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SundayAugust 14, 2016

No. 34 of the 128th Year

Fifty Cents Kingfisher, Kingfisher County, Oklahoma USPS No. 295-420

Vernie Snow rehab beginning soonCity commissioners review plans at last week’s meeting

[See City Page 2]

Thick and verdant lawns trimmed smoother than any golf course green don’t just happen.

Just ask August Silver Spade win-ners Blake and Lauren Pyle.

When the couple completed build-ing their brick and stone home at 1204 Hailey’s Court just over 18 months ago, their next focus was constructing the lawn.

And constructing is really the right word for it.

“We did it all ourselves – installed the sprinkler system, brought in sand to level it out and then put down the lawn,” Blake said.

Any homeowner can tell you even that level of effort is no guarantee that a lawn will take hold -- or stay emerald green and lush through hot western Oklahoma summers.

“That’s the right combination of water and fertilizer,” Blake said, plus

several hours of work every week.Blake and Lauren also laid out and

planted the colorful flowerbeds, with emphasis on unique shrubberies and ornamental grasses.

“I don’t know the names of ev-erything; I just pick out what I like,” Lauren said.

The result is a fairly new lawn and gardens that look like they’ve been established for years.

Although both Lauren and Blake work full-time, Lauren at Pioneer Telephone Cooperative and Blake at Chesapeake, they both say they enjoy coming home and working outdoors to keep everything looking ship shape.

The Silver Spade Award is present-ed monthly through the summer by Kingfisher Lions Club to recognize outstanding local lawns, gardens and landscaping.

Lush lawn, brightgardens win LionsAugust Silver Spade

By Christine ReidTimes-Free Press Senior Editor

A LUXURIOUS EMERALD lawn was what caught a Lions Club member’s eye when he passed the home of Blake and Lauren Pyle at 1204 Hailey’s Court and the interesting mix of bedding plants sealed the deal. [TIMES-FREE PRESS Staff Photo]

RENOVATION PLANS for the Vernie Snow Aquatic Center are nearly complete. City Manager Dave Slezickey said the project will be ready to let for bids by the end of the month, with construction beginning in late September or early October.

Kingfisher city commis-sioners viewed preliminary plans last Monday night for the renovation and rehabil-itation of the Vernie Snow Aquatic Center, the first proj-ect to be funded by the addi-tional sales tax approved by city voters last summer.

City Manager Dave Slezick-ey reviewed the highlights of the complicated overhaul of the nearly 30-year-old facility, which has fallen into disre-pair in recent years although it continues to be a popular attraction for local residents and out-of-town visitors.

In addition to rehabbing the building’s struggling air and ventilation system, re-placing the roof and repairing interior damage from leaks and corrosion, the project also includes interior renovations.

The garage doors opening the indoor pool to the outside

will be replaced with more energy efficient glass doors and windows to allow in more light with under-win-dow ventilation to help vent pool chemical fumes and odors to the outside.

The size of the locker rooms will be reduced to allow for storage areas and a meeting-party room and new lockers and energy-efficient showers will be installed.

Carpeting in the hallway to the locker rooms also will be replaced with water- and mildew-resistant flooring.

“We’re going to end up with a facility that will be functional for another 30 years or more,” Slezickey said.

Bid specification packets are expected to be complet-ed soon so that bids can be solicited later this month and construction can begin in late September or early October, he said.

Slezickey said as soon as costs are nailed down for the aquatic center, plans can begin for other projects to be funded by the half-cent sales tax, including a splash pad and other quality of life improvements.

• • •Commissioners also dis-

cussed several items related to the city’s utilities, particu-larly the city’s problems with electrical outages since the first of the year.

Slezickey said the city is working with the Oklaho-ma Municipal Power Au-thority and a transmission and infrastructure company called GridLiance to develop possible alternatives to the Oklahoma Gas & Electric transmission line currently serving the city, which has be-come unreliable (see related story in last Sunday’s Times and Free Press.)

MOST COUNTY students headed back to school last week, with the exception of Holy Trinity Cath-olic School, which resumes Tuesday. Clockwise from top left, new Gilmour Elementary kindergarten teacher Heather Wittrock welcomes Saydee Humphries, daughter of Jerry and Priya Humphries at Meet Your Teacher Night; Avery Harder, daughter of Kevin and Michelle Harder, goes to work as a new Pre-k student; Lexys and Bentley Nail, the children of Jamie and Anthony Nail, are locked and loaded for the first day of Pre-k and kindergarten; a striping crew finished 13th Street just in time.

CourtingchangeMusic teacherreturns to law

Neuman

Kingfisher’s former fulltime elementary mu-sic teacher has re l inquished most of her du-ties this year to help young people in an-other capacity.

District At-torney Mike F ie lds h ired Neuman to prosecute juvenile deprived and delinquent cases in Kingfisher and Blaine counties, while she continues to teach fourth grade music one hour a day at Kingfisher Heritage School.

A graduate of Guymon High School and Southwestern Okla-homa State University, Neuman moved to Kingfisher with her husband Steve in 2002 and started law school.

After earning her law license, Neuman worked a number of years as an assistant district attorney and then in private practice in Kingfish-er and Hennessey before accepting the teaching position at Kingfisher Public Schools.

However, she also was an undergraduate music education major and throughout her legal ca-reer, she stayed involved in music through her church, First United

[See Neuman Page 2]

It’s time forThe Fair

Kingfisher County’s best will go on display this week at the county fair.

Art work, photography, flowers, clothing and handwork, crafts, ag-ricultural products – from honey to wheat – and the livestock – both that exhibited by county 4-H and FFA members and from county flocks and herds – will be on display Wednesday through Saturday at the Kingfisher County Fairgrounds in Kingfisher.

Additionally, a carnival will be operating Thursday, Friday and Sat-urday evenings starting at 6 p.m.

An annual highlight of opening night activities will be the Pedal Trac-tor Pull for youngsters and the Farm-hand Olympics for older youths, often matching the skills of one youth organization against another.

Signup for the Pedal Tractor Pull starts at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday with the competition starting at 6 p.m,

Entry for the Farmhand Olympics begins at 6 :30 p.m. and the competi-tion starts at 7 p.m.

Both of the Wednesday evening fun events is scheduled at the MA-Center.

The rest of the week’s MACenter schedule includes:

ThursdayHorse Show (Rodeo Grounds)5 p.m. – Books Open for horse

show.5:30 p.m. – Entries due in the office.6 p.m. – Horse Show StartsDairy Show (MACenter)6:30 p.m. – Dairy cattle in place and

entry cards turned in.7 p.m. – Judging begins.

Friday 4:30 p.m. Sheep in place and entry

cards turned in.[See Fair Page 2]

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Kingfisher Fire Depart-ment officials reported nine emergency ambulance runs, one non-emergency ambulance run and two fire runs, according to reports Friday.

Fire runs• at 12:40 p.m. Aug. 10,

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• at 5:53 a.m. Aug. 11, grass fire, State Highway 33 and 2890 Road.

WELLS COMPLETEDKingfisher: Chesapeake Oper-

ating LLC; Mueggenborg 7-17-6 N. 1H Well; NE1/4 NW1/4 NW1/4 NW1/4 (SL) of 07-17N-06W; 684 barrels oil per day, 542 cu-ft gas per day; TD 11,743.

Canadian: Devon Energy Pro-duction Co. LP; Simba 12-14N-8W No. 1H Well; SW1/4 SW1/4 SW1/4 SW1/4 (SL) of 12-14N-08W; 534 barrels oil per day, 1,030 cu-ft gas per day; TD 14,173.

INTENT TO DRILLKingfisher: Marathon Oil Co.;

Grellner No. 1606 1-25MH Well; N1/2 N1.2 N1/2 NW1/4 (BHL) of 25-16N-06W; TD 17,341.

Oklahoma Energy Acquisi-tions LP; Bullis 1706 No. 1A-10MH Well; NE1/4 SE1/4 SW1/4 SW1/4 (SL) of 03-17N-06W; TD 12,636.

Oklahoma Energy Acqui-sitions LP; Bullis 1706 No.1B-10MH Well; NE1/4 SE1/4 SW1/4 SW1/4 (SL) of 03-17N-06W; TD 12,432.

Staghorn Petroleum LLC; Vadder 18-05-23 No. 1H Well; SE1/4 SE1/4 SE1/4 SW1/4 (SL) of 23-18N-05W; TD 12,200.

Chesapeake Operating LLC; Copeland 29-17-6 No. 1H Well; SE1/4 SW1/4 SE1/4 SW1/4 (SL) of 29-17N-06W; TD 11,750.

N e w f i e l d E x p l o r a t i o n Mid-Continent Inc.; Ken No. 1H-4XWell; NW1/4 NW1/4 NE1/4 NW1/4 (SL) of 04-16N-08W; TD 18,771.

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KFD logMethodist, and community musical productions.

“Although my children were exposed to music in church, I wanted them to receive a quality mu-sic education in school as well, but at the time, the elementary schools had no music teacher,”she said. “With the school board and administrative support, a position was opened for an elementary music teacher, and I accepted the position in April 2013, to begin the next school year.”

While Neuman contin-ued to practice law on a limited basis during her

summer vacations, she loved teaching and had no intention of returning to law full-time.

But then Fields, her for-mer supervising attorney when she worked at the Canadian County DA’s Office, called her in June to ask her to take the juvenile prosecutor’s job.

“That was the job I went to law school for and I view it as among the most important in the legal pro-fession,” she said. “What could be more important than making decisions that would directly affect the trajectory of young peoples’ lives?”

Fields, whose jurisdic-tion includes Canadian, Garfield, Grant, Kingfisher and Blaine counties, said juvenile justice also is one of his top priorities.

“These cases are so crit-ically important to me be-cause they have the poten-tial to change the trajectory of a child’s life forever. In my opinion, the impact these cases have on our communi-ties cannot be overstated,” he said.

“Molly is exactly the person I was looking for – a sharp legal mind with a pas-sion for children,” he said.

Neuman said she was grateful that Fields and

Kingfisher Supt. Jason Ster-nberger agreed to allow her to stay involved in music education as well.

“Lucky for me, both bosses feel I can be useful in both places, so I will work part-time for the DA’s office and continue to teach fourth grade music an hour each day.

“I am excited to do both – be able to work for the kids who need the most help while still working with kids to expand their world through experience in music.”

The Neumans have three sons, Will, age 10; Cooper, 5, and Henry, 1.

“We like the idea of switching to the Western Farmers Electric Coopera-tive line that feeds Cimarron (Electric Cooperative), but that’s not a decision we can just make on our own,” he said. “It requires lots of lay-ers of regulatory approval, plus some work on our part before it can happen. It would be a several year process.”

GridLiance’s role would be to model several alter-natives, help the city select the best and then help guide the city through the regulatory process to make it happen.

Slezickey also discussed a recent utility rate survey conducted by Municipal Electric Services of Oklaho-ma, which found Kingfisher ranked in the lower 30 pe-

rent for residential electric rates and the lower half for commercial rates of the 48 cities which responded.

The city also ranks in the lower 8 percent for water, the lower 35 percent for sew-er and the lower 30 percent for sanitation.

The city’s last utility rate increase was adopted in No-vember and no new increas-es are currently anticipated before the city is required by ordinance to review its rates again in three years.

Slezickey also informed commissioners that pro-posals from companies to develop and implement an automatic meter reading system for electric and wa-ter customers are due next month.

While the city won’t in-crease rates to cover the cost of the new system, Slezickey

said the new meters will read usage more accurately so customers may see an increase in the amount of usage for which they are billed.

Commissioners also ap-proved a new ordinance requiring backflow pre-venters and pop-off devices on sewer lines for new construction and improve-ments.

The devices cause back-ups in the sewer system to be expelled outside of res-idences rather than inside, reducing potential damage as well as limiting liability for the city.

Commissioners dis-cussed, but took no action, on the possibility of im-plementing a plan to pro-vide and install the popoff devices for all residential sewer customers. The city’s

liability for sewer backups for customers who chose not to participate in the popoff program would be limited to the cost of the devices, about $30.

• • •In other business at the

lengthy meeting, commis-sioners:

•Approved the follow-ing reassignment of duties among the city’s adminis-trative staff until a replace-ment is hired for retiring city clerk Bill Tucker: Jon Friesen, flood plain man-ager; Denise Payne, dep-uty treasurer, and interim checking account signature authority.

•Approved a contract with Wheeler Brothers Grain for the purchase of 15 city lots.

•Approved a promisso-ry note with InterBank in

the amount of $700,060, at 2.4 percent interest for four years for the current street improvement projects.

•Heard a report on a summary abatement pro-ceeding against a residence and business at 712 S. 13th Street for the removal of appliances and debris.

•Approved the city man-ager ’s attendance at an annual conference in Kansas City next month.

•Discussed options for the city’s four rural resi-dential water service areas and the need to deny future water taps for agricultural purposes to protect the city’s water supply in times of drought.

•Approved a partner-ship with the Kingfisher Golf Association to finance sewer line improvements at the new club house.

City[Continued From Page 1]

10 a.m. – Judge HCE exhibits and open class exhibits.

11 a.m.- 1 p.m. – Lunch steak sandwich fundraiser, pie and cake auction.

1 p.m. – Judge photog-raphy.

2 p.m. – Judge paintings.8 p.m. – Buildings closed.

Friday9 a.m. – Exhibit Building

opened9:30-10:30 a.m. – Entries

for floriculture-flowers.

5:30 p.m. – Sheep judg-ing.

4:30 p.m. – Market goats in place and entry cards turned in.

Goat judging begins im-mediately after completion of sheep show.

Saturday8 a.m. – Llamas in place

and entry cards turned in.

9 a.m. – Llama judging.9 a.m. Poultry and rab-

bits in place.11 a.m.– Poultry and

rabbit judging.4 p.m. – Beef in place and

entry cards turned in.4:45 p.m. – Bucket calf

books turned in.5 p.m. – Beef judging.5:30 p.m. – Swine in place

and entry cards turned in.

6:30 p.m. (or 20 minutes after beef judging) – Swine judging

(Release of animals after selection of grand champi-ons of species.)

EXHIBIT BUILDINGWednesday

4-6 p.m. Take entries, Exhibit Building open to accept entries for Thursday morning.

Thursday8-9 a.m. – Entries for

HCE Groups.8-9:30 a.m. – Entries for

4-H, FFA (other than live-stock and poultry), Open Class Crops and Horticul-ture.

8-9:30 a.m.– Entries for open class.

8 a.m.-noon – Entries for paining and photography.

Fair[Continued From Page 1]

Neuman[Continued From Page 1]

BLURRED LINES — Motorists aren’t the only ones who’ve noticed the new lines on South 13th Street are a little off kilter. City Manager Dave Slezickey said the subcontractor had equip-ment issues and the city is looking into options available to redo the me-andering center lines. “We appreciate them getting here before school started but the results are below our acceptable standards,” Slezickey said. [TIMES-FREE PRESS Staff Photos]

Continuing God’sFaithfulness for 125 Years

The Public is Welcome to Join Us For This Worship Service

in Celebration of our first125 Years in Kingfisher!

102 S. 7th StreetKingfisher, Okla.

SUNDAY,AUGUST 21, 2016

AT 10:00 A.M.

Disciplesof Christ

Original Church, Dedicated Dec. 31, 1893:

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Saturday, September 10th, 2016

Dover Christian Church Presents

DOVER PARK, DOVER, OKLA.(Just off Hwy 81 between Hennessey & Kingfisher)

LINE UPJimmy Berkenbile on the Mic

Men’s Trio (Noon to 1:00)

Pastor Fred Jones (1-1:30)

Tucker from Branson (1:30-2:30)

FBC Kingfisher Praise Band (2:30-3:30)

Wendell Prim & Praiseand Worship Team (3:30-4:45)

Kathy Bell andGod Explosion Ministries (4:45-6)

FBC Hennessey Praise Band (6-7)

Roll Away the Rock (7-8)

Road 23 (8-9:30)

6:00 a.m.Fellowship Coffee@ Dover Christian Church

6:45 a.m.Head out to HUNT DOVE

12:00-1:00 p.m.Burgers & Hot Dogs

back at Dover Park.Donations accepted

Noon to 9:30 p.m.Guest Speakers

& Bands

5 to 6 p.m.Chili Dogs & Frito

Chili PiesDonations accepted

Leonard and Francis Dun-gan, formerly of Okarche, will celebrate their 70th wedding anniversary with a reception hosted by their children Saturday, Aug. 27, from 2-4 p.m. at Redeemer Lutheran Church in Enid.

Leonard Albert Dungan and Francis Bernice Schroed-er were married on Aug. 29, 1946, in Okarche.

The couple has resid-ed in Okarche, Okeene, Woodward and Enid, where they continued to live after their retirement.

Dungan retired from Oklahoma Natural Gas Co., where he worked for many years, while Mrs. Dungan was employed by numerous physician offices in Okeene, Woodward and Enid.

They have been active members of Redeemer Lu-theran Church for the many years they have lived in Enid.

Their children include Susan Reames of Enid, Da-vid Dungan and wife Linda of Okeene, Dale Dungan and wife Kim of Prior lake, Minn., and the late Steve

Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Dungan in 1946...and today.

Grace Krittenbrink and Rob Bomhoff were in-ducted into the Kingfisher County 4-H Hall of Fame last Saturday night at the 68th annual Kingfisher County 4-H Achievement Banquet.

“I have had the plea-sure of working with them both at many county and state events,” said Laine Martin, county extension educator for 4-H youth development. “They are

always willing to help with whatever is asked of them.”

The induction of the duo from Okarche came near the end of the banquet, which was themed: “4-H, Giving Back to the Future.”

Martin said Krittenbrink and Bomhoff were active-ly involved in Kingfisher County 4-H Ambassadors, which also act as the county officers.

The new officers for 2016-17 were also installed

at the banquet.Bomhoff will serve as

president and Krittenbrink as vice president.

Other officers were: Eliz-abeth Perdue, secretary; Rhett Glazier, reporter; and, Catherine Stangl, rec-reation leader.

A number of other awards were also present-ed at the banquet. They are listed below:

State record books - Grace Krittenbrink, horti-

culture and plant science, and, all other projects (top-three finalist in both divi-sions); Wyatt Krittenbrink, advanced leadership; Rob Bomhoff, horse; Mitchell Davis, shooting sports; Macy McCully, shooting sports.

Cashion Club - Erica Woolery, silver sheep, silver goat; Jayce Evans, silver ATV, silver outdoor recre-ation; Skye Cherry, silver poultry, silver agriculture;

Dungan.Their grandchildren

include John Dungan of Amies, Iowa; Kathy Dungan of Bixby; Mark Dungan of Broken Arrow; Eric Reames of Hopeton; Tina Frazer of Okeene; April Bennett of

Oklahoma City; Ryan Dun-gan and Leah Dungan, both of Prior Lake, Minn, and the late Deana Reames.

The couple also has 20 great-grandchildren and two great-great-grandchil-dren.

ROBERT Bomhoff, third from left, from Okarche was recently inducted into the Kingfisher County 4-H Hall of Fame. Joining him at the ceremony were, from left, Steve Bomhoff, Suzanne Bomhoff, Carleen Maley, Joe Maley and Richard Alig. [Photo Provided]

OKARCHE’S Grace Krittenbrink, third from left, was inducted into the King-fisher County 4-H Hall of Fame recently. Joining her at the ceremony were, from left, Brian Krittenbrink, Brandi Krittenbrink, Carleen Maley, Joe Maley and Richard Alig. [Photo Provided]

Local youth honored at annual 4-H banquetKyle Gray, silver agricul-ture; Cloee Cherry, silver companion animal, silver agriculture.

Kingfisher Club - Eliz-abeth Perdue, gold leader-ship, gold public speaking; Will Barker, bronze sheep, bronze goat; Maggie Mc-Cully, silver food and nu-

trition; James Perdue, gold swine, gold outdoor recre-ation; Journee Humphries, gold child care and devel-opment, gold citizenship/community development.

Lomega Club - Kade Shaloy, silver beef, silver

Anniversary

[See 4-H Page 6]

Big Five Community Action Head Start program, located at 519 S. Ninth St., King-fisher, is currently taking applications for the 2016-17 school year.

Big Five is a federally funded early childhood development program for chil-

dren ages 3-5.Program eligibility is based on family

size and income and is at no cost to the parents.

For more information, call (405)375-5571.

Head Start program taking applications

The Kingfisher All Sports Association Invites You To

MeetThe

Jackets!

All Purpose Building

HomemadeIce Cream $100

Monday, August 22 @ 6:00 p.m.

Players from All Sports, Cheerleadersand Band Members Will Be Introduced

The KHS Cheer Spirit Shopwill also be there!

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 Have you ever thought about what you’d like to eat for your last meal?

I sincerely hope not, for that would mean you did something very naughty in a state with the death penalty. I assume that a very low percentage of the readers of this column are on death row and don’t have to come up with a menu for their last meal but, believe it or not, I have given it a lot. Don’t get me wrong, I’ve never spent one day in jail in my entire life, well, that’s not entirely true. I was put in jail on a third grade field trip that was intended to scare me and my fellow juvenile delinquents into going straight.

I don’t know the rules as to what a condemned person gets to order but I’m assuming it’s like everything else the government does and the sky is no limit. 

For appetizers I’d like a platter of olives, sweet pickles and salami accompanied by a selection of barbecued  linguica and sausage that the Swiss/Ital-ian  ranchers in my area serve at their brandings. I’d also like a big silver dish of cold jumbo shrimp like the ones I once devoured at The Broker in Denver.

Another appetizer on my menu would be chips and salsa from the Mexican food restau-rant on the east end of Gallup, New Mexico. I apologize for not remembering the name but just ask the locals. They’ll know. And while they’re at it, have them send along a combo plate of a beef taco, beef enchilada with

rice and beans along with a bas-ket of their hot sopapillas with honey.  If you don’t know what a sopapilla is, you’ve missed one of the great delicacies in the world. In New Mexico of course they’re

going to want to know if I want red or green chile on my food so just say “Christmas”, which is how New Mexicans order both red and green.

Now to some serious eating. I want a platter of chicken fried steak covered in white gravy but it has to come from Texas, preferably from the cafe at the Producers Auction Market in San Angelo. This will be the only ‘chicken’ served at my last meal. And what would a chicken fried steak be without the accompa-nying mashed potatoes, biscuits with real butter and green snap beans? I want to wash it all down with a barrel of iced tea, Texas tea, which I’ve found to be far superior to any other. I got hooked on this nectar of the gods in Texas as a young man and ever since it’s what I’ve used to toast great victories, and wash down life’s troubles.

If my wife is still speaking to me, I’d want one of her filet mignons, broccoli with cheese sauce and a long loaf of bread dipped in real butter and lib-erally assaulted with garlic salt (Note to wife: this would be a

good place to hide a hacksaw blade.) To ensure that I get my daily dose of protein I’d also want a hamburger, preferably one with all the fixin’s from In and Out Burger or Fudruckers. If they aren’t near I suppose I could settle for a Wendy’s cheeseburger. And a supersize portion of French Fries, pref-erably from McDonalds, thank you very much.

No doubt I’ll leave behind a friend or two who would air freight me a heaping portion of Santa Maria Style barbecue with green salad topped with a heap-ing portion of Thousand Island dressing. (What do I care about carbohydrates?) I’d also want a dinner of fresh trout caught in a High Sierra lake with hush puppies on the side. It would be preferable if I could actually catch the trout myself.

I’d top off my feast with be a pan of berry cobbler made by Joan Hardy, topped with a scoop (or two) of homemade vanilla ice cream. I’d want the cobbler served hot and the ice cream so cold it would give me a brain freeze and a good excuse to eat it slowly. Very slowly, as I’d be in no big hurry. 

What a way to go!Naturally I’d have the world’s

biggest case of indigestion and would normally top off my last meal with a jar of Maalox.

I’m assuming that won’t be necessary in this instance.

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The cure for everything

By Dr. Tracy MillerThe state of Pennsylva-

nia, as well as many other states, faces a pension cri-sis. The state has not set aside enough money each year to pay the pensions it is legally obligated to pay state workers and public school employees. Because of its failure to fully fund its pension system, credit rating agencies have down-graded the state’s debt. This means the state has to pay higher interest rates whenever it borrows. Al-though legislation has been proposed to fix the problem, legislators have failed to act and the problem is becom-ing increasingly urgent. Now is the time for the PA General Assembly to take action both to substantially increase funding each year, but also to reform the pen-sion system so that newly hired workers are not prom-ised retirement benefits that are not fully funded during their working years.

Pennsylvania, like every other state governments, has a defined benefit (DB) pension plan. Each state worker and public school employee is to receive a pension that is determined by a formula that accounts for how much the employ-ee earned and how long the employee worked for the state or public schools. The amount of money in the pension fund depends on how much employees and the employer contrib-ute and on how much the assets appreciate in val-ue over time. Ideally, the amount added to the fund each year plus investment returns should be enough to account for the increase in the amount owed to state employees as a result of their working one more year. But the actual amount contributed in recent years has usually been much less than that.

It might appear that the way to resolve the pension

crisis would be to move state workers from defined benefit plans to defined con-tribution (DC) plans, where the employer and employ-ee contribute a specified amount that is invested on each employee’s behalf. It is not likely, however, that courts would permit the commonwealth to move existing workers from DB to DC plans. Thus the most that could be done is to offer a DC plan to newly hired workers. Such a change could gradually reduce the seriousness of the problem over time, but it would not fix the most pressing prob-lem. That problem is not setting aside enough money in the pension fund to pay current workers and retirees what they will be owed in the future.

In almost every year since 2001, Pennsylvania has added too little to the pension funds to fund the growth in what the state owes current workers (ac-crued liabilities). As un-funded liabilities grow, the expected cost to future taxpayers increases by the amount of the shortfall plus the reduction in investment earnings resulting from the smaller amount invested.

It is urgent that the state contribute more each year to the pension fund to reduce unfunded accrued liabilities (UALs). Given the substan-tial amount of liabilities that are not funded, fixing the problem will take a long time. At the very least, the state should increase con-tributions so that UALs are no longer growing as they have been.

If the state does not take steps to reduce unfunded accrued liabilities, taxpay-ers will have a very large debt to pay in the future. The most fiscally responsible approach would be for the state to contribute enough each year so that those lia-bilities eventually decline to zero and the pensions

are fully funded. Whether or not it contributes more every year until the pen-sions are fully funded, the state will need to contribute extra in the future to offset what it did not contribute in the past.

Contributing enough each year to move state pen-sions toward full funding will be difficult. It would require that the common-wealth transfer approxi-mately $2.5 billion from the general fund to the pension funds each year in addition to what the state is already planning to con-tribute. This would require a cut in spending for other programs or an increase in taxes of about 8 percent.

If contributions to the pension fund from the gen-eral fund do not increase, then the state employee re-tirement system and public school employee retirement system funds will gradually become depleted. If that happens, then all pension payments to retirees will need to be paid out of the general fund. Funding all current pension payments out of the general fund would either require a huge reduction in spending on state services or a big tax in-crease. If all current pension payments had to come out of the general fund budget it would consume about 35 percent of that budget.

If we continue to ignore the pension funding crisis in Pennsylvania, we are imposing a substantial bur-den on future generations. The problem is already large enough that it will be painful to fix, but each year of inaction only adds to the size of the future cost to taxpayers, which will likely be felt through higher taxes or reduced state spending.

– Miller is a fellow for economic theory and policy with The Center for Vision & Values. He holds a Ph.D. from University of Chicago.

PA pension crisis: Now is time for action

A story that Iran had executed a nuclear scien-tist, Shahram Amiri, whom they accused of treason for revealing Iran’s nuclear program secrets to the U.S. filled the air waves and print media last week.

Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ar-kansas, in appearances on national TV news programs Sunday commented that Hillary Clinton’s email serv-er (the one she claims no highly classified informa-tion appeared on) contained conversations about the victim.

The Amiri case goes back to 2009 when he defected to the U.S. Later, he claimed he had been abducted by the CIA, tortured, released and later repatriated to Iran.

He was first welcomed back as a hero, freed from the grips of the “Great Sa-tan,” America. After that he was arrested for treason, followed by the recent an-nouncement of his execu-tion.

POLITICO reports, Ami-ri was discussed openly on Hillary Clinton’s un-classifed email system and those emails have been since revealed to the public. What the conversations do is es-tablish rather definitively that Amiri was a defector who became disgruntled and fearful about the fate of his family and decided to roll the dice in an attempt to return home.

The point is that even though the Iranians ac-cepted him home as a hero, something happened in 2011, while Hillary Clinton was still running her hillbil-ly email system that led the Iranians to abruptly charge him with treason. The best guess about that is that emails surfaced, more likely than not from the Russians, that Amiri had cooperated with the U.S. in his debrief-ing, the news site said. Had she not used that system, it is entirely likely that Amiri would be alive today.

Her Republican oppo-nent for president, Donald Trump, might be just as careless in his handling of sensitive matters, if he had the opportunity.

The thing is, Clinton has already proven she is unreliable.

Maybe she’ll return to her old explanation regarding the death of Ambassador Chris Stevens at Benghazi:

“At this point what dif-ference does it make?”

It probably would mean a lot for anyone working in a position where her sense of responsibility were a matter of one’s life or death.

Who knows how many lesser known individuals in Iran may have died because of Clinton’s carelessness.

Why would Iran care about us knowing their nuclear secrets, anyway? According to President Obama, the Iranians are not seriously pursuing a program to make a nuclear weapon. Obama has called his deal with Iran one that will prevent them from ac-quiring a nuclear weapon.

You betcha.S.Q. 777 to be on ballotNews came out last week

that State Question 777, the Right to Farm Question, will be on the Nov. 8 general election ballot.

An environmental group filed a last-minute appeal of an Oklahoma County Dis-trict judge’s decision issued last March that the question met constitutional require-ments, seeking to prevent state residents from the getting to decide the merits of the question.

The State Supreme Court ruled unanimously last week to let the district court order stand, clearing the way for the question to go on the ballot and letting people decide.

The Supreme Court also took the opportunity to suggest that the legislature enact legislation setting deadlines for appeals to

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I can’t find current statistics, but four years ago the average amount spent decorating a dorm room was $908.

A grand. Per student. So the average amount shelled out to outfit a typical

two-person freshman door room is $2,000. In fact, dorm outfitting has become a multibillion

dollar business.That’s billion with a “B.”Stores like Bed, Bath and Beyond and Target have

entire departments dedicated to college students, with special shopping dates in some big university towns and the option for high school seniors to create gift registries.

Niche businesses have cropped up, both brick-and-mortar and online, dedicated solely to helping parents empty their wallets while creating the perfect living environment for their college freshman’s first home-away-from-home.

From personal decorating consultants to moving companies and installers, the sky’s the limit.

Three years ago, when I plunked down $180 for basically a dorm room in a box – pillows, sheet sets, towels, coordinating comforter, mattress pad, blanket, hamper and under-bed storage boxes – I felt sheepish and a little guilty about the expense.

That is until move-in day when I peeked in the dorm room next door and saw a dad with power tools assem-bling a custom-made wall unit that fit perfectly around two twin beds while the mom was hanging custom cur-tains and little brother was unboxing a flatscreen TV and espresso machine complete with built-in milk frother.

Definitely the family that set the curve for the $1,000 average expenditure.

When I headed off to college 35 years ago, my entire worldly possessions occupied exactly one-half of the backseat of my best friend’s 1977 Toyota Corolla.

My efforts to brighten the monastic cell that Central State University called a dorm room back then consist-ed of two posters – Fleetwood Mac and ELO, if you want to judge my 17-year-old musical tastes – that I taped to the gray cinder block walls.

My ingenious mother contrived a laundry hamper from a large canvas drawstring bag she sewed herself stretched over a metal TV-tray frame to hold it upright and open in my closet until laundry day.

My two concessions to modern conveniences were graduation gifts – a clock radio and an electric pop-corn popper that was basically a metal bowl with a lid sitting on a heating element for which I quickly figured out off-label uses like heating a can of Spaghetti-Os.

(I’m sure that appliance has since been declared both a fire and health hazard and is banned pretty much everywhere except the Third World country where the manufacturer dumped its excess inventory.)

Even adding in the value of the items I received as graduation gifts and indexing for inflation, I’m pretty sure the entire contents of my dorm room amounted to a tiny fraction of $908.

But I couldn’t have been more excited about the new life I was starting there.

And I’m wondering if we’re cheating our kids out of part of the adventure of their first transition into what is now awkwardly called “adulting” by working so hard to make it not a transition at all, but just a reloca-tion of all the comforts of home.

However well-meaning, moms and dads who are busy choosing appliances and curtains and throw pil-lows are depriving their 18- and 19-year-olds of yet an-other decision they should already be making on their own, while learning to live with the consequences.

And what about the problem solving skills that come from learning to MacGyver a bookcase from a stack of cement blocks and discarded two-by-fours?

Or the creativity and self-reliance that comes from making meager college budgets stretch to cover thrift-store finds and working them into a kitschy décor that is all a student’s own?

Or just the life lesson that the world isn’t handed to you on a silver platter and things that are worth having are worth working hard to obtain?

Or just plain saying no to consumerism gone amok?Yes, I’ll admit I was guilty of plenty of helicopter

parenting of my kids as high school students, but I’m really working hard on turning loose now that they are both in college.

And yes, I’ll admit I succumbed again with my latest college-bound kid to the lure of one-stop-shopping and ordered another dorm-room-in-a-box (plus a first-aid kit because, well, it’s this kid).

But at least I let him choose the colors and patterns.

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The appea l was a last-minute gimmick to thwart voters’ authority to decide the question and to attempt to cast doubt on the legitimacy of the question. if it got to voters

Common sense means nothing to environmental-ists, who are well fed but clueless about the source of their food.

Such reckless actions threaten producers’ ability to feed a hungry world.

A recent animal rights’ group demand that eggs come only from free ranging chickens reminded of ear-lier days when practically all eggs came from farms, hence open range chickens.

We remember “candling” eggs (holding them under a light to see if they contained a chick embryo) before tak-ing them to a grocery store to trade for the few things we didn’t produce on the farm.

We would also test the eggs in water. Good eggs sink to the bottom; rotten eggs float.

You might think that was an unnecessary test, but when little kids found a nest hidden away by a hen that contained many eggs, the kids were likely to bring the whole bunch to the house and stash them with the eggs that were collected daily and known to be fresh.

Nothing smells much worse than a rotten egg. Mother would have been mortified if she had taken a bad egg to the store.

America has the most abundant and safest food supply in the world.

Why animal rights and environmental activists seek to destroy the system that created such plenty is difficult to understand.

Possibly such people are demonstrating how much more caring they are than the rest of us.

As usual, they are mis-guided and misinformed misfits.

Personally, we’ll take caged eggs every time, feel-ing confident that they are both healthful and fresh.

Having been raised with poultry, we seriously doubt that chicken hens in a cage where they get fresh water and feed on demand, don’t “feel” mistreated.

Just like cows don’t have any objections to being milked.

The farther people get away from the farm and nature, the less realistic they seem to get.

We surely plan to vote “Yes” on S.Q. 777. It’s a guarantee against future ignorance.

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Jon’s ‘Ramblin’s’Double Talk!!

Richard Nixon said “I’m not sure that what I said was what you thought I said” or something like that. Hillary’s response at a conference referring to her email scandal, it’s been quite a while, well, maybe not, since I’ve heard so much political double talk. Seems like that’s all we’ve heard the last eight years.

You would think folks would get tired of it. Ap-parently not, the way folks scream and holler at Hil-lary’s speeches.

Wonderful Rain Arrives3 p.m. Monday: We had

a wonderful rain last night, we got a full inch, the most we’ve had at one time since before harvest, and its still raining off and on. Seems like it rains all around us; the summer crops in Logan County look really good, even around Kingfisher and north of 51 Highway, they look great. Up around Cher-okee, the summer crops are going to be bountiful, I am not envious of those folks... well maybe just a tiny bit. There’s a patch of peas, I believe that’s what they are south of Loyal, that have really come out of it the last few days, Hooray for the folks that are gonna have good summer crop; they deserve them.

We saw a farmer in town last week that was crying because it was too wet, some folks just ain’t happy. Personally I would rather be waiting for it to dry out rath-er than waiting for a rain!

Thank you lord, for the rain!

God Bless America.Jon Cochran Sr.

By Timothy Doescher and Lillian Wolfenstein

(Timothy Doescher is a research associate at The Heri-tage Foundation.

(Lillian Wolfensohn is a senior at George Washington University and is a summer student assistant for the Proj-ect for Economic Growth at The Heritage Foundation.)

For many millennials, the fear of entering the “real world” is looming. We are preparing to face the finan-cial challenges, often feeling like we are starting the trek up Mount Everest.

Many of us are scram-bling to find jobs and avoid-ing moving back in with our parents. We recognize more and more that good jobs putting us on a promising career path are harder to find.

But our generation faces an additional challenge. Obamacare is jeopardizing our personal freedom and our financial future in ways few saw coming and many are unprepared to handle.

So many young people believe Obamacare is help-ing our society and will make health care more af-fordable, but now it is abun-dantly clear that the plan is harming young people.

(Ed. Note: The Daily Signal is the multimedia news organization of The Heritage Foundation.)

Here are three ways Obamacare is hurting mil-lennials:

Health Care Costs Sky-rocket

Because of Obamacare, young people have seen up

to a 44 percent increase in premiums because the new 3-1 ratio (older people can’t be charged more than three times the cost of a young person’s health care) forces the young to subsidize the old in the health insurance market. Not only are elderly individuals paying artifi-cially lower prices for their insurance, but millennials are paying artificially higher prices.

This gives young people a strong monetary incentive to go without insurance and pay the annual fine for not buying insurance and then still “free ride” at the ex-pense of the taxpayer with hospital emergency room care when they do get sick. If these regulations weren’t in place, young people’s pre-miums would be reduced by around $1,100.

That’s a lot of money for many young people starting in entry-level jobs, making only $10-15 an hour.

One aspect of Obamacare that seemed appealing to millennials on the surface was that if they are age 26 or younger they can stay on their parent’s plan—as-suming their parents have employment-based cover-age. However, if they don’t, they must enroll through the health insurance ex-changes, where their choic-es are scarce. If they don’t do either, they must pay a fine. What we want to do is enroll in less expensive health plans of our choice. We can’t do that under these restrictions.

In addition, some op-tions that were specifically designed for young peo-ple have been outlawed. Most college students only need and want basic cov-erage, which they could get through a limited ben-efit plan. Obamacare has abolished these minimum coverage caps (the plan’s minimum amount of mon-ey used to cover medical expenses) that characterizes these short-term, college plans. This desirable option of limited, short-term insur-ance coverage is now no lon-ger available for students.

Instead of expanding coverage, some young peo-ple have decided to go with-out. That defeats the whole purpose of this law.

Harder to Keep JobsBecause of Obamacare’s

mandates on businesses, employers are increasingly forced to cut back on hiring and hours of work.

Employers are forced to

purchase expensive insur-ance packages at the risk of being fined. The law mandates to anyone em-ploying 50 or more full-time employees to purchase fed-erally standardized health insurance. This coverage is often very expensive because of the inclusion of a wide range of govern-ment-mandated benefits.

If businesses don’t of-fer the federally-approved coverage, they can be fined at a rate of $2,000 to $3,000 for each employee who isn’t covered. Employers deal with this by not absorbing the costs, but passing it on to their workers. How? By slashing hours, cutting wages, rolling back other benefits, and firing people with the least seniority.

It’s not surprising that people have had to take multiple jobs just to sup-port themselves. For young people entering the work-force, this doesn’t make our chances of securing jobs upon graduation any easier.

An Explosion of the Na-tional Debt

If the above two reasons weren’t enough to make a young person worry, this point will for sure.

As of March 2015, Obamacare has a net cost of $1.207 trillion over the next 10 years and will add an additional $17 trillion over the next 75 years in unfunded liabilities. Our national debt is over $19 trillion, so how is the United States supposed to pay for this? Oh, that’s right, it will increase taxes on the young people who will continue to pay for Obamacare, as well as the other giant federal en-titlements – Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid – for the rest of our lives.

Not only are the young subsidizing the old through Obamacare’s unfair insur-ance rating rules, they are also subsidizing a large and rapidly-growing elder-ly population, including

wealthy retirees, through their payroll and income taxes.

Imagine how much that will end up costing. Imagine how much of our hard-earned money will go toward big entitlement programs like this one, which we might never ben-efit from. If the goal was simply to provide help for those who could not afford health insurance, we could have easily done it with-out incurring Obamacare’s massive cost and debt. But that wasn’t the goal. The goal was more government intervention, and less of the free market; sadly it seems to be working.

A Better Solution for Young People

There is a better way to help the millions of Amer-icans struggling to find affordable coverage, but not at a debilitating cost to young people.

Congressional Republi-cans, led by House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., recently released a plan that em-braces a free marketplace, respects personal freedom, allows Americans to keep more of their hard-earned paychecks, and embraces the diversity of this won-derful land we call America.

Ryan’s plan would re-form the health care system, starting with the repeal of Obamacare. The plan states: “This law cannot be fixed. Its knots of regulations, tax-es, and mandates cannot be untangled.”

The congressional Re-publican plan will allow people to buy insurance anywhere in America, cre-ating a highly competitive national market for health insurance.

It would give Americans more options, better quality, and intense competition that would lower costs. States would be able to regulate their own health insurance markets, mean-ing that Washington could

no longer force employers and individuals to purchase “Washington-mandated” health plans. It would mean that young people would be able to buy insurance that fits their needs, rather than pay artificially inflated insurance premiums.

Removing the employer mandate would mean that businesses would be able to purchase coverage that is best for them, and they would be able to balance health benefits with wages and other benefits. It would also open up job opportu-nities, enabling businesses to hire more full-time staff instead of many part-time staff, creating more job se-curity and larger paychecks. That would be a direct bene-fit to young people entering the workforce.

Obamacare was sup-posed to lower costs and in-crease access to care. While insurance coverage has increased, health care costs have soared, particularly for the young. The most ener-getic new workers are being slammed with higher costs of insurance, including big deductibles, forcing many to go without.

President Barack Obama said his plan would not only expand coverage but would also control costs, reduce typical family premiums, and expand competition. In fact, its biggest achievement has been to increase cost and expand government control.

Many of our peers don’t like conservatives very much but they don’t realize that the Ryan alternative to Obamacare will lower insurance costs, especially for millennials. This plan was created with an under-standing that young people shouldn’t bear the entire burden and recognizes that our future should be full of excitement and oppor-tunity, not high taxes, suf-focating bureaucracy, and crippling premiums.

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A big downpour on the first morning, and a few more rain showers through-out the rest of the event, did not put a damper on festiv-ities during the 95th State 4-H Roundup that took place recently at Oklahoma State University.

In fact, Kingfisher Coun-ty youths lived up to this year’s theme, “Light Your Torch of Leadership.”

Attending the event were: Rob Bomhoff, Grace Krittenbrink, Sara Bomhoff and Catherine Stangl of Okarche; Mitchell Davis of Hennessey; Karson Glazier, Trey Glazier and Rhett Gla-zier of Loyal; and, Elizabeth Perdue and Journee Hum-phries of Kingfisher.

Tracy Beck, state 4-H events and activities coor-dinator, said 4-H Roundup not only is a time to come together to recognize the achievements of club mem-bers, but also is a great opportunity for 4-H’ers to continue building on lead-

ership and public speaking skills, showcase the various talents of members, com-pete in various contests, learn new things and make new friends.

“State 4-H Roundup has always been a time for 4-H’ers to grow personally. There are many opportuni-ties for them to demonstrate the leadership and public

speaking skills they’ve learned over the years,” Beck said. “It also provides a place for younger 4-H’ers to gain an even greater understanding of what 4-H

KINGFISHER COUNTY 4-H members attending the state meeting were, from left, front row: Sara Bomhoff, Journee Humphries, Catherine Stangl and Rhett Glazier; and back, Zack Meyer (extension educator), Rob Bomhoff, Mitchell Davis, Karson Glazier, Grace Krittenbrink, Trey Glazier, Elizabeth Perdue and Laine Martin, extension educator. [Photo Provided]

County group attends State 4-H Roundupcan do for them and set some goals for themselves.”

State 4-H Roundup also features a number of com-petitive events, including the 4-H Food Showdown, Land Judging Computer Contest, Clover Quiz Bowl, Livestock Quiz Bowl, FCS Skill-A-Thon, 4-H Has Tal-ent, as well as communica-tions competitions.

Another highlight of the Capstone Assembly was the presentation of a check for $13,760.77 to the Children’s Hospital Foun-dation from the Change for Change campaign. To date, the Oklahoma 4-H Program has raised about $55,000 for the Children’s Hospital Foundation and all monies raised stay in Oklahoma.

A new project added by the State Leadership Coun-cil this year was a children’s book drive. Club members brought more than 1,000 children’s books to State 4-H Roundup this year, all of which will be donated

to Children’s Hospital in Oklahoma City.

Club members also col-lected more than 3,000 pounds of pull tabs from aluminum cans, which will be donated to the Ronald McDonald House in Okla-homa City.

“Not only is State 4-H Roundup a great opportu-nity for Oklahoma’s youth to get together to learn new skills, continue the devel-opment of other skills and be recognized for achieve-ment, it also is a great recruiting tool for OSU,” Beck said. “Delegates get to spend a few nights in the residence halls, experience life on the OSU campus and learn more about what the university has to offer for higher education.”

The Oklahoma 4-H Pro-gram is part of OSU’s Divi-sion of Agricultural Scienc-es and Natural Resources, and engages thousands of youth across the state on an annual basis.

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1929 — Sealing the Cornerstone, above, at First Chris-tian Church, Broadway and Seventh Street, Kingfisher.

1914-16 — Rev. Her-bert H. Saunders, pastor and singing evangelist, was one of the early minis-ters of First Christian Church.

1902 — An early baptismal certificate decrees that Bro. Charles H. Dunnagan professed his faith in Christ and was baptized by pastor William Anderson Wherry on Feb. 15, 1902 in Kingfisher, Oklahoma Territory.

THE INTERIOR of First Christian Church, Kingfisher. The newly-completed interi-or is seen in 1930, left; and as it appears in 2016, right. [FCC Archives / KT&FP Photo]

FIRST CHRISTIAN CHURCH — Original building, above, after completion of the west wing (to the right of the bell tower), which

“This do in remembrance of Me.” Communion Table with Baptistery scene painted by Laura E. Clark.

1991 — Outdoor baptisms were just one of the many ways members of the church celebrated their centennial anniversary. Rev. Charles Long, (1988-92) performed the service.

First Christian Church of Kingfisher (Disciples of Christ), located at 102 S. Seventh Street, celebrates its first 125 years in Kingfisher on Sunday, Aug. 21. The public is welcome to join in the 10 a.m. Sunday Worship Service.

T u r n i n g back the clock to 1889, it all began when E.F. Boggess arrived in the freshly-settled city of Kingfish-er and began to hold meet-ings as a rep-resentative of the American Christian Mis-sionary Society.

S u n d a y s c h o o l a n d church services were held first in the county c o u r t h o u s e , and later at the schoolhouse. Two years af-ter he arrived, Boggess had collected a sizable flock and, on May 28, 1891, First Chris-

tian Church was officially organized with 62 charter members.

The first regular minis-ter arrived the next year in the person of Rev. Charles Sharpe. During his service from 1892-’94, the first church building was erected

on Broadway Avenue.

The first ad-dition to the west side of the church was built in 1903, and a basement was construct-ed in 1908.

This church building served the communi-ty well for 36 years until it w a s d e t e r -mined the con-gregation had outgrown it. In 1928, the deci-sion was made to construct a

new building. The original structure

was cleared away — records indicate that a Mr. Gracey of

Charles M. Sharpe ...........1892-94W.H. Hook .......................1894-95J.W. Hopgood ..................1895-96Bro. Dunkleberger ...........1896-97J.N. Thomas ....................1898-99W.T. Hocker .................1899-1900Bro. Wilkins ......................1900-01W.A. Wherry ....................1901-03Isom Roberts .......................1904-Stacey Phillips ..................... -1911Clay T. Runyon ................1912-13H.H. Saunders .................1914-16B.L. Allen .........................1916-17H.E. Stubbs .....................1917-18J.Allen Watson .....................1919-W.L. ThorntonBro. F.L. Moffet ..................... 1921E.D. Shively .....................1922-23Vincent Scott / W.D. Higgins .1924Bro. R.T. Crowe ...............1925-26John D. Able ......................... 1927Charles Schwab ..............1928-33Cecil E. Berry ...................1934-36J. Everard Carter .............1937-39G.O. Bell ..........................1940-46J.R. Johnson ....................1947-49W.S.V. Shirts ......................... 1950Carleton Garrison ............1950-51James Behler ...................1951-54W. Frank Sprague ............1954-57W.J. Imhoff .......................1957-65Dr. A.O.Guy .....................1965-68Leslie Zimmerman ...........1969-74Leslie Brown ....................1974-77

The First Christian Church is a beautiful church, outside and inside. On the inside, there are some very special and beau-tiful spots.

One of those places of beauty is in the balcony, specifically the leaded glass win-dows, given in mem-ory of Mrs. Mary Conley. The win-dows were bought for $1,722 from Jaco-by Art Glass Co., in St. Louis, Mo.

The colors the artist used in the windows have their o w n p a r t i c u l a r meanings. He made Jesus’ robe a bright red, which signifies many characteris-tics such as anger, impulsiveness, fieri-ness, warm-heart-edness and courage. Out of these char-acteristis, perhaps “warm-hearted and courageous” would show what the artist was trying to convey, although we known Jesus had some of the other person-ality traits as well. His over-garment is white which indi-cates wholeness and a pure spirit.

The flowers, as you know, are lilies. The background is a tree with the beautiful sky showing through the leaves, the blue

signifying a high degree of spirituality. The green leaves show the color associ-

ated with life, also sympathy and understanding. The brown of

the tree shows depth of thought, earthiness and inquisitiveness.

The companion window makes me think of the parents who brought their children to Jesus that He might touch them (Mark 10:13-16). The Disciples rebuked the parents, but when Jesus saw what was happening He was indignant and said to them, “Let the children come to me, do not hinder them, for to such belongs the Kingdom of God. For truly I say to you, whoever does not receive the Kingdom of God like a child, shall not enter it. And He took them in His arms and blessed them.”

Take time some day to go to the front of the church, look upward and to the East and you will see the beauty of these windows. Such viv-idness and a joy to see!

(Presented the First Sunday in Advent, Nov. 30, 1986. Archives, First Christian Church, Kingfisher)

Window to the Eastby Jessie Kimer

First Christian Church of Kingfisher to Celebrate 125 Years

PARSONAGES — The first, left, on Broadway, was lo-cated on the west side of the church, and served pas-tors and their families until 1950 when it and the lot was sold to Washington School for playground space. The second, right, was located at 502 S. Eighth Street and was home until 1972 when the Rev. Zimmerman family moved into the third parsonage, below, at 1220 S. Seventh Street. It was also later sold, and there is no official pastoral residence today.

took place in 1903. This structure was taken down in 1929 to be replaced by the current church building. The FCC Community celebrates a Century-and-a-quarter in Kingfisher on Aug. 21.

Dover purchased the west addition (built in 1903) for $200. The church board noted that the rest of the building be “torn down and disposed of to the best advantage.”

The new, present build-

ing, was begun in 1929 and completed in April of 1930, with a total cost of just under $40,000.

In the spring of 1950, the old parsonage to the west of the church was sold and a lot

purchased at 502 S. Eighth Street for the construction of a new, modern parson-age. Although no longer the parsonage today, that home still stands in 2016. The first pastor to reside there was Rev. Carleton Garrison and family. The next parsonage was built in 1970 at 1220 S . Seventh Street

D u r i n g the ministry of Rev. Wil-liam J. Imhoff ( 1 9 5 7 - ’ 6 5 ) , the new edu-cational wing was erected to care for the modern and social needs of the congre-gation, espe-cially the Christian education of the youth. Dedication for the wing and steeple were held Jan. 13, 1963.

Several improvements were accomplished during the ministry of Don O. Brown (1981-’87), most notably the addition of an elevator,

Alton Louis Harris ............1978-81Donald O. Brown .............1981-87Wilfred Walker ...................... 1988Charles Long ...................1989-92M. Ross Kirk ....................1993-95Glenn Cowperthwaite ........... 1996Rollin Hole ...................1997-2000Harold Dowler ....................... 2001

Ministers of First Christian Church

ARCHITECT’SRENDERING, above, of new entryway and other im-provements, which were completed in the 1980s. [All images courtesy First Christian Church Archives]

125 Years1891 ~ 2016

1939 — Bus trip by the youth to Camp Chris-tian in Siloam Springs, Ark. They are traveling in a borrowed bus from Big Four School.

stained glass window reno-vation, a new entryway and driveway were constructed and the church grounds were landscaped.

In 1988, the church ac-quired the former Washing-ton Grade School building and grounds.

D u r i n g a major re-model and restoration p ro j e c t i n preparation for the build-i n g ’s 7 5 t h anniversary in 2005 re-turned the, the church’s interior wor-ship space back to its original ap-p e a r a n c e

after years of neglect. Ev-erything was overhauled, from the wood floors to the ceiling, to the pipe organ and the steeple. All the effort was accomplished in hopes this building could serve another 75 years.

1960 — Mrs. Josiah Gooden, “Mother of Kingfisher Garden Clubs,” has been dig-ging in her garden for years, and she was hon-ored by the First Chris-tian Church when (rep-resenting the charter members of the church), she was given the op-portunity to turn the first shovel of soil for the new educational build-ing. The shovel she used was the one used at the ground-breaking ceremony for the con-struction of the pres-ent church building 31 years earlier. The shovel was thereafter gilded and kept at the church as a souvenir of these events.

Joe Samuels ......................... 2002Don Gibson ........................... 2003John Sellers .....................2004-07Marilyn Merle ...................2008-13Andy Beck .......................2014-15Joe Hodges .....................2015-16Chuck Shorow .....................2016-

Compiled by Jeremy A. Ingle, Kingfisher Times & Free Press,with the assistance of Debi Trout and Kathi Edsall of First Christian Church

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State Question 777, com-monly referred to as the “Right to Farm Bill” was the subject of conversation at Kingfisher’s Rotary club last Tuesday.

Brian Jones, director of education for the Oklaho-ma City-based Kirkpatrick Foundation, said the aim of the foundation was to help educate the public on the possible consequences of the vote’s outcome, but was neither for nor against the amendment.

He said SQ 777 - which would actually be an amendment to the state constitution if passed - would ban the Oklahoma legislature from passing laws abridging citizens’ and residents’ right to em-ploy agricultural technol-ogy and livestock produc-tion and ranching practices.

He said the legal effect of this would be to leave any farming or ranching measures enacted by the legislature vulnerable to litigation challenging their constitutionality.

Moreover, he said, a challenge under SQ 777 would subject any such measure to strict scrutiny, which is the same legal

standard that’s used for laws that discriminate on the basis of race or that de-prive people of fundamen-tal rights like free speech, gun ownership or religious freedom.

Because those rights of freedom and equal protec-tion are essential to Ameri-can democracy and values, laws that deprive people of those rights are most of the time struck down, Jones said.

He added that North Dakota and Missouri voters passed similar amendments in 2012 and 2014, respec-tively, while those pushing for a similar amendment in Nebraska decided not to pursue the vote recently.

Jones said the state Supreme Court chose not to provide an official state-ment of likely legal actions that might result from the successful passage of the amendment.

He said that is typical procedure, because if the amendment doesn’t pass, it would have been work and preparation for an issue that would not be in place to address.

In reviewing the agri-culture industry in the state,

BRIAN JONES, left, director of education for the Kirkpatrick Foundation, was the guest speaker of the Kingfisher Rotary Club’s Tuesday luncheon last week. He is pictured with club president Lance Schneiter, who arranged for the program. [TIMES-FREE PRESS Staff Photo]

Passing SQ 777 could raise more issues, Rotary told

Jones said in the 1990’s ag-riculture was 10 percent of the state’s Gross Domestic Product, compared to only 2 percent today.

He said the number of Oklahomans whose full-time occupation was classi-fied as agriculture was now

only 1 percent of the state’s workforce.

He also noted that there has been a 77 percent decrease in farm workers in the state since 1990.

“I think that’s a startling statistic to the vast majority of us whose parents and

grandparents were raised on the family farm, as most of us still have a fairly close association, in our minds at least, with the Oklahoma family farm,” he said.

“Even though we still have that mental connec-tion, almost all of us are now not truly connected with agriculture.”

Jones noted that SQ 777 came about because there was a fear that outside-the-state entities such as ex-tremist animal rights activ-ists and those who want to eliminate the production of genetically modified grains and organisms (GMO), would come into the state and legally challenge the farming and ranching pro-

ducer’s right to farm and raise livestock in a profit-able manner.

Jones said that as an attorney, he has found that legislation designed to solve problems, will many times create new problems in unanticipated areas.

He added that Oklaho-mans already have the right to farm, just as they have the right to engage in any other industry of livelihood, and he predicted there would be a myriad of legal issues that would arise from a variety of sectors if the amendment passes.

Jones was introduced by Rotarian Lance Schneiter, who arranged for the pre-sentation.

Grant Newton said he’d always wanted to study abroad. He recently got the opportunity, but with a bo-nus: He was able to cut out the study part.

Newton, a Kingfisher High School graduate and current senior at Oklahoma State University, recently met up with a pair of his fraternity brothers for a Eu-ropean tour. The two med-ical majors were finishing a stint studying abroad and Newton joined them for a two-week, six-country ad-venture that he told King-fisher Lions Club members about last Thursday.

The trip actually covered 16 days as Newton and friends Stephen Tinker of Edmond and Nick Hrdlic-ka of Claremore visited Spain, Italy, Switzerland, the Czech Republic, Germa-ny and Iceland.

Newton flew to Spain, then to Rome, Italy, where he met his friends at the airport. While there, he was part of a crowd of about 100,000 people to see the Pope in St. Peter’s Square.

The trio also visited the famed Colosseum, the Vati-can Museum and St. Peter’s Basilica.

From there the group went to Florence where he said they toured the area around Ponte Vecchio Bridge, widely renowned as “one of the most roman-tic places in the world.”

“So that was a great place to visit with a couple of my guy friends,” he joked.

From hot and humid Italy, the group then went to Switzerland where the temperatures were much more enjoyable, he said, especially during a white

water rafting adventure that saw water that was about 60 degrees.

In Prague, Newton and his friends visited the Astronomical Clock, St. Charles Bridge, went pad-dle boating and visited a pub that’s made entirely of ice, including the chairs, walls and cups, he said.

After Prague, it was Ber-lin, where the tours were a bit more somber, Newton said, as they saw the Berlin Wall, took a “Hitler tour” and visited a labor concen-tration camp.

From there, the group visited Wittenberg and Potsdam in Germany.

In Wittenberg, New-ton, a finance major with

KHS grad Newton entertains Lions with tales of his European vacation

a religious studies minor, visited the site where Mar-tin Luther translated the Bible from Latin to German. Potsdam was the site of the “Potsdam Conference” that hosted the Allies leaders after World War II.

The trip ended in Ice-land, which Newton called his favorite part of the tour.

There the trio rented a small car and drove the Golden Circle, a popular route on the inner part of the island for tourists.

“It was unreal,” Newton said of the scenic views.

Newton, the son of San-dy and Randall Newton, was introduced by Lions Club President Francis Nault.

LIONS CLUB speaker Grant Newton, left, recent-ly toured six European countries with a pair of fellow members of his Fiji fraternity at Oklahoma State University. He’s joined by Lions Club mem-ber Mike Frey. [TIMES-FREE PRESS Staff Photo]

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