Elizabeth Kline
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Elizabeth Kline, resident of Ponca City, passed away on Saturday July 20, 2019. She was 86 years old. Services are pending with Trout Funeral Home & Crematory.
July 2019
OBI sets blood drive in Tonkawa
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TONKAWA — Tonkawa’s first responders are looking for citizens to support their efforts through blood donation with Oklahoma Blood Institute. Those who give at the Boots & Badges blood drive on Monday, July 29 will provide blood needed to save local lives, such as those that firefighters and law enforcement officers rescue.
Bowker visits every airport in state
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Three days. Three very long days.
That’s how long it took 23-year-old C.J. Bowker to fly from Ponca City to every airport in the State of Oklahoma.
Bowker, a 2014 Po-Hi graduate, decided last December to give it a try after his father, James Bowker, suggested he land in one airport in each of Oklahoma’s 77 counties.
That morphed into landing at every paved, public, non-military airport in the state. All 123 of of them. Oklahoma has a total of 149 airports, but besides the military-only airports, there are also a number of unpaved, grass-strip airports.
Water issues in county
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BLACKWELL — The Blackwell Police Department has released the following statement regarding recent water and sewer issues in the City of Blackwell:
“During summer months the demand for water rises due to increased consumption. To ensure that city water has the time to properly go through the water plant and have time for additives to clean it up, city management authorized running the plant for twenty-four hours a day rather than sixteen.”
PC Sailfish compete in Jenks meet
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Members of the Ponca City Sailfish swim team participated in the 2019 Long Course Division II swim meet.
Many of the swimmers achieved best times for the event.
Results include (some of the placings were unavailable):
Jesslayn Carpenter (11-12 age division)
1st in the 100 butterfly (she achieved her state time)
7th in the 200 backstroke
Addylinn Gowdy (11-12)
40th in the 50 freestyle a time improvement
50th in the 100 backstroke
Lila Moore (9-10)
13th in the 200 freestyle
27th in the 50 freestyle
Many golf balls found in lake
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ARCADIA, Mich. (AP) — An exclusive golf course in northern Michigan has changed its website to no longer encourage players to hit balls into Lake Michigan after a diver hired by a newspaper found hundreds in the water.
State environmental regulators said they’re investigating what has occurred at Arcadia Bluffs, where a round of golf on the course overlooking the northeastern shore of the lake costs $215 during the peak summer season. A beverage cart employee said she was fired for discouraging players from hitting balls into the lake.
Trout returns
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ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — Mike Trout is back in the Los Angeles Angels lineup after missing the previous three games due to a mildly strained right calf.
The two-time AL MVP will be the designated hitter Thursday when the Angels complete a four-game series against the Houston Astros. He leads the league in home runs (30) and RBIs (75) along with a .305 batting average, which is ninth.
Trout suffered the injury during Sunday’s game against Seattle. Prior to the injury, he had eight home runs in seven games.
Michigan going to Mexico
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CHICAGO (AP) — Michigan hasn’t played a game outside the United States in more than a century but coach Jim Harbaugh said that will change soon.
Asked about the possibility of playing a game in Mexico, Harbaugh tipped an upcoming international date.
“We’re close to announcing playing a team on foreign soil,” he said Friday at Big Ten media days. “I think there’s something imminent; an announcement soon on that.”
Anniversary celebration
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Cheryl Jean (Morgan) and Gary Lee Jones are celebrating their 50th anniversary.
Club members find a dry place to camp
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WHEELER Dealers enjoyed music at Winfield's Island Park by the Winfield Municipal Band.
A rainy spring has caused many lakes in Oklahoma and Kansas to flood, so members of the Wheeler Dealers Camping Club became creative moving the July campout last week to Napawalla Park in Oxford, KS hosted by Cecil and Linda Sparks.
Members from Ponca City and Bartlesville arrived over a three-day period selecting their sites across from the pavilion rented by the group for gatherings.