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Mike Frey and Mark Squires of Kingfisher have been elected as delegates to the 138th American Angus Association Convention of Delegates, reports Mark McCully, chief executive officer of the American Angus Association
Read moreThe 26th annual Sts. Peter & Paul Knights of Columbus Golf Tournament is less than two weeks away.
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Jaxton Finley of Piedmont is officially the best trap shooter his age in Oklahoma. Finley brought home the state championship medal (left photo) from the Oklahoma State 4-H Trap Shooting Competition held Saturday, Aug. 28, in El Reno at the Oklahoma State Trap Shooting Association. Finley won the 13-14 year-old age group by hitting 47 of 50 targets in the first round to tie for first place. In a 10-target shoot-off for the championship, Finley aced his round, hitting all 10 targets. Overall, he hit 57 of the 60 targets on the day. Finley also won the Canadian County Fair Trap Shoot on Saturday, Aug. 21, by hitting 45 of 50 targets (right photo). Finley is an eighth grader at Piedmont and this is his first year of competitive shooting. He is the son of Cy and Heather Finley of Piedmont and the grandson of Gary and Kayla Palmer and Dean and Ann Finley, all of Kingfisher. [Photos provided]
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Maitlyn Tollefson, 8, is the daughter of Matt and Makylah Tollefson.
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Jax Johnson, 8, is the son of Jeff and Whitney Johnson.
Read moreSouthwestern Oklahoma State University has resumed its Friday COVID vaccination clinics on the Weatherford campus.
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(As recorded by Local Weather Observer Steve Loftis in Kingfisher.)
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When I was about ten years old, I came into possession of a bow and some arrows. It wasn’t one of the fancy, pulley-laden, scientific bows of today. It was a plain, simple, recurve bow. I discovered that it took a good amount of strength to pull it. In those days, fathers might teach their sons to shoot the bow by standing or kneeling beside them, by placing their left hand on the son’s left hand and holding the bow, and by placing their right hand on the son’s right hand and holding the arrow. From a distance, it might appear that the child was shooting the bow, but in reality, the father was doing all the work,
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