Kingfisher Oklahoma

House Democrats decried portions of this year’s budget plan on Thursday, but then voted for bills they said either provided insufficient funding or mis-spent money.

Griffin Lamb carried on Cashion’s tradition of excellent quarterback play on the football field. Off the field, he recently carried on the tradition of moving on to the next level. Griffin, seated center, recently signed to play for Centre College in Danville, Ky.

Memorial services for Jackie Dean Russell, 64, of Loyal will be 1 p.m. Friday, May 31, at the First Christian Church in Kingfisher. Russ Brown will officiate the service. Cremation was under the direction of Wilson Funeral Home. Jack was born March 28, 1955, in Kingfisher.

Recitation of the Rosary for Harry Galen Koehn, 89, Hennessey, will be at 7 p.m. Friday May 31, at St. Joseph’s Catholic Church. Mass of Christian burial will be at 10 a.m. Saturday, June 1, at St. Joseph’s officiated by Rev. Ed Menasco.

While City Manager Dave Slezickey described this week’s flooding as “a moderate inconvenience” inside city limits in comparison to storm damage in other areas of the state, county roads may tell another story.

Kingfisher County commissioners handled their weekly meeting agenda Tuesday in only 17 minutes before returning to the job of resuming repairs on flood-stricken county roads.

City and county authorities were investigating the death of a pedestrian who was apparently struck by a Union-Pacific train while walking along the tracks near Kingfisher Tuesday. Neither the identity of the pedestrian nor details of the accident were available at press time.

All’s well that ends well. That’s the perspective of Kingfisher City Manager Dave Slezickey and other city employees who spent a tense two days preparing for, monitoring and responding to flooding that could have been much more disastrous.

Last Tuesday’s flood was far from Kingfisher business owner Brian Walter’s first rodeo. “Goes with the neighborhood, doesn’t it?” Walter said early Tuesday afternoon, pausing only briefly as he and his employees hustled to move merchandise at Walter Building Center to higher ground.