Stories from Tuesday, August 9, 2011

Eric Michael Morris, 32. 402 Main, Mound City, was arrested by the Bourbon County Sheriff's Office on Aug. 5 at 3:04 p.m. on two Bourbon County warrants for non-support of a child and is still being held. Gary Eugene Toney, 52, 31975 W 63rd St., Osawatomie, was arrested by the Bourbon County Sheriff's Office on Aug. 5 at 3:04 p.m. on a Bourbon County Warrant for a worthless check and is still being held...

V. Maxine Gearhart, 87, of Overland Park, Kan., passed away at home on August 1, 2011. Maxine was born November 26, 1923, in Fort Scott to Frank and Lilly Maude (Klontz) Wolf. Maxine graduated from Fort Scott High School and later from Pittsburg State Teachers College, now Pittsburg State University...

Area Agency on Aging purchases web access The Southeast Kansas Area Agency on Aging has purchased access to the Gold Standard Pharmacology website. The site has a program that checks for interactions between medicines, supplements and food. It will print an "Interaction Consumer Report" that includes possible interactions, suggested time gaps between some products, foods to avoid related to particular medicine and product duplication, a news release said...

The Fort Scott Area Chamber of Commerce will host its weekly Chamber Coffee at 8 a.m. Thursday at The Keyhole, located at the corner of 10th and Main streets.

The Bourbon County Democrats will hold a meet at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Danny and Willa Ellis Family Fine Arts Center, Fort Scott Community College, 2108 Horton. All interested Democrats are welcome to attend. More precinct committee men and women will be appointed by County Chair Shirley Palmer, and plans for upcoming events will be discussed. All potential people interested in running for an office are invited to attend...

Though few people chose to brave the heat Friday, the first Mercy Health Center's Children's Fair on Friday was termed a success. Prompted by Terry Weldin of the Burlington Lions Club, the Mercy Auxiliary put the event on at the hospital grounds. Using a device called SureSight, Becky Reeves, also of Burlington Lions Club, tested youngsters' eyes to see if there were any vision problems. ...

The USD 234 Board of Education unanimously approved a 2011-12 budget Monday that includes a 1.225 mill increase in the district's overall mill levy. The increase will raise the mill levy from last year's total of 42.743 mills to 43.968 mills and raise $122,400 to help offset more than $500,000 in state funding cuts and reductions due to declining enrollment. ...

V. Maxine Gearhart, 87, of Overland Park, Kan., passed away at home on August 1, 2011. Maxine was born November 26, 1923, in Fort Scott to Frank and Lilly Maude (Klontz) Wolf. Maxine graduated from Fort Scott High School and later from Pittsburg State Teachers College, now Pittsburg State University...

Eric Michael Morris, 32. 402 Main, Mound City, was arrested by the Bourbon County Sheriff's Office on Aug. 5 at 3:04 p.m. on two Bourbon County warrants for non-support of a child and is still being held. Gary Eugene Toney, 52, 31975 W 63rd St., Osawatomie, was arrested by the Bourbon County Sheriff's Office on Aug. 5 at 3:04 p.m. on a Bourbon County Warrant for a worthless check and is still being held...

Students and teachers will soon be starting another school year. It may seem that summer was too short and school days are long. But if you think about it, school does not really take up very much of a child's time. The average school year in the United States is 180 days. In other countries, the school year can last up to 240 days and students are often in school more hours per day than American students. Clearly, the hours and days that a child is not in school are important for learning too...

I think I have mentioned in past columns how the TV clicker in this family is controlled 90 percent of the time by one person in this family and that person sure isn't me. You guessed it, it is good old Bob. He has that clicker in his hand so much that I swear it is molded to fit his hands. His idea of watching TV is to continually switch from one station to another. As an example, he could have the Brewers on one station, a news station on another, or even a mystery show on another...

Defending national champion Navarro (Texas) will enter the 2011 football season as the No. 1-ranked team in the National Junior College Athletic Association. The pre-season poll was released late last week. This is in stark contrast to the jcgridiron.com pre-season "Dirty 30", released a month ago, which has Navarro ranked No. 11. The NJCAA poll does not include the schools in California, which are not members of the organization, while the jcgridiron.com poll does...

Betty Hixon treated her granddaughter and family, Dana, Barry, Alicia and Alex, to Chicken Mary's and enjoyed shopping Saturday evening Aug. 6. Joe and Shirley White have new twin great-granddaughters born July 28. Their names are Hadleigh JoLynn and Kinleigh JoAnn, and their mother is Alicia Craig. Shirley has enjoyed spending some time with them...

By Michael Pommier The Fort Scott Tribune The Fort Scott Area Community Foundation is now accepting applications for its annual grant cycle. Each year, since 2009 the foundation has accepted applications from local charitable organizations to supply grant funding for projects that are geared toward making life in the Fort Scott area better, foundation Chairwoman Janet Braun said...

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Hissink, of Nevada, Mo., announce the engagement of their daughter, Emily Jane Hissink, to TJ Hunt, son of Mr. and Mrs. Gregory Hunt, of Holt, Mo. Emily is a 2004 graduate of Nevada High School, a 2007 graduate of the University of Missouri with a bachelor's of social work, and a 2009 graduate of the University of Kansas with a master's of social work. ...