Alex Hwy 19 two car Accident. Names have not been released at this time. According to OHP, Driver 1 was headed west in a Cadillac. Driver 2, also west bound, came up on driver 2 and hit the Cadillac’s rear bumper. Driver 2 then lost control of her suburban, and left the North side of the road; rolling over and hitting a tree. Driver 1 had minor injuries, but Driver 2 had to be Mediflight to OU. To View the Accident go to http://1061theranch.com/community/community-videos and http://kool1055fm.com/community/community-videos
Is there a connection between missing Chickasha pets and the Big (Great) Horned Owls?
Great Horned Owl
Dyanna Culp, a zoology major, believes the owls have been around locally before she actually saw the first ones. The owls mate, build nests and are primarily nocturnal, but do hunt during daylight hours.
About three weeks ago, around 7 AM, Sunday morning as Culp was getting ready for church and about to let her cat out, she noticed a giant shape in a tree across the alley from her backyard. The predator owl let out a screeching hooting calling to its mate. Seconds later another owl landed in close proximity. Deductively this means that they are a mated pair because owls do not coincide with each other unless they are mated. As it started to get brighter the owls both flew off towards the northeast.
A few days later, Culp was in the backyard with her cat and noticed that her cat was staying under the shrubbery and low hanging trees. As the days went on the cat became very nervous about going into the backyard and when left alone would come to the back door screaming to be let in. One day Culp went to the back door and was looking out the window and saw her cat cringing under a bench in the corner of her yard. As she looked up in the tree one of the owls was about five or 10 feet above the cat. Luckily, there was also a Mockingbird nest in the corner of the yard, which started attacking the owl; driving it away.
Culp believes this is just one of several near misses for her cat stating, “I think he has had some close calls and these owls have been messing with him or he would not fear a place that he has been comfortable in for over eight years.”
2015. Estimated flight and hunting path based on sightings.
There has been numerous sightings of the owls between the northern Creek close to Canadian Valley Vo-tech leading south to the ninth street I 44 overpass.
Several people who walk the Shannon Springs Park stated that they had seen the great horned owls and even one young lady from south of town stated one set on her mailbox for almost 4 hours. She said, “I have small dogs and one large dog, which is scary.”
Over the past several months the radio station has received lost pet announcements and the Chickasha animal control office states that they receive at least two or three calls a week on missing pets.
This is a realistic problem, which needs attention. Even if all the pets lost are not from the owls, our pets are part of our family. The importance is to keep an eye out for potential danger.
owlinstitute.org describes the great horned owl as a large, bulky owl with prominent ear tufts, white throat, gray beak, and bright yellow eyes. The young are orange-brown with white throat and a less pronounced ear tuft. Males are normally 20.0 inches tall. Females range up to 23.6 inches. Both weighing in between 2.9 and 3.3 pounds, with the wingspan between 52.7 to 56.2 inches. Their normal diet is predominantly small mammals such as hares, ground squirrels, and pets; also preying on birds, amphibians, reptiles, fish, and insects. The great horned owl nests in commonly abandoned nests of birds or squirrels, but also tree cavities, cactus, haylofts, manmade nest platforms, cliffs, and caves.
Since the great horned owl is a predator, but is also protected by government regulation it is important to gather as much information about the nesting area and possible sightings or abductions of pets within their hunting grounds.
If you know that your pet has been taken by one of these owls call the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation.
Main Office – Call (405) 521-3851
Mailing Address:
ODWC
PO BOX 53465
OKC, OK. 73152
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Teams of Robot-Building Students from Oklahoma Will Use the VEX IQ CHALLENGE and STEM Skills (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) to Test robotic skills at MacArthur Middle School Gym Saturday. TheRobot Tournament qualifications Begin at 9 AM with the finals starting around 3 PM.
LAWTON OKLAHOMA – JANUARY 10 – More than 43 teams including smaller robots call VEX IQ for the younger kids will be on site. The kids are leading middle and high school VEX Robotics students and mentors from around Oklahoma uniting at the MacArthur Middle School Gym on Saturday for the robot tournament The action-packed event will feature teams who will compete with and against other schools in a series of back-to-back robot challenges. Participants will compete for the championship title by strategically executing an obstacle course, driving robots they designed, built and programmed from the ground up using the VEX Robotics Design System.
Competing (2014) MacArthur middle school archive.
The MacArthur robot tournament is one of a series of VEX Robotics Competitions taking place internationally throughout the year. VEX Robotics is the world’s fastest growing competitive robotics program for elementary schools, middle schools, high schools and colleges around the world, with more than 7,300 teams from 26 countries that participate in more than 400 VEX Robotics Competition events worldwide. The competition season culminates each Spring, with the highly-anticipated VEX Robotics Competition World Championship event, uniting top qualifying teams from local, state and international VEX Robotics Competitions.
“The technological economy of the future depends on equipping today’s youth with the tools necessary to become tomorrow’s leading innovators,” said Mike Anderson, robotics instructor of MacArthur middle school. “This tournament provides kids with an engaging hands-on learning experience that promotes a passion for science and technology – instilling in them an appreciation for the field and an enthusiasm to pursue STEM-related education and careers.”
Competing Teams
VRC teams (VRC are the larger robots)
Newkirk Middle School, Newkirk, Oklahoma 6 teams
Meridian Technology Center, Stillwater, Oklahoma 4 teams
Central Tech, Drumright, Oklahoma 3 teams
Canadian Valley Technology Center, Yukon, Oklahoma 4 teams
Great Plains Technology Center, Great Plains Technology Center 2 teams
Boone-Apache TSA, Oklahoma 7 teams
Edmond Cimarron Middle School, Edmond Oklahoma 10 teams
Destiny Christian School, Del City Oklahoma 1 team
Macarthur Middle School, Lawton Oklahoma 3 teams
Summit Middle School, Edmond Oklahoma 2 teams
Sharon-Mutual Public Schools, Mutual Oklahoma 3 teams
EHS/LHS Robotics Team, Lawton Oklahoma 2 teams
Kingfisher High School, Kingfisher Oklahoma 1 teams
Indiahoma Public Schools, Indiahoma Oklahoma 5 team
The VEX Robotics Competition is managed by the Robotics Education & Competition Foundation and serves as a vehicle for students to develop critical life skills such as teamwork, leadership and project management, honed through building robots and competing with like-minded students from the community in a pulse-pounding, exciting, non-traditional environment. The VEX Robotics Design System was built from the ground up and designed to be an affordable, accessible and scalable platform used to teach science, technology, engineering and math education worldwide.
The Robotics Education & Competition Foundation, a 501(c) (3) non-profit organization, supports robotics and technology events and programs that aim to inspire and motivate students to advance in STEM education. In addition to operating and supporting competitions for some of the world’s leading robotics platforms and organizations including VEX, TSA and BEST Robotics Competitions, the foundation also provides program support and workshops focused on technology and professional development for educators – including the RobotEvents.com community portal website which helps promote multiple high quality programs and provides online registration and event pages for hundreds of events around the world.
R. Williams (2015) Signing with WBU By Dennis Linam
Chickasha high school student, Riley Williams signed to Wrestle at Wayland Baptist University 2PM Monday at the high school library. His previous coach and future coach provided a look into the work of Williams.
CHS Coach Randall
Coach Erin Meister Wayland Baptist University In Texas.
Official swearing in of Bari Finstone (Assessor), Windle Hardy (Commissioner Dist. 1), and Ralph Beard (Commissioner Dist. 2) By The Honorable Judge Richard Van Dyck.
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