Stories from Monday, November 19, 2007

MANHATTAN, Kan. -- Kansas State's Joe Ida has been named the Big 12 Golfer of the Month for October, the league office announced on Wednesday. Ida, a sophomore from Fort Scott, Kan., closed the fall season with three top-15 efforts, including back-to-back top-five finishes and carded the lowest score in school history on a par-72 course at the Pacific Invitational...

ARKANSAS CITY, Kan. -- The Kansas Jayhawk Community College conference named 15 members of Fort Scott Community College's football team to its All-Conference Team earlier this week. Fort Scott, currently 9-2 with a trip to the Valley of the Sun Bowl in Phoenix, Ariz., coming up Dec. 1, finished as the runner-up in both conference play and in the Region VI Playoffs. Butler, of El Dorado, Kan., won both titles and gave the Greyhounds their only two losses on the field this season...

FORT SCOTT, Kan. -- Three Fort Scott Community College baseball players have made their decisions about where they will continue their college careers after this season. Sophomores Jeff Rydman, Dan Huff and Brandt Barnes signed with four-year universities Friday morning in the Dave Regan Clubhouse on the FSCC campus. This doesn't affect any of the player's eligibility for this season and they will play for the Greyhounds this spring...

HIGHLAND -- Fort Scott Community College's women won both games at the Highland Blue & Gold Classic here over the weekend and are off to their first 3-0 start since the 2001-02 season. The Greyhounds began each of their three previous seasons with at least one loss. Their season-opening win over the Ottawa junior varsity on Nov. 7 marked the first time they had started the season with a win in four years...

The annual Candlelight Tour at the Fort Scott National Historic site has been an area holiday tradition for more than a quarter of a century. The National Park Service presents the event each year, bringing new stories to life in order to the keep the walking tours fresh for visitors. This year's tours, set for Dec. 7-8, will explore the concepts of freedom and slavery and what they meant to soldiers and citizens of Fort Scott during the Civil War era...

While the holiday season may contain many tantalizing delicacies to tempt those who attend various celebrations, it is quite common for these tongue ticklers to have ill-effects for those who overindulge. According to The Medicine Shoppe Pharmacy parent company, Thanksgiving is the beginning of a season filled with overeating. ...

Helen Irene Simonds, age 72, a resident of Fort Scott, died Thursday, November 15, 2007, at the Mercy Health Center in Fort Scott, Kansas. She was born July 17, 1935, in Fort Madison, Iowa, the daughter of John and Ruby Brill. Helen and her sister Betty were raised by their great-uncle and great-aunt John and Lottie Huebner. Helen took Huebner as her name...

Brycen Chance Solano, a boy, was born at 10:40 a.m. Sunday at Mercy Health Center to parents Fabian Solano and Nikki Leach, Fort Scott. He weighed 8 pounds, 3 ounces at birth. Maternal grandparents are Cindy Garrett, Fort Scott, and Richard Leach, Coffey Creek, Mont. Paternal grandparents are Katrina Ashmore and Willard Ashmore, Burlington, Kan...

Thrift Club members met for their Nov. 7 meeting with Juanita Dominquez. Her home was beautifully decorated with fall colors. A carry-in lunch was enjoyed at noon. President Dorothy Ketner conducted the meeting, which opened with the pledge to the American flag. ...

Nov. 10 found 38 Fort Scott debaters in action at two separate tournaments. Most the squad traveled at 5 a.m. to compete at Caney Valley. The Tigers captured 1st place as a squad by earning 10 of the 16 placings awarded. In the varsity division, Fort Scott had the only three undefeated teams (5-0), placing 1st (Kim Henry/Andrew Benage), 2nd (AnnRene Braun/ Brad Parsons), and 3rd (Jacoby Zielinski/Sterling Braun). ...

100 YEARS AGO (1907) Fort Scott people who have seen the new $10 gold piece that the government has just coined are not very favorably impressed with the design. It looks as though something is lacking. Perhaps it is the "In God We Trust" which has caused such a flurry of excitement, and perhaps it is because the eagle on one side is too fat. At any rate, the coin will be accepted for its full face value after the people become accustomed to it...

This year, the annual music program for the Homes for the Holidays tour will take place Dec. 8 and 9 at the Liberty Theatre, 113 S. Main St. Built in the the late 1800s, the Liberty Theatre is a landmark in Fort Scott. Inside the theatre, guests can see two handpainted murals created in 1951 by artist George Kieffer. ...