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The Kingfisher Police Department has investigated or responded to the following reports: July 15 - Obscene/ threatening or harassing phone calls and planning or threatening violent act.
Read moreFollowing are citations issued by members of the Hennessey Police Department from June 30 through July 28: Possession of Marijuana ($790) — Stephanie Linebarger, Omaha, Neb.;
Read moreI have brought you glory on earth by completing the work you gave me to do. — John 17:4 Thoughts on Today’s Verse One of the most amazing things that Jesus ever said, he said to his Father in heaven: “I have completed the work you gave me to do...” In fact, when Jesus breathed his last, he said; “It is finished.” (Or, it is completed, or it is paid. John 19:30). Jesus finished the work God had sent the Son to accomplish in his life and on the cross by obeying the Father, glorifying the Father, and paying the debt of sin for all humankind. John quotes Jesus as using a form of the same word in John 17:4 and John 4:34. Even though Jesus’ time on earth was relatively short, he lived with the glory of God as his highest priority and lived to complete the work the Father had given him to accomplish. We can also live with the glory of God as our highest priority and lived to complete the work the Father had sent him to accomplish! This is our purpose as God’s children (Ephesians 1:6, 1:12, 1:14; 1 Peter 2:9-10). The more we live by Kingdom priorities (Matt. 6:33), the more we can rest assured that we can finish our work and know we have honored the Father with our lives! Let’s be like our Savior and complete the work the Father has given us to do. My Prayer...
Read moreI write in response to Publisher Barry Reid’s fullpage letter from July 20.
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The Oklahoma Coaches Association hosted its annual coaches’ clinic and All-State Games in the Tulsa area last week. That included the girls basketball games last Tuesday and the boys basketball games on Wednesday. Three of the four games had some Kingfi sher County flavor. Cashion girls coach Andrea Taylor was the coach of the Small West team which defeated the Small East 69-58. Taylor is pictured in the top left photo with her daughter Kaitin (left) and husband LT. Pictured on the bottom right is Kingfisher’s Raegan Snider, who played for the Large West. Snider scored four points, but her team was defeated 78-61 by the Large East. Cashion’s John Hardaway did his share of coaching against Okarche’s Hunter Mueggenborg the last four years. This time, Mueggenborg was on Hardaway’s team as their Small West squad downed the Small East 107-93 in a shootout. Mueggenborg, pictured on the bottom left along with his Okarche coach Aaron West, scored six points to go with four assists, three steals and a pair of rebounds. Hardaway is pictured above before the game with his wife Amanda and their children, from left, Jack, Abby and Sam. [Snider photo by Glen Miller of El Reno Tribune; other photos provided]
Read more( Editor’s note: This article was published by NonDoc last Wednesday, July 30, and provides updates to the story regarding two Oklahoma State Board of Education members - one of whom is Ryan Deatherage of Kingfisher - stating they saw images of nude women on a TV screen in the office of State Superintendent for Public Instruction Ryan Walters during an executive session of a meeting.)
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Ralph Harrison was honored for 50 years of legal service at last week’s meeting of the Kingfisher County Bar Association. To commemorate his years of service, Harrison (left) was presented a certifi cate and lapel pin from the Oklahoma Bar Association during the meeting by his son, Jared Harrison (right). Ralph Harrison is president of Harrison & Mecklenburg, Inc., in Kingfi sher. Born and raised in Kingfisher County, he earned his undergraduate degree from Oklahoma State University in 1972, then graduated from the University of Oklahoma School of Law in 1975. He was admitted into practice that same year and also has an abstractor’s license. Harrison was appointed by then-Governor Mary Fallin to be the District 1 representative for the Oklahoma Abstractors Board and later served as chairman of that board. Harrison is also a past president of the county’s bar association. [Photo provided]
Read morePoliticians have lusted after the “youth vote” for decades, but the “youth vote” is getting even younger these days. Great Britain, for example, has just dropped the voting age to 16, one of fewer than 10 nations where minors that young can vote.
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