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Today is Presidential Preference Election Day: Make Your Voice Heard by Voting
Tuesday, March 19, 2024
Presidential Preference Primary Election
(All advance ballots by mail must be received by the close of polls.)
This is a one-time presidential preference primary
Easter Egg Hunters Are Invited To Gunn Park This Saturday
The Fort Scott Kiwanis Easter Egg Hunt is this Saturday, March 23 at 11 a.m. sharp at Gunn Park Shelter #2. The event is for children preschool through fifth grade, with participants bringing their own Easter baskets to gather the goodies in.
The Kiwanis-sponsored event is always the Saturday before the Easter weekend.
“We recommend people get there at 10:30 a.m.,” Kiwanis President John Crain said. There is always a crowd and it may take a while to get to the child’s age-designated area.
“It’s over at 11:07,” said event coordinator Bob Eckles with a chuckle.
The Easter Bunny will be there, so parents can get a snapshot of their children with him.
“Kiwanis packs the goodies on Thursday at 6 p.m. before the event,” Eckles said. “We get help from the Key Club at the high school.”
They usually spend several hundred dollars on candy, but this year “Candy is more expensive, especially chocolate,” Eckles said.
In some of the eggs are coupons from local businesses: Hedgehog Book Store, Dairy Queen Restaurant, McDonalds Restaurant, NuGrille and Flowers By Leanna.
Cash donations for the event are from: R and R Equipment; Diehl, Fletcher and Banwart CPA;Don’s Spirits and Wines; Merle Humphrey Insurance and Photography; Iron Star Antiques; Big Sugar Lumber; Bids and Dibs Consignment and Walmart.
Harley Race World League Wrestling returns to Memorial Hall in Fort Scott on April 13
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The Bourbon County Sheriff’s Office Daily Reports March 19
There were no releases.
City of Uniontown Council Special Meeting Agenda for March 19
CALL TO ORDER AT _________ by __________________________________________
ROLL CALL:
____ Jess Ervin ____ Danea Esslinger ____ Amber Kelly ____ Mary Pemberton ____ Bradley Stewart
Motion by _____________, Second by __________, Approved ______, to enter into executive session pursuant to non-elected personnel exception, KSA 75-4319(b)(1), in order to interview applicants of non-elected personnel, the open meeting to resume at ____________.
Obituary of Richard Riley
Richard Jack Riley, age 85, a resident of Ft. Scott, Kansas, passed away Saturday, March 16, 2024, at the Guest Home Estates in Ft. Scott. He was born March 10, 1939, in Ft. Scott, the son of Wallace Riley and Dorothy Brotherton Riley. Richard graduated from the Ft. Scott High School.
He married Phyllis Darlene Totman on August 31, 1957, at Miami, Oklahoma. Following their marriage, Richard enlisted with the United States Air Force. He served for six years and was stationed primarily at Richards-Gebaur Air Force Base near Kansas City.
Following his military service, Richard returned to Ft. Scott. He worked in the printing department of the Western Insurance Company which later became American States Insurance Company. He also did printing work for Lincoln National Insurance Company and Sekan Printing.
During this time, Richard obtained his minister’s license from the Nazarene Church. He was a long-time member of the Ft. Scott Church of the Nazarene. After his retirement, he served as pastor of the Nazarene Church in Humboldt, Kansas for nearly ten years.
Richard was a man of many talents. He enjoyed drawing and painting and was an accomplished cartoon artist. He published a book of his cartoon series, The Lil’ Wrangler. These cartoons were featured in a variety of periodicals including the Western Horseman.
Richard also worked as a sign painter. He designed and painted numerous area signs including the Ruddick’s warehouse on the 69 Bypass in Ft. Scott and the Chicken Mary’s sign near Pittsburg.
Some of his favorite times were spent on the water. He enjoyed deep sea fishing and going out on his sailboat. He was fortunate enough to take a father and son cruise onboard the aircraft carrier John F. Kennedy while his son, Nathan, was serving with the United States Navy.
Following the death of his first wife, Phyllis, on June 13, 2012, Richard married Linda June Hurd on April 6, 2013. Richard and Linda enjoyed five years of married life until her death on May 30, 2018. Richard left behind a legacy of faith and love and will be dearly missed by his family and friends.
Survivors include his three daughters, Belinda Yockey (Don) of Joplin, Missouri, Christine Bosley (Gary) of Ft. Scott and Carol Johnson (Michael) of Lawrence, Kansas. Also surviving are eleven grandchildren, and numerous great and great-great-grandchildren.
In addition to his wives, Richard was also preceded in death by his son, Nathan Riley; two brothers, Ronnie and Paul Riley and a sister, Mary Ann Brenner.
Rev. Virgil Peck will conduct funeral services at 1:30 P.M. Friday, March 22nd at the Cheney Witt Chapel.
Burial will follow in the Evergreen Cemetery.
Memorials are suggested to the Ft. Scott Church of the Nazarene Mission Department and 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.
Catholic Convent Coming to Rural Bourbon County In April
After Easter, in April 2024, a group of 17 Catholic Sisters will be moving to a rural Bourbon County property to make their home.
“We Sisters were invited to make our home on a piece of property near St. Martin’s Academy, by Dan Kerr and by the organization Ave Philomena,” said Mother Maria Regina, a spokeswoman for the Sisters “We have obtained the property we will live on to serve as a place to support the spiritual life of the students, faculty, and families at St. Martin’s Academy. If all goes well, we hope to come very soon after Easter.”
“Our present convent home is in Minneapolis, Minnesota,” she said. “While we have been grateful to live in Minnesota, we needed a larger place, as we had outgrown our home there. Also, we have longed to live in a more rural area, which is more conducive to our lifestyle.”
The name of the new Catholic establishment is St. Joseph Convent on Hackberry Road, southwest of Fort Scott.
The name of this group of Sisters is Filiae Laboris Mariae, which means “Daughters of the Work of Mary.”
“We are a group of Catholic religious Sisters, who dedicate our lives to prayer and to service,” she said. “We are a rather new community. We were founded in 2017, and most of our Sisters are still rather young–the large majority in their 20s and 30s.”
“Our primary purpose is to dedicate our lives to prayer and that is the reason that the largest building for our new convent is the chapel,” she said. “We Sisters give our lives entirely to God and live in community: praying together, working together, recreating together each day. In addition to our life of prayer, we also intend to serve the community by organizing events that will foster the spiritual life for various groups of persons. We have heard that there are nursing homes in Fort Scott and would very much like to make regular visits to the residents of the nursing homes.”
They are a community of 17 Sisters.
“Nuns is the term for those Sisters who serve the world exclusively by their prayer and sacrifice. Since we also have some external service to others, we are called Sisters,” she said.
“For those who become Sisters, there are stages of formation,” she said. “The first stage is called the postulant and we have one postulant. The next stage is that of the novice (you can tell a novice because she wears a white veil), and we have eight novices. The last stage is that of a Sister who has professed the vows of poverty, chastity, obedience, and total consecration to the Blessed Virgin Mary. The professed Sisters wear a blue veil, and there are eight professed Sisters. “
About the build
Steve McTavish, Olathe, is the project manager for Ave Philomena, the owner of the project. The 160-acreage was purchased from Delbert and Darla Crays.
“We started last August,” he said. “April 2 is the scheduled move-in.”
The current phase of the build is the 5,300 sq. ft. chapel, 16′ by 20 ‘ residence cottages, a 2,000 sq. ft. community center, a 4,000 sq. ft. dining, kitchen, sewing laundry center, and a small cottage for meetings.
The future phase is for three other buildings for community and additional lodging, and a replica of the House of Loreto with courtyards, McTavish said.
Almost all of the work on the St. Joseph Convent project has been done by local tradesmen.
The people who have helped with the build are Advantage Building and Remodeling-Fort Scott; R2 Construction-Fort Scott; Geiger Plumbing-Fort Scott, H2 Painting-Fort Scott; Wes Davis Drywall, Kelly Electric-Uniontown, 5M Restoration, LLC-Prescot; George Collinge (road and land clearing work); Bar/Rose Custom Wood Designs-Fort Scott; C.D. L. (HVAC); Aegis (fire protection); Rural Water District #2; Heartland Electric Coop; Harris Propane, Invictus Roofing, Mike the Carpet Man (flooring) and Winvent/Extrusions (windows).
AD: Kansas Recovery Institute Hiring For All Positions!
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Live Jazz Performance at Gordon Parks Museum on March 21
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The Beauty Lounge Girls Birthday Bash is March 23
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