Stories from Tuesday, July 13, 2010

Norma Jean Beebe, age 74, resident of Wichita, Kan., died Monday morning, July 12, 2010, at the Haysville Health Care Center in Haysville, Kan. She was born Dec. 16, 1935, in Kansas City, Mo., the daughter of Jesse B. and Vera L. Davis Crane. She married Charles Beebe in September, 1953. He preceded her in death in December, 2005...

Georgia Ann Brown, 68, of Blue Mound, Kan., died Saturday, July 10, 2010 at Olathe Medical Center, Olathe, Kan. Graveside memorial services will be held at 11 a.m., Saturday, July 17, 2010 at the Sunny Slope Cemetery, Blue Mound, Kan. Friends and family are invited to gather at the Blue Mound Sr. Center following the services and are asked to bring a covered dish...

Albert LeRoy Tibbetts, 84, of LaCygne, Kan., died June 30, 2010 at Life Care Center, Osawatomie, Kan. Memorial Graveside Services will be held at 12:30 p.m., Saturday July 17, 2010 at the Oak Lawn Cemetery LaCygne, Kan. Visitation will be held from 10 a.m. to 12 noon at the Coffel-Schneider Funeral Home LaCygne, Kan...

Nova M. Wright, age 89, resident of Blue Mound, Kan., died early Monday, July 12, at Mercy Health Center, Fort Scott. Arrangements for Nova Wright will be announced by Cheney Witt Chapel, 201 S. Main, Fort Scott, Kan.

CLARK -- William Andrew "Drew" Clark and Erica Lynn Clark, Fort Scott, are proud to announce the birth of twins, a daughter, Laurali Lynn Clark and a son, Bryson William Clark. Bryson was born at 6 p.m., followed by Laurali at 6:10 p.m., Sunday, July 11, 2010 at Mercy Health Center in Fort Scott...

DEMOTT -- Ryan and Michelle DeMott, Fort Scott, and brother Ahren, are proud to announce the birth of their daughter and sister, Allis C. Dessie DeMott. Allis was born at 5:22 p.m., Wednesday, July 7, 2010 at Mercy Health Center in Fort Scott. She weighed 7 pounds, 1 ounce at birth...

Our son Rob and two of his sons, Ben and Bobkat, were here over the 4th of July weekend and they were quite the helpers. They helped papa split wood and Bob and son Rob cleaned out our chimney, which is hard for Bob to climb up on the roof and do by himself. They did all sorts of things to help "papa." It was all very much appreciated...

Many people are returning to home canning or doing it for the first time. Food safety specialists remind people to be certain they are using proper canning methods to prevent possible deadly consequences. Canning green beans and other vegetables in boiling water instead of under pressure with a properly researched procedure is dangerous. Not only is it an unsafe practice, but the investments of time, energy, and money are wasted when spoiled food must be thrown away...

Results from the Tiger Trot run/walk held June 26 as part of the Fort Scott High School All-Classes Reunion. There were 125 runners in attendance, 65 of whom ran the course. $1,816 was raised to benefit the school funds chosen by the male and female winners -- $908 went to each...

There will be a special meeting of the Fort Scott City Commission from 7:45 a.m. to noon on Wednesday at the Nuss & Farmer Conference Room at Fourth and Judson. The meeting is being held to interview City Manager candidates. It is anticipated the commission will convene into executive session to conduct these interviews. No action will be taken at this meeting...

The Bourbon County Attorney's office filed a Criminal Complaint Monday in the Bourbon County District Court, charging Amanda Renea Lickteig with one count of felony theft, one count of felony criminal use of a financial card, and seventy eight counts of misdemeanor criminal use of a financial card involving theft from a Southeast Kansas Regional Correctional Center's account containing non-public funds...

Members of the Bourbon County Fair Board have announced the featured country music entertainment for this year's fair, a weeklong event that starts Sunday. Cori Jo and the Outlaw Junkies, a 6-member country music band based in Kansas City, Mo., will perform at 8 p.m. Thursday, July 22, at the Danny and Willa Ellis Family Fine Arts Center on the campus of Fort Scott Community College, 2108 S. Horton...

Local community members are invited to attend an evening of excitement, food and music -- all to raise funds for a good cause. The Sixth Annual Mardi Gras Celebration, sponsored by the Friends of Tri-Valley Foundation, will take place Tuesday, July 27, at the Liberty Theatre, 113 S. ...

In honoring her mother's record setting journey, Iris Paris, is riding her bicycle to promote her book. In 1948, Paris' mother Norma Jean Belloff, became the first woman to ride a bicycle across the United States. As a tribute to her mother, Paris wrote the book "Once Upon a Chariot" to tell her mother's story. Living in Nebraska, Paris found it difficult to promote her book so she came up with a radical idea...

It may only be July but junior college football followers are already looking forward to the beginning of the season. And JCGridiron.com has jumped on that anticipation by being the first of the two major juco polls to release its pre-season rankings...