El Reno will put off Burger Day for one more year, but the first Saturday in May won’t be without plenty of fun as a new festival will be launched before moving to July in 2022.
Shana Ford, Main Street director, said the inaugural Route 66 Family Fun Fest and Cornhole Tournament will replace the annual Fried Onion Burger Day Festival, normally held the first Saturday in May.
But only for this year.
El Reno Public Schools released Teacher of the Year honorees for each of its seven educational sites for the 2020-21 school year.
El Reno High School
Chris Burdine
Burdine teaches high school Algebra 2, Algebra 3 and Pre-Calculus. This is his fourth year teaching, all in El Reno.
Burdine was in the construction industry for 20 years before going back to school to obtain a teaching degree.
OKLAHOMA CITY – Legislation to address the issue of unsolved cases of missing and murdered Native American people has been approved unanimously by the full Senate. Sen. Paul Rosino, R-Oklahoma City, is the principal author of Senate Bill 172, known as Ida’s Law.
The measure is named for 29-year-old Ida Beard from El Reno. A citizen of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes, she went missing in 2015 and has never been found.
LaRenda Morgan, Beard’s cousin, helped craft the legislation.
The Canadian and Woodward County OSU Cooperative Extension Centers will jointly host the What’s Up With Wheat meeting on March 10 from noon to 1 p.m., with Josh Bushong, West District OSU agronomist as the guest speaker.
SACRAMENTO, Calif. – Low-interest federal disaster loans are now available to Oklahoma businesses and residents as a result of President Biden’s major disaster declaration, U.S. Small Business Administration Acting Administrator Tami L. Perriello announced.
The declaration covers Canadian, Carter, Cherokee, Comanche, Cotton, Hughes, Jefferson, Le Flore, McIntosh, Oklahoma, Okmulgee, Osage, Pittsburg, Stephens, Tulsa and Wagoner counties as a result of the severe winter storms that occurred Feb. 8-20, 2021.
Friday, March 12 is the last day to apply for voter registration in order to be eligible to vote in the April 6 election.
The Senate approved legislation last week expanding educational opportunities for Oklahoma families.
Senate Bill 783, by Sen. Adam Pugh, R-Edmond, modifies the Education Open Transfer Act to allow students to transfer to another public school district year-round.
Pugh, who serves as the chair of the Senate Education Committee, said the bill is needed to provide families more flexibility to find the school that meets the needs of their child.
STILLWATER — Native American communities, storytelling and earth and space curriculum are set to combine in one ambitious project made possible through a $3.3 million National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) cooperative agreement with Oklahoma State University College of Education and Human Sciences.
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Calumet February Students of the Month, from left, Jace Chambless, Tina Ortiz, Jordyn Stephens and Kingston Arnold.
