Kingfisher Oklahoma

Lomega Public School announces the following activities for this week: Monday: Eighth grade – iFly STEM trip – all day; elementary movie at 89er Theatre, 1 p.m.; junior high basketball at Calumet, 6:30 p.m. Tuesday: Home games against Kremlin, junior high, 4 p.m.; high school 6:30 p.m.

CASA VOLUNTEER coordinator for Kingfisher and Blaine counties, Heather Jones of Okarche, center, and Sara Peck of Enid, left, CASA program director, were guest speakers at the monthly Kingfisher Community Collaborative meeting last Monday. With them is KCC co-chairman Lisa Copeland.

Florence (Flo) Helen Howenstine Hellwege was born April 4, 1933, to Cy Howenstine Jr. and Cora Helen McDonald Howenstine in Arapaho, Okla. She passed away peacefully Dec. 10, 2019, at Mercy Hospital in Oklahoma City.

When you are harvesting in your field and you overlook a sheaf, do not go back to get it. Leave it for the alien, the fatherless and the widow, so that the LORD your God may bless you in all the work of your hands.

Carla Sue Fairbank died Dec. 8, 2019, at Ranchwood Nursing home in Yukon. Services were held at 10:30 a.m. Friday in the Benson Memorial Chapel with Chaplain Cord Fowler offi - ciating. Burial was in Holy Trinity Cemetery under the direction of Huber-Benson Funeral Home, El Reno.

State Rep. Mike Sanders (R-Kingfi sher) today commented on transportation projects in House District 59, which were approved by the Oklahoma Transportation Commission at its December meeting.

The U.S. House held the first open hearings of the impeachment inquiry this week, but members of the Oklahoma delegation were wary of the approaching budget deadline that would appropriate federal funds for the 2020 fiscal year.

Going into the contest, Chisholm didn’t figure to be much of an obstacle for the Kingfisher boys basketball team. And that’s exactly how it played out. The Yellowjackets forced more turnovers than they allowed fi eld-goal attempts in last Tuesday night’s 61-14 victory over Chisholm at the APB.

It was a night of milestones for the Kingfisher High School girls basketball team last Tuesday. The Lady Jackets nabbed their first win of the season as they held off Chisholm 52-47 at the APB. The home opener was three days ahead of schedule.

The Chisholm Trail Museum in Kingfisher is preparing to expand its quarters and its mission. Curator Jason Harris obtained Kingfi sher County Commission approval for architect’s funding for the remodeling project last Monday, using the museum’s sales tax account.