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Cimarron Electric Cooperative is hosting a Bedlam Battle Blood Drive from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Friday, Oct. 14, at its headquarters north of Kingfisher.All donors will receive their choice of an OU or OSU T-shirt.Donations will be collected by the Oklahoma Blood Institute in its bloodmobile.

Bill Reitz, representing Rural Water District 3, requested Kingfisher County commissioners to approve the water district’s application for a NODA grant Monday.

Close to 40 people put their paintbrushes and pocketbooks to work Sunday in support of Ukraine at a social painting fundraiser at the Kingfi sher Methodist Church.

The mid 1930s were a period of amazing transformation in Kingfisher County, a still largely rural area that sprang up from the open prairie less than 50 years previously.A massive rural electrification project brought electric lights and appliances to area farms.

Okarche High School’s production of “Property Rites” by Alan Haehnel has advanced the state contest in the OSSAA’s one-act play competition.The OHS cast and crew earned their spot at state by placing at one of three Class 4A regional competitions last Saturday.

“We need real money” to get the library restored and include a history museum, said Jack Quirk, chairman of the Hennessey Library Building Committee. He made that comment after the group discussed the architect’s report Quirk had emailed to members before their 10 a.m. Friday, Oct.

The Western Oklahoma Choral Directors Association Honor Choir will have a strong Kingfisher sound this year.Twenty students total from Kingfisher were selected to the choir after auditions Sept. 24 at Woodward High School.Approximately 500 students took part in a blind audition.

Four Okarche High School students and their adviser attended the Family, Career and Community Leaders of America (FCCLA) Take AIM Conference Oct. 6 at the Moore-Norman Technology Center. The leadership conference was attended by FCCLA chapters from across the state.

October is Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) awareness month and for the first time since 2016, the American Academy of Pediatrics has released an updated set of recommendations for reducing infant sleep-related deaths.

Former Hawaii congresswoman and 2020 presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard on Tuesday said she’s leaving the Democratic Party because it is “under the complete control of an elitist cabal of warmongers who are driven by cowardly wokeness.