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Tri-Valley charity golf tournament June 18
The 2011 Advanced Systems Homes charity golf tournament to benefit the Friends of Tri-Valley Foundation will be held Saturday, June 18 at Quarry Stone Golf Course in Chanute. “Advanced Systems Homes is again proud to sponsor this year’s Tri-Valley golf tournament,” states Darin Luebbering of Advanced Systems Homes. “Tri-Valley is a great asset to southeast Kansas and we are glad to help them with this fundraiser.Tri-Valley is a great organiza...
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Fredrick F. James 1951-2011
Fredrick F. James, 60, Fredonia, ormerly of Springfield, Mo.,, died Thursday, May 26, 2011 at Fredonia Regional Hospital. He was born February 8, 1951 in Fredonia, the son of Francis S. and Claudine M. Akins James. He was a retired security guard. Fred is survived by his mother, Claudine James, Fredonia; and three cousins, including Wallace D. White, Fredonia. Graveside service will be 10:30 a.m. Thursday, June 2 at the Farmington Cemetery, ...
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Floyd A. Russell 1930-2011
Floyd A. Russell, 80, lifetime resident of rural Altoona, died Thursday, May 26, 2011 at Neosho Memorial Regional Medical Center in Chanute. He was born July 30, 1930 in Neodesha, the son of Charley E. and Sadie Carver Russell. Floyd attended school in Altoona, where he graduated in 1948. On Oct. 17, 1954 at the Altoona United Methodist Church, Floyd married Margaret J. Green. She survives, of the home. Floyd spent his lifetime operating th...
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Chanute Task Force members assist in search and rescue
Kathleen Carney Tribune Reporter A total of nine members of the Chanute Fire and Police Departments and two Emergency Medical Service workers from Neosho Memorial Regional Medical Center responded to the devastation that took place in Joplin on Sunday evening. Cpt. Matt Miller, Lt. Vince Eagle, Lt. Pete Keating, firefighter Kyle McCue, firefighter Chad Small, and Lt. Dale Dowry were the responders from the fire department. Cpt. Kirk Steve...
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Memorial Day service on Monday
George Culbertson, commander of American Legion Post 170, will lead Monday’s Memorial Day service at 10 a.m. in Memorial Park Cemetery on East 14th St. The National Anthem will be performed by the Chanute High School Quartet led by Russ Vallier. The invocation will be delivered by American Legion Chaplain Bob Geiger. For many years it has been a tradition of the Memorial Day Service to have the reading of “Logan’s Orders,” the “Gettysburg A...
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Veteran and five brothers served in World War II
Kathleen Carney Tribune Reporter 83-year-old World War II veteran Roy Adams will spend this Memorial Day like he has spent most others in recent years, remembering his five brothers, all of whom fought in WWII. He will start the day at the Urbana cemetery placing flags on the graves of his family members, and then he will put them on every grave in the cemetery. He plans on attending Avenue of Flags at Memorial Park Cemetery in Chanute as ...
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Powers a fixture at Thayer Senior Citizen Center
Marilynn Rutledge Tribune Reporter THAYER – To celebrate her 88th birthday, the Thayer Senior Citizen Center held a birthday party Thursday afternoon for longtime manager Margaret Powers. Powers has run the center for the past 22 years, seeing everything from the fire that destroyed the old meeting place, a church in Thayer, to the construction of a new building in 1991. “I worked two years before that. We moved in here in August of ‘91, w...
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Taylor closing out five years as assistant superintendent
Kathleen Carney Tribune Reporter Assistant Superintendent for Chanute Public Schools Kathryn Taylor will retire this year after five years in the district and 34 years working in education. Prior to working for USD 413 Taylor worked in Dodge City for nine years, some of which as Principal of Dodge City Middle School, and then Director of Secondary Education. She came back to Chanute, which is her hometown, five years ago, and plans on rema...
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Longtime USD 413 educators retiring
Kathleen Carney Tribune Reporter Seven teachers will retire from USD 413 this year. Several have spent the majority of their career in the district. Their knowledge and experience is invaluable, and they will be truly missed. Bob Cross will retire after 41 years at Royster Middle School. Marilyn Hurt currently teaches at Chanute Elementary School and has been with the district for 35 years. David Olson teaches at RMS and has been in the di...
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New store has coffee and computer needs covered
Kathleen Carney Tribune Reporter Is it a computer repair shop with coffee, or a coffee shop that also does computer repair? Either way Total Tech at 121 E. Main is a place to relax, have some coffee, and either browse on a computer or get one fixed. Owners Josh and Susan Woolley wanted to open a computer repair shop initially. They found the store front on Main and decided it was too big for just a computer repair shop. So they turned the s...
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Erie family collecting donations for victims of Joplin tornado
Marilynn Rutledge Tribune Reporter ERIE —  A fundraising effort by Erie residents Byron and Kyle Shultz took a quick turnaround after Sunday’s tornado in Joplin. Kyle had begun a drive to take donations to Alabama after hearing of the record breaking destruction caused after a series of tornadoes there. Kyle reported on Thursday that the donations collected will be re-routed to Joplin. The plan is to collect goods with plans to deliver th...
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Leo J. Kaemmerling 1926-2011
Leo J. Kaemmerling, 84, Chanute, died Monday, May 23, 2011 at the Neosho Memorial Regional Medical Center. Leo was born in Blackwell, Okla., on Oct. 15, 1926, the son of Louis and Amber Frisbee Kaemmerling. He attended Chanute schools. He served his country in the Army during WWII building bridges. Leo was united in marriage to Regina Hubler. They later divorced. She preceded him in death in 1998. He worked various jobs including working as a...
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Donation deadline today at 9:30 a.m. at Armory
Marilynn Rutledge Tribune Reporter Donations have been pouring into the Joplin tornado relief program set up in the Chanute Armory Building. Throughout this week, volunteers have made three trips to Joplin and will make one last trip to the Joplin American Red Cross this morning. Volunteers will arrive in the Armory Building around 7 a.m. and begin loading the truck around 8 a.m., and will continue to accept donations until the truck depar...
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Apartment destroyed one day after move
Tribune staff The family of Chanute High School graduate Blake Morgan was in Joplin Saturday to move the Missouri Southern University student to a different apartment in the city. One day later, her third floor apartment at 20th and Connecticut and all of her belongings were gone. Ironically, the building where she moved from was still standing. “She lost everything,” Chanute resident Carolyn Morgan said of her daughter. On Sunday Blake w...
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Rural Erie farm damaged by high winds
Kathleen Carney Tribune Reporter ERIE — After several parts of the Midwest have been battered by intense rounds of storms early this week, one hit very close to home. Tuesday night Mark and Liz O’Daniel’s property, just outside of Erie, was ravaged by intense winds. What used to be the O’Daniel’s pole barn now lays in a heap of wood and nails around their property. The roof landed across U.S. 59 highway, and parts of it still hang in the wi...
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Committee to weigh both sides of local government ordinance
Kathleen Carney Tribune Reporter City Commissioners on Monday evening rescinded the certified local government resolution passed in November of last year and tabled the proposed certified local government ordinance until a research committee can be formed. The committee, whose members have yet to be appointed, will come back to the City Commission with information portraying both the potential benefits and disadvantages of creating a certi...
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Bakers lose belongings in tornado
Tribune staff Former Chanute residents Brenda and Dennis Baker have been preparing to move into a new home in Joplin. As of Sunday evening, their new home is standing, but the rental home they were living in is not. Both homes are in the vicinity of the damaged St. John’s Hospital. Kay Patton, Chanute, Brenda’s sister, said the Bakers had moved to Joplin about a year ago to retire. They were closing on the new house and were making preparat...
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Welder advances to nationals as state champ
Marilynn Rutledge Tribune Reporter For the third consecutive year, the Neosho County Community College and Chanute High School welding class has brought home a state title from the State SkillsUSA Welding Fabrication Competition. After two-time champion Josh Tull graduated in 2010, welding instructor Will Jordan decided to send CHS senior Garrett Ross in 2011. Ross finished in first place in the state welding competition at Wichita Area Tech...
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Chanute sends assistance to Joplin
Chanute first-responders traveled to Joplin on Sunday to assist the devastation of the tornado, said Sam Budreau, public information officer. Capt. Mike MIller of the Chanute Police Department and Capt. Kirk Steeves of the Chanute Fire Department headed up the group who planned to return home on Monday night. Neosho Memorial Regional Medical Center sent an ambulance and crew in response to an official call for mutual aid, said Patricia Mor...
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Chanute connections told in Joplin disaster
Kathleen Carney Tribune Reporter Several Chanute residents were in Joplin or had family members there when a three-quarter-mile wide tornado tore through town on Sunday evening. Former Chanute resident Trisha Williams and her husband, Jeff, now live in Joplin. Her family and home is safe, but many nearby lost everything. Williams said, “From our house you look in either direction and it yields no clue to the devastation 10 blocks away.” W...
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