Stories from Thursday, August 12, 2010

ORNELAS -- Jeffrey L. Ornelas, Jr. and Uriah L. Gilliland, Fort Scott; are proud to announce the birth of their son, Xavier Lynn Ornelas. Xavier was born at 8:56 p.m., June 28, 2010 at Mercy Health Center in Fort Scott. He weighed 6 pounds, 8 ounces and was 20 inches in length at birth...

Donald Lee Mitchell, of Topeka, Kan., passed away, Monday Aug. 9, 2010, at Lakeside Medical Center in Omaha, Neb. He was born Jan. 26, 1927, in Ottawa, Kan. He was the son of Earl A. and Mattie J. (Head) Mitchell. He was a 1944 graduate of Ottawa High School...

Dale Ira Kincaid, age 76, a resident of Mound City, Kansas, died Wednesday, August 11, 2010, at the Mercy Health Center in Fort Scott. Services for Dale Ira Kincaid will be announced by the Cheney Witt Memorial Chapel, 201 S. Main, Fort Scott, Kansas, 66701...

Local resident Will Allen is entering his 10th year of providing athletic training services to athletes in the area, and his eighth year of treating patients in the area with physical therapy. Allen said he is "just another hometown boy trying to do right."...

A relevant topic for Farm Service Agency (FSA) staff these days is the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) general sign up that is underway. A local public meeting on that subject is also upon us -- at 7 p.m. Thursday, in the meeting room of the Ellis Fine Arts Center on the FSCC campus. Everyone interested should come sit in for a review of the CRP processes and possibilities...

Here's your chance commercial beef producers -- see if you have the "Super Cow/Calf Pair" of Kansas! The Kansas State Fair has re- introduced this cow/calf show for the 2010 Fair and invites you to participate on Monday, Sept. 13. This event is open to commercial Kansas pairs in pasture condition (no fitting, no halter). The entry must consist of one cow and her natural steer or heifer calf. No bull or embryo transfer calves will be allowed...

Even with the temperatures in the mid 90's and the heat index reaching 110 degrees, the Fort Scott Community College football team hit the field earlier this week as the Greyhounds begin preparations for the 2010 football season. It has been nine months since the Greyhounds bid for their first NJCAA National Championsip since 1970 was halted in the Citizens Bank Bowl in Pittsburg against eventual National Champion Blinn (Texas) College. ...

Chanute favored in SEK poll; St. Paul picked in TRL, Galena in CNC

FSCC begins new school term with redesigned website

Mercy Health Center recently announced that local resident Leslie Ledford, a registered respiratory therapist at the hospital, has earned the Registered Polysomnographic Technologist (RPSGT) credential. This internationally-recognized credential represents the highest certification in the field for health care professionals who clinically assess patients with sleep disorders, according to a news release...