WELCH—The Welch FFA chapter and the Golden Rocket 4-H club will have their annual pie supper at the Welch Civic Center at 7:00 p.m., Wed., Feb. 15, 2012. The community is invited to the event and encouraged to extend invitations to friends, family, and neighbors. Proceeds from the pie supper will fund premiums for exhibitors at the Welch Livestock Show, Feb. 25, 2012, at the Ag Show Barn.

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WELCH—Junior class parents raise funds each year to provide a safe, wholesome, and relaxed environment of fun activities for prom-goers after the prom itself is over. This year’s after-prom event will be held at the Welch Civic Center, Apr. 15, 2012, from 1:00-5:30 a.m. The group is seeking donations from the community to be used as activity and door prizes for the juniors and seniors at after-prom. In addition, junior class parents have scheduled two fundraisers to benefit this year’s event.

First, there will be a benefit Mexican food lunch at the Welch Civic Center, Sun., Feb. 26, 2012, from 11:00 a.m.-2:00 p.m. Tickets are $5 per person in advance and $6 at the door.

Also, a garage sale will be held at the Red Barn, Mar. 2-3, 2012. The garage sale will run from 7:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m., Fri., Mar. 2, and from 6:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m., Sat., Mar. 3. The group is seeking donated items for the garage sale. Those wishing to donate quality items for the garage sale may contact Kim Dodson at 918-788-3723, Kelli Biggs at 918-788-3146, Eva Triece at 918-788-3385, or Deann Bruce at 918-788-3510 to arrange drop-off of items.

Junior class parents wish to thank the Welch community in advance for its fantastic support of this very important event.

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WELCH—The Welch Wildcat Gym will play host to this year’s district basketball tournament, Fri. and Sat., Feb. 10-11, 2012. Afton, South Coffeyville, and Welch will compete for the opportunity to advance to the regional tourney in Copan and Bristow. From there, area will be in Bixby. And after that is state.

Your Lady Cats face South Coffeyville in the first round, Fri., Feb. 10, 2012, at 6:30 p.m. Your Welch Wildcats have a bye in the first round and will play the winner of Friday’s Afton-South Coffeyville match up, Sat., Feb. 11, 2012, at 8:00 p.m. WelchOK.com will be providing live online audio coverage of all games Welch teams are involved in during the district tournament via our Welch State Bank Mobile Webcast Unit.

Here are PDFs of the brackets, which include districts (Welch is in District 7), regionals, and area.

Girls

Boys

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WELCH—We’re happy to announce our new audio feature, What’s Up in Welch with the Wynns on WelchOK.com! We’ll try to get each week’s episode posted on Wednesdays. Take a listen to our first episode below.

What's Up in Welch with the Wynns Episode 1 [ 12:44 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

If you have items to be included on a future episode, make sure you email those to us at info [at] welchok [dot] com by 4 p.m. each Tuesday.

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Michael Joe Rice's mug shot

VINITA Okla.–At his preliminary hearing this morning in Craig County District Court, Michael Joe Rice waived his right to a preliminary hearing and pleaded guilty to the charges against him in the rape and murder of his adoptive mother Ruth Rice. Rice was sentenced to life without parole by Judge Gore.

Rice was accused of the Aug. 2, 2011, rape and murder of the elder Rice. He was arrested Aug. 29, 2011, after confessing to the crimes, all on the heels of an OSBI investigation that recovered Rice’s DNA from his adoptive mother’s body, among other evidence.

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