There will be a Special Meeting of the Fort Scott City Commission held at 5:00 p.m. on Thursday, April 28th, 2022. This meeting will be held for the City Commission to recess into Executive Session.
This meeting will be held at 123 S. Main Street in the City Commission meeting room and will be broadcast on the City’s you tube channel. This meeting is open to the public. The Executive Session is not open to the public.
In early 2020, Teri and Michael Hamilton were looking for a move to a home so they could be a one income family. They lived in the Kansas City area.
“We were looking farther out of the Kansas City area, because it is so expensive to live there,” Teri said. “We were looking for a house to buy, we wanted to live on one income.”
They had friends in the Fort Scott area and fell in love with Fort Scott, she said.
“Both of our moms, a nephew and a sister have moved here,” since their move, she said.
They began the process of opening a bakery from their home, with sourdough bread as their first product.
“I grew up in a bakery,” she said. “But we never did sour dough bread.”
She has been developing the technique of making the specialty bread.
“The process is different from yeasted bread,” Hamilton said. “It’s 30 to 48 hours to get a loaf of bread from start to finish. But it’s so good!”
They opened a new home-based business venture this month.
“Our main product is a really nice loaf of artisan sourdough bread,” she said.
Marketing their product
“We are going to Fort Scott Farmer’s Market, and doing orders online,” Hamilton said.
Farmer’s Market meets at Skubitz Plaza on Saturday mornings from 8 a.m. to noon and Tuesday evenings from 4 to 6 p.m from the first weekend in May, this year it’s May 7, until the last weekend in October.
“We will be there Saturday mornings and Tuesday evenings until we sell out,” she said.
Pick-up System
Submitted by Billie Jo Drake
The regular Bourbon County Coalition meeting will be on Wednesday, May 4, in the Conference Room at the Scottview Apartments, 315 S. Scott, at 1:00 p.m.
Bourbon County Inter-Agency Coalition
General Membership Meeting Agenda
May 4, 2022
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Kevin Strecker to lead Ascension Via Christi; Don King to transition
to leading Ascension Florida and Gulf Coast
Scott City, Kansas, native Kevin Strecker has been named Ascension Kansas ministry market executive
and senior vice president for Ascension, bringing more than two decades of healthcare leadership
experience to his new role.
Strecker, currently hospital president and chief operating officer for Ascension Via Christi, will be
assuming the role filled by Don King, who as of July 1 will lead Ascension’s Florida and Gulf Coast
ministry market.
“Kevin’s experience, education, and commitment to our Mission and Catholic healthcare make him the
right person to lead our Kansas ministry going forward,” said Craig Cordola, MBA, MHA, FACHE, Ascension
executive vice president and chief operating officer.
Strecker joined Ascension Via Christi in 1994, serving at what today is Ascension Via Christi Rehabilitation
Hospital. In 1997, he and his wife, Karen, moved to Chicago, where he worked as a regional administrator
for Health South’s imaging division. In 2002, the Streckers moved back to Wichita and he rejoined
Ascension Via Christi as director of Radiology. He subsequently was promoted to vice president of
Imaging and Laboratory Services.
In 2009, he was named vice president of Operations for Ascension Via Christi’s Wichita hospitals and the
following year was selected to lead newly constructed Ascension Via Christi St. Teresa. In 2016, he took
on the role of senior administrator for Ascension Medical Group Via Christi. Two years later, he was
chosen to serve as interim regional hospital president and in 2019 he moved to his current role as the
operational leader for Ascension Via Christi’s Kansas hospitals.
Strecker earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Communications from Kansas State University. He later
went on to earn a Master of Business Administration degree from Webster University and a master’s
degree in Management and Leadership.
Strecker is a graduate of the Ascension Executive Ministry Leadership formation program and serves as a
board member for the Wichita Cancer Foundation, Catholic Care Center and Kansas Surgery and Recovery
Center.
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About Ascension Via Christi
In Kansas, Ascension Via Christi operates seven hospitals and 75 other sites of care and employs nearly
6,400 associates. Across the state, Ascension Via Christi provided nearly $89 million in community
benefit and care of persons living in poverty in fiscal year 2021. Serving Kansas for more than 135 years,
Ascension is a faith-based healthcare organization committed to delivering compassionate, personalized
care to all, with special attention to persons living in poverty and those most vulnerable. Ascension is the
leading non-profit and Catholic health system in the U.S., operating more than 2,600 sites of care –
including 145 hospitals and more than 40 senior living facilities – in 19 states.
NEWS RELEASE
Wednesday, April 27, 2022
Members of the USD 234 Board of Education met at their offices at 424 S Main on Wednesday, April 27, 2022, in special session.
The board received an update from KASB consultant, Sue Givens, about the timeline and process for the Superintendent Search. The board was extremely grateful and pleased with the participation from our community, staff, and parents. Over 700 survey results were received. Givens shared and discussed the details and rankings of the survey. For details on the results and to keep up to date with USD 234’s Superintendent Search, please visit our website www.usd234.org under Board of Education. The meeting can be viewed via the district’s YouTube channel: USD 234 Board of Education.
The board adjourned into executive session and then returned to open session. The board approved the following employment matters:
The board adjourned.
Submitted by Lavetta Simmons
Care To Share Cancer Support Group will have a rummage sale,Saturday, May 7 , 2022, 8am to 1 pm at Buck Run Community Center, 835 S. Scott Avenue, Fort Scott.
Spring is here and the pandemic is waning, allowing more travel for Americans.
Some people are purchasing new cars for their travels.
A recent look at auto loan rates on bankrate.com for April 2022 shows the range of percentage rates for vehicle loans is from 2.49 to over 7 percent on average.
A local credit union is offering a low interest loan for autos.
Kansas Teachers Community Credit Union, 24 S. National Avenue is offering a 1.99 percent loan for qualified applicants with the best credit scores, for vehicle loans through June 30.
Vehicles must be a 2013 model year or newer and a credit score of 600 up, or no score. Terms can be up to 84 months, based on mileage under 100,000 miles.
“The KTCCU promotional rates then have stair step increases from there, based on individual credit scores and mileage that exceeds 100,000 miles,” Bob Hanson, Fort Scott Branch Manager said. “This promotion also allows qualified applicants the option for no payment for up to 90 days.”
“You do not have to be a member of KTCCU to apply for a loan with KTCCU,” Hanson said. “But if you are approved and choose to complete the loan, you would have to open a KTCCU membership share savings account with a minimum $5 deposit. It only takes a few minutes, give identification, complete an account card, and make a deposit.”
To qualify for membership with KTCCU, one of the following conditions must be meet:
Membership, once established, may continue regardless if the above conditions still apply.
Hanson said new leadership has begun in the organization, of which Fort Scott is a branch.
“2022 brought KTCCU a new CEO/President, Elesa Parsons,” he said. “Elesa brings with her an extensive credit union administrative and accounting background. The previous CEO/President Mark Kolarik has retired from KTCCU, and has relocated out of state.”
“The Fort Scott branch of KTCCU was established/opened in September 2008,” he said. “Since opening the KTCCU Fort Scott location has been successful in carrying out the KTCCU mission. That mission is to be a sound, quality driven organization that provides the most desirable financial services for community members while safeguarding their assets.”
Hanson can be reached at
or phone (620)223-1475 Fax (620)223-1387
Two travel authors will be autographing their books Thursday, May 5 from 4-6 p.m. at Hedgehog.INK bookstore, and then on Friday, May 6, from 2-4 p.m. at the Lowell Milken Center, 1 S. Main, Fort Scott.
Roxie Yonkey, Goodland, Kan., author of 100 Things to Do in Kansas Before You Die, and Amy Piper, author of 100 Things to Do in Lansing Before You Die, Lansing, Mich., will have their books available to sign at both locations.
“I visited Fort Scott National Historic Site in 2018, and am excited to return back to the site and bookstore,” Yonkey said.
“I first heard about the Lowell Milken Center at Kansas Tourism Conference,” Yonkey added. “At the end of the presentation, all of us were at least misty-eyed. I knew then that I must visit. When I visited, I stood in awe of the heroes enshrined within. And their tales keep growing as the center’s programs recruit more storytellers.”
In December 2021, Yonkey’s publisher asked her to write the book “Secret Kansas: A Guide to the Weird, Wonderful, and Obscure.” It will come out in the spring of 2023. Yonkey has been writing about Kansas for over 30 years. One Hundred Things to Do in Kansas Before You Die is her second book
In 2020, both travel writers co-authored, along with several other writers, the book Midwest Road Trip Adventures. That book includes road trip guides for 12 Midwest states.
Additional signings are scheduled throughout the state. Check the schedule at RoxieontheRoad.com/Signings.
We hope to see you in one of these Fort Scott attractions, May 5-6.
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