Kingfisher Oklahoma

KINGFISHER HERITAGE School recognized third and fourth grade students recently who became “Million Word Readers” during the 2018-19 school year. The students were introduced during an awards assembly last month.

A friend told me recently I’d lived through America’s best years. Maybe he included himself in that number. I don’t hear so well, anymore. No doubt, we’ve lived through some of our nation’s most convenient years, i.e.

Jimmy Stewart in “Rear Window” has nothing on me except I don’t have a broken leg. When I’m not looking out the kitchen blinds at the pouring down rain, or the wind in the trees across the street, I’m checking out the comings and goings in the neighborhood.

It’s the Pitts The folks in white lab coats and low shoes with letters after their names are up to their old tricks again in attempting to build the super cow of the future. And please note I said “build”, not “breed”.

What would you do if you were falsely accused and convicted of a brutal rape and murder you didn’t commit? How would you handle a violent maximum-security prison, sentenced 16 years to life, at age 17?

 Now that the legislative session is over, I want to look at some of the reforms passed this year that were signed into law by the governor that will have a positive effect for Oklahomans.

I m proud of our governor. I wasn’t very sure of Kevin Stitt when he was running for governor. Since he was elected, he took the bull by the horns, so to speak. He has got disaster relief for our state, with the tornadoes and massive flooding.

At least once a week, Nancy Hughes drives to her cancer treatment.  Right now, her cancer is under control and she’s holding her own against the disease.   But if it gets to the point where driving herself is no longer an option, she has a backup plan.

[Ed. note: Longtime Kingfisher FFA advisers Ryan and Lori Burns recently stepped down from their positions, ending a 20-year period that’s the most successful of any program in Oklahoma history.

These junior Angus members won top honors in intermediate showmanship at the 2019 Atlantic National Regional Preview Junior Angus Show held May 25 in Timonium, Md. Pictured from left are Miss American Angus Madison Weaver; Victoria Gerken, Kingfisher, champion; and Rylee Stockdale, Dayton, Pa.