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Area friends, oilfield workers set to race in CBS reality show premiering Sept. 29
All it took was io seconds for Tim Wiyninger and Danny Merkey, both graduates of Cordell High School, to catch the attention of producers from an award-wining reality television show. "Our clip wasn't very long because = r71 _= we aren't techsavvy," said Wiyninger, 26, who said the video for the reality show was shot on an iPhone during a lunch break on a rig site. "We were wearing our oil field gear. That was one of the first things they saw and knew about us, was oil field. I think that is what caught their eye." Wiyninger said the 10 second clip along with an online application was
TOP: Tim Wiyninger and Danny Merkey, best friends since meeting in the 6th grade at Cordell, are the best friends team on this coming season of "The Amazing Race." The two, who both work in the oil field, were filmed by CBS on a rig site. BELOW: Eleven teams will compete in the 23rd season of "The Amazing Race," premiering on CBS at 7 p.m. on Sept. 29. One team, the best friends, is Tim Wiyninger and Danny Merkey, who were raised in Cordell.
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Debbie Porter McManaman remembers the last time she saw her grandpa, John A. Porter, 44 years ago on April 8, 1969. She was just 13 years old, lived in Cheyenne, and came to Elk City with her family to visit him. "I remember the last day we saw him really well," she said. "...We parked over there where Chick's Pawn Shop was, kind of in the shade, and sat there and visited with him in the car." Then, as a part of a normal routine, her Grandpa Porter pulled out several dollar bills to give to his three grandkids.
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Elk City High School FCCLA students challenged fellow classmates not to text and drive during National Drive 4 Pledges Day yesterday. During second breakfast, FCCLA members invited the student body to the high school parking lot to witness what it can be like to drive distracted. Senior Sierra Villegas, FCCLA vice-president, initiated the organization's campaign in conjunction with AT&T's national "It Can
Wait" effort. "It's symbolizing what it's like "I've seen the commercials on when you're distracted," Villegas TV a ton of times and I wanted to said. do something about it," Villegas, Senior Brycee Meadows, FCCLA who presented the idea to FCCLA treasurer, helped organize the event. officers, said. "We did it mainly because teenYesterday, several FCCLA mem- agers, we're on our phone a lot and bers and students placed blind- I'm sure a lot of us text and drive," folds over their eyes and attempted to guide a scooter safely to the finish line. SEE DANGER, 3A
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ABOVE: Seniors Bryce Dodge, left, and Kyler Butler, right, attempt to navigate a scooter blindly to the finish line to demonstrate what it can be like to drive while distracted by texting and driving.
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