Fort Scott, Schools

FSCC Kids Fair April 14

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The Fort Scott Community College Kid’s Fair  is from 9 a.m. to noon April 14 at Bailey Hall South Parking Lot.

“This event is sponsored by Fort Scott Community College  Community Relations Committee, we do it twice a year for the community kids just for fun and use it as a chance to get to know the community members,” Kassie Fugate-Cate, Director of Strategic Communications and Student Activities said.

Popcorn, cookies, drinks, games, and prizes will be offered.

“And of course, our teddy bear clinic sponsored by Student Nursing Organization (SNO),” Cate said. ” The kids bring their stuffed animals or dolls and they get a check-up like on ‘Doc McStuffins’.”

The event will be held in the south parking lot of Bailey Hall.

“We plan to have John Deere, our first responders, FSCC Cosmetology, FSCC STEM club, FSCC Athletics, and FSCC President’s Ambassadors present during the event along with FSCC SNO,” Cate said.

For more information contact Cate at 620.223.2700 ext. 5248 or

[email protected]

 

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Obituary Of Minnie Marie Baucom

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Minnie Marie Baucom, age 92, a former resident of Ft. Scott, KS, died March 27, 2018, in Wichita, KS.

She was born March 21, 1926, in Indianapolis, IN, the daughter of Keith and Kathryn Pence Kernodle.  Raised as Minnie Marie, she dropped the Minnie somewhere in her married life and continued as Marie.

She grew up in Indianapolis.  Her parents followed the work lines during the depression, so they were in a lot of states by the time they finally re-settled in Indiana. She lived in Indianapolis when she met the man who would become her husband having been introduced by her older sister. They were married in Phoenix, AZ, with an uncle and sister present.  Lewis and Marie spent their life making a home for five kids and a whole parcel of grandchildren.

Marie taught her children in every sense of the word how to keep the wolf from the door.  Her discipline was swift but always followed by a kiss, a smile and the knowledge that we were loved.

She would try anything once and if it worked she may do it again!  When they were newlyweds, she made a brag she could drive anything on wheels. One day, Lewis needed a driver for his logging truck, so he agreed to let her.  Marie got a little too feisty and a little too fast for a dirt road, so the pole truck started to weave, and she wound up driving through a ditch and cutting a telephone pole in half, but, otherwise unhurt.  Scared, she refused to get back in and he insisted she was going to drive that truck into the timber!  She did finally because there was no one else.  That was the philosophy they lived by: “get back in the saddle”.

She loved to bake.  She would make pies and cakes, and when they lived in the lumber camps, Lewis would come home and find men sitting around his yard waiting for the pies to cool.

Later, Marie kept the home alive and warm while he drove a semi around the country.

Lewis learned early on how to keep peace in the home.  When Marie got mad at him he would go outside and work and by the time he was back in the house she had forgotten why she was mad in the first place, he claimed this practice worked several times for him!

Marie was always there with wisdom and advice for her children, sometimes the wisdom was overshadowed by concern and she would say later “I should have kept my mouth shut!”.  But it was done with love and concern.

As a grandmother, she knew the way to win her grandchildren over.  She made the best cheeseburgers!  And for the sons-in-law, it was fried chicken, cheeseburgers, and pies!  Marie was a great cook, a fact her husband took credit for often.  He loved to remind her, “You couldn’t cook when we got married and I had to teach you how!”

Mama, we miss you

Survivors include two sisters and a brother. Her children include Joseph Baucom (Judi), Kansas City, KS, Dora George (Robert-deceased) in Wichita, KS, JoAnn Scott (John) in Ottawa, KS, and Kathy Swingle in Edgewater, FL; 10 grandchildren; three step-granddaughters; 12 great-grandchildren; and eight step-great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her father; mother; and step-father; three sisters; one brother; a daughter; and her husband of 64 years, Lewis Baucom.

Rev. Chuck Russell will conduct funeral services at 12:30 PM Friday, March 30, at the Cheney Witt Chapel, 201 S. Main, Ft. Scott, KS. Burial will follow in the U. S. National Cemetery, Ft. Scott. Words of remembrance may be submitted to the online guestbook at cheneywitt.com.

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Booths Available At Job Fair April 24

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Duncans Host Public Meeting To Answer Questions

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Beaux Arts Centre, 102 S. National Avenue.

Denise and Bobby Duncan are opening their residence located at 102 S. National Ave., to the public this evening at 6 p.m. to answer questions and concerns about their recent closure of the Beaux Art Center.

“We are hoping to have documents ready….there has been a lot of misinformation,” Denise Duncan said.

The event is “especially for people in the historic district,” Duncan said. “And people that rent historic buildings.”

Both she and husband, Bobby will be there, she said.

The Duncan’s have had several discussions about the building with city officials that have been unsatisfactory, she said.

Denise Duncan contends that because their residence is a historic building, a code footprint is not needed. Additionally, they contend that the code footprint provided to the city is incorrect, she said.

“The code footprint regulation, K.A.R. 22-1-7, defines minimum features… for an objective evaluation by uniform application of state law using minimum resources. It also makes the code footprint available to assist local fire and building officials (to) view new construction and changes in use,” according to  http://firemarshal.ks.gov/division/prevention/plans-review-code-footprint.

“The  State Fire Marshall verified that it (their building) is on the state historic register,” she said. “Since it is on the historic register they are giving the city power to make waivers, exceptions, and variances on such matters.”

The City of Fort Scott hired Zingre and Associates P.A. to make the code footprint.

“Zingre’s code footprint is full of errors,” Duncan said.

Among Zingre’s biggest concerns is lack of proper egress width for stairways and doors based on the calculated occupant load of the building and how this load would spread out among the building’s two exits, according to his letter to the city, which was provided by Duncan.

Egress is an exit, according to the dictionary.

The Duncan’s will explain these contentions and others this evening at the meeting they are hosting.

Denise Duncan shows how the Zingre calculation was incorrect in the measurement of the front door to the Beaux Arts Centre. Zingre did not measure the door, merely assumed it was the standard 32 inches, she said. This measurement error cuts the number of people allowed at one time in the building, which drastically affects their business, she said.
The measurement of the front door is 42 inches, which would allow more people to be in the building at the same time. Duncan contends Zingre did not measure the door while at her residence to design the code footprint.
Denise Duncan looks at the code footprint document designed by Zingre and Associates P.A. This stairway on the south side of the building is not listed as an exit in the footprint.
This is the west staircase which leads down to the main level from the upper level and is not shown as an exit on the code footprint.
This window is the exit that the code footprint shows as the only exit on this floor which has three staircases that lead down, Duncan said. It is a window on the main level of the building.
This is the first page of a three-page letter that accompanied the code footprint design sent to the city in January 2018 by Zingre and Associates, P.A, provided by Duncan. The fourth paragraph states the biggest concern of the architects.
The second page of the letter from Zingre and Associates P.A. to the City of Fort Scott. Listed are other points that need to be addressed by the Duncan’s in regard to their building.
The third page from Zingre to the city.
Following is the code footprint produced by Zingre and Associates P.A. for the city, dated Jan. 17, 2018.
This is the lower level of the Beaux Art Center as shown in the code footprint.
The main level of the Beaux Arts Centre.
The upper level of the Beaux Arts Centre. This level has three stairway exits that are not designated as exits on the code footprint, a point of contention with the Duncans. The small triangle at the bottom of the design, notes the only exit listed on this floor, a window.
The code footprint legend of the Beaux Arts Centres.
A letter from Fort Scott Community Development Director Rhonda Dunn, which stated that a copy of the completed plan was sent to the state fire marshal. Denise Duncan said they should have had the report to look over and discuss with the city before it was sent.
This is Duncan’s response to Dunn’s letter, saying there were many error and omissions in the code footprint. The letter tells the city of Duncan’s intent to close the business, the Beaux Arts Centre.
Page 2 of the Duncan letter to the city.
Denise Duncan highlighted the parts of this Kansas Municipality and Code Officials Brochure, which lists groups of buildings that must provide a code footprint. She contends that none of these apply to the Duncan building.

 

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Agenda For Bourbon County Commission March 27

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Agenda

Bourbon County Commission Room

2nd Floor, County Courthouse

210 S. National Avenue

Fort Scott, KS 66701

Tuesdays starting at 9:00

Date: March 27, 2018

1st District-Lynne Oharah Minutes: Approved: ____________

2nd District-Jeff Fischer Corrected: _______________

3rd District-Nick Ruhl Adjourned at: _______________

County Clerk-Kendell Mason

9:00- 9:15 Jim Harris- Discussion of Kansas Junkyard and Salvage Control

9:15-9:30 Jim Harris- Discussion of the 5 yr. Solid Waste Plan Resolution # 11-18

9:30-9:35 Jim Harris- Discussion of pothole patching machine

9:35-9:45 Jim Harris- Consideration of KDOT request for a haul road

10:00-11:00 Justin Meeks- Opioid discussion

11:00-11:30 Rachel Pruitt- Microbrewery

11:30 Justin Meeks

12:00- 1:00 Commissioners gone to Lunch

1:30-1:45 Justin Meeks- Tax Sale

2:30 Employee Handbook

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

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Obituary Of Norma Jean Walker

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Norma Jean Walker, a former resident of Bronson, Kansas and more recently of Ft. Scott, Kansas, passed away Saturday, March 24, 2018, at the University of Kansas Medical Center in Kansas City. She was born August 25, 1935, in Ft. Scott, the daughter of Alvin Cooney and Velma Elizabeth Taylor Cooney. Norma graduated from the Uniontown High School. She married Sherman Allen Walker on January 10, 1953, in Huntsville, Arkansas. Norma was a devoted wife, mother and grandmother. She loved life… and took great pride in her family and her home. She enjoyed gardening and tending her flowers and especially spending time with her family and friends. She had attended the First Missionary Baptist Church in Uniontown and was currently a member of the Hope Chapel. She loved the Lord and wanted to serve Him the best she could. Norma was always willing to help anyone, no matter the situation.

Survivors include a son, Craig Walker, of Bronson; four daughters, Pam Constans and husband, Paul, of Ft. Scott, Brenda Alter, of Lawson, Missouri, Kim Saleh and husband, Jay, of Kansas City, Missouri and Sara Slife and husband, Benjamin, of South Carolina; eight grandchildren, nineteen great-grandchildren and three great-great-grandchildren. Her husband, Sherman, preceded her in death on February 27, 2008. She was also preceded in death by her parents and a brother, Dean Cooney.

Funeral services will be held at 11:00 A.M. Wednesday, March 28th at the Cheney Witt Bronson Chapel. Burial will follow in the Bronson Cemetery. Services are under the direction of the Cheney Witt Chapel. Words of remembrance may be submitted to the online guestbook at cheneywitt.com.

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Friends Of The Fort Host Churchill March 31

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The board of the Friends of the Fort Scott National Historic Site face the camera following the weekly Chamber Coffee Thursday. Front from left is Vonnie Rickerson, Marlene Braker, back from left is Martha Scott, Reed Hartford, and Kelley Collins. Not pictured is Joyce Gobl, Matt Wells, Katie Wells and Shaylynn Clements.

Members of Friends of Fort Scott National Historic Site hosted the weekly Chamber Coffee Thursday to highlight their organization.

FFSNHS President Reed Hartford told the coffee attendees that they are a non-profit, separate from the historic site.

The organization can raise funds and spend money on advertising, two actions that the historic site cannot do, Hartford said.

In 2009 the group began to support activities of the site.

Some of their accomplishments are: promoting FSNHS as one of the wonders of Kansas, providing a community Fourth of July ice cream social, providing lunch for new citizens following the naturalization ceremony,  and providing refreshments at the end of candlelight tours.

Since 2010 the FFSNHS group has sponsored a Friends Fest as a fundraiser.

This year it is this Saturday, March 31 from 6 to 9 p.m. at Liberty Theater, 113 S. Main.

Tickets are $35 and can be purchased the Fort Scott Chamber of Commerce, 231 E. Wall.

The group is bringing reenactor Randy Otto as Sir Winston Churchill.

Randy Otto as Sir Winston Churchill. Churchill was a primary character in many major events of British history in the 20th century.

For more information, contact Martha Scott, 620-224-9924.

The sponsors of the event are City State Bank, Union State Bank, Landmark Bank and Jim and Connie Banwart.

The following is a gallery of coffee attendees interacting prior to the announcement segment of the event.

At each coffee, members give a donation to the Chamber of $1 and tell about an event coming up in the community. The group that hosts the coffee gets extra time to tell about their business or organization.

 

 

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Kansas Prevention Collaborative Grants

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The Kansas Department for Aging and Disability Services (KDADS) on Friday announced the release of new Requests for Applications (RFAs) for the Kansas Prevention Collaborative-Community Initiative (KPCCI).

Communities across Kansas are eligible to apply for one-year planning-phase grants that will help assess community prevention needs, build local capacity and plan prevention efforts. Communities that have previously completed a KPCCI planning-grant cycle will be eligible to apply for a three-year implementation-phase grant, which will support their prevention efforts and build their capacity to apply for federal Drug-Free Communities funding.

Grantees will use these funds to address the problems of underage drinking and produce sustainable system changes in their communities.

The grant initiative is designed to allow communities to address local alcohol and other drug use concerns, but also to explore how behavioral health concerns, such as suicide, problem gambling, and depression, can impact youth and adult drug use. Communities will utilize the Strategic Prevention Framework model designed by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) to assess their local needs, build capacity and create a plan during this planning phase.

KDADS Secretary Tim Keck recognized the importance of addressing substance abuse concerns locally and in an integrated fashion, “KDADS remains committed to supporting prevention efforts at the local level in Kansas. We lose too many of our youth to behavioral health problems tied to substance use, problem gambling and suicidal behavior.”

“These Community Initiative grants are one part of our statewide prevention system. KDADS’ Behavioral Health Services Commission works with partners to provide training, technical assistance, communication, support, and evaluation services to communities across the state. We encourage communities to get involved with behavioral health prevention efforts and become part of the Kansas Prevention Collaborative,” said Andy Brown, Prevention Program Manager at KDADS.

The communities awarded new KPCCI planning grants will receive $15,000 in prevention funding and be supported in their planning efforts by KDADS and its partners in the Kansas Prevention Collaborative (KPC). New KPCCI implementation grant recipients will receive $185,000 in prevention funding over three years. Total awards for all KPCCI grantee cohorts next year will be $602,000.

About the Kansas Prevention Collaborative

The Kansas Prevention Collaborative was created in 2015 in an effort to integrate and innovate behavioral health prevention efforts. A partnership of several different states, educational and provider agencies, the KPC’s goal is to expand prevention efforts to be more inclusive of mental health promotion, suicide prevention and problem gambling education and awareness, as well as to increase the availability of resources to adequately fund local-level prevention and promotion strategic plans. For more information, see https://www.kdads.ks.gov/commissions/behavioral-health/consumers-and-families/services-and-programs/kpc.

The KPC’s website can be viewed here: http://kansaspreventioncollaborative.org.

 

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Job Of The Day From the Fort Scott Chamber of Commerce

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This feature is sponsored by the Fort Scott Area Chamber of Commerce.

JOB OF THE DAY – FULL TIME – Flexo Press Operator – Liberty Labels
Liberty Labels is seeking applications for a Flexo Press Operator. Attention to detail a must. Must be able to read Job orders and follow specific instructions. Apply in person at 2146 Native Rd, Fort Scott. To download an application: http://ow.ly/rkdQ30j7H5X

 

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