Currently, there is an opening to serve on the Fort Scott Housing Authority Board.
The function of the Housing Authority is to provide leadership, oversight and participate in board meetings.
The Housing Authority Board is the legal and financially responsible governing body of the public housing authority and the first line of accountability for their performance.
This board meets on a monthly basis.
If you have a desire to serve on this Board and meet the above requirements, please submit a letter of interest to the City Clerk, Diane Clay, 123 S. Main, Fort Scott, Kansas 66701. She will then submit your letter of interest for consideration by the City Commission.
All of the boards and commissions serve on a volunteer basis and are not compensated.
If you would like more information on this board, please contact Diane Clay, City Clerk at 620-223-0550 or [email protected]. Please submit your letter of interest by April 27, 2018.
Over 1,300 high school students, from 90 schools, converged on Fort Scott Community College Aggie Day April 6, according to Ryan Edgecomb, an agriculture instructor at the school.
Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri, and Oklahoma high school buses line parking lots at FSCC for Aggie Day April 6.
Former FSCC Agriculture Instructor Gary Harvey started the event in the mid-1970s, said Edgecomb.
“This is my 15th Aggie Day,” Edgecomb said. “The Ag Department hosts the event. Blake Davis is my teaching partner and livestock coach.”
FSCC Ag Instructor Ryan Edgecomb, right, shares a light moment with area high school ag teachers, following the Ag Teachers Brunch in the Ellis Arts Center Friday morning.
Students competed in a variety of areas, including agronomy, entomology, farm management, floriculture, food science, livestock, meat evaluation, milk quality and products, nursery/landscape, poultry, speech, veterinary science, and reasonings.
Those from Bourbon County schools who ranked in the top ten in the contests:
In the Intermediate Live contest, Clay Brillhart, Uniontown, received 2nd place; Zach Snyder, Uniontown received a 10th place.
In the Junior Live contest, Tate Crystal, Uniontown, received the 3rd place.
In Senior Questions Live, Graham Hathaway, Uniontown, received the 2nd place; Kolby Shoemaker, Fort Scott, received a 10th place.
In Senior Reasons Live, Kolby Seested, Uniontown, received the 3rd place.
In the Veterinary Science contest, Maddie Ard, Uniontown, received 2nd place; Aubry O’Neal, Uniontown, received the 8th place.
In the Junior Speech contest, Hannah Beerbower, Uniontown, received the 4th place.
The event is sponsored by Purina and Purina Mills Honor Show Chow, which also includes an ag teacher brunch.
“We are honored to have Purina and Honor Show Chow back as our sponsors for a third straight year, and we’re grateful for their support,” Edgecomb said.
Edgecomb said the event has multiple purposes.
“It’s a recruiting tool for FSCC, allowing students to see and showcase our school,” he said.
In addition, the event is “an educational contest to help schools prepare for district and state events,” Edgecomb said.
Over 100 support people are employed to help with Aggie Day: faculty, staff, students and former students, Edgecomb said.
Carla Nemecek is Southwind District Director and agent.
Spring Safety Around the Farm
Submitted by: Carla Nemecek, Southwind Extension District Director & Agent
For Release: week of April 9, 2018
Preparing for spring does is not limited to preparing the soil and crops on those warm spring days. This is also the perfect time for farmers, ranchers and homeowners alike to take the steps necessary to prevent injuries in order to have a truly productive season. Placing emphasis on agriculture safety recognizes the rich tradition of our farming and ranching culture in producing the safest and most abundant food in the world, and the involvement of all members of the farm family in age appropriate tasks.
One good way to manage safety on the farm is to establish a checklist. The Farm Safety 4 Just Kids program offers the following safety checklist suggestions:
* Are the keys removed from idle equipment?
* Are riders NOT allowed on tractors, farm machinery and lawn mowers?
* Are slow moving vehicle (SMV) emblems in place and still reflective?
* Are power take off (PTO) shields in place on tractors and machinery?
* Are other safety shields and guards in place on machinery and lawn equipment?
* Are warning and danger decals prominently displayed on all equipment, including grain handling equipment?
Children being carried along as extra riders on farm and lawn care equipment continues to be a concern among safety professionals.
It is difficult, if not impossible, to pay full attention to operating the machine when you have a youngster in your lap or riding on the fender. More than 100 children are killed on U.S. farms each year. Many of these deaths are from accidentally falling off the operator’s station of a tractor or farm implement and being run over by the tractor or trailed equipment.
When there is only one seat, the rule of thumb is for the operator and no one else to occupy the seat. For safety sake, never allow extra riders. This rule applies to farm as well as lawn and garden tractors.
The Fort Scott Festival of Arts committee has a weekend packed full of events for you, your friends and family of all ages April 27-29, 2018!
Thanks to the event sponsors and a grant from the Fort Scott Area Community Foundation, the activities and workshops are being offered either free or at a nominal price that primarily covers the cost of materials to keep the festival affordable and encourage participation. We ask you to share this information with your friends and co-workers as well to help spread the word.
Please review the enclosed schedule and consider registering for at least one or more activities. There is a great variety of workshops for little kids, big kids, and adults. Note there is a “Festival Finale” event Saturday evening at Nate’s Place that will include an art sale and is a fundraiser to raise seed money for the next biennial festival.
If you are interested in Fort Scott becoming a hub for arts and the imaginable for our community ~ we encourage you to attend the Saturday, 2pm session with special guest Marc Willson as he presents “Creative Placemaking: Building the Artist Community in Fort Scott”.
Tickets for any of the workshops and events may be purchased online at www.2ndstoryartfestival.com or www.fortscott.com or in person at the Fort Scott Area Chamber of Commerce.
We hope to see you the last weekend of April!
Thank you!
2nd Story Art Festival Committee
Jared Witt – Chair, Laura Agee, Debbie Anderson, Charles Gentry, Bre Martin, Dr. Randy Nichols, Jason Reid, Kathryn Salsbury, Kate Sweetser, Clayton Whitson
Sponsors for the festival are still being accepted. Or, if you cannot attend but would like to donate to the arts festival initiative, please contact Jared Witt by emailing [email protected] or mail your tax-deductible donation to Fort Scott Festival of Arts, PO Box 491, Fort Scott, KS 66701.
Rita Ann Peterson, age 84, a resident of rural Redfield, Kansas, passed away Saturday, April 7, 2018, at her home.There was cremation.
Rev. Marty Dewitt will conduct a memorial service at 10:00 A.M.Saturday, April 14th at the First Missionary Baptist Church in Uniontown.Memorials are suggested to the First Missionary Baptist Church and may be left in the care of the Cheney Witt Chapel, 201 S. Main, P.O. Box 347, Ft. Scott, KS 66701.
Words of remembrance may be submitted to the online guestbook at cheneywitt.com.
From left FSCC Basketball Coach Blake Cochran, Jon Barnes, Donnie Flowers, Tyler Zinn, John Montgomery, Lucas Kelley, J. M. Gregg, Aaron Williams, Andre Nelson, Dontrell Sanders, Jayden Davis, George Brocato, and Daemar Jones introduce themselves at the beginning of the March Madness Reading Challenge assembly.
It takes practice and lots of it, to do anything well, including reading.
That in a nutshell, is what the Fort Scott Community College Basketball Team told the students at Eugene Ware Elementary during an award assembly Wednesday afternoon.
During the month of March, students have been competing with other classes in reading the most minutes.
The classroom winners of each grade level were given a poster of the FSCC Basketball Team along with a promised extra recess, during the assembly held in the school gym.
The winners were: Carrie Southwell’s 3rd grade class with 3, 220 minutes of reading, Joyce Flanner’s 4th grade with 3,002 minutes and Jill Couch’s 5th-grade class with 2,232 minutes.
During the assembly, students were randomly picked from the audience to participate in a basketball throw challenge.
The winner of that challenge was Quadar Moreland, a fourth-grade student. Because of his win, all 4th-grade students were given autographed posters of the team.
Brenda Hill, an instructional coach at Ware, and Mary Mauer, a teacher, collaborated on the idea of capitalizing on basketball’s March Madness national competition to encourage students to practice reading.
Below are photos of the afternoon assembly.
Carrie Southwell gives her 3rd-grade students “high fives” following the announcement that the class read the most minutes for the reading competition.Students lined up to take a turn at getting the ball through the basketball hoop.
Some students needed a little extra help getting the ball through the hoop and the college basketball players helped.
Quadar Moreland gets some encouragement from the FSCC basketball team following his win of the basketball contest.Students look over the poster of the FSCC Basketball Team while waiting in line to get it autographed.
What’s Happening in Fort Scott from April 9-15 provided by the Chamber of Commerce:
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USD 234 Board of Education Meeting 5:30 pm
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Story Time – Hosted by Fort Scott Public Library at 10:00 am. Enjoy stories, songs, crafts, and snacks related to our theme in the downstairs event room, along with a play table for before and after the stories. All story times welcome any-age children and teens. Hope you can come. Tell your friends!
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Kiwanis Meeting- FSCC Heritage Room- 12:00 pm
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T.O.P.S. Meetings Held at BRCC 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm
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FSCC Hounds Men’s Baseball vs Allen County -2:00 pm
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Cruise Night 2018 hosted by Tri-Valley Foundation 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm. Friends of Tri-Valley Foundation’s annual fundraiser. The evening includes a dinner, music, door prizes, and both live and silent auctions. All money raised from the evening goes toward our mission of providing quality and affordable homes as well as aid in the delivery of services to our neighbors with intellectual/developmental disabilities in the counties of Allen, Bourbon, Neosho, and Woodson in Southeast Kansas. Any donation would be much appreciated. Thank you for your time and consideration.
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Historic Preservation Association of Bourbon County meeting, Old Congregational Church, Board meeting at 6:30, program at 7 pm
Ken Lyon will present a power-point presentation on the WWI Bourbon County soldiers. Come learn some history on these brave men of the early 1900’s.
We will have great fellowship, refreshments, and a door prize, hope you can attend!
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Breakfast Bingo at Buck Run Community Center, 9:00 am – 10:00 am. Come drink some coffee and play some bingo at Buck Run. Staff will provide the bingo cards, the caller, and coffee. Prizes provided by the Fort Scott Recreation Commission.
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Story Time – Hosted by Fort Scott Public Library at 10:00 am. Enjoy stories, songs, crafts, and snacks related to our theme in the downstairs event room, along with a play table for before and after the stories. All story times welcome any-age children and teens. Hope you can come. Tell your friends!
Adult Coloring Program Hosted by the Fort Scott Public Library 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm. The coloring isn’t just for kids! Coloring pages, pens and pencils, and snacks provided.
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TAG- Teen Advisory Group – Community Service -Fort Scott Public Library – 4:15 pm – 5:00 pm
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Mercy Hospice Bereavement Support Group 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm at Mercy Hospital, Fort Scott
Call Melissa George, Chaplain for more information 620-223-8533
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Gold Canyon Candle Sales Begin Today-Fort Scott Middle School Fundraiser. Call the Middle School PTO for more details.
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Chamber Coffee – hosted by KOMB FM 103.9 at Arnold Arena on the campus of FSCC., 8:00 am
FSCC Hounds Men’s Baseball vs Johnson County. This is to be a doubleheader. Games will start at 1:00 pm & 4:00 pm.
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Thursday Card Players, Buck Run Community Center, 6:00 – 9:00 pm
13-14
Livestock Sale, Fort Scott Livestock Market, 2131 Maple Rd., 10:00 am – You don’t have to be a buyer just to come watch the sale and visit the cafe!
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7th Annual Home, Sport, Farm, Garden Show hosted by KOMB 103.9 at Arnold Arena on the campus of Fort Scott Community College
* Hours:
Friday, April 13th, 5-8pm
Saturday, April 14th, 9am-3pm
There will be 56 inside booths and more outside!
Come to shop the wide variety of vendors and enter to win hundreds of prizes!
Call KOMB FM at 620-223-4500 for more information.
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Lady Hounds Softball vs Independence 2:00 pm at the FSCC Softball Field
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Theology on Tap- 7:00 pm. “Are you worried about robots replacing you (or your grandchildren)?” 510 E. Eddy, Fort Scott
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Little Britches Rodeo at the Bourbon County Fairgrounds
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FSCC Kids Fair. 9:00 am – 12:00pm
Free Event at College
Right across from the soccer fields, outdoors. Going on the same time as the home show
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Lady Hounds Softball vs Cowley County 1:00 pm at the FSCC Softball Field
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The Southpaw Preachers hosted by Crooner’s & Liberty Theatre. 8:30 pm – 11:30 pm 113 S. Main Fort Scott.
This powerhouse band draws their inspiration from hard-hitting funk, soul, R&B, and rock. Southpaw blends both original music and covers into their diverse sets and is known for folding a uniquely asymmetrical sound into well-loved songs.
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Perry’s Pork Rinds is offering free delivery to Ft Scott on Sunday, April 15th from 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm for any pre-orders placed online. www.perrysporkrinds.com
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Fort Scott Boys Varsity 18 Hole Golf Match at Woodland Hills Golf Course
