Stories from Saturday, July 31, 2010

Herald-Tribune WICHITA, Kan. -- Butler was picked as the favorite to win the Kansas Jayhawk Community College football championship while defending champ Fort Scott Community College was picked second in a pre-season coaches' poll announced at the KJCC media day at the Kansas Sports Hall of Fame Friday...

Joseph Martin Glisar, age 46, resident of Pittsburg, Kan., died Wednesday, July 28, 2010. Funeral services will be held at 10 a.m., Wednesday, Aug. 4, at the Cheney Witt Chapel, 201 S. Main, Fort Scott. Burial will follow in the U.S. National Cemetery. Memorials are suggested to the American Cancer Society and may be sent to Cheney Witt Chapel, P.O. Box 347, Fort Scott, Kansas, 66701. Words of remembrance may be submitted to the online guestbook at cheneywitt.com...

Juanita Mae Heitz Dominguez, age 88, former resident of Bronaugh, Mo., died Thursday, July 29, at Fort Scott Manor Nursing Home. She was born Feb. 17, 1922, in Liberal, Mo., the daughter of Lawrence and Lulu Hill Copeland. She graduated from Mindenmines High School in the class of 1939. ...

Jeffrey Walter Bartkoski, age 35, of Springfield, Mo., formerly of El Dorado Springs, Mo., passed away Wednesday morning, July 28, 2010. Jeff was born in Phoenix, Ariz., to Betty Evelyn (Hutchison) and Joseph Edward Bartkoski on March 14, 1975, and was their 15th child...

Heral-Tribune KANSAS CITY, Mo. --Heather Bradford, St. Marys, Ohio; Reba Hurst, Nevada, Mo.; and Jae Van Horn, Franklin, Ind., were chosen as the 2010 Walter and Joe Lewis Memorial Scholarship winners for their involvement in National Junior Hereford Association activities. The scholarship winners were announced July 10 at the VitaFerm Junior National Hereford Expo in Indianapolis...

Herald-Tribune KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Three youth were chosen for their involvement in the Hereford industry on the local and national level at the Junior National Hereford Expo (JNHE) in Indianapolis July 9. Each year the National Hereford Women and the National Junior Hereford Association (NJHA) sponsor the Prospect Awards for kids third through fifth grade. Winners are selected from each grade represented based on a written application...

Herald-Tribune LEAVENWORTH, Kan. -- Representing a student body of both diverse backgrounds and distinct futures, the Saint Mary Class of 2010 became USM graduates at Commencement held Saturday, May 8, in McGilley Field House on the university's Leavenworth campus...

NEVADA -- "If you're worried about making contact, you need to be doing a lot more work at home." Not exactly conventional wisdom out of the mouth of a softball coach, but that's just one of the not-so-traditional lessons that the Nevada Lady Tigers softball team got in a specialized hitting clinic led by former Olympian Christie Ambrosi...

Nevada Daily Mail NEVADA -- The Osage Masonic Lodge No. 303 is set to host its first annual golf tournament on Friday, Aug. 6. The two-person scramble tournament with have an 8:30 a.m. shotgun start and will be played at the Frank E. Peters Municipal Golf Course. The entry fee is $80 per team and all proceeds with go to support youth programs...

An item in last week's paper told of Sylvia Parnell celebrating her 91st birthday. Many friends and family were in attendance for the celebration. As I read the article, a couple of other names immediately came to mind: Ava Kelly and Nellie Cowel. What flashed before me was the experience of beginning school and eating in the lunch program at school. ...

I hope everyone in this area has air conditioning -- or lots of ice. Everyone complains about the weather, but I have less reason to complain than most. My home is air conditioned, my car is air conditioned and my job is in an air conditioned building. I have it good!...

Dear Editor: Proposition S has stimulated many letters and ads recently in your papers to vote NO. Based on the facts, a NO vote is in order. Does it make sense to lease a building for 20 years, like is currently being proposed by the NEVC School Board, at a total cost of $5 million or $250,000 per year in rent, and at the end of 20 years, not own it? Further, comparing a total lease cost of $5 million to a proposed construction cost of a new building, put at $3.5 million and owning it, is $1.5 million more to lease. ...

Dear Editor: For those who are worried about the Hispanics or other immigrants taking over America, here is a little lesson from history. One hundred fifty years ago it was those darn Irish. They were coming here in droves, taking the jobs in the Eastern cities, grabbing up land in farm country, and competing for positions in building the railroad in the West...

Wal-Mart Manager Gary DeCocq and 30-year associate Nancy Smith cut the ribbon on the revamped store during the grand re-opening ceremony held at the Nevada Supercenter Friday morning, July 30. More than 100 employees, business leaders, elected officials and community members turned out to the store, which opened seven years ago. ...

Herald-Tribune The 2010 All-Classes Reunion steering committee is pleased to announce it has partnered with the Nevada Vernon County Chamber of Commerce in preparation for this year's fall celebration. "It's a natural union," said committee chairperson Jeff Tweten. "If people want to know what's happening in Nevada or Vernon County, it's the Chamber that receives the first call."...

A local fundraising event will be getting some help from small wrestlers from the small screen. The 2010 Badge Bash for Christmas Cash, hosted by the Southeast Kansas Regional Correctional Center staff, will be featuring a new addition -- the Half Pint Brawlers. ...

A bus travels to Radio Springs Lake, where several students were to be picked up. While traveling down the hill, the driver of the bus suffers a heart attack and falls into unconsciousness. As the bus picks up speed, it crashes into one vehicle sending it into a light pole, then crashes into another car. That car crashes into the gazebo near the north shore of the lake. The bus continues on into the lake...

Heather Mills and Brian Mart were married May 8, 2010, at the Vernon County fairgrounds, amid a floral decorated arena. Rick Champion officiated. Heather Whitley served as maid of honor. Attendants were Mercedes Barker, Haley Greer and Brooklyn Swait. Flower girls were Kelsey, Coty, Lacy, Abby, and Bethany...

Patrick and Peggy Heim, of Maize, Kan., will celebrate their 40th wedding anniversary with a reception Aug. 7, 2010, at the First Baptist church, 627 James, in Maize, Kan. Patrick and the former Peggy Hawkins were married Aug. 1, 1970, at Grace Baptist Tabernacle, in Fort Scott, Kan...

Announcement is made of the engagement of Casie Feagan and Jason Yount. An Oct. 1, 2010, wedding is planned in Pittsburg, Kan. Casie is the daughter of Teri and Reggie Feagan, Oswego, Kan. She is employed by Names and Numbers as a Graphic Artist. Jason is the son of Henry and Rene Yount, Fort Scott, and Katherine Yount, Fort Scott. He is employed by PITSCO in Lego Education Technical Support...

Jerry and Norma Kreiensieck, of Nevada, announce the engagement and approaching marriage of their daughter, Celia Jean Kreiensieck, to Kenneth Louis Biles Jr., son of Denise Biles, of Nevada, and the late Kenneth Biles Sr.

Mrs. Lucile Wisterman, Fort Scott, will observe her 100th birthday on Aug. 3, 2010. She was born on Aug. 3, 1910. Mrs. Wisterman lives with her daughter, Daisy Black, and will be celebrating at a family gather, which will also be attended by her grandson, Jack Black, Fort Scott; niece and husband, Bertha and Ed Coward, Ottawa; and niece and husband Mickey and Lee Munger, Scottsdale, Ariz...