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The organizers of the Tonkawa Film Festival have announced their Official Selections for the 2021 Tonkawa Film Festival taking place May 21-22, 2021, which is hosted by the Tonkawa Chamber of Commerce. This year’s festival screenings will once again take place at Wilkin Hall on the beautiful Northern Oklahoma College campus in Tonkawa, OK. In addition to the selections which include 38 short films from around the world and across multiple genres, the festival will once again host a special screening of a feature film with the star of the film scheduled to be in attendance. Organizers plan to reveal more details about the special screening in the coming weeks. Festival attendees and visiting filmmakers will again be treated to a one-of-a-kind film festival parade through downtown Tonkawa on Saturday, May 22nd, which includes a tribute to Oklahoma’s farmers with tractors included in the parade.

The Ponca City Public Schools is releasing PreK and Kindergarten Informational videos for parents of upcoming PreK and Kindergarten students on Thursday, April 15, 2021. The purpose of the video is to share pertinent information with parents of four to five-year-old students who will be attending PCPS during the upcoming 2021-2022 school year.

FIRST PLACE winner of the Ponca City News Easter Egg Giveaway was Calder Hendrickson, shown here with his mother Anna Hendrickson. First place prize included gift cards to The Perk, Hall of Heroes, a Freshie by Rachel, tickets to the Poncan Theatre production of “Oklahoma”, truffles from The Gift Shoppe, and a one year subscription to the Ponca City News. Second and third place prizes have not been redeemed yet, so if you have those Easter Eggs, bring them to the Ponca City News office to claim your prizes! Photo by Lacy St. Andrews

A mission sponsored by undersea technology company Caladan Oceanic and led by entrepreneur, explorer and retired naval officer Victor Vescovo has announced they have found a section of wreckage belonging to the World War II Fletcher-class destroyer USS Johnston (DD 557) which was lost at the Battle off Samar, part of the Battle of Leyte Gulf, on Oct. 25, 1944.

Here it is finally, after nearly 60 years, we finally get a big budget Hollywood rematch between the King of the Monsters Godzilla and the Eighth Wonder of the World Kong on the big screen (or small screen if you watched on HBO Max). This will be a non-spoiler review.

The BPA organization at East Middle School competed and placed in eight events at the State Leadership Conference held virtually. The list of events and student rankings are listed below. All participating East Middle School students qualified to compete at the BPA Virtual National Leadership Conference May 5-9, 2021.

Five Northern Oklahoma College alumni were inducted into the NOC Distinguished Hall of Fame last Saturday evening in the Renfro Center at NOC Tonkawa. Inductees from 2020 include Risha Grant, Marta Sullivan, and Jon Kissinger joined 2021 inductees Evelyn Coyle and Dr.

The Kay County 4-H Senior Livestock Judging Team won the Oklahoma State University Livestock Judging contest held on the OSU campus in Stillwater, Oklahoma last fall. The Kay County team was named State Champions. Members of the team were Josie Doshier (Woodlands), Reid Buellesfeld (Blackwell), Hattie Steichen (Ponca City), and Tucker Jeffries (Blackwell).

East Middle School Student Council has been decorating doors around our school for every holiday and, recently, kindness doors. Student Council members enjoy decorating teachers’ doors just for the joy it brings to teachers when they see their doors decorated. Currently, we have many doors decorated. The Student Council plans to decorate doors and put positive posters up throughout the school for testing encouragement. The Student Council enjoys doing this due to not being able to do what we usually do because of Covid-19. We take pride in decorating teachers’ doors. The group plans to continue fostering kindness and positivity throughout the rest of the school year.