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The “handwriting on the wall” is a figure of speech used for ages.
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Everyone and their dog must have decided to go shopping Saturday in the greater Oklahoma City area. You couldn’t stir em with a stick, even if you tried. Parking was at a premium at every mall, strip mall, big box store or super center.
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At the ripe old age of 21 I went to work for a leading livestock newspaper as a field editor. This was at a time when most of the other field editors and breed reps qualified for the senior citizen’s discount at Denny’s. As the youngest person in the trade at the time I was walked on, stabbed in the back and even punched in the face.
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In a time of crisis, near-panic, over a disease to which the best medical minds have yet to find a sure cure, total cooperation is essential. The World Health Organization, scientists around the world, anyone who knows anything is duty-bound to try and help.
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The Hennessey Board of Education rehired 54 teachers and four other positions at its regular March meeting last Monday in the Seminar Room at the HPS Auditorium.
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Ovintiv (formerly Encana Corp.) donated $7,500 to the Kingfisher Public Schools food bank Wednesday. On hand for the presentation of the ceremonial check is Jacket Academy Director Lynn Barnett, Adam Lindholm, production superintendent in Ovintiv’s Okarche field office, Kingfisher High School counselor Paula Leffingwell and school staff members Terri Layn and Teneille Rother. [Photo Provided]
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A total of 25 volunteers pitched in to clean up the small lake area and walking trails west of Walter Building Center, organized by Kingfisher Trails Inc. The group collected about 10 dump trailer loads of limbs and filled a roll-off dumpster with trash. Volunteers included: from left in front, Jackson Copeland, Henry Neuman and Cooper Neuman; second row, John Gooden, Christine Larson with Denova Larsen, Gracie Copeland, Mary Slofsky-Copeland, Will Neuman, Elise Morrow, Mary Westman, Cyndi Ice, Susannah Copeland, Fred Morrow, Larry Bilger and Neal Brown;back row, Jessamine Larsen, Lilly Larsen, Ember Larsen, Molly Neuman, Skylee Larsen and Greg Garrett. Not pictured are Brad Ice (taking the picture), Mark Westman and Darcy and Vicky Jech. “By any measure, the event was a complete success,” Gooden said.
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Representatives from all eight of the fire departments in Kingfisher County hosted State Sen. Darcy Jech and Rep. Mike Sanders recently at the Okarche Fire Station. Jech and Sanders were attending to present an honorary check representative of operational funds received by the departments from the Oklahoma Department of Agriculture, Forestry division. The funds are to be used for the day-to-day expenses of operating the fire departments. The monies distributed are accounted for annually to the rural fire coordinator. Each department received $4,641.52, an increase of about 10 percent from last year. Attending the presentation were, from left: NODA Rural Fire Coordinator Cecil Michael; Kris Eaton, Omega FD; Jech; Bert Gritz and Brandon Scott, Hennessey FD; Sanders; James Matousek, Hennessey FD; Anthony Stewart, Kingfisher FD; Steve Liebel, Okarche FD; Richard Meyer, Loyal FD; Joey Maschino, Big 4 FD; CJ Hill, Cashion FD; and Kevin Johnson, Dover FD. [Photo provided]
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