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Pioneer Telephone is providing Oklahoma children with a toll-free direct line to speak with Santa Claus for the 50th straight year. Santa will be available to speak to eager, young callers one night only from 5:30-7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 10. To speak to Santa, call 866-92-SANTA or 866-927-2682.

My president is guilty Thank you Father, Mother, The Great I Am, for this day. Thank you for life, liberty and love from your son. “This will be my third visit to you. Every matter must be established by the testimony of two or three witnesses.” - II Corinthians 13:1-11.

When the children of the late George and Mary “Dawn” Pappe came across the oversized $10 bill while going through their parents papers, they thought they’d found an interesting family keepsake.

Cashion, Dover, Crescent and Big 4 fi re departments battled a wildfire along the Cimarron riverbed Tuesday evening, one of dozens reported across western Oklahoma as high winds and dry brush combined for extreme fi re conditions.

A number of local students placed in their category at the American Farmers & Ranchers (AFR) Northwest District Speech Contest held Nov. 21 in Enid. Among them were two from Dover, five from Lomega and eight from Kingfi sher.

Kingfisher’s board of education will handle routine business at its fi nal regular meeting of the calendar year. The meeting is set for 7 p.m. Monday, Dec. 2. The brief agenda includes approving a calendar for the 2020-21 school year.

It’s the Pitts One unattained goal in my life was to have my own antique stagecoach and learn how to “handle the ribbons” to control the four or six horses I’d need to power it so I could drive it in parades.

Kingfisher Middle School recently announced its Students of the Month for November 2019. Recognized were, from left: Sophia Dudzinski, fi fth grade; T.J. Washington, sixth grade; Terry-Ann McCully, seventh grade; and Cy Jones, eighth grade. [Photo provided]

Volunteers who work an unpaid second job for nearly three months getting displays up and running for Kingfisher Winter Nights came upon a dismaying scene Saturday morning. Seven of the lighted metal candy canes lining the drive at the north park entrance had apparently been run over by a vehicle.