Stories from Friday, January 28, 2011

GARLAND -- Evangelist Cindy Powell will bring morning services to Cherry Grove on Sunday, Jan. 30. The service starts at 10:50 a.m. at the church, located eight miles south of Fort Scott on U.S. Highway 69. Powell brings her gospel message through various means. ...

Kansas Small Business Development Center representatives from Pittsburg State University will be in Fort Scott from 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Feb. 24 for free, individual counseling sessions. Sessions will be held in the Greyhound Room of the Fort Scott Community College Administration Building, 2108 S. Horton at various times throughout the year...

It's coming down to the wire for the Super Bulb party. The event, tied in with the Take Charge Challenge, a friendly competition between 16 communities in four regions of Kansas to see who can achieve the greatest reduction in residential and small-business energy use, is scheduled for 1 p.m.-5 p.m. Feb. 5 in the Academic Building on the Fort Scott Community College campus...

It was a busy day in "lock-up" at the Fort Scott Inn on Thursday, but all the "offenders" were there for a worthwhile cause -- raising money for the Muscular Dystrophy Association. Bail was set at $300 for each of the roughly 60 participants. Randall Readinger was one of the last to leave. "One of these gals called me and guilted me into it," joked Readinger, who owns SGT Group, which sells print and promotional materials. He is also the office manager for Fort Scott Livestock Market Co...

As the snow begins to melt, local car washes are getting a lot of business. John Horn, owner of Typhoon Bay car wash located on South National Avenue, said he has seen an upswing in the use of his facility since the snow and ice have melted off local roads. The same appears to be true for the other two car washes in town, M&K car wash on East Wall Street, and Spotless car wash on U.S. Highway 69, as local motorists have been lining up to clean the road salt, mud, and grime off their cars...

Local schools are heralding Kansas' 150th birthday this week with a variety of activities. First-graders at Winfield Scott Elementary School learned more about Kansas history and heritage in honor of the state's sesquicentennial with a visit on Tuesday to the Fort Lincoln School House, where retired teacher Margaret Titus taught students about what it was like to attend a one-room schoolhouse...

"Backward living," I call it. Holding on to our past with emotional super-glue that keeps us bound to bitterness. Living in a mental prison confined by steel bars of hostility. If you've allowed yourself to dwell on ways you've been hurt, maybe it's time you unlock the shackles and set yourself free. ...

This column is the continuation of Wagon Boss Robert M. Peck's experiences in eastern Kansas and the Indian Territory (present Oklahoma) from 1862-1865. During the Civil War, the "Union" Quartermaster Department hired civilians to be in charge of mule drawn wagon trains that transported almost all of the supplies that were necessary equip a field army to wage war and to furnish various forts and installations as necessary. ...

Jim Karleskint visited his mother, Buena Karleskint last week. Annette and Betty Hixon hosted the Fort Scott Garden Club Christmas meeting and gift exchange. There were 13 members and 1 visitor. The January meeting was at Betty's house again, on Monday, Jan. 17 at 6:30...

Mary Margaret "Peggy" (Gentry) McKinley, former Neodesha resident, resident of Chanute, passed away Wednesday, Jan. 26, 2011 at Neosho Memorial Regional Medical Center. Peggy was born Dec. 27, 1940 in Neodesha, the daughter of Vance Gentry and Alberta (Wilson) Gentry...

Hazel Aurelia Hall, 90, of Fort Scott, died late Wednesday night, Jan. 26, 2011, in Kansas City, Mo., at the Research Medical Center. She was born Sept. 14, 1920 in Fort Scott, Kan., the daughter of Edward Harrison and Delia (Thiebaut) Branstetter. She married Thomas S. Hall in September of 1939 and he preceded her in death Nov. 20, 1982...

KANSAS CITY, Kan. -- Kansas City's women made 7 of their first 8 field-goal attempts of the night, racing out to a 19-0 lead in the first 10 minutes of play on their way to defeating Fort Scott Community College, 64-40, in Jayhawk Conference-Eastern Division play Wednesday night...

Fort Scott High's wrestling was dominant in sweeping Independence and Labette County in a Southeast Kansas League triangular at the FSHS gymnasium Thursday night. Fort Scott went out to a 38-6 lead in the opening dual and rolled to a 59-18 decision over Independence. The Tigers (5-1 SEK, 13-3 overall) jumped out to a 51-0 lead over LCHS and went on to prevail 66-5...