Kingfisher Oklahoma

The Kingfisher County Extension will begin an exercise program on walking next month. The “Walking With Ease” program will begin at 10 a.m. Tuesday, June 9, at the Kingfisher County Fairgrounds Exhibit Building. It will continue each Tuesday and Thursday at the same time.

(Stossel is author of “No They Can’t! Why Government Fails—But Individuals Succeed.”) The government has closed most schools. So, more parents are teaching kids at home. That upsets the government school monopoly. Education “experts” say parents lack the expertise to teach their kids.

How time flies! I remember a great friend Bob Pascal, an All American football player at Duke, asking me years ago “John, where did the time go?” His was a rhetorical question but a deeply meaningful expression of life’s journey.

Work continues on the plaza that will welcome people entering and exiting Kingfisher on U.S. 81 from the north. The plaza is a project of the Kingfisher Tree Board. On both sides it reads “KINGFISHER” on top and “A TREE CITY USA COMMUNITY” below as well as an outline of Oklahoma.

Thank you Father, mother, the Great I Am for this day, our daily bread. Congratulations to the 2020 class. You are living in exciting times. You are the first gradates not allowed to have commencement. If you are 18 years old by this November, you will be allowed to vote. You are our future.

Hennessey High School seniors will share $821,800 in scholarships this year and chosen for the Masonic Students of Today honors for good citizenship are Kaden Mitchell and Claire Ullery.

The Kingfisher Police Department has investigated or responded to the following reports: May 8 - Receiving and/ or concealing stolen property. Officer Justin Trumbley took a report of a possible theft of Pioneer Telephone property from a UPS warehouse in Enid.

Margie Reinart Metzler was born July 24, 1932, in Okeene and passed away Wednesday, May 20, 2020, at the age of 87. Margie graduated from St. Mary’s Catholic School in Okeene and was a lifetime member of St. Anthony’s Catholic Church in Okeene.

The funeral for Richard Enix 67, was 2 p.m. Tuesday May 26, at First Christian Church in Hennessey and officiated by Jimmy Berkenbile. Burial followed at Hennessey Cemetery under the direction of Cordry-Gritz Funeral Home.

Loretta Caroline Schroder Rodenburg was born to Christian parents in Okarche on June 11, 1919. She passed away peacefully at her home in Springfield, Ill., on May 22, 2020. The only surviving child of Henry W. and Clara Schroder, she grew up in Okarche. Loretta attended St.