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Keith Hagen is a taxidermist. Which means he makes dead animals look alive. He’s apparently pretty good at it, too.

Another thing Hagen is good at is helping people. Especially people who are hurting or who may be struggling with serious health issues.

On Aug. 20, Hagen will put those people-helping skills to work again when he hosts the Southern Plains Outdoor Show. The event will be at the Union City baseball field at the corner of U.S. 81 and SH 152.

The show will feature all sorts of outdoor businesses and vendors as well as food trucks and prizes.

Clay Fees is organizing a muscle car club. Call it a school of thought for people whose passion is performance under the hood.

Fees, 49, of Sapulpa, hopes to foster conversation about the golden age of American automotive engineering – the 1960s and ‛70s.

Some of the most iconic production cars rolled off the assembly lines at Chrysler, Ford, General Motors and the former American Motors Corporation.

Redlands Community College will offer new courses and two new agriculture degree options focusing on agriculture technology, thanks to a five-year grant totaling nearly $1.5 million by the U.S. Department of Education.

Designed to expand opportunities to students interested in both agriculture and technology - Native American and low-income students especially - the courses will delve deep into tech that translates to agriculture, like applied automation, robotics and drone operation.

School bells will be calling students back to the classroom soon and the American Red Cross, Central and Southwest Oklahoma Chapter, has steps everyone can take to help kids remain safe as they head back to school

LAWSUITS

Discover Bank vs. Julie D. Wilson for $4,869.01 to pay a debt plus interest, costs and attorney fees.

Discover Bank vs. Harley D. Ray for $2,144.49 to pay a debt plus interest, costs and attorney fees.

Discover Bank vs. Justina Alfonso for $2,187.10 to pay a debt plus interest, costs and attorney fees.

Midland Credit Management Inc. vs. Theresa Gattenby for $1,620.90 to pay a debt plus interest, costs and attorney fees.

Faces will change on the El Reno City Council as well as with Canadian County commissioners. But the question for both is when?

The commission will have two new faces after the defeat of Marc Hader in the June primary election as well as the election of Jack Stewart to a state Senate seat.

Tracey Rider was elected to replace Stewart.

The Children of Hope Community Outreach capped off its summer program last week with a party at Lake El Reno that featured lunch cooked on a grill and balloon-making fun hosted by El Reno Arts Council President Sue Bear and El Reno High School art teacher Marci Underwood.

No issues were found in Canadian County after it performed a manual audit of selected ballots cast during the recent June 28 primary election.

The July 28 audit was done as part of an Oklahoma State Election Board effort that randomly selected county election boards for participation.

Canadian County was one of 33 boards across the state designated to conduct the audit, said election board secretary Wanda Armold.

“It was completely routine, it’s just part of a process undertaken to ensure elections are secure,” she said.

The Board of Commissioners has taken the next step in transforming the former home of an oil and gas company into the new Canadian County Health Department.

Commissioners last week approved an agreement with Lingo Construction Services to provide oversight on an estimated refurbishment of the former Halliburton site located at 6100 E. Highway 66 in El Reno.

When complete, the 32,000-square-foot building will become the new home of the Canadian County Health Department.

Voters at nine Canadian County polling places will cast ballots Tuesday, Aug. 23 in the Banner School Bond Election.

Banner is seeking support for a $6 million bond issue to fund upgrades and new projects that address growth at the school located at 2455 N. Banner Road.

The proposition would fund a series of bonds to construct, repair and remodel school buildings, acquire school furniture, fixtures and equipment and make school site improvements.