Stories from Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Healthy kids were in the news last week as first lady Michelle Obama launched a new nationwide initiative to help children maintain a healthy weight. Doctors, community leaders, teachers, and others have joined in a program called Let's Move. The goal of the program is to solve the epidemic of childhood obesity...

Stanley Lee Giles, age 69, of Linn Valley, Kan., died Wednesday, Feb. 10, 2010. Memorial Funeral Service will be held 2 p.m., Saturday Feb. 27, 2010 at the Linn Valley Community Church. Private inurnment will be in the Leavenworth National Cemetery...

Harvey Wayne Hall, age 75, a resident of Fort Scott, died Monday, Feb. 15, 2010, at his home. Funeral arrangements for Harvey Wayne Hall will be announced by the Cheney Witt Chapel, 201 S. Main, Fort Scott.

Robert James Tuchscherer, age 67, a resident of Fort Scott, died Monday, Feb. 15, 2010, at his home. Funeral arrangements for Robert James Tuchscherer will be announced by the Cheney Witt Chapel, 201 S. Main, Fort Scott.

Joe Gregory 89, of Fort Scott, died at his home Saturday morning, Feb. 13, 2010. Funeral arrangements for Joe Gregory are incomplete and will be announced later by the Konantz-Cheney Funeral Home.

Ellsworth Russell Long, age 89, former resident of Prescott, Kan., and more recently of Millersville, Penn., died Thursday, Feb. 12, 2010, in Millersville. He was born May 10, 1920, in Prescott, Kan., the son of Roy Erin Long and Margaret Ethel Miller Long...

MARLOW -- William Marlow and Kayla Shelton, Bronson, and big brother Kyle and big sister Courtney, are proud to announce the birth of their son and brother, Jackson Dean Marlow. Jackson was born at 9:55 a.m., Thursday, Feb. 11, 2010 at Mercy Health Center in Fort Scott...

Mae Watt had a busy but happy day on Saturday, Feb. 6, when Allen and Linda Watt, Wichita, with two daughters and husbands, namely, Stephanie and Andy Schwilling and one-year old Gabriella from Winfield, Kan., and Michelle and Jarric Presnell from Valley Center, Kan., spent the day in Arcadia. ...

PLEASANTON -- Uniontown's girls coasted by Pleasanton in Three Rivers League action here Friday night, 60-24. This was Pleasanton's second game in three nights. They lost to Marmaton Valley Thursday and to Chetopa, 39-30, Saturday. They also played a league game against Oswego Monday night and go to Southern Coffey County for a game tonight. ...

Johnson County and Highland prevented Fort Scott Community College's men from breaking into the win column on Saturday afternoon and Monday night. The Greyhounds lost to Johnson County in overtime Saturday, 75-72, the closest the they have come to breaking their nearly 3-month long losing streak...

Fort Scott Community College's women broke a four-game losing streak Monday night as they defeated Highland in overtime, 63-59, in Jayhawk Conference-Eastern Division play at Arnold Arena. Saturday afternoon, the Greyhounds fell at home to Johnson County, 65-52...

On Saturday, the Fort Scott High School forensic squad traveled to compete in three tournaments. According to FSHS coach Brian Weilert, the Tiger squad placed 18 events into finals at the Kansas City Sumner Academy tournament and easily won first place, nearly 60 points in front of the second-place school. ...

Alex Pemberton, a senior at Fort Scott High School, was recently named a winner of the 2010 Fran Jabara Scholarship in Entrepreneurship at Wichita State University. The competitive scholarship is one of the most prestigious at WSU and one of the largest entrepreneurship scholarships nationally...

A tasty fundraiser next week will help students in the agriculture program at Fort Scott Community College. The Collegiate Farm Bureau at FSCC will host its 2nd Annual Chili Cook-Off starting at 6 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 23, in the lobby of the Danny and Willa Ellis Family Fine Arts Center at FSCC, 2108 S. Horton St. The event is open to the public, and each entry of chili costs $10...

FRANKLIN -- Crawford County Sheriff's Deputies and an agent with the Kansas Alcohol Beverage Control conducted a bar check and sting operation at Twisters Night Club located at 136 S. U.S. Highway in rural Crawford County, on Friday which resulted in one bartender and the club manager being arrested for selling alcohol to minors. A second bartender was arrested for outstanding warrants out of Sedgwick County...

As the Fort Scott City Commission prepares for the first public meeting on the future of the Kansas National Guard Armory, another interested organization has entered the picture. Fort Scott Community College President Clayton Tatro will be presenting the college's proposal to turn the vacant building into the Fort Scott Community College Occupational Center, a consolidation of three occupational programs in one building...

BUFFALO -- Uniontown's girls took a 37-27 victory over Altoona-Midway here Tuesday night in a Three Rivers League contest. "Sometimes, you have to win ugly," Uniontown head coach Ken Holt said. "And that is what we did tonight." Abbie Smith and Jacy Ermel, usually the top two scorers for the Eagles (5-1 TRL, 12-7 overall), combined to make only 3 of 20 field-goal tries and score 11 points. But Hayden Rathbun and Brooke Harper combined to go 5 of 9 from behind the 3-point line for Uniontown...

JOPLIN -- Senior Jolee Sharp has matched yet another Fort Scott High School girls basketball record in the Tigers' 50-43 Southeast Kansas League victory over Parsons in the Harold C. Johnson Gymnasium here. Tuesday night, her free throws with under a minute remaining gave Sharp 390 points for the season, tying her for the FSHS single-season record with Dennie Young, who scored the same number of points in the 1991-92 season. ...

PARSONS -- Gary Floyd's free throws with 1.8 seconds remaining completed Fort Scott High's rally as the Tigers bounced second-place Parsons, 40-39, in Southeast Kansas League play here Tuesday night. Fort Scott (9-5 SEK, 11-7 overall) trailed 27-19 at halftime. But a 6-0 run at the end of the third period, with 4 points by Floyd and a buzz-beating stickback by Griffin Knopp, brought the Tigers within 34-30 as the fourth quarter started...

The United States Consumer Product Safety Commission estimates that between 2000 and 2006 there were at least 180 deaths related to tip-overs of furniture, televisions or appliances. Most of those deaths, 80 percent of them, involved children younger than 10 years of age. In 2007, the CPSC identified this issue as one of the top five hidden home hazards, according to the Safe Kids Kansas organization...

Students at Fort Scott Middle School will get a musical treat on Friday. Noted ragtime pianist Frederick Hodges will present a series of brief concerts for FSMS students from noon to 3 p.m. Friday at the school, 1105 E. 12th St. The performance is part of the Bourbon County Arts Council's continuing effort to provide art programs in Bourbon County schools...

The Fort Scott City Commission has a tough decision to make as two local agencies express their interest in the former Kansas National Guard Armory building. Fort Scott Community College President Clayton Tatro and Fort Scott Police Chief Ron Puterbaugh each made their case in front of the commission Tuesday evening as to why they would be the best fit for the armory, which is now vacant and will be under the city's ownership by the end of the month...