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The Oklahoma State Board of Education voted Thursday to suspend the teaching credentials of R. J. Ramer, former Hennessey High School girls’ basketball coach and fifth grade science teacher.

The suspension is pend-ing a certification revocation hearing to be scheduled before an administrative law judge.

Ramer was placed on a 10-day employment sus-pension Dec. 1, then submit-ted his letter of resignation the next day, which was ac-cepted by the school board at its December meeting.

Area newspapers have reported that an additional investigation of the matter has been initiated by the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation.

State boardsuspends teaching credentials

By Leilana McKindraAs the winter months

make their chilly presence known, electric space heat-ers may be an option when you want to heat a specific area in your house.

“Space heaters aren’t designed to replace a home’s heating system, but, when used safely and properly, they can provide plenty of supplemental heat for contained spaces in your home,” said Gina Peek, Oklahoma State Universi-ty Cooperative Extension housing and consumer spe-cialist.

For those who already own an electric heater, in-spect it thoroughly, includ-ing checking the cord and plug for damage, before turning it on, said Brandi Krittenbrink, Kingfisher County Family and Con-sumer Sciences Educator. Do not use the appliance if it is damaged in any way.

If you are in the market for a new electric heater, look for a product with the UL (Underwriters Labora-tories) certification mark. Also, to ensure the appli-ance includes the most up-to-date safety standards, consider only the most recent models.

“While the heater is in use, make sure it’s on a level, hard, nonflammable surface

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All Kingfisher County schools will dismiss after classes Friday for Christmas vacation.

Classes will resume on Tuesday, Jan 5, for all schools except Lomega, which will resume on Monday, Jan. 4.

Students outfor Christmas

In Brief

Kingfisher experienced its first snow of the winter season Thursday.

Flurr ies , sometimes heavy, occurred during the afternoon but there was no accumulation.

The snow melted as it fell to the ground, dampening streets but not providing enough moisture to mea-sure.

Heavy frost decorated vehicle windows and veg-etation Friday morning but the day dawned clear.

Clear skies are expected during the coming week including Christmas Day.

The prospect of a “white Christmas” in all of Oklaho-ma is virtually nil.

Heavy snow melted fast

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Thursday’s snow storm may have been brief, with no accumulation left behind, but the giant flakes just invited tongue-catching. Members of Bren-da Struck’s pre-K class at Gilmour Elementary School making the attempt include: from left, Cooper Neuman, TysonBedoka, Alex Ponce and Brason Pinkston. In the background are Eli Lemke, Ivry Hous-ton and Kevyn Aguinaga. [Photo Provided]

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MANGLED TREES and broken branches are what’s left of the once-stately Memory Lane soldiers’ memorial after the ice storm earlier this month. The board of directors says donations are direly needed to rehabilitate the trees and replace grass lost in the recent highway construction project. [TIMES-FREE PRESS Staff Photo]

Memory Lane, Kingfisher ’s unique living memorial to area service men and women, is facing another crisis.

The scenic mile of elms and ce-dars extending west of Kingfisher to the Kingfisher Cemetery depends entirely on donations for mainte-nance and upkeep.

The majority of those donations are collected on Memorial Day, when members of Memory Lane Inc. man the gazebo at the cemetery, providing cemetery maps and water to those attending the American Le-gion Memorial Day program.

But steady rain last Memorial Day meant no donations were col-lected.

“Most visitors to the cemetery stayed in their cars and we weren’t able to set up in the gazebo because of the rain,” Kim Stewart, Memory Lane board president, said. “Typ-ically, we collect about $2,500 in donations that weekend that helps sustain us through the rest of the year.”

As of Dec. 1, the organization had only received 10 total donations in 2015.

That shortage in donations left the organization with no cushion to deal with two unexpected events – the highway construction project which wrecked much of the grass and the ice storm which devastated the trees.

Established in 1943 by the Tu-lip and Sweet Pea garden clubs, Memory Lane began with rows of elms planted on each side of the highway, followed by two Platte River cedars planted between each two trees.

As more funds became available, the project expanded to also in-clude landscaping at the cemetery entrance, a rock retaining wall to prevent soil erosion, a gazebo inside the cemetery and markers at either end of the highway.

At one point, a former resident

donated airline stocks to the proj-ect, and the nonprofit corporation Memory Lane Inc. was created to manage the investment and ongoing maintenance of the project.

“Those stocks still generate $800 a month in revenue, which is wonder-ful, but it’s not enough to meet our annual expenses without additional donations,” Stewart said.

Just keeping the area mowed

costs between $600-1,200 a month, an amount compounded this year by rain, warmer weather and an extra long growing season.

“Add to that the kind of extraor-dinary expenses we’ve had with the ice storm and highway construction and a shortage in donations really puts us in a bind,” Stewart said.

Stewart and the other board members, who include Bonnie Arm-

strong, vice president; Beverly Mo-ery, secretary; Karen Kochenower, treasurer, and Marylu Boyd Wilson, historian, are hoping that area resi-dents or even former residents will consider a tax-deductible donation to Memory Lane in their end-of-year charitable giving.

Denotions may be sent to Memo-ry Lane Inc., P.O. Box 21, Kingfisher, Okla., 73750.

Living soldiers’ memorial needs infusionIce storm devastates Memory Lane

If all goes as planned work to reha-bilitate the 31 units in Autumn Trace Apartments in Kingfisher will begin next October or November and be completed by the following August.

Pam Richardson, president and CEO of Volunteers of America-Okla-homa, unveiled plans to the King-fisher City Commission for the upgrade last week and received a resolution endorsing tax credits for investors.

Richardson said that endorse-ment will be helpful when VOA goes before the Oklahoma Housing Finance Authority in January to seek tax credits for businesses and individuals who invest in the project.

“I think our chances are good to get approval in January but if we don’t

we will present the proposal again at OHFA’s next meeting,” she said.

VOA Oklahoma primarily pro-vides affordable housing for elderly residents with limited incomes.

Usually the age limit to qualify is 62 but in some cases persons with disabilities can qualify at age 55.

Richardson said the local complex will provide a place for residents to live while their apartments are being rehabilitated.

“Two units will be kept open throughout the construction process where residents will be able to live while work is being done on their apartments.

Richardson said the national office will be in charge of the finan-cial arrangements while the state

office will have charge of the social services.

The goal is to allow people to live on their own for as long as possible, Richardson said.

The estimated cost of the project is $35,000 to $45,000 per unit. She estimated the rehabilitation program will extend the life of the apartments for 50 years.

A key goal of the rehabilitation program will be to increase energy efficiency.

Social services connected to the apartments include Bible study groups and other group entertain-ment events to give the residents a sense of community, she said.

VOA Oklahoma already holds title to the complex and has a resident

manager living on site.“I think residents will be thrilled,”

Richardson said “We are most grateful for the

support of the city commission for its approval of the resolution sup-porting a tax credit award,” she said.

She also complimented the city on its neat appearance and Christmas decorations.

She said she particularly enjoyed hearing the Christmas carols that were being played downtown when she visited Kingfisher to appear be-fore the city commission.

“You don’t get that in Tulsa,” she observed.

Ron Wallace, an Oklahoma native living in Dallas, will be the project director.

Rehab planned for city’s senior apartments

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Kingfisher High School seniors Brooke Cameron, Alex Franco and Kaci Pen-nington were senior guests at Kingfisher Rotary Club’s weekly luncheon last Tues-day.

Cameron, the daughter of Chris and Tanya Cameron, is active in FFA, where she cur-rently serves as chapter re-porter, golf, student council and National Honor Society.

She was a member of the state champion and national runner-up parliamentary procedure team, state cham-pion opening ceremonies team and state runner-up ag issues and quiz bowl teams.

Cameron serves as senior class secretary and previous-ly served as FFA chaplain. She attends First Baptist Church.

She plans to pursue a career in pediatric physical therapy, attending Oklaho-ma State University for her undergraduate degree and the University of Oklahoma physical therapy school.

Franco, the son of David and Lupe Franco, partici-pates in soccer, cross country and Fellowship of Chriatian Athletes and is a member of the F&M Financial Scholars Program.

He attends Sts. Peter and Paul Catholic Church, where he is active in Knights of Columbus.

Franco plans to attend OU to pursue a degree in petroleum engineering and business.

Pennington, the daughter of Ron and Janet Pennington, is active in FFA, student coun-cil, where she serves as secre-tary and community service chair, and NHS, where she serves as president.

She is a member of the national champion ag issues team, recipient of the Rotary Youth Leadership Award, has been selected as student of the month and was an Oklahoma Association of Electric Cooperatives Youth Tour Delegate.

She attends Sts. Peter and Paul Catholic Church where she is active in youth group and serves as a Sunday school assistant.

Pennington is a student at

Curtain Time Dance Studio and was runner-up for King-fisher County Distinguished Young Woman 2016.

She plans to attend South-western Oklahoma State University to pursue a career as a community pharmacist.

FOUR GENERATIONS of the Elnora Yarbrough family were recognized when her twin great-grandsons celebrated their first birthdays earlier this year. Seated from left are grand-mother Sharon Yarbrough holding Malachi LaRon Ray and Elnora Yarbrough holding Harper Lawrence Ray. Standing is Angela Ray, the twins’ mother. Malachi and Harper, the sons of Antwine and Angela Cartwright-Ray of Edmond, celebrated their first birthdays on Oct. 22 at the home of their Nana, with their parents, grandparents, great-grandparents and many uncles, aunts and friends present. They were born 45 years and five days after the their twin great-uncle and great-aunt, Billy and Sindy Yarbrough, born Oct. 17, 1969. Maternal grandmother is Sharon Yarbrough, paternal grandmother is the late Gwendollyn Bruner and maternal great-grandmother is Elnora Yarbrough. [Photo Provided]

ROTARY SENIORS include, from left, Brooke Cameron, Alex Franco and Kaci Pennington. [TIMES-FREE PRESS Staff Photo]

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STATE REP. Mike Sanders of Kingfisher, right, was the guest speaker at Kingfisher Lions Club’s weekly noon luncheon on Thursday. He gave a 2015 session update, discussed issues to be faced in the 2016 session, and legislation he’s proposing to better counteract repeat DUI offenders. His wife, Nellie, also attended the meeting, center. With them is Lions Club member Ger-ald McMullin. [TIMES-FREE PRESS Staff Photo]

DOVER LONGHORNS of the month for December include: front row, from left, Kim-berly Perez, kindergarten, and Carlos Soto, pre-K; middle row, Shelby Gilbert, fourth grade; Esmeralda Calderon, third grade; Ashlyn Homier, second grade and Caylee Mat-thews, first grade; back row, Sierha Mendoza, sixth grade; Mckenzie Estep, fifth grade; Cody Barker-4th Grade, and Hope Caldwell, fourth grade. [Photo Provided]

Mrs. Jackie Jones’ second grade class at Gilmour El-ementary School wrote the following letters to Santa:

Dear Santa,Please bring me a phone for

Christmas. and a pet kitten and a mommy cat and a chocolate water fountain, to live together with Breanna and Tobi and Cattie and Cora and Julia and Paislee and Polar Bear Work-shop in are house.

Emily ThomasDear Santa,Please bring me a phone

and a pet kitten and a mommy cat and a chocolate water foun-tain to live together with Emily and Tobi and Cattie and Cara and Julia and Paislee and polar bear workshop in are house.

Breahnna HuxDear Santa,I will like a pichua Ex and

Jurasic World ovie and a X-box 360 and a DS3 and a Lego Ninjogo and a sled thack you Santa.

Abel GuzmanDear Santa,Please bring me some

makeup. and please bring me a baby alive doll. and a insideout discused doll, and the movie hotel transylvania, and some more minutes for my phone, and I would like some Ameri-can dolls. and please a girl elf. and I would like a mood ring. Thank you Santa. P.S. I would like a polar bear work shop and a chearleading suit.

Zhoie TateDear Santa,Please Please bring me a

Nerf gun and Hotel transil-vainia and a computer and some makeup and a band and a little dress and a Big Big dress and a phone real phone and a Fake mermade tail and a cristle and pokemon and a DS and a cheerleader suit.

Paislee OsterholtDear Santa,I would liek a phone and

the movie hotel transilvainia and the movie Jurasic world and the movie inside out. and a pokemoncards. And some baby clothes and baby alive X-box, and a computer and the movie frozen.

Cattie CrumDear Santa,I would like a mood ring

and an Iphone 6 and a doll-house with an elavateror please dsend my to my house because my cristmas tree is almost up. Sincerely, your friend.

Gracie FuksaDear Santa,I want a Iphone 6S and a

Xbox one and 20 packes of pokey mon cards adn Xbox one games and black ops III and a computer and a good knife and a 20 mag and a ar fifteen and a messi soccor ball, soccor player.

Izak OaksDear Santa, Mayh i please have some

99 Ex pokemon cards. please bring me a phone. and please bring me a xbox football game. and please bring me a xbox and pleae bring me black ops game. and please bring me some blanck peesis of paper. and plese bring mesome col-ors. and please bring me anew backpack. and pleae bring me some chocolate. and i want to be a GE student.

Xachary MartinezDear Santa,please please breeing me

a phone on Christmas and I want hotel transilvania two toy. I want a cheerleader suit and a polar bear work shop. I want a guitar and a moon weeing. I want a big dress and a chocolate pen with a choco-late fowntin.

Emma McLean

Dear Santa,Please bring me and a box

of colors and please bring me a PS3 for me and a computer and please bring me a phone and 50 ex pokemon cards.

Joseph Allen HomierDear Santa,I would like a doll, I want

inside out, cheerleader, PS3, Jurasic, bike, PS3, x-box. I want 100$, chocolate, clothes and.

Julia CarroscoDear Santa,I would like inside out and

some clothes. I believe in you Santa I would like a cheer-leader suit and I would like to know how Mrs. Clause is doing and my family.

Tobi CoxDear Santa,I will like a pokemon card.

I will like a new video game. I will like a X-box. I will like a hot wheel toy wiht a ramp. I will like a PS3. I will like a PS4.

Damion DeAlbaDear Santa,I would want a Iphone

6S. I would like some xbox 360 games. I would like some new Nike shoes. I woul dlike 5 packs of Pokemon cards. I would like a couple of jeans. I would like a new pro skate board. I would like a new BMX bike. I would like a PS3 and games. I would like some Ninja clothes. I would like a BB gun. I would like 50 Ex cards. I would like a new knife.

Jeremy MartinezDear Santa,I want a Hello Kitty tent and

a small trampoline like carson has but Red and some more colored paper and some more BIG white paper and some more craft stuff and a better CD player. Thank you, Santa.

Cara Mullins

Mrs. Sara Lewallen’s first grade class at Lomega El-ementary school wrote the following letters to Santa:

Dear Santa,I would like a bike, a di-

nosaur, and a computer. I like you, Santa.

Love, Jaxx JohnsonDear Santa, I wanta coloring book,

a dinorsaur, walkie-talkies, more colored pencils, and a colored pencil box. I like you, Santa!

Love, Billy GreeneDear Santa,I want two walkie-talkies

that are real and a pice of wood for my electric train to go on . I love you, Santa!

Love, Kevin MoyerDear Santa,I really want a teacher

board, my mommy to come to school, a fire truck, a house where cats can swim, a Blaze truck, and a swimming pool.

Love, Cal KrittenbrinkDear Santa,I want an acoustic guitar

and Sugar Cookie to bring lyrics for it. I really want to see Sugar Cookie fly to my room. Also, I want Rebecca and Sa-mantha American Girl doll.

Love, Emma HalversonDear Santa,I really want a laptop com-

puter for christmas! Do you like cookies? I also want Sims for Christmas!

Love, Wendy CruzDear Santa,What a want for Christ-

mas is a remote control car, a tbalet with a keyboard that can come apart. Do you know what I am talking about? I really like you, Santa!

Love, Gabriel Soto

Dear Santa,I would like a chocolate

pen, a scooter, and Barbie Dolls. I love you, Santa!

Love, Emma ComptonDear Santa,Can I get a gift? I would

like a chocolate pen, an Easy Bake oven, a doll house, and an I-Phone?

Love, Bree YostDear Santa,I want a real puppy, a dog

house, a four wheeler, a com-puter, a big doll house and an I-Phone! I like my elf!

Love, Joann BilgerDear Santa,Can I have the Pie Face

game? I want a Captain America watch and I want Uno. I love you, Santa!

Love, Kase GlazierDear Santa, I want a FitBit, a drone,

a remote control car, and a pool. I think you are cool and I love you.

Love, Noah LentzDear Santa,I want an airplane, an

igloo maker, Transformers and the Transformer boat, and a police car. I love Santa! I think you are cool too! Will you please make it snow a lot?

Love, Laken LewallenDear Santa,I want a kids foot massag-

er with the balls, clothes for gymnastics, a robot puppy, Frozen CD, and leg warmers. Thank you for all the gifts, Santa!

Love, Marley ReynaDear Santa,I would like a stuffed

tiger, a Barbie, and a stuffed bunny. Thank you, Santa!

Love, Abigail Snowden

Dear Santa,I would like twin boy and

girl American Girl Dolls, a stroller, and clothes for them. Can I see your reindeer? Can I see my elf fly? Can I use some of your magic? I always make good choices! Can I see you drive your sleigh? I really like my elf! Thank you, Santa!

Love, Claire MyersDear Santa,

I want a Frozen CD, a Frozen shirt, a dress, a Fro-zen I-Pad, a Frozen wig, and a dollhouse. I love you and your elves, Santa!

Love, Jackeline Penaran

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My grandpa wanted me to be a lawyer, although he never offered to pay for my schooling. He told me that lawyering would be a more fertile field than agriculture, which made no sense to me. I told him I didn’t want to be a lawyer because I didn’t want to be cooped up inside all day writing. So what did I do? I became a writer and spent all day inside writing for far less money than I would have made as a lawyer.

I’m surprised Grandpa wanted me to go to school for so long considering he never made it past the eighth grade and didn’t have much use for higher degrees. I never thought much of them either and I only have one. Lee Pitts, BS. I think anyone who has ever read my column would find that appropriate. Don’t you?

Truth be told, I received most of my education from teachers with four legs and four stomachs. Here’s just a sampling of things I learned from my cows.

• Don’t bawl. It only lets your enemies know where you are.

• Try to be out in front of the herd. There’s less dust and you won’t see as many rear ends, to out it politely.

• If people start treating you real nice, bring you great food and clean water, provide medical care and everything you could possi-

bly want, there’s a big catch somewhere.

• Never argue with any-one holding a hotshot.

• If some loud and ob-noxious people try to herd you somewhere you don’t want to go, fight like crazy or make yourself invisible and sneak off the first chance you get. If you don’t people will assault you, you’ll get burned and people will stick their hands (and arms) into your business.

• Don’t pee on the hay. You may want to eat it later.

• Sacred cows always get

gored in the end.• Have high standards

and be very choosey about who you associate with or you could end up with pink eyes, a lump on your jaw and a venereal disease.

• Don’t shoot the bull.• Veterinarians, cops,

cowboys and other people are all alike, 5% are exceed-ingly kind and good, 90% are just doing their job, and 5% are mean, dirty, rotten and nasty.

• Be nice to others but re-member, when the chips are down, you’re on your own.

• Don’t join a stampede over some little thing. You’ll only end up tired going

around in circles.• It’s easier to drift in the

direction the wind is blowing but you’ll end up far from home with no means of sup-port and no support group.

• Protect your progeny as there are coyotes, wolves and sneaky snakes lurking everywhere.

• When you’re having a good year save a little back because you’ll need it some day soon.

• Life is short so stop and smell the alfalfa.

• The fastest way to get to where you want to go is to proceed slowly.

• If someone has you trapped and is putting the squeeze on you, take your medicine and get it over with as quickly as you can. Throw-ing a big fuss will only make the suffering last longer.

• It matters little who your relatives were, it’s how your offspring turn out that counts.

• Don’t put up with blow-hards and wean them off as fast as you can.

• Drink lots of water and eat lots of fiber.

• The more apathetic indi-viduals are, the easier it is to lead them around by the nose.

• Take good care of your teeth. When they are gone so too will you be.

• Keep your head down, don’t be picky, let the females do all the work and if you want to live a long time, make yourself useful.

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America does not have problem with Islamphobia

By Mike GonzalezThe Daily Signal

(Ed. Note: Mike Gonzalez, a senior fellow at The Heri-tage Foundation, is a widely experienced international correspondent, commentator and editor who has reported from Asia, Europe and Latin America. He served in the George W. Bush Administra-tion first at the Securities and Exchange Commission and then at the State Department. His book, “A Race for the Fu-ture: How Conservatives Can Break the Liberal Monopoly on Hispanic Americans,” was published in September. Read his research.)

At his national address Sunday night, President Barack Obama lectured Amer-icans at length on the evils of Islamophobia. That is a lofty sentiment, no doubt, but the harangue did strike many as disproportionate. After all, on this score Americans can already be rightly proud.

Despite 9/11; two long and grinding wars against two Muslim countries; ter-rorist attacks at Fort Hood, Chattanooga, and San Ber-nardino; and the threat from ISIS, a murderous cult that has beheaded compatriots, Americans have by and large been paragons of equanimity and tolerance.

Candidates may say many things in the midst of an electoral year, but the FBI statistics show that Jews, not Muslims, are the greatest victims of what is designated as religiously targeted hate crimes in America.

To be sure, there have been isolated incidents of bigotry, such as windows broken at an Islamic center in Palm Beach Friday night, and they are rep-rehensible. But the real story here is that these are isolated events, and thankfully not part of some national furor.

Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., even took to the airwaves to challenge Obama to show proof. “The cynicism tonight, to spend a significant amount of time talking about dis-crimination against Muslims. Where is the widespread evi-dence that we have a problem in America with discrimina-tion against Muslims?” Rubio asked Fox’s Bret Baier.

And therein lies the prob-lem. Obama may actually make Islamophobia more likely by A, not reassessing his failed strategy against ISIS, and B, appearing to cynically raise fears of Islamophobia to promote his multicultural agenda.

On the first score, we have the words of former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, who visited Washington last week and had this to say in a speech at the Library of Congress:

A continued failure to recognize the scale of the challenge and to construct the means necessary to meet it, will result in terrorist attacks potentially worse than those in Paris, producing a backlash which then stigmatizes the majority of decent, law-abid-ing Muslims.

Continued failure to recog-nize the scale of the challenge or to construct the means to combat it describes precisely the Obama approach, from calling ISIS the “JV team” to obtuse statements about how the way to rebuke ISIS is to lower carbon emissions.

On Point B, the president’s incessant cynicism about his opponents’ motives has never helped the case he is trying to make. Take the issue of refugees.

As with rejection of Islam-ophobia, taking legitimate refugees is a virtue in which Americans have every right to take pride. The United States, in fact, has taken in 748,000 refugees since Sept. 11, 2001. Over the past few years, despite the ever-pres-ent threat of terrorism on the homeland, the United States has responded generously to the plight of refugees world-wide by accepting them at a rate around 70,000 per year.

Americans also have every right to demand that their government keep them safe. The tension between these two positions should have been handled in a debate that could have proceeded dili-gently had Obama but sought to understand and unite the nation he purports to lead.

Alas, that’s not what hap-pened. Instead, Obama—(See Islamophobia, Page 5)

If ever we wondered why we would not vote for Jeb Bush for president, he provided the answer Wednesday.

According to Politico, he indicated he would not support the Republican ticket if Donald Trump wins the nomination.

We still seriously doubt that Trump will be the nominee but we would have serious thoughts about voting for Bush if he has a surge from his current 3 percent polling numbers and becomes the nominee.

Jeb Bush, like his brother and father before him, is a Wash-ington establishment big money puppet.

This is what World Net Daily said about Bush disloyalty:“Bush may go rogue and issue a public statement an-

nouncing his refusal to back the GOP front-runner if Trump is the eventual nominee.

“According to two sources close to the Bush campaign, senior aides are now examining whether such a statement by Bush would disqualify him from certain state primary ballots, some of which demand candidates sign a loyalty pledge declaring that they will support the eventual Repub-lican Party nominee, reports Politico.

Trump Pledges to Support GOP CandidateIn the fifth and final GOP debate of 2015, Trump pledged

he would remain loyal to the party.The same World Net Daily story reports that some major

Republican donors are threatening to send their money to Hillary rather than support Trump.

The WMD story continued:“A recent report by the Hill suggests the big money

Republican donors are actually looking to support Hillary Clinton for commander-in-chief if Trump is at the top of the GOP ticket.

“The website says: ‘In conversations over the past month, GOP establishment donors have confided to the Hill that for the first time in recent memory, they find themselves contem-plating not supporting a Republican nominee for president.’

“The hesitation among establishment GOP donors comes as no surprise to Corey Lewandowski, Trump’s campaign manager.

“‘The GOP establishment will do anything they can to stop Mr. Trump from being the GOP nominee,’ Lewandowski told the Hill.

“‘Mr. Trump is the only one who is not controlled by the special interests. … They want a puppet that they can control, and Donald Trump will never be that person.’”

“Bush came at Trump with everything he had during Tuesday night’s debate, dismissing him as a “chaos candi-date” and suggesting he gets his foreign-policy information from watching Saturday morning cartoons.

“And the most talked-about moment on Facebook was when Bush told Trump: ‘You can’t insult your way to the presidency.’

“‘I’m at 42 [percent], and you’re at 3 [percent]. So, so far, I’m doing better,’ Trump responded.

“‘Doesn’t matter,’ Bush insisted. ‘Doesn’t matter.’”Pollster Frank Luntz suggested Bush fell flat during the

exchange.“The crowd may be applauding, but my focus group is

laughing at Jeb. Twenty-two of 26 members said Donald Trump won that exchange,” he tweeted at one point, adding that they used the words “weak,” “desperate,” and “whiny” to describe Bush. “It’s over for him. Sorry,” Luntz wrote.

But Bush was taking a victory lap in several media inter-views on Wednesday morning.

“‘It was a commander in chief debate. … I don’t know if the front-runner candidate fared that well in that kind of context,’” the former Florida governor said during an ap-pearance on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.

Hillary Still Not a Shoo-inOur best guess is still that Hillary will not be the Democrat

candidate. Juan Castro, former mayor of San Antonio and a slick talker who is much more likable than Hillary, is a much more electable individual.

The nation’s left will get behind him because he is as “progressive” as Obama and would like to elect the nation’s first Latino president – at least if he’s a left-wing Democrat.

Castro is on the same track as Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, coming from nowhere to be designated a keynote speaker at the last Democrat national convention before they are nominated.

He also was tapped by Obama to become secretary of HUD, giving him experience in the nation’s capitol. It looks like a grooming effort by the sitting president, who has never seemed to like Hillary that much, anyway, despite appoint-ing her as secretary of state where she was both ineffective and sloppy – possibly just what the president was hoping for.

If the big money Republicans go for Clinton, it could provide just the impetus to bring out the silent majority once again – this time in favor of Trump.

Our country is in a mess and getting in worse shape by the day.

Constitutional conservatives have reason to worry. If they haven’t already been branded “domestic terrorists” they may be before another Democrat presidency is done.

Jeb ready to support Hillary?

By Dr. L. John Van TilPresident Obama and his

administration’s spokesper-sons continue to explain the eruption of bombings and mass shootings as “lone wolf attacks” or “work place vio-lence.” The cause, they often say, is too many guns in so-ciety. Their response is a fur-ther demand for sweeping gun laws. Many others, how-ever, refer to these events as radical Islamic terrorism. Is this a game of semantics or is there a real difference be-tween the two terms?

As the title implies, there are two terms involved here: “Radical Islam” and “Ter-rorism.” Defining each will tell us much about the presi-dent’s confusion and the re-ality that has him befuddled.

Let’s look at radical Islam first. The term “radical Islam” implies that there is a normal Islam but its 1,400-year his-tory has spawned dozens of sectarian splinter groups—that is, “radical” Islamic groups. It takes volumes to account for the history of these developments. For the last century or so, however, some parts of Islamic cul-ture have been dominated by western political and economic developments. In these circumstances much of Islam’s war-like missionary zeal has been suppressed, or at least pacified.

Enter Osama Bin Laden. An ethnic Yemini, Bin Laden was a Saudi Arab, born into a very wealthy family. He studied in the Saudi kings’ university. Early as a young man he was radicalized by the writings of select reli-gious leaders who believed that Muslims should return to the teachings and prac-tices of Mohammad, Islam’s founder. One of Bin Laden’s core ideas – influenced by the radical imams’ teaching – was a call for conquering the world and ruling it according to the religious tenants of Mohammad. Historically, this was, in fact, done peace-

fully at times through trade and diplomacy. But more often it was done through war, or jihad, as Mohammad labeled it. “Militant jihad” might be a more accurate term.

Jihad has a number of meanings, as any dictionary will show. Use of the term here, however, follows Bin Laden’s practice and defini-tion. To him it was a “holy war,” specifically against all those who had entered Is-lam’s holy lands – the Arabi-an peninsula and Jerusalem. Bin Laden declared jihad against the United States in 1996 because the U.S. mili-tary had set up shop in Saudi Arabia at the invitation of the Saudi government. At the time, Americans did not pay much attention to Bin Laden’s jihad. He practiced and wrote about jihad as he moved around the Middle East – Afghanistan, Sudan, Pakistan, Iraq, and other places. At the same time, he created al Qaeda as an organization to manage his warring efforts, gathering many followers along the way. He developed fighting groups that resembled guer-rilla warfare units. Much of this technique he learned from Afghan fighters in their war against the Soviet Union a decade earlier. The goal and style of al Qaeda fighting was, indeed, radical when compared to neighboring quiescent Muslim nations.

Radical Islam took on a whole new dimension, how-ever, when it also adopted a method of fighting: ter-rorism. Terrorism deserves further definition. Indeed, we ask: What is it?

It certainly is not a tech-nique developed and used by Islamic fighters exclu-sively. Sometimes people are attacked suddenly, violently, and brutally – either indi-vidually or as a group – in a way that creates intense fear, panic, acute anxiety, and an impending sense of doom,

disaster, and death. That is terrorism. Its practitioners may strike anywhere at any time. A victim of domestic violence or a robbery victim may be terrorized. And yes, it may suddenly appear in a meeting of county em-ployees in San Bernardino, California, initiated by radi-calized Islamists.

A new level of terrorism appeared soon after Bin Laden was killed. Prior to his death Bin Laden had appointed a new leader of an al Qaeda chapter in Iraq; he being pious, reserved, scholarly, Iraq-born Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. In a matter of months, al Baghdadi put his stamp on this group and renamed it the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS). He soon announced the forma-tion of a caliphate, following Mohammad’s practice. His goal was to conquer the world by jihad quickly, he said, because the apocalypse draws near, necessitating a rapid and violent jihad. Thus, he is busy at work trying to expand his caliphate through the use of “radical Islamic terrorism” – his form of jihad, characterized by extreme violence.

President Obama and many on the far left do not seem to acknowledge the na-ture and technique of the ISIS movement; that is, a radical Islamic terrorist group using new and extreme measures. Until America’s leaders stop playing the semantics game, radical Islamic groups like ISIS will continue to use ter-rorism as a tool to reach their desired outcome: A world caliphate that dances on the ashes of America.

--Van Til is a fellow for hu-manities, faith, and culture with The Center for Vision & Values at Grove City College. His latest books are Thinking Cal Coolidge and The Soul of Grove City Col-lege: A Personal View.

Question of semantics: What do ‘Radical Islam’ and ‘Terrorism’ really mean?

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Please America, WAKE UP!

I walked by the TV when the man was on that opened fire at a Planed Parenthood Clinic.

I in no way condone what he did, but I see the irony. That is, he is being persecut-ed for killing and yet it is legal to kill and dismember babies.

When did it become okay to kill and dismember ba-bies? Not only kill, but profit from the sale of the baby body parts! These babies had to be killed first.

How did America come to this place? I believe by trying to remove God from this nation. The argument for abortion used to be when is the baby a baby? Now it is how far along can the woman be and can we keep the baby intact to get more money for the baby’s body parts?

There is no question any-more that it is definitely a baby. (I believe God’s beau-tiful little baby miracles start at conception.) Laws are supposed to be carried out to protect human life as in prosecuting this man. Babies are human life.

Where is their protection?If you drink and drive,

you are responsible for a wreck and even a loss of life at that wreck you caused. If you conceive a baby after un-protected sex, you have the option to just kill that baby.

That is called pro-choice. What choice is the baby given?

The comfort I find for these aborted babies are they are with Jesus. Americans please, please, wake up and rise up for God! This nation was based on God. Become a light that shines in the darkness. One lit candle can dispel darkness.

God Bless,Anna Langdon

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Jon’s ‘Ramblin’s’Motor Mouth

Donald Trump: somebody said about someone with a big mouth and a teacup behind, he has a washtub mouth and a teacup behind, and he lets his washtub mouth overload his teacup behind. With Trump’s mouth, we could get into a shooting war with Russian, China, or North Korea, and that would mean the end of the world as we now know it, and that scares the hell out of me.

The way things look now, we will have to choose be-tween Hillary and Trump, and pick between Hillary and Trump, and pick between what we feel like is the lesser of two evils. Trump on one hand has his “empire,” built on a false economy and his motor mouth, which cause us to be in a war with any major world power! Hillary on the other hand is wanting to further erode our constitu-tional rights, overlooking all the messes she has been into, including but not limited to looting the White House of some four hundred thousand dollars worth of artifacts that belonged to “we the people.”

That also scares the hell out of me.

There just might be a little glimmer of light at the end of the runnel, it appears that Ted Cruz might be ahead in the “polls.” However, Trump can still “buy” the election. It is possible. When the dust all settles, Trump will probably “shoot himself in the foot” with his motor mouth.

Would Trump be a better choice than Hillary? Slightly, if it comes down, I wouldn’t be proud of it, I still like Ben Carson, personally I don’t think he has the chance of a belch in a whirlwind, so I will be in the Cruz cheering section!

God Bless America, Jon Cochran

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The Environmental Pro-tection Agency (EPA) broke the law when pushing its controversial water rule, ac-cording to the Government Accountability Office (GAO).

As Congress considers whether to include a provi-sion in the omnibus appro-priations bill to block funding for the water rule, this should make the issue a no-brainer. As if a rule that attempts to regulate almost every type of water wasn’t enough of a reason.

As explained by the New York Times, “[t]he Environ-mental Protection Agency engaged in ‘covert propagan-da’ in violation of federal law when it blitzed social media to urge the general public to support President Obama’s controversial [water] rule[.]”

The following comes from the conclusion in GAO’s rul-ing, which discusses some of the problematic actions previously highlighted by Heritage:

The use of appropriated funds associated with imple-menting EPA’s Thunderclap campaign and establishing hyperlinks to the NRDC and to the Surfrider Foundation webpages violated prohi-bitions against publicity or propaganda and grassroots lobbying contained in appro-priations acts for FYs 2014 and 2015. Because EPA obligated and expended appropriated funds in violation of specific prohibitions, we also con-clude that EPA violated the Antideficiency Act, 31 U.S.C. § 1341(a)(1)(A), as the agen-cy’s appropriations were not available for these prohibited purposes.

The EPA was desperate. That’s what happens when trying to push through this indefensible EPA and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Corps) rule. The agency used various types of social media, including Thunderclap. As explained by the EPA when urging public support for the rule, “[w]e hope you’ll sup-port our clean water proposal. To help you do that, and get your friends to also voice their support, we’re using a new tool called Thunderclap; it’s like a virtual flash mob.” The message was sent to about 1.8 million people. The agency was acting like an advocacy group, not a government agency.

Even before this GAO opinion, Congress had more than enough reason to block funding for the implementa-tion of the rule:

The rule hurts the envi-ronment by keeping states from taking a leading role in water protection (contrary to the express language of the Clean Water Act).

The rule is an attack on property rights by making it more difficult for property owners to use their property even for ordinary activities, such as farming.

The rule is so vague that property owners may not even know they could be violating the law.

The opposition to the rule (based on various reasons) is wide and diverse and comes from farmers, ranchers, man-ufacturers, small businesses, counties, and home builders. Attorneys general and agen-cies from at least 31 states have sued the federal gov-ernment over the rule. Even environmental groups have sued the federal government over the rule.

The Corps itself was ex-pressing serious concerns in memos to the EPA about the rule shortly before it was released.

There are a lot more legal issues with the rule than EPA’s advocacy-related actions. The Sixth Circuit issued a stay in October blocking implemen-tation of the rule, stating, “[W]e conclude that petitioners have demonstrated a sub-stantial possibility of success on the merits of their claims.” This stay could always be lift-ed; after all, the Court hasn’t even decided whether it has jurisdiction to hear the case.

The real question isn’t why Congress should block funding for this water rule. Instead, it’s how Congress could possibly allow the rule to go forward in the first place.

* * *(Ed. Note: Bakst studies

and writes about agriculture subsidies, property rights, envi-ronmental policy, food labeling and related issues as The Heritage Foundation’s research fellow in agricultural policy. Read his research.

EPA broke law pushing water rule, GAO reports By Mike Gonzalez

Heritage Foundation

Former British Prime Min-ister Tony Blair strode into Washington last week speak-ing urgently about the need to have a long-term strategy to defeat Islamist extremism on the ground as well as ideo-logically, with both superior military force and confident western values.

It was as if he were a visitor not from the U.K., but from another planet. Washington is not exactly what you’d call a bustling wartime capital.

The Obama administration is, in fact, making the case that the proper response to current threats from ISIS is to tighten gun control laws, reduce car-bon emissions, and double down on political correctness. These ideas are, moreover, being actively promoted by ideological allies in the media and the culture.

Such an approach is – to no-body’s surprise – failing spec-tacularly to rally the nation, which appears more divided than ever. Conservatives are stunned that anyone would want to disarm the citizenry at this point, that there are people who actually believe that climate change causes terrorism, and that a society can battle a jihadist ideology without proudly asserting an alternative, in this case the values of liberal democracy.

There would be some hope of a national conversation, a large Socratic dialogue of sorts, if sides were listening to each other. Very few liberals,

however, listen to talk radio, watch Fox News, or read Na-tional Review or the editorial pages of The Wall Street Jour-nal or The Federalist. They have no idea how divorced from reality their proposals can sound.

Conservatives, by contrast, are much better aware of the other side’s arguments. They are surrounded by NPR; The New York Times; and CBS, NBC, and ABC

They consume them as well, never mind the culture. Thus their consternation at what they are hearing, watch-ing, or reading.

Blair, prime minister from 1997 to 2007, is no conser-vative; rather, he is a former Labour leader. He knows, however, what it’s like to fight a long war and, after many mistakes, be able to hand his successor a stable Iraq, which Vice President Joe Biden in 2010 referred to as the “greatest achievement.”

In his speech at the Library of Congress Thursday night, Blair did not go out of his way to pick a fight with President Obama or his administration, but neither did he shrink from answering questions forth-rightly.

Asked by the moderator, former ambassador Martin Indyk, why he dares speak about Islamist terrorism and extremism, given that the Obama administration insists that such mentions will alien-ate all adherents of the religion, Blair simply smiled and said, “Because that’s what it is.”

Blair: Islamic terrorism ‘is’clearly peeved that Con-gress and state governors were moving because they mistrusted him – poured hot oil on a sensitive situation. His petulant performance only gave the congressmen and governors more reason to question his actions and instincts.

Obama’s first instinct was to pour invective on those seeking stricter safeguards on refugees. They were not simply leaders with whom he disagreed; they were “un-American” and “shame-ful.”

When the House of Rep-resentatives, with the sup-port of 47 Democrats, voted overwhelmingly on Nov. 19 to pass a bill that blocks Syr-ian and Iraqi refugees from entering unless they pass strict background checks, the president reproached them for being “scared of widows and orphans.”

It was all done from over-seas, too, in the midst of a pres-idential tour of Turkey and the Far East. And Obama showed far more emotion when berat-ing his American opponents than in condemning the Nov. 13 terrorist attacks in Paris that left 130 dead and led to the refugee discussion here.

Instead of pillorying those with concerns after a tragedy, the administration, from the president on down, should have sought to make its case on the vetting process to legis-lators, governors, and regular Americans. Policymakers deserve to see what the intelli-gence is on the refugee process and how the process mitigates any risk. The administration should have kept Congress regularly informed to any changes in the process and why such changes were made.

We should seek to further all of the U.S.’s national in-terests by keeping the U.S. homeland secure, helping those who are persecuted, and advancing American leadership around the world.

This starts by engaging with each other and the facts here at home. The president’s churlish approach has served to divide America. We’re all now reaping the whirlwind.

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Kingfisher Eighth Grade Lady Jackets

KINGFISHER EIGHTH GRADE LADY JACKETS basketball team members include, from left, front row: Emma Barnett, Hanna Matthews, Hannah Wittrock, Taylor Watkins, Jenna Mueggenborg, Tori Lumpkin, Alexis Stitt and Ashtin Witt; and back, Karissa Stitt, Sienna Littlehawk, Macy McCully, Victo-ria Gerken, Kenzie Smith, Jentry Squires and coach Jill Myers. [Photo Provided]

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HENNESSEYLOMEGAKINGFISHER DOVER CRESCENT OKARCHECASHION

L o c u s t G r o v e quarterback Mason Fine has received his share of recognition and awards the last couple of years as he’s assaulted the state’s passing records.

Among the honors was being a two-time Gatorade Player of the Year in Oklahoma both his junior and senior seasons. He helped lead Locust Grove to the 3A semi-finals in 2014 and a 12-1 record and a spot in the 3A quarterfi-nals this season.

He owns the state records for career p a s s i n g y a rd a g e (13,086) and passing touchdowns (166).

However, F ine may very well be a temporary placehold-er for both records and it might be a Kingfisher County player that takes them over.

Cashion quarter-back Matt Harman is on pace to break both records.

In his junior sea-son, Harman threw for 3,710 yards and 54

touchdowns, school records in both cat-egories, as he guid-ed the Wildcats to a second straight state runner-up finish.

A three-year start-er, Harman has now thrown for 9,701 ca-reer yards and 137 touchdowns.

That leaves him 3,385 yards and 46 touchdowns behind Fine’s records.

Among those in ca-reer yardage between Harman and Fine are Keats Calhoon and L.T. Pfaff.

Calhoon, who just completed his se-nior season at Victory Christian, finished with 12,240 career yards.

Pfaff was the re-cord-holder entering this season. He fin-ished his Atoka career in 2010 with 11,357 yards.

“In my opinion, what separates Matt from all of those guys is the fact he started at linebacker for us, too,” Cashion coach Lynn Shackelford said.

The starter on the weakside, Harman also had 137 tackles in 2015.

Shackelford esti-mates Harman was on the field for 150 snaps in last weekend’s loss to Stratford in the Class A title game.

“ I ’ m g u e s s i n g none of those guys also played a position like linebacker on the defensive side, if any at all,” Shackelford added. “I’d love to see what he could do if he was fresh every time we got the football.”

Seventh Grade BoysKingfisher ’s seventh grade

boys’ basketball team enters the Christmas break with a still-un-blemished record.

The Jackets defeated Blanchard 41-31 last Monday at home to move their record to 12-0.

The balanced attack saw Ian Daugherty score nine points, Tate Taylor eight and Jarret Birdwell seven.

The week before, Kingfisher beat Bethany 43-20 and Bridge Creek 42-20. Daugherty led the way against Bethany with 17 points. Bijan Cor-tez scored 15 against the Bronchos and 14 against Bridge Creek.

KMS also won the Canadian Valley Conference Tournament with wins over Pauls Valley (43-13), Lindsay (37-10), Blanchard (38-30) and Newcastle (43-38).

Cortez scored 15 against Pauls Valley, Mason Mecklenburg nine against Lindsay, Birdwell 10 against Blanchard and Daugherty 18 against Newcastle.

Eighth Grade BoysThe eighth grade boys team

moved to 8-4 last Monday with their 27-13 win against Blanchard.

Dylan Carey poured in 10 points while Keaton Abercrombie added eight more.

The win was the second straight for Kingfisher, which beat Bridge Creek 48-17 the previous Thursday. Harrison Themer led the way with 15 points in the victory.

Kingfisher finished fourth in the conference tournament, which featured 12 teams.

The Jackets got a 50-10 win against Pauls Valley in which Themer scored 11 points.

They followed that with a 45-29 win against Lindsay. Ali Padilla and Zarek Pickle scored eight apiece.

Kingfisher dropped a 52-27 loss to Bethany in the semifinals and then fell 31-23 to Newcastle in the third-place game.

The Jackets followed up the tournament with a 41-22 loss to Bethany. Pickle scored nine and Mitchell eight in defeat.

Eighth Grade GirlsStill without leading scorer

Hanna Matthews, the eighth grade girls dropped a 24-18 decision to Blanchard on Monday night.

Matthews has missed five straight games for the Lady Jack-ets, four of which have resulted in losses as the team now sits at 4-6.

Jentry Squires has tried to help pick up the scoring slack and led

KMS with 10 points in the loss to Blanchard.

The win came Dec. 10 against Bridge Creek, 23-7. Squires scored eight and Jenna Mueggenborg seven.

Kingfisher lost three straight prior to the win, 30-9 to Bethany in a regular-season game and 21-9 to Bethany to open the conference tournament the week before. In between, the team lost to Purcell, 20-19.

Squires scored five in that loss while Mueggenborg and Macy McCully scored four apiece.

Seventh Grade GirlsThe seventh grade girls saw

their record drop to 4-7 Monday with a 32-15 loss at Blanchard.

Bailey Whipple led the team with seven points while Kaycee Karcher scored four.

That loss came on the heels of a 29-27 setback to Bridge Creek on Dec. 10. Karcher scored eight, Whipple seven and Jessica Klepper scored five.

The defeat put an end to a two-game win streak in which the Lady Jackets beat Bethany, 18-11, and Newcastle, 26-21.

In the Bethany win, Karcher scored seven and McCully five.

The Newcastle victory was for third place in the conference tournament.

Kingfisher opened the tour-nament with a 22-14 win against Marlow in which Karcher scored eight points.

That was followed by a 36-20 loss to Blanchard.

In the third-place game, Whip-ple scored eight points and Karcher six.

Tuttle quit pressing and instead of questioning the tactic, Kingfisher coach Jay Wood was thankful for his good fortune.

“I really don’t know why they stopped,” said Wood. “We hadn’t done anything to hurt it since the first quarter.”

Whatever the reason, it worked…for Kingfisher. The Lady Jackets started the fourth quarter with a 14-2 run to earn a come-from-be-hind 45-36 win Tuesday night in their home opener.

Tuttle’s pressure, mixed in with unforced errors by the Lady Jackets, allowed the visitors to outscore KHS 25-11 over the middle two quarters. That turned a 17-6 deficit into a 31-28 lead for Tuttle entering the fourth.

But the pressure stopped and the Kingfisher scoring resumed.

Allie Blundell’s 3-pointer with 6:40 to play gave KHS a 33-31 lead it wouldn’t surrender.

Cassie Mason followed it up with a 3-pointer of her own to make it a 9-0 run by KHS to start the quarter.

Tuttle turned it over on its first four possessions, one of which led to yet another Mason 3-pointer with 3:50 left to give Kingfisher a 40-33 advantage.

“She’s one of our best offensive players when she’s looking to score,” Wood said of Mason. “She’s just not always looking to be that

aggressive.”Mason scored all seven of her

points in the final frame as King-fisher won for the second straight time and improved to 2-2.

Blundell led the team with 11 points. She scored eight in the first quarter, including a trey at the

buzzer, as KHS mounted a 17-6 lead.Katelyn Stolz chipped in with 10

more for the Lady Jackets.KHS boys win despite

offensive strugglesKingfisher averaged double-dig-

it 3-pointers in its first three games of the season.

Those shots weren’t falling Tuesday night in the Yellowjackets’ season opener, yet they still found a way to win.

Despite shooting 3-of-20 from long range, the Jackets found a way to end a two-game losing skid by beating Tuttle 29-26.

“We found a way,” coach Jared Reese said. “There wasn’t anything pretty about that, but with our schedule I’ll take wins any way we can get them.”

Sharp-shooting senior Mason Overstreet never found his mark from beyond the arc and freshman Jett Sternberger didn’t hit a trey until 3:20 remained in the contest.

That shot provided the final points of the night for KHS, but gave the team a 29-19 lead, an in-surmountable amount on a night when points were at a premium.

“We didn’t score, but we did some other things pretty good,” Reese said. “We defended well and, usually, rebounded better than we had been. We didn’t allow them much at all.”

Tuttle scored just three points in each the first and third quarters. While the Jackets weren’t lighting it up, they did outscore the Tigers by 10 points in those two quarters.

Part of the early push was pro-vided by Marco Charqueno as he scored all of his team-high nine points in the first half.

Tuttle was able to close the gap to

15-13 by halftime, but KHS started the second half on a 9-3 run.

Trevor Buckner sparked that rally with five points, two rebounds and an assist in a 90-second span, including a 3-pointer to give the Jackets an eight point lead at 4:46.

When Sternberger hit his trey in the fourth, Tuttle had yet to commit a foul. Reese ordered his troops to slow down the offense and work time off the clock until the Tigers fouled enough to send the Jackets to the line.

“I knew they wouldn’t have enough time to catch up with so many fouls still to give,” he said.

GirlsKingfisher 45Tuttle 36Tuttle 6 12 13 5 - 36Kingfisher 17 7 4 17 - 45

Tuttle – Wall 13, Morris 7, Owen 7, Black 4, Laffoon 4, McAdoo 1.

Kingfisher – Blundell 11, Stolz 10, Kaleigh Stolz 8, Mueggenborg 8, Mason 7, Smalley 1.

BoysKingfisher 29Tuttle 26Tuttle 3 10 3 10 - 26Kingfisher 7 8 9 5 - 29

Tuttle – Yarbrough 9, Thompson 9, Norrell 3, Fischer 3, Periman 2.

Kingfisher – Charqueno 9, Ster-nberger 5, Buckner 5, Lafferty 4, Overstreet 4, Hauser 2.

GirlsLomega 70Cherokee 24Lomega 22 14 18 16 - 70Cherokee 2 10 8 4 - 24

Lomega – Lamer 18, S. Harney 8, H. Meier 6, Yost 6, Barton 5, C. Harney 5, Biggs 4, M. Meier 4, Mendell 4, Petty 2, Dunigan 2, S. Yost 2, Chestnut 2, Russell 2.

Cherokee – Vo 8, Bradford 8, Clem 6, Supernaw 2.

Hennessey 72Crescent 36Hennessey 26 16 15 15 - 72Crescent 7 9 9 11 - 36

Hennessey – Meeker 24, Copeland 12, Wymore 12, Tuell 9, Duell 9, Dunigan 2, Collins 2.

Crescent – Heskett 15, Christensen 7, Cronister 6, Cummings 4, Sanderson 4.

BoysCherokee 64Lomega 58Lomega 15 12 15 16 - 58Cherokee 15 15 15 19 - 64

Lomega – Turner 17, James 11, McAlex-ander 9, Daniel DeLeon 7, David DeLeon 5, Risenhoover 5, Snowden 4.

Cherokee – DeWitt 31, Guffy 14, Bagen-stos 9, Clyd 7, Hicks 3.

Hennessey 67Crescent 54Hennessey 20 13 23 11 - 67Crescent 8 9 12 25 - 54

Hennessey – Rojo 26, Sanchez 10, Smith 9, Vinson9, Renteria 6, Wymore 4, Broom-field 3.

Crescent – Heiden 14, Larue 13, McElfresh 12, Wilurn 5, Lovett 4, Hopson 3, Walker 3.

It’s been a season of 2’s for the Lomega boys’ basketball team and it continued Tues-

CASHION QUARTERBACK Matt Harman talks with Wildcat head coach Lynn Shackelford. The QB is on pace to break the state records for passing yards and touchdowns next year. [Photo by Amy Broadbent]

Harman could break state passing recordsCashion QB could make Mason Fine a temporary placeholder

KMS basketball teams wrap up pre-break schedules

Local basketball box scores

day night.The Raiders dropped a

64-58 road game at Cherokee,

their second loss in a row.The two losses came after

a two-game win streak, which

was preceded by a two-game losing streak. Prior to that? The Raiders won two straight.

Against Cherokee, Lome-ga (5-6) trailed by three en-tering the fourth quarter and couldn’t fully close the gap.

The Raiders had no answer for Cole DeWitt, who poured in a game-high 31 points.

Kaleb Turner paced Lome-ga with 17 points while Jordan James scored 11.

Lady Raiders pummel Cherokee

Former Lomega coach Chad Hutchison had no an-swer for his former team.

Hutchison, now at Chero-kee, watched helplessly as his Lady Chiefs were blitzed by Lomega, 70-24, at home last Tuesday night.

The top-ranked team in Class B, Lomega put the game away early with a 22-2 first-quarter run.

Kenzi Lamer led all scorers

with 19 points as Lomega improved to 10-1.

Fourteen different Lady Raiders scored.

Hennessey girls win in Cox debut

It’s been an eventful couple of weeks for the Hennessey girls’ basketball team.

On Tuesday, the Lady Ea-gles finally got to take to the court to get away from them.

In its first game with new head coach Mark Cox, Hennessey beat Three Rivers Conference foe Crescent 72-36 on the road.

Addie Meeker led all scorers with 24 points as Hennessey (2-0) played for the first time since Dec. 1.

The Lady Eagles raced to a 26-7 lead after just one quarter and extended it to 42-16 by halftime.

Ashton Copleand and Morgan Wymore scored 12 points apiece for the Lady

Eagles.Crescent was led by Kate-

lyn Heskett’s 15 points.Eagles topple CrescentIf a two-week break caused

some rust for the Hennessey boys’ basketball team, it didn’t show on the court.

The Eagles improved to 2-0 Tuesday night with a 67-54 Three Rivers Conference road win over Crescent.

Hennessey made its move early with a 20-8 first-quarter run.

Up 33-17 at the half, the Eagles then put 23 points on the scoreboard in the third quarter to extend their lead to 27 points.

Carlos Rojo led the way with 26 points while Roy Sanchez scored 10 more.

Crescent (3-3) got 14 points from Tanner Heiden, 13 from Logan LaRue and 12 from Wyat McElfresh.

Lomega splits at Cherokee; HHS sweeps Crescent

Tiger teams sent home without a win

ALLIE BLUNDELL puts up a 3-pointer against Tuttle. The senior hit three of them and led KHS with 11 points in the win. [Photo by Russell Stitt]

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