Stories from Tuesday, February 10, 2009

By Rayma Silvers The Fort Scott Tribune There is no debate over whether or not a group of students from Fort Scott High School deserve to take a trip to Alabama this summer. FSHS students Kim Stone, Brittney Doherty, Sterling Braun and Jacoby Zielinski, along with alternate Chris Clay, earned a state title in 4-speaker debate at the state competition on Jan. ...

By Jason E. Silvers The Fort Scott Tribune For the first time in nearly 30 years, Fort Scott Good Ol' Days organizers have decided not to charge admission fees to the annual summer street festival. On Monday, organizers of the long-standing annual festival announced there would be no admission fees charged to the public for the 28th annual celebration, which is scheduled for June 6-7...

Betty Jean Farmer, age 81, former resident of Fort Scott, Kan., and more recently of Hillsboro, Kan., died Saturday, Feb. 7, 2009, at Parkside Home in Hillsboro surrounded by her family. She was born July 28, 1927 in Fort Scott, the daughter of Raymond Wesley Farmer and Annabelle Workman Farmer...

Elda Brown, age 83, resident of Topeka, Kan., died Sunday, Feb. 8, 2009. Elda Genetti was born April 27, 1925, at Superior, Wyo., the daughter of Enrico and Caterina Cologna Genetti, one year after her mother married and moved to the United States from Castlefondo, Italy...

Thelma Faye Rhodes, 88, of Prescott, Kan., passed away Feb. 6, 2009, at Mercy Hospital in Fort Scott, Kan. Funeral services will be at 2 p.m., Thursday, Feb. 12, 2009, at the De Soto, Kan. Baptist Church with burial following at the De Soto Cemetery...

Howard Leo "Red" Albright, age 79, resident of 1807 Indian Road, Fort Scott, Kan., died Sunday, Feb. 08, 2009, at Mercy Health Center. He was born Oct. 30, 1929, at Galena, Kan., the son of Raymond Carl Albright and Ina Mildred Hill Albright. He married Norma Jean Layton on Dec. 16, 1977, in Miami, Okla...

100 YEARS AGO (1909) Contractor Tom Thogmartin is repairing the Fair Ground and Evergreen Cemetery good roads. Today was pension day. The vets or widows of the Great War of the reconstruction period were out today having their vouchers filled out and will send them way and receive in return the sum the government allows them. ...

Everyone is invited to attend the Spaghetti and Lasagna Dinner served with Salad, Garlic Toast and Dessert on Sunday, Feb. 15 in Arcadia Comminity Center, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. The cost is a donation to assist a local family with utilities and heating sponsored by Caring Citizens Helping our Community. Please come and enjoy...

This is the first part of a two part series. In the story I am about to share with you, I was 7 years old and it was 1938. I was about to become a thief. We lived on the East side a few blocks from a neighborhood grocery called Kleen's. Back in those days big supermarkets hadn't come into existence yet, little neighborhood grocery stores were woven like a patchwork quilt throughout our small town of Fort Scott...

By Michael Pommier The Fort Scott Tribune The Good Shepherd Thrift Store is celebrating the completion of its first year of operation, but the store has not quite reached its primary goal. The store, 301 S. Crawford St., was opened by the Good Shepherd organization to fill the void left when the Salvation Army Thrift Store left town. Mahlon Stucky, pastor at First Southern Baptist Church, said after the Salvation Army Thrift Store left, residents had no place to go...

Waking in the morning feeling refreshed, renewed and invigorated is a good indicator of having had enough good quality sleep. For some people, however, adequate sleep is selSleep is an important part of good health for all ages of persons. It is both restorative and protective. Individuals who do not have adequate sleep are more likely to experience attention and memory difficulties, daytime sleepiness, lack of energy, and are at higher risk of falling or having a traffic accident...

Local residents should not see effects of the economy on homebound meal delivery. The Meals On Wheels Association of America announced recently, due to the economy, some states will be cutting programs. Programs in Colorado, Texas, California and Minnesota have stopped or plan to stop delivering meals to seniors in their homes. Other programs are not closing but have had to start waiting lists or sell their delivery vans to pay for food to serve...

By Justin Messner The Fort Scott Tribune As Kansas lawmakers continue to scramble in an attempt to free the state of a projected $199 million deficit for 2009, consolidation has become a frequently used word. However, one Kansas City Senator is looking to take that term to the next level...

COLUMBUS -- On paper, this game was a rout waiting to happen when Southeast Kansas League-leading Fort Scott High's girls visited seventh-place Columbus here Tuesday night. But league coaches will tell you that there is no such thing as a night off in the SEK and Columbus bore out that theory as the Tigers had to hold off a fourth-quarter Titan rally before prevaling, 40-31...

COLUMBUS -- Although the weather was quite stormy in southeast Kansas Tuesday night, the recent trend for Fort Scott High's boys has been to bring the heat; as in hot shooting from the field. The Tigers have now won three of their last four games after pouncing Columbus, 71-40, here. In each of those three victories, Fort Scott has posted a field-goal percentage no lower than 54 percent...