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Fly The Flag Project

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FLY THE U.S. FLAG TAKING NEW SUBSCRIPTIONS

The Friends of Fort Scott National Historic Site Inc. is taking new subscriptions for their “Fly the U.S. Flag” project. The Friend’s U.S. Flag Project provides homeowners and businesses, within the city limits of Fort Scott, the opportunity to fly the Stars and Stripes on five different flag holidays without the hassle of purchasing, erecting, and storing a flag and pole. You don’t even have to remember the holiday!

For $35 annually, the Friends will install a 3’x5′ flag on a 12 foot staff at your home or business on each of the following Flag Holidays in 2020:

Memorial Day

Flag Day

Fourth of July

Labor Day

Veteran’s Day

Sign up by October 1, 2019 and you will also get Veteran’s Day 2019 included in the offer–SIX DAYS for the price of FIVE!!!

Agreements can be obtained at the Fort Scott Area Chamber of Commerce or can be emailed to you. Additionally, Friends members will be at the Fort Scott Farmer’s Market on September 21 and 28 to take new applications and renewals. Contact Kelley Collins at 417-684-2484 or Martha Scott at 620-224-9924 for further information.

All proceeds support programs at Fort Scott National Historic Site. These include: Symbols of Sacrifice, a Citizenship Ceremony, Candlelight Tour, Youth Engagement, and many others.

Show your patriotism and help our local National Park by lining the streets of Fort Scott with our nation’s symbol!

The U.S. Flag Project is a yearly project sponsored by the Friends of Fort Scott National Historic Site. Once signed up, you will receive the option to renew annually.

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Art, Entertainment, Fort Scott

80s Party This Friday, Sept. 20

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Visit Fort Scott and
The Boiler Room Brewhaus present an 80’s Party featuring
the live band
“80 & Out”
at The Boiler Room Brewhaus,
10 S. National Ave.
THIS FRIDAY, Sept. 20th
from 7-10pm
80’s Party with Live Band
& Costume Contest!
THIS FRIDAY, September 20th, 7-10pm, at Boiler Room Brewhaus,
10 S. National Ave., $5 cover charge
80 & Out is a 3-piece cover band that plays a wide variety of rock and pop hits from the 80’s – today. They are well known for playing shows on a consistent basis in the four states area. Their previous bookings include Indigo Sky Casino, Kansas Crossing Casino, Grand Lake Casino, JB’s, Turtleheads, Redings Mill, corporate events, and many more. At each location they have received great audience feedback and have been asked to return many times. In addition, they also provide some of the highest quality lights and sound in the area. 80 & Out are known for having the most diverse music in the area!
80 & Out includes the following members: Anthony Ficken (lead vocals, lead guitarist), Nate Ward (vocals, bass), and
Ian Derrickson (drums).
BE SURE TO WEAR YOUR 80’s GARB FOR THE COSTUME CONTEST!
Fort Scott Chamber of Commerce, Fort Scott Community College

FSCC’s Burris Hall Ribbon Cutting Sept. 20

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Submitted by: Lindsay Madison, Executive Director, [email protected]
Monica Walden, Administrative Assistant, [email protected]
Phone: (620) 223-3566

FORT SCOTT – The Fort Scott Area Chamber of Commerce is excited to announce a Ribbon Cutting Ceremony celebrating the expansion of Fort Scott Community College’s Agriculture Building at 2108 South Horton Street in Fort Scott.

The event will take place on Friday, September 20th at 4:00 p.m.

The Fort Scott Community College Agriculture Department was established in 1975. Burris Hall, named after N. Jack Burris, was completed in 1989.

This 3,600 square foot building housed agriculture based classes and offices for instructors.

Thanks to donations from the Boileau family and the Cleaver family, FSCC was able to add approximately 3,000 square feet and renovate the original building to continue to grow their prestigious agriculture program.

Please join the Chamber of Commerce and Fort Scott Community College on Friday, September 20th, 2019 for the ribbon cutting ceremony at 2108 South Horton Street in Fort Scott.

Contact the Chamber at 620-223-3566s for more information.
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Bourbon County, Government

Bourbon County Commission Agenda Sept. 17

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Agenda

Bourbon County Commission Room

1st Floor, County Courthouse

210 S. National Avenue

Fort Scott, KS 66701

Tuesdays starting at 9:00

 

Date: September 17th, 2019

 

1st District-Lynne Oharah                                                                Minutes: Approved: _______________

2nd District-Jeff Fischer                                                                                   Corrected: _______________                                                                                                

3rd District-Nick Ruhl                                                                                  Adjourned at: _______________

County Clerk-Kendell Mason

 

 

          9:00 – 9:45 – Jim Harris – Road & Bridge

 

          9:15 – School Zone, Indian Road

 

9:45-11:00 – Commissioners will be gone to a fence viewing between Union Pacific & Brian Comstock (fence viewing begins at 10:00 am)

 

          11:00-12:00-Justin Meeks- 20 minute Ex. Session (Non-Elected)

 

          11:30 – Justin Meeks & Shane Walker – Elm Creek

 

          12:00 – 1:30-Commissioners gone to lunch

 

          1:30 – Terry Sercer – 2018 Audit

 

          2:00 – Will Wallis – Disaster debris removal

 

          2:30 – Lora Holdridge-Holiday Dinner

 

         

 

 

 

                   

         

Justifications for Executive Session:

          Personnel matters of individual non-elected personnel

          Consultation with an attorney for the body or agency which would be deemed privileged in the attorney-client relationship

          Matters relating to employer-employee negotiations whether or not in consultation with the representative(s) of the body or agency

          Confidential data relating to financial affairs or trade secrets of corporations, partnerships, trusts and individual proprietorships

          Preliminary discussions relating to the acquisition of real property

          Matters relating to the security of a public body or agency, public building or facility or the information system of a public body or agency, if the discussion of such matters at an open meeting would jeopardize the security of such public body, agency, building, facility or information system

 

Obituary

Obituary of Kara Niemeir

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Kara Rebekah Niemeir, a resident of Lenexa, Kansas, age 37, beloved daughter of Doug and Diana Niemeir, and beloved sister of Kristin Niemeir passed away unexpectedly on Friday morning, September 13, 2019, at Ascension Via Christi emergency room in Fort Scott, Kansas.  At the time, Kara was staying with her parents in their home for a few days in Fort Scott as she recuperated from a knee surgery.

Kara was born on August 27, 1982, in Newton, Kansas.  She was welcomed home by one sister, Kristin, 4 years her senior, and immediately they became “best buds”, despite the age difference.  This never changed and not a day went by that they didn’t talk, no matter how many miles separated them.  At the age of 2, Kara moved with her family to Fort Scott, where she attended the public schools and graduated from Fort Scott High School in 2001.  After high school graduation, she attended the University of Nebraska in Lincoln, Nebraska, and graduated with honors from there in 2005 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Biological Systems Engineering; then in 2007 a Master’s Degree in Environmental Engineering.  Kara enjoyed school and always excelled in her studies.

After college, Kara began working at Agricultural Engineering Associates, Inc. in Uniontown, KS.  She worked there for 11 years, from 2007 until 2018.  During that time, she had the opportunity to advance her engineering knowledge in many areas as well as work with some wonderful colleagues.  Also during that time, in 2009, she passed her state boards qualifying her as a licensed professional engineer.

In September, 2018, she began work with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in the Hydrology section of the Kansas City district.  She had just completed a year of working there and was very happy, feeling she had found her niche in the Corps and some really special colleagues with whom to work.  She had also recently found and purchased a home in Lenexa, Kansas — a home in which she was looking forward to living for many years.

Kara turned her life over to Jesus when she was only 3 years old, and she followed Him faithfully, never looking back, for the rest of her life.  Wherever she moved, whether in Lincoln, Nebraska as a college student; in Iola, Kansas, where she lived while working at Ag Engineering; or most recently, in the Kansas City area, she looked immediately for a “Bible believing church” with which to become involved.  It is a wonderful blessing to her family, in the tremendous pain of her loss, to know they will see her again when it is there time to follow her home to Heaven.

Kara leaves behind her immediate family, whom she cherished and loved deeply: her mother and father, Doug and Diana Niemeir of Fort Scott, Kansas, and her sister, Kristin Niemeir of Oak Point, Texas.  She further leaves behind numerous much-loved aunts, uncles, and cousins, and a plethora of well-loved friends.

Rev. Kevin Moyers will conduct funeral services at 11:00 A.M. Saturday, September 21st at the Rinehart Christian Church, 9443 S. 900 Rd., Richards, Missouri.  Burial will follow in the Deerfield Cemetery.  The family will receive friends from 5 to 7 P.M. Friday at the Cheney Witt Chapel.  Memorials are suggested to Cru Missions; the ministry of Anne and Ryan Mansfield, missionaries and dear friends of Kara, whom she loved and financially supported.  They work in mission fields around the world under the auspicious of Global Aid Network (GAiN).  Donations may be left in 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.

Fort Scott, Fort Scott Chamber of Commerce

Chamber Coffee: Lowell Milken Center to Celebrate 20 Years Of Sendler Project

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Please join the Lowell Milken Center and the Chamber for the
20 year celebration of
“Life in a Jar: The Irena Sendler Project”
following the Chamber Coffee on Thursday, Sept. 19th at 8am
The Lowell Milken Center For Unsung Heroes will be celebrating 20 years of
“Life in a Jar:
the Irena Sendler Project”
and hosting the Chamber Coffee on Thursday, Sept. 19th following the Chamber Coffee at 8am. (1 S. Main St.)
Irena Sendler was a Polish Catholic social worker who risked her own life to rescue a significant number of Jewish children during WWII. Her story was unknown for 60 years until high school students from Uniontown, Kansas uncovered its details in September of 1999, and shared Irena’s story with the world. The students wrote a performance that has now been presented more than
375 times across the United States, Canada and Poland. Their goal to bring Irena Sendler’s story to the world continues.
Visit the Lowell Milken Center website by clicking HERE
Bourbon County, Fort Scott, Health Care, Mercy Hospital

Air Ambulances?

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The following is part of a series that National Public Radio is doing on the closure of Mercy Hospital in December 2018.
Sarah Jane Tribble shared a link to the group: No Mercy: What Happens When A Rural Hospital Closes?

The latest out of Fort Scott and the No Mercy series. Big thanks to Dawn Swisher-Anderson, who allowed me to interview her wise and well-spoken kids. Both Susan Glossip and Dawn told me last week that they did not buy a membership.

Airport, Government, Kansas

Drones Used in KDOT Airport Inspections

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KDOT leads airport inspections utilizing UAS

The Kansas Department of Transportation (KDOT) Division of Aviation has received authorization from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to conduct Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) test flights at Wichita’s Dwight D. Eisenhower National Airport (ICT) beginning today.

Planned inspection missions include obstruction analysis, foreign object detection, wildlife hazard management and airfield emergency response. FAA authorization was received through partnership with the Wichita Airport Authority, Kansas State University’s Polytechnic Campus and George Butler Associates (GBA).

Operations will focus on UAS integration to increase Kansas airport efficiency by condensing the process time in half and improving accuracy. The authorization also includes a precedent-setting FAA waiver to conduct night operations at the airport and allows KDOT to provide the FAA much-needed data on UAS integration in complex airspace.

The operations are part of the FAA’s UAS Integration Pilot Program (IPP).

“We identified KDOT’s involvement with IPP as a prime opportunity to investigate the effectiveness and operations procedures necessary to implement safe UAS operations at ICT,” said Victor White, Executive Director of Airports for the Wichita Airport Authority.

“This FAA approval will significantly improve airport efficiency and safety,” said KDOT Director of Aviation Bob Brock. “We look forward to expanding Kansas airport inspection capabilities across the state and developing new capabilities to drive industry growth.”

K-State Polytechnic and GBA are part of a joint operations crew to establish procedures and operating methodology for the airport operations personnel.

“Incorporating UAS into a range of airport lines of business, such as detecting foreign object debris on runways, defective airfield markings and the integrity of the security infrastructure may be done more effectively and efficiently than current methodologies,” said Kurt Carraway, UAS Executive Director of the Applied Aviation Research Center at K-State Polytechnic. “We look forward to exploring these use cases to further enhance safe airport operations.”

“This authorization will allow us to provide data-driven operations in real-world operating environments,” said Ben Linder, GBA’s Advanced Robotics and Remote Sensing Group Leader.

IPP involves nine regional efforts to conduct advanced UAS operations to yield sufficient data for rule making that will result in access to new technologies for the nation.

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