LOCAL SPORTS Blaine County Watonga Boys’ Spring Hoops 2019-20 Livestock Show Season Ends at Results 2A Regionals A4 B3 Wednesday, March 4, 2020 FACEBOOK.COM/WATONGANEWS 59 °/36 ° Partly sunny and windy today, TWITTER.COM/WATONGANEWS with a high near 59. Watonga Republican Issue #22 “Your Town, Your News, Since 1892” USPS #669-480© $1.00 WatongaRepublican.com BLAINE COUNTY WATONGA The Numbers Are In: Super Tuesday Election Results By Connie Burcham Editor [email protected] Tuesday was the Presidential Preferential Pri- mary in Oklahoma and 13 other states. Regis- tered Oklahoma voters could choose from the Democratic ticket if they were either Democrats or Independents; only Republicans could vote Republican. The Democratic ticket included names of nine candidates that have left the race, reducing the field to only five viable candidates. They are listed in order of appearance on the ballot. Michael Bloomberg, former mayor of New York, garnered 13.9 % of the votes in Oklahoma and 116 in Blaine County. Elizabeth Warren, for- Watonga Community Theatre Watonga Republican mer Senator from Massachusetts had 13.38 % in Oklahoma and 63 in Blaine County. Joseph (L to R) Kaylee Roberts as Gail Nail, Cale Lorenz as Scoop O’- Biden, former vice president under Barak Obama, Mally, and Kyler Parham as Rusty Nail try to find the Treasure brought in the lion’s share of the Oklahoma Dem- of Shiver River. ocratic voters at 38.67 % and 222 in Blaine County. Bernie Sanders, the junior Senator from Vermont, took 25.43 % of the Oklahoma vote Treasure of Shiver River and 98 in Blaine County. Tulsi Gabbard, a Con- gresswoman from Hawaii, won 1.68% in Okla- homa and 22 in Blaine County. Debuts in Watonga Nationwide, Bloomberg brought in 35 dele- Provided By to gain control of the Shiver gates, showing well in California and Colorado, Kim Coney Valley Ranch owned by cattle while Biden surged in Alabama, Massachusetts, Watonga Community Theatre baron Colonel Sanders (Wade SEE ELECTION RESULTS PAGE A3 McCrary). But heroine Heidi It is time for the spring pro- Claire’s (Jocelyn Turney) duction at the Watonga Com- heart belongs to hero Marshall OKLAHOMA CITY munity Theatre. This year the Law (Joe Kalicki). offering is ‘The Treasure of Will Rod Enreel convince Shiver River.” The western Heidi Claire to marry him, Landon Holt of Geary Becomes Blaine melodrama features 24 high gaining control of the Shiver school students filling musical Valley Ranch? Will he find roles as well as portraying the the treasure before the gold heroes, heroines and villains. miner Orin (Ariyana Yellow- County’s Newest State Title Winner The action takes place in the bank) and pirate queen Bonnie Lucky Hotel, run by Lotta (Callie Edsall)? Join us as Luck. Here we meet a vast these questions and much array of characters that live more are answered while the along the Shiver River. The crazy cast takes us on a hu- members of this community morous journey through the are getting ready for the big old west. cattle auction. The villain, Rod The show dates are set for Enreel (Ernesto Duenez) has a SEE PAGE A3 plan or two or three in place THEATRE WATONGA City to Reinforce Fire Truck Driveway By Connie Burcham into $10,000 for labor and Editor $7,000 for the concrete, [email protected] which the city will purchase. At the Jan. 7 meeting, Aca- Watonga City Council met cia Exploration Partners was March 3 in regular session. approved to locate an oil and On the agenda was a discus- gas well on property the city sion on awarding a bid to owns east of Watonga High Jones Concrete Construction School. When the site was to build a driveway accessing originally applied for, the the new overhead doors on the company told the city it would Armory. The doors allow the be necessary to investigate the city’s fire trucks easy exit and property before the site was parking. At question was definite. whether a professional bond – The company representa- an insurance policy of sorts – tive, Justin Schuble, came to was required on the project. the council meeting to notify Andrew Salmi Watonga Republican Council determined it was not the city there is a previously and let the bid accordingly. Geary High School varsity wrestling senior standout Landon Holt is declared victorious on Friday, Feb. 21 after defeating Ronald The anticipated cost of the Shango of Millwood High School. Holt won the Class 3A 182-pound wrestling title over the weekend when he defeated Mikey work is about $17,000, split SEE DRIVEWAY PAGE A3 Riley of Blackwell High School, making him Geary’s second individual state champ in three years. SEE SPORTS PAGE B1 THIS WEEK IN WATONGA: GAS PRICES LOCAL GRAIN PRICES Like us on Facebook and other social media Watonga Wheat platforms to enjoy Last Change FRIDAY FRI - SUN SATURDAY Regular Diesel Week Ago Watonga Republican $4.30 -0.01 updates, pictures and videos $2.19 $2.48 $2.29 Corn from local events. 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Because these accepting donations and funds have to flow through a spending money for months land grant college, in our case or even years before an elec- Oklahoma State University, tion date is set by the gover- they are subject to volatility nor. This measure specifies when higher education fund- that a state question becomes ing is cut. This bill would a state question when the protect the money that is des- Secretary of State assigns a ignated for the Cooperative state question number, which Extension Services, which are typically occurs shortly after essential to many programs the petition is filed. in our rural areas. To modernize the petition I was scheduled to hear signature counting process, four bills in my House By Mike Sanders HB 3826 authorizes the Utilities Committee this State Representative Secretary of State to use elec- week. House Bill 3081 would District 59 Oklahoma House tronic signature counting crack down on telemarketers equipment and software so who try to replicate cell Feb. 27 was the date by petition signatures can be phone numbers or misrepre- which all bills had to be cross referenced with the sent the origin of a call on a passed in committee in order voter registration database caller ID. The ultimate solu- to stay active this session. maintained by the Election tion lies at the federal level, Consequently, that meant Board. Currently, signatures but this would help cut down House committees heard on these petitions are still on spam phone calls in our hundreds of bills this past being hand-counting and are state and give prosecutors By Connie Burcham week. Here is a look at a few long handles as a bottom of the seven veils, if you could not cross-referenced with better tools in going after Editor layer. There are varying compare long underwear to that passed. voter rolls. This bill would these scammers. House Bills 3826 and [email protected] degrees of thickness of long gossamer veils on a belly require petition forms to Once bills pass in commit- Dress for Success: underwear, so you have to dancer. 3827 by Speaker Charles include each signatory’s tee, they are eligible to be McCall would make more Oklahoma Style decide between merely frigid Shoes aren’t any easier, printed first name, last name, heard on the House floor. If or artic level. because the weather could dic- transparent and modernize zip code, house number, and they pass the House, they Every wide spot in the road the initiative and referendum lays claim to the most extreme Socks should be simple, but tate snow boots in the morn- month and day of birth. Any then go to the Senate to go you never know if the day will ing, muck boots by noon for petition processes used to entry not matching three of through the committee weather. Folks in Michigan place state questions on the say it’s coldest there, require argyle or thick wool, the mud and flip flops for the these five criteria during process and floor votes in the or both because the tempera- heat by 5 p.m. Then the sun ballot in Oklahoma. cross referencing with the opposite chamber. The same Minnesota claims the biggest HB 3827 addresses a lack mosquitos, this one has the ture hits all points of the spec- goes down and it starts all voter database would not be thing happens for Senate bills trum. over again. of transparency in campaign counted. heard in the House. Bills that most rain, that one has the finance for state questions. most humidity or summer Then there is a wife beater There is one good thing to House Bill 3913 restores pass both legislative cham- tank top, covered by a long be said for this time of year, The Ethics Commission cur- the last of the money the state bers are sent to the governor heat.