FS Street Advisory Board Invites Public to Discussion of Brick Streets

Street Advisory Board Meeting

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Discuss the Future of Our Brick Streets

PUBLIC PLEASE PLAN TO ATTEND

The Fort Scott Street Advisory Board will meet Tuesday, March 8, 2022, from 4:00 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. in the City Commission Room at 123 S Main St, Fort Scott, KS 66701.

The purpose of this meeting is to discuss the City’s policy regarding our brick streets.

The issues under consideration include:

  1. Should exposed brick streets be maintained, repaired, and preserved?
  2. Should asphalt overlay be removed and underlying brick streets restored where feasible?
  3. Should the City establish “brick street preservation zones” in which brick is preserved?

(Note-as a consequence, brick streets outside these zones might be overlayed or replaced.)

Please bring your questions, concerns, and suggestions to this meeting. This input will help the Street Advisory Board make recommendations to the City Commission.

Obituary of Kathryn Wilson

Kathryn Elaine “Kathie” Greenfield Wilson, 70, of Fort Scott, passed away Friday evening, February 18, 2022, at the Medicalodge in Fort Scott. She was born August 12, 1951, to Rachel Hord and John C. Greenfield Sr., in Tacoma, Washington. Kathie was one of ten children: four sisters and five brothers. She graduated from Fort Scott High School in 1969. She married David Cunningham in 1970 in Fort Scott, Kansas. After his passing in 1972, she then married Perry Wilson, and the two celebrated many wonderful years of marriage until his passing in 2018.

Kathie was a kind soul, who never met a stranger. She enjoyed shopping for bargains, rides in the country, and reading romance novels. She loved life, loved to laugh, and she especially loved her grandkids. Kathie saw beauty in simple things where others may have overlooked them. She always made sure to lift others up, even during her most trying of times. She always had the biggest smile. To know Kathie, was to know love.

She is survived by two children, Jason and wife Natalie Cunningham of Lockwood, Missouri, and Rachel Fields of Fort Scott, Kansas, and six grandchildren, Addison, Maren, Ellen, William, Enych, and Elsie. She was preceded in death by her first husband David Cunningham, her second husband Perry Wilson, her father John C. Greenfield Sr., sisters Cheryl Bagnall, Ella Greenfield, and brothers Paul and Brian Greenfield.

Services will be held at 11:30a.m. Friday March 4, 2022, at Konantz Cheney Funeral Home, Fort Scott, Kansas with burial following at 12:30 p.m. at the Fort Scott National Cemetery, where she will be laid to rest with her late husband Perry Wilson. Condolences may be submitted to the online guestbook at konantz-cheney.com.

Obituary of Perry Bower

Perry William Bower, 89, of Fort Scott, passed away Wednesday morning, February 23, 2022, at Via Christi Hospital in Pittsburg, Kansas. He was born February 14, 1933, in Redfield, Kansas, the son of Jesse Shotwell and June Kathryn (Dunbar) Bower. He married Helen Louise Winterbower on December 2, 1961, in Hepler, Kansas, and she survives of the home.

Perry graduated from Uniontown High School with the Class of 1951, and received his associate degree from Fort Scott Community College. He served in the US army from 1953 until 1955. He owned his own business, Perry Bower Truck Line for over 55 years, transporting cattle, and retired in 2010.

In addition to his wife Helen, Perry is also survived by his children, Kenneth Bower and wife Stacy, Terry Bower and wife Lori, Lisa Bradley and husband Rudy, and Carla Hambric, all of Fort Scott; a brother, Chet Bower and wife Linda, of Fort Scott; a sister, Roberta Rickman, of Girard, Kansas; eight grandchildren, and thirteen great-grandchildren. He was preceded in death by his parents, two sisters, Mable Green and Margaret Rhodes, four brothers, Jay, Floyd, Leroy, and John; two infant sisters, and a grandson, Jacob Bradley.

Rev. Chuck Russell will conduct graveside services at 10:30 a.m. on Monday, February 28, 2022, at Memory Gardens of Bourbon County Cemetery under the direction of the Konantz-Cheney Funeral Home. Memorial contributions may be made to the Memorial Gardens Maintenance Association, and may be left in the care of the Konantz-Cheney Funeral Home, 15 W. Wall Street, P.O. Box 309, Fort Scott, Kansas, 66701. Condolences may be submitted to the online guestbook at konantz-cheney.com.

The Prairie Troubadour: A Catholic Gathering This Weekend

Luther’s BBQ restaurant is located at the corner of Oak Street and National Avenue on Fort Scott’s northside. The River Room Event Center is located on the second floor.

The 6th Annual Prairie Troubadour starts tomorrow Feb. 24 at 6:30 p.m. at the River Room Event Center, 3 W. Oak.

The event is “to bring Catholics together to enjoy things we enjoy culturally,” Michael Pokorny, a house father at St. Martin’s Academy said. “To help our friends and neighbors understand our faith and how we live it with joy.”

The Prairie Troubadour is named in memoriam of poet, songwriter, and man of the Kansas prairie, Gerald Francis Kerr, the father of St. Martin’s Academy founder, Daniel Kerr.

The theme of this year’s event is Feasts, Fasts, and the Seasons.

Tickets to the event must be purchased before the event and can be ordered on the website: Feasts, Fasts and the Seasons: the Art of Living Liturgically Tickets, Fri, Feb 25, 2022, at 6:30 PM | Eventbrite

Tickets start at $85 for the weekend’s events.

The schedule:

Feb. 25 is registration at 6:30 a.m. followed at 7 p.m. by Baylor University Professor Dr. Michael Foley who will be speaking on “How to Drink Like a Saint.”

8 p.m. Dale Alquist, president of The Chesterton Society, will speak on “Feasting and Surprisingly Fasting with G.K. Chesterton.”

9 p.m. There will be an afterglow session.

Saturday, Feb. 26

9:30 a.m. Daniel Kerr, headmaster/founder of St. Martin’s Academy will welcome guests, followed at 9:45 a.m. by Father Joshua Moore, sub-prior at Clear Creek Abbey, Oklahoma, who will speak on “Fasting: Or Why Officers Eat Last.”

10:45 a.m. Brandon Sheard, owner/operator of Farmstead Meatsmith, Tulsa, OK will speak on “The Virtue of Pig Killing.”

At noon, lunch will be on your own, Luther’s Restuarant, directly under the River Room Event Center, is recommended.

At 1:15 p.m. Dr. John Cuddeback, a professor of philosophy at Christendom College, Front Royal, Virginia will speak on “Animating Your Home with Leisure.”

At 2:15 p.m. Dr. William Fahey, president of Thomas Moore College of Liberal Arts, Merrimac, NH, will speak on “My Little Horse Must Think It Queer and Other Musings on the Natural Order of Liturgical Living.”

There will be a break at 3:15 p.m. and a break-out with vendors.

A question and answer session with the speakers will happen at 4:30 p.m. and the symposium closes at 5:30 p.m.

At 7 p.m. there will be a whiskey and cigar soiree with the speakers and musical entertainment by the St. Martin’s Academy students and others. This event is for VIP Pass Holders only.

 

 

FSCC WEAVES MUSICAL MAGIC WITH ‘GODSPELL’

Fifty years after its theatrical debut, the musical “Godspell” returns to the stage at Fort Scott Community College in an exciting, powerful new form next month.

Called “a ‘Godspell’ for the new millennium” by Paul Shaffer, who conducted the Toronto production of the original musical in March 1972, the show was revised in 2012 with gritty new dialogue and edgy new arrangements of the memorable songs.

This is not the version staged here in 2013,” said Allen Twitchell, FSCC theater instructor, who is directing the musical with the assistance of Dr. Denissa Rivas, FSCC music instructor, and Rachel Dugan, choreographer, of Fort Scott. “Our version is told by a group of homeless young people set amidst the urban decay of a metropolitan city who elect to follow the teachings of a messiah-like figure preaching peace, love and community.”

The musical was conceived and originally directed by John-Michael Tebelak with music and new lyrics by Stephen Schwartz. “Godspell” was originally produced on the New York stage by Edgar Lansbury, Stuart Duncan and Joseph Beruh.

Shows are 7:30 p.m. March 25-26 and 2 p.m. March 27. Admission is $5. FSCC students, faculty and staff are admitted free of charge. Masks are required.

The FSCC cast features: Ray Burch, freshman from St. Louis, as Jesus; Evan Ballinger, freshman from Pleasanton, as Judas; Lexi Ornelas, freshman from Chanute, as Anna Maria; Jacquie Hampton, sophomore from Uniontown, as Celisse; Hyden Wirsig, freshman from Drexel, Mo., as Nick; Sonny Webb, freshman from Tampa, Fla., as Morgan; Colleen Sweat, sophomore from Pleasanton, as Uzo; Robenton Wirsig, freshman from Drexel, Mo., as George; Kiera Threlfall, sophomore from Frontenac, as Telly; Mackenzie Peoples, sophomore from Fort Scott, as Lindsay; Shawn Huffman, freshman from Fort Scott, as Brick; Dray Dickey, freshman from Bronaugh, Mo., as Simon; Paityn Curtis, freshman from LaCygne, as Minnie; Carlee Studyvin, sophomore from Fort Scott, as Rachel; and Joy Nichols, freshman from Moundville, Mo., as Jo.

Meda Hurst, freshman from Fort Scott, is stage manager; Zach Loper, freshman from Girard, supplies the sound; and Dylan Graham, freshman from Tonganoxie, supplies the lights.

Godspell” is presented through a special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI).

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Kiwanis Annual Pancake Feed March 1

First United Methodist Church at Third Street and National Avenue,

The 101st Fort Scott Kiwanis Pancake Feed is March 1 from 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. and then again from 4-6:30 p.m. at the First United Methodist Church, Third, and National Avenue.

It is a pick-up meal, with cars asked to come in from Fourth Street to the driveway in front of the church.

The cost is $5 per person with children under five free.

The club members will deliver to groups with 10 meals or more orders.

Call 620.224-9067 for the delivery service.

The meal includes two pancakes with butter and syrup and a sausage patty.

Community members enjoy visiting at the Fort Scott Kiwanis Pancake Feed at Buck Run Community Center in February 2020, before the COVID-19 Pandemic. Now the organization has a drive-through meal.

Kiwanis International is a global organization of volunteers dedicated to improving the world one child and one community at a time, according to information from John Crain, President.

“The club has 25 members, and we would love to have more,” he said.

The group meets on Tuesdays at noon for lunch at First Presbyterian Church, 308 S. Crawford, Fort Scott.

Crain listed some of the Kiwanis projects last year:

They

  • Repaired and applied deck stain to picnic tables in Gunn Park, and the bridge on its first lake
  • Decorated a shelter house for Christmas in the Park
  • Trimmed low hanging trees for the school bus passage
  • Helped with the Downtown Clean Sweep
  • Will be planting trees across town this spring

 

Some of the organizations and activities they have donated to last year:

  • CASA
  • Beacon
  • Sponsor students to Hugh O’Brian Youth Leadership Seminar
  • Sponsor students to Boy’s State
  • Fort Scott Leadership
  • $4,000 for high school scholarships
  • Fort Scott Middle School Project Art
  • Hedgehog Inc Book Project
  • USD-234 In-Need Fund for all schools
  • USD-234 Grade School Reading Projects
  • Fort Scott High School Cheer
  • FSHS Save our Seniors
  • FSHS After Prom
  • Wreaths Across America

 

 

 

 

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