January 11, 1951
• Fairfax High School’s 21st annual invitational basketball tournament will be held Wednesday through Saturday, January 17 through 20. Eight teams will compete, including Fairfax, Tarkio, Rock Port, Craig, Burlington Junction, Watson, Westboro, and New Point.
• Robert E. Jones, administrator of Fairfax Community Hospital since its opening, is resigning effective February 6. He and his wife plan to stay in Fairfax until he is located in a new position. Miss Jean Bennett, R.N., who has been employed as a nurse since the hospital’s opening, has also resigned and plans to leave for California the first of March.
• Showing at The Fair Theatre in Fairfax: “The Nevadan” with Randolph Scott and Dorothy Malone and “The Gunfighter” with Gregory Peck and Helen Westcott.
January 15, 1976
• Rachel Lynnette, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Bob Sefrit of Fairfax, had the honor of being the first baby born in 1976 at Community Hospital, Fairfax. She was born at 4:15 a.m. January 8 and weighed 7 pounds and 1 1/2 ounces.
• Money estimated around $500 was stolen from the Fairfax School sometime late Thursday night or early Friday. The loss included lunch receipts, money stolen from the soft drink machine and pencil machine, the gate receipts from Thursday night’s junior high basketball game, and money some seniors had paid for their commencement caps and gowns.
• The Fairfax High School girls’ basketball team advanced to Friday night’s finals of the Fairfax Invitational Tournament by defeating Rock Port 35-27. Sara Kottman led the Lady Bulldogs with 13 points.
• Cecil Allen Young recently opened a trap shoot on his farm east of Fairfax on Highway 46 at the Junction of Route N. The trap shoot features a fully automatic trap house, asphalt-covered shooting area, and a heated club house.
• KMA in Shenandoah took a “giant step backward” to bring the past back to life. They will feature replays of old-time radio series and the Big Band music in its Sunday afternoon programming.
• A prominent landmark on the Leonard Banks farm on Highway 46 east of Fairfax is attracting motorists. An all-wood windmill, constructed around 1900 on the Leland White farm east of Tarkio, is now the oldest-standing windmill in this area.
• Jill Cooper was welcomed as Missouri’s first female conservation agent. Ms. Cooper is one of 17 new recruits and has been assigned to the Platte City and Jackson County area.
January 11, 2001
• After 25 years of service to Community Hospital Association in Fairfax, Pat Fisher is retiring as Social Service/Patient Representative. She began working at the hospital November 10, 1975, as a switchboard operator in the front office.
• The City of Fairfax suffered a water main break on Thursday, January 4, on North Fourth Street. The city was without water for a couple of hours and a boil order was issued and lasted for two days after it was turned back on.
• Dixie Sky Hendrix made her debut into the world with honors. She was the first baby born in 2001 at Community Hospital Association. She was born to Gina and Jason Hendrix of Fairfax at 4:04 p.m. Wednesday, January 3.
• The Community for Kids Preschool in Fairfax held their Christmas program, “A Rockin’ Preschool Christmas,” December 18.
