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State and federal assistance to help Oklahomans recover from the recent severe weather between May 7 and June 9, 2019 is now nearly complete, according to a news release issued through Kingfisher city-county emergency manager Steve Loftis.

What started as a beauty shop conversation about the number of local women over the age of 90, turned into a rollicking “Nifty Nineties” party last week organized by Billie Riley of Kingfisher.

House Majority Leader Mike Sanders (R-Kingfisher) this week was named the 2019 Oklahoma Legislator of the Year by the American Legion Department of Oklahoma in recognition and appreciation of his outstanding service and assistance to the organization’s programs and activities.

Joe D. Hall, right, general contractor based in Elk City, was the guest speaker of the Kingfisher Rotary Club last Tuesday.

For several years, high school juniors have been able to take college courses through Redlands Community College’s concurrent enrollment program, but they have been responsible for the full cost of the program while seniors have been able to receive tuition waivers to offset the cost.

PHOTO No. 1 — Oklahoma juniors took second place in the senior roast division at the All-American Certified Angus Beef (CAB) Cook-Off at the 2019 National Junior Angus Show (NJAS), July 14-20 in Louisville, Ky.

Marriage Licenses Kingfisher County Court Clerk Lisa Markus recently issued marriage licenses to the following couples: July 11: Hector Miguel Rivera Leija, 27, and Leticia Calamateo, 34, both of Kingfisher.

Center of Family Love is hosting an arts festival from 6-7 p.m. Wednesday, July 31, in St. Michael’s Gym on CFL’s Okarche campus. The event includes musical performances from the bell choir, vocal and sign language performance of “Don’t Give Up on Me,” and solo, duet and quartet vocal performances.

The feast day of Blessed Stanley Rother, this year also an official state day proclaimed by Gov. Kevin Stitt, is being commemorated in a special way by Holy Trinity parishioner Joe Wittrock, who commissioned this painting of Rother at his Guatemala mission church, left.

Teach the older men to be temperate, worthy of respect, self-controlled, and sound in faith, in love and in endurance. ( Titus 2:2 ) Thoughts on Today’s Verse “Teach older men?” “Learn from younger folks?” Buried in this verse is a profound understanding and respect that transcends generations.