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1965 or 1966 International Harvester held a tractor-demo at a farm near downtown Hinton. Farmer’s daughter learned real fast how to operate tractor.

EDMOND — The Rural Health Association of Oklahoma recognized Shelly Dunham last week for her work in rural Oklahoma. Ms. Dunham received the “Rural Health Lifetime Achievement” award at the Awards Luncheon during the 2021 Rural Health Conference in Edmond, Okla. According to her bio,

(Photo left) (L to R): Leila Dyer, 5th grade Vice President of the student council, was recognized Monday as the September Eagle of the Month! Lyrik Austin is 5th grade student council President. Deana Mauck was nominated for the staff Eagle Pride Award, and Sophia Fritz is the student council secretary. They pose here with Watonga Superintendent Kyle Hilterbran (left) and school board members.

Watonga's own Kelsi Scheihing won big last week at the Tulsa State Fair! Her market hair sheep won Reserve Grand and made sale as one of the top lambs at the fair. Congratulations to Kelsi and all the Watonga FFA students who showed out in Tulsa! (Photo provided by Erin Ross)

If someone had told me almost 50 years ago that I'd be spending the majority of my days trying to figure out what the heck to fix for meals three times a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year, I'd have run for the hills and became a single vegetarian hermit who lives off the land. That adds up to approximately 53,280 meals multiplied by four people in the household, two of whom are very picky eaters, in the 48 years and eight months we've been married! I think I've earned the right to literally phone it in for all our meals from now on, don't y'all? I mean, isn't that why fast-food restaurants were invented? So we harried housewives can get a break from constantly cooking and cleaning?

Hi everyone! Well we made it through another Cheese Festival. And it was a good one. Lots of people came out to enjoy. It helped that the weather was great! I hope most of you got out to check it out. I heard some of the vendors said it was the best in several years as far as sales. That's good. That means they'll be back next year.