Stories from Thursday, September 6, 2007

Two members of the Little Rock Nine, who integrated Little Rock Central High School in 1957, will be the recipients of the Gordon Parks Choice of Weapons Award during the 4th Annual Gordon Parks Celebration of Culture and Diversity scheduled for Oct. 3-6 in Fort Scott...

The USD 234 Board of Education met Tuesday night for its regular monthly meeting. At 5:30 p.m. the board's business meeting began with an opening and an approval of the official agenda for the board meeting...

While local residents Steve and Melody Fortenberry might not call themselves entertainers, they will get the opportunity to do just that on Friday. The Fortenberrys, who have lived in Fort Scott for the last 14 years, are scheduled to perform at 7:30 p.m. Friday at the Heritage Park pavilion, First and Main streets in downtown Fort Scott. The Heritage Park concerts, which take place each Friday, are sponsored by the Fort Scott Area Chamber of Commerce Downtown Division...

dState Treasurer Lynn Jenkins spoke to the Fort Scott Rotary Club Wednesday afternoon at the Fort Scott Country Club. Jenkins explained to the Rotarians the five divisions of the State Treasurer's Office. The first division of the office and the most well known, according to Jenkins, is the Cash Management Division...

Charles Edward "Tom" Giddens, 79, a resident of Frontenac, Kan., formerly of Arma, Kan., died Wednesday, Sept. 5, 2007, at the Girard Medical Center in Girard, Kan. He was born April 28, 1928, in Fort Scott, Kan., the son of Jesse Giddens and Gladys Manion Giddens. ...

Herbert Claire Hainline, 75, of Aurora, Ill., formally of Paola died Sept. 3, at the Provena Mercy Medical Center, Aurora, Ill. A graveside service will be at 3 p.m. Friday, Sept. 7 at Holy Cross Cemetery, Paola, Kan. Herbert was born Aug. 27, 1932 to Herbert C. and Mary Emma Tawney Hainline in Paola, Kan. He lived in Paola, Fort Scott, Pittsburg, Burlington, Kan., and Aurora Ill...

Skipping breakfast is comparable to trying to drive a car without gas. Food is the fuel that lets our bodies function as they should. The name of the morning meal --breakfast -- indicates that breakfast is needed to break the overnight fast to fuel daytime activities...

The Uniontown High School Graduating Class of 1977 gathered at the Fort Scott Inn on Saturday, to celebrate their 30 year reunion and to renew old friendships. Arrangements for the reunion were made by Bob Geiger and Becky Geiger Brown with the assistance of RoAnn Blake, and Carol and Joe Camac...

100 YEARS AGO (1907) The Old Soldiers monument to be erected by D.P. Bruce & Co., marble dealers of this city, is to be at Quenemo, Kansas, instead of Pleasanton. Mr. Menezes, the marble cutter and designer in the employ of Mr. Bruce, went up and secured the contract. ...

PARSONS -- Fort Scott High School's junior varsity tennis team competed in a seven-team round-robin tournament here Tuesday with its No. 1 doubles team finishing in fourth place. Labette County's Red team took first place with 12 points followed by Iola with 11 and Neodesha with seven. The Tigers scored two team points...

INDEPENDENCE -- Fort Scott High School's soccer team was shut out by Independence in its season opener at the Independence Soccer Complex here Tuesday by a score of 10-0 in Southeast Kansas League play. Dan Gross scored four goals for the Bulldogs, who are 2-0 overall after a season-opening 3-2 win over Wichita Trinity last week. Sam Schroeder assisted on three of those goals as well as one other and scored a goal himself...

Fort Scott City Commission members voted 4-0 Tuesday to seek an engineering assessment on the city pool to determine whether it's possible to make improvements or not. City staff is developing a "request for proposals" to engineering firms to do an independent assessment of the existing pool. The requests will be sent out in the next couple of days...