Kingfisher Oklahoma

The baseball All-State games aren’t the only all-star events taking place this weekend. Girls and boys basketball groups will be holding multiple games featuring county players and hall of fame inductions with localties on Saturday, June 5.

The memorial service for Jacquetta “Skeeter” Glazier is 11 a.m. Saturday, June 5, at Kingfisher First United Methodist Church. Skeeter, a Kingfisher Public Schools employee for 40 years, passed away Dec. 18, 2020, at the age of 81. Everyone is welcome to attend the memorial service.

Thursday’s violent storms brought a Dover twister and flash flooding throughout the county. The photo at the top of this page shows the Dover storm moving in from the perspective of Lake Elmer, as captured by Kim Sigl.

The Keith Lowry-Henry Ellyson American Legion Post 5 will present its annual Memorial Day Service honoring fallen military personnel at 11 a.m. Monday at Kingfisher Cemetery. Local Legion Post Commander Joe Bliss will serve as emcee and speaker for the event.

Just beyond the boisterous and bustling sounds of children on the local elementary school playground, a “cottage home” offers a quiet serenity for the May Lions Silver Spade honorees.

The Biden Presidency is a shambles in its infancy. While the new president should have found a bird’s nest on the ground when he took over, he destroyed that opportunity by enacting a string of executive orders undoing the good that former President Donald Trump had created.

An advisory panel to President Joe Biden is trying to marry the issue of amnesty for illegal immigrants with what it calls “environmental justice,” the federal effort to confront climate change.

Rep. Mike Dobrinski, Sen. Darcy Jech and Sen. Chuck Hall hosted and honored the Kingfisher High School boys basketball team recently at the state Capitol. The Yellowjackets won the 2021 Class 4A boys basketball state championship as well as the 4A academic state championship in the sport.

There was plenty of discussion about adding more than the annual Wine & Chocolate Festival to Hennessey United’s sponsorship of community events during the board’s Thursday, May 20, meeting. A new event, a Mexican Fiesta, chaired by member Mariana Gonzalez, was mentioned.

Honor rolls at Southwestern Oklahoma State University in Weatherford and Sayre have been announced for the 2021 spring semester. An undergraduate student earning all A’s in 12 or more hours during a semester qualifies for the President’s Honor Roll.