Stories from Thursday, June 12, 2008

RAMSEY -- Natalee Jade Ramsey, a girl, was born at Mercy Health Center, in Fort Scott, at 8:14 a.m., Tuesday, June 10, 2008, to parents Johnathan and Roxanna Ramsey, Prescott. She weighed 7 pounds, 14 ounces at birth. She joins one sibling, Destinee Ramsey, a sister. Maternal grandparents are Roxanna and Ted Callahan, Pleasanton and Marty and Dana Devader, Holton. Paternal grandparents are Jeff and Cindy Whatley, Prescott...

ELLIS -- Teagan May Ellis, a girl, was born at Mt. Carmel Regional Medical Center, in Pittsburg, at 2:40 p.m., Tuesday, June 3, 2008, to parents Tim and Amber Ellis, Farlington. She weighed 6 pounds, 4 ounces and was 19 and one half inches at birth. Maternal grandparents are Thomas and Memory Maginley, Paxico, Kan. Paternal grandparents are Steve and JoAnn Ellis, Pleasanton...

Pauline Swink, a Bourbon County resident for 83 years and formerly of Bronson, will be celebrating her 90th birthday on June 23, 2008 and a card shower is requested. Please send your best wishes to her at: Pauline Swink Box 95 Drexel, Mo. 64742 -- Submitted by...

Lester Koch, Fort Scott, will celebrate his 87th birthday Friday, June 13, along with his daughter, Kathy Youngberg, Buffalo. She will be 59 years old on June 19. Lester's wife Maxine and daughter Deb, Chanute, are planning a party for them. Cards and well wishes may be sent to Lester at 1308 S. Barbee St., Fort Scott, Ks. 66701...

The stormy weather of the day moved out and the evening was nice again for the senior citizen dance at the Buck Run Community Center. In the early part of the evening, Virginia and Alva McNeely were called to the center stage, where a decorated wedding anniversary cake was presented to them. ...

Thursday Nite Live met recently for the monthly meeting at Mercy's Xavier Room. Mary Wynn and Alice Helton provided wonderful refreshments. The group discussed several items of business: among those were providing cookies for the Visitor Center of the Chamber, dressing downtown windows, working at the fair, pennies for the park...

Piano students of Jennie L.Wood played in a recital, May 9, at the farm home of their teacher and her husband Kenneth R. Wood. Kaitlyn Hanks, a beginning student, played four American Folk pieces; Myranda Pridey played five pieces, singing and playing one entitled "Just Right" for which she composed words and music; Samantha Racey played four pieces, singing as she played "Oh How I Love Jesus", and Codee Budd played four pieces including the Beethoven Classic "Fur Elise"...

Mr. and Mrs. James R. Krusich, Pittsburg, would like to announce the engagement of their daughter, Danielle Francis Krusich, to Tod Allan Hessong, son of Mr. and Mrs. Randall L. Hessong, Fort Scott. The prospective bride and groom will wed July 11, 2008, at Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church, in Pittsburg...

This week, Ann and I are at the Dirty Dozen 4-H Camp with nine 4-h'ers and two counselors from Bourbon County along with nearly 350 other youth and agents. Rock Springs ranch is neatly tucked into the Flint Hills area south of Junction City, surrounded by creeks, timber, and nature. Therefore we are certain to have our run ins with mosquitoes and other irritable insects...

Last week's column mentioned two relevant topics from the Farm Service Agency -- the recent authorization to hay or graze some CRP acres, and the upcoming FSA committee nominations and election. This week's column contains some additional information on both of those topics...

The Kansas Department of Revenue is currently accepting applications for the Southeast Kansas Business Restoration Assistance Program through June 30, according to a statement from the Fort Scott Area Chamber of Commerce. The program has been established for the purpose of assisting businesses with less than 50 employees that were in operation in one of the affected counties and damaged by the flooding and other severe weather that occurred in Kansas in late June 2007, the FSACC statement said...

No-till on the Plains, Inc., the premier continuous no-till organization of the Midwest, is planning a summer event which will provide farmers with ways to increase profitability, gain better agronomic understanding of soils and their reactions to fertility, improve water quality, and also increase efficiency with new rotations and sequencing of crops...

The Natural Resources Conservation Service has announced Friday, June 20 as the last day to file an application for the Environmental Quality Incentive Program and the Wildlife Habitat Incentive Program. Funding decisions for these programs will be made by July 11...

Three men accused in a spree of home invasions in Southeast Kansas are scheduled to have preliminary hearings June 30, according to the Anderson County Attorney's Office. Christopher E. Lindsey, 18, Dominick Robinson, 19, both of Bronson and Eric James, 18, will have the hearing at the Anderson County District Court in Garnett...

There is certainly no shortage of summer fun in Fort Scott. This weekend will mark the 12th anniversary of the Echoes of the Trail Cowboy Gathering at Fort Scott Community College. On the second full weekend of each June, the event celebrates the history and lore of the American Cowboy with original and traditional cowboy poetry, stories, music, chuck wagons, and old-time blacksmithing. ...

PLEASANTON -- A group of nationwide organizations have joined forces in an effort to address two of the world's most pressing environmental challenges -- climate change and habitat loss. About 30 people representing some of America's leading corporations joined other members of The Conservation Fund and the United States Fish and Wildlife Service on Tuesday to announce a plan to restore about 775 acres of forestland at the Marais des Cygnes National Wildlife Refuge near Pleasanton...

100 YEARS AGO (1908) One of the most noted women this country ever produced was Miss Susan B. Anthony, who at one time lived in Fort Scott and whose death a few years ago at the Anthony home in Rochester, N.Y is well remembered by the woman's friends here. ...

The leaders of the Solo Male division of the Race Across America (RAAM) were expected to begin passing through Fort Scott early this morning. The first to pass through will be either the Gran Fondo Fixies two-person team or Slovenian soloist Jure Robic. They were expected to arrive between 7 and 8:30 a.m. depending on whether or not they could maintain the slightly faster speeds they have been recording as they traveled through Kansas...