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The Burger Day Festival is a tribute to the fried onion hamburger, cooked daily in El Reno since the early 1900s. It’s the burger that has helped make the community a destination for food lovers and those trekking along historic Route 66.

It’s not uncommon to hear languages such as French or German being spoken in El Reno’s three main “burger joints,” Johnnie’s, Robert’s or Sid’s.

This year’s festival will include a Native American dance troupe as well as an Hispanic mariachi band.

This year’s Burger Day Festival will feature several performances and festivities occurring on either the Route 66 Main Stage or Stage 66.

The stages have moved from years past and a map of the new locations accompanies this story.

Events scheduled to appear on the Main Stage include Monica Saldivar, Let’s Go! (A Cars Tribute), The Flannels, Coyette and The Haywire Band, Jason Scott and High Heat, Uncle Zep, Charlie Haag Band, My Old School, Pyrotechnics Show and Mariachi Orgullo de America.

Monica Saldivar

Following are recipes on How to Cook the Big Burger from Leann Tucker’s second-grade class at Rose Witcher:

Squish the meat flat. Season it and cook it. Add cheese, sauce, pickles, tomatoes, enjoy! - Jadyn

Then cook the burger add cheese if you want. - Garrett

First get hamburger meat. Cook it and season it an get pickles. - Nyla

Poot a bun on it first. Then cook the meet. Git the letis and the cheese. - Nova

After spending a week looking into what El Reno Public Schools Superintendent Matt Goucher termed a “personnel matter,” the district has reinstated Tyrone Lewis as head wrestling coach.

The reinstatement was effective April 21 but was announced by Goucher Monday morning in a meeting with Athletic Director Rodney Haydon, Lewis and Associate Superintendent of Personnel Pat Liticker.

Science, brains and creativity were all on display last week when the BlueSTEM AgriLearing Center held its annual Agriscience Symposium.

The eighth affair of its kind, the event was held in the Austin Family Conference Center at Redlands Community College.

Students from El Reno, Yukon, Edmond Santa Fe High School and Epic Charter Middle School took part in the symposium, showing the results of their months-long experiments.

BlueSTEM was created in 2015 as a partnership between the USDA at Fort Reno and El Reno High School.

Kara Watts snaps a picture on her cell phone of senior Ryan Sigler and his date, Brooklynn Mitchum before the two teenagers walked down the red carpet at the 2023 El Reno High School prom.

See more photos of the red carpet walk in Saturday’s edition.
 

A company has been hired for a software upgrade aimed at providing Canadian County property owners with better online access to detailed information about property values and related data.

The Canadian County Assessor’s Office will convert to a new Computer Assisted Mass Appraisal (CAMA) system.

CAMA is a foundational system the assessor’s office uses to collect data about all property in Canadian County to establish market value.

Work is under way on a structure that will protect a major Canadian County investment from the elements.

A 15,750-square-foot equipment building is under construction at Canadian County District 3’s yard, 1205 N. Calumet Road.

In February, Robinson Brothers Construction was awarded a $203,500 contract to build the double-sided “lean-to” behind the District 3 shop. The El Reno company had the lower price of two vendors submitting bids.