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National Disability Employment Awareness Month The Center of Family Love is offering more career opportunities for individuals with disabilities than ever before beginning this National Disability Employment Awareness Month (NDEAM).

Southwestern Oklahoma State University in Weatherford celebrated Homecoming on Oct. 26, and winners of the various competitions have been announced by the university. KingfisherHighSchool’s band was among those honored. The homecoming court also featured an Okarche resident.

• Engagement Ronnie and Kim Simunek of Hennessey and Richard and Micki Metcalf of Lamont announce the engagement and impending marriage of their children, Matthew Simunek and Carly Metcalf. The bride-elect, of Lamont, is a 2011 graduate of Deer Creek-Lamont High School.

How to make homemade pie crusts will be the topic at a Kingfisher County Extension workshop next month. Theworkshopisplanned at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 12, at the Extension Offi ce. Participants will learn several techniques for crust making and completing a two-crust pie.

The following traffic accident is being investigated by the Kingfi sher Police Department. October 15, 9:20 a.m. - At Will Rogers Drive and 13th Street.

Rep. Adam Schiff confirmed he was not informed of the raid which killed the leader of ISIS. Rep. Adam Schiff, who chairs the House Intelligence Committee, was left out of the loop on the operation against Islamic State (ISIS) leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.

As he sits in the lobby of western Oklahoma’s newest mecca for high school basketball and stares out at the court, Rob Friesen is admittedly anxious about Friday night.

The State Board of Education has approved a budget for K-12 public schools that requests an additional $219 million, but board members expressed concern the proposal misleads by omission and fails to provide a carefully considered long-range plan for Oklahoma schools.

Sunday is the day late sleepers have been waiting for since March 10 – The end of Daylight Saving Time. While the official end arrives at 2 a.m. Sunday not many people stay up to turn their clocks back an hour.

Persistence pays. And it also paves.