Kingfisher Oklahoma

Take a picture, it’ll last longer. That used to be an obnoxious playground retort we would hurl at each other back in the day to deflect an uncomfortable stare that lasted a few seconds too long.

It’s the Pitts As a leatherworker I do a lot of restorations. I regularly repair leather-bound boxes to hold antique $40,000 carriage clocks, make knife sheaths for eBay sellers and repair bridles and other tack for cowboy friends.

Making an apparent about-face from a similar ruling issued just a year ago, the Oklahoma Supreme Court found Tuesday that an initiative petition could proceed, even though its gist contained material several justices conceded was misleading to voters.

As Independence Day approaches, I am reminded of the near misses of disaster of my young life in the early 1970’s of Hollis, Oklahoma. At the least I would have had some tough life lessons.

Opaa!, which stands for “Hurrah” in Greek, won the bid to provide food service at the Hennessey Public School this fall. That’s what the Hennessey board decided as members munched on sandwiches and cookies from a local restaurant during their noon Wednesday special meeting.

Three major policy changes were approved Tuesday by the Kingfisher Board of Education. The board made the moves during their final meeting of the 2018-19 fiscal year and they will affect lunches, credits and free passes to sporting events. The school credits will involve athletics.

Oddly enough, a hole in which he double bogeyed might have been just the one that won Kingfisher’s Heath Myers the Oklahoma Golf Association Stroke Play Championship last week.

A former Oklahoma State quarterback and professional baseball player is now working in Kingfisher as a State Farm agent. Josh Fields spoke to the Kingfisher Lions Club last Thursday after recently becoming a part of the Kingfisher community. Fields works with his wife and they have three children.

State Rep. Mike Sanders was notified last week that the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) in Oklahoma is offering special Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP) funding for “Cover Crop” for landowners impacted by recent flooding.

Lutheran Women in Mission (LWML) groups from Emmanuel Lutheran of Kingfisher, St. John Lutheran of Okarche and Our Savior Lutheran of Guthrie recently traveled to Mobile, Ala., for the national convention.