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Kingfisher County commissioners approved a request from the Kingfisher County Sheriff’s office Monday to accept a $5,000 grant from Marathon Petroleum Co. to place additional safety equipment into vehicles driven by officers.

What took hours to put together only took minutes to disappear. And that’s exactly what organizers wanted to see. The Kingfi sher Chamber of Commerce held its annual Easter Egg Hunt on Saturday morning at the KHS football fi eld.

Timely April showers visited Kingfisher County beginning Friday and lasted through Sunday morning.The showers produced moisture ranging from 1.3 inches at the Mike Rosen residence one mile east of Kingfisher to three inches at the Rick and Robin Johnston residence northwest of Dover.

• CITY-WIDE GARAGE SALES are this Saturday, April 26. For a list of more than 3 dozen garage sales taking place, see the ad on Page 3 of this edition.SHRED IT. Need to get rid of old documents or paper clutter? BancFirst is hosting its annual spring shredding event this weekend.

The Beutlers met the Beutlers recently at an event held at the Oklahoma Hall of Fame/ Gaylord-Pickens Museum in Oklahoma City.Cashion natives Mark Beutler and his cousin, Trey, attended a book signing ceremony hosted by Elk City natives and distant relatives, Randy and Bennie Beutler.

Although signs state the ongoing resurfacing project on the Dover-Crescent Road could be completed by spring of this year, the job is still far from done a month into spring.

The annual stockholder’s meeting of the Cimarron Valley Cemetery Board will be held at 2 p.m. Sunday, April 27, at the Lacy Community Center.All interested persons are encouraged to attend, reported board secretary Cathy Sturgeon Howard (405-368-8927) of Lacy.

Hennessey United’s Red Carpet Night is 7 p.m. Thursday, April 24, at The Mercantile on Main Street.

“Soaring to New Heights with OHCE” was the theme of the district meeting of the Northwest Oklahoma Home & Community Education groups.Thirteen members from Kingfisher County attended the meeting held March 22 at Watonga High School.

Brothers Keylun and Keynun Combs paged for Rep. Mike Dobrinski, R-Okeene, during the week of April 7.Both are seniors at Kingfi sher High School and the sons of former Rep. Tom and Erin Newell and Chris and Jamie Combs.