Fort Scott, Fort Scott Chamber of Commerce

Campbell Receives Mayor’s Citizenship Award

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Craig Campbell from his Facebook page.

At the Fort Scott Chamber of Commerce Annual Awards Dinner on April 29, the City of Fort Scott honored Craig Campbell with the Mayor’s Citizenship Award. 

Mayor Josh Jones thanked Campbell for the many volunteer hours he has given the community and his willingness to help others, in presenting the award to Campbell.

“Fort Scott is a better place to live, work and play because of you,”  Jones said. “You are the definition of what a public servant is!”

Campbell is a Fort Scott native and has worked for Mercy Health Systems for 21 years, according to a press release from Jones. The first 15 years he served as the director of the hospital pharmacy. The last six years as the Mercy Pharmacy Performance Improvement Director for 35 hospitals and 27 retail pharmacies. He will retire from Mercy on June 30th, 2021.

Campbell has been involved with the Good Neighbor Action Team for about ten years, which has helped improve over 200 local properties, according to the press release.

“During the East Wall Street Blitz, there were close to 300 volunteers who worked on 32 properties painting, repairing porches, install energy-efficient windows and doors, and hauling over 30 loads of yard debris,” Jones said in the press release.

“In 2021 they are focusing on grants for older citizens who meet income guidelines to be used for bigger projects and working with the Codes Department when issues arise where they can assist,” Jones said.

Campbell and his wife, Jane, have four children: Ryan, Brett, Trevor, and Jenna.

Campbell is a graduate of Southwest Oklahoma State University School of Pharmacy.

He is a board member of the Healthy Bourbon County Action Team, a board member of Bourbon County C.A.S.A., and a board member of the Fort Scott Area Community Foundation.

He also serves as an Elder on the Session at the First Presbyterian Church.

 

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Organic Homestead Festival Saturday, May 22

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May 22, 2021 10:00 A.M. – 5:00 P.M

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Experience the Shead Farm and gather ideas on how to live a SUSTAINABLE ORGANIC LIFE-STYLE.

  • Tour the SheadStead Gardens, Orchard, High Tunnel, Animals, Bee-keeping, etc
  • Q & A sessions concerning sustainable organic lifestyle
  • Children’s Activities: Games, Petting Barn, Story Station, Photo Cut-outs, Milking and Butter Making, etc.
  • Visit SHEADSTEAD MARKET / Fruit STORE
  • Fresh Produce picked as you order
  • Veggie Powders (to add nutrient to any meal or dessert) Animals for sale: Peacocks, Turkeys, Chicks, Ducklings, Kittens
  • Sign-up for future homesteading classes (planting, harvesting, preserving, etc.)

ADMISSION:
SINGLE TICKET – $5.00 OR FAMILY (4+) $20.00
2468 CAVALRY RD, GARLAND, KS
620 223-4363

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Bourbon County, Business, Schools

UHS Students Begin a Business

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The price list for The U, a student-led business. Submitted graphic.

For the 2020-21 school year Uniontown High School participated in Project-Based Learning.

Project-Based Learning (PBL) is a teaching method in which students learn by actively engaging in real-world and personally meaningful projects, according to www.pblworks.org/what-is-pbl

Each UHS participating student chose a project that they presented to a board of teachers. The incentive: students got to opt-out of finals.

Uniontown High School Students Kristy Beene and Mason O’Brien, both juniors, decided to start a vinyl t-shirt business.

“They are custom-made shirts or a design that the customers choose,” Beene said.

“There was a lot of deciding that came with starting this business,” Beene said. “During the first semester of the 2020-21 school year, (we) decided that the best way to start this business was to fundraise the money in order to get the machines and supplies necessary.”

“We started this business in Mr. Feagins room, at UHS,” Beene said. “We chose him to…help us in the money and business itself.”

“One of the first orders of business was a name,” she said. “There were many names we considered but the one we chose was The U.”

“The first semester we raised the money needed through fundraisers and purchased a silhouette cameo and a heat press,”
Beene said. “By the end of the semester, we were starting to get up and going. At the start of the second semester, we added Skyler Coulter to our team as an extra hand for making shirts.”

Coulter is a sophomore.

Mason O’Brien, Skylar Coulter, and Kristy Beene hold a t-shirt with their vinyl imprint on it. Submitted photo.

“We have been staying busy with everyone’s support for our small business,” she said. “We have been so happy that we are able to make products that our customers love!”

 

This student-led business will be set up at Good Ol’Days in Fort Scott making custom shirts and water bottles.

 

“We hope that this will be a good aspect for our business and help us grow, both with customers and knowledge of the business industry itself,” Beene said. “Next year we hope to expand even more and invest in a screen printing machine.”

 

Bourbon County, Business, Fort Scott

2021 Home,Sport, Farm, Garden Show: May 21-22

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Fort Scott Broadcasting Co.
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Come Join Us for the 2021 Home, Sport, Farm, and Garden Show!
Arnold Arena at FSCC Campus
2108 S. Horton St., Fort Scott
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The 2021 Home, Sport, Farm, and Garden Show has something for everyone’s interest with 45 listed vendors with exhibits, games, and a chance to win prizes! Snacks, drinks, and food will be available for purchase. So bring the family, friends & guests because you don’t want to miss out on this event!
Stop by the Fort Scott Chamber Booth, to enter a chance to win Chamber Bucks!
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NEXT YEAR’S DATE!
SAVE THE DATE FOR THE
2022 HOME, SPORT, FARM & GARDEN SHOW ON
APRIL 8TH & 9TH, 2022!
IF YOU WOULD LIKE YOUR BUSINESS TO BE PART OF THIS ANNUAL EVENT, DON’T WAIT, SIGN UP NOW BY CALLING 620.223.4500.
Government, Kansas

U.S. 54 overpass replacement project starts in June

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U.S. 54 overpass replacement (red) and state detour route (blue)

Tuesday, June 1, the Kansas Department of Transportation (KDOT) plans to begin work on a project to replace the U.S. 54 bridge over the Union Pacific Railroad at Moran. The overpass is

one-quarter mile east of the U.S. 54/U.S. 59 junction.

 

The highway will be closed at the work zone. U.S. 54 traffic will be placed on a state route detour along U.S. 59, K-31, and K-3. KDOT awarded the $3.7 million construction contract to A.M. Cohron & Son Incorporated, Atlantic, Iowa. Weather permitting, the project should be completed by early 2022. Persons with questions may contact Iola Area Engineer Troy Howard, (620) 901-6557, or Public Affairs Manager Priscilla Petersen, (620) 902-6433.

 

Obituary

Obituary of Linda K. Jones Weiner

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Linda Kay Jones Weiner, 78, of Raleigh, North Carolina and formerly of Fort Scott, passed away at home on Tuesday, April 27, 2021. Linda was born on February 3,1943 and was raised in Fort Scott by her grandmother Eunice S. Hill and step-grandfather, Carl F. Hill, a partner in Hill Lumber Company with his two brothers Grover and John. They have preceded her in death. Also preceding her in death was Wesley J. Erwin, her second husband, who helped raise her son Michael, and her brother Jimmy J. Jones.

Linda Kay was a graduate of Fort Scott High School Class of 1961. She received a BSN from Avila University in Kansas City and an MSN from the University of Illinois. In addition to teaching nursing at several nursing schools in the Kansas City and St. Louis areas, Linda was an ANA Certified Clinical Specialist in Psychiatric mental health nursing and practiced as a therapist with Provident Counseling in St. Louis, Missouri.

Following her marriage to Larry A. Weiner in 1992, the couple moved from St. Louis to Raleigh, NC. Linda was active in Assistance League of the Triangle Area and served on the Consulting Circle of “A Place for Women to Gather”, an outreach program of the Sisters of the Holy Cross. Linda loved her friends in Canasta Cuties and Tea & Tattered Pages, her book club. In addition to reading, Linda liked to knit, and knitted many prayer shawls for friends over the years.

Linda Kay is survived by her husband Larry, of Raleigh, NC, son Michael C. Morrison, from her marriage to Clair L. Morrison, her four beautiful granddaughters, Megan, Madison, Michaela, McKenna Morrison, stepson Keith Weiner, half-siblings Kimberly Lessert Rossi and Craig D. Lessert. She is also survived by two cousins, Betty Ann Young and Fred J. Young, whose mother was Grace Woodward, FSHS class of 1936, niece Cathy Keesee Scott and nephew T. Carl Jones.

Linda Kay remained close friends with many of her high school classmates, enjoying FSHS reunions and taking numerous trips with high school friends throughout the years. While growing up in Fort Scott, she was also a member of the First Presbyterian Church and attended Miss Mary’s Kindergarten, before kindergartens became a part of the Fort Scott public school system.

Rev. Jim Logan will officiate graveside services at 11:00 a.m. June 2, 2021, at the Evergreen Cemetery in Fort Scott, Kansas, where her cremains will be buried next to her childhood friend, Kyle Sweeney Keith. Services are under the direction of the Konantz-Cheney Funeral Home, 15 W. Wall Street, Fort Scott, Kansas. Condolences may be submitted to the online guestbook at konantz-cheney.com.,

In lieu of flowers, please send donations to: FSHS Alumni Association, 424 South Main St.,

Bourbon County, Business, Kansas

Learn More About Tourism Initiative on June 7

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PUBLIC INVITED TO LEARN MORE ABOUT THE BIG KANSAS ROAD TRIP

The Big Kansas Road Trip (BKRT) will be coming to Bourbon, Cherokee and Crawford Counties May 5-8, 2022. Marci Penner and WenDee Rowe of the Kansas Sampler Foundation will be leading meetings June 7-8 for anyone interested in learning how they might participate.

The BKRT operates as a tri-county open house and businesses, attractions and communities are invited to help the public get to know them “as they are.”

Marci and WenDee will conduct an hour-long meeting in each county to share some pictures to illustrate how the event works, to share some criteria, and to answer questions. Anyone in the three counties can attend any of the three meetings to learn more about the event.

The Bourbon County meeting will take place in Fort Scott on June 7 at 2 p.m. at the Common Ground Coffee Co. in the Loading Dock at 112 E. Wall.

The Cherokee County meeting will take place in Columbus on June 7 at 4:30 p.m. in the State Theater Event Center at 104 W. Pine.

The Crawford County meeting will take place in Pittsburg on June 8 at 9 a.m. in the Frisco Event Center at 210 E. 4th.

Your local contacts are Allyson Turvey and Rachel Pruitt in Bourbon County; Liz Simpson and Jake Letner in Cherokee County; and Devin Gorman and Chris Wilson in Crawford County.

To learn more about the BKRT go to www.bigkansasroadtrip.com.

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Obituary

Obituary of Peggy Davis

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Peggy LaVonne Davis, age 85, resident of Ft. Scott, KS, died Monday, May 17, 2021, at her home. She was born February 12, 1936, in Ft. Scott, the daughter of Raymond and Florence Wyckoff Mason. She married Ralph Davis on August 7, 1955.

Peggy worked for the Western Insurance Company and as the homemaker of her family. She was a member of the First Church of God where she worked in Women’s Ministry and helped serve many funeral dinners.

Survivors include her husband Ralph of the home; two sons, Rick Davis and wife Susan, Ft. Scott, and Roger Davis and wife Diana, Broken Arrow, OK; a daughter, Chris Conrad and husband Robert, Springfield, MO; eight grandchildren, Melissa Conrad Thomas and husband Bud, Jason Conrad, Josh Conrad and wife Haiden, Jennifer Davis Simhiser, Kelli Davis, Haley Bellmyer and husband Mark, Kelsey Bellmyer and husband Caleb, and Marley Davis; 6 great grandchildren; and numerous nieces and nephews.

She was preceded in death by a brother, Samuel Mason; a sister, Bonnie Taylor; and her parents. The family wishes to thank Integrity Home Health Care and Hospice for their loving support.

Pastor Ed Sneed will conduct private family graveside services at the U. S. National Cemetery on Friday, May 21st.

The family will receive friends Friday from 11:00 until 12:00 noon at the Cheney Witt Chapel.

Memorials are suggested to the First Church of God and may be left in the care of the Cheney Witt Chapel, PO Box 347, 201 S. Main St., Ft. Scott, KS 66701. Words of remembrance may be submitted to the online guestbook at cheneywitt.com.

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