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Canadian County Commissioners will consider signing a letter of support to help El Reno Public Schools gain more federal funding.

It’s an issue that all three elected commissioners, Dave Anderson, Tracey Rider and Tom Manske, have discussed recently with El Reno Public Schools leaders.

“We lose at least a quarter, and maybe a third, of our school district to federal land,” ERPS Superintendent Matt Goucher said. “And we get absolutely nothing (financially) for it because of a date.”

El Reno High School held its 2023 prom over the weekend in downtown El Reno.

Students arrived for the grand march in a variety of vehicles from golf carts, sports cars, pickups and even a semi-truck.

Colorful dresses and suits were top choice for this year’s prom.

Once students arrived, they walked down the red carpet to the cheers and camera shots from friends and family.

The theme for this year’s prom was “A Night in the Spotlight.”
 

More than 15 organizations took the opportunity to tell of their services in hopes of recruiting volunteers last week.

The occasion was a Volunteer Fair held at Wesley United Methodist Church.

The organizations advertised their service opportunities in the hopes of broadening their volunteer base. Organizers said, by all accounts, the fair surpassed expectations.

Emily Walker, director of Project Transformation, said the Volunteer Fair was the perfect opportunity for her to find summer reading volunteers.

Victims and survivors of crime across Canadian County were remembered and honored during National Crime Victims Rights Week April 23-29.

Crime victims, survivors and advocates gathered in Yukon for Canadian County’s 33rd Annual Crime Victim Survivor Vigil.

Nonprofit agencies like Cardinal Point Family Resource Center, Canadian County Child Abuse Response Team, Intervention Crisis and Advocacy Network, Court-Appointed Special Advocates and others had resource booths on-site before the vigil started.

In celebration of Law Day, hundreds of attorneys across Oklahoma will provide free legal advice to members of their communities.

Members of the Canadian County Bar Association will be partnering with Trinity Legal Clinic to host a free walk-in legal clinic at the Canadian County Courthouse on Friday, May 5 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. 

“Law Day is special because it gives lawyers another chance to serve their communities,” said Oklahoma Bar Association President Brian Hermanson.

DIVORCES GRANTED

Beulah Aliene Green vs. Chance Alan Green.

Brittany Marie Edwards vs. Charles Aaron Anderson.

Jeremy D. Brady vs. Laranda Brady.

Terrance Holland vs. Leann Holland.

Curtis Kyle Ray Robertson vs. Brooklynn Marie Robertson.

Shana D. Stevens vs. Ashton G. Stevens.

Peggy Ann Rakes vs. Glen Wallace Rakes.

Natalie J. Hansen vs. Christopher T. Hansen.

Jamie Christine De La Rosa vs. Jesus Gabriel De La Rosa-Lugardo.

Nicholas Palomba vs. Nicoll Palomba.

The Big Burger is moving.

For years, the massive El Reno fried-onion hamburger has been cooked next to Petree Plaza on Russell just east of Choctaw. But with a desire to create more room for spectators to watch the process, an agreement was reached to move north.

Shana Ford with El Reno Main Street said a deal was reached between the city of El Reno and Canadian County to cook the burger in the parking lot just to the north of Heroes Plaza, between Rock Island and Bickford.

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