Kingfisher Oklahoma

Cashion’s Madelyn McCabe closed out her senior indoor track and field season last Friday on quite the “high” note. McCabe cleared a personal-best 5 feet, 8 inches to win the high jump at the Oklahoma High School Invitational held at the University of Oklahoma in Norman.

Early voting began Thursday and Friday in the threeway race for Kingfisher Board of Education Office No. 5. Kingfisher Public School patrons who missed the opportunity to vote early at the Kingfisher County Election Board can cast their ballots at their regular precincts from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.

Last week’s icy blast of wintry weather likely was a huge disappointment for local adults who had been wearing shorts and working in their gardens just three days earlier.

Kingfisher city residents will decide two races at the April 7 municipal election after the candidate filing period ended Wednesday. Roxie Alexander, 67, 714 S. Main St., and Joy Ludwig, 39, 1105 Starlite Dr., both filed for the office of mayor. Kyle Mecklenburg, 43, 1207 Stone Brook Dr.

A new partnership with the nation’s largest manufacturer of custom air handling equipment is giving the Center of Family Love’s Filters for Life center in Kingfisher a high-tech upgrade.

Betty Jane Teders may have retired as director of the Upper Room Thrift Shop at the end of December, but she’s still a regular volunteer.

Fourth generation U.S. military combat veteran Eli Davis will headline the Kingfisher Chamber of Commerce’s annual banquet Monday, Feb. 10, at the Kingfisher County Fairgrounds Exhibit Building. The evening begins with networking and refreshments at 5:30 p.m., with dinner to be served at 6:30 p.m.

In the not-too distant past, it would have been self destructive for a politician to openly speak of changing America’s government to strip religious influences from public life. Banning Christian influence from classrooms would have been unthinkable.

If there is one thing made clear tonight it is this: The Great American Comeback is here under the direction of President Trump. Our economy is the greatest it’s ever been, and it’s only getting better.

I’ve always been a very curious fellow. I think it was my curiosity that made me a writer as the poet Alastair Reid wrote, “Only the curious have a tale worth telling.” One of the things I’ve always been curious about is what sense is it that makes cows run to the feed truck?