The senior members of the Wolverine softball team were to be honored at the senior night ceremony that was rained out last week. Senior night has been a challenge with the Covid pandemic and the fall rain. Brayden Smith, Faith Norman, and Kaden Morris will be honored when the weather and the virus cooperates.

Bill and Meryl Johnson celebrated their 66 th wedding anniversary quietly at home on August 22 watching the classic movie, Roman Holiday with Audrey Hepburn and Gregory Peck on Netflix. This was the movie they first saw when they met on a blind date in 1953.

The Holdenville High School football squad will open the 2020 football season Friday night when they face off with their perennial rival the Wewoka Tigers. Wewoka won last year’s contest and the wolverines will be looking to even the score when the two teams square off at Wolverine Stadium at 7:00.

The CoVid virus has caused the Wolverines to miss a week of practice and caused both of Holdenville’s scrimmages to be cancelled. Wewoka, on the other hand, has a typical season thus far. The Tigers have been able to hold regular practices and has had two scrimmages. This is could be an advantage when the teams kick-off their regular season schedules on Friday.

Coach Sara Morgan’s Wolverine softball team has also been sidelined by the CoVid virus. The Wolverines had to not only miss a week of practice but they also had postpone an important district game with Hugo. However everything is on go this week. The Wolverines will take a 5-3 record in to a district game on the road to Antlers and return home Tuesday for a senior night match-up with Tecumseh. The Wolverines’ third game of the week will be Thursday when they host the Tishomingo Indians.

Haylie Turner was one of the top finishers in the Elementary Division of the Wolverine Invitational Cross-Country Meet. It’s too early to determine if Haylie will be the same caliber runner as her dad but the youngster is showing some promise. One thing that stood out at the cross-country meet was how excited Haylie was to have her picture taken with her Dad, Ryan Turner. Haylie will be one to watch develop over the next few years because Ryan was the top runner in the state when he was a senior at Holdenville High.

Brock Ulm was shocked when his brother texted him to say one of his wife’s Facebook friends (Jason Grizzle) had posted a picture of his class ring that he lost over 20 years ago. Brock says he lost the ring during the winter of 96-97 while he was walking home from school. He then contacted Jason and he told Brock that his daughter had found it in their backyard, which was an empty lot that he used to cut through every day on his way home from school. After losing the ring, Brock would spend time looking for his ring because he knew where he had lost it. Turns out that it was found in that same area! Brocks stated, “It’s crazy that it laid covered in dirt for 20+ years and that it happened to be found and returned. Thanks, Jason Grizzle!”

Quadruplets? They may look like it, but actually this is Sister JoAnn Ellingsworth and her beautiful daughters, Sherry, (JoAnn), Kathy and Kay, who recently go together for a visit..