Stories from Tuesday, October 16, 2007

FORT SCOTT, Kan. -- It looks like a blowout but it didn't feel like one. Fort Scott High defeated Iola in a game that was both a Southeast Kansas League and Kansas Class 4A District 3 contest at Frary Field here Friday night by a score of 37-0. But the Tiger offense had a bit of trouble getting going and it was Fort Scott's defense that kept things together until the offense started to move...

Herald-Tribune PLEASANTON, Kan. -- Class 2-1A District 5 play opened here Friday night with what could be the last 11-man football championship in the Three Rivers League on the line. And it was host Pleasanton that wrote that final chapter (perhaps) in the record book with a 24-14 win over Uniontown, giving the Blu-Jays their first league title since 2000...

EL DORADO, Kan. -- The showdown for Jayhawk Conference supremacy went convincingly in the way of six-time defending champion Butler at Galen Blackmore Stadium here Saturday night as the Grizzlies, ranked No. 2 in the NJCAA/JCFootball.com poll, dominated the game from start to finish in a 45-8 victory over Fort Scott Community College...

The two alleged victims' names in an incident last month in Fulton were released when Bourbon County Attorney Terri Johnson filed charges against the suspect. Dennis J. Russell, 65, has been charged with one count each of felony aggravated burglary, aggravated assault, theft, criminal damage to property and misdemeanor battery...

Fort Scott Middle schoolers were pumped up with Tiger spirit on Friday by a visit from Fort Scott High School athletes. In 1989, the Fort Scott High School Ambassador Club invited the FSHS Tiger football seniors to share lunch with the sixth, seventh and eighth grade students. Later in the day, the athletes took time to visit with the middle school students in the gymnasium. This would soon become a yearly tradition...

Chiefs Defensive End Jared Allen sacks Bengals Quarterback Carson Palmer Sunday in a Chiefs win. Allen had two sacks in the game.

Updated with comments from Fort Scott head coach Karen Curran.

Fort Scott Christian Heights students competed Oct. 9 at Crowder College's annual Children's Fine Arts Day in Neosho, Mo. The competition for students kindergarten through eighth grade focused on writing, photography, and art. Many FSCH students competed and placed in the event...

Jessica Ellen Arens, 17, of Fort Scott, died early Saturday evening, October 13, 2007. She was born August 3, 1990, in Fort Scott, Kansas, the daughter of Dana Daniel and Alpha Louise (Culbertson) Arens. She was a junior at Fort Scott High School, where she took automotive classes and was a member of F.F.A. ...

Judith Elaine King, age 65, a resident of Fort Scott, Kansas, died Sunday, Oct. 14, 2007, at the Miami County Medical Center in Paola, Kansas. She was born Aug. 12, 1942, in Fort Scott, Kansas, the daughter of Louis Amos King and Marjorie Gertrude Lackrone. Judy graduated from Fort Scott High School and the Fort Scott Community College School of Cosmetology...

Five Garland residents were taken to Mercy Health Center Sunday after the vehicle they were driving in crashed on 240th St. in southeastern Bourbon County. At 6:25 p.m., Robert L. Manly, 35, was driving north on 240th St. south of Jayhawk Road and 3 1/2 miles southeast of Fort Scott when he swerved the 2005 Kia off the road to avoid hitting an animal in the road, according to a Kansas Highway Patrol report. ...

The United States Naval Academy Parents' Club of Western Missouri and Kansas is preparing for its annual Service Academies and Military Colleges Holiday Banquet and Ball. The holiday event will take place on Saturday, Dec. 29 at the Kansas City Marriott, 200 West 12th St, Kansas City, Mo...

Organizers of the Old Fort Genealogical Society invite the public to its Fall Program held Saturday at Fort Scott Community College, 2108 S. Horton St. Registration begins at 12:30 p.m. A number of interesting speakers will be on the afternoon program. Admission is free...

The Devon Methodist Church will conduct its 101st annual Harvest Festival on October 18, 2007 at the Devon Community Center beginning at 5 p.m. The menu for the event will include turkey, ham, dressing, chicken and noodles, mashed potatoes, gravy, salad, pie and a drink. The cost to purchase dinner on the 18th is $6 for adults, $3 for children and those five years old or younger may eat free of charge...

The 72nd Roxie Draper Memorial Dinner was held at the Uniontown Methodist Church on Oct. 4, following a tradition set forth by Roxie Draper in 1937 when she cooked dinner honoring friends and members of the United Methodist Church. The first meals were served in Roxie's home, and then later moved to the Methodist Church as the attendance grew...

The Starlite Family and Community Education Unit met Oct. 11 at the new Shirley Yager Building. The business meeting began with the Flag Salute and the Club Collect. Minutes of the August and September meetings were read. The Treasurer's report was given...

100 YEARS AGO (1907) Opening for young man who has a desire to learn journalism and has some natural ability in that direction. The right party can find a good opening by calling at the Tribune-Monitor office. Must be of good habits and industrious. Good opportunity for the right man. Young man between the ages of 17-20 preferred. Call at once...

To the Editor, As for the past four years, I again came to Fort Scott to attend the Gordon Parks Celebration of Culture and Diversity. As in the past, the event was professionally planned and executed and the events continue to be diverse, and representative of the work that Dr. Gordon Parks created...

Glen Sewell is proof positive that you can always give back to your community, no matter your age or where you live. At 85, he's leaving an indelible imprint on the "community" he now calls home and has managed to leave his mark on the greater community, too...

The 25th Annual Kansas Silver Haired Legislature recently convened on Oct 2-3 at the Ramada Hotel and Convention Center in Topeka. Bourbon County Silver Haired Legislature representative Ottis Allen made the journey to Topeka for the two day event. According to the Topeka-Capital Journal Web site, http://cjonline.com/, the legislature is for senior citizens who are elected by their peers...

Christie Belcher does "a little bit of everything" at Max's Way Station on North National Ave. Belcher is manager/co-owner of the restaurant. Mainly, she manages the restaurant's 10 employees. She also waits tables and manages the front part of the restaurant, while her husband takes care of kitchen...

When local resident Dee Dee Wilson accepted a position working with Beth Morris at Just Nails in May of 2007, she did not realize how much that decision would change her life. Wilson, who had attended the nine-week-long nail technician program at the Fort Scott Cosmetology School, assumed ownership of Just Nails in August. Wilson said that Morris is retired and has other activities she wants to do with her time. Thus, she offered the business to Wilson, who gladly accepted it...

For Destiny Foulk, the decision on which career path she would follow was not a difficult one to make. Foulk, a pediatric eye specialist at The Eye Center of Fort Scott, 624 S. National Ave., has spent the last four years working in the same profession as her father, Steve Mitchell, a long-time eye care professional at the center with more than 30 years of experience...

Due to a staff writer's error, Lesley A. Mjelde,18, was incorrectly reported in the Thursday, Sept. 27 edition of The Tribune as having been arrested for possession of marijuana and drug paraphernalia. She was arrested solely for purchasing and consuming alcohol by a minor. The Tribune regrets the error...

The Bourbon County Commission has lent their support to a project that will see the construction of a new community center and storm shelter in Garland. During their regular Monday meeting, commissioners voted unanimously to submit a Community Block Development Grant application on behalf of Drywood Township to build a $235,000, 5,000-square-foot facility in Garland that could be used by local residents for various community events...