Things started moving into place for an Oswego native TJ Fuller, just by answering a flyer on a bulletin board at Cal Arts, where he just graduated.
The flyer was made by Nathan Murray, a programmer, who was looking for an artist for iPhone games.
The two began working together on app games, and five months into one game, they saw that it wasn’t going to work, so they started working on another game. Three months into that game, it too wasn’t a fit, so it also was trashed. “We almost gave up,” Fuller said.
Murray has a two-year-old son and they decided to develop an application for toddlers two years old and up.
“Jacob’s Shapes” is a delightful game of simple puzzles for young children. It provides shape recognition and Fuller did the artwork. “We are very excited about it,” Fuller said after it came available on iTunes in August for the iPhone or the iPad. Read more

David Carrico of Edna has again placed his leatherworks business in the movie business — this time with handmaking a various leather items for actors Matt Damon and Jeff Bridges for their Christmas Day opening of “True Grit.”
This comes only a few months after he made leatherwork that was used in “Jonah Hex,” and numerous holsters, saddles and other leather work for western movies over the past 1 1/2 decades.
Carrico, working through his Carrico’s Leatherworks business in downtown Edna, was recently voted Best Living Saddlemaker in the Ninth Annual Best of the West Source Book which was published by True West magazine.
He and his wife, Deena, spend a good portion of their time working on movie-industry leather items. His shop is lined with photos and leatherwork signed by the actors who use them in western films.

Labette County’s Road and Bridge Department. Last Thursday night or some time Friday, vandals broke into the county building at the quarry, located between 9038 Harper. Sandy Krider, Road and Bridge Supervisor told at Monday’s commission meeting, intruders couldn’t get the lock open so they drove through the fence.

Items taken were a 50-gallon full diesel tank was unbolted off a truck bed, several other 5-gallon fuel cans, cases of oil and grease, water pumps, extension cord, spray paint, impact gun, and tools, etc. All the employees lockers were open and everything in the building was ransacked. We are still checking it all out, Krider said.

The Labette County Sheriff’s Dept., is investigating the case. Krider added that the vehicles were unharmed and no damage was apparent.

Read the rest of the commission story in this week’s Labette Avenue.

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