Favorite Food Show
The Southwind District held the 4-H Favorite Food Show recently on June 5th at the Moran United Methodist Church. This event is a great way to learn the life-skills of menu planning and setting a table. To exhibit in the Favorite Food Show, youth must complete a few steps.
The very first step is the 4-H’er selects a favorite food recipe. This can be an appetizer, entree, dessert, or drink. It is important for them to practice this recipe a few times prior to the event so they are confident with the process. Along with knowing how to prepare their favorite recipe, they need to understand the nutrition that it contains and determine if it is something that is healthy.
Now, the 4-H’er makes decisions that are a little more difficult. They will consider a theme and a menu incorporating their favorite food. When they select the theme, they will work on gathering a proper table setting (including tablecloth, dishes, silverware, napkins, etc.), centerpiece, and a card table. The hardest part can be creating the menu. It is key to focus on making healthy additions to their favorite food. They will create an attractive menu to have on display at the show.
The 4-H’ers will practice putting their display together and working on questions about their display the judge may want to know more information about.
On the day of the show, 4-H’ers will be allotted a specific amount of time to set-up and prepare their table display for the judge. After the conference with the judge is complete, the 4-H’ers walk from table to table learning from each 4-H’er with a brief presentation. By this time, the judge has made the final selections for the top two winners in the Senior Division (ages 14-18) and Junior Division (ages 9-13) per county. There is also a Cloverbud Division (ages 5-8) receiving participation awards.
This year, there were five total participants ready to earn their spot at the Southeast Area Favorite Food Show on June 22nd in Emporia. The results for the Junior Division were Carly Taylor (Southwind-Yates Center) Top Junior, Kason Botts (Southwind-Iola) Top Junior, Carly Kramer (Southwind-Iola) Top Junior, and Henry Kramer (Southwind-Iola) Honorable Mention. For the Senior Division, Jenni Armstrong (Southwind-Iola) Top Senior.
For more information about the 4-H Favorite Food Show or 4-H in general, contact Jennifer Terrell, 4-H Youth Development Agent for K-State Research and Extension, Southwind District at [email protected] or 620-244-3826.
Jennifer K. Terrell
District Extension Agent
4-H Youth Development
Southwind District – Erie Office
620-244-3826
4-H Youth Development
Southwind District – Erie Office
620-244-3826
Pain Management Massage Therapy Moves To Uniontown
From left Ruritan Members Mark Warren, Kevin Gleason, Raymond George, Joe George, Mauriel Whisenhunt-the owner, Henry Homan, and Mike Mason, stand in front of the business at 104 Sherman, Uniontown.
Mauriel Whisenhunt helped her grandfather, Clyde Brooker, when he was homebound and had edema.
“I would massage his feet, arms, and back,” she said. “He was the first who said God has given me a gift.”
This prompted her to begin a career in massage therapy.
Whisenhunt’s massage therapy is pain management, she said.
“I do pain management,” she said. “Everybody is different, I work to accommodate what the body may need.”
Whisenhunt said she is grateful for her clients.
She said many in the business don’t make it.
“Longevity in massage is five years,” she said. “It’s hard work.”
“I have so much gratitude for the personal relationships with people, watching client’s kids grow up, working in hospice,” she said. ” I have so much overwhelming gratitude. Every place I have been, it’s God’s timing.”
She is constantly learning, even after 20 years.
“There is so much new coming out about science and massage,” she said.
Her constant challenge is trying to help people get out of pain and helping them with pain management, she said.
Whisenhunt has been a massage therapist for 20 years.
Last year, she moved her business, Bodyworks and Wellness, to Uniontown, where she lives.
“COVID (the pandemic of the last year) prompted me to open shop in Uniontown,” Whisenhunt said. “I think all small businesses had to reshape their business plan.”
“We were told by the (Kansas) governor that we couldn’t work,” she said. “I was quarantined five times, two weeks each time from different places of contact.”
“When you can’t work, you have no income,” she said.
She and her husband, Rick, live in Uniontown and in addition, own a large building there.
“We revamped a small portion of his hobby space,” she said.
The building is located at 104 Sherman, just off Uniontown square. For an appointment call 620-224-7251.
The Bourbon County Sheriff’s Office Daily Reports June 10
Vacation Bible School Today Through June 12
Curbside Take-Home Vacation Bible School is offered on June 9 through 11 at First Baptist Church, 123 Scott Avenue, from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m.
The event is for ages 3-12 years old.
Join us for a mystery island adventure as we track down the One True God!
Everything that your child would normally do at Vacation Bible School can be picked up in a bag in front of the church building.
You can pull up and the bag will be handed to you through the car window, or you can get out of the car and pick up the bag.
To conclude VBS there will be a family day on June 12 from 6 to 7:30 p.m. at the parking lot across from the church. There will be a cookout and games for all to enjoy!
Please call the church office to enroll from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. at 620 223-3080.
Obituary of Norman James Spencer
Norman James “Shorty” Spencer, age 92, a former resident of Ft. Scott, Kansas, and more recently of Prescott, Arizona, passed away Friday, May 21, 2021, in Arizona. He was born May 2, 1929, in Attica, New York, the son of Harold Spencer and Elsie Hanner Spencer. He grew up in New York where his family worked in the dairy business.
He later moved to Arizona and then to California prior to moving to Ft. Scott in the 1970’s. Norman worked as a truck driver for Mid-Western Distribution.
In later years, he worked as a driver for the Amish.
He first married Marion Drake on December 20, 1951, in Ithaca, New York. They later divorced.
He then married Juanita Fear on June 11, 1977, in Nevada, Missouri. She preceded him in death on July 2, 2012.
Survivors include his four daughters, Vicki Kilgore, of Glendale, Arizona, Janet Spencer, of Prescott, Arizona, Peggy Quintella of Welton, Arizona and Marianne Avett, of Ft. Scott, Kansas; six grandchildren, twelve great-grandchildren and two great-great-grandchildren. Also surviving are three sisters, Eleanor, Inice and Eloise.
In addition to his wife, Juanita, he was preceded in death by a son, James Edward Spencer, a grandson, a great-grandson, eight brothers and four sisters.
Rev. Gary Demott will conduct funeral services at 11:00 A.M. Saturday, June 12th at the Cheney Witt Chapel.
Burial will follow in the West Liberty Cemetery.
The family will receive on Saturday from 10:00 A.M. until service time at the Cheney Witt Chapel. Casual dress is encouraged.
Memorials are suggested to the Hammond United Methodist Church or Gideons International 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.
St. Mary’s Mega Sale This Weekend
Meet Congressman LaTurner June 10 At Empress Center
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Jayhawk Wind Update: laydown yard, access roads and excavation
The Jayhawk Wind power project is progressing in Bourbon County.
The following is an update from Julianna Pianelli, development manager for Apex Clean Energy, based in Charlottesville, VA.
Q: Will you give an update on the progress of the wind power farm in Bourbon County, KS?
A: “Construction is underway; we are currently installing access roads and recently completed the laydown yard (located off Highway 39, west of Highway 3), where our core project staff and job trailers will be located. We are now beginning to excavate the foundations for the wind turbines.”
Q: Who is the contact on the ground here in Bourbon County?
A: “The construction site manager for Apex is Tharon Anderson.”
Q: Are there still jobs available and what is the contact?
A: “IEA, the project’s contractor, would have information about job openings and other construction-related information. Please come to the construction office at the laydown yard located near the Highway 39 and Highway 3 junction for more information.”
Q: When will we start to see them going up?
A: “The turbine components will begin arriving on-site at the end of July, and the erection will begin shortly after that.”
Q: When will it be completed?
A: “ The anticipated completion date is in Q4 (fall) 2021.”
Open House For Uniontown Clinic on June 12 from 2-3 p.m.
The open house for the Uniontown Clinic of Girard Medical Center is this Saturday, June 12 from 2-3 p.m. The clinic is open Monday through Thursday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
The clinic is located on the main street in Uniontown, south of the Uniontown High School football field.
Refreshments and give-aways will be offered.
The clinic provides the following services: primary care, well-woman exams, sports and pre-school physicals, lab draws-with any physician’s order, and rapid testing for COVID, strep, flu, hemoglobin, blood sugar, urine, pregnancy and occult blood.
Call 620.756.4111 for more information.
Chamber Coffee hosted by Sharky’s Pub & Grub
The Fort Scott Area Chamber of Commerce invites members and guests to a Chamber Coffee and Ribbon Cutting ceremony this Thursday, June 10th at 8 a.m. to celebrate the tenth-year anniversary of Sharky’s Pub & Grub in the Downtown Historic District at 16 N. National Avenue. Coffee, juice and light refreshments will be served. Enter your name for a prize drawing.
Owner’s Dave and Tina Lipe celebrating 10 years of Sharky’s in our community. Join us at 8 am this Thursday to celebrate and thank the Lipe’s and staff for all they do to provide a great dining & event venue for our community.
Contact the Chamber of Commerce at (620) 223-3566 for more information.
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Local Governments To Receive More COVID-19 Relief
Governor Laura Kelly Announces Local Governments to Receive Federal Coronavirus Relief
Editor’s note: Fort Scott received over $1.1 million, Bronson- over $46,000, Fulton-over $23,000, Mapleton-over $12,000,Redfield-over $21,000 and Uniontown-over $40,000. Click on the link to view others.
TOPEKA – Governor Kelly today released the list of local governments that will receive allocations through the Local Fiscal Recovery Fund (LFRF) of the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA).
In addition to the 105 Kansas counties and 10 metropolitan cities across the State receiving funding from the U.S. Department of Treasury, 614 Non-Entitlement Units of Government (NEUs) with populations of under 50,000, will receive funds directly from the State of Kansas, as directed by the U.S. Department of Treasury. The complete list of NEUs and federal award allocation amounts can be found here: https://covid.ks.gov/neu.
The American Rescue Plan (ARPA) provides $1.9 trillion in economic stimulus to assist in the long-term recovery from the economic and public health impacts related to the COVID-19 pandemic. In addition to funding through LFRF for NEU’s, counties and metropolitan cities, the State of Kansas received direct funding through the State Fiscal Recovery Fund (SFRF).
“The American Rescue Plan Act will provide critical resources to Kansas communities as we continue our recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic,” Governor Kelly said. “We must use these dollars to make the strategic investments that will build a better, more inclusive and resilient economy for future Kansans.”
The US Department of Treasury’s eligibility requirements specify that NEU’s must have operational capacity and provide a “broad range of services that would constitute eligible uses under ARPA.” Given this requirement, townships will not receive direct funding from the state under the LFRF. For more information on federal requirements, visit https://covid.ks.gov/neu.
“Although townships won’t receive direct allocations from the Local Fiscal Recovery Fund, I will make a recommendation to the SPARK committee that interested communities be eligible for resources from the State Fiscal Recovery Fund,” Governor Kelly said.
All NEUs receiving funding must certify with the State that they wish to receive their allocation of funds. Any NEU eligible for funding can affirmatively take a step to decline their award and reallocate to the State Fiscal Recovery Fund. Instructions for certification with the state will be sent to NEUs directly.
The Office of Recovery will provide resources and support to all local governments to ensure alignment with federal guidelines and compliance requirements. The State will encourage and coordinate collaboration across state, county, and city funding to ensure funds are maximized for the benefit of all Kansas populations.
The Strengthening People and Revitalizing Kansas (SPARK) Task Force will oversee the use of SFRF dollars, while LFRF dollars will be allocated by local governments. You can learn more about the State of Kansas’ response to the pandemic through the Office of Recovery at https://covid.ks.gov.