Stories from Friday, June 25, 2010

By Jason E. Silvers Herald-Tribune FORT SCOTT, Kan. -- Bourbon County native Katherine Pritchett is giving back to her hometown. Pritchett, a writer and alumna of Fort Scott High School who now lives in Pratt, Kan., is not only returning to her hometown this weekend to celebrate with her classmates during the FSHS All-Class Reunion, she also plans to donate copies of her novels to the Fort Scott Public Library...

Herald-Tribune The National Pork Board elected Everett Forkner, a pork producer from Richards, as its vice president at a meeting earlier this month at the World Pork Expo in Des Moines, Iowa. He will serve a one-year term effective July 1. Forkner was nominated for a second three-year term on the board by Pork Act delegates at the Pork Industry Forum in March and is awaiting Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack's appointment of the 2010 National Pork Board members...

Cancer survivors at the 2010 Vernon County Relay for life all walked through a decorated balloon arbor before beginning the survivors' lap around the Square. Family members and friends often join them, and many area residents take part in the Relay for Life, a fund-raising effort benefitting the American Cancer Society. The event began Friday evening and continued through sunrise on Saturday...

Grace Josephine Johnson, 86, of Uniontown, Kan., died early Thursday, June 24, 2010, at the Moran Manor. She was born April 2, 1924, in Oxford, Colo., the daughter of Charles Orville and Grace Emma (Oliver) Handrahan. She attended school in Oxford until the death of her father. Her mother then married William Semler and the family moved to a farm southeast of Uniontown in 1939...

Justin and Maria Million and big sisters Maddysin and Jesse are proud to announce the birth of their son and baby brother, Jorden Isaiah Carl Million. Jorden was born 8:12 a.m. on June 24, 2010, at Nevada Regional Medical Center. He weighed 6 pounds, 2 ounces and measured 19 inches...

By Eric Wade Herald-Tribune NEVADA -- The long ball has long been an enemy of Nevada Griffons starting pitcher Kyle Oestereicher. Friday night was no exception as the Cougar's of Excelsior Springs. Mo., went deep on Oestereicher three different times on their way to a 7-5 victory in the opening game of a five-game homestand and Alumni Weekend...

Herald-Tribune UNIONTOWN, Kan. -- The Bourbon County Sheriffs Office Corrections Division hosted its third annual bench-press competition at Uniontown High School last Saturday. A list of first-place finishers in each category follows: The organizers would like to thank the sponsors of the event as well as Uniontown Unified School District 235 Superintendent Randy Rockhold and USD 235 staff for the use of facilities and other assistance...

Herald-Tribune A hole-in-one is one of the rarest feats in golf. Just this past week, Eric Barwick scored a hole in one on the eighth hole at the Nevada Country Club Golf Course. Sometimes lighting strikes again at the same place. Just like lighting, another local golfer scored a hole in one on the same hole just three days later...

Kenneth and Connie Liles, Richards, announce the upcoming marriage of their daughter, Amanda Gail Liles, to Joshua Eugene Pollock, son of Cathy Pollock of Nevada and the late Don Pollock. The bride-to-be is a 2001 graduate of Nevada High School and a 2005 graduate of the University of Missouri where she earned a Bachelor of Science in Animal Sciences. ...