While it may not garner the kind of attention of a burnout or drag race, the swap meet at A Small Town Weekend is the place to be if you’re in the market for automotive items, a purse, metal wall décor or custom glitter tumblers.

Or just something good to eat.

While the youngsters won’t be hitting the gas or smoking the tires, the level of competition will be the same as the popular Hot Wheels races return to the 2021 A Small Town Weekend schedule.

The event will have a new venue this year as the parking lot of Trinity Lutheran Church will hold the multi-lane track. The church is located at 500 S. Country Club Road or in the southeast corner of Adams Park.

“Everything will be the same as in the past, we will just be at a new place,” said El Reno Fire Department Sgt. David Baker.

Canadian County commissioners were expected to purchase property near the new Expo Center to build a sewage lagoon.

The commissioners were to convene as the Public Facilities Authority Thursday afternoon to consider the purchase.

Commissioner David Anderson said the lagoon would be necessary because the Oklahoma Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) declined to authorize the hauling of waste from the new Expo Center to a municipal sewage system.

Ice in October and cold in February combined to push back the completion of the Rock Island overpass. The multimillion-dollar project was expected to open at the end of July, but Mother Nature does not consult with the Oklahoma Department of Transportation.

Lisa Shearer-Salim with ODOT said the reconstruction of the overpass should be complete by “early fall.” She said progress is going well, but Oklahoma weather has a way of interrupting.

“It’s all about the weather,” she said. “If we don’t get the heavy rain, it should be complete by early fall, possibly late summer.”