents Jeremy and Sabrina Walker, Mapleton. She weighed 6 pounds at birth. She joins siblings Amanda, Jennifer, Kyle Lee, Geneois and Destiny. ...

Fairs, festivals and family vacations provide many opportunities for eating. Big portions with lots of sugar and fat calories characterize many of the food we traditionally associate with good times. For many of us, attending some of these special activities wouldn't be nearly as much fun without the tasty treats...

The Senior Swingers Monday Night Dance at Buck Run Community Center went well with another 65 in attendance. The band was in good tune and everyone seemed to be ready to dance when another tune started. Special guest singer, Jeff Colvin from Butler was here again and sang a couple of numbers. The crowd gave him a big hand of applause. He seemed to be a bit more at ease tonight and did really well. There were no birthdays or anniversaries this week, which is very unusual...

While infant mortality rates fell nationwide in the first years of the century, they were rising in Kansas. So was the proportion of Kansas households where neither parent managed to hold a full-time job for a whole year. Overall, among all states, Kansas dropped from 12th place last year to 16th place this year on 10 measures of children's well-being, according to the newly published 2007 KIDS COUNT Data Book...

Thirteen members and guests of the Fort Scott Writers Club met on July 21, 2007, in the Community Room at Presbyterian Village, Attending members were Treasurer/Reporter Joy Melendy, Rosemary Carruthers, Ruth Bahr, Marie Marshall, Caroline Lowery, Judy Howser, Velma Reavis, Evelyn Nelson, Grace Myars, and Mary Shepherd. Guests were Kathy Crozier of Mapleton, Both Warford of Presbyterian Village, and Nicole McNutt, who is Beth's caregiver...

100 YEARS AGO (1907) Railroad Notes: When the Frisco occupies the new roundhouse the old building will very likely be remodeled and converted into a repair shop. The company's force at this point will be increased materially when the repair shop is opened...

Schedules for area teams. More will appear as they become available