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Waurika Library News December 19 2019

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Darren Biby
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The Waurika Public Library will be closed December 24th and 25th to celebrate Christmas.  We will reopen on Thursday, December 26th at 9:00 a.m.  We wish everyone has a Merry Christmas!

If you’re using Amazon for some of your Christmas shopping, be sure to use AmazonSmile.  AmazonSmile is a website operated by Amazon with the same products, prices, and shopping features as Amazon.com. The difference is that when you shop on AmazonSmile, the AmazonSmile Foundation will donate 0.5% of the purchase price of eligible products to the charitable organization of your choice.  Just go to ‘smile.amazon.com’ and select Friends of the Waurika Public Library.

In the instant #1 New York Times bestseller, ‘The Guardians’ by John Grisham delivers a classic legal thriller—with a twist.

In the small Florida town of Seabrook, a young lawyer named Keith Russo was shot dead at his desk as he worked late one night. The killer left no clues. There were no witnesses, no one with a motive. But the police soon came to suspect Quincy Miller, a young black man who was once a client of Russo’s. 

Quincy was tried, convicted, and sent to prison for life. For twenty-two years he languished in prison, maintaining his innocence.  But no one was listening.  He had no lawyer, no advocate on the outside. In desperation, he writes a letter to Guardian Ministries, a small nonprofit run by Cullen Post, a lawyer who is also an Episcopal minister.

Guardian accepts only a few innocence cases at a time.  Cullen Post travels the country fighting wrongful convictions and taking on clients forgotten by the system. With Quincy Miller, though, he gets far more than he bargained for. Powerful, ruthless people murdered Keith Russo, and they do not want Quincy Miller exonerated.

They killed one lawyer twenty-two years ago, and they will kill another without a second thought

Check out ‘The Guardians’ by John Grisham at your Waurika Public Library.

Many events and programs at the library are supported by the Friends of the Waurika Public Library.  Sponsorship of the Friends starts at just $10.  For more information or to become a sponsor, please visit the Waurika Public Library.

Story Time is every Wednesday at 10:00 a.m. for children and toddlers.  Each week we read stories, and have games and puzzles for the children to play with after reading.

For information about events, activities and more, visit our Facebook group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/WaurikaPublicLibrary/

Waurika Celebrates Football Homecoming 2019

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Curtis Plant
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Waurika Homecoming Court
(l-r) Kaci Reynolds, Gracie Walling, Gunner Myers, Alexa Breitigan (Seventh Grade Candidate), Gabe Jenkins, 
Tallon Mora (Sophomore Candidates and escorts), Coby Mead, Sara Ballard (Senior Candidates), Turner Mora, Travis Etheridge, 
Nicole Burton (Queen), Edwin Garcia, Seth Waid, Jordan Wadsworth (Senior Candidate and escorts), Jordan Watkins, 
Peyton Fletcher, Hunter Wesberry, Octavia Gomez, Asia Smith (Junior Candidates),
 Kaden Dobbs, Traci Ballard (Eighth Grade King and Queen), 
Cody Ramsey, Karlee Brinson (Freshman Candidate and Attendant with her escort), Lexi Streeter, Faith Roberson
High School Crown Bearer: Kade Torres Flower Girl: Harper Watkins (near center)
Junior High Crown Bearer: Daniel Neasbitt Flower Girl: Charlie Baxter (far right)
Photo by Adam Brinson
High School King and Queen
Edwin Garcia & Nicole Burton
Crown Bearer: Kade Torres
Flower Girl: Harper Watkins
Photo by Adam Brinson
Junior High King and Queen
Kaden Dobbs & Traci Ballard
Crown Bearer: Daniel Neasbitt
Flower Girl: Charlie Baxter
Photo by Adam Brinson

Enjoying a Piece of History on Historic Journey

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Curtis Plant
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The reenactment of the 1909 the endurance race, which was won by  Henry Ford, is what inspired Thetan Ogle to jump in his 1917 Model T Ford and hit the open road. 

This year is the 110 year anniversary of the race. Ogle’s car is one he found in a barn in Rhode Island. The vehicle is all original. 

He left on June 14 from New York City and followed the same route of the original race. He ended up in Seattle at the end of the run. He has been on the road for a month and a half. 

The car still has its original motor.

He is traveling through Oklahoma on his return trip home because he wanted to see some new country. He was in Waurika last week getting fuel. It will take him a while to get home, the car’s top speed is 35 MPH.

During this trip he has met some interesting and friendly people. He has been invited to family reunions and some have even offered to pay for his gas. He has slept in the car and often camped on the side of the road. 

Ogle calls his car Ernie, named after the gentleman who sold him the car – Ernest Matthews.   When Matthews purchased the car he only paid $40 for it. Ogle is now its third owner. Charles Rathermel was the original owner. 

The above e picture was taken back in the 1950’s.

He has a copy of the original bill of sale along with a photograph of the car back in its heyday . 

Ogle restores antique cars for a living. 

Round Ryan January 30, 2020

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Dennis Underwood
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 I have written several times about going to the local hangout and drinking coffee.  Some of the more narrow minded people call this gossiping but I see it as being almost tribal, a throw back to the days of being around a camp fire or the hearth in a cave.  In the old days when communications were word of mouth, we sat around the fire and told stories.  Stories about the best place to find game for hunting.  Stories that told of lessons learned the hard way, how we know not  to do something because it will in fact leave a scar.  Stories that passed the wisdom from generation to generation.  Just this morning we had a discussion about Gregor Mendels law of dominance, of how parent organisms passed dominant traits on to their offspring.  All things considered Marsha is lucky that we don’t sing and dance around something that we have set on fire.  I’m sure her insurance premiums would go up.

 It would be hard to find anything wrong with the weather that we have been having lately.  We have had the rain that we need and also a lot of sunshine.  The other night it was cold enough to make you use your electric blankets and like an idiot I was standing out in the yard listening to owls hooting.  It seemed like they were all over town, talking about whatever it is that owls talk about.  In Greek mythology the owl sat on the shoulder of Athena giving her the ability to see on her blind side, enabling her to see the whole truth.  In the Bible the owl was seen as being a sign of wisdom.  It was viewed in many cultures as being good luck but in others it was bad, even to the point of being a harbinger of death.  All  I know was that standing there on that cold clear night hearing all those birds hooting back and forth, it was a beautiful sound.

 My eldest brother, Scott who could accurately be described as being old school, was telling me Sunday that in his toolbox at the shop, there is a laptop computer.  This machine is not even part of the diagnostic equipment that is part of being a modern auto mechanic.  This particular computer is for ordering parts that he needs.  The companies don’t send out the old fashioned books made of paper the way they used to do.

 In the last twenty years, every job that I have had, involved using a computer.  From the warehouse to selling hunting and fishing permits.  Even paying my sales tax on  the plant business includes those infernal machines, as my good friend Jon Harris calls them.

 I remember when I was in high school, my counselor suggested that I go to college and get into computers, that was the coming thing.  I told him that  was the silliest thing that I had ever heard.  According to the seventeen year old Dennis, no one is going to want to sit at a computer all day. 

Yard of the Week

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Joe and Gayla Keeter on Peach Street are this week’s Lawn of the Week winners.  They mow and edge their lawn every other day!  Congratulations and thank you for keeping Waurika beautiful.  Award was presented by Chamber of Commerce committee members Roy Bartling and Sharon Duncan.  If you have a lawn to recommend for the award, please call Roy at 580.313.0161.

Local girl returns home to care for patients at JCH

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Curtis Plant
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Waurika High School alumnus, Randi Berry, has returned home to provide rehabilitation care at Jefferson County Hospital. She attended Midwestern State University (Wichita Falls, TX) and then transferred to the University of Oklahoma where she earned her Physical Therapy degree.

“My first job out of school was with Duncan Regional Hospital,” said Randi. “I then worked for a home health care in Wichita Falls and now I am back.”  As a physical therapist, Randi works with a wide range of patients. For those recovering from knee replacement surgery to those requiring reconditioning after a long hospital stay.

Therapy services offered include:

• Exercises focused on improving strength and mobility

• Instruction on safe and correct use of walker, canes, braces and artificial limbs

• Improving everyday living skills including dressing and eating

Randi and her team are here to help those who have suffered functional loss due to a disabling illness or injury.  “Our goal is to get you moving again,” shared Randi.

Randi is married to Josh, a firefighter for Wichita Falls, and they have two children.

About Duncan Regional Hospital

Serving Stephens and the surrounding counties since 1977, Duncan Regional Hospital has a state-wide reputation as one of the premiere Oklahoma hospitals for medical excellence, advanced technology and nationally recognized high levels of patient satisfaction and is a 138-bed nationally accredited hospital.  To learn more visit www.duncanregional.com    

 

“My first job out of school was with Duncan Regional Hospital,” said Randi. “I then worked for a home health care in Wichita Falls and now I am back.”

 

 

Round Ryan January 25 2018

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Mollye Compton
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We’ve made it through yet another week of drastically low temperatures, but on the brighter side, was the weekend. It got up into the 70s on Saturday and Sunday. Now, we are not as cold, but a bit cooler than what we saw this weekend.
This Saturday is our Ryan food distribution from the food bank starting at 10:00am.
Brionna and her group from TKRanch made their trip to Dallas and had a really good time.  They made it over to Plano and saw Karen, and to their surprise, Karen’s sister was able to take Karen so she could go to the movies with her dorm mates.  She and the other women from Dorm #3 had even a better time since Karen was able to be a part with them again.   They went to 2 or 3 different places each day, but, one day they went up into Reunion Tower.  I don’t know that I would have cared for that too much myself.   They got back to the ranch on Thursday afternoon.  Then, on Saturday morning, their dorm mother wound up with the flu.  I called to talk to Brionna Sunday evening and Dianna answered the phone.  I knew from her voice she was sick.  She was trying to keep a distance from the women in the dorm.  I hope she if feeling better now.
When I woke up Saturday morning and turned the television on, the first thing I heard was that we were in a government shutdown.  They announced this morning that our government leaders have come to an agreement and we are okay now until February 8th.
When I woke up this morning, I learned that there was an earthquake just out from Alaska that registered 7.9. This was over 100 miles out from land that the earthquake occurred. In the northeastern part of our country, they are expecting massive floods.  But, thankfully, all is quite in Ryan.
This Saturday is Brionna’s birthday.  She is going to be 28 years old.  Happy Birthday, Brionna!  We are planning to go to Wichita Falls with her grandparents and dorm mates and eat at the Red Robin restaurant.
The flu is beginning to work its’ way back around here.  I have seen many in town that are ill.
Kim’s news for this week:
Praise God for the weather and Joe Toddy is better.
I’ve been riding in the pasture again, in the sunshine and the wind.  Ruffy Tuffy can shake which is nice, I think Foxy has been giving him advice.
Everyone have a blessed week.  Prayers to good health and for rain.

Senior Profile: Katelyn Washburn

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Madison Christian
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1. How do you feel about your last year? I am super excited to get to move on to bigger things in my life. Although, I am sad that I won’t get to stay a kid with little responsibilities anymore, I am excited.

2. Sum up your school experiences? I enjoyed school, it taught me more than what I thought it could have, and prepared me for a great future.

3. Activities/organizations you have participated in? I have cheered all four years, ran track my fresh. and soph. year, cross country my fresh. and soph. year, powerlifting my freshman year, FFA my fresh., soph and junior year, showed a goat my freshman year, yearbook and FCCLA and basketball my senior year.

4. Plans for the future? I plan on attending a college, cheerleading while I’m there and majoring in English.

5. Favorite memory at WHS? After the Empire football game, Colton and Gatlin dumped the water cooler on me while it was freezing cold outside.

6. What teacher class prepared you? Over the years I have enjoyed all of my English classes and all of the teachers that have helped me love English even more than I already did. I can’t wait to become an English teacher myself.

7. Give advice to an underclassman? Remember to have fun while you can, because high school ends in the blink of an eye.

8. Anyone you want to thank? I want to think my mom and dad for pushing me to be the best I could be. I would also like to think the rest of my family and friends.

9. Do you have a fear about leaving? I do not want to grow up and be an adult. I love high school and I’m afraid to move on past it, although I feel it is not as bad as I make it out to be.

10.  Are you going to miss being at WHS?  Yes, even though I moved here my senior year everyone has been so great to me and I gained so many friends and I am sad that I did not get to know them longer.

Okies for Monarchs Offers Best Holiday Gift and Stocking Stuffer Ideas and DIYs for Pollinator Gardeners and Monarch Lovers

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Mary Waller
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Whether you are looking for the perfect holiday “something” for a gardening family member, wracking your brain for the perfect hostess gift for that friend who always stops and looks at the butterflies, or is wanting to inspire wonder when taking a unique gift to a curious child, Okies for Monarchs has you covered! Check out this winter-wildlife-wants “wish list” guaranteed to bring holiday cheer! From seed bombs to pollinator puddlers – you can be the coolest elf this season.

Okies for Monarchs, an initiative of the Oklahoma Monarch and Pollinators Collaborative, has a passion and mission to engage, educate and inspire Oklahomans to help pollinators and restore habitat. A few key things needed by pollinators, indeed all wildlife need, are water, food, shelter and a place to raise their young. 

In that spirit, and in time for the season of giving, the Okies for Monarchs team recommends a few unique holiday gifts that “give” to nature and are guaranteed to inspire others: 

  • “Bee” the best secret Santa with a surprise bee house! Made of wood, reeds, bamboo, and other natural materials, many unique shapes and sizes are available for pole or wall-mounted bee “homes” or “condos” that provide shelter for solitary and beneficial bee species. Or, make your own! Check out a few styles at https://www.almanac.com/content/bee-houses-solitary-bees
  • How about providing a “water feeder” for nature under the Christmas tree or to take as a hostess gift?! Sometimes called “puddlers,” these saucers (big and small) can be hung from a limb or set on a surface and are just the right size for butterflies, hummingbirds and other pollinators to hydrate. See examples at https://www.gardeners.com/buy/butterfly-puddler
  • Visit your local nursery, or one of the many great native plant growers across our state (in person, by phone or online) to order “ready to plant” milkweed or other native plants for delivery to your door (via mail) or to a spring plant festival near you (delivery w/out the shipping charges). Check out some of the many insecticide-free Oklahoma nurseries and vendors at http://www.okiesformonarchs.org/what-to-plant-where-to-buy/. Gift certificates may also be available from many growers. Shop locally when you can!
  • Buy non-GMO wildflower seeds just right for Oklahoma native (or migrating) birds, bees and butterflies through certified organic growers. Check out the native varieties available at www.Johnstonseeds.com. 
  • On a budget, or simply like to give gifts with a personal touch? Looking for a project to do with the children or at a party with a conservation-starter twist? Need a teacher gift? Wildflower seed “bombs” are fun to make, give and plant. You can research best perennial seeds for your Oklahoma eco-region (at www.plants.usda.gov) and then make your own bombs for stocking stuffers to keep your friends or the kids in your life bragging on you until spring! Check out this amazing step-by-step video from Payne County Master Gardeners – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhgLSF4x1Ac
  • Make a donation to Okies for Monarchs and support the advancement of pollinator-friendly gardening, best land management practices, and habitat enhancement across Oklahoma. Our volunteers can buy seeds, travel to provide education to schools and community groups, and print resource materials with financial gifts made through the Conservation Coalition of Oklahoma Foundation. Donate or learn more at www.okiesformonarchs.org.

Do you have more great gardening gift ideas or pollinator projects that would make holiday festivities more fun? Please share your ideas (and photos) on your social media feed and tag #OkiesforMonarchs. 

About Okies for Monarchs 

An initiative of the Oklahoma Monarch and Pollinators Collaborative, Okies for Monarchs, is a statewide campaign to educate, engage and support Oklahomans in the creation of more habitat and food sources for monarchs and pollinators. Their website, okiesformonarchs.org, is a robust online resource with free access to a comprehensive set of tools, calendars, and resources for all Oklahomans including residents, corporations, government, farmers/ranchers, tribal nations, teachers/students, utilities and energy right-of-way land managers. 

About the Contributing Writer

Mary Waller is the director of the Oklahoma Monarch and Pollinators Collaborative. She is a 20-year-veteran communications consultant, award-winning writer, and “not by the book” gardener. She hopes Santa will bring her a bat house this year.

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