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When Maggie Carroll led her pig, Brownie, out of the show ring for the last time during her first year of showing pigs, she didn’t realize it would be the moment that taught her what the FFA motto, “Living to Serve,” really means.

Forty-five members of the Pool-Zachgo families gathered Sunday, Oct. 12, at the Crescent Community Center for their 43rd annual reunion.Traveling the longest distance were members of the Bay family who traveled from Colorado and Ohio and were guests of Jeremiah and Breanna Hill.

Theta Tau Chapter of Epsilon Sigma Alpha met at 7 p.m. Monday, Oct. 27, in the Fellowship Hall of the First Christian Church.Stormy Simmons, president, opened the meeting with members repeating the updated mission statement.Beth Schieber, chaplain, read “The Tale of the Willow Tree.

Nine Kingfisher choir students were among those who performed Oct. 27 at the Western Oklahoma Choral Directors Association All-Region Honor Choir Festival.Kingfisher Junior High and Kingfisher High School students auditioned for the honor choir on Sept. 24.

John Gooden, representing Kingfisher Trails and Bill Reitz, representing the Kingfisher Airport Authority, were the featured speakers at the Kingfisher Rotary Club last week.They talked of the $1.

The need is real and it’s only getting worse.Danica Kramer sees it every month, every week, every day.And it’s getting tougher for the Kingfisher County Food Bank as a result.

The Oklahoma State University Alumni Association recently named 51 students as OSU Seniors of Significance for the 202526 academic year.Three of them were from Kingfisher County.

Kingfisher County commissioners agreed Monday to look into creating a county-wide time bank for all county employees.District 2 Commissioner Michael Sparks suggested the plan.He said it could provide assistance to employees facing difficulty due to injury or sickness.

County voters are being asked on Nov. 18 to once again pass a one-half cent sales tax to continue to fund a multitude of county services.If approved, it will extend the sales tax for another five years.It was originally approved in 1991.

Timely rains fell across Kingfisher County last Friday and over the weekend, boosting prospects for getting the 2026 grain crops up and growing.Four-day accumulation according to the state Mesonet was 4.15 inches; in Kingfisher.Local Weather Observer Steven Loftis recorded a total of 4.