Kingfisher Oklahoma

Mother Nature saved her worst for last when it came to the 2019 cross country season. In the most heinous conditions of the season, the Kingfisher High School girls placed eighth and the boys 15th last Saturday at the Class 4A state meet at Gordon Cooper Technology Center in Shawnee.

Steady improvement earned All-State recognition for Kaitin Taylor. The Cashion High School senior ran in her fourth straight Class 2A state cross country meet and took home a ninth-place fi nish. Taylor fi nished Shawnee’s Gordon Cooper Technology Center’s 3,200 meter course in 13:10.03.

As if playing the top-ranked and defending state champions wasn’t enough last week, the Kingfi sher Yellowjackets also had to battle the elements. All of that became too much to overcome as the Yellowjackets were outlasted 27-3 Friday by Heritage Hall in Oklahoma City.

After trailing for one of the few times this season, Cashion had little trouble in disposing of yet another foe. The Wildcats scored 27 straight points last Friday as part of a 54-14 win at Watonga to stay unbeaten. Cashion is now 7-0 overall and 4-0 in District A-3.

Jenneth Sue Garms, 71, passed away Oct. 27, 2019, at her home in Kingfi sher. She was born May 30, 1948, in Stafford, Kan., to O’dell and Belvalee Boyd.

Martha Jane Turner, 79, of Yukon, passed away Friday, Oct. 25, 2019 in Oklahoma City. She was born Feb. 27, 1940, in Asher to James Preston and Ollie (Johnson) Fry. Martha graduated from Asher High School in 1957. She married Stephen E. Turner on April 7, 1973.

The State Board of Education has approved a budget for K-12 public schools that requests an additional $219 million, but board members expressed concern the proposal misleads by omission and fails to provide a carefully considered long-range plan for Oklahoma schools.

Sunday is the day late sleepers have been waiting for since March 10 – The end of Daylight Saving Time. While the official end arrives at 2 a.m. Sunday not many people stay up to turn their clocks back an hour.

Persistence pays. And it also paves.

More than 30 days into a voluntary shut-in period for four saltwater disposal wells, the Oklahoma Corporation Commission is no closer to identifying the source of a produced water purge that is bubbling up in a field northwest of Omega.