Stories from Tuesday, August 21, 2012

For 12 years, Mercy has offered free evaluation of student athlete injuries at the Bumps and Bruise Clinic. Mercy's free Bumps and Bruises Clinic will resume on Saturday, Sept. 1, from 8-- 8:45 a.m. at Mercy Health for Life. Greg King, Mercy Orthopedic Nurse Practitioner, and Sara Hunt, ATC, will conduct the clinic...

Elaine Jean Jackson, age 56, a resident of Fort Scott, Kan., died unexpectedly Saturday, Aug. 18, 2012, at the Mercy Health Center emergency room. She was born on Jan. 28, 1956, in Kansas City, Mo., the daughter of Charles Lee Hall Sr. and Shirley Mae Willis Hall...

William Riley "Billy" Lane, age 69, LaCygne, Kan., died Saturday Aug. 18, 2012, at Research Medical Center, Kansas City, Mo. Graveside funeral service and burial will be held at 10 a.m. Thursday, Aug. 23, 2012, at the Oak Lawn Cemetery in LaCygne. Visitation will be held from 5 to 7 p.m. ...

Ivan H. Bolinger, age 91, resident of Olathe, Kan., formerly of Uniontown, Kan., died Monday, Aug. 20, 2012, at his home. Funeral arrangements for Ivan Bolinger will be announced by the Cheney Witt Chapel, 201 S. Main.

Dorothy J. Armstrong, age 89, resident of Fort Scott, died Monday, Aug. 20, 2012, at Guest Home Estates. Funeral arrangements for Dorothy Armstrong will be announced by the Cheney Witt Chapel, 201 S. Main.

Cheyenne Andrea Don Fiegener, 16, of Fort Scott, died at her home Thursday evening, Aug. 16, 2012. She was born April 15, 1996 in Joplin, Mo., the daughter of Donald Joseph and Stephanie Gail Edwards Fiegener. Cheyenne is survived by her father and step-mother, Donald and Heather Fiegener of the home, her mother and step-father, Stephanie and Shawn Laver of Bone Creek, Crawford County, Kan., two sisters, Bryant and Brittany Fiegener, four brothers, Draven J. ...

Frank Henry Taylor Jr., 84, of Sedalia, Mo., passed away, Sunday, Aug. 19, 2012. He was born on Dec. 27, 1927, in Fort Scott, Kan., a son of Frank Henry and Francis (Comstock) Taylor Sr. On Dec. 6, 1947, in Fort Scott, Kan., he was united in marriage to Wilma Marie Koch, who survives of the home...

Megan Schnichels and Dakota Suskey, Fort Scott, are pleased to announce the birth of their daughter, Melody Ann, at 10:29 a.m. Aug. 16, 2012, at Mercy Hospital. She weighed 6 pounds, 14 ounces at birth. Maternal grandparents are David and Karon Schnichels, Fort Scott...

Sherman Gene Crosby, 53, Anderson, Mo., was arrested by the Fort Scott Police Department at 10:53 p.m. Thursday for driving while suspended. He posted a bond of $1,250 and was later released at 1:37 a.m. the next day. Matthew Allen Fennell, 20, Fort Scott, was arrested by the Bourbon County Sheriff's Office at 3:16 p.m. Thursday on a Bourbon County warrant for theft, burglary and criminal damage. He is being held on a $100,000 cash surety bond...

100 YEARS AGO (1912) Miss Dolly Maffett, a young lady 7 years of age, who for a week past has been a guest at the West home on South Washington Street, is suffering with infantile paralysis and her condition is reported as quite serious. The West home has been placed under strict quarantine and it will be three weeks at least before others will be permitted to come and go from the house. ...

The city of Fort Scott and the Youth Activities Team will host a block party from 5 to 10:30 p.m. Saturday. The event will celebrate community accomplishments this year, such as the opening of the new skatepark and aquatic center, the expansion at Buck Run Community Center and the replacement of lights at Fisher Park through the Take Charge Challenge...

It is so strange, not having to do anything unless I want to; eat whenever I want to, and what I want. Sometimes I even forget to eat. It may be 3 p.m. in the afternoon and I finally get around to fixing some lunch. Daughter Susie left notes all around the house saying "Mom don't forget to eat."...

Family time is important and there's no better place for the family to gather than around the kitchen table. The following article says it well. The Family Dinner Table I cut out my wedding dress at the same place where I memorized my spelling words. ...

The Bourbon County Arts Council will hold its 25th annual fundraiser, Garagarama and silent auction, on Sept. 22 in the 4-H Building at the Bourbon County Fairgrounds. The council presents arts programming in area schools; participates in the annual Gordon Parks Celebration by sponsoring the creativity contest; co-sponsors the Echoes of the Trail event; and presents the annual Fine Arts Exhibit...

A Frisbee golf tournament and fundraiser to benefit the Care to Share cancer support group and The Sharing Bucket exceeded organizers' goals by bringing in more than $3,000 for the nonprofit organization which helps local cancer patients, their caregivers and survivors...

USD 234 officials and teachers reached a tentative agreement Monday on their contract for the 2012-13 school year. It must still be voted on by the school board and teachers' organization to make it official. Negotiators met with federal mediator Patrick Dunn at the board office yesterday. Talks had been ongoing since the end of March. The meeting with Dunn, from Kansas City, Mo., was scheduled earlier this month after an impasse was reached...

The story of one private tells the tale of two-thirds of soldiers in the Civil War. Pvt. Adam Martin signed up for the 6th Kansas Cavalry in Fort Scott willingly. He wasn't killed in battle but by typhoid. Martin's story was told by reeanactors in five scenes during an evening tour, led by Ranger Galen Ewing, titled "From Enlistment to Grave: A Fort Scott Soldier in the Civil War" at Fort Scott National Historic Site on Saturday...

Fort Scott High School's football team held a lawn chair scrimmage at the practice field east of the high school Saturday morning. Head coach Bob Campbell was happy, for the most part, with the Tigers' workout. The team has already had 11 practices as they've been able to go two-a-day the entire first week for the first time in a few years...