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LIONS CLUB PROGRAMS – Bill Reitz updated Kingfisher Lions Club members on future plans at the Kingfisher Airport during a recent meeting of the civic group. Reitz, pictured above, is chairman of the Kingfisher Airport Authority, which also includes Tom Feagins, Randy Pritchett, Tanner Farrar and Mike Rosen. He provided Lions Club members a history of the airport from its establishment in 1945 by Irvin Bollenbach to its purchase by the city in the late 1990s to having a paved runway installed around 2013. To that point, Kingfisher County was the only county in Oklahoma without an airport with a paved runway. Reitz talked about other improvements and expansions as well as potential future infrastructure additions. “We’re really proud of what we have,” Reitz said. “We’ve worked hard for it.” Another recent meeting featured some of Kingfisher High School’s top performing track and field seniors. Pictured left, Braxton Mecklenburg, Ally Stephenson and Maximum Washington were guests of the club on May 12. Mecklenburg finished as 4A state runner-up in the high jump for a second straight year. Stephenson was a gold medalist in the high jump (for a third time) and long jump. She was the silver medalist in both the 100 meter hurdles and 300 meter hurdles. Washington finished fourth in the 200 meter dash.
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After two years of virtual events, the million-dollar Center of Family Love Gift of Love Gala returns at the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum on Saturday, June 4.
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Glenn William Beebe passed away Saturday, May 14, 2022, in Oklahoma City.
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Both of Kingfisher’s doubles teams made it to the second day of the Class 4A state tennis tournament before eventually being eliminated.
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For the second straight year, Cashion ran into a baseball behemoth at the state tournament.
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A Kingfisher 18-year-old was charged Friday with first-degree manslaughter in the April shooting death of Luke Strickland, 15.
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Kingfisher Study Club members carried on a nearly 80-year-old tradition when they hosted girls from the Kingfisher High School Class of 2022, their counselors and sponsoring parents and teachers for the annual senior tea Wednesday at the Kingfisher First United Methodist Church. Seniors participating include: back row, from left, Isabel Reece, Emma Lukasek, Judith Homier, Jessica Martin, Trynitie Morkes, Isabella Meza, Ximena Agundiz, Jimena Gomez, Allyson Scammahorn, Sydney Purintun, Demi Roden, Allison Green and Kina Frost; middle row, Rylie Farrar, Erika Mercer, Makenna Willson, NT Attasathan, Loren Smith, Kinley Merritt, Cami Snodgrass, Ali Womack, Ray Garner, Khali Littlehawk, Bridget Himes, Brittany Willson and Jacee Mueggenborg; front row, Kimberly Orozco, Katon Lunsford (class president), Peyton Townsend, Meghan Shue, Laney Banther, Jayden Burleson, Grace-Anne Sinclair, Daniella Rios-Ramirez, Ally Stephenson, Nevaeh Reyes, Stormie Shockey and Emi Parmenter. Kingfisher Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Shauna Rupp, at right with her senior picture, was both the guest speaker and the entertainment. Rupp’s topic was “What I Would Say to my 18-year-old Self” and she also played a fiddle which had been signed for her by country entertainer Louise Mandrell. [Photos Courtesy Paula Leffingwell]
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