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A new Celebrate Recovery program is beginning in El Reno.

Celebrate Recovery is a Christ-centered, 12-step recovery program for anyone struggling with hurt, pain or addiction of any kind.

The first group will be a Women’s Step Study on Sunday evenings at 6. There is a Zoom meeting available for men. An in-person men’s group is planned in the near future.

All women are welcome to attend, to connect with a support group and to join others who are searching for answers in their lives.

A bill that would provide the most significant expansion of school-choice opportunity in Oklahoma history has won approval from a Senate committee and will next go before the entire Oklahoma Senate.

“This measure is to give opportunity for kids across Oklahoma and parents to meet the educational needs of their children,” said Senate President Pro Tempore Greg Treat, R-Oklahoma City.

Senate Bill 1647, by Treat, would create the Oklahoma Empowerment Account (OEA) Program.

OKLAHOMA CITY – The full Senate approved Senate Bill 1139 Monday to find alternate ways to compensate Oklahoma teachers.

Sen. David Bullard, R-Durant, said the ongoing teacher shortage is evidence that additional reforms must be made to keep professionals in the classroom.

“For almost two decades, I taught in schools where good teachers were shorted on good pay while average or bad teachers made more just because they had worked longer,” Bullard said.

“We have to find ways to pay our best teachers the best money and pay them what they are worth.

Reforms to Oklahoma’s open-transfer law were touted as a way to help families escape geographically assigned public schools that are not working for their children.

But in practice, parents are finding they must jump through numerous hoops to find any school that will take their children — if they can find any open spots at all.

Even as parents are voicing frustration with the system, education leaders in the Oklahoma House of Representatives have responded with silence.

Following are results from the Canadian County Junior Livestock Show:

BARROWS

Berkshire
Kyla Bonds, Mustang FFA, 1st; Presley Stilley, Calumet FFA, 1st; Mason Shout, Piedmont 4-H, Breed Champion; Carson Cooper, Calumet FFA, 2nd; Clayton Cannon, El Reno FFA, Reserve Breed Champion; Jace Chambless, Calumet FFA, 2nd; Jayden Bishop, Mustang FFA, 3rd; Grady Lesperance, El Reno FFA, 3rd; Cort Shelton, Mustang FFA, 3rd; Destiny Searcy, Mustang FFA, 4th; Jake Vulgamore, Tuff Riders, 4th; Hayden Griffin, Yukon FFA, 5th.

MUNICIPAL COURT

Fredrick Lewis Brown, El Reno, failure to yield right of way, $195.

Rebecca Ruth Harris, El Reno, failure to appear warrant, $295.

Dona Littlehawk, El Reno, failure to appear warrant, $295.

Angilena M. Ford, El Reno, failure to appear warrant, $295.

Adam Charles Beartrack, El Reno, trespassing on private property, $295.

Mary Lynn Holcomb, El Reno, failure to appear warrant, $295.

Richard Allen Knight, El Reno, failure to appear warrant, $295.

BOY – Alexandra Dykens and Taylor Sims of Mustang are parents of a boy, Stetson Wayne Sims, born Feb. 28 at Yukon Integris Canadian Valley Hospital. He weighed 9 pounds and measured 20 inches in length.

Stetson has two siblings, Reagan, 5, and Beau, 1.

Maternal grandparents are Chris and Terri Denny of El Reno and Tim and Kim Dykens of Tulsa. Great-grandparents are Diane Dykens of Altus and the late Arden Dykens.

Campbell Eaton was selected as an Oklahoma Academic Coaches Association 2022 All-Stater.

An Academic Team coach is able to nominate two seniors who have played in at least two OSSAA tournaments.

Campbell competed in the district and area tournaments this year and finished with 86.92 All-State points to place him in the top 36 in the state.

Campbell will compete in an All-State tournament at the All-State Banquet April 9. He has competed in Quiz Bowl for the past two years.