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Kingfisher County OHCE members met for their annual Spring Council meeting on March 5 at Chisholm Trail Museum in Kingfisher. Good Timers OHCE served as the host group. Doris Brehm, County OHCE president, presided over the business meeting.

Kingfisher High School recently announced its Students of the Month for February 2019. Selected by the teachers were freshman Jayden Burleson, sophomore Tyler Roman, junior Harrison Themer and senior Bree Taylor. Burleson is the daughter of Charles and Rhiannon Snyder.

Gilmour Elementary students are recognized for every 250,000 words read throughout the school year.

• Engagement ErnieandKarenHellwege announce the engagement of their daughter, Kamara Lyn Hellwege, to Dalton Ray Buck, son of Darla and Dave Krittenbrink and Kelly and Angela Buck. Kamara is a 2011 graduate of Kingfisher High School.

Oklahoma Blood Institute is planning two Bigfoot-themed blood drives in Kingfisher County this week. The first is Sunday, March 17, at Sts. Peter and Paul Catholic Church’s Parish Hall. It will be from 8 to noon. The second is Thursday, March 21, at the Event Center in Hennessey, located at 600 N.

He [Jesus] is before all things, and in him all things hold together. — Colossians 1:17 Thoughts on Today’s Verse Before there was an earth, universe, or nature, there was Jesus! He was before they were made. He will be after they are long gone.

Hennessey town board members will no longer serve as day-to-day operation supervisors for 15 different departments/ areas. Instead, those duties will be up to Town Administrator Tiffany Tillman and Public Works Director Curtis Turner.

Lomega seventh and eighth grade students were recently named state champions in the middle level Division I for social studies in the Oklahoma Association for Academic Competition Online Tournament for 2018-19.

Kingfisher County Extension is collaborating with Blaine County to offer youth between 14 and 15 years old an opportunity to become certified in the operation of farm machinery in order to be eligible for a summer job.

Scott Osborn, left, was the guest speaker of the Kingfisher Lions Club recently. Osborn, who manages The Stack Grill in downtown Kingfisher, spoke of the trials that come with operating a restaurant in Kingfisher due to the increase in oilfield activity in the county.