Stories from Tuesday, April 5, 2011

PITTSBURG -- Fort Scott High School senior Griffin Knopp scored 11 points to help lead Team KSEK to an 84-78 victory over Team KLKC in the 2011 U.S. Army KSEK/KLKC All-Star Game Sunday at St. Mary's-Colgan Fieldhouse here. The all-star game is for southeast Kansas high school seniors. There was also a girls' game, 3-point shooting contests and a slam-dunk competition...

ALTAMONT -- The track and field season opened here Friday as Labette County High School continued its tradition of running its varsity and junior varsity meets on the same day. Fort Scott's varsity boys won the team tite behind the triple-event-winning performance of senior Griffin Knopp. The Tigers finshed with 84 1/2 team points while second-place Chanute was 11 points behind...

Fort Scott Community College's baseball took three out of four games in a weekend series with 20th-ranked Johnson County over the weekend, showing the kind of potential against one of the Jayhawk Conference-Eastern Division's teams that they had lacked in their last two series...

100 YEARS AGO (1911) The Pittsburg Sun shows the following enrollment and attendance figures of a number of Kansas towns: Atchison -- enrollment 1,882; average daily attendance 1399; Coffeyville -- enrollment 3,078; average daily attendance, 2,197. Fort Scott -- enrollment 2,338; average daily attendance 1820. ...

Alice Marie Lyons Good died March 20, 2011 at her home in New Orleans, La., with her family present. She was born on April 1, 1934 in Bourbon County, Kan. She was preceded by: her husband, Thomas Jackson Good; her son Thomas Jackson Good Jr.; her parents Lucy Christine Leitch Lyons and Luther Byron Lyons; two brothers Thomas Byron Lyons and Donald Wesley Lyons; and three sisters Jane Louise Meeks, Bertha Elizabeth McGrew and Ruth Suzanne Mahler...

Precious mother, Margaret W. Singmaster-Alvarez, of West Valley City, Utah, passed away on March 30, 2011. She was born April 23, 1923, in Mulberry, Kan. The last of nine children of Anna Mae Northington Lewis and William Wallace Lewis, she will be remembered for her willingness to help others in need. Mom bought clothes and shoes for those who needed them especially children. We will miss her wonderful pies. Each time she went to a doctor's appointment, she took a fresh pie...

Robert J. "Bob" Ingram, age 73, resident of Bronson, Kan., died Sunday, April 3, 2011, at Via Christi Hospital in Wichita, Kansas. Funeral arrangements for Robert Ingram will be announced by Cheney Witt Bronson Chapel.

Mary W. Stewart, age 89, a resident of Bronson, Kansas, died Monday, April 4, 2011, at Moran Manor in Moran, Kan. Funeral services for Mary Stewart will be announced by the Cheney Witt Bronson Chapel, Bronson, Kan.

Jackie Laverne Moore, age 76, resident of Augusta, Kan., died Friday, April 1, 2011, at his home. He was born Sept. 29, 1934, in Vernon County, Mo., the son of Timothy Moore and Gertrude Allen Moore. He married Dorothy Denton on May 3, 1953. Jackie spent 10 years in the United States Air Force from October 1951 to October 1961. ...

George M. Logan, age 92, a resident of Fort Scott, Kansas, died Sunday, April 3, 2011, at the Medicalodges of Fort Scott, following and extended illness. He was born April 18, 1918, at Oxford, Neb., the son of Marion Forrest Logan and Hazel Pearl Bowman Logan. ...

William Darrell Nowak, 42, of 517 Couch, Fort Scott, was arrested by the Bourbon County Sheriff's Office on April 1, at 5:44 p.m. for a 48 hour sentence and was released on April 3 at 6:15 p.m. for time served. Joshua Thomas McLennan, 20, of 333 W. Mickinley, Garner, was arrested by the Kansas Highway Patrol on April 3 at 11:10 p.m. ...

Former longtime Uniontown resident Ivan Bolinger will be having his 90th birthday on Feb. 22, 2011. If anyone wishes to send him a card it would be appreciated. His address is P.O. Box 4522, Olathe, Kan., 66063.

On the first Sunday night in April, a heavy thunderstorm took down electric poles south of Garland. From 11 p.m. that night, there was no electricity in the area of the large iron bridge. Men were at work before daylight on Monday morning. Thirty men, ladies and children attended the first Sunday in April Christian Church dinner this week. ...

There will be lots of stories told at Pittsburg State University's first Pecha-Kucha Night. The event, scheduled for 7:20 p.m. today (Tuesday, April 5) in the U-Club in the Overman Student Center, is an opportunity for students, faculty and community members to tell their own unique stories, whatever they may be...

Thanks to the work of a talented student artist, Pittsburg State University ROTC will soon have one mean, tricked-out machine to drive around over the coming year. Anson Pruneda, a senior art major who works as a student administrative assistant in the Department of Military Science, has won a national competition to design a vehicle wrap for a Humvee. Because Pruneda won, PSU ROTC will have the use of the Humvee, complete with Pruneda's design, for a year...

Fort Scott High School will present "Steel Magnolias" this Friday and Saturday at 7 p.m. in the high school auditorium, 1005 S. Main. "Steel Magnolias" is about a Louisiana beauty shop owned by a woman named Truvy and the lives of her five clients. Through the views of these different women we see love, apathy, pain, loss, secrecy and a desperate attempt at living a life of happiness. ...

Fort Scott Middle School students will get exposure to a variety of career options during a career fair later this month at the school. Hosted by FSMS and the Fort Scott Area Chamber of Commerce and scheduled for April 29, the event will allow students to hear presentations from representatives of various local businesses and professions, ask questions and learn more about careers available in the area from the people who work in them every day...

Andy Bryant might be a reticent 11-year-old boy, but put him in a go-kart on a dirt track and his actions speak volumes. In two years of driving, he's won 68 races -- 14 this year, his father, Micheal said. "I've been around stock car racing my entire life," and Andy's record is not typical, he said. Micheal worked with late-model racer Randy Zimmerman...

The United Way of Bourbon County board of directors "feels fortunate" that the organization can fulfill the budgeted amount for its 16 agencies this year, a news release said. Although current donations to United Way of Bourbon County are below its $104,000 goal, all approved spending will be handled, the release said. A total of $96,500 has already been pledged and collected to date with an additional $5,600 in anticipated gifts to come by year's end...

Submitted to the Tribune The faces of Regis Philbin and Kelly Ripa, hosts of the popular morning talk show "LIVE! with Regis and Kelly," passed through the area Monday on the sides of a large bus following ultramarathon runner Dean Karnazes as he makes his way across the country...

The Hiattville 4-H Club met Wednesday, March 2. Roll call was answered by "Name a city or town in Kansas." Members were reminded of upcoming events: sheep, goat and swine auction, the Livestock Quality Assurance Seminar, county and state camps, market beef, goat, lamb and swine tag-in, and Bourbon County Fair (July 24-30)...