Kingfisher Oklahoma

TEAMWORK IN ACTION — Miller EMS is at work in Kingfisher, primarily providing nonemergency transfers between Mercy Hospital Kingfisher and out-of-town medical facilities. See Page 15 for the full story.

Hennessey United’s Legacy Foundation Chairman Scott Hajek said there will be a dinner for prospective Legacy Fund donors Wednesday, May 8. That’s a date change, he told the United board at its March 28 meeting.

Kingfisher High School seniors Katelyn Stolz and Grady Eaton have been announced as the Junior Lions for April 2019. Stolz is the daughter of Steve Stolz and Deb Cross-white.

The Tulsa State Fair Ringmasters have awarded a $1500 scholarship to Bree Taylor. A senior at Kingfisher High School, Taylor is the daughter of Bill and Brooke Taylor.

Several members of Kingfisher High School’s Class of 1959 recently met at Eischen’s Bar in Okarche for a 60th reunion.

The Chisholm Trail Museum will be hosting a living history event this weekend. “Trappers, Traders and Hunters of the Plains” will feature a variety of living history interpreters Saturday, April 13. The free event is from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

On May 11, letter carriers in Kingfisher County will be collecting canned food donations from homes on their routes as they fight hunger during the 27th annual National Association of Letter Carriers’ Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive.

VIEW from behind the plow We continue to read the book, “I Chose Freedom,” by Victor Kravchenko, a former Communist from the Ukraine region of now defunct USSR. Dr. James Gerber loaned the book to us to read. We hate to complain about such a generous act but we hate the book – so discouraging.

Think excessive regulation doesn’t hamper economic growth? Economic researcher Dr. James Broughel begs to differ. According to work he conducted at George Mason University’s Mercatus Center, if state and federal regulations had stayed at 1980 levels, the U.S.

If one needed evidence of the gross ignorance of millennials, and their teachers and college professors, it’s their solid support for socialism and socialist presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders. Socialism has produced tragedy wherever it has been implemented.